Weekly /r/FinalFantasy Question Thread – Week of June 14, 2021

It's called Real Emotion. Sung by Sweetbox in English and Koda Kumi in Japanese.

I believe you are referring to 8.

the Cave of Trial and Lunar Ruins.

I think Steam, since almost all of the mainline games are available there unlike the Switch. However, I would recommend to use a controller since most FF games were not made with keyboard/mouse in mind.

Dude stranger of paradise demo on hard was really fun and rewarding. I leveled most of the jobs to around 20 but settled on dragoon being my favorite. I crit garland for almost 900 damage with jump during the fight

Not a question but just wanted to add that magic is extremely satisfying in this game. I was longing for a good action-game with black mage class and this is just what I wanted. I almost played FF Explorers on 3DS just to have some black mage combat there, haha.

Stealing spells feels nice, especially in boss battles. FF Origin gets a lot of things right, can't wait for release.

WoFF is great. It will take roughly 3-4 hours for the game to open up, there's a lot of fun things. Combat is kind of slow so you'll need to be patient at first.

Very cute game, story is charming. Gameplay is basically going through a dungeon, micro-managing party and using abilities. If you like FF franchise, it'll be even better.

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I'd also suggest Crystal Chronicles if you haven't played it yet.

If you like grinding - if you've played games like Dragon Quest 1, 2 or 3 - then I'd just start with FF1, given your goals here. FF1 and FF3 are pretty heavy grinds (can't remember how bad FF2 is) depending on the version you're playing.

If you're not such a fan of grinding, I'd start with FF4. You do have to gain some levels here and there, and at the end game portion, but it's nothing compared to the early FF games or a traditional CRPG. The FF series isn't too difficult overall, so if you have experience with any other RPGs, you should be mostly OK.

IMO you should start with 6, the first 5 (particularly 4) have good and influential entires but 6 is when it becomes more modern and, with the exception of 8 IMO, the games become more accessible, dialogue heavy and fun, even in the worse entries like 13 and 15.

II, III and V are now part of the "western" canon, nobody calls 4 "FF2" or 6 "FF3" anymore, definitely play them when do. If anything you should worry more about the MMOs 11 and 14 lol

You can upgrade for free and pay for intermission seperate as DLC

I think you get a free PS5 upgrade but will need the physical ps4 disc in the system in order to play it. Besides that, Intermission should run fine.

People are saying it's basically Nioh (made by the same developer) with an FF skin. I've played the demo, but I've never played Nioh so I can't vouch for that comparison myself.

I think it's good that they are making new versions. Particularly for 3 because this will be the first time the original (ish) 2D version is being made available outside of Japan.

But it's a big shame that it's PC and mobile only. However I'm hoping that console versions are coming eventually, and they just weren't ready to announce those versions yet. Maybe they will release them as one big collection on consoles, and they'll only announce it once all of them are out on PC/mobile.

For mobile phones, and Steam / PC. I don't think we've seen enough of these games to really form much of an opinion, though. Plenty of the ports of the older games are fine, but there are plenty that are a mess, like the FF6 version currently on Steam, the various times they've ported Chrono Trigger, what they've done to Secret of Mana over the years, and so on.

No, you need the disc in to verify you own the PS4 version to play the free PS5 upgrade. So there's no way to do it if you have a digital only PS5.

Generally speaking there's no way to do disc->digital upgrades, unless the publisher is willing to send you a code for the PS5 version. That's what EA is doing for Jedi Fallen Order. You send them proof of purchase of the PS4 version and a PS5 console and they'll send you a key. Unfortunately Square Enix isn't doing that.

Yes, search the PlayStation store for final fantasy and you'll see a separate listing for the upgrade. Might want to make sure the disc is in the console. This is what I did and upgraded just fine.

I just downloaded the latest version of the patch on romhacking.net and the readme says to use v1.0 of the rom and not rev 1. The correct version can be found on slash r slash roms.

You can encounter Yuffie in any forest in the game.

if you dont mind just watching it on youtube its all here