I played this game a lot and also got frustrated a lot. One of my worse experiences was completing the earth cave and having enough health I didnt bother to save with a tent. On the way back to Melmond I got hit with a large group of undead. They paralyzed me so much I actually died and it took about 20 turns to do it. The whole time I'm yelling at the TV but they did not hear. They just stayed paralyzed the entire fight and then were gone. Didnt feel like replaying the entire earth gave over again. So I took a break for about a week. The next time I remembered to use a tent immediately. Also the save system on the original game stinks. I'm glad they fixed it for the re-release versions.
This was a cool run, opened my eyes as to why step routes are so important in actual speedruns of this. I might do this for the pixel remaster or something. Maybe even the Origins version if I can get my PS2 or PS3 to work again. haha
@@xmichaud if you skip the zeus gaunlet with the golem fight, you can pick it up after in another chest after the nightmare. not sure of the other ones.
I think I did this run over a year ago... But I'm pretty sure they I didn't. I don't hit up the PoP in most of my runs actually. It's generally not very fast.
@@shanezell gotcha. I think all of the ones I've watched so far you have so I was curious. Lots of hours of entertainment! Hopefully I can catch one of your live streams at some point. ☺️
And IMO this category has the potential to be pretty popular and "accessible" (idk what word to use really) for newcomers who aren't familiarized with step routes and other stuff.
It could be pretty difficult to grab every chest of you don't know where they all are. The basic idea of just fumbling around through the game and hoping for the best maybe... But a lot of deaths will happen that way.
@@shanezell Fair enough. Would be exciting to watch in a race, tho. But yeah I could see this taking some runners at least twice as long as you did here.
@@shanezell I wouldn't worry about it, unless you want to run it again. I have a very weird fixation on titles and accuracy, especially when it comes to challenge runs and speed runs , which is why I can't watch too many to them. Giving where that missed chest was it really would have added like 3 seconds, and I wasn't really expected a response. I did enjoy this video and your other runs that I'm slowly working through. I would be curious what you could do with the solo runs on the randomizer bug fixes with everything else normal.
@@maguscador9717 I'll do another run of this in time. I meant to grab the chest, but I did weird pathing in that room and forgot to get it. I may try some bug fix runs in the future, but as of right now that isn't something that I have planned.
good catch bro, i remember when he was in there and my brain said hey did he miss that one? but i have swiss cheese memory you know its all full of holes and things just go through very easy. so i was just like meh shanes a professional im sure he got it when i was looking down. its easier for me when im playing tho, because much like a pigeon i have the homing instinct.
That actually only is true based on what level he is and what enemy he is fighting. In the early game when you are fighting things like Ogres the black belt is best with a weapon until around level 7-9. When you start fighting harder enemies he needs to be even higher level. Vs Chaos the black belt is useless with fists until around level 30+ before 30 he is much stronger with the masmune.
This might just be the best party,the black mage although having the coolest pre class change sprite is a corpse you drag around with his poor absorb,he often gets crit killed in one hit,and his endgame magic is underpowered,enchanted items later in the game basically makes any player a semi competent black mage anyway with higher defense/HP.The Ninja becomes more competent late game but even with a fast spell he isn't a BB death machine and the BB,s mule ability allows one extra of the heal items to be kept in party without compromise.Red Mage brings decent HP/defense/attack power and is closer to the warriors attack ability in the first third of the game.the WM,s high level Healing spells and Exit spell more than makes up for any handicap early to midgame,basically the fast spell and magical armor/weapons is overpowered enough to break the game,the difficulty all but dries up after the Ice Cave Sorcerers with grinding levels being the main challenge........ redundancy.
Man, the RNG really hated you in the beginning. Enemies doing max damage + crits, while the fighter misses, or does minimum damage. Undead ambushes. Your entire party gets poisoned.
@@shanezell Man, I would've been cursing! I'm at 5 hours in. BOTH Agama fights were surprise attacks WITH crits. I would've harnessed my inner AVGN at those moments.
People don't know that stats (during lvl-up) are fixed with (2) random occurrences (big/small hp gain, or rare stat lvl-up ON TOP OF MANDITORY ONES) For example: Fghtr> always has str (69) at max lvl & (999 hp) Thf> always has lck (64) at max lvl & (>40 agl), lowest mdef, and trash choice if party doesn't run away from fights. Fighter (ruse) > thief (fast is option) Mnk> always has end (69) at max lvl & (999 hp) (4,6,8,10 max unarmed (1 hit/hand) hits at lvl 10,21,32,42 (hit%/32 => # hit) & lvl ==> absorb if naked) and highest mdef (206) if lvled to 49/50 BEFORE CLASS CHANGE (recommended solo lvling with ribbon/proring early game) Red> is best starter/bad finisher... lucky if all stats are (50+), spell choice is more important than other mages because 2 paths/limited selection/slow spell slot growth Recommended spells/lvl (others are inefficient) 1> cure/element/ruse 2> slow/element/mute 3> cure/element/hold 4> fast/element/conf 5> cure/element/(life , warp , slow2 ) 6> exit/element/fog2 (inv2 opens 1 (white shirt => blocks fire/death spells when equipped) armor slot) 7> arub (unique purchase, proring doesn't protect against sorcerer deathtouch)/element Wht> always has int (2nd highest, worthless) at max lvl & (highest hp, for survivability) of all mages (support/healer, masamune => other melee, chip damage with items) Blk> always has int (highest, worthless) at max lvl & (lowest str/hp), best spell slots for grinding lvls/gold in early/mid game (late game, brak/stop => tiamat1/2, nuke) he is worse than red in every metric except black spell options (and black shirt => blocks ice/time spells when equipped) **red > thief > black (endgame, fyi)** for non- speedruns! Black > thief > red (speedruns, non- tas, single segment)! Best stat in the game is evasion/dodge (blocks on-hit effects (non- spells) from connecting), absorb is 'ok' if player is lucky with turn order. Luck is very misunderstood... otherwise, thief would be loved more and for the right reasons.
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I played this game a lot and also got frustrated a lot. One of my worse experiences was completing the earth cave and having enough health I didnt bother to save with a tent. On the way back to Melmond I got hit with a large group of undead. They paralyzed me so much I actually died and it took about 20 turns to do it. The whole time I'm yelling at the TV but they did not hear. They just stayed paralyzed the entire fight and then were gone. Didnt feel like replaying the entire earth gave over again. So I took a break for about a week. The next time I remembered to use a tent immediately.
Also the save system on the original game stinks. I'm glad they fixed it for the re-release versions.
I saw you drop the gold bracelet (the silver armor that red wiz. had would have been my choice) in the white shirt room of the sky castle. 6:38:00
Sometimes I make mistakes, I have done thousands of runs.
Super late comment but love this, it takes me back to me trying to beat this game in the mid 80's.
To be honest, I would love a "remake" of FFI, where they did nothing but fix the bugs. No new art or music. Just the bugs. The nostalgia is so nice
PS1 Origins is the closest we'll get.
yes. never liked pixel remaster. i just couldnt get into the new artstyle. but still love psp and ps1 remakes beside nes classic.
There are romhacks with loads of bugfixes in them.
There's a rom hack for that
@@cgiscript415 remaster looks the closest to the original but they added a bunch of mp restore basically making mages outclassing even fighters LOL
Love this run!
This was a cool run, opened my eyes as to why step routes are so important in actual speedruns of this.
I might do this for the pixel remaster or something. Maybe even the Origins version if I can get my PS2 or PS3 to work again. haha
It was painful for me, I kept wanting to reset and fix what was going on.
Linked chest? Does that mean if I skip the first of a link, the second one will have the same item, or a different item?
The second chest will have no item, but you grabbed the item from the first chest.
Another term for "linked" chest is "duplicate" chest. So if you opened it, the other chest would have nothing in it.
@@clintonjohnson5973 awesome sauce, thanks!
I always wondered why some chest were empty when I was playing
@@xmichaud if you skip the zeus gaunlet with the golem fight, you can pick it up after in another chest after the nightmare. not sure of the other ones.
I haven't watched this through yet, but did you visit the peninsula of power? Most casual playthroughs won't know about that
I think I did this run over a year ago... But I'm pretty sure they I didn't. I don't hit up the PoP in most of my runs actually. It's generally not very fast.
@@shanezell gotcha. I think all of the ones I've watched so far you have so I was curious. Lots of hours of entertainment! Hopefully I can catch one of your live streams at some point. ☺️
@@ALM1GHTY.PEANUT He really never does
And IMO this category has the potential to be pretty popular and "accessible" (idk what word to use really) for newcomers who aren't familiarized with step routes and other stuff.
It could be pretty difficult to grab every chest of you don't know where they all are. The basic idea of just fumbling around through the game and hoping for the best maybe... But a lot of deaths will happen that way.
@@shanezell Fair enough. Would be exciting to watch in a race, tho. But yeah I could see this taking some runners at least twice as long as you did here.
What would you think about a no running challenge?
I plan on doing one eventually.
Yeah that would be cool.
You should change the title to 99% chests as you missed the chest across from the flame shield in the upper left in Gulg Mid.
You are correct, I did miss that chest...I guess I'll have to do the run all over again when I have time.
@@shanezell I wouldn't worry about it, unless you want to run it again. I have a very weird fixation on titles and accuracy, especially when it comes to challenge runs and speed runs , which is why I can't watch too many to them. Giving where that missed chest was it really would have added like 3 seconds, and I wasn't really expected a response.
I did enjoy this video and your other runs that I'm slowly working through. I would be curious what you could do with the solo runs on the randomizer bug fixes with everything else normal.
@@maguscador9717 I'll do another run of this in time. I meant to grab the chest, but I did weird pathing in that room and forgot to get it.
I may try some bug fix runs in the future, but as of right now that isn't something that I have planned.
good catch bro, i remember when he was in there and my brain said hey did he miss that one? but i have swiss cheese memory you know its all full of holes and things just go through very easy. so i was just like meh shanes a professional im sure he got it when i was looking down. its easier for me when im playing tho, because much like a pigeon i have the homing instinct.
Lol you love glitching those doors, don't you?
Yeah I do it a lot now just out of habit
The Monk hits harder if he is not equipped with weapons. For some reason, they programmed his hands as his deadliest weapons. At least for FF1 anyways
That actually only is true based on what level he is and what enemy he is fighting. In the early game when you are fighting things like Ogres the black belt is best with a weapon until around level 7-9. When you start fighting harder enemies he needs to be even higher level. Vs Chaos the black belt is useless with fists until around level 30+ before 30 he is much stronger with the masmune.
Yeah I saw you eventually did it, I just needed to stay tuned. Lol.
Did you re do it
@@cali5nia_ I have not redone this run as of yet no.
@shanezell keep cookin, love your content
Ruse on the WM in slot #1 could have helped you fight the Wizards sooner
The whm could also be hit before getting the ruse off and just dies and I have to redo the whole dungeon.
This might just be the best party,the black mage although having the coolest pre class change sprite is a corpse you drag around with his poor absorb,he often gets crit killed in one hit,and his endgame magic is underpowered,enchanted items later in the game basically makes any player a semi competent black mage anyway with higher defense/HP.The Ninja becomes more competent late game but even with a fast spell he isn't a BB death machine and the BB,s mule ability allows one extra of the heal items to be kept in party without compromise.Red Mage brings decent HP/defense/attack power and is closer to the warriors attack ability in the first third of the game.the WM,s high level Healing spells and Exit spell more than makes up for any handicap early to midgame,basically the fast spell and magical armor/weapons is overpowered enough to break the game,the difficulty all but dries up after the Ice Cave Sorcerers with grinding levels being the main challenge........ redundancy.
Man, the RNG really hated you in the beginning. Enemies doing max damage + crits, while the fighter misses, or does minimum damage. Undead ambushes. Your entire party gets poisoned.
Oh yes, that's the life in FF1. I'm used to that kind of RNG... It will happen and it won't let you forget about it lol
@@shanezell Man, I would've been cursing! I'm at 5 hours in. BOTH Agama fights were surprise attacks WITH crits. I would've harnessed my inner AVGN at those moments.
People don't know that stats (during lvl-up) are fixed with (2) random occurrences (big/small hp gain, or rare stat lvl-up ON TOP OF MANDITORY ONES)
For example:
Fghtr> always has str (69) at max lvl & (999 hp)
Thf> always has lck (64) at max lvl & (>40 agl), lowest mdef, and trash choice if party doesn't run away from fights. Fighter (ruse) > thief (fast is option)
Mnk> always has end (69) at max lvl & (999 hp) (4,6,8,10 max unarmed (1 hit/hand) hits at lvl 10,21,32,42 (hit%/32 => # hit) & lvl ==> absorb if naked) and highest mdef (206) if lvled to 49/50 BEFORE CLASS CHANGE (recommended solo lvling with ribbon/proring early game)
Red> is best starter/bad finisher... lucky if all stats are (50+), spell choice is more important than other mages because 2 paths/limited selection/slow spell slot growth
Recommended spells/lvl (others are inefficient)
1> cure/element/ruse
2> slow/element/mute
3> cure/element/hold
4> fast/element/conf
5> cure/element/(life , warp , slow2 )
6> exit/element/fog2 (inv2 opens 1 (white shirt => blocks fire/death spells when equipped) armor slot)
7> arub (unique purchase, proring doesn't protect against sorcerer deathtouch)/element
Wht> always has int (2nd highest, worthless) at max lvl & (highest hp, for survivability) of all mages (support/healer, masamune => other melee, chip damage with items)
Blk> always has int (highest, worthless) at max lvl & (lowest str/hp), best spell slots for grinding lvls/gold in early/mid game (late game, brak/stop => tiamat1/2, nuke) he is worse than red in every metric except black spell options (and black shirt => blocks ice/time spells when equipped)
**red > thief > black (endgame, fyi)** for non- speedruns! Black > thief > red (speedruns, non- tas, single segment)!
Best stat in the game is evasion/dodge (blocks on-hit effects (non- spells) from connecting), absorb is 'ok' if player is lucky with turn order. Luck is very misunderstood... otherwise, thief would be loved more and for the right reasons.