You know, I set up gamesavemanager for situations like this… but I’m not sure if it’s still doing regular backups. I should probably take a look.
I’m going through the final week’s script, and it is shocking how much of FF14’s story is straight up a sequel to this game. Perhaps that’s why I have so much fondness for it even with its faults. Arguably the entire first arc (through Shadowbringers) is basically FF3, with a modern retelling.
By the way, last chance to submit enemy sprites for the poll next week.
Week 10 already
First thing this week I went to get the earth crystal and the new jobs are so good. Love the 魔人 and the 導師 who are effectively upgrades on the 黒魔道士 and 白魔道士 respectively. They have interesting distributions of spell slots, with a bulge in certain levels that make them much more usable at this stage of the game. My 導師 has plenty of slots of ケアルガ and ケアルダ which kept the party healthy throughout the boss fights this week. Went and bought some new spells for my wizards now that I had money, and then I went for revenge on オーディン. Having these new fancy wizards who could use the good magic more, and the dark knight who had better magic defence, it turned out not to be too bad
I also went and did the レヴァイアサン which was fine. On the easier side even
I then went to ドーガ’s mansion and did the dungeon there - nothing to write home about really outside of the bosses. Like damn they have messed up designs. They weren’t too bad, although my 魔人 did die to ウネ and wasn’t revived in time
Finally it was time for バハムート and this fight went ok. The 魔人 did die after I got unlucky with two メガフレアs in a row, and then I spent a while trying to recover. The most annoying thing is making sure the revive goes off and then a heal happens before another メガフレア. The 魔人 ended the fight dead unfortunately
After this, as a little bonus, I did try out the 魔界幻士 with the full complement of summons. Can’t try out the level 8 one yet, don’t have any charges there, otherwise seems fun and powerful
What level are you that you don’t have any level 8 slots for your summoner? Even at level 40 you should have 1 on the Pixel Remaster according to the wiki.
Less than level 40 I guess?
Can’t argue with that.
I’ve become what I most feared: a filthy pre-player. Now I’m cursed with all these opinions I can’t share for 2 more days!
By the time we start FF6 half of this club’s participants will be partway through FFX
I was considering finishing my years-long English playthrough of 6 during the break between games. Does that count as filthy pre-playing?
If you have to ask…
Piège de Crystal:
Week 10
Didn’t feel like changing my team’s jobs when we are so close to the end of the game :x
Also life without kanji is so hard, how are you supposed to know what a まかいげんし or a けんじゃ is:
But I changed my mind and upgraded my Evoker after reading’s @simias’ description 
(Also it’s been so long that I’ve changed job that I completely forgot that you need to manually give them equipment again, oops)
The new dress is nice but for some reason they felt like adding visible boobs to the sprite…
Very satisfying to get a revenge on Bahamut, after getting my *** kicked at the beginning of the game, well who’s laughing now!
Happy that there was some optional content to try the new jobs in any case. I had forgotten all about the floating continent and would have missed バハムートの洞窟 and ドールの湖 without this thread!
Oh no 
so sorry for you! 
R.I.P.
Kuddos for jumping back on the horse!
Week 10
Started off by grabbing the earth crystal. My party lineup became Luneth - Blackbelt, Ark - Magus, Refia - Devout and Ingus - Dark Knight. After that I went after Leviathan and Bahamut. I took them both down fairly easily on my first try. Then I went for the keys.
I really enjoyed this sequence. Using Doga and Une’s life force to forge the keys seemed a bit random but it was given a decent amount of emotional depth. I appreciated our party screaming at them not to do it and Doga and Une saying they’ll always be watching over us. The music in the PR version was on point too. I almost felt a bit bad for how badly I destroyed them. Luneth charged once and Refia gave him haste and then he crit Doga for just under 9300 damage. It was over in two rounds. Une took a bit longer but was also pretty easy. Now all that’s left is the final gauntlet.
I’m planning on making Ark a Sage and Ingus a Ninja but I think I’ll leave Luneth and Refia where they are. Refia’s heals are really good now and Luneth is low maintenance but high output at job level 70. My party is currently level ~41 so I think if I just thoroughly explore the upcoming dungeons, I’ll be able to get through the finale without going out of my way to grind.