The Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters Introduce NASTY Challenge Runs!!

Nobou Uematsu is a composing genius! His music fed my childhood. Final Fantasy will always hold an incredibly huge spot in my heart.

The original Western port of Final Fantasy IV(II) on Super Nintendo removed most of the character-specific actions like Darkness and Pray, and severely nerfed the overall difficulty; at this point JRPGs hadn't taken off in the West like they had in Japan so Square assumed it was because we were too dum dum for them and so gave us a watered-down version of their FF IV. The Pixel Remaster is based off the original Japanese release.

I don't get why people choose to play JRPGs and complain about it having story. One of the main things JRPGs have been praised for since... checks notes Final Fantasy 1.

Unskippable cutscenes are kind of an old Square Soft/ENIX trademark.

Regarding FFIV, you're remembering the FF2 US version, which greatly simplified the abilities characters had and reduced enemy damage IIRC, as well as slightly highlighting some of the hidden pathways and the like. In pretty much every release since then more abilities were given back on the US side, and sometimes added (like with the GBA version).

The craziest part of Prelude to Light, that classic Final Fantasy intro, is that Uematsu basically wrote it at the last second and didn't think much about it. The fact that it might genuinely be his greatest work is astounding

Those squid monsters were called mind flayers in the original

Your warrior got that much exp because the rest was dead, so he got all of it instead.

@ryukahr needs to start doing audio book narration

Love it! Now where's our ff6 randomizer 😅😅

I missed all the FF games before VI, so I'd love to see a longplay series on each of them. These games are gorgeous, though. I especially love the effects and how they keep that low bit aesthetic, but are obviously being done with much stronger hardware.

With these modifiers, it make it so a casual can maxi-grind primo spots and turn off encounters in crappy areas, or say, for example, en route to a boss fight. I like it because it allows everyone to choose their own play style.

The cutscenes already existed in the GBA version. You are able to skip the cutscenes in the GBA if you start a game, watch the first cutscene, save, reset and start a new game.

This is actually really cool, I never played these games before but I'm really looking forward to being able to with modern options

4x exp all white mages. The possibilities are endless. Maybe just a boss rush mode on FF6. Sounds fun.

I've been waiting for this video!

So I decided to buy the games just to try out these boost options. I did the challenge. No random encounters, 4x XP, 4x Gil. I know there are some repeatable mobs in the game (if you zone out and back in) but I did not repeat ANY battles except for the one in the Ice Cavern where you have to fight it twice after falling twice. I did clear 100% of all chests and did all fixed encounters exactly once (except for one which made no difference in my level). By Chaos, I was level 37. I had to fight him 15 times before RNG favored me and I won. The rest of the game was very easy (Knight/Master/Red/Red) but the last boss was a HUGE difficulty spike. I did eventually win so I know it's possible, but the spike for the last boss was just silly. I wish it scaled in difficulty more fluidly.

Would love to see you starting from the first all of the way through to 6, don't mind the details around the challenge, would be fun seeing you playing

I just now realized I had never actually seen the world map of FF4 all at once until this very YouTube video. I've beaten that game a few times times and played the Free Enterprise randomizer dozens of times, but not ONCE have I actually looked up a world map.

Nobuo Uematsu is my favorite musician/composer I'm a huge metal head, but dancing mad is my jam above anything else. And the black mages albums are some of my favorite albums. My second favorite song of his is battle on the big bridge.