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Not all enemies are available on all levels, and some are apparently only available after defeating the boss.
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Last week we attempted to prevent Golbez from gathering the Dark Crystals, with rather poor results. Yan and Cid are dead, Golbez has the Crystals, but we did get Lydia back in adult form, so thatâs cool. Whatâs next? Well, letâs head back to Baron for a start. There you can explore the castle and youâll find somebody who will offer to pimp your ride:
At any rate once youâre ready, go explore the cave and find the æăé that leads back to the Tower of Babil. Go through the tower until you get the Falcon, then save on the map.
We already had the Enterprise, now our new ship is the Falcon. Those are references to Star Trek (the USS Enterprise) and Star Wars (the Millennium Falcon)
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Iâm playing along
I will catch up later
Iâm still playing but I havenât reached this section yet
Iâm a filthy preplayer but Iâm here for the discussion
Alright going right back to the tower is kind of an odd decision, and at this point Iâll agree weâre repeating the tower techno tileset a little much.
Still had a decent time though, the crane to pick up the old ship is cute and the tower is fun enough in the way theyâve been. Occasionally enemies just outright one shot us now but given that revive magic is so easy to use I donât really mind.
Most importantly we got a ninja named Edgy, which is really what any videogame ninja should be called. I liked his parents appearing as twisted monsters. Unfortunately I had already cast berserk on a few people so we simply could not stop beating them while they had their tearful goodbye.
The real boss was fun! Decent enough gimmick with the timing; theyâre making the most of having their battles be a little more âreal timeâ with ATB. Defeating him and having our big triumphant moment where we celebrate and talk about how weâre going to be able to handle anything and then immediately falling in a hole is genuinely really funny; that one worked.
Didnât remember this part of the game, when I found some shuriken in a chest I got excited, oh we might get a ninja in the party!
Then got confused that said ninja couldnât equip the shuriken. Ah right, youâre suppose to throw them, oops, forgot that detail
When they said the vehicles would ćäœ, I wasnât imagining carrying the hovercraft around like a UFO catcher.
Edge is uh⊠Quite a character. He definitely wouldâve been my favorite if I had played the game as a kid, but heâs a bit hard to take seriously now. The ćżèĄ is fun though and it already taught me a few new words. I forgot to try his ăȘăă command, so Iâll see how that works next week.
I missed whatever the trick was with the boss and just kinda plowed through. I assume I wasnât supposed to attack when he did his little cape animation? I burned through a couple of Phoenix Downs tanking his single-target flame attack, but otherwise got through fine.
I finished this week in 1:49, for a total playtime of 18:33.
He becomes immune to ice spells when hiding behind the cape (heâs weak to it the rest of the time).
I think he counter-attacks when not hiding behind the cape.
Overall I find that this game abuses counter-attack and âstate changeâ gimmicks on bosses, especially given that thereâs a delay for spells, summons and Kainâs jump, so itâs hard to time commands precisely. It makes fights messy.
I dunno if I think they do the state changes too much, maybe, but I get that itâs something cool they thought they could do with ATB.
Pretty sure I think the delayed timing aspect is really good though, personally. Without that you just figure out the gimmick and then itâs 100% solved. Here thereâs still a little extra skill factor and chance for it to go wrong so itâs not solely a really basic knowledge check.
Oh also, is it ice only? I assumed it was all magic and played that way.
You might be right because I remember him absorbing thunder at some point during my fight. Didnât try with fire though, since at the first encounter with Edgy he mentions that fire does nothing to him.
Letâs just say that Iâve been preplaying the next two weeks of FF4 and also the first two weeks of FF5 over the past few days and it probably contributed to my âcounterattack fiesta and phase change every two turnsâ exhaustion.
Donât really know where to put this but I think here is fine?
After this weekâs content, I decided to try and hunt for Augments.
Wonât be a perfect game, I think I might have missed some, and some are unlocked by giving some to specific people, which I didnât do in the beginning, and then for some you need to replay the game (which I am also not sure I will do).
But still fun to try a bit.
So I went back to the dwarf castle which is accessible again at the end of this week (not a spoiler I think).
This is by the way the only dancer that I liked in this game xD
I also have an in-progress quest with Namingway / Puddingway who wants me to find a ârainbow puddingâ. I havenât found any so far so thought Iâd cheat and lookup how to get them. Found this post:
Ah⊠And thatâs the easiest way, you say? Hm, Iâm not sure I want to go all this trouble
But Iâm liking to see that this game has so much extra content to offer!
Weird, those same flans (in that same room, no less) are the ones that drop the item you need for the strongest armor in the game. I recall I just autobattled them to death.
Probably, but itâs just a single item drop from a monster. The onion knight stuff was multiple rare drops from multiple end game monsters, with lower drop rates than this one (I think), and you had to level up your characters to max level just to make it worthwhile; something that would take hours and hours even with the 4x boost on.
I forgot I had a éăźăȘăłăŽ and just got another one from that one monster in a box I couldnât beat from a few weeks ago. Used both on Rydia, because she really needs the HP.
