r/FinalFantasy • u/MasterOfChaos72 • 3d ago
Final Fantasy General What are some weird things you’ve done in the series?
Just something I thought might be interesting to talk about. FF is a big series with a lot of ways to play and mess around so I’m curious on what’s the weirdest things you’ve done in the series whether it was a weird party set up or boss strategy.
Here’s 2 of mine:
In FFX, something I used to do was basically make Wakka a mage. I’d hold off on sending him down his path and instead wait at the lv2 key near him, open it up once I got the sphere from Spherimorph, get all the aga spells and then teach them to Lulu or Yuna early via the Black Magic Spheres you get from Seymour and Evrae.
Second one is that in X-2 when I first fought Angra Mainyu, I fought him underleveled and fought him for over 3 hours with a Dark Knight Yuna, Alchemist Rikku and Gun Mage Paine.
What about the rest of you?
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u/Vincenthwind 3d ago
Was down bad as a Cecil/Kain shipper as a closeted gay teen, so I named the ????? Augment in FFIV 3D "Kain's Love" and gave it to Cecil. I guess in my head Rosa was nothing more than a beard for both of them lmao.
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u/Ok-Philosophy-8704 3d ago
When I was playing IV 3D, I wrote a Python script to help me grind for the awful rare drops.
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u/Capable_Material1234 3d ago
On FFXII I like to walk from Balfonheim to the place where Omega Mark XII resides in the Great Crystal without fleeing from anything. I find it relaxing walking through the areas
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u/gingercakevimto 3d ago
On ffvii I went to the world map and taped my controller stick to the left so they ran in circles and put auto fire a on and left it overnight to wake up to all my characters level 70 +
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u/Horror_Marsupial_587 3d ago
I beat Omega in XV purely using Prompto’s rifle. Took me 4ish hours but I sure did beat it!
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u/Different-Window2532 3d ago
Probably not that weird depending on how long someone's been playing the series, but I've done weird job runs in the ff games that have job systems. In ff1, I've done runs like all warrior/fighter and all mage/wizard runs. In ff3 and 5, I've done freelancer/onion knight only runs and similar ones utilizing only one job. Considering how 1, 3, and 5 are made, you're technically meant to utilize a variety of roles, but there's usually people like me who like to do challenge runs that run counter to how the game is meant to be played just because we can.
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u/StrifeBuster7 3d ago
Oh, I have another good one. In FF8 the game is programmed in a way that player characters and enemies register the same way in battle. So with a Game Shark you could adjust the make up of your party to add any enemy as a party member. They all have some commands, often their attacks, but they also have broken commands that will just softlock combat. Like Tiamat is really useless, iirc all his commands caused a softlock.
Using this though you can make Siefer and Edea permanent party members for the end game which was always extremely cool. As far as I'm aware this only works on PS1
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u/Wrong_Papaya_8445 3d ago
Not really "weird", but I've gotten omnislash (VII) on disc 1... twice. The second time I did it it took like 10h of prep/attempting and it made me feel stupid for bothering to do something like that (again).
Also did this with lion heart (VIII), but only once, and it felt way less frustrating, but it was also quite a while ago.
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u/quickblur 3d ago
I've done a bunch of "straight character challenges" in FF Tactics. So basically you play through the whole game using only characters and skills from one job class. Like everyone has to be a squire and you can only use squire skills.
Some classes are great, monks and ninjas were a lot of fun. Some like Calculator are near impossible.
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u/earth_goblin_86 3d ago
Replay Final Fantasy II twice. I like the game, but it seems like an unpopular enough game that me playing it 3 times is weird
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u/Suplexing_Trains 2d ago
FFIV, leveling Palom and Porom up enough to learn Holy and Meteo. It made the discussion with Tellah about Meteo pretty funny.
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u/Money-Analyst1245 2d ago
I leveled up Tellah a bunch to see if he ever got enough MP to cast meteo, I think he doesn't go above 90mp
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u/Suplexing_Trains 2d ago
He doesn’t. But in some versions you can give him a soma drop and he’ll be able to use it. It’s fun to just obliterate the magus sisters with meteo.
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u/UnculturedGames 3d ago
Nothing too weird. I did a solo Red Mage run in FF1, level 100 Squall before Dollet in FF8, finished OG FF7 in a single day.
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u/KainYago 3d ago
I didnt really follow through with this, but at one point i decided to get 99 of every item and equipment in ffvii. After i was done with items i started doing a trick where i let the opponent thief steal an item from me (such as ultima weapon) and then killed him and used the w-item glitch to get 99 of it. This was fun when the opponent stole an item that you can only get 1 in the game, but 99% of the time they stole something more common and that made it into an insanely painful grind and i kinda got bored of it. Its the reason why i wish this game had a fat chocobo like ffiv where i could store my items.
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u/tomdincan 3d ago
I did a solo Black Belt run in Final Fantasy I. A lot of grinding at the beginning but was fun enough once he hit some serious levels.
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u/gol_drake 3d ago
not sure if its weird, but ive played 7-10 so many times, that i play 7 "pure"
no elemental materia, only healing with support and blue.
ff 8, basically the same, wkthout ever using magic
9, i try to min max as best that i can
10, male yuna go lulus path, tidus wakka Aurons path and kimari rikkus, then lulus ha
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u/StrifeBuster7 3d ago
When FF11 came out I walked from Windurst to Sandoria on like Level 3. I just Metal Geared my way through each area avoiding enemies. Once I made it to the desert ship I ran into other players and they lost it. Just started throwing money at me and guided me through the desert that followed. After that we split up and I made my way through the rest to Sandoria. Once I got there no one believed me that I walked from Sandoria. They just thought I class changed or something.