@@1TieDye1 Ah, my bad. However, to be fair, at the time of me writing that reply, the comment had barely any likes. It was posted 14 hours before yours, after all
I love your explanation of the stats so much. "Wisdom was not programmed." "Glitch would imply the devs somehow made a mistake while attempt to make the wisdom mechanic work. They did not attempt to make the wisdom mechanic work." Thank you for that.
@@trxgreder it also can be called base-sixteen. Binary can be called Base-2. Decimal can be called Base-10, and Base-64 can be called Tetrasexagesimal.
I love the mental image of a windswept White Mage in a tattered white cloak, three bags of bones slung over her shoulder. She confronts Chaos, only to draw back the cloak to reveal a staff in one hand, the other hand covered in a Power Fist sized electro-gauntlet. Her belt covered in magic weapons, an entire pharmacy's worth of potions, and the world's greatest katana.
After the adventure she puts the literal bag of bones on the ground and cast rise on the 3 fallen party members. - Done, i defeated chaos, go home. I would even guess that she would share the gill earned in the adventure for their troubles.
Final Fantasy was named that because the developer was going to go under and it was the last game they were ever going to make, but then sales ended up being good enough for them to survive.
I love that through this whole video I'm just thinking "yeah, FF1 solo White Mage challenge, a very difficult challenge; even if it's not the MOST difficult it is definitely one of the top most difficult FF1 challenges, this is very impressive", and then Gamechamp casually drops "btw remember I'm playing with my feet cause my hands are all fuckled" and I feel like I just got slapped upside the head and was left for dead
To be fair, you don't really need more precise ways of playing a turn based combat game if you're not speed running it. If she were doing a Rockman challenge though..
Note that criticals do not ignore evasion; it’s just that anything that can hit you with max evasion will be a crit, as the roll for an automatic hit also gets you an automatic crit. This distinction only really matters for the enemy if they have a higher than usual critical rate, which few do, but it does mean that forgoing hit rate for crit rate isn’t obviously correct. The actual chance to hit doesn’t vary much, but you get an extra hit every 32, so you’d want to consider that. Also note that anything in the game had a 1/201 chance of hitting a target even if they fully resist it; this makes the Bane sword (the one used to kill Tiamat) useful against Chaos, because killing his with the Masamune is unlikely if he sticks Slo2 to you, which he will do 75% of the time he casts it (it’s non-elemental, so only magic defense can resist it and magical classes have bad magic defense). If that happens and you can’t reverse it (and any character that doesn’t know Fast can’t), going for the 1/201 over and over is usually the better strategy except for maybe the Fighter. The Black Belt also doesn’t care because he will have killed Chaos before he casts it.
I was slightly wrong about the odds; as it turns out, the game uses a table of numbers from 0-255 that it converts to 0-200, and it turns out that 3 of them convert to 0 (because there's two 1's in the table for some reason), which is the value that produces automatic hits. This means the actual odds are 3/256 instead of 1/201, which is about 2.3 times higher, which is very good for the desperate Bane plays against Chaos in solo runs and is largely irrelevant to anything else that's not a TAS I think. I learned this from the notes on a TAS by TheAxeMan; if you search "FF1 TAS" it'll almost certainly be the first thing that pops up. It's a good watch, the subtitles have lots of fun little notes to explain what's going on. I also learned from it that elemental weapon bonuses apparently actually do work, contrary to everything I'd ever heard, but the bonuses based on monster type still don't work. The bonus is your attack essentially being 4 higher than it usually is, so it's not like it really makes much of a difference anyways. For reference, the first weapon that this applies to, the Flame Sword, goes from 26 attack to 30, and the practical result is doing 4-8 more damage per hit, with that amount doubled for crits. Funnily enough, Final Fantasy II quintupled this bonus to +20. Final Fantasy III finally moved to just multiplying the damage by 2, which I think is more or less what every other game does (with the number adjusted up or down sometimes).
@@hoodedman6579 after not reading everything you have typed i can safely conclude one thing and one thing only. you my friend. are in fact. a nerd. shocking i know and sadly there is no cure. so i can only wish you good luck.
Based on how the title’s written, it makes it seem like beating the game with the White Mage AT ALL is impossible. Adding one to your party automatically makes you lose.
I like to imagine the other three party members' ghosts following the White Mage with increasing exasperation as they beg her to just revive them and let them help or at _least_ let them move on with their lives
"Bro, PLEASE, I just want to go home to my family." "Sorry bud, you're locked in my party until CHAOS is dead and I don't want you to accidentally help me, so..." 🪄
I love how the title implies that the challenge isn't ONLY having a white mage and NOTHING ELSE, but that having one in your party AT ALL is enough of a challenge
that title would go to the thief. they're so terrible in the NES version that many people genuinely consider that to be the case. they have absolutely zero spells, their main stats are agility and luck (both pretty awful stats), they have terrible armor and low magic resistance, and endurance is their dump stat making them the squishiest of the fighters with practically nothing to bolster it. the only way they can viably fight is killing the enemy before the enemy can kill them, but don't have the strength to even do that. literally the only thing they have going for them is they can equip almost any weapon, but good luck surviving long enough to get a decent one.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the impetus for this video was just so Gamechamp could use “A” as a number to make people angry and still be technically correct about it the entire time
As others have said, use context. You almost certainly won't find し when the word in question is in katakana. If you can read every other kana, you can use context to figure it out.
I know they're suppose to be dead, but their sprites make it look like they were walking with the white mage, but they all simultaneously tripped face first into the mud when the enemies arrived.
@@BoltTheEmolgaff2’s level up system is different from from ff games. Each stat that can be improved requires specific actions, and all 3 party members alongside other members have many different things to level up. Projared explains it pretty well in his review for final fantasy 2.
It’s funny seeing you mention how strange the magic system is, considering I guessed it immediately when you said that. It’s the same one as Dungeons and Dragons, since these games were based off of it.
To be fair, Dungeons and Dragons has a strange magic system, shared only with the least creative D&D clones and one fantasy author whose magic system wasn't stolen by anyone else, because Vancian magic is just awkward.
The stupid part about it is that the Wisdom stat was broken, not broken as to being abused is a great strategy, but as broken as to it not working…oh I guess they already knew about that….
@@timothymclean Wizardry is not what I would call a "least creative D&D clone", personally. I will agree with you that Vancian magic is awkward, though.
@@timothymclean In case you didn't know, Jack Vance (the author you referenced) is the creator of the Vancian magic system and is named after him. Gygax used the system in D&D, and D&D is why/how it became a trope, but did not create the system of magic. You didn't claim that D&D made the system but I wanted to clarify just in case others who read this don't know this history. Personally, I enjoy the system but understand it is confusing and doesn't fit the current pop culture of magic. Heck, it confused the hell out of me when I was a kid enough to dissuade me from even trying D&D until much later; it's only with my now 2+ decades of experience in TTRPGs that I appreciate how it reins in magic and rewards forethought despite it's immense learning curve.
For anyone who wants to try this challenge on more recent versions of FF1, you’ll likely be playing on a version where the Peninsula of Power bug was fixed, making the mid-game grind a bit trickier. If you can beat Astos, you’ll eventually unlock the Mystic Key, which will allow you to open up a treasure room in his castle to the left of the throne room. Bring some healing items and park yourself wherever you can save closest to this room. Each of the tiles adjacent to the chests in that room will throw you into a battle with a horde of undead enemies - on the version I played, the second-tier Dia spell will kill them all instantly, bestowing you with a good sum of EXP and an even gooder sum of cold, hard cash. Because these tiles are forced encounters, you can run back and forth on these tiles over and over again to trigger the same encounter repeatedly, allowing you to farm these enemies for experience and money for as long as you feel like it! (Source: Did a White Mage run myself on the now-discontinued mobile version of FF1. Needless to say, I was psyched to see this video in my feed!)
This is my preferred mid-game grind strategy. You can also use the guaranteed enemies in the treasure room in the Earth Cave, though obviously those are less safe.
@@Xeronoia Yes, Wisdom (or INT in later localizations) are applied at least as far back as the GBA remakes, and I believe the PS1 versions do as well. Red Mage becomes noticeably less useful as a caster as a result.
That beginning really hit hard for me since I still have chronic wrist pain for about a year now. And I have that exact same arcade stick, but I haven't tried playing with my feet for fear of the pain showing up there too. It really is awful
I don't know if you guys have arthiritis or carpal tunnel but I developed really brutal carpal tunnel from playing WoW 10 hours a day. Its technically a wrist thing but still caused a lot of pain in my fingers and hand joints. A wrist brace (the kind with the metal splint) and changing my chair and keyboard setup to something more ergonomic helped a lot. I basically don't have it anymore.
"this TH-cam channel is completely dead" Girl you don't even realize the excitement that struck me when I saw a new VG Myths episode after all this time. I'm so fucking happy you've got something for us today. Keep up the good work and take care of your body and mind
@@damascusraven imagine being so transphobic you take a figure of speech that's commonly used gender-neutrally as an excuse to be bigoted. You're a fucking riot my guy
Square: *releases Final Fantasy* Devs: "We feel like we're forgetting something." Square: "If you forgot, it wasn't important." Wisdom: "404 stat not found"
holy crap, that "time to KILL CHAOS!" really caught me off-guard, I've never heard Gamechamp so excited and/or loud lol I hope your hands heal up fully :]
@@jellywillreturn oh, I guess this is like a return to form then? also, are we supposed to refer to Gamechamp with feminine pronouns? if so, thank you cuz' I probably would've ended up calling them a "he" at some point.
@@pillowmint4622 Gamechamp came out as transgender sometime after the Pokémon Blue video, you can hear her address herself as “Ms. Gamer Champ” in this video at one point.
@@pillowmint4622 No worries! It sounds like you might be new to the channel, so if that’s the case, I hope you enjoy her sizable backlog! If I could make a recommendation, if you like RPG challenge runs, she’s described that aforementioned Pokémon Blue run as her proudest accomplishment in gaming. I think it makes for great listening material! (Obviously, since she wasn’t out yet, she does misgender herself in the script for that one, in case that causes any confusion.)
I'm not sure you could do a run that I WOULDN'T enjoy. Your voice, humor, and how you explain and talk about stuff is just memorizing! Pure entertainment (edutainment?) gold! My thoughts go out to your hands, glad to hear they're on the "up swing" of healing!
17:20 This section makes me want to see a comic series following the White Mage solo. I picture it being a combination of serious scenarios and goofy-ass shenanigans. Like the beginning where they're trekking back to the first town and performing some Weekend at Bernie's shenanigans atop the hill after surviving a horror-filled prologue that kills-off the other three (One of them dies in an anticlimactic way by just being an idiot, tripping and breaking their neck or something). Get to Astos and he seems fine, talking in English, then when you give him the crown he starts talking in Japanese and turns evil, confusing the f*** out of the White Mage. Just continue this tone throughout the entire story. After the final battle, someone mentions that the White Mage could have just revived their teammates at a church, COMPLETELY throwing them for a loop with a little box reminding us that their "Wisdom" stat is nonexistent in comparison to their other stats (Make this a recurring joke), and leading to the epilogue which shows off everyone's stat-growth from the beginning of the story to the end, everyone having no growth except for the White Mage who reached max level and max stats with nearly no Wisdom.
Ayy, you're back! We're all happy to see you. As someone who permanently damaged my dominant wrist, I know exactly how difficult it is to deal with chronic hand pain, so I'm very glad you're prioritizing your body over your channel!
Rationalizing the use of corpse inventory on the grounds of it being funny made me legit laugh out loud 😆 Love you champ, never change... or do change, but only to become an ever increasingly better version of yourself, hopefully with less hand pain and mandatory foot play. Although optional foot play is certainly a useful talent to have.
OH MY GOD YES, NEW GAMECHAMP VIDEO! Your challenge runs are honestly some of my favorite content in TH-cam and I had been seriously missing your uploads. Super excited to watch this one while I eat today, just by the premise I know it's gonna be a good one. Edit: just started watching the video and now I feel kinda of bad lol. Didn't know about your chronic hand pain, but I hope you get better soon Miss Champ! And take your time to recover, I can always rewatch your previous bangers in between your new uploads. Your wellbeing comes first. Edit 2: Absolutely kino. Miss Champ never disappoints
Was watching this video while farming the Titanite Demon in Dark Souls, and you made me walk off the side of the bridge and lose 100k souls. Keep up the good work!
I'm so happy your back and fantastic video!!! Sorry to hear your hands still haven't recovered. As much as I love VG myths, your health is infinitely more important than a youtube channel, so don't be afraid to take another break if you need it Thoughts and prayers, keep being bad at video games ❤❤❤
*Black Mage:* "Four white mages? It'll never work." *Fighter:* "What about one white mage?" Edit: Oh, shit, I wasn't expecting the bit I referenced to actually show up in the video
@@ReikuYin B&G is actually partially responsible for getting me into the franchise. I used to reread that annually myself, though time has become limited in the many years since graduation. Since we're bringing others up, how about Metroid Third Deriative? Any readers of that? How about Two Evil Scientists?
I see Gamechamp is still as funny as she always was, she hasn't lost her sense of humour and I hope she never does. We're loyal viewers, we don't mind how long we have to wait until your next video.
So glad to see you back with another video! I was starting to get worried that it might not be in the cards, but I'm glad to hear you seem to be on the road to recovery, even if you're not quite there yet. Remember to give yourself grace while you're on the mend, and I hope you can bounce back from the hiatus without too much struggle!
Incredibly happy to you back, and happy to hear your hands are doing relatively okay! Make sure to take care of yourself! And man, hearing things like “reasons only those who can read Japanese can understand” makes me remember why I love your content so much. Lovely work as always, GamerChamp! Inspiring me to do my own challenge runs for games over here…
I can't believe TH-cam only just recommended your channel. Def subscribing and considering supporting in your livlihood and being able to eat race. Great humor, engaging line delivery, and clean visuals. Keep up the good work man.
Big agreement, I'm glad to have stumbled upon this in my sidebar too. 😄 I'm just letting you know that at 6:57 , it was pointed out subtly that she has parted ways with the "man" label. 😉
I’m excited to see the next episode of the Yugioh comparison series too, so I’m very glad to hear that it’s out on the Patreon. After rewatching that comparison series, I started checking out the subbed version myself, and it’s been just fascinating to see all the ways things were changed.
This is the end for Chaos His evil deeds have caught up to him All he can do now is stare the White Mage in the eye One final attempt to spread fear in this mortal coil However, to Chaos's surprise, the White Mage isn't paying attention to his demise Instead, she sat down on the floor, to enjoy a nice, warm latte "How is it still warm?" Chaos asks That is a question Chaos will never know the answer to
This INT (Wisdom) stat no being programmed is 100% true and absolutely hilarious. I'm part of the Final Fantasy Randomizer community and the rando fixes ever "bug" the game has. Anything with evidence that it was intended to go somewhere and wasn't done right. INT, though, just goes nowhere. No process, no indication. So we don't fix it because there's nothing to fix. Best guess: since Final Fantasy 1 is based in D&D (to a very copyright-violating degree), they put in INT and gave it stat growth so they could use it eventually... and then never came up with any reason to use it, and at that point it was a bigger pain to remove it than to leave it and just ignore it. Notes on the run: 1) Heal is a party-wide healing spell so less need to have it than cure spells in the game for a solo party member. 2) If you're grinding and enemies start running away, put one of your level 1 corpses into the front slot. The game only reads the first character when calculating things like morale (whether they run) and ambush. Yes, stronger packs will be more likely ambush you, but they won't run. 3) "Less likely to incur paralysis, stone, and death" but, because of the way the game is programmed, not impossible. There's always a 3/256 crit chance for any spell and, even with a ribbon, those effects (and others) will still get through.
@@Gotmilk0112 Balance. If you go with any of the fixes that were put in later games (which were done by other programmers than the original team) then it does drastically change the balance of magic in the NES game.
I love the black mage servi-bot! great video as always, girl! I have similar hand pain problems so I'm so sorry you're going through that. thanks for another great video! 🎉
I didn't think one could make an over-the-top explanation of FF1's Intelligence stat. Perfection :) Congratulations on the run, hope your hands recover quickly!
Thank you for pointing out that wisdom was never actually programmed to do anything, and not that it's "bugged." It's not a programming error; it's a design oversight. I'm way too pedantic not to be bothered by that :P Also yeah the Japanese Famicom version of this game actually is a great way to see how one's Japanese is coming along because all the text is in kana and fairly easy to read.
This is the first video of this channel that I watch. The plain yet very sarcastic narration full of dry humor was amazing, but the IT'S TIME TO *KILL CHAOS* freaking killed me, another type of humor I like is just loud stupid stuff Amazing vid! Now I'll proceed to binge a lot of other videos
As someone who recently gained an interest in the Final Fantasy series thanks to FFXIV Online and a white mage main in said game, I approve 200% of this challenge run
Unlike most solo challenge runs, the White Mage (sans white wizard) solo run is probably the hardest. Since you lose out on most forms of damage and have to rely heavily on RNG being in your favor. In a game held together by hopes and dreams thats not exactly something you should rely on lol
Glad to see you back Gamerchamp! Also, as someone who’s played Final Fantasy on the NES a lot when I was younger, seeing this video was a pleasure! Also, glad your hands are progressively better now from the strain of Repliku 4 and Larxene 2.
Genuinely, this is one of my favorite videos you’ve ever made. The jokes are top-notch and you make this RPG so engaging!! If this means we’re getting videos on all the numbered final fantasy games, i’m super excited for the future :>
I remember the legend of how a White Mage named Siri backed Chaos into a corner and forced him to flee from this realm simply by walking foward into the room, dragging the decaying corpses of her party behind her.
I love this game, flaws and all. It's got such an adventurous aura and solid open world progression for such an old game. Thanks for doing this crazy challenge!
I remember reading a bunch of FF challenge playthroughs on somebody's online website. I loved those: i think solo white mage was also among them, but that doesn't mean i'm not looking forward to seeing it again in all your VGMyths glory!
I'm glad your hands are even slightly on the mend. Please do take care of yourself, and your continued efforts are appreciated. I loved the part where the White Mage said "Bullshit," played Limp Bizkit, and walked away as Goblins ate their allies.
It’d be interesting to compare this run across different versions - NES versus GBA versus remasters… Not something that would come up in this run but NES battles have this weird mechanic where if a monster dies before a member of your party can attack it, the attack just whiffs. The attack doesn’t target to the next enemy, your guy just attacks the air. You have to predict when enemies are going to be knocked out so you don’t waste turns.
The irony is that this run effectively bypasses the bug. Which makes me wonder if the game was originally programmed to have one hero (like Dragon Quest) rather than four...
Congrats Gamechamp! Hope you fully recover soon, and of course thanks for always pushing yourself for these “fun” challenges, but I hope you don’t hurt yourself for it again.
Great to see you back! Hope your hands are feeling okay, and interested to see if Final Fantasy joins Ratchet & Clank and Rockman as a recurring franchise on the channel.
Could you imagine this as an anime where the party wipes in the first fight except for the healer, and the healer proceeds through the rest of the quest supported by the ghost of his peers.
Glad to see you back! Hope your hands get better. I gotta say, a healer continuously being slain by monsters and brought back to life in order to go against her nature and become the most efficient killing machine in the world with only the corpses of her would-be allies for company makes me think of, like, a dark fantasy series that treats the whole process literally. Something in the vein of Re:Zero and All You Need is Kill, but the heroine uses a bunch of carcasses for extra pocket space.
If anyone is interested, there is a video of TASbot doing this challenge on original hardware, without the grind, and even killing both Tiamat and Chaos by using the Bane Sword.
If you want to see full FF1 challenge/mod/randomizer runs, BlueAnkylo is fantastic at them. Dude knows the game back to front, and in non-solo runs he avoids getting overleveled to keep things interesting. He's done solo runs of every class, several times, on several different versions. From watching him I know that solo thief is the real challenge mode, especially on the NES due to the bugs in the original game. The way he speaks is great for watching at 1.5x speed, too, which is great when you're blasting through his hours long playthroughs. Highly recommended!
I have to say, watching the jumpless sm odessy and this back-to-back is whiplash. Ngl though, I really enjoy the much more mellow narration. Its much less stressful lmao
I mean, I've been programming long enough that i wholly disagree that A is less than 4, but otherwise great video! 😂 Great to have you back and to hear the news that your injuries are getting better! Love the content as always 💖
I scrolled a fair bit and didn't see anyone else mention this, but yes, the last floor of Chaos Shrine was specifically changed in the localization to lack random encounters. The pillars are also altered to have triangles instead of hexagrams. The encounter rate of Warmech was also upped, although TBH I'd argue that makes Warmech easier since a fair amount of the difficulty in fighting them is the resource drain required to encounter them, similar to the Fiends in SMT 1. These two changes are NES localization only changes and aren't in any other version of the game.
At the exact second that you screamed: To kill chaos! I got an ad for the dmc mobile game that starts chaos at the start of the soundtrack. I accidentally watched trough almost the entire ad because i thought you edited in a meme whixh is very unusual for you but it fit in so perfectly.
The wisdom stat makes your character smarter, but unfortunately your character is not the one selecting actions
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@@1TieDye1 > this isn’t fucking 4chan.
> penis.
@@1TieDye1 Ah, my bad. However, to be fair, at the time of me writing that reply, the comment had barely any likes. It was posted 14 hours before yours, after all
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I love your explanation of the stats so much. "Wisdom was not programmed." "Glitch would imply the devs somehow made a mistake while attempt to make the wisdom mechanic work. They did not attempt to make the wisdom mechanic work."
Thank you for that.
"Wisdom is not a mechanic."
There is no Wisdom in Ba Sing Se- I mean uhhhh Final Fantasy.
It is a mere NUMBER on your stats page, and NOTHING else.
Who needs wisdom when have STR,SPD,AGL,VIT
"Four is a larger number than a."
Don't let the base-sixteen people hear you say that
Well it’s bigger than -A
A is 10 in base-sixteen, for those who don’t know
@erhanjpg1467 shhh its funnier if they dont know.
its called hexadecimal :|
@@trxgreder it also can be called base-sixteen. Binary can be called Base-2. Decimal can be called Base-10, and Base-64 can be called Tetrasexagesimal.
I love the mental image of a windswept White Mage in a tattered white cloak, three bags of bones slung over her shoulder. She confronts Chaos, only to draw back the cloak to reveal a staff in one hand, the other hand covered in a Power Fist sized electro-gauntlet. Her belt covered in magic weapons, an entire pharmacy's worth of potions, and the world's greatest katana.
Wife
Then slowly the cape slumps of, revealing pecs the size of her head.
@@ZacharyMurray-xe8nuWhat? Stop having my first name!
been there
After the adventure she puts the literal bag of bones on the ground and cast rise on the 3 fallen party members.
- Done, i defeated chaos, go home.
I would even guess that she would share the gill earned in the adventure for their troubles.
"The party now consists of A White Mage*"
*And her three emotional support corpses
*Edda Pureheart would like to know your location*
Funniest comment I've read this week
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The reveal that wisdom is entirely useless as a stat might be one of my new favorite VG Myths moments. Like how does that even happen.
i knew that it didnt do anything beforhand, but even i was just utterly caught offguard by the reveal
They forgor
Deadlines.
Alongside Duct Tape?
Final Fantasy was named that because the developer was going to go under and it was the last game they were ever going to make, but then sales ended up being good enough for them to survive.
I love that through this whole video I'm just thinking "yeah, FF1 solo White Mage challenge, a very difficult challenge; even if it's not the MOST difficult it is definitely one of the top most difficult FF1 challenges, this is very impressive", and then Gamechamp casually drops "btw remember I'm playing with my feet cause my hands are all fuckled" and I feel like I just got slapped upside the head and was left for dead
Yeah...
No, you got kicked, their hands are busy recovering mostly
Gamechamp invited you into her party. I dunno about _left_ for dead, but dead, yes.
I hate being fuckled too
To be fair, you don't really need more precise ways of playing a turn based combat game if you're not speed running it. If she were doing a Rockman challenge though..
Note that criticals do not ignore evasion; it’s just that anything that can hit you with max evasion will be a crit, as the roll for an automatic hit also gets you an automatic crit. This distinction only really matters for the enemy if they have a higher than usual critical rate, which few do, but it does mean that forgoing hit rate for crit rate isn’t obviously correct. The actual chance to hit doesn’t vary much, but you get an extra hit every 32, so you’d want to consider that.
Also note that anything in the game had a 1/201 chance of hitting a target even if they fully resist it; this makes the Bane sword (the one used to kill Tiamat) useful against Chaos, because killing his with the Masamune is unlikely if he sticks Slo2 to you, which he will do 75% of the time he casts it (it’s non-elemental, so only magic defense can resist it and magical classes have bad magic defense). If that happens and you can’t reverse it (and any character that doesn’t know Fast can’t), going for the 1/201 over and over is usually the better strategy except for maybe the Fighter. The Black Belt also doesn’t care because he will have killed Chaos before he casts it.
I was slightly wrong about the odds; as it turns out, the game uses a table of numbers from 0-255 that it converts to 0-200, and it turns out that 3 of them convert to 0 (because there's two 1's in the table for some reason), which is the value that produces automatic hits. This means the actual odds are 3/256 instead of 1/201, which is about 2.3 times higher, which is very good for the desperate Bane plays against Chaos in solo runs and is largely irrelevant to anything else that's not a TAS I think.
I learned this from the notes on a TAS by TheAxeMan; if you search "FF1 TAS" it'll almost certainly be the first thing that pops up. It's a good watch, the subtitles have lots of fun little notes to explain what's going on. I also learned from it that elemental weapon bonuses apparently actually do work, contrary to everything I'd ever heard, but the bonuses based on monster type still don't work. The bonus is your attack essentially being 4 higher than it usually is, so it's not like it really makes much of a difference anyways. For reference, the first weapon that this applies to, the Flame Sword, goes from 26 attack to 30, and the practical result is doing 4-8 more damage per hit, with that amount doubled for crits.
Funnily enough, Final Fantasy II quintupled this bonus to +20. Final Fantasy III finally moved to just multiplying the damage by 2, which I think is more or less what every other game does (with the number adjusted up or down sometimes).
@@hoodedman6579 after not reading everything you have typed i can safely conclude one thing and one thing only.
you my friend.
are in fact.
a nerd.
shocking i know and sadly there is no cure. so i can only wish you good luck.
Based on how the title’s written, it makes it seem like beating the game with the White Mage AT ALL is impossible. Adding one to your party automatically makes you lose.
I like to imagine the other three party members' ghosts following the White Mage with increasing exasperation as they beg her to just revive them and let them help or at _least_ let them move on with their lives
"Bro, PLEASE, I just want to go home to my family."
"Sorry bud, you're locked in my party until CHAOS is dead and I don't want you to accidentally help me, so..." 🪄
I'm imagining a white mage dragging 3 corpses behind her everywhere she goes.
@@randallross420that’s what the strength stat is for. Gotta carry them from place to place *somehow*!
Jealous of the xp
@@randallross420She will evolved to a necromancer 😅
I love how the title implies that the challenge isn't ONLY having a white mage and NOTHING ELSE, but that having one in your party AT ALL is enough of a challenge
that title would go to the thief. they're so terrible in the NES version that many people genuinely consider that to be the case. they have absolutely zero spells, their main stats are agility and luck (both pretty awful stats), they have terrible armor and low magic resistance, and endurance is their dump stat making them the squishiest of the fighters with practically nothing to bolster it. the only way they can viably fight is killing the enemy before the enemy can kill them, but don't have the strength to even do that. literally the only thing they have going for them is they can equip almost any weapon, but good luck surviving long enough to get a decent one.
@@Golden_Pig64Once you get class change they do get spells, including temper and haste. I had a thief in my run
I wouldn’t be surprised if the impetus for this video was just so Gamechamp could use “A” as a number to make people angry and still be technically correct about it the entire time
In Dutch, the indeterminate article (een) is the same as the number one (één), but the latter is just said with more emphasis.
i heard it more as "beating the game with A) White Mage," as in that's the full list of things used
A is just a variable with a value of 1
pretty much the same in German afaik @@Z3DT
@@Z3DTSpanish as well, "a" (un/una) is just "one" (uno) but it agrees with its noun's gender like a normal adjective
I'm amazed that people manage to play 8-Bit era Japanese games so well. I struggle to tell し and レ apart when they look as clear as possible!
Just wait until you try to play games of this era that used Kanji.
It's made much easier by the fact that し will generally only appear with other hiragana characters and レ with other katakana characters
In some games, they're the same character! Just use context clues.
you get used to it eventually. the real villain sometimes is kanji.
As others have said, use context. You almost certainly won't find し when the word in question is in katakana. If you can read every other kana, you can use context to figure it out.
I picture Jack waking up at the end, asking what happened, finding out Chaos is dead, and contentedly slumping back onto the floor.
He'd dab up the white mage the second he can
@@megatennepster3833 he'd what?
@@stormy_does_stuffhe'd dab em up
@@BuhBaBiBeBo D a b
"What did I miss?"
'Chaos ded'
"Oh, sick, I'm gonna finish that nap."
That "KILL CHAOS" caught me extremely off guard in the best way. Gkad to see you back queen
Chaos. He's out there.
@@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932 Some one needs some CHAOS CONTROL!!
@@byakko2121 Just tell us about the crystals. That's all I wanna know.
The black mage, warrior and the monk during the entire video:
_ o __ /
The three floor connoisseurs
Ah yes, the A White Mage and her three floor inspectors
I know they're suppose to be dead, but their sprites make it look like they were walking with the white mage, but they all simultaneously tripped face first into the mud when the enemies arrived.
I was hoping this run existed because of 8-Bit Theater and I was not disappointed
Hello, would you like to hear how you can KILL CHAOS!! ?
Oh God. I forgot about that. I'm old as hell now
I was just thinking about that this afternoon.
Four white mages? It'll never work.
Longest running joke I know of from web comics. 8-Bit Theater was amazing!
I imagine Gamechamp wants to do a FFX No Sphere Grid Challenge, but she needs to play games in order, so she has begun the Final Fantasy Grind!
Shhhhhhh
What challenge even is there for FF2? I can see options for everything beyond that, but 2 there isn’t much in the ways of alternate strategies.
FF 2 attack only
@@alidouciousbarefisted attack is the most broken way to play FF2.
Magic only would be more challenging.
@@BoltTheEmolgaff2’s level up system is different from from ff games. Each stat that can be improved requires specific actions, and all 3 party members alongside other members have many different things to level up. Projared explains it pretty well in his review for final fantasy 2.
It’s funny seeing you mention how strange the magic system is, considering I guessed it immediately when you said that. It’s the same one as Dungeons and Dragons, since these games were based off of it.
More specifically, based off of Wizardry, which was based off of D&D.
To be fair, Dungeons and Dragons has a strange magic system, shared only with the least creative D&D clones and one fantasy author whose magic system wasn't stolen by anyone else, because Vancian magic is just awkward.
The stupid part about it is that the Wisdom stat was broken, not broken as to being abused is a great strategy, but as broken as to it not working…oh I guess they already knew about that….
@@timothymclean Wizardry is not what I would call a "least creative D&D clone", personally. I will agree with you that Vancian magic is awkward, though.
@@timothymclean In case you didn't know, Jack Vance (the author you referenced) is the creator of the Vancian magic system and is named after him. Gygax used the system in D&D, and D&D is why/how it became a trope, but did not create the system of magic.
You didn't claim that D&D made the system but I wanted to clarify just in case others who read this don't know this history. Personally, I enjoy the system but understand it is confusing and doesn't fit the current pop culture of magic. Heck, it confused the hell out of me when I was a kid enough to dissuade me from even trying D&D until much later; it's only with my now 2+ decades of experience in TTRPGs that I appreciate how it reins in magic and rewards forethought despite it's immense learning curve.
I hope your recovery continues swiftly and well! That TIME TO KILL CHAOS made me think Jack Garland himself busted into the video, congratulations!!!
I wanna just imagine the white mage just drags the bodies of their team mates to each battle so they can watch
He grounded them into powder and put them into three small pouches.
For anyone who wants to try this challenge on more recent versions of FF1, you’ll likely be playing on a version where the Peninsula of Power bug was fixed, making the mid-game grind a bit trickier. If you can beat Astos, you’ll eventually unlock the Mystic Key, which will allow you to open up a treasure room in his castle to the left of the throne room. Bring some healing items and park yourself wherever you can save closest to this room. Each of the tiles adjacent to the chests in that room will throw you into a battle with a horde of undead enemies - on the version I played, the second-tier Dia spell will kill them all instantly, bestowing you with a good sum of EXP and an even gooder sum of cold, hard cash. Because these tiles are forced encounters, you can run back and forth on these tiles over and over again to trigger the same encounter repeatedly, allowing you to farm these enemies for experience and money for as long as you feel like it!
(Source: Did a White Mage run myself on the now-discontinued mobile version of FF1. Needless to say, I was psyched to see this video in my feed!)
This is my preferred mid-game grind strategy. You can also use the guaranteed enemies in the treasure room in the Earth Cave, though obviously those are less safe.
Did they ever make Wisdom actually do anything in the remakes?
@@Xeronoia Yes, Wisdom (or INT in later localizations) are applied at least as far back as the GBA remakes, and I believe the PS1 versions do as well. Red Mage becomes noticeably less useful as a caster as a result.
I thought Square Enix added the Peninsula of Power back to recent ports of the game?
@@BamaTears I know it's not in Pixel Remaster; I forget if it still existed in other ports (GBA/PSP) or not offhand.
Hands: decides to die
GC: “guess I’ll use my feet”
That beginning really hit hard for me since I still have chronic wrist pain for about a year now. And I have that exact same arcade stick, but I haven't tried playing with my feet for fear of the pain showing up there too. It really is awful
I was worried about that too; I eased myself in playing just a little bit each day with long breaks. I can now use it mostly indefinitely.
I don't know if you guys have arthiritis or carpal tunnel but I developed really brutal carpal tunnel from playing WoW 10 hours a day. Its technically a wrist thing but still caused a lot of pain in my fingers and hand joints. A wrist brace (the kind with the metal splint) and changing my chair and keyboard setup to something more ergonomic helped a lot. I basically don't have it anymore.
"this TH-cam channel is completely dead" Girl you don't even realize the excitement that struck me when I saw a new VG Myths episode after all this time. I'm so fucking happy you've got something for us today. Keep up the good work and take care of your body and mind
You know that's a man, right?
@@damascusraven She identifies as a girl. So, she is a girl.
@@damascusraven imagine being so transphobic you take a figure of speech that's commonly used gender-neutrally as an excuse to be bigoted. You're a fucking riot my guy
@@oceanna7550that’s not how this works and you know it
@@alexczarnota3316she wants to be referred to as a girl, so she should be referred to as a girl. Don’t see any other way it should work
Square: *releases Final Fantasy*
Devs: "We feel like we're forgetting something."
Square: "If you forgot, it wasn't important."
Wisdom: "404 stat not found"
Good to see you back, Gamerchamp.
I missed these videos a lot lol
Gamerchamp 30 hundred
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Welcome back, my queen 🫡🫡
It’s so good to see you back. Hope your hands can forgive you for being bad at KH.
Good to see you doing okay. Don't push yourself too hard now, we'll all be patiently waiting for your return once you've recovered❤️
Recovered from what? I'm not in the know.
@@IndigoStorm27chronic hand pain
@@Hidden_Ferni thought it was the pokemon no damage run.
@@angelman69both. there’s no way she didn’t suffer both physical and psychological damage from that run
@@Hidden_Fern Ah, ok. Thanks.
holy crap, that "time to KILL CHAOS!" really caught me off-guard, I've never heard Gamechamp so excited and/or loud lol
I hope your hands heal up fully :]
She was extremely loud and excitable in her earlier videos, the jumpless Mario ones especially.
@@jellywillreturn oh, I guess this is like a return to form then?
also, are we supposed to refer to Gamechamp with feminine pronouns? if so, thank you cuz' I probably would've ended up calling them a "he" at some point.
@@pillowmint4622 Gamechamp came out as transgender sometime after the Pokémon Blue video, you can hear her address herself as “Ms. Gamer Champ” in this video at one point.
@@jellywillreturn ah, ok! I'm playing Shovel Knight while listening to videos in the background, so I guess I didn't notice.
@@pillowmint4622 No worries! It sounds like you might be new to the channel, so if that’s the case, I hope you enjoy her sizable backlog!
If I could make a recommendation, if you like RPG challenge runs, she’s described that aforementioned Pokémon Blue run as her proudest accomplishment in gaming. I think it makes for great listening material!
(Obviously, since she wasn’t out yet, she does misgender herself in the script for that one, in case that causes any confusion.)
I'm not sure you could do a run that I WOULDN'T enjoy. Your voice, humor, and how you explain and talk about stuff is just memorizing! Pure entertainment (edutainment?) gold! My thoughts go out to your hands, glad to hear they're on the "up swing" of healing!
i second this! ive never cared about the final fantasy series but i cant stop watching this video ^^
17:20 This section makes me want to see a comic series following the White Mage solo. I picture it being a combination of serious scenarios and goofy-ass shenanigans. Like the beginning where they're trekking back to the first town and performing some Weekend at Bernie's shenanigans atop the hill after surviving a horror-filled prologue that kills-off the other three (One of them dies in an anticlimactic way by just being an idiot, tripping and breaking their neck or something). Get to Astos and he seems fine, talking in English, then when you give him the crown he starts talking in Japanese and turns evil, confusing the f*** out of the White Mage. Just continue this tone throughout the entire story.
After the final battle, someone mentions that the White Mage could have just revived their teammates at a church, COMPLETELY throwing them for a loop with a little box reminding us that their "Wisdom" stat is nonexistent in comparison to their other stats (Make this a recurring joke), and leading to the epilogue which shows off everyone's stat-growth from the beginning of the story to the end, everyone having no growth except for the White Mage who reached max level and max stats with nearly no Wisdom.
Wait a second. This white mage has the same build as Aqua from Konosuba.
real af
Ayy, you're back! We're all happy to see you.
As someone who permanently damaged my dominant wrist, I know exactly how difficult it is to deal with chronic hand pain, so I'm very glad you're prioritizing your body over your channel!
Rationalizing the use of corpse inventory on the grounds of it being funny made me legit laugh out loud 😆
Love you champ, never change... or do change, but only to become an ever increasingly better version of yourself, hopefully with less hand pain and mandatory foot play. Although optional foot play is certainly a useful talent to have.
I got an ad for audible and it ended with “it feels good to hear- GOOD MORNING EVEEYONE AND WELCOME BACK TO VG MYTHS”
that outburst of chaos woke me up after a long work day; thank you for your amazing enthusiasm- i, as a white mage main, suddenly feel motivated !
This challenge is legendary among FF1 players. An infamous brick wall of pain. My respects to you Champ for even ATTEMPTING this
OH MY GOD YES, NEW GAMECHAMP VIDEO! Your challenge runs are honestly some of my favorite content in TH-cam and I had been seriously missing your uploads. Super excited to watch this one while I eat today, just by the premise I know it's gonna be a good one.
Edit: just started watching the video and now I feel kinda of bad lol. Didn't know about your chronic hand pain, but I hope you get better soon Miss Champ! And take your time to recover, I can always rewatch your previous bangers in between your new uploads. Your wellbeing comes first.
Edit 2: Absolutely kino. Miss Champ never disappoints
It’s a great day when Champ comes back from a long break because you know the video’s gonna be great.
Was watching this video while farming the Titanite Demon in Dark Souls, and you made me walk off the side of the bridge and lose 100k souls. Keep up the good work!
Were you able to get them back?
"puppeteer your dead friends into a dramatic pose" I almost did a spit take all over my computer
2:25 Ok "4 is a bigger number than 'a' " is a really really funny pun! Excellent!
I'm so happy your back and fantastic video!!!
Sorry to hear your hands still haven't recovered. As much as I love VG myths, your health is infinitely more important than a youtube channel, so don't be afraid to take another break if you need it
Thoughts and prayers, keep being bad at video games ❤❤❤
*Black Mage:* "Four white mages? It'll never work."
*Fighter:* "What about one white mage?"
Edit: Oh, shit, I wasn't expecting the bit I referenced to actually show up in the video
8-bit theater in the wild! Sort of
Heck yeah 8-Bit Theatre
8BT fans unite
Doing my yearly re-read. That and Bob and George for you MegaMan fans.
@@ReikuYin B&G is actually partially responsible for getting me into the franchise. I used to reread that annually myself, though time has become limited in the many years since graduation.
Since we're bringing others up, how about Metroid Third Deriative? Any readers of that? How about Two Evil Scientists?
I see Gamechamp is still as funny as she always was, she hasn't lost her sense of humour and I hope she never does. We're loyal viewers, we don't mind how long we have to wait until your next video.
Is she trans?just asking it wouldn't change my opinion about her
"vampire-bleeeh" took me by surprise, pleasantly
Wdym "she"? Hear his voice, it's clearly a dude...
@@ManNether She may have been born a male, but she's non binary and uses she/her pronouns, plus, she went through her transformation to a woman.
@@CampGareth I know right! She's hilarious.
So glad to see you back with another video! I was starting to get worried that it might not be in the cards, but I'm glad to hear you seem to be on the road to recovery, even if you're not quite there yet. Remember to give yourself grace while you're on the mend, and I hope you can bounce back from the hiatus without too much struggle!
20:13 Oh, guess I didn't do enough grinding...
this had me laughing way too much, your sense of humor is great
This has been a fantastic week for me in TH-cam. Styropyro AND Gamechamp are back? Yes please.
I loved the Mario Picross sounds you put during Chaos's death sequence. Random callbacks to previous episodes always make me laugh.
She also threw the “sip a latte” sound in there >w
And on top of that, she sipped a latte.
Incredibly happy to you back, and happy to hear your hands are doing relatively okay!
Make sure to take care of yourself!
And man, hearing things like “reasons only those who can read Japanese can understand” makes me remember why I love your content so much. Lovely work as always, GamerChamp! Inspiring me to do my own challenge runs for games over here…
I can't believe TH-cam only just recommended your channel. Def subscribing and considering supporting in your livlihood and being able to eat race. Great humor, engaging line delivery, and clean visuals. Keep up the good work man.
Big agreement, I'm glad to have stumbled upon this in my sidebar too. 😄 I'm just letting you know that at 6:57 , it was pointed out subtly that she has parted ways with the "man" label. 😉
@@ZaCloud-Animations___she-her right on, just wasn't being very observing very well. Still, keep up the good work. 👍
I’m excited to see the next episode of the Yugioh comparison series too, so I’m very glad to hear that it’s out on the Patreon.
After rewatching that comparison series, I started checking out the subbed version myself, and it’s been just fascinating to see all the ways things were changed.
This is the end for Chaos
His evil deeds have caught up to him
All he can do now is stare the White Mage in the eye
One final attempt to spread fear in this mortal coil
However, to Chaos's surprise, the White Mage isn't paying attention to his demise
Instead, she sat down on the floor, to enjoy a nice, warm latte
"How is it still warm?" Chaos asks
That is a question Chaos will never know the answer to
Imagine getting multiple copies of the game going and doing solo runs for every class at once.
With one controller for the inputs of them all at once.
That sounds like a nightmare😅
It's probably impossible, which would make it quite impressive to pull off.
@@timothymcleanHow would you even do setup?
This INT (Wisdom) stat no being programmed is 100% true and absolutely hilarious. I'm part of the Final Fantasy Randomizer community and the rando fixes ever "bug" the game has. Anything with evidence that it was intended to go somewhere and wasn't done right. INT, though, just goes nowhere. No process, no indication. So we don't fix it because there's nothing to fix.
Best guess: since Final Fantasy 1 is based in D&D (to a very copyright-violating degree), they put in INT and gave it stat growth so they could use it eventually... and then never came up with any reason to use it, and at that point it was a bigger pain to remove it than to leave it and just ignore it.
Notes on the run:
1) Heal is a party-wide healing spell so less need to have it than cure spells in the game for a solo party member.
2) If you're grinding and enemies start running away, put one of your level 1 corpses into the front slot. The game only reads the first character when calculating things like morale (whether they run) and ambush. Yes, stronger packs will be more likely ambush you, but they won't run.
3) "Less likely to incur paralysis, stone, and death" but, because of the way the game is programmed, not impossible. There's always a 3/256 crit chance for any spell and, even with a ribbon, those effects (and others) will still get through.
@@Gotmilk0112 Balance. If you go with any of the fixes that were put in later games (which were done by other programmers than the original team) then it does drastically change the balance of magic in the NES game.
this is still one of my favorite gamechamp. I keep coming back to rewatch just cause i love the writing so much.
I love the black mage servi-bot! great video as always, girl! I have similar hand pain problems so I'm so sorry you're going through that. thanks for another great video! 🎉
May your hands be healed by the power of the White Mage... or failing that, just hope you get better soon, Gamechamp!
not this white mage though, they'd just leave her to die by making her interact with a stick repeatedly
Or very least get to FF4. Cecil should be able to help with that. (Cookie if you understand)
I was literally just rewatching old VG Myths and saw this one release, great to see you back!
I didn't think one could make an over-the-top explanation of FF1's Intelligence stat. Perfection :)
Congratulations on the run, hope your hands recover quickly!
Thank you for pointing out that wisdom was never actually programmed to do anything, and not that it's "bugged." It's not a programming error; it's a design oversight.
I'm way too pedantic not to be bothered by that :P
Also yeah the Japanese Famicom version of this game actually is a great way to see how one's Japanese is coming along because all the text is in kana and fairly easy to read.
The enthusiasm in your voice when you talk about a topic like wisdom sold me. Just subbed. Keep on creating.
This is the first video of this channel that I watch. The plain yet very sarcastic narration full of dry humor was amazing, but the IT'S TIME TO *KILL CHAOS* freaking killed me, another type of humor I like is just loud stupid stuff
Amazing vid! Now I'll proceed to binge a lot of other videos
They're all good; I found the channel not long ago and I've already watched most of them twice.
Glad to have you here, it's an accepting community so let's enjoy her suffering together
As someone who recently gained an interest in the Final Fantasy series thanks to FFXIV Online and a white mage main in said game, I approve 200% of this challenge run
Unlike most solo challenge runs, the White Mage (sans white wizard) solo run is probably the hardest. Since you lose out on most forms of damage and have to rely heavily on RNG being in your favor. In a game held together by hopes and dreams thats not exactly something you should rely on lol
Welcome to FFXIV. It’s such a special game.
Problem is you can't just spam Holy in FF1
@warlock415 depends on the version honestly, since some don't have limitations outside of MP. Granted you won't get it til endgame regardless
@@knightsurda The joke is that in FF14, there's a meme about WHM Holy spam once they hit level 50 (out of current level cap of 90)
Glad to see you back Gamerchamp!
Also, as someone who’s played Final Fantasy on the NES a lot when I was younger, seeing this video was a pleasure!
Also, glad your hands are progressively better now from the strain of Repliku 4 and Larxene 2.
This was a lot of fun to watch, but its also a blast hearing the patreon names I love the laughs from that
Genuinely, this is one of my favorite videos you’ve ever made. The jokes are top-notch and you make this RPG so engaging!! If this means we’re getting videos on all the numbered final fantasy games, i’m super excited for the future :>
This is my favourite channel, thank you for having this channel man!!
I remember the legend of how a White Mage named Siri backed Chaos into a corner and forced him to flee from this realm simply by walking foward into the room, dragging the decaying corpses of her party behind her.
I love this game, flaws and all. It's got such an adventurous aura and solid open world progression for such an old game. Thanks for doing this crazy challenge!
I do especially like how remakes of this game make it more in line with newer turn based games
I remember reading a bunch of FF challenge playthroughs on somebody's online website. I loved those: i think solo white mage was also among them, but that doesn't mean i'm not looking forward to seeing it again in all your VGMyths glory!
The wisdom stat is actually a really funny giga brain joke if you think about it. I love that
I'm glad your hands are even slightly on the mend. Please do take care of yourself, and your continued efforts are appreciated.
I loved the part where the White Mage said "Bullshit," played Limp Bizkit, and walked away as Goblins ate their allies.
The latte and pulling up Picross during the cutscene of Chaos disintegrating was, frankly, beautiful.
Welcome back Gamechamp, we hope you heal up soon! Microsoft has some amazing accessibility controllers that you might benefit from looking into.
"FOUR WHITE MAGES?! IT"LL NEVER WORK!!!"
It’d be interesting to compare this run across different versions - NES versus GBA versus remasters…
Not something that would come up in this run but NES battles have this weird mechanic where if a monster dies before a member of your party can attack it, the attack just whiffs. The attack doesn’t target to the next enemy, your guy just attacks the air. You have to predict when enemies are going to be knocked out so you don’t waste turns.
I actually liked that mechanic, but it's not a big deal. I also LOVE FF1's spell system and I wish more games would use it.,
The irony is that this run effectively bypasses the bug. Which makes me wonder if the game was originally programmed to have one hero (like Dragon Quest) rather than four...
Congrats Gamechamp! Hope you fully recover soon, and of course thanks for always pushing yourself for these “fun” challenges, but I hope you don’t hurt yourself for it again.
Great to see you back! Hope your hands are feeling okay, and interested to see if Final Fantasy joins Ratchet & Clank and Rockman as a recurring franchise on the channel.
it's so nice to see you again! but please don't kill yourself to get videos out ❤
Could you imagine this as an anime where the party wipes in the first fight except for the healer, and the healer proceeds through the rest of the quest supported by the ghost of his peers.
“Puppeteer your dead friends into a dramatic pose” lmao😂
Wow! Finally I'm being represented in one of your videos!!! Thank you for answering my question!
4 is indeed a bigger number than A. This is going to be a good challenge.
*cries in hexadecimal*
But A is just 4 with an extra line
@@jellywillreturn Well, a 4 that fell over a bit. Presumably the extra line is there to prop it up.
Glad to see you back! Hope your hands get better. I gotta say, a healer continuously being slain by monsters and brought back to life in order to go against her nature and become the most efficient killing machine in the world with only the corpses of her would-be allies for company makes me think of, like, a dark fantasy series that treats the whole process literally. Something in the vein of Re:Zero and All You Need is Kill, but the heroine uses a bunch of carcasses for extra pocket space.
I love how he just gets loud when he's like "it's time tO KILL CHAOS"
23:13
Thank you for explaining, I wouldn't have guessed that the status effect "Death" leads to Death!
(Don't worry not being mean, I love the video!)
If anyone is interested, there is a video of TASbot doing this challenge on original hardware, without the grind, and even killing both Tiamat and Chaos by using the Bane Sword.
Wisdom in this game is apparently the original inspiration for that one useless stat from every FromSoft game. Lol
If you want to see full FF1 challenge/mod/randomizer runs, BlueAnkylo is fantastic at them. Dude knows the game back to front, and in non-solo runs he avoids getting overleveled to keep things interesting. He's done solo runs of every class, several times, on several different versions. From watching him I know that solo thief is the real challenge mode, especially on the NES due to the bugs in the original game. The way he speaks is great for watching at 1.5x speed, too, which is great when you're blasting through his hours long playthroughs. Highly recommended!
Hell yeah Blue is the best!
Never seen one of your videos before, I'm just being entertained and then here let your playing with your feet out of nowhere... Incredible
"... and unfortunately, '4' is a bigger number than 'a'" this is the moment that convinced me to subscribe- thanks for the delicious content !
When the world needed her most, she returned.
"And unfortunately, 4 is a bigger number than A"
Normal people: "Makes sense."
Hexadecimal people: "What."
HOW DO YOU FORGET TO PROGRAM AN ENTIRE STAT!?
ITS LITERALLY RIGHT THERE ON THE STAT SCREEN!
ITS RIGHT THERE!
I have to say, watching the jumpless sm odessy and this back-to-back is whiplash. Ngl though, I really enjoy the much more mellow narration. Its much less stressful lmao
Always good to see an 8 bit theater reference~♡
And kudos! I hope your hands feel better.
“I’m your White Mage. And NOBODY. Fucks. With the White Mage.”
“LV 620,000 spells” caught me completely off guard!
I mean, I've been programming long enough that i wholly disagree that A is less than 4, but otherwise great video! 😂
Great to have you back and to hear the news that your injuries are getting better! Love the content as always 💖
I scrolled a fair bit and didn't see anyone else mention this, but yes, the last floor of Chaos Shrine was specifically changed in the localization to lack random encounters. The pillars are also altered to have triangles instead of hexagrams.
The encounter rate of Warmech was also upped, although TBH I'd argue that makes Warmech easier since a fair amount of the difficulty in fighting them is the resource drain required to encounter them, similar to the Fiends in SMT 1.
These two changes are NES localization only changes and aren't in any other version of the game.
At the exact second that you screamed: To kill chaos! I got an ad for the dmc mobile game that starts chaos at the start of the soundtrack. I accidentally watched trough almost the entire ad because i thought you edited in a meme whixh is very unusual for you but it fit in so perfectly.