Final Fantasy 1 Beginner Club W13
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Vocabulary sheets, transcriptions etc.:
Stopping point
Finish the game.
more details
The four crystals are now restored to their former glory, all that’s left is to hunt down the primeval Chaos at the root of all of this mess.
If you want all the details, you can return to Crescent Lake and talk with the おじさん there, they have a big slab of lore dump waiting for you. At any rate, your ultimate target awaits in the Chaos Shrine, where it all started.
If you haven’t already, don’t forget to deliver the Adamantite that you should have found in the Flying Fortress last week to the dwarves to forge Excalibur, one of the two best swords in the game. Note that it can only be used by Knights.
Once all your preparations are done, you can enter the shrine and unlock its secrets. A long dungeon awaits you. The game will throw everything it has at you: the toughest enemies in the game (except for the DEATH MACHINE) lurk there, including some familiar bosses. Don’t forget to use your items to heal and conserve spells, it’s going to be a test of endurance.
There’s some good treasure in there, but at this point you should already be kitted out so it probably won’t matter too much. There is one item worth singling out however: in the depths of the dungeon you can find the sword 正宗. It’s the strongest weapon in the game and can be equipped by anybody!
Map
Miscellaneous
Read this after you’re done:
Ending FMV
Your reward for beating the game is a long text crawl, which is a bit underwhelming by modern standards. Fortunately the Stranger of Paradise prequel has a fancier FMV that says basically the same thing. I have edited it a bit to remove all Stranger of Paradise-specific spoilers and posted it here:
Final boss
In most versions of the game (including the Pixel Remaster), the final boss has 20,000HP, meaning that the fight will last a while even with a high level party.
In the original Famicom version however it only has 2,000HP, meaning that you can usually destroy him in two or three turns by using your strongest attacks. It’s a bit underwhelming, really.
Participation
- I’m playing along
- I will catch up later
- I’m still playing but I haven’t reached this section yet
- I’m a filthy preplayer but I’m here for the discussion
Final Fantasy Book Club Awards
If you managed to finish this game, おめでとう！
As a reward you get to click a bunch of polls:
polls
- I played at my own pace and didn’t attempt to stay in sync with the club
- I wanted to keep up with the club but external circumstances prevented me from doing so
- It was too fast for me, I fell behind
- It was challenging but I managed to keep up
- It was fine
- I could have gone a bit faster but I didn’t mind
- It felt slow but I still followed along
- It was too slow and I ended up filthy preplaying
- This is the first time I play a game in Japanese
- I have played a few (≤3) games in Japanese
- I have played a bunch of games in Japanese
- Very hard
- Quite hard
- Somewhat challenging
- Easy
- Trivial
- What spreadsheet? (Didn’t use it at all)
- I used it a bit but I could easily do without it
- I could have played without it, but it would have been significantly harder
- I don’t think I would have made it without the spreadsheet
- I used the vocabulary list a bit
- I used the vocabulary list a lot
- I didn’t use the vocabulary list
- What spreadsheet?
- Great
- Okay
- Underwhelming
- Bad
- No, it’s too hard
- No, it’s too boring
- It’s fine but there are other games that I think are much more suitable
- I think it’s a good entry point
Now the fun stuff
Note that you don’t have to rank every entry every time if you don’t want to, you can just rank the top entries and ignore the others.
- Warrior/Knight
- Thief/Ninja
- Monk/Super Monk
- Red Mage/Red Wizard
- White Mage/White Wizard
- Black Mage/Black Wizard
- Chaos Shrine (present)
- Swamp Cave
- Earth Cave
- Gulg Volcano
- Ice Cave
- Castle of Ordeals
- Sea Shrine
- Mirage Tower/Flying Fortress
- Chaos Shrine (past)
- Garland
- A bunch of Pirates
- Astos
- Vampire
- Lich, the Chaos of Earth
- Marilith, the Chaos of Fire
- Kraken, the Chaos of Water
- Tiamat, the Chaos of Air
- Chaos, the Chaos of Chaos
- The dancer
- The bats
- Matoya, the blind witch
- The brooms
- The guys with mohawks
- Bikk the pirate
- Smith the blacksmith
- Ryukhan and his coterie of merry old men
- Bahamut the dragon king
- That witch that asks about your legs
- Opening theme
- Main theme
- Chaos shrine
- Matoya’s Cave
- Sunken Shrine (this is actually the music of the final dungeon, not sure why it’s called that)
- Mount Gulg
- Battle
- Game Over
- Victory
- Final Fantasy 1
- It’s filthy
- I support terrorism
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