HSUP B TCELES - Let's Play FF1! Again!

Yeah, it's totally towns that Final Fantasy does poorly.

G... Gilgy?

Geez, Mt. Gulg sucks. But on the bright side having all that lava around will keep you from getting chili.

Seriously. In my last game of DoS I saved Marilith for the very end and my Knight one-shotted her with a hasted and sabered Excalibur. It was glorious.

hahahahaha this is funny as shit

It really is!

They play a mean game of patty-cake.

The reason Blizzard spells come a level higher is probably because Final Fantasy 1 was a huge Dungeons and Dragons ripoff, and in D&D Fireball and Lightning Bolt are available to magic-users at fifth level but Cone of Cold doesn't come until seventh.

I always wondered about it!

I also think that with the magic level system, they wanted to spread out the attack magic a little bit, so you'd have something to use those charges on. Of course, that means nothing in the MP pool remakes.

Yeah, as noted many times, Ice is a REALLY BIG DEAL in regular FF1, since your BM's attack capabilities go through the roof (same with Ice2). Not so much in the remakes.

I honestly believe that most of us have put far more thought into this game than the designers ever did.

Yeah, but in D&D cold is the weakness of most devils (except Gelugons) and the most powerful dragons. It kind of fits as the higher tier of magic attacks. In final fantasy it's good for ???

Your asking for something in FF1 to make sense?

I also like Marilith's sprite remake because she has that annoyed look on her face. As bothered as I am when the dog wakes me up an hour or two early, imagine how irritated you'd be if someone woke you up when your alarm wasn't set to go off for another two hundred years.

Also IIRC Marilith doesn't have an elemental weakness but status effects work on her okay. Check the bestiary entry.

Status effects don't work on her so much as they "work". McDohl talked a little about this in last year's LP, specifically with FEAR.

The only debuff I might try would be Slowra, to take the bite out of her physicals. If I had a white mage I would have access to Silence (to take the sting out of her fire spells), but I wouldn't have trusted it over NulFire + Healara.

I deeply and sincerely apologize for the slow rate of updates. My free time has been slim these past couple weeks and I've chosen to fill it with new games instead of old ones. So if jjb fills the thread up with lolcats and fat chicks eating cake, we'll just call it my bad.

Technically Marilith is vulnerable to paralysis, darkness, sleep, silence, confusion, and whatever "mind" means. But only the first time; later in the game, she's pretty much invulnerable to everything. She never has elemental weaknesses (the closest she gets is not being explicitly resistant to ice), and in fact is strong against ice for the second showdown.

Well, it wouldn't really be a Brick FF LP without it, eh? Though I confess that as cute as the LOLcats are, the rapping upthread was far superior.

I can do more, I just don't want to rip away all the novelty.

Well, we're averaging one FF1 LP/year, so this shit is special.

Wait until you see what's in store for 2015: Brick plays a solo black mage while we throw tennis balls at him! Oh and also no magic allowed.

As for 2011... well, let's just say that you will soon believe that a puppy can be taught to play Final Fantasy.

A puppy trained to play Final Fantasy would be something I'd pay to see, but less pretendly, I'd like to see someone play through the whole game using a dance pad peripheral.

FF isn't the most... involved game in the world. It would be Brick standing in the middle, tapping the 'do' button for a while. You can play the entire thing with one foot.

To compensate, he will play it on a dance pad, while also riding a pogo stick.

Brick will write a bot to play Final Fantasy.

He'll play it without ever attacking or using magic.

Bosses are beaten by the characters debating their different viewpoints in a calm, non-aggressive scenario.

Brick will furrow his brow and simply stare at the game, say "You know who I am, and you know what I am capable of." and then sit in silence.

The game will proceed to beat itself.

I played a couple hours of FFX on a DDR pad, mostly because it was the only way to add any semblance of challenge to the game.

That's also how Brick eats breakfast.

There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's.

To be fair, it's turn-based, so you have all the time in the world to select actions and press buttons.

The lightning-dodging minigame must've been fun, though, as well as FFX-2 Tower Calibration game. But the best parts were probably butterfly-hunting and Chocobo-racing, right?

Hm. The PSN FF releases should all theoretically be playable using a guitar controller, right?