The Final Fantasy Uber-Mega-Challenge of Doom (Series Playthrough) *Spoilers*

Damn that's quick I don't play on speedrunning, I'm not technically 100% these games...just powering up enough to beat all of the super bosses.. I spent most of yesterday grinding on FFVII to get all the limit breaks for all characters (well as high as I can get without the special items, I've only TRULY maxed out Aerith and Red XIII's limit breaks) and am moving onto the Temple of the Ancients once I'm done with the wutai sidequests. So there's my small update for the day. After I finish reorganizing my game shelf (as well as my new Manga and Comic shelfs) I will be playing some more FFVII tonight.

Well I just got done demolishing sephiroth (killed him in 4 turns, no limit breaks, no knights of the round) I have finally completed Final Fantasy VII hurray! I also wrote a sort of analysis of the game as another topic in our forums. Well now that I've finished this game it's onto some...rather random stuff for a while, not only am I playing the weird spin-off fighting game Ehergeiz.. I actually have to READ o.o... then watch advent children... and then I will finally return to a main game, Dirge of Cerberus, which will complete the compilation of Final Fantasy VII for me. That's it for this update... I'd put my opinion on FFVII here, but I think the other topic covers pretty much everything I had to say and more, so if you are curious go ahead and check it out.

Well I spent a good chunk of the day playing Ehrgeiz and what can I say? It's an... okay fighting game with final fantasy VII characters in it. Honestly I had an aenjoyable time with it, but the controls are just BAD at times... they are really slippery and it's hard to face your opponents, not to mention the block mechanics are kind of hard to get used too. I still had fun with it but definitely not something I would go out of my way to play. Anyway, now I'm moving onto Dirge of cerberus... originally I was going to play this game as a New Game + but instead decided that I'm going to play the game twice... once on hard mode so that I can build up all of my weapons, get all the capsules and enjoy the story before rushing through Extra hard mode and then finally take on all of the bonus missions. I figure doing the two run throughs won't take... TOO long, especially since you can skip cutscenes in this game (thank god) but I figure once I do a complete run of this game I never have to pick it up again. (Okay it's not THAT bad, and years ago I really loved it, but now that I've ventured further out of the RPG genre and played some other shooters, I realize how poorly this one holds up unless you are an FFVII fan) anyway that's all for now, see you all later.

Well I completed my playthrough of Dirge of Cerberus, collecting every damn report and stupid memory capsule.. which means all I have left are the bonus missions. After this I have a couple other spin-off games to playthrough before I finally move onto Final Fantasy VIII. Next up will be Chocobo Racing, but like I said I still have a ways to go with Dirge first.

Edit: I'm more than 3/4s of the way through my second playthrough of the game (ex hard mode) and once I'm finally done with that I will be doing the bonus missions.. and then FINALLY moving onto another game... Chocobo Racing is looking really exciting after this.. and oddly enough, Final Fantasy VIII is looking even MORE exciting. I'm sure I can get through chocobo racing in an afternoon or two (the story mode anyway) and I don't know how long Final Fantasy Adventure will take me but we'll see.

On another note, in the next week or two I will finally be getting a 3DS... and the first game I'm going to purchase (once I get the EXTRA cash for that) will be Theatrythm Final Fantasy, meaning my challenge really will be as perfectly complete as I can make it (with the exception of FF dimensions, but I don't have any device that can run it, an dI'm sure as hell not going to put out 500 dollars for a freakin' ipod and then another $50 for all of the games... I really WANT to play the game because it looks like it's a great throwback to the originals.. but it's just not going to happen.

Hey guys! I have a pretty big update today actually. Since I will be getting a 3DS soon, I have a lot more gaming possibilities open to me. Though my 3DS hasn't arrived in the mail yet, I have already purchased Theatrythm Final Fantasy AND Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance. I'm telling you guys right now that my challenge will probably be put on hold while I play these games, but considering how excited I am about them, I will probably be finished within a couple of days so it shouldn't slow things down to much.

The REAL announcement here however, is that because of 3DS I have decided to expand on this challenge.. by including the Kingom Hearts Searies as a part of it! I will be attaching the Kingdom Hearts series to the end of the list because, as I've said before, I REALLY don't want to end on anything related to Final Fantasy XIII, and though Last Story is amazing, it's not even made by the same COMPANY as Final Fantasy, so I thought it would only be fair to add Kingdom Hearts to the list, played in Story Order (not release order) with similiar paramaters to the rest of the games, meaning 'complete' run throughs of playing on the hardest difficulty setting and beating all the super bosses.

That's really it for now, I'm still making my way through dirge... I plan to be done with my second playthrough (ex hard mode) tonight, and then I will move onto the bonus missions. See you all later.

Edit: Small Correction... I was bored as hell of Dirge I did complete the extra hard mode tonight but didn't start the bonus missions. (not even sure I'm going to finish the extra missions but I feel obligated too...) so I decided to take a break and Play Chocobo Racing... and already beat it. It's certainly no mario kart, but it was a fun distraction... Honestly, unless you can find it for under $5 bucks or your a collecter like me, it's REALLY not worth your money. Anyway, still bored of Dirge... so I will probably start playing Final Fantasy Adventure tonight. I will be sure and complete Dirge of Cerberus' Bonus missions before I move onto Final Fantasy VIII though.

Hey everybody! Guess what!? My Dirge of Cerberus file is curropted. It's really weird... some of the games automatic checkpoint saves aren't accessible to me, and far more importantly, it's not letting me take my weapons into the bonus missions! So guess what? I'm not going to DO the bonus missions. I already played all the way through this game twice.. I'm not doing it a third time just so I can do the damn bonus missions and spend hours looking for the stupid freakin' memory capsules.. sooo screw it! I am officially moving onto Final Fantasy Adventure.

Hey Everybody, Ihave another Update. I just completed Final Fantasy Adventure.. and you know what? it's REALLY fun. It hold up really well for a 1991 Gameboy game and it's a million times better than the Final Fantasy Legend games on the system. The hilarious thing is NONE of these games are ACTUALLY Final Fantasy Games (the Legend games are the first three SaGa games) and Final Fantasy Adventure is actually Seiken Densetsu.. AKA the Prequel too Secret of Mana. This version plays very similarly to Zelda and I found it to be fun from start to finish. Honestly... if I had to choose I would reccomend the GBA Remake Sword of Mana, but if you DO want to try out the original version it holds up surprisingly well.

Well now I'm moving onto Final Fantasy VIII... so.. yay? I'd like to say here that As I'm looking at my list, I'm thinking I might have trouble struffling my way through all of the Crystal Chronicle games at one time, so I may try to stagger them a bit between other games, but I guess I'll just decide as I go along.

Wow. You have progressed very far! You are a man on a beautiful mission and I can believe you will have this done fairly soon!

If only I had your patience to do this kind of thing. 

Thank you ^^. I'm not that close to being done though... so far I'm done with 19/50 games... @.@

Actually yes.... I think I will start VIII again. I will do it tomorrow. I have another game I want to play at the moment.

I am not back in college till the end of the month so I may have good chance in finishing it before then if I keep playing :P 

Woot another person taking part in part of the challenge. ^^ Despite putting 7 hours into the game I'm only about 2 hours of actual gametime into it.. the rest of the time I've spent grinding. I've found the most effective way to play through FFVIII is to get Diablos as soon as he's available, learn a few certain GF abilities, and then from that point to the last boss you are untouchable... it's... kind of sad really.

Oh you have started!? Well I better get started!

Also are you including Kingdom Hearts in this since they include the FF characters. If so then I can join you with those aswell. 

EDIT: Ok bit of a problem. My FFVIII isn't working on my PS3 and I don't know where my PS1 memory card is gone. At first I thought it was my PS3 not being able to play any cd so I tried Alundra and that worked so my PS3 can play PS1 games, just not FFVIII :(

I may buy it in the store but it would seem like such a waste when I already have the physical version :( 

Oh you have started!? Well I better get started!

Also are you including Kingdom Hearts in this since they include the FF characters. If so then I can join you with those aswell. 

EDIT: Ok bit of a problem. My FFVIII isn't working on my PS3 and I don't know where my PS1 memory card is gone. At first I thought it was my PS3 not being able to play any cd so I tried Alundra and that worked so my PS3 can play PS1 games, just not FFVIII :(

I may buy it in the store but it would seem like such a waste when I already have the physical version :( 

Balmane

There's nothing wrong with your game or system, it has already been documented that Final Fantasy VIII doesn't play on the PS3 for some reason, so I hope that eases your pain a little. I wasn't going to add KH to the challenge, but I actually did just a couple days ago mostly because I refuse to end the challenge on anything related to Final Fantasy XIII... that and I'm finally getting a 3DS so I can play all 6 KH games.

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Oh you have started!? Well I better get started!

Also are you including Kingdom Hearts in this since they include the FF characters. If so then I can join you with those aswell. 

EDIT: Ok bit of a problem. My FFVIII isn't working on my PS3 and I don't know where my PS1 memory card is gone. At first I thought it was my PS3 not being able to play any cd so I tried Alundra and that worked so my PS3 can play PS1 games, just not FFVIII :(

I may buy it in the store but it would seem like such a waste when I already have the physical version :( 

Xx_Kares_xX

There's nothing wrong with your game or system, it has already been documented that Final Fantasy VIII doesn't play on the PS3 for some reason, so I hope that eases your pain a little. I wasn't going to add KH to the challenge, but I actually did just a couple days ago mostly because I refuse to end the challenge on anything related to Final Fantasy XIII... that and I'm finally getting a 3DS so I can play all 6 KH games.

It eases my pain! Also when you start your KH playthroughs, I will join! I am going to get FF9 aswell so ill join you on that.

I reallly wanted to play FFVIII again though. Damn disk not working! 

You may not want to wait for me to get to KH, they are the very last thing I will be doing with this challenge... so about 25 games away ^^'. I will be playing KH 3D next week (or soon after that) just because I can't wait that long ^^' but I will be replaying it (and doing a 100% run) for the end of my challenge since I'm playing the KH games in story order.

Well small update.. kinda. I finished the first disc of FFVIII tonight... so.. yay?

You are not the only one that plays games at a snail speed when other games show up, I have just managed to make the PS1 emulator to run, so finaly I can play Symphony of the Night again (although on my pc).

Just continue, now that I got my emu running, I will join you in FF8 (I have only played that game once, I wonder why actually). FFX/FFXII I will also join in on.p>lordmew

Well small update.. kinda. I finished the first disc of FFVIII tonight... so.. yay?

Xx_Kares_xX

You may not want to wait for me to get to KH, they are the very last thing I will be doing with this challenge... so about 25 games away ^^'. I will be playing KH 3D next week (or soon after that) just because I can't wait that long ^^' but I will be replaying it (and doing a 100% run) for the end of my challenge since I'm playing the KH games in story order.

Xx_Kares_xX

Yes but ill be joining you on the FFIX, X and maybe XII in the meantime. Oh I also have War of the Lions. So that's four I will be joining you in. 

Yep celebrity status has gotten me places :P

Anyway you playing FF9 straight after FF8? 

The PS2 trilogy. I have completed the first and a good bit into the second.

I think I got other ratchet and clanks from Playstations plus but I can't remember. Also I these are my first time playing this saga and I am so happy that they are amazing!

I grew up with Jak and Daxter instead of this and Sly. 

Well I'm onto Disc 3 of Final Fantasy VIII.. and my god.. is this game boring. Just god awful pacing, lame characters with no development multiple plot CONVENIENCES (not even well developed enough to be plot points) broken combat, an uncreative world and a really good soundtrack. Like I've said before this challenge has really opened my eyes to the series and changed my opinion on a lot of the games... and FFVIII... is now probably in my bottom three final fantasy games of all time. (well, main series games anyway).

I KIND of get why some people like it.. I bet a lot of people played it as teenagers so they could relate to all the teenage angst that Squall gives off. (And actually I kind of like Squall's character when he's NOT being a whiny brat) but besides him and Laguna (who if you notice must have been a huge inspiration for how they made Zack's character in Crisis Core) all the other characters are AWFUL! They have less development than the warriors of light from the first Final Fantasy, you know, the game where all the characters are completely mute?

Gah... I better stop now before I go on a huge rant...let's hope the rest of the game goes fairly quickly... I know the rest of the game should be easy because I have the right items to make me literally invincible (BROKEN GAMEPLAY) so it will hopefully go quickly.  Seriously.. you know you're game is sad when you're Card MINI GAME is more fun than the entirety of your main game.

I love FFVIII :P You couldn't convince me not to like it. It is one of my favourite games of all time. Admitedly the game is easy, but most FF games are. Especially when you know everything about them! Imagine playing it without using the internet etc. I've had many discussions about it with many other users, generally people don't like it. I think it's mainly because it was the game after VII. People expected a clone of VII. First time I played it I was 8, so nope, no teenage angst to relate to Squall with. One reason I like Squall is because he is not a typical "Let's save the world! It's the right thing to do" boyscout. I'd liked the whole military seed thing. The train part with the president was really cool, for instance. The music gives me a fuking erection! To go into details about characters: Crap characters: Selphie-not much to say about her, naive and annoying. Quistis- pretty boring character ....... Can't think of others for this list. Characters I like: Squall- for many reasons Seifer- I enjoyed his rivalry with Squall Ultimecia - Although not actually seen until the last part of the game, her influence on the story is much more evident than someone like Sephiroth's. Though, her motives could've been better developed. I mean, there's no real reason for her wanting to stop time other than 'becoming a god', but then again that objective is shared by many villians in the series. Zell - his hot-headedness is funny. Plus I like'd the fact he used martial arts. Laguna - funny, realistic The castle is my favourite 'dungeon' of any FF game I've played. Not mention it's music. My god, the music! And the end of the day, I'm sick of being the only person defending the game, hence why I'm not bothered to write a lengthy reply.irishdude199210

I love hearing other people's opinions, and I love debating even if nothing comes of it (Unless it's something I debateheavily... like civil rights and other political stuff.. that ALWAYS leaves me pissed off, but I think that's the same with most people). The thing is there is nothing wrong with having different tastes. I wil lhave a much more thorough write up of FFVIII in the future but, needless to say, I disagree with pretty much everything you said. The problem with FFVIII (well it has LOTS of problems) but the overarching problem is they had a lot of good ideas that they had NO IDEA how to implement them properly (like Final Fantasy II.. only VIII is far more disapointing because they weren't a new company anymore). I actually really used to like FFVIII as well... but this whole playthrough I've been struggling to remember why... I really can only find a few redeeming qualities.. and literally the ONLY thing keeping me going is nostalgia/the challenge as a whole.

If it makes you feel any better... FFVIII is in my opinion the worst Final Fantasy game that I could still reccomend to someone... if that makes any sense. I know there IS a market for people who would enjoy this game.. but it's certainly not me.. or even the majority.

Oh and I hate to do this, but I have to say upfront... FFVIII is known for it's 'love story' when it's one of the weakest in the series... Hell FFIV and FFVI had better love stories.. not to mention FFX and, my favorite love story in the series, FFIX.

They haven't even made great strides into emulating the normal DS yet have they? I've heard numerous bad things about the emulators out there, not to mention that PSP still doesnt have an emulator, so the chance of 3DS getting one soon seems kind of slim doesn't it? The back of the game says 'Over 70 Songs' but there are another 52 you can get as dlc.Xx_Kares_xX