Weekly /r/FinalFantasy Question Thread – Week of September 20, 2021

You say you didn't like the PS1 version, but in what way, exactly? There's a bunch of different versions of IV, each with their own unique offerings.

Because X and XIII are both very linear, I would suggest playing XII next to sort of switch things up a bit, and then play X/X-2.

If you wanna play another FF that is linear and very story-driven like 13, try X. If you want a more open-world-like approach, go with XII. That said, both games are amazing imo so be sure to try them out both eventually.

I would stay away from VIII for now. Not a bad game, but it does a lot of things differently compared to the other FFs. Leave it for later.

There's no wrong way to play FF, if you like 13 awesome. It's very popular actually, thats why they made 3 of them, I'd rather call it divisive. That being said it's not well liked by me.

I would play X next, as 12 and 8 have very unique styles compared to the general themes of the franchise.

Yes. The Pixel Remasters are entirely different than the old versions.

1) AP is what levels up materia. You'll gain AP after battle. Bear in mind some weapons and armour will double, triple, or zero AP gained by the materia in them.

2) Each materia levels individually. So levelling up Lightning will get you Bolt2, then Bolt3. Levelling up All lets you cast the magic against all targets more times.

3) If an enemy is weak to an element, attacking with that element does double damage. Or an enemy could resist (half damage), be immune to, or absorb an element. Elemental materia on your weapon gives your physical attacks the relevant element.

I tend not to use elemental on my weapon, because finding out my physical attacks are stuck on the wrong element is problematic. But a tip: Nothing in the game resists (or is immune to or absorbs) wind, and some things are weak to it. So Choco/Mog - Elemental on your weapon is a safe bet.

4) You can backtrack once you get the buggy, just drive it into Costa Del Sol. But you can get Yuffie in almost any forest on the world map.

When you get the buggy you should have Choco/Mog, Shiva, Ifrit, and Ramuh summons. Ramuh is easy to miss.

5) Remember your materia levelling up. For each summon, it's one cast per battle per star on the materia. And of course you need the MP. The Choco/Mog summon is unusual in having two different attacks. The same applies to Odin, but all the rest have just one attack.

6) Enemy Skill are powerful, but you don't need them.

8) You can only Steal once from each enemy and nearly all enemies only have one thing to steal. It's random whether it works or not.

9) In the back row you take less physical damage, but you also deal less physical damage unless your attack is long range. All of Yuffie's and Vincent's weapons, and some of Barret's, are long range, and there's also a materia to make any weapon so. Magic doesn't care about row. So the back row is where your mages and long range fighters should be.

Haven't played the game in a while so can't reply to everything, but I'm sure someone will fill you in.

I'm fairly sure there's an npc close to the start of the game that explains most of the more basic stuff but since it's an old game they haven't made the tutorial part mandatory so I imagine you missed it.

1) Materia levels up based on ap earned in fights. It's fairly simple, and you should be able to see how much you need for a level in a menu.

2) Materias level up individually (except level up materia does boost the materia it's linked to I think)

3) All lightning materia does is that it allows you to cast lightning spells. There's another materia that allows the stuff you're talking about when linked to lightning for an example.

4) You'll be able to get Yuffie eventually, and I think you can get her outside the 1st continent, just any forest should do. You'll be able to backtrack reasonably soon.

5) I think summon limits are based on materia level.

6) I assume it talks about enemy skill materia. It allows learning certain skills when hit by them. It's not essential, but it's interesting and allows some nice cheesing. There's at least 2 of the materia (don't remember if there's more). 1st you would've missed by now, but I don't remember where the 2nd is.

7) There's no question 7 I think?

8) Got no memory of this

9) Back row people get hit less by physical attacks, and do less physical dmg if they don't have something that counteracts the distance.

Feel free to ask anything else you're wondering about.

The order I would play would be

FF 13, FF 13-2, (if you can get FF lightning returns then get it since 13 series is a trilogy), FF 12, FF type-0 then FF maxima.

If you prefer more open world then play FF 12 and FF Type - 0 first.

All depends on taste really I enjoyed alll those games so I guess it doesn't really matter what orde to play them but people will definitely have different opinions than I do

I think all the DLC for the PS4 version is available either by default or there is a free dlc for the PS5 version—go check.

AustinSV on youtube does a really good job making videos comparing the different versions of a game and which may be best. Here's his ff8 video, and I see he has a new video out comparing all the ff1 games but I haven't see that yet.

Well, it's a bit tough to give out specific advice without knowing your past RPG history! But roughly...

- 3PR and 4PR are turn-based and active time RPGs, from the 8 and 16-bit eras, respectively. I love 4, but find 3 a bit grindy. I haven't played the PR, but the general consensus is that if the updated graphics appeal to you, their accessibility makes them good buys. (i.e. The ease of just playing them on Steam makes it better than fiddling with finding PSP copies of 4.)

- The 3D remake of 3 is good. If you like the look of it better than the PR, go for it. The 3D remake of 4 is incredibly challenging, and meant for people who have played and beat the game already. I wouldn't recommend it until you beat the base game, play a couple of other games, and then give the 3D version of 4 a shot when you want a challenge.

- The "remastered" version of 8 doesn't really change much from the base game. I think it mostly has that moniker to signify that there have been slight graphical upgrades. AFAIK, there is no new content. That being said, there isn't any reason to hunt out the original PS1 or PC disc over the remastered version. I like 8, but it's got an odd combat system. (Very short description - You essentially "steal" magic from enemies, or create it with items or through an optional card game, and then equip it to boost stats.) I wouldn't recommend it as a first RPG, but if you have experience in the genre, it's a good game.

In pixel remaster open the Map and in the bottom left corner if applicable. It will displays chests and hidden items in each area

I can check later how it worked if you can't find it, but yes there is at least in the PR version. There was a menu where you could go through different areas and you could see you've got x/y chests from there. Possibly related to the map?

Do you mean in FFXIV? I think you'd be better off asking in

yes, but you're better off asking the dedicated subreddit. not that we have full details yet this was only announced in the PLL

Gameplay wise, nothing alike. FF7R action combat is changed with a pure turn-based battle, in which the fastes characte

Maybe? It's probably not a bad place to start.

V, IX, and Tactics are the best games, in my opinion, but that's probably somehow due to a certain degree of nostalgia that I have for the earlier games. VII is probably a close fourth, and, so, if you just want to casually get into the series, the remake could be a good place to start.

If you don't want to feel like a neophyte, though, you might want to play the original VII before playing the remake. It'd seem to be a step back to play them in reverse order if you plan on playing through most of the games.

To my best recollection, when I got into Final Fantasy with VII, the canonical games in the series were considered to be VI, which is phenomenal, but I don't quite as good as some of its fans will tell you, and IV, which is classic. VII was kind of considered as a mainstream game within the series and often lamented by that account. The latter games, up until X, were considered to be fairly good, but ultimately lacking in some of the magic of the ones for the Super Nintendo had.

Revisionist critique for the series, I think, has improved the overall community of fans. Tactics is justifiably cited as one of the best games in the series and there is no longer a disdain for VII, which was as good as it was popular. IX has also become fairly renowned for its careful combination of the classic and modern aspects of the games, which is how my preferences don't any longer differ from the established assessments within video game criticism.

People have also come to reassess some of the previous assumptions about the series, such as that VIII, which has a rather flawed battle system, was better than VII and IX and that X was the final straw in Square having sold out, as, though it, perhaps, was, it is also an all around great game.

XI was incredible, but I don't think that you can really play it anymore, though could be wrong. I haven't played XVI, as I am not at a point in my life where I can devote that kind of time to a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, though hear that it's also great.

I do happen to be of the opinion, and it is often contested, that XII, XIII, and XV, are not nearly as good as the earlier games, but am fairly hopeful for XVI.

XII totally drops the ball with the story arc and level design around two-thirds of the way into the game, in my opinion. It progresses so well up until then, but just kind of ends up fairly mediocre, as they lost their director half of the way through the game.

XIII is just a creative catastrophe. It's stunningly beautiful, the character arcs are actually fairly well developed, the lore is kind of interesting, and the battle system is fairly innovative, none of which can make up for its piercing melodrama, frenetic battles, and total lack of exploration.

I haven't played much of XV, and, so, can't say too much either way, but do kind of suspect that what I suspect about it, despite that I found that I did kind of like it more than I thought that I would in the four to five hours that I put into it, which is that it's patronizingly geared towards teenage gamers and chalk full of a ton of pointless fetch quests, is just simply true. I don't really know, though.

Anyways, if you plan on playing more than a few of the games, I'd play the original VII first. Otherwise, I'd say that it's probably fine to start with the remake.

No confirmed release date yet

People are predicting that FF V will be released mid-late October and FF VI mid-late November but just have to wait and see

no official date yet.

speculation is that they will delay it a fair bit as 5 and 6 are considerably bigger games with more things to debug (and IV shipped with a lot of bugs) so they might take additional time to iron them out.

i personally dont see any need to rush them out anyway