![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() W.Mage-An almost must for any team, because she is usually the one to save your team from the brink of death if you don’t have any healing items, plus she kills zombies good. Monk-He is pretty so-so until he can start using his fist, then he is a forced to be reckoned with, you really don’t need equipment for him, except for a nunchuck at the beginning of the game, but after that, practically no equipment, which is extremelly good for this game, which, for some partys, requires a lot of grinding.ī.Mage-He is my favorite class, he can dish out damage when he gets later spells, and he has Nuke, which is my favorite spell, also, he can take more hits then a W.Mage, so I put him second to last, where he carefully kills enemies with the elements He can take and deal a lot of damage in later levels, and he can fit in to a lot of strategys, I usually keep my Fighters at the front of my party, to absorb most blows. So now it’s up to you: what’s on your cheeseburger party? Good ol’ fashioned Fighters and Black Belts for the clobberin’ power? White and Black Mages with their incredible control over the elements of life and death? A Thief for a late-game surge, or a Red Mage for precisely the opposite? (Don’t front, you know Red Wizards are essentially useless, they get barely any high-level magic points and only half the weapon selection of a Knight.) Garland is waiting, you know!įighter-He’s a relatively good character, most partys have him, and he’s strong. For all those reasons and more, I’d have to say that FF1 is definitely my favourite Final Fantasy game. Truly epic, and yet also fitting: much as choosing your party in FF1 alters the experience, the assortment of condiments and dressings you can add to the basic hamburger changes its flavour and texture. He even edited the subsequent posts to follow the nomenclature. The “cheeseburger” analogy comes from a time when I once made a poll asking people what their favourite roles were, and then someone (Falc, maybe, but I don’t know if I’m remembering that correctly) altered it to “what’s your favourite burger?” with options like cheeseburger, bacon burger, and double burger. Incidentally, I loves me the Thief: he’s a relatively useless character for the first half of the game, mostly good for HP-soaking and running from battles, but then he becomes a Ninja and y’all better watch it! Power to rival a Knight and four levels of black magic, oh yes indeed it’s party time. I did give it a swing with an 8BT party (fighter-thief-rmage-blmage) but its usefulness struck me as limited once I was up to the Ice Cave. It was almost certainly less, or at least the same but spread across more of the game, on my most recent run with a Black Belt, a Thief, and the two Mages, since that party is less expensive to equip (Steel Armor? Don’t make me laugh) and reaches good endgame power levels relatively sooner (my Master was getting 12-hit punches against Chaos!) Those are both without the Pravoka peninsula, though: my first time I didn’t know about it, and last time I made a conscious decision not to use it. 10 hours sounds about right for the first time I ever beat the game with two Fighters and a White and Black Mage, most of which was spent on the Tiamat bridge for WarMech. But it was a groundbreaking title for its time, and I love how great the variety can become based on the simplicity of party selection - an illusory simplicity, as you gradually realize how your choices will force you to alter your strategies for battling and dungeon-crawling.Īs I was going to say to DragonRaider: the amount of grinding you need to do in FF1 totally depends on your party setup. It’s got lots of demonstrable problems, especially if you play the original NES version as I do: broken elemental swords, weird leveling stats for certain character classes, the abject inability to collect more armor once you’ve filled your equippable slots. I wrote this response but then realized I’d be derailing the topic to threadkiller proportions, so I’m splicing the discussion here for maximum efficiency.įF1 is… well, I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call it one of my favourite games. During an ongoing debate about Mother being the best NES RPG, a comparison to the grinding in Final Fantasy came up. ![]()
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