Avenged Probably

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Platinum! Game of the year for me this was.

I think you're expected to be around that by the end of 3, so by the time you've done the chapter and however many side quests on the way you should be good.

See, I camped at every opportunity and only went to a hotel if I had a lot of exp stacked up and I was still about 10 levels higher than I needed to be for the last mission.

I take it back, you can max fishing pretty quickly. Once you get good equipment and get the knack down, it's really easy. Survival is the worst. Just use the car, Chocobos and fast travel as little as possible and you'll be fine though.

Do it every chance you get though, I'm assuming you're still into trophies? Don't be like me and be left grinding fishing when everything else was done ages ago :/

Just run away and dodge if you need to, fights are contained in a red circle on the mini map, once you've passed the perimeter they will lose interest in you generally. I can remember, but use whatever level the story mission (red one) has as a guide. I did a bunch of side quests every time and was always above that number and never had any issues.

'Animals' are always around, but 'Demons' only come out at night. You will have a bad time at night until you're almost 30 - although it's pretty easy to escape fights if you get in a sticky situation.

Ohh fair enough, I spent ages trying to work that out It is fun to play with, and certainly open to abuse if you don't mind sacrificing some of the better items. This is pretty much the only FF where I've found items to be of use all the way though, usually they lose purpose once you have decent abilities/spells so I guess well done them for making an aspect useful rather than just because.

I can't for the life of me work out how to do this. I can do multiple of the same item, but I can't seem to select any additional ones without removing the first one.

Before the game starts you get a chance to do some optional tutorial stuff, I would recommend it no matter how eager to jump in you are... I did it, I feel if I didn't it would have taken me a long while to get a grasp on the combat.

My thoughts exactly, glad to see someone else enjoy it. Best since IX for me. I've also put another 12 hours in since completing the game, doing extra stuff (and some post game only quests).

You just buy the skills first which allow you to gain AP faster, no problem.

My only complaint the the later section (which is essentially just one long final quest) is that chapter 13 was maybe slightly too long, other than that it's still great even it is slightly different. Plenty of options to return back to the world too. It is made very clear when an npc literally says "If you do 'insert thing that happens' you will not be able to return to the open world." It doesn't say "for a while" it is very clear, which is why I laughed a little at people going past that point and being surprised that they couldn't go back and do more stuff until the story was concluded.

Regal used to do it loads and it was nice in theory, but the announcers would say it was to make them waste energy... but then the guy would kick out a bit faster each time.

Chapter 9 was phenomenal.

http://vgleaks.com/final-fantasy-30th-anniversary-roadmap/

The set is just 1-9, with I think 1-6 having both the original and ported versions. VII-IX are gonna be the PS4/PC versions we've had recently. They're also releasing XII HD, VII remake and XIII trilogy for PS4 in 2017. This is all NA info though, hopefully the same applies to UK.

Can we all agree that the shameless advertising of 'cup noodles' is actually amazing the best instance of product placement probably ever? Right down to the quest where

Is this instead of having to rent them? Pretty sure the racing opens up after a while if you just keep doing all the Chocobo related quests anyway.

Killed the Bandersnatch in one hit thanks to

Chapter 4 spoilers..

I must suck normally then, because I died a fuckload in all of them. To be fair I was very young during the PS1 era. I guess with XIII as a recent example I hated the gameplay so I powered through the story which wasn't always ideal. XV makes it very easy to know what is and isn't doable at various times, plus I'm enjoying the side stuff so much by the time I do any main quest stuff I end up being a little over levelled. Not that there hasn't been a few 'oh shit' moments where I've had a luck escape.

My favourite thing is currently messing around with the spell creation thing, I though it was cool anyway but when I realised you can add pretty much any item into the crafting process.. many possibilities.