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Topic	Andy plays Final Fantasy V (Blind playthrough)
andylt 11/30/20 5:08:59 PM #117:	Well, I feel like a right idiot after beating Gogo. The answer was, of course, to mimic him by doing literally nothing. I believe I did briefly consider this the first time round but the timer was forefront of my mind. Also you have to do nothing for two full minutes, I was sure I'd gotten it wrong and decided to just let the timer run out anyway. Phew, gotten the Mime class (is this the last job?), and Gogo Banishes himself to the abyss... maybe we'll meet him again in the rift! Back to Istory Falls, I really love the aesthetic of the opening room. Water cascading to look like staircases and the waterfalls around, it's all really cool looking. Sadly it's just the one room and the rest of the dungeon is a bit more mundane. One enemy, Alchymia, is a lady and a toad, and text comes up at the top about how a Maiden's Kiss wasn't used. Naturally I use a Maiden's Kiss on it and it transforms into a Red Dragon. Well, won't be doing that again. Wandering through we pick up our third Protect Ring (just one more to complete the set!), and face our first Tonberrys of the game. They work precisely as you'd expect, slowly teleporting closer to you then whacking you a whole lot. Down we go through the spike-ridden traps to find the Tablet quicker than I expected. Of course one of Exdeath's allies shows up to fight us, but Leviathan appears from behind a curtain of water, and dispatches the beast instantly. Gonna be honest, I thought Leviathan was possessed and we were gonna have to fight him there. It's a really cool entrance for him, gonna give him the edge over Bahamut in this one (as well as in IV!). When was Leviathan demoted to regular summon and Bahamut given the title of default Biggest Baddest Beast I wonder. Leviathan's design has always been cooler imo. We fight him anyway of course, and he's pretty aggressive. Slow just does not hit and he loves to repeat Tidal Wave multiple times in a row. We lose, I gear up a bit better and try again. Equipping Black Mage Lenna with the Magus Rod is the best move I make here, as each Thundaga does over 7K damage this way. The rest focus on keeping everyone buffed and alive, and she takes him down pretty quickly. Leviathan get! Still some more summons left though... After collecting our next three weapons (Fire Lash, Yoichi's Bow, and Apollo's Harp) we head to the last of the tablet dungeons, the Great Sea Trench. This is ostensibly the fire dungeon, and it's a pretty inventive idea to place it at the bottom of the ocean and use magma in place of fire. The enemies aren't fire-based at all though, none of them are named and they all have vibes of death. Krile's Sage Staff pretty much one shots anything here, and turns out Mime is way more useful in this game than Tactics, as you can equip three commands in addition to Mimic itself. Neat!! We learn Doom, Float over some magma and reach... the Dwarven Kingdom! Now this is a surprise. Dwarves have been mentioned a few times but I couldn't see how they'd fit in this game. Turns out they... kinda don't. There's only five of them and they don't seem to do much. Still, neat to see them! One of them is digging a tunnel around the world and the map pulls out to show where he is, I think it's just a tease for the Phantom Village if I hadn't found it already. One mentions taking a Magic Lamp back to where it came from, too. Beyond the 'kingdom' is a seemingly useless spring, going into the corner triggers the blue healing flash but nobody actually gets healed. The last proper room is easy enough to figure out, the only problem is one of the enemies being very fond of using Possess, which removes Float from the affected character and hits them with magma damage the second we leave battle even if we don't move. Into the tablet room we face three little piggies, and I soon confirm my suspicions that we have to kill all three pretty much simultaneously. They really pose next to no threat, Delta Attack is their only really harmful one and they only do that when I mess up and kill one too soon. Graviga is very useful here, and they soon go down. Last tablet get! We stroll back through and pick up the remaining legendary weapons (Gaia Bell, Rune Axe and Holy Lance), then somebody helpfully informs us where to go next. There's been an earthquake down south and we must use the submarine to reach the underwater volcano it came from. Guess that's my next destination. I'm glad there's more to do, I'm not ready to go to the ending just yet, having way too much fun! --- Slowly becoming a Final Fantasy aficionado. Currently playing: FFV Congrats to azuarc, Guru Champion 2020! <cite>andylt posted [p:947775394] in Andy plays... [t:79112730]...</cite> <quote>Well, I feel like a right idiot after beating Gogo. The answer was, of course, to mimic him by doing literally nothing. I believe I did briefly consider this the first time round but the timer was forefront of my mind. Also you have to do nothing for two full minutes, I was sure I'd gotten it wrong and decided to just let the timer run out anyway. Phew, gotten the Mime class (is this the last job?), and Gogo Banishes himself to the abyss... maybe we'll meet him again in the rift! Back to Istory Falls, I really love the aesthetic of the opening room. Water cascading to look like staircases and the waterfalls around, it's all really cool looking. Sadly it's just the one room and the rest of the dungeon is a bit more mundane. One enemy, Alchymia, is a lady and a toad, and text comes up at the top about how a Maiden's Kiss wasn't used. Naturally I use a Maiden's Kiss on it and it transforms into a Red Dragon. Well, won't be doing that again. Wandering through we pick up our third Protect Ring (just one more to complete the set!), and face our first Tonberrys of the game. They work precisely as you'd expect, slowly teleporting closer to you then whacking you a whole lot. Down we go through the spike-ridden traps to find the Tablet quicker than I expected. Of course one of Exdeath's allies shows up to fight us, but Leviathan appears from behind a curtain of water, and dispatches the beast instantly. Gonna be honest, I thought Leviathan was possessed and we were gonna have to fight him there. It's a really cool entrance for him, gonna give him the edge over Bahamut in this one (as well as in IV!). When was Leviathan demoted to regular summon and Bahamut given the title of default Biggest Baddest Beast I wonder. Leviathan's design has always been cooler imo. We fight him anyway of course, and he's pretty aggressive. Slow just does not hit and he loves to repeat Tidal Wave multiple times in a row. We lose, I gear up a bit better and try again. Equipping Black Mage Lenna with the Magus Rod is the best move I make here, as each Thundaga does over 7K damage this way. The rest focus on keeping everyone buffed and alive, and she takes him down pretty quickly. Leviathan get! Still some more summons left though... After collecting our next three weapons (Fire Lash, Yoichi's Bow, and Apollo's Harp) we head to the last of the tablet dungeons, the Great Sea Trench. This is ostensibly the fire dungeon, and it's a pretty inventive idea to place it at the bottom of the ocean and use magma in place of fire. The enemies aren't fire-based at all though, none of them are named and they all have vibes of death. Krile's Sage Staff pretty much one shots anything here, and turns out Mime is way more useful in this game than Tactics, as you can equip three commands in addition to Mimic itself. Neat!! We learn Doom, Float over some magma and reach... the Dwarven Kingdom! Now this is a surprise. Dwarves have been mentioned a few times but I couldn't see how they'd fit in this game. Turns out they... kinda don't. There's only five of them and they don't seem to do much. Still, neat to see them! One of them is digging a tunnel around the world and the map pulls out to show where he is, I think it's just a tease for the Phantom Village if I hadn't found it already. One mentions taking a Magic Lamp back to where it came from, too. Beyond the 'kingdom' is a seemingly useless spring, going into the corner triggers the blue healing flash but nobody actually gets healed. The last proper room is easy enough to figure out, the only problem is one of the enemies being very fond of using Possess, which removes Float from the affected character and hits them with magma damage the second we leave battle even if we don't move. Into the tablet room we face three little piggies, and I soon confirm my suspicions that we have to kill all three pretty much simultaneously. They really pose next to no threat, Delta Attack is their only really harmful one and they only do that when I mess up and kill one too soon. Graviga is very useful here, and they soon go down. Last tablet get! We stroll back through and pick up the remaining legendary weapons (Gaia Bell, Rune Axe and Holy Lance), then somebody helpfully informs us where to go next. There's been an earthquake down south and we must use the submarine to reach the underwater volcano it came from. Guess that's my next destination. I'm glad there's more to do, I'm not ready to go to the ending just yet, having way too much fun! --- Slowly becoming a Final Fantasy aficionado. Currently playing: FFV Congrats to azuarc, Guru Champion 2020!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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