Weekly /r/FinalFantasy Question Thread – Week of November 22, 2021

The reward for winning is a strength sphere and slightly different dialogue; so you won't be missing out on anything important if you decide to give up.

It was just fixed in an update; but it seems you either have to load a save file from before you entered the final floor or load a clear game save to get Necrophobe to appear.

You can change sprites, backgrounds, UI, font, etc. just checkout the Nexus page for the games.

Here's the one for FFI

Trying to go off the dome with this while just looking at the game's map, so I might forget a location or two, and putting it behind a spoiler...

For the first portion of the game: Cornelia > Temple of Chaos > Cornelia > Pravoca > Elfheim > Marsh Cave > Western Keep > Matoya's Cave > Elhfeim > Cornelia > Mount Duergar.

This opens the map up, to do the rest of the game in (almost) any order you'd like. However, based on enemy levels, town locations and the initial strategy guide, you would then do:

Melmond > Titan's Cave > Sage's Cave > Terra Cavern > Crescent Lake > Mount Gulg > Ice Cavern > Lykion Desert > Cardia Islands > Citadel of Trials > Cardia Islands > Onrac > Desert Caravan > Gaia > Onrac's Sunken Shrine (two separate trips recommended for the tablet, Water Fiend) > Waterfall Cavern > Melmond (tablet translation) > Lufenia > Mirage Tower > Temple of Chaos.

So the way it works is that when you win a battle you get AP, and enough AP gets you a sphere level up, and you move the little doodad on the sphere grid however many sphere levels you have banked. Different nodes need different kinds of spheres to unlock, e.g. mana spheres, power spheres etc. Different nodes also give you different benefits; some might increase a stat permanently, or give you a new spell or skill to use. If you're using the standard sphere grid, you can pretty much just move the piece along the board since the grids are laid out for each character, but later on you'll get things that let you move the piece around the grid, teleport to other pieces, etc. It really lets you customize everyone exactly the way you want, it's one of the best parts of that game.

In terms of difficulty, you shouldn't really have too much trouble, there is a bit of a difficulty spike in the last couple of bosses but worst case scenario you can always go out and grind for more sphere levels and whatnot. Plus there's so much side content that you'll probably just end up leveling up and getting nice and strong unless you just speedrun straight through the main story. Either way I'm sure you'll be fine, don't be afraid to look up beginner's guides too!

Most towns don't have Dark Aeons blocking the path. But I know Besaid does, and there isn't any way to enter without fighting it.

Most likely some bugfixes. They don't add content to FF's like that, so unless you have a specific bug you want fixed, updates are nothing to get excited about.

I’d say so, yeah. The third disc isn’t that long.

Yeah you have to give the level checker reflect and reflect the spell off itself

Since you're using a mod it's hard to say. It could be some things were changed with status immunities. Or maybe the mod messes with the base accuracy of the spells to balance the bonus from intelligence.

IV. Tactics advance is great, but it isn't the strongest entry in the series in my opinion. Plus it's a strategy RPG, which I love but isn't typical for Final Fantasy.

IV was where the story telling in FF really took off and has the gameplay that you'll find in other games. You'll get a better idea of what FF is all about with IV over Tactics Advance for sure.

think of the pixel remaster as upgrade versions of the original releases, perhaps the biggest down side of the Pixel Remaster is the lack of extra dungeons that were added on the GBA/PSP versions, nothing really ground breaking but some people just like to do them, for me FF2's extra dungeon was the biggest lost since it actually have/had extra lore in it unlike the other dungeons that were more like extra challenge.

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How do they compare to the ones recommended in the FAQ? (mostly the PSP ones)?

the biggest point of discontent is the graphics, many people prefer how the PSP ones looks at first glance, this does not meant that the Pixel Remaster look bad, it just has a different style, and in the case of FF4 the PSP version has its sequel included.

on other hands the Pixel Remaster offer a lot of improvments such as mini maps, auto saves, auto battles (for easier grind) and perhaps the biggest point many agree on is the sound track, FF's original composer re-arreged all the songs and they are just awesome.

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What about the 3D remakes of 3 and 4? I actually own both for DS, although never got very far. Are they just as good as the originals, or did they change too much the fandom generally disagrees with?

FF3 has the biggest change the original and the pixel remaster have 4 nameless playable character, while the 3D remake gave them name and a bit of background. while in FF4 they added a few extra cutscenes and dialogue, personally I am not fan of the voice acting on the and graphics.

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If I were to just get the pixel remasters + every other entry as is available currently on Steam, would I be getting a far inferior version for any game in the series?

not anymore and in a few cases perhaps the betters ones, just one small warning about two titles, which are crossover games:

For ff7 and ff9, I'd recommend the Satsushi Yatoshi and Moguri mods respectively, as they improve the background quality tremendously, as they look horrible by default due to them losing the code for the PS1 games. The Moguri mod even makes most of the game fullscreen. As for your Ivalice question, you can play them in any order you wish. There's no easy best way to play FFT other than emulation, though a remaster is rumored for next year so maybe look out for that.

The only major complaint about the old steam version (which is a port of the mobile version) is the graphics. If you don't mind how it looks, it's perfectly acceptable to play that. It also has the extra content of the GBA version (an extra dungeon and 4 new jobs).

If the graphics are a turnoff for you, the pixel remaster has a classic 16-bit look and a reorchestrated soundtrack. However, it lacks the GBA content.

I hope that helps make your decision a bit easier.

HLTB suggests 28 hours for the main story, and 53 hours for main + extras. You're about double the recommended level in the IGN guide, so you should be able to stream roll through a good amount of the story portions ahead, and in general, I don't think 15 is particularly hard. You could probably tackle the remaining stuff in about 15 to 20 hours - The drama and stakes do start to pick up, as you're almost at the end of the lighter, "riding in the car with my boys" portion of the game.