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Post by The Strahl on Mar 16, 2016 22:00:01 GMT -5
Hello everyone. This is my thread for my current FF9 challenge. I've been working on it for quite some time and have already made it to episode 50! My goal for this play through is to post a video for each boss using each character, including Beatrix. So there's potential for 9 videos for mandatory fight. I'm using a gameshark to add character to the party who aren't available for use. Here is my current playlist of the video's I've done already. I will post new videos as they come out. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOppTD8iu-hXCExZmW8TxSCZxlj9j6JKN
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Post by The Strahl on Mar 16, 2016 22:01:16 GMT -5
My most recent video
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wypy
Level 1
Yup, I'm still around!
Posts: 29
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Post by wypy on Mar 17, 2016 4:00:12 GMT -5
Good luck on the Challenge, keep it up.
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Post by The Strahl on Mar 18, 2016 9:18:39 GMT -5
New episode is up!
For dagger I had to level her up enough so that she had at least 22 magic stones. I needed this so I could equip both Auto-Reflect and Reflect Null. The reason for this is that I needed to be able to reflect FIRA and also cure myself, and that's the best way to do it. Other than that I have to wait to see which move Antlion uses each turn. If he uses Sandstorm I have to cure, any other move I can just attack. Sandstormcauses blind which kind of sucks because Dagger cannot learn Bright Eyes.
Thank Goodness for Trance though as that cure any status ailment. And also gives a nice little boost to physical damage.
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Post by The Strahl on Mar 20, 2016 16:51:41 GMT -5
Next episode is up!
Steiner is currently running in easy mode. The Blood sword is absolutely broken and I cannot imagine having any issues with him at all in any fight. Maybe if there are fights that I can't reach the enemy.
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Post by Lockirby2 on Mar 20, 2016 18:00:09 GMT -5
It looks like you put FFII into your console by mistake.
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Post by The Strahl on Mar 26, 2016 11:06:48 GMT -5
New Episode is up!
On to the Beatrix Fight in Cleyra. Beatrix poses a real threat again as she will constantly use Shock which will one shot everyone no matter what. We have two win conditions though, we can either deplete her HP or survive 10 turns. Thankfully Freya has the jump mechanic which allows us to skip some of Beatrix's turns. Even better though, Freya can skip 3 of Beatrix's Turns if she has a tranced jump! With this I was able to avoid any shocks (thankfully) and win the fight.
Characters I lost with so far: Zidane, Vivi, Steiner, Garnet (Yes even the almighty Blood sowrd is no match for Beatrix)
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Post by The Strahl on Apr 9, 2016 10:26:35 GMT -5
Forgot to post this back when I did it, The beatrix fight was pretty tough and I could only also do it with Quima. I'm guessing you know how I won.
anyways, I've been really slacking on this so I plan to try to record a bunch of videos today. Other games have been severely distracting me.
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Post by Lockirby2 on Apr 10, 2016 16:22:49 GMT -5
"No more games"
*Stock breaks for 0 damage*
You sure showed him!
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Post by The Strahl on Apr 11, 2016 18:59:31 GMT -5
Yeah it's funny, there are some bosses you can accidentally heal you with their attacks. Their attack will set your hp to a random amount between 1 and 10, so being at 1 HP usually results in healing Quina haha.
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Post by The Strahl on Apr 11, 2016 19:00:51 GMT -5
New Episode is here!
Zorn and thorn are super easy. One will give the other the power to cast a spell, then you can just nullify it by attack the one who has the power. Physical or magical attacks are fine, but magical attacks take more time vs the ATB so you usually cannot nullify the next one in time.
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Post by The Strahl on Apr 17, 2016 14:37:09 GMT -5
So with Vivi, My approach was to try and do it faster with magic, which is totally possible, but much harder as the animation time wastes time that could be having my ATB fill. Thankfully Vivi has elemental magic which can be absorbed, so healing is not a problem.
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Post by Lockirby2 on Apr 18, 2016 15:01:18 GMT -5
Mage vs. Mages. Good thing Vivi is the best Mage around.
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Post by The Strahl on May 4, 2016 23:39:18 GMT -5
I'm a bit behind on video updates. I'll go ahead and post the latest though. I skipped the 3rd Beatrix fights, they're pretty much identical to the first two and not really worth showing off. I just wanted to get out of Alexandria (one of the more daunting areas in a challenge run.)
I put all of the bandersnatch fights into one video because he's not a boss and not really that difficult. Only two things we need to deal with here, Thunder damage and sleep status. Both can be handled with the coral ring! It gives you both thunder absorb and Insomnia ability. GG Bandersnatch.
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Post by Lockirby2 on May 5, 2016 19:47:09 GMT -5
The idea of Quina actually eating one of those things is pretty disturbing.
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Post by The Strahl on Aug 9, 2016 12:24:08 GMT -5
I haven't updated in a while. Here's what's been going on so far. I'm 84 episodes in and I'm only at the Soulcage. I'm actually struggling with Steiner because I haven't been leveling with him and I didn't account for an enemy that I couldn't use the blood swords on.
I have a back up plan but it's still tough because I don't have much HP.
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Post by The Strahl on Oct 1, 2016 16:29:06 GMT -5
Well I'm back. Ark is such a stupid boss. a stupid stupid boss. So far Zidane isn't very plausible. He simply has no method of healing after a photon.
For Steiner however, he can heal himself with either the Blood Sword, or with an Elemental Sword with the same Elemental Absorb. Other than that I only have to prepare myself for confusion.
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Post by The Strahl on Oct 22, 2016 11:25:13 GMT -5
My latest fight.
So some news, I think all of this character swapping via game shark has broken the game. The Game keeps crashing after the part with Frog Cid sneaking passed the hedgehog pie. I think the game is confused as to who is supposed to be in what party. I'm going to try to back track a bit and play through normally to see if this fixes it. *fingers crossed*
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Post by The Strahl on Oct 22, 2016 11:39:56 GMT -5
Turns out that fixed the problem. Even got the holy lance this time around.
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Post by Lockirby2 on Oct 23, 2016 8:46:00 GMT -5
Thank goodness, it would suck if the file was made unwinnable.
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