I don't mean to sperg, but you could easily use a combination of Jecht Shot and that one exploit in the AI to make that match stupidly easy. And, like, anyone that knows more than the basic ideas behind Final Fantasy 10 could tell you this. Blitzball is stupid easy to break.
Has Wu ever played anything more complicated than an iPad game?
Has Wu ever actually played a game?
I'll give my expertise here, mostly because I also discussed this with
@c-no earlier. Wu claims to have been a gamer since the 1980s, but her responses to various games that have been out a decade or longer indicates that, contrary to anything she says, she was not an oldschooler. There's just no evidence. Being an oldschool gamer meant being exposed to certain cultural elements and certain ideas in gaming at the time, ones that color one's responses. Wu doesn't show any of that. She parrots the same modern-looking back refrain that gaming has always been misogynistic, and that just doesn't hold water when we have tons of games with female protagonists dating back to the fucking Atari 2600.
Any NES veteran can reference some old campy shit from those days - whether it's some old engrish like
Metal Gear's "TRUCK HAVE STARTED TO MOVE" or something silly like all the early
Dragon Quest games using olde english in the west (FYI I really liked this). Whether it's something as basic as "princess in another castle" to something as insane as making an oblique reference to some game people probably haven't ever heard of. It's not just the NES, either - people with
any console during this day who were really active gamers could pull that off. Whether it's Spoony talking about fighting the Floor in
Ultima III, my friend MercenaryCobra1 talking about old Commodore 64 games, even the likes of James Rolfe. Gaming was a cauldron of new ideas and it appealed to many. Fuck, even my mom played vidya (though she's one of the rare few who suffers eye troubles if she plays too long), and her favorite arcade game was
Joust.
Thing is, Wu doesn't show any real history like that. In fact, Wu's kind of unfortunate; due to PSN and her own activities, we can make an educated guess when she got into gaming in the first place - around 2005. Wu had a PSP, has a Vita, and had a PS3 (currently PS4).
Election Eve, for example, which openly steals
Parasite Eve's font and title graphic, Wu started putting together after playing the original on her newer systems. Wu is someone who loves flash-in-the pan (as evidenced by her love of iDevices she buys year after year), and is one of those rare few that thinks that flash can trump substance. This is why her primary games of choice include shit by Quantic Dream and story-driven or shiny games rather than ones with deep gameplay. She's also a fan of the
Persona series, but again, she's mostly played titles after-the-fact. Her choices of playing
Destiny or
Mass Effect are genuinely outliers here. Her favored platform, by a landslide, is IOS, and shes played almost every
Final Fantasy game via that. All of this, paired with Wu's dislike of shooters in general and games marketed towards the hardcore audience, suggest that Wu herself is someone who likes games primarily for the spectacle. There's nothing wrong with this, but it's more than a little disingenuous for Wu to claim she's always been a gamer but simultaneously claim that gaming has always been biased.
All evidence suggests that almost all of her game history and insight has been
retroactive. There's nothing wrong with this, either, but it becomes extremely evident when watching how Wu broadcasts the same tiresome garbage the likes of Jack Thompson has been spewing for years. Shockingly few people who grew up a gaming hobbyist during the 80s - which Wu likes to claim - who lived the bullshit that was repeatedly being scapegoated every time there was a violent incident (hello, Columbine) and who lived through the saga of Jack Thompson would take the side of Anita and friends, no matter what assholes like MovieBob like to say. Hell, even MovieBob stood up against Thompson, and he's a completely disingenuous shit.
I'm just saying, no one who played FF6 in the 1990s would make a statement about Rape Culture in
Final Fantasy VI that completely misinterprets the entire scene. There's not a single legitimate fan of
Parasite Eve who played through either of the first two games who would agree that
The Third Birthday, which eviscerated the series' characterization and world, was "the best one." Wu's very behavior indicates she is, despite her age, a late comer to the party of video gaming and that she's only claiming otherwise to appeal to the masses.