Run Start: 3:46

I cannot unsee the robots in the Mirage Tower shooting squirt guns at the party.

I always like to imagine the language you learn from the SLAB is pig Latin, and that's why you can learn it so quickly.

After seeing this, I bought the Final Fantasy game for iPad a couple of days ago. I'd never played any of the remakes, so I played it the same way I did the NES version, and everything was fine until I unlocked the Earth bonus dungeon. A couple of hours later (got lost in the forest part) I got to the 2 headed dragon. Lv. 24 and he made me look like I did NO level grinding whatsoever. Gonna have to rethink my whole fighting strategy to take this guy down. Thanks for introducing me to this remake 😊

"Literally FISTING the final boss"

Great run and commentary. I hope to see more of Gyre in the future.

Bikke's pirates wouldn't be such a big deal if the towns didn't all have ports... that existed solely to let the ONLY ship in the world, which happens to be pirate-controlled, dock safely.

This is the version I first played, so this is nice to see. Gyre is an excellent runner/commentator! :)

DragonDarch is pretty clearly set on “learn speedrun” mode. He is focused on that game like a pit bull when it sees a smaller dog.

Wowie! I need to keep that "Evil Eye" in mind, since I've started a play through of the game myself.

Basically one of my first ever RPG. I was 3 (I am 30 now...as of 2017) when I played this game. I had no idea what I was doing but I had fun! Yet older and played this game again. I enjoyed how simple and yet complex it was. It was most enjoyable beyond any other Final Fantasy game I've ever played.

This is so cool. Small retro game event, but everyone having a good time.

I just want to say no matter what happens from here , I love that you called him a "fighter" not a warrior

"Honorary squidbirds." No one in human history has ever said that before, I'm guessing!

1:51:00 The reason why it was a big concern is because it is the one and only monster that the creator of D&D (E. Gary Gygax) made whole cloth. Everything else had obvious inspirations, but the beholder had no such root. As such TSR was very litigious about the usage of its appearance without license. WotC (They bought TSR in 1999) still is to a degree, as well.

I remember taking a picture of Warmech and sending it in to Nintendo Power when I was a kid. He then proceeded to completely wreck my party...and I didn't get anything for the picture as it was a drawing, not a guaranteed prize... edit: I also remember stumbling upon the power on Kyzoku trick as a kid (didn't know anything about coding or anything so never thought to do RNG mapping) and using it to grind early gold.

Good run and commentary

Gyre is my favorite runner.

"In Dan, we trust"

That prelude. Kreygasm

1:17:57 "what ho, wizard! might you cast us a spell?" "I CAST FIST!"

"How do you know Tiamat is a girl?" Because we're familiar with mythology. And Dungeons and Dragons.

1:30:00 Bahamut just wants a little tail.

I'm surprised DragonDarch joined this speedrun stream.

Watching runs like these make me interested to get into speedruns, but then I remember how my luck 'behaves' when I am either running a D&D game (monsters barely make save DCs, and about a 30% hit rate for strong monsters, low CR monsters don't seem to be able to miss) compared to me playing a game (can't hit the ground to save my life, saves might as well be impossible, but I barely roll lower than 17 (on a 20-sided dice) on skills that could expand the story. Speedruns are just to terrifying as they can also rely on luck...

back in the days of the NES most games were not very forgiving with save points and game difficulty, partially due to the storage capacity of cartidge games. Let's thank Nintendo for creating the save feature to begin with. I like to think this is partially why one of the graves in Elfheim says "Here lies Link."

I'm looking do a speed run on this and was wondering what system you are playing on in this because I looks like an snes controller in your hand but can't tell

TK, that you?

I tried so hard to complete this port at Level 14 with just the items available in the original. Every single boss was doable at the levels I was at- except for Chaos. That HP boost was what forced me to use Giant Tonics- I could deal about 8000 damage before Cure 4 hit without em, MP tanked shortly after, which killed me without items that didn't exist in the original. Still killed the game at Level 14, just hated relaxing the rules of my challenge for just the last boss.

Hey, Thief is... Uh.... Ok I don't actually have anything, I just really like the class. Thief has been and will always be my favorite class to use in any rpg game.

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ELF HOR. Hmmmmm that name sounds interesting... 🤔

the oxyale has made me wonder for a long time, whether the originator meant it to be pronounced ox yale, like it's some kind of strange object, or oxy ale like a drink that oxygenates. hmm..

So they murder a dude, rip out his eye, give it to a random hermit woman, then bring an elf a cup of coffee so they can borrow his keys? ... Seems legit.

It's fashionable and/or easy to throw shade on Nasir and how broken the original game was. That's mistaken. When you literally have a one-person dev team, doing fairly complex computational logic, all in assembly language for a CPU without a multiply opcode, it's pretty amazing to put together a game fun enough to become a classic. I suspect that there were a lot of noop subroutines written, either initially to get a playable copy, or later on, to get everything to fit into program ROM. Deadlines+basic tools=compromises.

How is he autorunnin in battles?

How do you know Tiamat's a girl? I kid you not, it's in the music. In every remake of FFI, they added a boss theme, 2 fiend themes, and a final boss theme. One fiend theme is used for the males (Lich and Kraken), and the other is used for the females (Marailith and Tiamat).

Tiamat being female has to do with the fact she is the "Queen of Dragons" or "Mother of Dragons," as she is also known in D&D. Also, no Warmech, Agama grind, or Out of Bounds Bat, so run invalidated. :3

I would rather grind my team up and re roll again to gain massive exp than to face the earth cavern than to go in the earth cavern bare

Interesting uses 2 red mages that's really smart I'd replace one with black mage tho so the story flows better but having 2 allows you to heal multiple times in the party. Pretty Geinus

Host tryed his best to read, gotta appreciate the attempt.

24:55 Wow, that was painful to listen to.

To me, the absolute definitive version of Final Fantasy 1 is the Playstation version. It corrected the vast majority of programming errors, had OPTIONAL quality of life tweaks, and yet stayed extremely true to the original gameplay design. The problem I have with the GBA/PSP/3DS version is that the changes they made really trivialized the difficulty, even with the enemy buffs, and made magic users absolutely ridiculously OP. Why ration your high level spells when it's all one magic pool? I really, really dislike the Dawn of Souls+ remakes. Except when I'm watching speedruns of them.

You'd figure for as hard as Warmech is, it should have dropped something badass for the party like Adamant Armor or a shield or something. Straight XP for it feels a little anticlimactic.

couch did a good job with the announcer. announcer, This was 2016, and I hope you could go back and laugh at yourself a bit, as you were a bit disruptive at times, and the Tiamat comment was pretty bad.

That tiamat comment was stupid.

LOL and all the people who think men can be women who got mad at the tiamat comment. Get over it.

>white mage named minwu this guy knows his FF. Minwu was the homie in ff2.

I am using First Slot : Black Mage Second Slot : Thief Third Slot : Black Mage Fourth Slot : White Mage What are your opinions? Has anyone else operated this way? I find a lot of fights with (2-4) Horses and 1 Ogre and X3 Worms. I think this route may give harder encounters in the wild, but I am not 100% certain. It's just what I've encountered. Maybe try it yourself. Tell me what you think. Especially when you get Black Mage 1 :Slow, Temper, Blizzard Black Mage 2 : Dark, Temper, Blizzard

Dear Gyre, Went to Star Wars Land to blow some shit up, and then take a nice oil bath afterwards with my buddy C3PO. It's going to feel so good! Your Humble Adversary, ~WARMECH~

The host sounds completely plastered...

Every 4 seconds : *SNIFF*. Ruined.

>anomynous Please, get someone that knows how to speak properly next time. It was painful to hear this guy try to read.

Errr...timer starts as soon as you have control. They need to add like another minute for the time he spent naming the charachters. Also 1:07:07 he's wrong. In the NES version, if you use a walk through walls hack, you CAN get the rod without having the ruby. He's either misinformed or lying. 1:14:00 is also wrong. The nes version ALWAYS put the status afflicted members in the last row. I don't know if this guy just never played the NES version, or if he's just bullshitting his way through commentary. He really looks uneducated in this video tbh. 1:18:00 They are called Wiz in NES game, not mage. And also the second form of the Wiz is first encountered in Ice cave, not ordeals. LIke seriously, how are these idiots getting so many things wrong about a game they apparently know so much about? 1:22:40 nope wrong again. The earth shrine has 4 bosses. Also the optional dungeons have 10, 20, 30 and 40 floors respectively. Seriously, do these idiots know ANYTHING about this game? Have they even played it before this? It seriously destroys your credibility when you don't know what you're talking about and just make shit up. Seriously, why do commentary if everything you say is wrong? Totally ruined the video for me, had to stop watching. Seriously, if you're going to run events like this, please make sure your runners know about the game they are playing.

BOO! This game doesn't belong here. It's such a gross bastardization of the original, and completely too easy. Since the DoS build of the game is so easy, this should have been a solo character run.