Weekly /r/FinalFantasy Question Thread – Week of April 12, 2021

Using buffs will help a lot. If you have the Giants Glove you can use it to cast Saber so your Knight and Monks can do damage. If you don't have the Giants Glove then you can use the Red Wizards Temper spell. It can be bought in Pravoka if you don't have it.

On the defensive side you have Haste, Protera, and Invisira. Unfortunately you can't use NullAll as it is exclusive to the White Wizard so you're going to have to settle for NullDeath to protect against instant death & paralysis and possibly NullBlaze Etc to protect against his elemental attacks. Finally you should equip any Ribbons if you have them.

Do you have the giant’s gloves? Have your knight and monks use them as an item to cast saber on themselves and boost their damage output. Haste would also help but I can’t remember if the red wizard has access to the spell.

If you're playing GBA / PSP / mobile, it might be worth your while to farm elixirs from Death Eyes in the last dungeon so your attackers can use them during battle when things get tough while you devote RW to buffing/healing.

You may also want to consider traveling back to the Desert Caravan to buy all the boost potions so your knight and masters can buff each other while RW is on standby healing duty. They're 1000-1500 gil each. I'm not sure which ones stack, so you might want to save and test how much can stack before finalizing your inventory. But at least 1 of each for 3 of your main attackers (6000 gil each).

Yes, but you should spoiler tag your questions or they will likely be removed.

The license board allows you to use those abilities, but you still need to acquire them before you can actually use them. Try checking the magick and technick shops for them. However, some of them can only be obtained from chests or as rewards.

Getting 100% in a single playthrough of X-2 is really difficult. It's easy to miss something even if following a guide. So yes, to do everything a guide is absolutely required.

It also has different endings based on what your percentage is plus some other requirements. There's a normal ending, a good ending which builds on that, and a perfect ending which adds an extra scene.

100% is required for the "perfect" ending, but you don't have to do it in a single playthrough. There's a point in the game where you can choose between two factions, so if you play a second time you can pick up some more percentage points by picking the other faction.

Just try to do as many sidequests as you can when they come up and you should at least be able to get the "good" ending. Like I said, the perfect ending just adds an extra scene so it's not substantially different to the good ending. You can always just watch it on youtube if you don't feel like playing the game again to do the things you missed.

I personally highly recommend FFX, which is maybe the closest the Final Fantasy series has ever gotten to Dragon Quest, though even here there's some big differences, in Dragon Quest XI, speed only decides turn order, so the fastest (and coolest) character may act first, but he still has to wait for every single other character and monster to act before he can act again, no matter how slow the slowest character or monster is.

In FFX's Conditional Turn Based System, not only can you see exactly whose turns are coming up in the UI, but a single character or monster is totally capable of getting two turns back to back, and character-turns can even shift back and forth based on what action is currently highlighted by your selection, using an item and guarding for example are actions that delay your character's next turn less than usual, meaning you may be able to act sooner after using them, casting the spell "Haste" which is essentially "Accelerate" will similarly lead to more turns, though "the action of casting Haste" has a longer delay than usual, so the first turn after self-casting Haste tends to look very similar to a turn spent just attacking, which has no delay modification whatsoever.

Other FF-titles I would not recommend if you are looking for titles similarly to DQXI, Pre-X's "Active Time Battle", which was last seen heavily modified in FFX-2 and FF12's "Active Dimension Battle" can become downright chaotic at times, at the very least compared to DQ XI's or FFX's "more comfy" battle systems.

Active Time Battle (Final Fantasy prior to X) features a gauge that shows the progress towards getting a turn in the UI (called ATB or ATB-Gauge) that fills over time, once a character's ATB-Gauge is filled, their action can be selected, while the same happens for the enemy, though the enemy's ATB-Gauge is hidden from sight, it tends to work the exact same way, there's some fringe cases where the enemy breaks rules, like Final Fantasy IX's superboss Ozma whose ATB fills to 100%-1 whenever you are capable of selecting a character's action, meaning if you don't select your actions quickly while he's performing his, he's just gonna spam his moves down your throat.

Moves are queued based on when they were selected, if two characters have a full ATB-Gauge, then an enemy whose ATB-Gauge ends up being full just before you select an action for the second character will result in your first character acting, then the enemy, then the second character, Final Fantasy X-2 takes this system up to 11 (or 10-2, rather) with actions being capable of being performed simultaneously and ATB-Gauges being capable of being slowed when attacks connect.

Maybe try IX. All the main FF games up to X are turn based like DQ, but IX in particular has a more whimsical style like DQ does.

The difference between the two versions isn't as simple as saying that the DS version has more content. The PSP version and DS versions each have different bonus dungeons, so you have to play both in order to see all the content. The PSP version allows you to include all the main characters at the end of the game whereas the DS version updates the ability system so that characters can learn new abilities. The DS version is also more challenging. You could argue that these are two different games that follow a similar story.

Ideally, the best thing to do would be to play both. However, if you don't want to go that route, I would recommend the PSP version first. This is partly because it's based on the original version of the game (and therefore more in line with what the original developers intended) and partly because it will be more similar to the two sequels. If you ever decide to replay it, you can then go with the DS version and see what's different in it.

No. It'll be a singleplayer game, though it's possible (but unconfirmed) it could have some multiplayer aspects similar to XV's Comrades

IF you want to level everyone but Squall up...you can just kill him. He won't get XP when dead...but I''m pretty sure enemies scales to the average party level, so leveling up other characters would bring the average up. Also you can't Card bosses.

Bosses don't give experience in VIII. So you don't have to worry about that.

As far as I can remember the grinding is not too bad. It's also not too hard, definitely worth to play, let me know how you like it after you've started.

If you're decent at turn based games you aren't gonna be underleveled in VII. If you want a bit of extra boost at some point, you can go grind for a bit, but it's not normally even needed.

Glad to hear you're playing the famicom version. In my opinion it's the most difficult Final Fantasy game ever made. The last section of the game is one of (if not the most) brutal stretches you can experience in any RPG. I no longer complain about grinding levels because of my experience with the original version of FF3. It's also one of my favorite NES games. It's a really big game - much more expansive than FF1 and FF2.

Some non-spoiler tips:

The maps are big and you will get lost. There's a couple of ways in-game to deal with this though.

You cannot over-grind in this game. If you think you need to level up then you probably do. If you think your level is high enough then you probably need to grind more.

There are a few boss fights where a specific job setup is either necessary or extremely difficult otherwise. The game provides hints leading up to these moments, so be sure to speak with everybody.

Yes there are missable secrets so be sure to do a lot of exploring including underwater. The best secrets in this game are at the end of some very difficult dungeons, so be prepared. The lack of any save points in certain areas can be tricky as well.

At one point, FF3 was going to get a WonderSwan remake like FF1, 2 and 4 did. Unfortunately due to the crazy number of sprites in FF3, the game itself wouldn't actually fit on a wonderswan cartridge. Meaning that FF3 is actually larger than FF4 if you give them both 16-bit graphics.

Strongly suggest playing the game with the new ChaosRush translation. It's the best.

Here's your Get Out of Jail Free card. Try not to use this if you can help it. Here's a video showing how it works.

The Onion Knights in the original game are NOT useless. If you level them up enough, they'll eventually become the strongest job available. Give a high-level Onion Knight a bunch of Onion equipment and they basically turn into gods.

FF7 was heavily influenced by aspects of FF3. Certain characters, locations and themes directly inspired the development of FF7. Chrono Trigger has a big influence as well.

It is absolutely possible to kill Nepto.

This is a pretty good walkthrough if you want to be sure you're not missing anything.

That's probably enough. Have fun!

It depends on your hardware specs. Youtube

to get a good idea how your system will perform. If you want a more accurate test, download the free demo and benchmark it:

Check Steam controller config settings. Ensure it's set to Xbox controller and not gamepad. If that doesn't work, update your bluetooth drivers or use a USB cable.

The general opinion around here is that TZA is a straight improvement over the original and is the definitive way to play XII. There's really not any reason to play the original over TZA.

Most characters also have generic animations that don't use their weapons regardless of which weapon they currently have equipped, a few that I know off the top of my head include...

Vaan throwing an apple in the air, catching it, then taking a bite out of it.
Balthier adjusting his sleeves and shirt, then posing with his arms on his belt.

The one with the drinking bag is not related to the Katana.

You can, yeah. All the players are at the two hallways that lead to the locker rooms at the stadium in Luca

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What do you need items for? If Yuna is levelled up, she should have plenty of healing spells to keep you alive.

Anyway, I think the nearest merchant is Wantz(Oakka's cousin) part-way up Mt. Gagazet. It's a bit of a walk from where you are, but there's no closer alternatives if you want to get items

In later dungeons, you have to split your roster in three different teams. So it helps immensely to ensure 12 of them are sufficiently developed.

If you haven't progressed the story yet, make sure you pop over to Tzen - there's a thief in the woods in the upper right that sells an esper that's the best source of healing spells for most of the game.

BlackRiot is correct about making sure your roster is balanced, because you'll have to use all your characters. If you want some more focused advice - Make sure Setzer, Sabin and Edgar know at least a couple of spells, because you'll be forced to use them at one point.

Not in the Steam version, unless there are mods for it.

You could switch party members at that point in the GBA and PSP versions, but not in the 3D remake. Which is a shame because it really feels like you should be able to.

You go back to Costa Del Sol and talk to one of the sailors at the docks. You have to pay a small amount but then you can take a boat back to Junon.