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Welcome to Blaugust 2nd and the first day of our Final Fantasy 1 playthrough!
Garland is the first boss the Warriors of Light meet in Final Fantasy 1. Once a hero, he has kidnapped Princess Sarah and taken her to the Chaos Shrine, there to do evil things. What happened to make him this way? Our Final Fantasy playthrough starts with our party meeting this fallen angel…
It’s the first of Blaugust! The week where a lot of game bloggers come together and… blog… to show the world just how much fun typing can be 🙂
So, for this month, I’ll be playing the first Final Fantasy game. I never had a NES, so I never played it when it first came out. My first Final Fantasy game was Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, which wasn’t even really a Final Fantasy game.
The remastered versions of the first three games (none of which were originally released in the United States) have been “pixel remastered” for the PC and released on Steam. So, for the next thirty one days, I will be journeying through Final Fantasy for the first time, and blogging about it here. We’ll see what other things come up along the way. I hope you’ll join me.
This will not be a walkthrough of Final Fantasy, I promise… well, not only that.
I like my main character, Teal Green, just fine. Well, most of the time. She started out as a hard light controller — a deputy of the Green Lantern corp. But I soured on all the constant comboing and didn’t feel I contributed much DPS. With wild abandon, I tried a few different DPS options, finally settling on Munitions when it came out. I later changed over to become an electricity-based healer, and that is where I am today. My DPS is … reasonable. Team Spode (the league I belong to) is usually at the tops of the DPS charts, and I’m usually third or fourth behind Lord Spode’s ice tank and Stingheal’s sorcery healer.
DC Universe Online has had a problem. It’s the most popular of Daybreak’s MMOs, but its spandex tights flies under the radar of most MMO players. Recent content dumps (called “episodes”) are still very crowded. Recent changes to show exactly how many players are in each zone (and across how many instances) shows that the most recent hub areas support hundreds of players at any time of the day — and this isn’t counting the Nintendo Switch players, who have their own sets of servers.
I’m a sucker for tactical strategy RPGs. Most people will know of X-COM, or Final Fantasy Tactics, or the Fire Emblem series. I’ve played them all. There’s something about having the time to think of some really devastating moves to turn the battles around…