Weekly /r/FinalFantasy Question Thread – Week of July 19, 2021

For a complete newbie, the basic sphere grid would be better since it puts each character in a set section and you follow a path (Yuna learns White Magic, Lulu learns Black Magic, etc.). It's generally easier to follow this as you're learning how it works.

The expert sphere grid isn't too difficult, but it does open everything else up much earlier. So you might easily get lost and learn things you might not want by mistake.

Pretty sure he's talking about FF7 Remake. And why don't you just ask him?

Doesn't violate any rules assuming it's directly FF related and not just inspired. For more freeform writing stuff I'd check different writing subs.

I think we'd be OK with this.

If you post a link to another website hosting the story where people might buy more. We may remove it for self promotion. I'd post the story directly to Reddit to avoid that.

If the story contains anything offensive like racism (outside it being a story mechanic, like Al Bhed hate, then we might remove it then.

Outside of that you should be OK. Tag for spoilers if it contains any.

Not at all. 6 games for $90 (or $76 if you get all of them at once) is more than fair, especially when you consider all the work that went into remastering each of them plus the fact that we already know they're all going to be super fun to play through.

I think people are just spoiled by all the cheap games they can get on steam for next to nothing, and so there's an expectation that all games should be like that. But the reality is that video game prices in general are the lowest they've ever been. Chrono Trigger and Earthbound were like $70 each when they were originally released. Adjust for inflation and that's over $100 per game in today's dollars.

It's hard to say whether they're overpriced without knowing how good they are. The price is certainly higher than I was expecting. I was thinking it'd be something like $10 each for 1-3, $15 each for 3-6. So $75 for all if you bought them individually, but $60 for the bundle with a pre-order price of ~$48. I probably would've bought it already at those prices. For $75 with the bundle and pre-order discounts, Square-Enix is going to have to give me more information or let me read a review or something before I fork it over.

I personally think it's fine. Already preordered the bundle on Steam. There's so much game play time there, and the games themselves are all classics.

The PS4 remaster is more than worth it, there's nothing wrong with it

2 was surprisingly dark for its time, and goes in a direction that no other mainline game touches on, IMO. If you want something a little more modern, however, I would recommend 10. It seems somewhat lighthearted at first, but then you learn more and more about how the world works, and when you think about how the main characters factor into it all, it becomes super depressing.

FF9 themes are the darkest and deepest, but the aesthetic is very cartoony (which makes it even darker imo).

Yes.

I would say: wait and see what the response is like for the 1-3 pixel remasters. If it seems like they're lazy cash-ins then go ahead and play another version. If, like I'm hoping, these are faithful recreations of the original games with a nice graphical refresh and some added quality of life features, then it's probably worth waiting for the pixel remasters of 4-6.

One caveat to this is, if you think it will bother you not to have all the bonus content that was added to these games in other re-releases, then play those versions instead. There's a really good summary of what may be missing here:

I mean, you can't go wrong with the PSP or SNES versions of either of the games, but the SNES version of FFVI is kinda buggy. It doesn't detract from the game (if you find the later revision, early revision had some nasty Relm sketch bugs that I *think* were fixed), unless you get into min-maxing stats because some stats are broken and don't actually do anything.

The game doesn't require you do that to get op and beat it, but it is definitely buggy.

But the Pixel Remasters are probably gonna be pretty good too.

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If your goal is to have fun, hey, then do what you want. 🙂 After all, deciding which stats and equipment "suit" characters is more of a personal judgment or opinion thing.

If your goal is to min-max though, or to create the greatest party for actual battles, then I believe Magic and Vigor are the only things that matter because of how the game's battle algorithms work. I think Caves of Narshe has a much more thorough breakdown, but because of how Levels factor in to some things, raising Stamina, HP and MP are usually more inefficient than just dumping as many points as possible into Magic and Vigor.

Honestly you only really need to know four things:

Those are the basics. The game does a good job of explaining most of everything.

The sub isn't usually private and is an excellent place for newer players too. Others might be able to suggest other decent sources, I don't really know. I watched youtube videos for info mostly.

If you wanna go safe then 60-65, but you can beat the last dungeon at 40 if you have a nice setup. If any I recommend you leveling up the magic jobs cuz the dungeons are long and you'll need mp.

I can't speak for the expanded universe, but I don't believe you ever see his father in FF7 proper. I think you're supposed to take it as he's just some guy who isn't notable.

Pretty sure they recently said that Android and iOS won't have bundles, at least not initially. Plus, if the bundle you're looking at shows the old games, then that's what you'll be getting, not the Pixel Remasters.

Those HP values seem fine to me, your characters should roughly be near the end of their grid for the final fight.

Haste/Protect/Shell are always useful and a Chee

I don't know how much you've kept up with stealing, but if you have any items that grant the above mentioned buffs Rikku can help quicken that process. Also if you've picked up any Stamina Tonics, I advise using them as they help greatly with survivability.

Overdrives are always a good method especially multi hit one from your party members and of course Aeon overdrives, with Bahamut being the best as he can naturally break through the damage cap.

And finally get some good armor. Stone Ward, or preferably Stoneproof, are a life saver. Other than that maybe slap some HP+X% on as well if you can and don't be afraid to use Elixirs/Megalixirs in a pinch.

To add to the other comment, it's fairly quick to get Anima if you go out of the area and its overdrive does a decent chunk of damage + getting it is somewhat interesting lore wise.

GBA does seem to be the most highly regarded version right now. Maybe the Pixel Remaster will be better when that arrives, but it does look like it won't have the extra content that was added in the GBA version.

Play the SNES rom with a couple of translation patches. The GBA version has the best translation, worse audio quality (even after you patch it), worse video quality, a low effort bonus dungeon, and a couple of extra jobs that you don't even get until after you've beaten the game.

This video does a side by side comparison of the SNES and GBA versions. For the GBA version, the video resolution was cropped + zoomed to make the game look better on a tiny screen. I think they messed with the gamma (brightness) of the source material as well, so everything looks a bit brighter than intended.

Go to slash r slash roms and download the original Japanese SNES rom. Then go to romhacking.net and download a program called Lunar IPS. Then download the RPGe translation and use Lunar IPS to patch the rom with this translation. Next, download the GBA Script patch and use Lunar IPS again to patch over your RPGe-patched rom. The resulting file can be played on any device that supports SNES playback/emulation but is best suited on either real SNES hardware or an emulator that supports both horizontal and vertical integer scaling like bsnes-mt, retroarch, or SNES9X EX+. Yes this is more complicated than just playing the GBA version, and yes it is 100% worth the trouble.