A Gaming Diary
Posts tagged final fantasy
Final Fantasy I
Oct 11th
Cerberus, bloody Cerberus.
His Thunderbolt attack just does too much damage, even with a Blue Curtain thing active. About 150 points of damage to every character every time he uses it, which is about two-thirds of his turns. Silence and paralyse spells just miss all the time.
I’m level thirty, I should be able to do this.
(And this isn’t even mentioning the instant death attacks for the other boss I’ve found on this floor. They’re called Death and Earthquake and they are evil.)
Final Fantasy I
Oct 10th
Gah.
There’s another boss on the same floor of the dungeon. He’s got lovely “kill outright in one hit” attacks. How charming.
So that’s two bosses on one floor that I can’t kill.
Talk about a difficulty spike. It’d been incredibly easy until now and – bam!
This may even be a game-killing spike. We’ll see.
Final Fantasy I
Oct 10th
First death! I got to a boss in the Earth Shrine and he fucked me. Badly. Stupid Thunderbolt attack does more damage than I can keep up with, even with Floss on full time mana-no-object healing duties. It was a long, long battle and I thought I was going to make it, but I lost Arnold. I risked taking a turn away from healing everyone else to revive him, which was a mistake. Two Thunderbolt attacks came quickly and they just destroyed me.
I never normally play games on the bus or at work, but I’ve done both today. Will this be the first Final Fantasy game I ever actually complete?
Final Fantasy I
Oct 9th
I didn’t think when I started this diary that one of the benefits would be having a nice place to keep notes about what I’ve done and what I should be doing next. Useful.
Not that I need to do it now. I killed a piss easy dungeon boss, which led to me being shown a cut scene of a door opening, so I’ve wandered off there. I think I’m meant to do something with an Earth Rod or and Earth Crystal or something. I’m not entirely sure. But, anyway, I’ve been warned that there are lots of monsters behind the door, so I guess it’s a job for me.
I’m just over seven hours in now, which is quite something. Weekend: eaten.
Final Fantasy I
Oct 9th
The vampire’s dead, yet the earth’s still fucked. Could something else be causing it?
Another tense dungeon crawl finished. It’s not as if I’m ever in danger of actually dying, but it feels like I would be if I let my concentration slip for a moment.
When I turn it back on I’m going to have to see if I can work out why killing the vampire didn’t help heal the earth. Someone way down south might be able to help, according to someone in the shit town – the FF equivalent of Maidstone – that I’ve found myself in. There’s not even a bloody item shop where I am, so I’m going to have sail back home for a while to stock up, before searching for this wise man.
Final Fantasy I
Oct 9th
It has not yet been completed.
However, I have killed an evil elf and woken up a good one and given someone their eye back and given a dwarf some explosives and been in many, many fights.
Everyone’s level twenty now and I’ve just found another dungeon area, so I’ve decided to take a break before tackling it.
Final Fantasy I
Oct 9th
Well, I found the Marsh Cave. After an accidental side trip to see some dwarves. Got a bit lost there.
A long, hard slog in and out of the save. Took a good hour or so and I’m not sure I explored it completely. Got what I needed, though. Must remember to stock up on more Ethers. I was really stretching out the magic by the end of that.
Cor, I’m completely worn out now.
Great game. I can see how it spawned a series, even allowing for this being an ehanced version.
Pity they didn’t enhance it a bit more by having some sort of automap feature.
Final Fantasy I
Oct 9th
Well, it was around half past three last night when I finally turned the GBA off.
I’d found a town full of elves and wandered around the map not finding anything else of any importance.
That elf town is a rip-off when it comes to accomodation. One hundred gil for a room? It’s not any nicer than the thirty gil room in the starting town. Maybe it’s a tourist destination or something.
Anyway, I’m looking for the Marsh Cave now. May take me a while to find it, though I suspect it’s east of the elves town.
Oh, and I decided I really, really didn’t like any of the UK Micro colours, so I’ve ordered a Famicom one. I know it’ll end up costing me about ten quid more than a UK one and I won’t get it much sooner than the Uk release, anyway, but even ignoring the faceplate, the red colour of the body is much nicer than any of the UK colours.
I am weak.
Final Fantasy I
Oct 9th
Well, that’s okay. Everyone’s up to level nine and I’ve crossed the drawbridge. It’s tougher over there and I’m not sure where to go. I found a cave inhabited by a man who’d lost his eye and some brooms which told be to select button B, but didn’t tell me when or why.
Returned to town now for a rest before pusing on eastwards this time.
I’ve still only killed 139 goblins. I decided to level up a bit more efficiently this time.
And I’m pretty sure I saved before turning off.
Final Fantasy I
Oct 9th
I seem to be level six.
And have about 500 gil.
And have only killed 95 goblins.
Must… remember… to… save…
Gnnnnnng.
Let’s try that again, shall we?
