Wut. I did not know you could do that.

Jamo3103 wrote:As a kid I played through about 2/3 of Final Fantasy 7 without realising that Materia and Limit Breaks levelled up, as such I was still using Braver/Cross Slash near the end of Disc 2.

I was woefully underpowered by the end of the game and it's no wonder I had such trouble getting through certain parts of the game. Surprised I completed it at all.

On my first play through of FFVII I hadn't really paid any attention to the materia system (and to be fair the tutorials are pretty shite!) so didn't know about anything but the real basics (equip Lightning = can use Bolt etc.), even fairly simple stuff like just pairing materia with ALL or ELEMENTAL had completely passed me by!

Jenuall wrote:

Jamo3103 wrote:As a kid I played through about 2/3 of Final Fantasy 7 without realising that Materia and Limit Breaks levelled up, as such I was still using Braver/Cross Slash near the end of Disc 2.

I was woefully underpowered by the end of the game and it's no wonder I had such trouble getting through certain parts of the game. Surprised I completed it at all.

On my first play through of FFVII I hadn't really paid any attention to the materia system (and to be fair the tutorials are pretty shite!) so didn't know about anything but the real basics (equip Lightning = can use Bolt etc.), even fairly simple stuff like just pairing materia with ALL or ELEMENTAL had completely passed me by!

On a similar note I don't think I understood the junction system at all in FFVIII on my first run through the game.

IAmTheSaladMan wrote:

Jenuall wrote:

Jamo3103 wrote:As a kid I played through about 2/3 of Final Fantasy 7 without realising that Materia and Limit Breaks levelled up, as such I was still using Braver/Cross Slash near the end of Disc 2.

I was woefully underpowered by the end of the game and it's no wonder I had such trouble getting through certain parts of the game. Surprised I completed it at all.

On my first play through of FFVII I hadn't really paid any attention to the materia system (and to be fair the tutorials are pretty shite!) so didn't know about anything but the real basics (equip Lightning = can use Bolt etc.), even fairly simple stuff like just pairing materia with ALL or ELEMENTAL had completely passed me by!

On a similar note I don't think I understood the junction system at all in FFVIII on my first run through the game.

Yep, I did basically the same thing again when it came to my first run at VIII!

Once you do understand junctioning it came make the game a bit too easy though, there are lots of ways to make yourself into an unstoppable beast quite early on!

I'm slightly sad that FFVIII is not getting the re-release treatment that all the other VII+ games have had recently - the story and characters are a bit bobbins but the junction system is really fun to play, and Triple Triad is a great card game as well!

That spinny jump in Super Mario World seemed to have little purpose to me apart from breaking yellow blocks and getting off Yoshi.

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Many years later
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You can jump (plus get a huge jump height boost) on spikey enemies, saws etc?

WUT.

Lime wrote:That spinny jump in Super Mario World seemed to have little purpose to me apart from breaking yellow blocks and getting off Yoshi.

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Many years later
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You can jump (plus get a huge jump height boost) on spikey enemies, saws etc?

WUT.

Seriously!!!????

Curls wrote:

Lime wrote:That spinny jump in Super Mario World seemed to have little purpose to me apart from breaking yellow blocks and getting off Yoshi.

…

Many years later
...


You can jump (plus get a huge jump height boost) on spikey enemies, saws etc?

WUT.

Seriously!!!????

You didn't know either?

Actually, I have a slight sense that it's just me on this one!


I still completed all 96 exits

I definitely didn’t know. I thought it was just to get off of your stead.

It's not actually mentioned in the manual - it just mentions being able to destroy some tougher enemies

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clvs/manuals ... -SAAAE.pdf

I feel mildly justified in not knowing this.

Lime wrote:It's not actually mentioned in the manual - it just mentions being able to destroy some tougher enemies

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clvs/manuals ... -SAAAE.pdf

I feel mildly justified in not knowing this.

Are you sure it's not just in Mario Maker?

Jenuall wrote:

IAmTheSaladMan wrote:

Jenuall wrote:

Jamo3103 wrote:As a kid I played through about 2/3 of Final Fantasy 7 without realising that Materia and Limit Breaks levelled up, as such I was still using Braver/Cross Slash near the end of Disc 2.

I was woefully underpowered by the end of the game and it's no wonder I had such trouble getting through certain parts of the game. Surprised I completed it at all.

On my first play through of FFVII I hadn't really paid any attention to the materia system (and to be fair the tutorials are pretty shite!) so didn't know about anything but the real basics (equip Lightning = can use Bolt etc.), even fairly simple stuff like just pairing materia with ALL or ELEMENTAL had completely passed me by!

On a similar note I don't think I understood the junction system at all in FFVIII on my first run through the game.

Yep, I did basically the same thing again when it came to my first run at VIII!

Once you do understand junctioning it came make the game a bit too easy though, there are lots of ways to make yourself into an unstoppable beast quite early on!

I'm slightly sad that FFVIII is not getting the re-release treatment that all the other VII+ games have had recently - the story and characters are a bit bobbins but the junction system is really fun to play, and Triple Triad is a great card game as well!

I read that Square Enix lost the source code for FFVIII thus that’s why they haven’t re-releasing them.

Cheeky Devlin wrote:

Lime wrote:It's not actually mentioned in the manual - it just mentions being able to destroy some tougher enemies

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clvs/manuals ... -SAAAE.pdf

I feel mildly justified in not knowing this.

Are you sure it's not just in Mario Maker?

its mechanics are a bit different across those two games, but it is indeed in both

I haven’t got any stories like this, but that’s probably because I always used to RTFM.