Final Fantasy Megathread

[Ginkasa]

Originally Posted by magus113

No it does make sense. I'm in the Tower of Babil now, and it seems like a much easier climb than the Tower of Zot was.

I love this game.

Are we talking about IV or XIII...?

[magus113]

Originally Posted by Ginkasa

Are we talking about IV or XIII...?

Talking about IV. I'm kinda between both. I take IV with me on the go cause I have the Complete Collection for PSP.

I spent idk how long in XIII backtracking because I'm on Gran Pulse and I found out I was missing some stuff before I decided to try and barrel through an area I probably shouldn't have been. It's still entertaining though, I'll give it that, even if it's not my favorite by far.

[TheSlyMoogle]

Originally Posted by magus113

I can def. agree with this. Well, maybe not so much with the FF2 SNES release. I think the NA one was really dumbed down in difficulty and they advertised the future remakes as having a newer, raised difficulty. I believe the DS remake is the most difficult of all of them, since the PSP one was made a little easier for the first half, or so I heard.

Actually the DS remake is fairly simple compared to other versions. Perhaps the PSP remake is the same, but basically when anyone dies in the remake you can acquire their special skills if you do it right. There's a whole FAQ on it, but basically you can equip skills like Twin Magic, for example, on someone who isn't the twins.

If you do it right you can gather the entire set of character special skills in a playthrough (Well almost). It really wasn't that hard to figure out that if you put a skill on a character you get it back when they die + their skill.

Oh... I guess massive spoilers, everyone dies in FF4. EVERYONE.

[magus113]

Originally Posted by TheSlyMoogle

Actually the DS remake is fairly simple compared to other versions. Perhaps the PSP remake is the same, but basically when anyone dies in the remake you can acquire their special skills if you do it right. There's a whole FAQ on it, but basically you can equip skills like Twin Magic, for example, on someone who isn't the twins.

If you do it right you can gather the entire set of character special skills in a playthrough (Well almost). It really wasn't that hard to figure out that if you put a skill on a character you get it back when they die + their skill.

Oh... I guess massive spoilers, everyone dies in FF4. EVERYONE.

Yeah, and then the one guy who's right next to a damn BOMB WHEN IT EXPLODES is found in an infirmary bed.

A bomb.

When it exploded.

[TheSlyMoogle]

Originally Posted by magus113

Yeah, and then the one guy who's right next to a damn BOMB WHEN IT EXPLODES is found in an infirmary bed.

A bomb.

When it exploded.

You can survive anything when you're a spoony bard.

[magus113]

Originally Posted by TheSlyMoogle

You can survive anything when you're a spoony bard.

Edward was just a pussy and fell off a boat. He ended up in some town laying in bed.

Cid was the one that blew the bomb up to seal the Underworld. Maybe his epic beard helped him stay alive.

[TheSlyMoogle]

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Originally Posted by magus113

Edward was just a pussy and fell off a boat. He ended up in some town laying in bed.

Cid was the one that blew the bomb up to seal the Underworld. Maybe his epic beard helped him stay alive.

Oh I thought he was like next to a bomb or something. It's been a while.

[magus113]

So I'm in the final area (I think) of FFIV. The enemies are so annoying that right it's literally just me walking around and running away from everything because it's more worthwhile for my resources to do so. I think I pretty much did everything there was to do.

Also if I'm forced to battle I'm just spamming Bahamut and Curaja. It's a fun time.

[magus113]

So I got to Zeromus.

Turns out I'm not ready. At all.

[magus113]

Just finished Final Fantasy IV. Zeromus is ridiculous. I'm glad I finally finished it after so many years of trying to finally finish it. Now there's just the "Interlude" thing and The After Years to fire through. I'm going in blind with both of these games so I can only imagine how this is gonna go.

I still have yet to do some more work with XIII but i'll be showing that some love since I got OoT and the man FFIV game out of the way.

[magus113]

I realize I'm the only one posting in here but I DON'T CARE.

In the two hours I've put in to FFIV Interlude, it's only been pretty much this:

Something's wrong here!
I guess we have to go, don't we?
Yes, let's go!
*walk to airship and talk to airship captain*
Cecil! Ready to go? *Yes*
Watch airship slowly fly to destination.
Do whatever you're supposed to do at this area, return to airship. Rinse, repeat.

Definitely feels tacked on, and I read somewhere that Interlude takes 15 hours to complete. Really?

[thatmariolover]

I'm currently replaying FF3 (Super Nintendo version) on my phone.

Also recently played through Mystic Quest, but that hardly counts as Final Fantasy.

[Angrist]

I once started FFV (random choice) on an emulator. I enjoyed it but the game got stuck in a glitch (somwhere on foggy ships, can that be right?).
I saw my brother play several FFs, he mostly enjoyed X (because that's his first one?)
I own FF:CC but I've never played it. I might have tried the intro, but then it didn't pull me in.

So there's my experience with FF.
(Of course not counting having seen the [decent] movie.)

[magus113]

Crystal Chronicles was an odd beast. I wanted to get into it but it felt bland. Then I found out it's supposed to primarily be a multiplayer game using the GBA link cables and it made more sense.

The guy that made Crystal Chronicles and the SaGa games however actually acknowledged that none of the games he's made are actually good. I can find the interview and quote it right now as a matter of fact.

http://www.largeprimenumbers.com/article.php?sid=saga

So suffice it to say that I hold in my heart the deepest respect for Akitoshi Kawazu when I say that his games all, historically, suck long and hard. Kawazu himself, now seventeen years older and more mature than the man who made Final Fantasy II a bloody mess in the name of experimentation, told Famitsu's Hirokazu Hamamura in an interview back in April, "Yeah, I'm aware that the games I've made have never been, you know . . . good." I read this sentence in a 7-Eleven in Minami-Senju, and my knees buckled. Wow. Wow, I thought. The man's last game was Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, an utter mess that, at first glance, seems to mean well, though in the end, it doesn't.

Well it wasn't an interview, but more of a review of Romancing SaGa, which (hey! Guess what?) sucked too.

[Bond]

I'm home for a few days (as in 4-5), and decided to try and revisit FFXIII with the expectation that it is not a typical FF game. I think my nostalgia for VII-IX got in the way of my enjoyment of my first abbreviated play through of XIII.