Topic: Final fantasy discussion thread

35 hours into this, just started chapter 14. I've got all the missable trophies so far, even that godforsaken Pull Up trophy. Kinda looking forward to playing this on Hard mode when I'm done for the trophy just because the story won't be interrupted with spending 45+ mins on stupid mini games.

Biggest tip I can give anyone is spend time in the Colleseum leveling up. I didn't leave the Colleseum in c14 until I was L40+ on all characters and had mastered most materia. The battles are so easy that you can just equip whatever weapon/armour has the most materia slots to aid levelling up. And it helps you build Gil as well because 1/3 fights will give you a cash reward.

I'd recommend playing this section on the PS4 remote play app on your phone as well (or even better, Vita is you have one). That way you can do other stuff (watch Netflix) whilst just spamming this area subconsciously.
I fully expect to have all characters on L50 by the end of the game.

Anyway, great game. And I'm pretty sure this will end up being only my fifth ever Plat trophy.

So i touched upon this in a previous post but what do you think could FFVII Remake really be a sequel as well as a remake, it would give calling the game FINAL FANTASY VII Remake a whole new meaning

https://www.gamespot.com/amp-articles/how-final-fantasy-7-adv...

@Ralizah Yeah I was saying that to my mate (who doesn't have the game) that I wonder what the game would have been like if it a ps5 only game. I've not finished the game yet but i can't get my head round how they are going to do the the rest of game, especially as there is so much content to get through. The Npc's are going to be in 8 bit graphics at this rate lol.

I'm about to go over the wall too. I wanna get Leviathan and i think ive git ine battle intel to go. But I'm also pretty bored of the Colleseum and just wanna continue the game. I've never been a fan of the amount of grinding in games as this is when is stops being fun.

Can someone help me through share play to do the pull-ups? I've already tried a lot on my first playthrough. I've gone back to Chapter 14 and now I can't even do the first one after Andrea. PS account in the signature. Please help me with this as there's no point for me to try other trophies if this one will always remain undone. I have a pretty good connection so it should work well

@Matroska sadly my connection is crap so i'm afraid i would be of no help, not to mention it took my over 40 minutes for me to beat Jules (on like my 4th time trying no less)

i know it's hard, maybe a bit too hard and i hope someone can help or you can get it done yourself

of course i don't want to be the party pooper here but can you gain trophies when doing share play?, you might want to look it up just in case, no point having someone else do it if you don't get the trophy

@FullbringIchigo Thanks. And apparently yes you can. I've eventually got to Jules but my best ever score - not just this playthrough but in all of them - is 24 vs 41 so I'm not too hopeful about me doing it. I hate it when JRPGs have minigames that have nothing to do with the normal gameplay. I could do hard mode with only 2 characters at most before I could do this.

@Matroska it's all about speed and rhythm and as long as you keep the rhythm it should be OK, just watch Tifa, if she stops moving during the reps you're going too slow

@FullbringIchigo Yeah I know the tips. I press the wrong button even when I'm saying the sequence out loud. Or I press it too early or late. I'm not even improving as I try more. That's why I'm asking about Share Play. I must've tried about 20 times at least now and my peak is to get slightly over half what Jules does. Hard Mode is way easier than this.

@Matroska @Arugula it took me a while too but eventually i got it

just stick with it

@Matroska At least it’s not FFIX’s jump rope. I just do not see how anybody could have enough patience to get that trophy. Honestly FFX’s thunder plains lightning was seriously annoying too. The series is no stranger to frustrating minigames!

@nessisonett They definitely seemed annoying at the time. Now I'm ending round 1 of pull-ups with my 6 to Jules' 20, I'd absolutely love to be nearly struck by lightning 100(?) times. Nothing like some slightly homoerotic pull-ups to put things in perspective. 😅

Anyway, this is becoming a depressingly common sight.

@Matroska I can try at some point for you (I’ve never tried game sharing before) but don’t know when I’ll be able to try.

I’m just onto the final chapter now. The previous chapter was well done with new bits and old bits. I managed to spend enough time in the VR simulator to get revive levelled up but the last Chadley mission is destroying me! Will try that again after finishing the main story.

@Matroska I'm almost there as I think I got 42 and drew with him. I'm doing in short bursts of about 3 - 5 goes then moving onto something else with the game.

I did the final required battle intel to unlock Leviathan and defeated it, so i think I'm ready to go over the wall now.

Johnny, one thing that can be missable before you go over the wall (not tagged you specifically because of the not-really-a spoiler);

Ah balls, didn't realise I wouldn't see Charley any more after C14. That's the one thing I forgot/didn't do for side missions. Dammit.

@icecube you will see him in Shinra HQ don't worry

@nessisonett The thunder jumping had a latency issue due to the emulation. It was already only a few frames to jump on PS2, that was whittled down to a couple of frames on the Vita - less on the PS4 version as you had the latency of your own setup and the additional frame using the ds4 prior to the mark 2. It was impossible unless you found the sweet spot trigger on the map you can time yourself and repeat 200 times.

I hit 80 odd at one point but a fight happened and threw my timing out. Hated that one. These are the worst Trophies in my opinion, and no doubt @Matroska will remember this for a long time to come if all the other Trophies are done.

@themcnoisy the FFIX 1000 jump rope one comes to mind

@FullbringIchigo that was right at the start too.

Also wasn't there an RNG trophy for FF13-2 on a slot machine? I tried that for 4 or 5 hours and never got it. Really dampened the experience.

@themcnoisy thing is honestly i don't let trophies get in the way of my experience with games, i only have 7 Platinums and that's only because i really wanted them but that's rare, normally i couldn't care less what trophies i get

they really are unimportant to me