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29:08 There are quite a few chests in this game that are linked to other chests, they have the exact same contents. They are basically the same chest in two different locations. So if you open one of them, the other will be empty. I'm assuming the route that Nintendo Power took you on made it so that when you get to these chests some of them are empty already. 29:19 Case in point, I'm pretty sure these aren't empty if you get to them first.

You convinced me to subscribe. Playing ff1 nes as well. 😂😊

Wait a minute...this informational video is just a cleverly disguised Lets Play! I've been lied to!...then again not all lies are bad ones...

just ignore magic in OG ff1, not really worth much

Love the video. What a flashback 😮😅

8:16 Not bugged, just flat not programed. Bugged implies it was intended to do something but does something else. It was NEVER coded to do anything, it’s just a number on your stats screen.

23:56 the interesting thing about these enemy designs is that, iirc, yoshitaka amano originally submitted simplistic drawings to work around the famicom limitations, but square told him to draw normally and they'd work as best they could to faithfully adapt his complex art style

dont blow in them....

i really thought it was a fun game....

He didn't even talk to the ghost in the room above Queen Jane's bedroom.

31:30 I am a programmer. For the non programers here 255 is 11111111 in Binary. Particularly its the largest unsigned value we can store in a single byte of information. I would assume monster absorption value is stored in a single byte of info thus means the maximum absorption is 255 assuming we can’t have negative absorption.

This is awesome. You seem like a friend taking us through old classics you love. Definitely excited for more! Also the extra technical details and stuff is lovely

I so disagree with the auto-retargeting as "common sense". If they wanted to have characters never attack targets that are already dead, they should have given them individual turns instead of having the entire party take a turn all at once. You're supposed to be giving them all commands and they all at once execute them. It wouldn't make sense for your characters to be able to predict the future and attack something else because they realize their party member will kill their target all on their own. In real time, they both would have hit the monster at the same time. I also personally like trying to remember how much damage has been done to each target and trying to choose targets efficiently. edit: tried to fix my pronoun usage

There may be only only 1 Uncle Fester but what about Bobby Fester the chess Champion? My mother wouldn't allow us to play this game, probably because she worked at a toy store with a gamer who told her it was a bad idea.

Is temper and the useless stat fixed in the rereleases?

There are actually three caveats to the weapon statistics: - While Damage and Accuracy are the most important, the third one not visible in game is also critical...literally. There is SUPPOSED TO BE a critical hit chance statistic that would be high on the Vorpal Sword, but due to a bug the wrong variable is pointed to and it instead checks the item's ID number in the index - making all items programmed later into the weapon system have a higher critical hit rate. This as it happens gives the Vorpal Sword better crit rate than early game swords and axes, but only average for the point of the game where you get it, and the CatClaw you can buy in Gaia is among the very highest critical hit rate weapons. - Another is you say that almost everything useable by the Knight but not the Fighter is found rather than purchased, and another exception is the CatClaw purchased in Gaia - it can be wielded by several advanced classes (Knight, Ninja, Red Wizard, Black Wizard) but not by their base equivalents. - Only one significant armor equipability modification is made to ANY Wizard from his Mage counterpart. Red Wizards can wear gauntlets. Main value of this is handing the Zeus Gauntlet to a Red Wizard so he doesn't need to leave that equip slot empty, and have him get use of Lit2 for free.

"KYZOKU" is actually a pretty good localization. In the original Japanese version, that monster was called "Pairatsu" or "Pirate/Pirates" in English; the Bikke crewmen were called "Kaizoku" or "Pirates" in Japanese. All later localizations drop the straight English/Japanese inversion, and just use other synonyms for pirate like "Privateer" or "Buccaneer" for the ones encountered randomly on the overworld.

The Pixel Remaster not only lets you up to quadruple combat rewards and turn off random counters entirely if desired, it _also_ is the only port or remake of the game to remove the Peninsula of Power. While it was an error in the original game, it was always left in as a legacy Easter egg/option for advanced players. They decided, seemingly, that the other convenience features removed the need to retain it.

I wholeheartedly disagree with the auto-retargeting when a foe is already dead that turn increasing immersion. I think it _decreases_ immersion. Your action selection is deciding the plan of action for a brief time window of a few seconds - all four heroes deciding to focus fire on a single enemy means all four of them are ignoring opportunities to attack other nearby enemies, whereas having the warrior attack the toughest looking guy, the thief or red mage the next toughest looking guy, and anyone else join together on someone weak is an "I got the big guy, you handle the rest" moment. You can't just choose to attack someone else mid-swing. If anything, the way the first Golden Sun has characters who've lost their target default to the Defend action instead is the best mix of user-friendliness (letting that character, at least, resist incoming enemy strikes better until his next turn) and verisimilitude, and also as with this game and the second Dragon Quest, still encourages more tactical thinking from the player. The automatic retargeting also discourages players from learning how to spread out their attacks, and from learning the relative toughness of various enemy types and relative strength of their party's attacks. In mid and late Dragon Quest 2 and 3 as well as this game, you _will_ be having your mages pick off weak enemies hand to hand to save both spell energy and your warriors' actions at the same time. You also get a certain rhythm in Golden Sun regarding who to strike with what combination of Isaac, Garet, Ivan, and Mia. Part of why newer JRPGs tend to be such a chore to play is because most of the meaning has been stripped of player choice, if the choice is even there. If you can just hold down the Attack button without thought, much of the gameplay is lost. You will at once be robbed of learning how to attack optimally as you're liable to have two or three weak hits go onto an enemy your strong attacker could have taken out alone and robbed of engagement as there's no thought to "just attack until your HP runs low, then have your white mage heal everybody".

But I like Star Trek way more than Star Wars.

Nothing will ever be able to capture the sense of overwhelming wonder that this game gave me. The more o travel, the larger the world seems. Just as soon as i conquer the homeland, a world 4x larger opens up, and I still cannot access everything. Such an adventure ❤

I dig this, it's sort of a cross between Bob Ross and one of those old VHS lesson lecture tapes they'd sometimes play in class, in a good way of course. I was going to say maybe upgrade your mic but honestly the slight 'muffledness' adds to that aesthetic. I would say invest in a pop filter though as the plosives are audible, as is a little too much of your saliva. 😅 Other than that, I really like how you cover everything, even the basics like the meaning of terms like NPC. Keep it up!

Great approach to the walk through! I love the visual tables for the shops you built. Thank you 😊👍🏻

I spent way too much of my childhood on this game, and I still didn't know some of the things you mention here: Like, I knew Lock didn't successfully reduce Evasion, but I had no idea that Dark *did* reduce Evasion.

Say, what's that tune that begins at about 20:40 ?

Wow an ff vid

I understand why they didn't bother releasing FF2 or 3 in the West, as the NES was on its way out. But I really don't understand why FF5 got that treatment, the SNES wasn't anywhere near over. Maybe they just really wanted to focus on FF6? That is a very big game, admittedly, maybe they needed the time. It's a bit of a shame because 5 is my favourite, its version of the job system is pretty much the definitive version of that concept.

Nice series. I like the way you edit both your video and audio too. Looking forward to the next one!

The algorithm brought me, and this comment is to lead others here. I like the format.

It was in Final Fantasy 3 that the party stopped attacking "Air" wasting attacks. I'm too neurotic to let an ally die to break the "symmetry", if that happens I usually reset and make sure that they don't die next time. One advantage of power grinding is the money you save that helps you buy stuff. Rather do that instead of that horrible puzzle game. Gosh I grinded near that Elf village for a wacky long time to get all the best stuff in those shops. Remember kids, if anyone in real life talks to you about floaters without talking about Final Fantasy, say nothing and leave, potentially running. That map of the marshlands looks like a snake running on legs, the Second Map looks like a train and the third one looks like an apartment building. Y'know I can't remember if I got that blasted Mystic Key let alone gone back to get the trapped treasures, but that montage is bringing back memories . I don't think anyone's the king until they can look forward on that throne without getting off of it. DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE ACTUALLY WAITING FOR A 3D CUTSCENE IN A PRE PLAYSTATION GAME!!!! What's the matter USA wasn't good enough for Lali-Ho?

the starwars of video game, dang it i don't know what that means since i am not american and don't gaf about starwars...

loved this game so much that when my friend showed me it brand new in 1991 that it inspired me to want to write my own little fanfic of it, me and friends in the roles of the six classes while dealing with growing up through high school. so long ago now.... :)

Honestly before remakes I have no idea why anyone takes a thief other than a certain sense of bloody-minded spite - not because it's suboptimal, but because it doesn't seem to have an actual role in a party? There's no run or steal, it has poor attack and defence, and even after the class change it just becomes a worse Knight. Low level white magic like a knight gets is a trickle of free potions, low level black magic in the late game does nothing. Every other class does something unique or interesting!

Great vids, thanks for all the effort!

Good video

I had a friend crazy for this game in 7th grade. I didn't understand it. A few years later, I was able to rent and eventually buy a copy. I recall beating it in a 36 hour marathon. No guides, no Nintendo Power, just enjoying the slog while staying up way too late. IIRC, my party on that was two fighters, a black belt, and a red mage. I never beat any other Final Fantasy; no money for them when they came out and no time when i had the money.

FF1 isn't really a grind, if you don't know what to do you will organically level and gold your way through the game. All the post PSX releases of FF1 have janked up the level curve and boosted EXP, as level affects Hit%, #hits, and Evade% as it did when your level would be 1/2 of what it is in the rereleases you end up an ungodly tank that simply can't be killed but can deal 100s of damage before you leave the inner ocean. What FF1 NES/PSX versions are is difficult if you're not overleveled, but that's why dungeons are built for an exploration run and then a boss run. All the treasure in dungeons if off the main path and if you simply push forward you'll reach bosses pretty fast, the Marsh and Ocean Temple even have two splits at the start to reinforce this. Something like DQ1, which I really enjoy as well, is a grind. There simply isn't enough to do in that game, even blind, to get you to the threshold of 18 or the comfortable 20 to finish the Dragonlord. In DQ2 they fixed this, there's plenty to do and explore and you'll be just fine as you reach Rhone. Your grandma sounds like a big nerd, you must've had a lot of fun playing with her. :)

Hey! That's the same party I always go with in FF1! Fighter, thief, white mage and black mage!

This is the second video like this that I've seen on Final Fantasy 1. Good stuff. Kind of like a bite size version of the U Can Beat Video Games series of it. Was thinking of doing something like this for Dragon Quest 2.

I swear I heard that music in Mega Man ROM hack somewhere.

Note how the chamber where you fight Garland, is also the same place wherein on faces the endgame final boss Chaos.

FF1 was cool. Snes FF4/2 won my heart. It's probably because of my age at the time. everything after fell into place.

Lots of people worship the black belt but to get his legendary damage against chaos you gotta be basically max level. I find it a bit redundant though, because on average i would beat the game around lvl 32.

I would also scour the books for any kind of control tips. It might not be obvious hat if you press up and B when jumping you can do a super attack, or something like that. Some of the controls in games could be fairly cryptic. I know I was surprised a few times! I really miss the manuals

The visor is probably a nod the the American box art, yeah. That was my first thought. And the Wily music I think of more as “I’m coming for you, Wily” rather than his theme. It’s too cool to be his.

A fun piece of trivia about the princess named Sara: The name Sara (or Sarah) means "Princess" in Hebrew. I like naming characters very blunt force what they are, so as a hobbyist game developer I also made a princess named Sarah, along with a king named Rex, a queen Regina, an evil samurai warlord named Lord Shogun, heroes with names like Rhys and Eiyu, swordsmen with names like Edward and Brandon, a healer woman named Vivian, and so forth.

Optimal FF1 is actually more like 2 Fighters, 1 Thief, and 1 Red Mage or 2 Fighters, 1 Red Mage, and one White OR Black Mage depending on playstyle and preference. The Black Belt's DPS isn't _much_ higher than a Fighter with up to date weapons (lots of them free in mid and late game) and his defenses are hilariously worse. 3 Fighters hit diminishing returns. Personally, I prioritize FUN over efficiency. I tend to use Red Mage simply because I think it looks really cool and I'm a big fan of the jack of all trades archetype EVERYWHERE.

"Ackshun" RPGs arent RPGs. They are "Ackshun" games with RPG elements. "Ackshun" games are for dudebros and "Ackshun" RPGs are games that dudebros play so they can claim nerd cred. Nope, you're still just a dumb dudebro with your hack and slash garbage.

I think it is worthwhile of everyone's time here to also mention Final Fantasy Renaissance. This freely downloadable PC port of the original Final Fantasy 1 on NES lets you either experience the game as it was on the NES or very close to a 100% vanilla clone of it known as "Classic Mode", or you can choose the main attraction known as "Renaissance Mode" which adds new classes and content based on which of the new classes you choose while still making the original 6 starter classes available. All new classes have promotions just like the 6 starters. So if anyone's NES has died or they don't have a way to play FF1 on NES, I strongly recommend FF Renaissance.