Do you mean tomorrow-Saturday, or next week?
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Itâs okay. I started playing in English.
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Tomorrow/today Saturday I believe.
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I mean TODAY-SATURDAY!
LETâS HUNT DOWN SOME GOBLINS
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I did include a thief in my party; no real reason other than it seemed the âclassicâ pick to me. He does Warrior damage but wears less armor. Might as well use a second warrior.
In the original FF1, the game was deadly. Running away was a legitimate need. Items and healing spells were in short supply, monsters were dangerous, and it was a long way back to town to revive and heal. I remember running away ALL THE TIME.
The remaster is so stupidly easy that it honestly doesnât matter what your party is. I ăăăă with my white and black mage all day long. Heck, I didnât even put them in the back row! Whack whack whack. The encounter rate wasnât nerfed, but the EXP and gold are doubled, so I was massively overleveled before long. You can even eventually find items that cast infinite spells (for healing and damage). By halfway through the game or less, youâll auto down the bosses with basic attacks and have 99 of every item.
A fun bit of crossover content - the runs through an area (and sometimes all the way back out) are so long and have sooo many encounters that I find its a great time to go through anki and WK reviews while my buddies autobattle everything to death. This game absolutely does not respect your time, but it came out when I was a child, and I didnât really respect my time either back then. So, I canât really get too mad at it. I do wish theyâd reduced the encounter rate when they increased the gold/exp rewards, though.
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I did an English run through of the first few sections earlier this week, and I found the F3 button (to toggle encounters on the PR version) very useful. I could make progress and be collecting some drops, experience and cash while still not be running out of spells and scarce potions and have to run back to town for a kip.
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A clussic PR stunt 
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I drew the line at some of the config options, like multiplying cash and experience rewards. I may be a cheat, but I have my limits.
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Of course ||ultimately the four white mage party bailed them out, lol||
Glad someone will get any 8 bit theater references I throw out
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Today is the OFFICIAL start of the club! If your were patient, now is the time to join us in the week 1 thread. If you werenât patient, see you next week for the next chapter of our adventures.
Also I want to highlight this proposal of mine:
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Iâve been very patient I think! Havenât started on week 2âs content yet 
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Wait, Iâm a bit confused. I thought week 1 was split into 2, so for the next week we do the second half (going into the shrine) but still post in the Week 1 thread, right?
And the week 2 thread will go up after that.
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No the shrine is next week, thereâs nothing new this week. Given that thereâs a good chunk of NPC dialogue I wanted to give more time for people to make it through it all without stress.
I feel like I have overcomplicated things by attempting to make them simplerâŠ
The pace is really slow now because thereâs a lot of dialogue and not much dungeoning but the balance should improve starting with week 3 or 4. I realize that for people who are more comfortable with Japanese these first few weeks will be a bit frustrating due to their short length and limited amount of gameplay⊠Itâll get better, I promise.
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Donât worry for those people, they have most likely committed themselves to way too many book clubs by now, so they are fine with waiting
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That felt incredibly personal 
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If I donât count the ones that Iâm on hiatus in because Iâm so far behind, especially when the club has already finished the last (available) volume, Iâm not in too many!
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how many is too many 
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@shuly , @shitsurei is that the secret to staying with a bookclub until the end? I always drop out after a few weeks cause the speed is too slow and I get bored. I actually wanted to do a âhelp me threadâ soon, as a serial book club dropper 
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You can always read ahead if itâs too slowâŠ
semi off topic....
There are a few reasons I have so many goingâŠ
A main one is that I have a bingo card that Iâm working on a blackout (and it seems like a reachable goal after all l!!!) felt impossible but now very very doable!
Other stuff just wanted to read or was interestedâŠ
If you are finding the book boring then no harmâŠIâve dropped a few for that reason.
If itâs about trying to push through a book you like but the pace is too slow, try reading 1 week ahead so you an always click the âIâve already read itâ option. Might be a fun way to motivate yourself (if you like the book)
The trick is to find something you donât want to put down⊠werewolf book is turning out pretty fun⊠(though I didnât read with the club following the threads now - finished ch3⊠@shitsurei is the werewolf i sure! haha seriously donât spoil it though⊠curious how itâs all going to turn out)
The other fun one is zenitendoâŠit was too hard originally but I came back to it and aside from this annoying beauty school drop out portionâŠitâs pretty fun! (though a ton of hiragana which can make parsing a bit tricky sometimes)
Not sure what the best thing to do isâŠbut when you find a book you really want to read, particular subject matter, whatever it isâŠif you can find it at the right level to be approachable (some lookups ok but not constantly)⊠reading can be fun. But the story has to be interesting.
Maybe browse through the past bookclubs and read on your own too if a topic interests you. Can always revive a thread, someone will respond and help usually - even if itâs been a year.
If you are i need of additional reading motivation, the equinox readathon is coming up in 2-3 weeks or something ⊠join us 
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