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Saturday, March 3, 2012

Fetch Quests - A Six Pack and 70,000 Random Battles

I started my journey through the world of Final Fantasy late last night after a few hours imbibing some high alcohol beers, which really helped to dull the monotony of hundreds of random battles. The random encounter rate of this game is ridiculously high. I mean, you can walk about three steps before you run into another enemy. I will admit that this version of the game, the Game Boy Advanced version, is way easier than the original. Nonetheless, it does take an amazing amount of patience and a good memory for the world map to navigate the first challenges of the storyline.

I remembered this portion of the game from previous plays. I have probably played through this series of events so many times, yet I never really got much further. The events I am referring to are mainly a bunch of fetch quests. After saving the princess and defeating the pirates in Provoka, you will acquire their ship and gain access to a much greater scope of the world map. From there, you will find a sleeping elf prince who can only be revived by the jolt tonic. In order to acquire the jolt tonic, you have to return the crystal eye to a witch named Maedula or something like that, but to get the crystal eye, you have to first get the crown for the king in the Western Keep. After exploring the depths of the marsh cave and acquiring the crown, the king will reveal himself to be Astos, the dark elf. When you kill him, you get the crystal eye. When you return it to the witch, you get the jolt tonic. After you awaken the elf prince, he will give you the mystic key! There are locked doors in pretty much every location you have visited so far that can only be unlocked by the mystic key, so this means, now, you will revisit every castle, town, and dungeon you have previously explored. Finally, when you revisit the very first castle, you will receive some nitro powder. The nitro powder must be taken to the dwarves where they will blow open a section of the continent near their cave, allowing you to explore further out into the world map.

Wow, thats a lot of shit...

Anyway, at this point it was about 2am and my brain was becoming dominated by the amount of alcohol flowing through my system. To be honest, I couldn't really remember where to go next or what to do. So with my characters up to level 20, I retired. I know that next I need to save one of the crystals, but I can't remember which one.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Someone else has totally stolen my idea!

Well, maybe not... but I was very interested to see that a blogger by the name of Josh Hurley is posting his mission to beat ALL Final Fantasy games on goozernation.com. And I'll have to admit, he is doing a much better job at it than me. For starters, he has a very comprehensive list of EVERY Final Fantasy game and his sight are much greater than mine. I really only intended to play through the number FF games from 1 - 13. But this dood is literally playing every game. Its seems impossible, but check it out for yourself here: http://www.goozernation.com/video-games/index.php/news/blogs/101-josh-hurley/1316-the-final-fantasy-challenge

In other news, I finally got my Wii hacks working again, so I started playing the GBA version of Final Fantasy, the original. For the record, this re-release of FF is way easier than the original NES version. The main differences are simple things like being able to buy multiple items at one time, giving you the "Optimal" option when equipping your characters, running with the B button, and not losing your turn if your character was slated to attack an enemy who was killed before the character got to fight. Long story short, all the logistical oversights are totally fixed up. And while one can argue that this diminishes the challenge of playing the game (which I would have to argue is true) it definitely makes the game much more fun to play.

For the record my party is:

A Warrior named Cleeko
A Monk named Zippy
A White Mage named Lija
A Red Mage named Fluks

I don't know how long I'll keep at this one before I decide to bounce around, but I was excited to learn of a website called backloggery.com which will help you track your progress on whatever games you happening to be playing or have played. I will update my status as I move from game to game.

Until next time!
Peace
Phil