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In honor of Final Fantasy's 25th anniversary, GAF Plays: Final Fantasy games
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Do not bother focusing on 4, you'll be wasting your time and energy.
You will soon find that your team is mostly 2-3 of your original troops and then the rest will be guests that gradually replace most of your generics.
You could, in theory, ignore the guests, but who wants that? You want to have fun exploring the unique skillsets.
It seems to me it would take less energy to focus on less optionals than more.
Plus the non optionals won't replace your optionals until much much later in the game.
At least focus on one to build up to calculator and one or two as ninjas. Ignore the rest. It's hard enough building job levels and requirements as it is.
The guests start replacing starting midway through chapter 2.
By chapter 3's end, you'll have 3 super-guests, Ramza, leaving one slot left for the generic. It's unlikely anyone would reject the guests.
So yeah, the optionals are good for the first 1/3 of the game, but they lose flair.
Which isn't to say I didn't keep 2 around for things like quests or hard-to reach jobs. A certain swordswoman or a longranger make for poor mages, for example.
Guests are good for absorbing hits, but are a waste of resources; most of them leave meaning all the energy you spent on them will vanish. I only really like to use And invest in Balthier and orlandeu. Mustadio and Agrias are good too. I usually take their (Gafgarion, delita, argath, ovelia) good equipment and give them to an optional or perm member who will actually stay around. And throw them out on front as decoys if I'm forced to use them.
Professor Beef
Banned
Perfectly playable on PSP, and a fine port to boot.
A party!!!! This is more like a funeral... If this were a more modern game I wouldn't have so much fear of this part of the game. It's boring when you already know everything.
Cloud is more pervert than Don Corneo. Yeah, I know that everyone knows it, but I had to say it.
They said that only Sephiroth could use that weapon. Like everything, it was a lie. In the second screen, Cloud talks about Tifa as a man. The Spanish translation does it maaany times.
After Cloud has put everyone to sleep they decide to continue following Sephiroth. Their next stop is the chocobo farm where they find the Chocobo/Mog materia. It's the most useful of the first batch of summons, as it can paralyze some bosses. I'm pretty sure the owners of this place released the Midgardsorm in the nearby swamp so they could sell me the chocobo lure materia and the greens.
The party captures a chocobo so the giant snake can't eat them.
Sífilo is so amazing he could eat ten Midgardsorms everyday for breakfast. Thanks to the chocobo, they reach the Mythril Caves. There are monsters that teach Flamethrower in there.
There's the Long Range materia and turks also.
The party goes to Fort Condor and accept a mission so they can buy some items.
There's a surprise in the woods, let's discover it! Killing the monsters, they level up their first materia...
... and Nanaki learns his first limit. The characters have a nice tool to kill monsters easily.
A misterious woman appears and the party defeats her easily, but they answer wrong and she steals 500 gil. &%&!!
After thousands of battles (I think I'm exaggerating, but they were more than I'd want), she appears again and is captured!
That's what I was saying?
Now that Yuffie is in the group, we can advance the plot. The next town in their path is Junon. Like Midgar, it has two levels with the lower one being more contaminated than the neighbours would want. Let's go to the beach! There's a girl in there, but she thinks we're bad people. Why would she think that? A monster appears suddenly and it's boss battle time!
It summons bubbles that burst if you use magic on them. It also likes to flood the battlefield. Cloud and Tifa have problems attacking with their weapons as it's flying.
After the battle Cloud has to save the little girl in another minigame. After that, the group has to plan how to go to the upper level of the city.
Shiva received! (it's pretty crappy, use Ice+All if you don't want to lose HP). Cloud manages to reach the upper level thanks to mr. dolphin.
I can't wait the day Aeris goes with me in an airship trip. Cloud gets mistaken for a normal soldier (Cloud's a SOLDIER!) and he has to go to a military march.
Thanks to Cloud the TV share raises and he's gifted with 6 ethers (6x750=4500 gil).
Cloud has a little of free time and gets the second Enemy Skill materia and a doll (yeah, only a doll, nothing to see here, move along).
The turks like to hang out in the bar and Cloud to get all the dolls he can (they don't do anything, but they're free!).
Cloud impresses Rufus and Heidegger and he gets a sword with double materia growth.
The next adventures are in a cargo ship. It seems that Nanaki's enjoying himself. Barret does a pose and the alarm sounds. Who could be the intruder?
The fire materia levels up and the group gets another All materia.
Yuffie gets her first double growth weapon and Sephiroth appears! We're all done for, noooooo!
Bah, it's just JENOVA. She likes stopping my poor characters, but she doesn't know that I can do it too!
Yuffie doubts of her sex and gets traumatized upon the sight of JENOVA. UGH! The group gets an expensive version of Fire All, too.
The group ends in Costa del Sol. Gold needle? I only see softs in your possession, don't try to deceive me! (Since when have the english versions abandoned the soft term for the gold needle?)
We learn that the name of Aeris mother is Inferna and not Ifalna, cool! (I imagine Aeris with a devil tail now, grrrrrr). Nanaki is an attention whore and gets hit by the ball.
The party follows their path and see a mako reactor in the mountains. I don't know how many years have passed and I still don't know how I'm supposed to do this minigame (if someone could explain, I'd be grateful).
Barret gets his double growth weapon and a materia I won't use.
Cloud climbs and...
...discovers birds, but he kills what presumably seems to be their mother. They're doomed thanks to me.
There's a secret cave nearby. Cloud gets his first level 2 limit (a little late).
Bombs always blow up in my face, I don't like them (in this game). Barret reunites with his good old friends, I love friendship.
Barret tells a story about vicious animals and burning towns (this is a plagiarism of Cloud's story!) while they're waiting for the transportation to Golden Saucer.
If I had more money... Cloud and Aeris go together and they find a stuffed animal seer robot that "convinces" them to go together. You know, the more the merrier.
Ups, the three see some corpses and they are mistaken for the assassin and are thrown to the desert.
They meet Barret and the other party members (what are Nanaki, Tifa and Yuffie doing in there?), and he tells them the rest of the story.
Barret wants to meet his old friend Dyne (and Marlene's real father), but he's so crazy that he has to be stopped.
Dyne commits suicide after giving Barret a memento for Marlene. Now Cloud has to win a chocobo race to free him and his "friends". He gets another useless materia, but I don't think that I'll end with 200 materias at the end of the game, so I take it.
I win the second race! (I almost win the first, but well...)
Imgur decides to be lazy right now, but we know what happens later: The party receives an apologizing letter and a buggy. Until the next chapter!
The pre-rendered backgrounds are really nice, and I don't think the characters are ugly (they have their charm), so I'm with you!
This game principal problem is the localized script, they should redo it.
TranceKuja
Member
So yeah, Final Fantasy II is probably a lost cause for me. I've been playing the PSP version but I'm not enjoying it at all. The obscene random encounter rate/enemies per encounter coupled to maze-like dungeons with a ton of doors leading to empty rooms with more random encounters EVERY STEP YOU TAKE is sapping all the fun from exploring. Will it get better later on? I'm only in the Semit Falls (or something) and I've already had enough of this game ):
Started Final Fantasy X-2 today. Kinda liked the game the first time I played it at release. I'm playing the atrocious (German) PAL version. Just to show the difference, this is the size of the black borders you can expect:
I will cut out all the borders. So the right image is how I will post screenshots and the left one is how I see it on screen. Good thing we don't have to worry about stuff like this anymore with HD games.
I finished the game once, but never played it again after that. I'm curious to see how well this game holds up. I never really liked the mission based structure of the game.
Let's get started:
I guess I don't have to say much about that intro. It's so over-the-top that it's simply great. The change in tone coming from FFX was....special.
And right into the first battle against fake Yuna. It's all so fast and chaotic, it takes some time to get used to. Another big change compared to the turn based battle system of FFX.
And there they are. Your whole party for the game.
Here comes real Yuna vs fake Yuna (not so Yuna-esque anymore).
Best job change effect....ever? The fight is pretty much a tutorial for the dancer (and for switching jobs), not much to lose. But you can steal some neat accesories.
And then you get to the airship. I thought this was one of those "talk to everyone" parts and ran around like an idiot for about 20 minutes until I tried to just sleep for a while. Seems that's all that it takes for the story to go on.
First stop: Gagazet. And the game immediately shows what you should expect from the next ~40 hours. Not that the intro wasn't a big enough hint already.
Another fight against Leblanc. This fight can actually get a little nasty if you don't watch what you're doing. I switched to the Dancer and two Warriors (don't forget to steal!).
And then they run away. Ugh...a timed sequence right at the beginning of the game. All this does is make you realize how confusing some areas can be and how bad the camera position can be. I took a lot of detours and got stuck for a short while at one place. At the end I had about one minute left, so you have more than enough time, plus I think this time the time doesn't move on when you're in battle.
I think I found them. I didn't have much time to play, so this is where I stopped. I have to admit, I'm immediately hooked again. The battles are so fast and fluid, without the timer I might have run around more just to fight some more.
I will cut out all the borders. So the right image is how I will post screenshots and the left one is how I see it on screen. Good thing we don't have to worry about stuff like this anymore with HD games.
I finished the game once, but never played it again after that. I'm curious to see how well this game holds up. I never really liked the mission based structure of the game.
Let's get started:
I guess I don't have to say much about that intro. It's so over-the-top that it's simply great. The change in tone coming from FFX was....special.
And right into the first battle against fake Yuna. It's all so fast and chaotic, it takes some time to get used to. Another big change compared to the turn based battle system of FFX.
And there they are. Your whole party for the game.
Here comes real Yuna vs fake Yuna (not so Yuna-esque anymore).
Best job change effect....ever? The fight is pretty much a tutorial for the dancer (and for switching jobs), not much to lose. But you can steal some neat accesories.
And then you get to the airship. I thought this was one of those "talk to everyone" parts and ran around like an idiot for about 20 minutes until I tried to just sleep for a while. Seems that's all that it takes for the story to go on.
First stop: Gagazet. And the game immediately shows what you should expect from the next ~40 hours. Not that the intro wasn't a big enough hint already.
Another fight against Leblanc. This fight can actually get a little nasty if you don't watch what you're doing. I switched to the Dancer and two Warriors (don't forget to steal!).
And then they run away. Ugh...a timed sequence right at the beginning of the game. All this does is make you realize how confusing some areas can be and how bad the camera position can be. I took a lot of detours and got stuck for a short while at one place. At the end I had about one minute left, so you have more than enough time, plus I think this time the time doesn't move on when you're in battle.
I think I found them. I didn't have much time to play, so this is where I stopped. I have to admit, I'm immediately hooked again. The battles are so fast and fluid, without the timer I might have run around more just to fight some more.
Hmm...if you're only at Semmit Falls, you've got quite a ways to go. If you aren't feeling it, it most likely won't get better for you. FFII is the one FF game that gets the most hate, I feel, and it's certainly not for everyone. Hell, it took 3 playthroughs (and countless attempts) for me to finally go "hey, this isn't that bad."
Huh. I can't check it at work unfortunately, but I'll fix it when I get home if it's busted. Thanks.
FF2 is complete garbage, honestly. Its story is somewhat interesting in that it at least tries to do something novel for its era, but in every other fashion (especially gameplay) it's just irredeemably bad.
If this were 1989 and I were willing to drop 100+ hours into grinding because I had no other RPG options on my Famicom then I might be willing to come to terms its ridiculous leveling mechanic, but it's not and I'm not.
In the end I had to shift my perspective from "stain on the franchise" to merely "historical curiosity" in order to will myself through to the end.
I've now completed 241 quests in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2. One quest was infuriating. I had to help the Goug's town watch fight, and I had to use only one of my characters. Playing with 5 AI controlled characters made me go crazy. The first time my controlled character didn't even have the time to act before an AI ally was killed. I managed to complete the quest on my second try by blocking my own allies, so they had to use long range attacks.
I now have all unique characters in my party. Recruiting the Sky Pirates took some time, but that was because I hadn't focused on the quests that made it possible to have them join the clan.
I now have all unique characters in my party. Recruiting the Sky Pirates took some time, but that was because I hadn't focused on the quests that made it possible to have them join the clan.
Pretty much. FF2 is objectively the worst FF simply because of how broken the engine is. All the people that use ridiculous hyperbole of THE "(NEWEST FF) IS THE WORST FF EVER!" know absolutely nothing about the franchise and are, quite frankly, making nonsense up.
charlequin
Banned
My personal experience is that there's an inflection point around the halfway point where the game suddenly gets way more fun, but the encounter rate and u-pwnt encounter rooms never get better.
so use a map to avoid the u-pwnt rooms.
and i guess i dont find the encounter rate to be that different from other ff games. especially the psp version, only the front four blocks can melee attatck you. equip things that increase your speed, and the enemy should have very few chances to attack you. There is plenty of strategy involved in just that; making sure you kill the front group of enemies before they can attatck you.
Even if the back row of enemies has magic attacks, most of the elemental magic is ridiculously weak, and if you are wearing the right armor you shouldn't get hit by status spells that much (which you can just heal after battle anyway).
And your f-this game way out of everything is the telepo spell. once you get it for free in the first dungeon, just use it frequently (like every battle) to level it up to where its strong enough to work. It even works on bosses, can't get much easier than that. Some consider it cheating though.
With their new car the party goes to the nearest town. Their friends Rude and Reno are waiting for them while they talk about our female party members.
The turks were attacked by surprise and defeated shamefully.
Barret learns Grenade and I get a materia that always makes a critical hit, if it connects...
This monster reminds me of Mother 3... There's the Titan materia in a hole also.
Cloud makes a comment about the state of the reactor, it'd interesting if he hadn't been there already.
It's time to go to Nibelheim now that we've got all the interesting things in that place. Suspiciously, our car breaks near a certain place. Maybe we should go there. A group of vicious penguins attack the party and Yuffie and she learns Clear Tranquil.
I wonder who Nanaki is too... Meanwhile, our Nanaki goes to see his grandfather, a human! Is there a destroyed mako reactor near too?
The group visits the cultural facilities in the canyon, like the planetarium, the Cosmo Flame and...
...the cursed cavern.
There's a switch in one of those holes and ghosts in the rest. It isn't a good idea to run over that sliding surface, so take your time.
There's this Added Effect materia that add the status effects of the linked materia. It'll be useful to create a pseudo-ribbon with it. There's a lot of spiderwebs with evil spiders in them that do pretty powerful attacks.
Thanks to their devastating attacks, Cloud can use Beam Blade many times and he learns Climhazzard.
The boss of the ghosts appears and the group has to kill it. Someone said that it's undead and you can use a phoenix down to kill it, but I like the hard way to destroy it.
A new materia that I'll never use!!!
There's an emotional cutscene or something like that and Nanaki gets a very powerful weapon.
At last we can see how are the people of Nibelheim faring. There's a lot of hooded people and actors. Cloud tries to get Tifa's final limit break, but it's too soon for that.
We visit the Shinra Mansion so Sephiroth can practice materia throwing on us. Thanks! I won't get Vincent yet, so it's time to continue.
There's a new tier of double growth weapons in Mount Nibel. Casually, I have in the party the three characters who can use them: Tifa, Cloud and Nanaki. We should drop the ladder if we want to get all the interesting things in this room like another All materia and Tifa's weapon.
The dragons in this cave have some Gold Armlets to be stolen.
The boss battle of this place is tougher than usual. It can be paralyzed with Cross Cut and Chocobo/Mog to ease it.
You shouldn't kill it before it uses Trine so you can learn it (2 Enemy Skill materias equipped). And the party obtains the Counterattack materia as a reward.
The party reaches the last town of the continent. It has a rocket and aerial transportation. We need that plane, so we go to see the owner and convince him to give it to us. Unfortunately, he doesn't want to collaborate.
Rufus wants it too. Shinra shouls have thousands of them, this one will be mine! Palmer tries to steal it and he's going to lament it.
Palmer taunts the party, but he's defeated easily.
The Tiny Bronco starts to move alone (hahaha) and the party feels obliged to ride it. The plane is hit and becomes a boat. Cid is a crazy dude and joins the party. It's time to explore that nearby mini-continent.
Shinra soldiers ambush the party while Yuffie acts strangely. Mmmmm, there's only the attack command in this battle.
Oh boy, our materia! Stolen! That only means one thing, revengeance!!!
The turks don't get bored of going to the same places as our characters, but they don't feel like being aggresive. Yuffie steals another materia while my anger meter increases.
The party chases after Yuffie and they catch her finally. I feel lucky.
But it's a trap, and the persucution resumes.
This town has a lot of known faces and Don Corneo wants to greet us. Nice to see you, but give me Yuffie back! The turks are "friendly" right now and help with the search.
It seems that Don Corneo is busy teaching English to his lovers and it's really effective. But my characters make loud noises and the lesson is finished. He has to release another pet of his property to defend himself.
This boss is dangerous right now as it uses Aero3/Aeroga (1500 of damage!!!). It's a good idea to buy many Phoenix Downs before this battle. I don't know why there aren't screenshots of the turks owning Don Corneo, but the imagination is a good faculty.
After that, Yuffie rejoins the party and gives back the materia. Our next objective is to get a materia in the Crazy Cat Lady home.
Before continuing their journey the group enjoys destroying groups of mushrooms.
And the rewards are fresh Limit Breaks.
To be continued...
Cloud wants to go to the Temple of the Ancients, but he needs the stone that grants permission to enter first and goes to the Golden Saucer. I have enough money this time, haha. Cloud tries to kill some monsters in the Battle Square but fails miserably. Dio doesn't mind and gives him the stone anyway.
Another method of transportation breaks and the party has to stay for a while in this filthy place. That night there's a horror story contest.
Aeris wants Cloud to participate in a scheme to anger Tifa. The first part is a theater play that Cloud tries to boycott.
And succeds!
Cait Sith is acting strangely, like Yuffie, and a persecution begins.
Cait Sith gives the recently obtained stone to Shinra and now we know that he's a spy. The only thing we can do right now is to hope that the party can enter the temple. Cid learns a new limit along the way.
They find Tseng in there with the stone and (what I thought the fist time) he's mortally wounded (not really).
The shape of this temple is really strange. There's a materia which primary use is to increase the crtical hit rate (among other things).
The next room has rolling stones and item-transforming materias.
And the next place has a clock with 12 exits. The most important are those that have the Princess Guard (Spoilers hahaha Aeris' final weapon) and the Ribbon.
The VI takes to a persecution scene to get a key. Inside another room they find crazy Sephiroth, who talks them about his evil plans. For some reason a dragon appears and they have to fight it.
Aeris learns for the first time a new limit and we get the mighty Bahamut summon.
The party decides that the black matter is better in their possession so they have to take it.
The party needs to exit the temple to finish the plan, but a fearful encounter appears. It has 10,000 HP and is strong against elemental attacks, so Bahamut comes handy, and the deathblow materia, and Climhazzard, and cure and, and...
The party manages to kill that thing and exits the temple. Cait Sith sacrifices himself for the greater good.
Just when things were going well Cloud goes crazy and gives the materia to Sephiroth. Way to go, Cloud! The bad things don't end here, another Cait Sith appears.
Strange things happen and Aeris disappears. She's supposedly in the City of the Ancients.
I thinks it's a good moment to retrieve that extra party member for collection purposes. First, we get the strongbox key.
Then we fight a fierce monster hidden in the strongbox (How could it enter?).
The rewards are Nanaki's last limit item, Odin materia and a key.
Vincent Valentine catched! You can stay in your coffin all the time you want, I won't use you!
Well, the next chapter has some interesting things, should I post the spoilerific images????
Oh yes, please! That scene is so wonderfully done, it has to be shown in detail. It should also start playing that music just when you scroll over your post.
OK, but I don't have enough images to make it well, but I'll put a link to the song. I think I'll have to steal some screens then... For example, one is just before the stab and the next one has the white materia
I should've smashed the note button OK, but I don't have enough images to make it well, but I'll put a link to the song. I think I'll have to steal some screens then... For example, one is just before the stab and the next one has the white materia
If you need some more, sent me a PM. I took some when I played that part a while ago (not all too many, but maybe there are some you can use). I didn't play much further then, that's why I didn't post the screenshots here.
Well, I'll send you the images that I think have "holes" between them.
PseudoKirby
Banned
what the hell is with heropons long ass posts in Italian or Taiwanese or whatever
He's obviously playing very fast.
HiddenWings
Member
A stupid forest is between the group and Aeris, and we need a certain important item to go through it. I don't have fond memories of this "minigame" (sector 5 key!!!). I get the Lunar Harp at the second time.
The forest is pretty straightforward (two screens), but it has an evasive materia.
The Water Ring is pretty important if the characters don't have high levels, we'll see why later. The City of the Ancients is upon us.
Our heroes search Aeris everywhere in the city but they can't find her, so they rest a little. That's enough for her presence to be felt.
There're two materias waiting in this place for the group, the third Enemy Skill and Comet (Power similar to Bahamut, more than one use).
Is Aeris there?
It's good to see she's alright.
Not again!
Aerith's theme starts here ;_;.
The first time I came here I could imagine that she would die, but this battle took me by surprise.
Specially Aqualung. It does like 1600 of damage for everyone and it killed my party that first time, so I was more angry than sad that day.
The lose is important, but Sephiroth must be stopped so he can't fulfill his maniacal plans. Farewell, Aerith.
Thanks to Jucksalbe for lending some important images.
Still, after all these years, goosebumps, every time.
After the disc change, Sephiroth continues his journey to the north, and we have to follow him. There are a lot of treasures near, but one has to practice a little of climbing to get them.
Crossing the snowfields our heroes are attacked by maniac bunnies and evil wolves and they reach a little town.
Cloud has a little problem of turkitis and is knocked down.
Cloud thinks he can play a videogame, but it only does recordings. Thanks to that, we discover Aeris father and that this was her hometown (only for days). Cloud has kleptomaniac behaviors and steals a map.
With a snowboard at hand, Cloud can continue his journey(How will the other characters follow???).
The Great Glacier is upon us, and the party resumes their journey. The first step is getting the Added Cut materia. Linking it to the Steal materia is a good way of getting "mug" early.
Is necessary to touch the hot springs in order to get something nice later. Barret learns his fourth Limit Break!
The party faints and is taken to a house with a nice old man. We can continue to the next area, but I want more items, so we return to the glacier.
There's a cave with a Safety Bit (Defense to Death/Stone/Other thing, stop?).
And thanks to touching the hot springs, we can anger this person.
We can steal the Circlet item (+30 SPI, MAG) from her and she gives Alexander upon her death.
Another cave with another All materia appears.
Now it's time to climb the cliff and explore the caves.
We'll have to punch (kick) rocks to continue our way and fight monsters with different types of breaths. This red one has the magic one.
And this one has bad breath, well no, he didn't want to use it. This monster is enough reason to get the ribbon in the Temple of the Ancients. Another type of encounter includes destroying evil icicles.
A super sword, bah, I won't use it. Tifa learns Meteodrive!
A Marlboro finally decides to use Bad Breath. Thanks to Barret's ribbon <3 and Esuna, this doesn't matter.
Next boss, Schizo. Now that we were talking about my first time on certain bosses, I have to say that I remember this monster being pretty difficult even if I grinded a lot (because of the Demon Gate). I suppose I'm much more efficient now (the only grinding was killing mushrooms to get limit breaks).
Each time a head dies, it does a pretty powerful attack.
Final Destination, the Northern Crater I: Although this is just the begining of the second disc, this is one of the last new places as this disc is more about revisiting old places.
A new materia with an upgraded summon! I was missing Scarlett and Heidegger with their laughter and all that.
This monster was more impressive in FFIX, and Barret learns his first level 3 limit.
We find Sephiroth again and he uses his "mother" to attack us. Compared to the last batch of bosses, this one is a cake walk.
The final revelation comes, the one that killed the Shinra president and Aeris, and wounded pretty badly Tseng was Jenova all along. Yeah, we can say that Sephiroth was controlling it or something, but Jenova was the executor hand.
Cloud is a bit unstable lately and decides to give the stone to the dog because it must be less risky, hahaha.
Jenova/Sephiroth takes the party to the world of illusion and tries to convince the party that Cloud is a clone.
Rufus and his minions are already in the crater and Nanaki is fooled by Jenova.
Nanaki gives a confused Cloud the black materia and they discover that the real Sephiroth is there, resting.
$&@k you, Cloud! What are you doing????!!!! The party has to flee with the bad guys thanks to him.
The weapons (Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, Diamond,
Thanks to our friend Cloud, Meteor has been summoned and doom approaches.
Shinra keeps being nice to our characters and tries to execute Tifa and Barret (they should have tried to execute Vincent).
Cait Sith manages to save Barret and they try to do the same with Tifa, but they can't. Yuffie joins them in their way to the airport.
Cait Sith's plan is a little strange, and seems that it doesn't have sense. Meanwhile, Tifa gets a key to free herself from the chair and the gas. She's very lucky, unlike Aeris.
Casually, a Weapon does an attack that hits the room Tifa is in and she can exit. The poor monster dies in the process.
Tifa and Scarlett start a bitch-slapping fight. That witch!!!
Barret and the others save Tifa with their new airship. I love my new vehicle!
Tifa believes that Cloud could be alive, and she goes to a town in the Southeast of the world map. There's a crazy woman with a white chocobo and the crystal set of weapons to buy.
How lucky we're, Cloud is in this town's clinic. Nanaki is standing with his arms folded!
We lose another party member, and we only have the leftovers. Cid is named the boss of the group for a while. They have a mission consisting of getting a special type of materia that is going to be used against meteor (this is a stupid idea, why are they annoying Shinra when they are trying to save the world?).
Cid learns a new limit break before going to the Corel reactor.
The Shinra leave with the materia and a train persecution begins.
There's a series of fights in the enemy train. The last two are like mini-bosses, but they aren't too much difficult.
I've found a use to Bolt3 at last! The last step is killing the driver and trying to stop the train.
They succeed and they get their first huge materia.
And Ultima. This is kind of a special materia, it's first level doesn't have spells, so one has to level it up once to have access to the powerful spell.
The next mission is about helping the Fort Condor inhabitants.
Another minigame appears! It seems I'm not lucky, hehehe.
ENEMY ATTACK!!! Thanks to my incompetence, a boss battle starts, but it's pretty easy.
Thanks to the victory, we get the Phoenix materia and the corresponding huge materia.
With half the huge materias at our possession, we can pay a visit to sick Cloud. Ultima Weapon ruins the party and Cid tries to kill it, but that monster is a little coward.
I don't know how this happened, but the lifestream is engulfing the town, and that includes Tifa and Cloud.
Strange things keep happening and Tifa discovers that Cloud has never been a soldier, but he "killed" Sephiroth (we could say that he triggered all these events, throwing him to the lifestream, and ending with the Meteor thing).
Cloud recovers, and he can help with the mission about annoying Shinra.
Now that Cloud is the leader, we can begin with our chocobo adventures! The first thing I do is getting something I forgot, the fourth Enemy Skill materia. I won't use it, but it's nice to have it. Then, I buy some stables.
There's a materia that contains a few of the most powerful spells. It's given by the white chocobo after tickling its ears. Freeze, Tornado, Break, Flare... *drools*. Then the group captures two chocobos near Mideel.
The couple is called Boko and Koko, and they are going to have some kids...later. First, we get Tifa's level 4 limit break item.
Thanks to giving expensive greens to Koko, she can destroy the other chocobos in the races.
The reward items are garbage, so we get GP instead. The next step is stealing an
Green chocobo get! It can climb mountains, that takes us to...
... the Mimic materia.
Before going for the "couple", Yuffie, and by Yuffie I mean me, wants the Leviathan materia.
She has to defeat cowards using pokémon.
The last opponent is her father. He likes to use Cure after every attack. Yuffie does less damage than he cures, so I rely on counterattacks and limit breaks.
This is the last chance to get Trine, so I bring two Enemy Skill materias. The reward for defeating all these idiots is getting Leviathan and Yuffie's final limit break item (maximum 9999 damage => useless).
Having a green chocobo allows us to go to this forest early. We play with the local fauna to get interesting items...
...like the Slash-All materia and Typhoon.
The real reward is the Apocalypsis sword, that has triple materia growth.
Yuffie learns a new limit killing squirrels, and just after that a blue chocobo borns.
Thanks to that, we can get the Quadra Magic materia. Cloud learns Meteorain killing more squirrels.
And after killing squirrels so we can get more nuts, the awaited black chocobo is born thanks to incest.
I think there was something that we're forgetting, our mission! In less than an instant, our heroes are in Junon killing soldiers.
Shinra troops have feelings, I feel bad for them now.
The huge materia is moving away from us, we must get it!
Uhuu, this bad boy! I remember this boss being actually difficult, but not this time. It has the habit of grabbing my friends. Bolt3/Trine is a good partner in this battle.
Cid learns another limit break and the party gets the Leviathan scales.
The enemy submarine has already departed, so we have to get another one to follow it. Cloud feels like being a nice person and kidnaps some soldiers instead of killing them.
This game is the one with most minigames per square meter. The party blows up the submarine in no time. Before getting the materia, they discover that the enemy has another huge materia ready to leave Junon.
When they reach the airport, it's already too late.
For some reason, the rocket with the huge materia is waiting us. Thanks to that, we can get some nice things before going there. First, we go to the Gelnika. It has some nasty monsters...
The group gets Yuffie's final weapon, the Conformer, and one of the best materias, Double Cut. :q_____
This place has also one of Cloud's best weapons. This airplane has only four rooms, but full of interesting things, like an optional boss.
This two guys are really easy, so there aren't problems with the battle. After that, the group gets the Hades materia. Thanks to Hades+Added effect in an armor we have a "second ribbon".
Then we get Cid's final limit break item. With nothing left in the place, the group goes to get something they'll need later: the Ancients' Key.
It's time to continue our chocobo adventures catching a wonderful chocobo and winning some races with the black one.
Cid likes to win too. Then we try to get a new type of nut, and we learn some enemy skills in the process.
And thanks to Boko 2 and the black chocobo, we get the golden chocobo! With this one we get a certain materia we could have got with the black chocobo:
The HP <-> MP materia, and one materia that only can be got with this chocobo:
Knights of the Round Table, the final attack.
After a battle, an All materia levels up to the max and we'll never be hungry again.
Thanks to the extra pay, our chocobo becomes a machine with the expensive greens.
Our chocobo makes us rich and gets nice things like more Counterattack materias.
And some other precious treasure.
With all those adventures we forgot something, the huge materia in the red submarine.
The last huge materia is going to be launched into the meteor, and we're going to stop that from happening. A nice amount of troops and Rudes are destroyed in the process.
In the end, Cid uses this situation to fulfill his dream of going to the space.
Now that Cid has done what he wanted to do, we can borrow that huge materia. We fail with the input code that releases it, but not the second time (thank to the internet <3).
In the escape from the rocket, Cid gets trapped and Shera has to save him. The group escapes in a pod and Cid forgives Shera for what happened years ago.
The rocket crashes into Meteor, but it doesn't accomplish anything.
Time to learn limit breaks!
Our next destiny is Cosmo Canyon, where the Full Cure materia awaits us.
Also Bugenhagen and Bahamut ZERO.
Thanks to the reunion, the group realizes that they have to discover what Aeris was trying to do.
They learn that she used the white materia to summon Holy, but for some reason even if the materia is activated, Holy doesn't appear anywhere.
Meanwhile, our Shinra overlords are trying to destroy the barrier that protects the Northern Crater.
In that moment, Diamond Weapon appears!
Spiffy_1st
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Oh man, I love VII.
Uh, oh, this monster seems tough. Let's try our new toy.
ONE HIT KO!!! Don't mess up with the best! OMG, my materias!
"What're you staring at, Mr. Monster?" A huge canyon!
It tries to counterattack, but it's too late for Mr. Monster.
Shinra destroys the barrier, but Diamond Weapon manages to kill Rufus in the process
not really
The situation at Shinra becomes a little chaotic and Hojo, Scarlett and Heidegger start doing crazy things.
It's time to return to Midgar!
After some adventures inside the plate, they reach the railway line.
These lamp monsters are so slow attacking, it's infuriating! After going southwards, the party finds the W Item materia, will it be useful?
After that, they encounter a dead end, and they have to return. The turks appear again and there's an option that skips the battle, but I want to fight Elena for once. They are attacked even by satellites (I wonder how).
I remember this place. This is our only chance to get Cait Sith's final weapon, the HP Shout.
But that wasn't our real target, so we go another way. There are friends everywhere!
The baddies use the Proud Clad, supposedly a super mega ultra destructive robot, uuuuhhh!!! But it dies easily.
Our heroes keep encountering interesting machines along the way.
Thanks to having Barret in the party, we get his final weapon, the Missing Score. At last, we find Hojo and Cloud suffers the Homer Simpson/Burns syndrome.
The team discovers the shocking truth, Sephiroth is Hojo's son *Shocking revelation music*. After that, Hojo gets crazier and attacks us.
Hojo transform into a different freak each time he's defeated! In his last form, he does a multiple attack that activates multiple counterattacks.
With Shinra defeated, the only baddie left in our list is Sephiroth. But before that, holiday for all! The thing we don't know is that was a Cloud's plan so he could be alone with Tifa in the airship.
They talk all the night, yeah. But the next day, everyone has returned, and for some reason Cloud and Tifa get embarrassed.
END OF DISC 2
Disc 3 means that we can fight Ultima Weapon again. Since it's a flying monster, Tifa's and Cloud's attacks don't hit, and we have to use more potent tools.
This monster's still a coward, and we have to follow it. It tries to kill Sephiroth, but we can't let do that happen!
Our group battles that monster over the world until it stops over some mountains near Gongaga.
Cloud doesn't want to lose time and uses his favourite summon to kill it "fast". Mr. Monster 2 tries to kill Cloud, but it misses and Cloud learns another lethal magic:
We get more uses of that summon and the final weapon? More like Ultima weapon.
The monster leaves a huge crater that has access to the Ancient Forest. But we've already got everything there.
We want to go to Midgar again, but we have to find a key in Bone Village (ugh!). After thousands of tries, I get it.
Aeris, you're alive! Oh, no, it was like a glitch/ghost, nvm. We get the Premium Heart in the Wall Market.
We're going to explore this place a little, but not kill Sephiroth (I could have done that, but I'll spare his life for some more time). We find an item that summons a Save Point.
These Black Dragons have spare Dragon Armlets for us. I'm afraid of Tonberries!!!
After some battles, we reach a place where the group splits (WTH?, what's the purpose of this?). I like this place for my Save Point.
In the north passage, we find these little enemies that become vulnerable if we give them an elixir. Thanks to that we recieve 1000 AP! Great!
And I don't mind using elixirs because they're infinite! There's the Shield materia in this room.
Double Cut and Quadra Magic level up and then we get some more materias like Double Magic, Counter and Mega All.
It's time to go to the Battle Square, before that we get Barret's final limit break item. Allévoy!
Ribbon erases the effects of some negative reels, but there are some unlucky situations.
After lots of battles, we can afford Omnislash and Double Summon. I didn't have enough patience to get Final Touch, so... to the Final Confrontation!
Last save point, let's mosey!
There are some friendly monsters in the way of our heroes, even attacking question marks!
The final one is Jenova Synthesis, but it doesn't deserve even a mention, how weaaaak!
Sephiroth makes an appearance and tries to kill the party, but they resist and counterattack.
Bizarre Sephiroth: He has five parts that make difficult to use Cut x4 all the time. It even has an invulnerable part and it shoots lasers!!! But it didn't count with my intelligence and my brute force and it's killed.
Safer? Sephiroth: He puts his interesting face and starts protecting himself, after an exchange of powerful spells, Cloud gets angry.
FIN
After the battle, Cloud keeps having headaches. Let's use some aspirines!
Look at that polygon count!
OMNISLASH
And the Sephiroth thoughts die once and for all! Tifa saves Cloud and Ken replaces Cid, everyone's happy!
Except Midgar, but that's well deserved. Oh, no, the Shinra baddies aren't there anymore!
FIN
Nice playthrough pics! Some of the stuff is so familiar yet... completely forgotten. I beat FF7 only once I believe. I didn't do most of the side missions - hell I never really did all the junk with the Chocobos. I picked up an old FF7 save I had, just went into Shinra's tower and just saw Red XIII in his holding cell.
I think my main issue with playing FF7(or any PSX FF game) is there's no fast forward button on the emulators >.>
I think my main issue with playing FF7(or any PSX FF game) is there's no fast forward button on the emulators >.>
Yeah, I miss that button in the flashback sequences... But it's worse in FFX.
The Praiseworthy
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Heropon..... thank you so very much for your pictures walkthrough. wow these are probably my favorite posts in neogaf EVER..... now everytime I want to take a walk to remember with FFVII I'm going to re - read your posts
I mean not like I need to because I finished the game more than 10 - 13 times and I remember it as I remember my name
but still it's soooo nice to see it with pictures now... and yes FFVII still looks good and charming IMO.... this my favorite game of all time will NEVER age in my eyes
I mean not like I need to because I finished the game more than 10 - 13 times and I remember it as I remember my name
but still it's soooo nice to see it with pictures now... and yes FFVII still looks good and charming IMO.... this my favorite game of all time will NEVER age in my eyes
And that's it. Advent Children never happened....right?
So, will you continue with FF VIII right away? I think you'd even be the first to post screenshots of it in this thread.
Heropon..... thank you so very much for your pictures walkthrough. wow these are probably my favorite posts in neogaf EVER..... now everytime I want to take a walk to remember with FFVII I'm going to re - read your posts
I mean not like I need to because I finished the game more than 10 - 13 times and I remember it as I remember my name
but still it's soooo nice to see it with pictures now... and yes FFVII still looks good and charming IMO.... this my favorite game of all time will NEVER age in my eyes
Thanks, these words are very encouraging!
I finished this game a week ago, but I had a giant backlog of images! I was going to start today with VIII, but I feel a little dizzy today , so I hope I can start tomorrow.
Advent Children? It doen't have Genesis, so it doesn't exist
but then we have Dirge of Cerberus, but I haven't played that and I don't feel like buying it. I can't waste moneys in these times.How much of your screens you posted were actually done before you started posting here?
If I remember right, you said you had to wait for your activation until you could finally post (or maybe that was someone else?).
Looking forward to your posts. Try not to get lost in Triple Triad.
Advent Children? It doen't have Genesis, so it doesn't exist
From what I played of Dirge of Cerberus I'd say that money would really be wasted.
How much of your screens you posted were actually done before you started posting here?
None, this thread convinced me to replay FFI and finish for the first time Mystic Quest (thanks to you and Dark Schala). The next week, my account was activated and I decided to restart FFI and install the CFW to post images.
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