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Unseen FF1 Development Documents Have Been Found!
Drawings, stories, and other things we've never got to see before have been uncovered thanks to a recent TV show broadcast out of Japan all about the development of Final Fantasy 1 for NES in 1987!
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @chrisletkeman8356
    @chrisletkeman8356 31 хвилина тому

    Is this a good idea? Bonus auto play..

  • @sparrowhawk2860
    @sparrowhawk2860 Годину тому

    FF fans to Uematsu: ua-cam.com/video/c3sOuEv0E2I/v-deo.html

  • @knifeteeth
    @knifeteeth 3 години тому

    Go and tell it on Blue Sky!

  • @Erictrinh354
    @Erictrinh354 8 годин тому

    Nice

  • @kypcole
    @kypcole 10 годин тому

    "You could say that the Final Fantasy series is not doing too bad." You could say that, but it would be a lie. Company's on rocky ground, the last few titles haven't sold well at all, the golden child that pulled their fat out the fire 10 years ago is now being rejected by players thanks to heavy western influences, and all that is without stepping on the landmine that is their QA team modeled after Sony's MeToo policy stance. Square's in trouble, full stop. Just as it was in 89 when they pulled Final Fantasy out their pocket, slapped duct tape & prayers on it, and shipped it to the public. Let's hope they can duplicate that miracle a third time.

    • @jaydarke
      @jaydarke 3 години тому

      I mean, I’m playing Rebirth right now and it’s beautiful but underwhelming. 16 sold incredible well though. The pixel remasters were cool too; though not really what the fans wanted. So I think saying the series is at a middle ground would be fair. But, they are losing FF14 subscribers. And Rebirth didn’t hit their sales target for it. So it should be interesting to see where the series ends up.

    • @Spekor
      @Spekor Годину тому

      mah dude.. "what i think" is not the truth.. everyone who points at the steam sales numbers of ff16. forget it was out FOR A YEAR!!! on ps5. meaning a large number of people.... already owned it.. and it sold over 3 million copies on there squeenix isn't doing too bad overall

  • @r3h0l3s7
    @r3h0l3s7 16 годин тому

    you compare single game sales to a series of games, what's the point?

  • @cedhabs20
    @cedhabs20 16 годин тому

    Depend on how much graphic is important for you. I would go for FFIV if it doesn't, a much better choice, but evrything after FFX is a bad choice

  • @Le7emeChat
    @Le7emeChat 20 годин тому

    Never forget, it's call Final Fantasy because the company was doing so bad, if that game failed, the company would die. It was their last chanve, their Final Fantasy.

    • @hempelsravens
      @hempelsravens 17 годин тому

      It wasn’t actually called that because of that!! It was going to be called fighting fantasy, but that was already taken so they had to make do with final fantasy

    • @Eirik12-h3e
      @Eirik12-h3e 7 годин тому

      This is just a tall tale. Square wasn't going to close down or close to bankruptcy. Final Fantasy wasn't even going to be its title, but due to licensing issues and the fact that the creator wanted a title that would roll off the tongue easier made it so that final fantasy was chosen.

  • @Dhalin
    @Dhalin 22 години тому

    One leveling spot I don't hear anybody talking about which was also sadly removed from the Pixel Remaster, was the forced battle tile in the Dark Elf's castle in the Mystic Key room. Of course, this required a white mage and Harm 2 or better to consistently kill the undead that comes out there. The money was really nice and the XP was not too shabby either, and in some ways it was actually faster than the giants' hallway. Basically you'd go there, blow your white mage's spells, one per battle and then go back to town, rest, and come back. That sounds like a lot of work but each fight would reward you handsomely.

  • @Hyreia
    @Hyreia День тому

    I have to agree with the hair color. I love Amano's work but he gives everyone blonde hair. He just thinks it looks more like a fantasy that way. If you associate fantasy with Germanic fantasy, I can see why he would do that. The Sprite work 5 and 6 especially is unmatched however. Green hair Terra and leotard Celes included.

  • @CalebByRamen
    @CalebByRamen День тому

    I like the Pixel art > than Yoshitaka Amano art. Green Hair Terra ALWAYS

  • @gamesforyou2351
    @gamesforyou2351 День тому

    Ff6 pixel remaster is nothing but a miserable pile of glitches and soft locks. During my playthrough I got soft locked getting the cider making me refight the stupid octopus boss again. Then when I got back again went to steal the clothes the game soft locked in battle and guess what. I had to fight the stupid octopus boss for a 3rd time because there is no save point in-between those two parts of the game. Then near the end of the game I was grinding exp and the game crashed 4 different times while grinding I had to start saving after every battle while grinding because of it. All and all the pixel retrashed version of FF6 made me hate the game now to where I don't want to touch ff6 for a long long time. Never in my life have I played ff6 and had that horrible of an experience until the pixel retrashed version of the game. If I ever play ff6 again it will never ever be that version of the game.

  • @Zeldadude-t7c
    @Zeldadude-t7c День тому

    I love ff I have 1-7 and rebirth my friend told me about it and I’ve loved it ever since 😊

  • @LowmanXIII
    @LowmanXIII День тому

    You can only visit the Phantom Train once as well

  • @moonscar119
    @moonscar119 День тому

    Your video has zero information too. "Do not recxoment this channel" has been selected

    • @TheReturnersHideout
      @TheReturnersHideout День тому

      lol at least don’t misspell the thing you’re trying to make me believe next time. Good show!

  • @zip7781
    @zip7781 День тому

    somewhere I read FF1 took 10 months to be made, so I think it's a really easy calculation basically february 87 - december 87 (?) but if it was completed in fall, maybe it's more likely: late '86 to start of fall '87

    • @TheReturnersHideout
      @TheReturnersHideout День тому

      The problem is, I can’t go off of things like “somewhere I read…” I searched for days on some concrete evidence and found nothing lol. So I created my own, which somewhat lines up with your last timeline

    • @zip7781
      @zip7781 День тому

      @@TheReturnersHideout I wish I could find the actual source. Those keywords only lead me to some twitter posts from Genki. from memory it was definitely Sakaguchi saying that (can't post the link or my comment gets deleted)

  • @shanavalkyria3438
    @shanavalkyria3438 День тому

    i played on pixal remaster but beat ff1 for the first tim,e with Fighter red mage red mage Monk Monk had 2ed slot but had an issue of dieing a lot which was mostly fixed by moving. 6 party wipes, 4 on chaos, 1 tiamat and 1 because forgetting to heal hurts

  • @NewEstate4thDimension
    @NewEstate4thDimension День тому

    The peninsula of power is a legend almost as big as the tale told in the game world, but in ours… I’m working my way down to 1 for my first PM run, so it’s theoretical frustration at this point (as I’ve yet to experience the new balancing of this remake yet). Fun channel! I’ve watched these ff videos a couple times now, and will check out more of the channel.

  • @shanavalkyria3438
    @shanavalkyria3438 День тому

    I played on switch and was a little dissipointed the peninsula of power was gone but since the game offers 4x and 8x exp boosts and gill boosts as well it's not much of an issue. Games on the easy side to which helps a lot. I beat the pixel remaster ver with 6 party wipes 4 of which were on the end boss.

    • @shanavalkyria3438
      @shanavalkyria3438 День тому

      I don't like to power lv but if u do it's way easier now

  • @genji4456
    @genji4456 День тому

    This thing is reminds me of me trying to figure out how to start reading dc comics order , man this is so headache 😵‍💫

  • @rzLl_pz5
    @rzLl_pz5 День тому

    This video is a dream come true!! FF1 and its development story have always been of my interest, but my major source of info on it was always the japanese Wikipedia article on it translated to english. I was really hoping someone safeguarded Yoshitaka Amano's first sketches for the game, the infamous blocky characters akin to pixel art, before the team told him to illustrate as he usually did. Thank you so so much for this video.

    • @TheReturnersHideout
      @TheReturnersHideout День тому

      Thank so much for this comment, it totally made my week!! - although, the blocky characters were drawn by Ishii! He also went on to make the super deformed character illustrations on the Japanese box of FFV too! As much as I love Ishii’s and Amano’s art for this game, it’s the pixel artist who I think steals the show. The reason the game has its classic blue menus and white boarder is because of her!

    • @rzLl_pz5
      @rzLl_pz5 День тому

      @TheReturnersHideout as Sakaguchi once said, Final Fantasy isn't Final Fantasy without a blue textbox!!

  • @thomasharvey1151
    @thomasharvey1151 День тому

    And what’s really impressive about Final Fantasy to me, that makes it stand above something like a Red Dead and such…is that FF has been going for almost 40 years. What’s it been, 37 years? So 37 years and it’s still standing, still going strong. And the original game, in its various iterations, still sells. How many 37 year old games still sell and get played over and over again to this day? Not very many. And Final Fantasy is one of the few titles to carry that honor. I mean it’s just impressive and the game is still unique to this day.

  • @CuongNguyen-p9k4m
    @CuongNguyen-p9k4m День тому

    Is it worth buying on iOS?

    • @TheReturnersHideout
      @TheReturnersHideout День тому

      I haven’t played them on iOS so I don’t know if the gameplay translates well across mobile platforms. Maybe in the future I can come back and talk about them! Thank you for commenting!

  • @pjoof738
    @pjoof738 День тому

    Minecraft is such a popular game that it beats the entire final fantasy series in sales

    • @TheReturnersHideout
      @TheReturnersHideout День тому

      There are a few things that rank higher than the FF series for sure! I was simply illustrating that FF is a beast when it comes to sales! The ease of picking up and playing Minecraft (and you could argue that yes Minecraft is 1 game but it *was* released on many different platforms and if you look at those numbers, Tetris nearly doubles Minecraft in sales) and having an incredibly young user base definitely added to the success of the juggernaut that Minecraft was/is! Thank you for commenting!

    • @saschaherrmann1665
      @saschaherrmann1665 День тому

      Minecraft costs like what? 5 bucks? Every idiot could by it and obviously did it. Lord knows why. Just looking at it makes my eyes bleed

  • @husky2610nw
    @husky2610nw 2 дні тому

    FF7 PS1 is the best although the new versions are pretty awesome too❤

  • @friend4470
    @friend4470 2 дні тому

    3:57 All you had to say this, oh my god you said nothing for 4 entire minutes and only answered the question in the last 30 seconds.

  • @raza5757
    @raza5757 2 дні тому

    🤯

  • @PinochleSundae
    @PinochleSundae 2 дні тому

    The Ice Cave takes the cake easily. So many kinds of instant death attacks, so many party wipeouts and game resets in my younger years. Only the Castle of Ordeals came close.

  • @maewilkes8883
    @maewilkes8883 2 дні тому

    Where can I watch the original NHK documentary on the game?

    • @TheReturnersHideout
      @TheReturnersHideout 2 дні тому

      I got an email from Square when it came out, but just now I searched “NHK Games Legend Chronicle Final Fantasy” and it was the first result!

  • @comparethemiaKAT
    @comparethemiaKAT 2 дні тому

    I'm about 115 hrs in. Sin is next boss, I have 3 Celestials, I have grinded here and there but not to a crazy extent. I wanna do the side content and stat maxing so I was seriously expecting at least 200 hours total

  • @Joshuazx
    @Joshuazx 3 дні тому

    Water Shrine with thors hammer and gauntlets

  • @APackOfHungryGhosts
    @APackOfHungryGhosts 3 дні тому

    I still have my Dragon Warrior NES cartridge. Also have Dragon Warrior II and III. I refuse to call it "Dragon Quest".

  • @ersatz_cats
    @ersatz_cats 3 дні тому

    Your example of Echo Screens is a bit funny, in that (in some versions) speedrunners literally do use that for the unintended effect of manipulating slots. This is interesting, I never really noticed how they sell Ethers in this world. But it is supposed to be a big, fully fleshed out world, encapsulated in a limited number of relevant game elements. You aren't required in-game to buy food for your characters (a la Ultima on NES), therefore not every town depicts a grocer, but obviously that would be a major enterprise in every town, if the game fully depicted every little thing one could spend their money on. The point is, if you need a world-building excuse for the sale of Ether, it does make sense that Ether would just be some household thing which you can acquire, intended in-universe for one function, which incidentally you can use to restore MP.

  • @cedhabs20
    @cedhabs20 3 дні тому

    I've buy it and never had an ounce of regret. You could buy them individually, but I go for the package. Having to replay remake of those 6 is a benediction. For me, it's Final Fantasy at it's peak, especially for FFIV and FFVI. When a kid, the only game I had was an old nes with FF1, so this one has a lot of nostalgy. The 3 other's were great too. I know many didn't like FF2, but I like the story, level up system is broke, I know. Anyway, I would recommend it to anyone that like RPG.

  • @runnersdialzero1244
    @runnersdialzero1244 3 дні тому

    "secret producer" _Final Fantasy_ title screen in giant letters: *PROGRAMMED BY NASIR!!!!!!!!!!*

  • @MrRynox52719
    @MrRynox52719 3 дні тому

    Ff6 WAS admittedly an unfinished game. There was supposed to be more scenarios and more character development with more characters. Gogo and Umaro are two characters with very little development which tells me that they were lowest on the priority list when the game was being finished. Gogo's mystery could have been huge. Literally they could have made their identity something that you CHOOSE based on how you investigate. Maybe they are Bannon, or baram, or the emperor, or realms mother- they could have had a decision tree that would let u choose who u want.

  • @Zeithri
    @Zeithri 3 дні тому

    I need those design documents! Were they in the Ultimania book? Which one? I love those cute drawings...

    • @TheReturnersHideout
      @TheReturnersHideout 3 дні тому

      The cute drawings that were done by Ishii for the battle arrangement - he just still has those, which is remarkable. I’d never seen them prior to this broadcasted show! The design docs that have the dates attached to them are in the Ultimania book that covers 1-6.

  • @GPG82
    @GPG82 3 дні тому

    Still my favourite RPG of all time!

  • @jimgeorgiev8105
    @jimgeorgiev8105 3 дні тому

    FF renaissance, ever heard of it??? Same game, new classes, new challenge. New fun times 🎉😃

  • @shanavalkyria3438
    @shanavalkyria3438 3 дні тому

    Beats this game for the first time today on pixal remaster, had played it for nes a few times but never went much past getting the boat. Party was in order Fighter 4 deaths Red Mage 1 Death Red Mage 0 Deaths Black Belt 11 deaths 6 party wipes 4 of which were against chaos Did great 90% of the game but struggled on both Tiamat fights and chaos took me 4 tries, in the chaos fight the Red mages became buff/heal mages and all the damage was done by the knight and master, moved the black belt from slot 2 to slot 4 and that helped him survive better. Funny enough my one red mage ended up with over 80 hp and a few int higher then the other but the other had better attack and agility. Well onto ff2 which i have never played but have heard of the odd level system

  • @MacUser2-il2cx
    @MacUser2-il2cx 3 дні тому

    Shining Force borrowed a lot of story notes from Final Fantasy IV.

  • @johnisdead
    @johnisdead 3 дні тому

    holy shit i've spent so long looking for some of this stuff

    • @TheReturnersHideout
      @TheReturnersHideout 3 дні тому

      Im very glad that this video helped in anyway! A lot went into it and I tried to show as much as I could find! Thank you so much for commenting!

  • @GaminRage
    @GaminRage 3 дні тому

    I have the pixel remaster version on switch, are these reasons why the pixel remaster version(switch) is WAY too easy with the final boss massively buffed. Seriously, I breezed through it pretty easily, but when I got to the final boss, I found him to be massively buffed and used the extra features to level up in front of him, lol. But then I'm just a casual RPG veteran.😁

  • @kyrathos3703
    @kyrathos3703 3 дні тому

    Teddy Ruxpin had an airship, i believe that was in the 80s as well. Mind you it was a cartoon.

  • @tired_and_stressed
    @tired_and_stressed 3 дні тому

    Fighter, Thief, White Mage, Black Mage. It's not the strongest, but I'm here for my role playing experience, not min-maxing.

  • @777Eliyahu
    @777Eliyahu 4 дні тому

    Wooooo first comment!!!

    • @TheReturnersHideout
      @TheReturnersHideout 4 дні тому

      Whoa… I think this is my first “wooo first comment” comment!! You’ve just made my night!

  • @EddieFaria
    @EddieFaria 4 дні тому

    I got Final Fantasy 1 for my 10th birthday, and I was mesmerized by the mystery of the cover art. It was my first experience with a turn-based strategy game, and I had no idea how to play it. For years, it sat untouched until one day, I finally figured it out. It’s still one of my favorite Final Fantasy games to this day.

  • @Larsgman
    @Larsgman 4 дні тому

    I played the OG FF1 so many times over the years ever since I was a kid. My favorite party was always F, F, WM, BM. I know a lot of people over the years have shown me how the black belt was the best, but i usually would beat the game around lvl 32. For him to reach that lvl of damage you gotta max out if im not mistaken

  • @thedude5295
    @thedude5295 4 дні тому

    They didn't use crystals in Final Fantasy 1. They used OOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRBSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

    • @TheReturnersHideout
      @TheReturnersHideout 4 дні тому

      BUT IN THE JAPANESE VERSION THE PEOPLE IN TOWNS CALL THEM CRYSTALLLLLLLLS WE GOT ORBS BECAUSE ITS LESS ROM SPAAAAACE