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wolfoverclocked:

DAY 21 - Favorite Boss Battle

Ramza vs. Wiegraf - One-on-One

I couldn’t find a good video of the fight that used the correct tactics and wasn’t kinda power-levelled or hacked. So, here’s a hacked version. The only hacking here, however, is that the main character is level 1. Everything else in this video is legit.

This fight is so epic and so difficult, there are people who prep for it at the beginning of the game. They do this by choosing Ramza’s Zodiac Sign so he is either matched with Wiegraf or to be completely opposed to Wiegraf.

Prep work before the fight, for me at least, are as follows:
-Chameleon Robe: Absorbs holy damage. The AI of the game thinks that the holy sword abilities are holy elemental damage, even though they aren’t (long story), so equipping this robe prevents Wiegraf from using said abilities. This is kind of the corner stone item for Ramza in this fight.

-Auto Potion: His attacks deal about 70-100 damage per hit. So, getting Auto Potion with Ramza at high Bravery, preferable at 97, is a must. You can use Hamedo/First Strike as shown above, but it’s not necessary. Just make sure you only have X-Potions in your inventory. Anything lesser will result in only a Hi-Potion being used, which isn’t great.

Optional
-Winged Boots/Float: This will prevent Wiegraf from using Earth Slash/Shockwave against you.

-Concentrate: This will make sure your melee attacks always hit.

-Math Skills: This could help you kill him and his later form, Belias/Velius easier. Combine with Holy, Flare, Demi, or Demi 2 for best results.

-Blood Sword: As shown above, pairing this with Hamedo can be used to game the game’s back-attacking system. I generally prefer Auto Potion with whatever the best sword I can have at that point.

My tactics for this fight:

Use tailwind, and shout. Every turn. Run around in circles, avoiding Wiegraf, until you are taking 8 to 9 turns every time he takes one. shout until your power is about nineteen billion. run up to Wiegraf. Hit him. Battle over.

I think you mean Accumulate/Focus because your don’t get Scream/Shout until Chapter 4. Unless you’re a cheater. My only problem with that strategy is Wiegraf can get lucky and his you with a big crit or something. After all, 9 turns of dodging around him seems like a long time for something to go wrong.

DAY 30 - Has Final Fantasy made an impact in your life? If so, how? If not, what do you like about the whole series itself?

Last day.

Final Fantasy has made one major impact, and that’s about how to design a fun tactics game that has depth and enjoyment to it. I’m applying some of those principles to my own design work. That, and the game has taken like nine million hours out of my life.

DAY 29 - How many Final Fantasy games do you own?

After seeing this trailer…I’m just embarrassed to say I own any Final Fantasy games. I could rant for an hour on what’s wrong with this game just based off the trailer. I’m not because it would just be a waste of time, bits, and bytes.

But, in answer to the question, I own games 1-10, Tactics, Tactics Advance, and Tactics Advance 2. I also own Vagrant Story, which is kinda in the Ivalice world, but not really a Final Fantasy.

Oh well. The series has been going down hill since FF8, so I’m not surprised it would crash land in with an explosion of shit and leave behind a crater of suck.

As I’ve noted before, SquareEnix seems to not want to make an engaging and deep video game, they now just want to make cinemas while the player sits there and watches the flashy visuals. I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if FF13-2 doesn’t require a single button press to complete the game. On top of that they won’t listen to fans or reviewers who’ve pointed out that that’s not a good game. Video games need a system that involves engaging the player, making them think and develop skills at the game. Just pushing buttons to move down corridors and activate the next cinemas is not a game, it’s pushing buttons

So, all-in-all, it’s sad to see a great series fall, but you know what, I just don’t care. I’ve got the great and the good of the series, and it’s doubtful, very doubtful, that SquareEnix would make more even-half-as-good.

DAY 27 - Favorite Scene in any game

I can’t find a video and don’t feel like searching for one, but it’s the scene in FFT when Ramza orders Worker 8 to kill Mustadio.

DAY 26 - Favorite Weapon/Type of Weapon

Excalibur is total and awesome brokeness. A powerful knightsword with Auto-Haste, of which there are two, one carried by Orlandu and one found.

Also, Knightswords are probably my favorite weapon type. Gunblades were fun in combat because of the “pull the trigger” mechanic. Guns are fun too, since they deal fixed damage and are unblockable.

DAY 25 - Favorite Monster

Missed yesterday, so here it is today.

Who doesn’t love stinky tentacle rape?

DAY 23 - Favorite Black Magic Spell

Frog/Toad
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Frog

Flare is definitely a runner up. And, of course, Merton, simply for the name.

(DAMN-IT TUMBLR YOUR QUEUEING SUCKS!)

Theme? As in the do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do thing at the start of a lot of the game?

That’s not really a theme and not impressive at all. So, I’m not counting today, sorry.

And if by theme, the question relates to those ridiculous and terrible pop songs that some of the games have, that’s even worse.