FF9 Perfect Game with Offensive Training B - 80 (reaching 3000 successful steals)
0Welcome,
This is the 80th episode of a let's play of a "non-Excalibur II perfect game with offensive approach of training" type of challenge, intended for the NTSC US PS1 version of the game.
Link of the complete playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaIe3G8M8kUh9tYa0aIU7F18IAwcbZW66
Link of the first episode in the playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GxUT7eGCQY&list=PLaIe3G8M8kUh9tYa0aIU7F18IAwcbZW66&index=2
As a reminder, FF9's counter of successful steals is capped at 9999 and reaching that hidden cap is among the goals of the challenge. This episode is just a presentation and the actual playing sessions are contained in the sub-episodes of which the links are below (total playing time is around 13 hours and 56 minutes; note that each sub-episode contains timecodes for all successful steals made):
* Episode 80-1 (raising the successful steals' count from 791 to 965):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDhHrnav0s
* Episode 80-2 (raising the successful steals' count from 965 to 1130):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1g8I8TZyz8
* Episode 80-3 (raising the successful steals' count from 1130 to 1298):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_ZZ0U7Ytpg
* Episode 80-4 (raising the successful steals' count from 1298 to 1468):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EYaIyYNJ90
* Episode 80-5 (raising the successful steals' count from 1468 to 1644):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7XlLjy7vOQ
* Episode 80-6 (raising the successful steals' count from 1644 to 1805):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEmxj589ndU
* Episode 80-7 (raising the successful steals' count from 1805 to 1975):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcISXQmYkSg
* Episode 80-8 (raising the successful steals' count from 1975 to 2144):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BAwlAMpgws
* Episode 80-9 (raising the successful steals' count from 2144 to 2303):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck7WUjfcih8
* Episode 80-10 (raising the successful steals' count from 2303 to 2477):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCklXCsAnrQ
* Episode 80-11 (raising the successful steals' count from 2477 to 2684):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4B-wHzFij4
* Episode 80-12 (raising the successful steals' count from 2684 to 2877):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY9c2_K7-PI
* Episode 80-13 (raising the successful steals' count from 2877 to 3089):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikepZ0iiHKw
Extra info/corrections/comments on this episode:
* The team I use is composed of Quina (in order to use Night to incapacitate the monsters) and Freya (only for the Initiative support ability). The choice of the remaining character is not important; I chose Vivi in case I need to use Sleep on a monster on which Night failed.
* I place Zidane in the second position when in Burmecia's screenn, because I noticed that the character in the second position there gets the first command in case of a preemptive strike for some reason.
* The equipment prioritizes Speed; the support abilities that should be activated are Bandit, Master Thief, Initiative, Alert, Auto-Haste, Auto-Regen, Steal Gil, Distract, Insomniac and other useful support abilites if they do not waste time (so Flee-Gil for example is not activated since almost all battles should end by escaping with L1+R1).
* The strategies I started using in battles from some sessions are the following:
- I generally cast Night when several steals attempts are to be made, when I do not get a preemptive strike, and when Quina's ATB is full or nearly full, so I can steal at ease until the end of the battle.
- I try to end all the battles by fleeing them, using L1+R1 immediately after making the necessary successful steals, but not necessarily after stealing all the items available: I strive to not steal if it can result on a failed attempt, so I generally make sure that the last steal attempt I do from a monster is when I get the most common or only item from that monster (the items concerned are Soft from Basilisks, Potion from Hornets, Hi-Potion from Vepals, and Ore from Skeletons, Feather Circles and Mistodons).
- I generally get rid of each monster (with the physical attacks of Quina, Vivi or Freya) after having stolen its most common item (mentioned in the point just above) in case of a preemptive strike or if there are more than two monsters to face in case of a "normal" strike.
The following is the link of an annex file containing the details on max stats/items/Tetra Master requirements (notably the trainings):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/v75arfocbfl2cxs
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