Weekly /r/FinalFantasy Question Thread – Week of June 21, 2021

Sure! The mechanics are a little dense, but heck, that's kind of a staple of the genre. FF Tactics, Shining Force, Fire Emblem, Vandal Hearts... They're all good 16 and 32-bit starting points. From there, things like Disgaea and X-Com can involve more variables and complexity.

FFVI: fewest steps; natural magic only; no healing (except what the game forces upon you)

FFTactics: double dare (2 characters only, each has 2 jobs only)

FFVIII: Magic only (the only commands you can use in battle are Magic and Draw)

FFXIII: mandatory fights only; one stage behind; 5-star all missions at stage 9; 5-star all missions at stage 8

You could always try the classic all white mage party in FF1. Or try your hand at doing a single character run in that game.

The l'Cie and fal'Cie appear in Type-0, but they're a bit different than in XIII. The main characters aren't l'Cie like they are in XIII. Most of the l'Cie are side characters who only make brief appearances (although they're still pretty important to the plot). The fal'Cie are the four crystals that reside in each of the four warring kingdoms, and they don't seem to be as sentient as the ones in XIII. You'll still get these concepts in the game, but they won't get as much focus.

I'd go with the remaster. The two versions are identical except for the improved renderings in the remaster. The port of the original wasn't great either, and the remaster improved on that. You can definitely mod the original, but you can mod the remaster too and just save some time.

first of all FF7R is just part 1, you won't get the full story of the orignal FF7, and there some theories that the game may not follow the original story so don't worry if you feel confused with the ending or have too many un-answered questions.

as for FF you have to go in knowing that each game is it's own thing in far too many ways, Final Fantasy is an anthology not a saga each game provide a different experince, and unlike other franchises like Pokemon or Persona where you have baseline on what to expect with each game FF provide a different experince in every aspect (from gameplay to story).

to give you a example, (the scenes are from events that happen early in the game so don't worry about spoiler, i use them for visual represantation in this example):

Final Fantasy 9:

Final Fantasy 10:

Final Fantasy 12:

Final Fantasy 14:

Final Fantasy 15:

that's how different each FF game can be and that's only from main titles, side games and spin off are more experimental, even FF7R and FF15 which are the only main games (for now at least) to be action game have way different gameplay.

Honestly, the best way to know is try. There's one series of GPU's it performs very badly on, but I don't remember which one it is. Worked fine for me though, for reference (that was on gtx 970). There's always the refund if it's not okay.

If XIII worked fine for you, it's just about as likely to work.

This section of the game isn't particularly hard, so, just push ahead as quickly as you can. Buy new equipment when applicable, but you should get a decent amount of materia just from exploring and what not, so that can be a secondary purchase thing. To me, the first really cool "action set piece" occurs as you're finishing up with Midgar, and if that doesn't grip you, well, maybe FF7 original just isn't for you! No shame in that, we all like different things.

It’s not very long, and if you’re playing the modern versions you can use the x3 speed or invincibility cheats to make it more tolerable

Immediately after midgar you get a dive into clouds past with a sephiroth and tifa cameo in it. Not too long after that part you get to come across a fan favorite character, yuffie (through a wild encounter after you cross a certain cave via chocobo). Those are just some of the immediate things after midgar. But like the other user said, if that doesn't fuel you to want to continue then maybe ff7 og isn't for you and it's perfectly fine

Just tell remind yourself that there's a whole world to explore outide Midgar. And Midgar should only take a couple of hours to get through anyways, it's not that long of a section. What part are you at exactly?

Hm, maybe about 25 to 30 percent? The game has a very obvious half-way point. For this next part, you'll learn how important attacks that ignore physical defense are - attack magic, Edgar's Drill and Flash, Sabin's Blitz, Cyan's first SwordTech / Bushido, and so on.

You'll have to specify what you mean by game mechanic?

No, there aren't ff15 was the first to use pure action combat. Every mainline entry before was some kind of turn-based/ATB system. Type-0 has action combat, but it is not open world and the battles take place on a separate screen.

At this point in the game, yes, you're mostly understanding things correctly. Some things will change as you proceed, though - the narrative of FF7 is intentionally muddy, because you're playing from Cloud's perspective.

Removed this until you get the spoilers fixed. Thanks for at least trying to put them in though.

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if I recall correctly, you can change what character sprite is show in the over world in two ways:

A quick Google search reveals this site. Alternatively, Steam has a built-in wish list feature, and there is PS Deals for Sony systems - Typically, the games are discounted on all platforms at once, or close in time to one another.

I get emails from Nintendo often when things on my eShop wish list go on sale. I’m not sure unfortunately how to set that up, but it might be worth looking into if you can find out

that depents on what you loved about FF7R, gameplay or story and why, each FF offers a different kind of experinces (read this for a small example).

and aswell of how tolerant you are to old games.

Have you tried the original ff7? You get the complete story with that game, and it has the same story, lore and atmosphere. 13 has sort of the same kind of cyber-punk feel and a great story with lots of mythology behind it, in my opinion at least.

There's really not too much to the game mechanics and almost no missable items (the only one I know of is in post game content), so I'd say you don't really need one. If you nevertheless want one on the other hand, I'm sure someone else can recommend one.

You are roughly halfway.

More than you think.

what other RPGs have you tried? are you looking for FF related or any RPG (or just JRPG)