darksnowman

...just thought I'd post incase you started to think your progress updates were falling on deaf ears. I'll refrain from making further comments, this page is all yours to blog about your quest on!

So you are enjoying the game now you have settled on a name and have got past the graphics?

Are handheld FPS titles ever that great anyway? I haven't played Duke Nukem 3D on the GBA so if theres one that could deliver greatness, its probably that one.

Ha ok then, I was just trying to goad you into another restart. I meant to ask, as you are playing it on the PSP, does that mean you have the PS version with the (allegedly) dodgy load times?

H-o-T as you are playing with that version/ translation, the lead character really is called Butz! (I called mine Funky and was gonna name the others after the Kong Clan but had forgot this one doesn't let you rename the entire party.) I'll be wrapping up some events in the first act of the game today before moving on to act 2. I'm trying to remember if there is anything worth buying so I might have to do a whip round all the shops first. I do need to stock up on Phoenix Down again as I burnt through my reserves in the Purobolous battle as I approached it completely wrong (rookie mistake!) and ended up with a lengthy battle on my hands. As you are using mages you should stock up on rods. One of the simple pleasures in FF V is breaking rods in battle. To equip and use them you can access your equipped items from the item list (when in battle) by pressing up when you are at the top. Try it and enjoy! Hey, hadn't noticed you'd asked on Backloggery. Apologies! Basically, its a thing thats been running for some years now, every summer. You sign up to play, get assigned one job per crystal and you can't diverge from these four jobs for the entirety of the game. Last year, for the first time, it was run as a charity event where you could donate money to Child's Play and this year is no different. There's been a few additional "modes" this year to keep it interesting for long time players and those looking a new challenge. Its a really cool way to keep re-experiencing an old RPG. All the details are in this thread and the website for it is here: http://www.letsplaying.com/lets-playing/FF5FF/

His real name is Butz. :wink: Restart! I'm up to the Earth Crystal now after grinding for cash for ages and then not spending it all, oops. I've now rolled all four jobs I'll be using for this file: Knight, Red Mage, Ranger and Chemist. Simples!

Present sir! I don't know much about Unchained Blades because the name always makes me think its just a beat em up like Guilty Gear or something. I shall look into it on your recommendation! Theres quite a bit of Etrian Odyssey IV info on the go at the minute with the demo coming out in Japan. It sounds really promising. :awesome: Its just a couple of hours but is a really good game that lends itself to replays with its short length. Don't pass it up any longer @Fused King - I expect to see Shantae in your sig in the near future!

You're probably better off not knowing what I call DKC: R.

Great stuff. I hope you don't power ahead of me too quickly - but I'm sure you will be by the close of the weekends play. The last two times I've had it on have been to grind for some gil as I want to upgrade and stock up on some guff before moving on to my next port of call: the Earth Crystal. Of course the first half an hour will be light. It has to ease you in before layering on the complexities! I'm playing it on the GBA Micro (had it on the NES SP but that screen is so dull after the Micro!) so its little vs large with you playing on the PSP. And what do you mean you don't like RPGs with job systems?! I thought you were a big supporter of X-2!

One or two of them didn't appear for me last night but when I hovered the mouse over them, they filled in and I was able to play em.

Those are two great renditions that I hadn't come across before, @Hero\-of\-Time I take it you don't mean Shining in the Stephen King sense? :p I'm gonna listen to that list tracks now as I get some grinding in in FF V. Love this thread.

I'd imagine Move would be superior to the Wiimote anyway, so it shouldn't be as janky as the Wii release provided they put the work in. Does it make too much sense to put this out on the Wii U with GamePad touch screen controls...? Even if they did, Okami's a monstrous game (that I haven't finished) that I'm not sure I will ever fancy going back through.

Maybe cos you're a rabid Nintendo fanboy.

I LOVE Chrono Trigger. I only played it for the first time when it came out on DS over here and it was (and is) clearly a classic. I fully intend to replay it enough to get the rest of the endings. I was dabbling with one of my NG+ files earlier this year and should really get back to that. It really is a joy to play. Sure all a Final Fantasy needs is a story about the crystals and chosen heroes and you're good to go. None of these modern day melodramatic emo plotlines need apply. :awesome: The only things I would change about FF III DS is the number of baddies it can handle in battle (needs more!) and the speed of transitioning into battle and hammering through them (needs to be faster!). I sort of wish they would do a 2D rerelease of it sometime - which I think was under development at one point for the WonderSwan...? As for what to go to next I'd say play them in order. You're better playing FF I sooner rather than later before you get used to the more complex and ambitious nature of the later entries. FF IV DS is really good but they added the augment system without ever really explaining it at all, which makes things really confusing if you want to try and make your characters as strong as possible. I'd say just go FF I to IV to VII and you'll be able to experience how the series evolved. The OST for both CT and FF VI is too good. The overworld theme in FF VI is spine tingling, never mind the Maria and Draco opera. Square where on tremendous form during the 16-bit era. And if you're after something goofy with a deep job system, Final Fantasy V. Is that what you're after right now Adam? Get it fired up!

*steps away from RedShell* Where's the unthank button!

FF VI is so good. X is ok from what I've played. FF V is very whimsical - it doesn't really try to be serious. You're saving the world of course but there are comedy lines from start to finish... especially from Gilgamesh. Well man, I'm having a run through the game at the minute so if you have a slot in your gaming calendar you should fire it up and we can bounce ideas off each other. : peace: Did you think it was worth it in the end? I finished FF III DS off at the start of this year after having it on ice from shortly after its release. I'd like to hear your thoughts on the game as a whole.

Well @Hero\-of\-Time how has your year of Final Fantasy gone? Did you get to FF V yet?!

I too prefer the Tim Burton Batman films (and Batman Forever is a guilty pleasure of mine... ). I just find the new ones to lack in FUN. I mean, these are comic book films! Drop the serious business act and inject some tongue in cheek humour for crying out loud.

They can be skeptical of the Wii U all they want because I'm skeptical of GTA. :p Run round, bang bang, steel a car, crash it into people, bang bang... Who's even buying the Wii U for non-kiddy games anyway?

I know we don't mean it in the same way but I hope you're right.

Every time I see 1080p in a post I think theres talk of a new Ten Eighty game going on.

Wonder what the level cap is then!

I didn't even know we had other quests to fulfil... sorry! Bit of a noob here. Thought the game was pretty cool on second inspection, actually. Though wish I could zoom the camera out further! I don't know how the exp works but my instincts were that its not split...? Don't know how the mechanics of the game work yet but seeing as the loot is every man for himself, I just assumed you were getting everything. So your progress is saved in this demo? My gunslinger started off at lvl 2. Thats a nice touch.

Was there actually strategy involved? It was more " oh crap RedShell's killing stuff off the screen, shoot shoot shoot and maybe I'll get some exp before he cleans up again!"

Ok. I'm in the forest now. Can you join in?