FF9 Perfect Game with Offensive Training B - 82 (reaching 7900 successful steals)
0Welcome,
This is the 82nd 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 11 hours and 15 minutes; note that each sub-episode contains timecodes for all successful steals made):
* Episode 82-1 (raising the successful steals' count from 5615 to 5818):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP1M2sm4QXY
* Episode 82-2 (raising the successful steals' count from 5818 to 6053):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci0TTFRtmv0
* Episode 82-3 (raising the successful steals' count from 6053 to 6246):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84QFexGdfQQ
* Episode 82-4 (raising the successful steals' count from 6246 to 6446):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqWiBN1c2RU
* Episode 82-5 (raising the successful steals' count from 6446 to 6658):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8_QzHMjcT0
* Episode 82-6 (raising the successful steals' count from 6658 to 6870):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFBKu05RJYw
* Episode 82-7 (raising the successful steals' count from 6870 to 7075):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5tM-hWJx7Y
* Episode 82-8 (raising the successful steals' count from 7075 to 7277):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYUNkgcyHjg
* Episode 82-9 (raising the successful steals' count from 7277 to 7496):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MKLLHpEXYM
* Episode 82-10 (raising the successful steals' count from 7496 to 7705):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39XF59Uc7_Y
* Episode 82-11 (raising the successful steals' count from 7705 to 7922):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAnjzuwDz_A
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.
* Zidane is placed in the second position because this makes him get the first command in the Uptown Area (interior) screen in case of a preemptive strike for some reason.
* The equipment prioritizes Speed then Evade (in order to slow down a bit the Trance gauge); the support abilities that should be activated are Bandit, Master Thief, Initiative, Alert, Auto-Haste, Auto-Regen, Steal Gil, Distract, Insomniac, Accuracy+, Jelly and other useful support abilites if they do not waste time (so Flee-Gil for example should not be activated since all battles should end by escaping with L1+R1).
* The strategies I generally use are the following:
- To steal at ease until the end of the battle, I generally cast Night if Quina's ATB is (nearly) full and when 3 monsters are faced without a preemptive strike.
- 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 commem item (guaranteed steal), which is a Soft (a Basilisk owns two items: Hi-Potion and Soft).
- I sometimes get rid of each Basilisk (with the physical attacks of Vivi, Quina and Freya) just after having stolen its Soft, if I sense that the remaining steal attempts to be made can make the monsters waste too much time with their actions.
* As a reminder, the ATB option should be set to "Wait" and the Battle Speed should be set at the maximum.
* With a Speed of 45, Zidane can act four times before the Basilisks in case of a preemptive strike (if the ATB is managed properly).
* I make around 205-210 successful steals per hour (one can be of course more efficient if Zidane's Speed were higher or if another console than the PS1 is used).
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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