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Next up on my inaugural Fuck This Dungeon Tour: this door! http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv369@2x.png Leads to the Tomb of Memory area, which uses the pyramid tileset and has a bunch of those Mecha Head enemies running around again. Square-Enix: officially out of ideas for this dungeon. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv370@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv371@2x.png OH JESUS BAIL OUT http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv372@2x.png Cool it's a button, I'm sure nothing bad will happen if I hit it. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv373@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv374@2x.png Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat So it turns out that, when that asshole said "you must defeat he who is locked in the dungeons of the Sealed Temple," he ONLY meant for the teleporter in that room, and Neo Shinryu & Omega Mk.II are accessible without that. That means that, instead of hauling ass back to the start to die to a boss, I can just stay down here and die to a boss. Cool, I guess? http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv375@2x.png Cool, it's another button right next to an open pit. I'm sure nothing bad wi— http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv376@2x.png WHGARBLRBRBLHRB http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv377@2x.png Aaaaaand, scene! http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv378@2x.png Neo Shinryu! I already beat Shinryu, and I've gained 17 levels since then, so this won't be so bad. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv379@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv380@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv381@2x.png I WAS WRONG, SHINRYU LEARNED EARTHQUAKE Lemme go grab Float off a Stingray and I'll be right back. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv382@2x.png Jiminy. I gave it a shot with my Shinryu strategy of slapping Dragon Lances on everyone and hoping to kill him in 15 seconds, but that's not going to work here. The reason is that the developers have cheated in two ways. First, Neo Shinryu is randomly invulnerable half the time. This is achieved by there being two forms, one completely impervious to damage and the other not, that rapidly switch back and forth without a signal. So 50% of attacks will be absorbed without even popping up a 0 damage indicator. Second, Neo Shinryu has three hidden, unselectable, invulnerable targets. They don't show up in the monster list and you can't intentionally attack them, but random attacks like Rapid Fire have a chance of choosing them and therefore doing no damage. The net effect is that my Berserker will only land a hit 1/8 of the time, so I pretty much have to solo this fight with my Dragoon. But wait, there's more. Neo Shinryu has a 1/3 chance of countering damage with White Hole, which is an instant kill for this party. He has 65,000 HP, so with a 9,999 HP limit on attacks, I'm going to have to land no less than 7 hits on him without triggering White Hole. I might be able to bring that down to 6 or 5 if I get lucky with my other three characters before they die, but 7 is the theoretical target. The odds on that are (2/3)7 = 5.85%. And that's assuming I can figure out how to keep the Dragoon alive during the other attacks. So that's a pretty big pile of shit I've got to figure out how to deal with. ... later! |
With Fork Tower destroyed, we hook up a new ride.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...01swimming.png Time to go swimming, fool. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...02drowning.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/603only.png Yeah, and my dick is only ten inches long. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...603getsome.png COMMENCE STANDING AROUND. Actually, forgot to nullify the berserker so spent the first thirty seconds hitting him with the other characters until he died. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/604woot.png Pointless new job acquired, we leg it, made it back to the boat with 3 seconds remaining. We head off to the nearest glowing blob on the underwater world map. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...605wellies.png Gonna need some wellies I fear. Pretty easy dungeon this one, more or less linear and no tough monsters. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7.../606fourth.png Wait, what? Fourth? I don't remember getting a third. Lol doing dungeons out of sequence. Anyway, we grab the tablet with no sign of a boss... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7.../607bugger.png Bugger. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/608just.png Only just beat him with no particular strategy. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/609woot.png More pointless shit and the realisation I totally could have just walked past this guy. Fuck my life. So we go to the actual third dungeon next and man is it a pain in the arse. Thinking it would be easier than the fourth I didn't bother restocking on Hi-potions and came in with about 60. There are high-hp monsters that do a fair bit of damage and doom you which would be bad enough but then there are arsehole lava sections you're supposed to float over only no float so after nearly running out of potions, I resort to using the ninja's escape command to run away from battles with one hp a piece. Got to the end eventually though. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/610oink.png A pig? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...611piggies.png Three (little) pigs, obviously. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...612tooeasy.png Insanely easy fight, zeninage and straight up hard hitting get this done in a couple of rounds. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...3pointless.png GEE, THANKS. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...14letshope.png Yeah, let's leave that shit for CHz shall we. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/615nope.png Whatever dude. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...t/616ornot.png Hooray for bad guy clichés! Bitch gets owned. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...t/617panda.png Apanda? An actual panda? What is this, World of Warcraft? Dude goes down pretty quick too. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...8soundgood.png Backrowserker? Ah hell no, Dual-wieldserker with Thor Hammer and Titan Hammer of course. 6,000 odd damage a turn to most bad guys. Beat the tall dude boss easily then got raped by the octopus thing a couple of times. Time for a rethink... |
Chapter VI: A Brave Suspiciously Similar World
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Chapter VII: Trading In For a Newer Model
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Suppose I should get this over and done with...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...innit/12fu.png Throwing Elixirs mainly won that one. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nit/122lol.png Insert joke about Alice being a cumdumpster here I guess. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...t/123bitch.png Another dumb bitch who needs to learn when to shut the fuck up. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...t/124bitch.png Told. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/125ugly.png Some big, ugly, gigaflare motherfucker next. I used the patented CHz cheap tactic and magic lamped the bitch. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...earlythere.png Nearly there now! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...7meneither.png Nobody likes it here. There are King Behemoths everywhere, I'm almost out of hi-potions and it's fucking miles to the nearest shop. We decide to tough it out. There's a bunch of Fuma Shurikens in chests here. Also this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/128oops.png Might not open that one after all. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...9stillafag.png In the best tradition of jrpgs, Exdeath spouts a bunch of faggy nonsense when you meet him. These games need to give you the option to slap emo fags in the face and skip all the crappy dialogue. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...1210lolwut.png Was a giant tree really the most terrifying form they could think of for the end boss? The world gets fucked, Simon says: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...1simonsays.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/1212gay.png Sounds like a gay sauna society or something. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...213getsome.png ROUND 1, FIGHT. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...214doubtit.png GOSH, THAT WAS EASY, I BET THAT'S ALL THERE IS AND THE FIGHT IS OVER. Note the various haste effects rather than reflect, this was a first attempt, I switched to reflect rings for everyone except the berserker for subsequent goes with the zerker still in hermes sandals. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...215obvious.png DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...16flawless.png FLAWLESS VICTORY! Took a couple of attempts, the main issue being the bit at the back casting meteor and killing everyone and running out of all healing items with two bits still to kill. The Fuma Shurikens helped, dealing 7,000 odd damage each time. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/12Faris.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/12Fartz.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/12krile.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/12Lenna.png Well that was a decent enough game. I'm not normally a huge fan of old-school rpgs, I certainly never got on with FF6 but I think the challenge element of this made it more entertaining that it otherwise would have been. Would have stood no chance without CHz playing it through in front of me, primarily because there are a couple of bosses I don't think I would have beaten without his strategies. |
Glad to hear that the enormous piles of hero corpses I left lying around helped you out.
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Chapter VIII: We're Back! A Story of Old Things
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Chapter IX: A Murder of Side Quests
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This guy I went to college with sounds mad about sucking at FF5. Just wanted to share this with all of you that completed the game last year, because you're all winners and I'm proud of you. |
Tell him a British guy you know who finished it on his first ever play through using a randomly generated party limited to four job classes says he's a pussy.
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