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@@BacklogBuster I mean I fully trust you that it wouldn’t be that bad, mostly joking that it would just largely reused content as you would have technically beating a good chunk of the game as freelancers already
When I used to work as a projectionist for a local movie theater, I would play this game all night at work. I've beaten it so many times, it's a great game to just experiment with.
IIRC, Sulla rated Samurai as the #1 Job for Solo Character and Job challenges. The Elf Cape + Main Gauche + passive Dodge + Shield makes it difficult to take damage from Physical attacks, and that's not factoring HP and Defense with the Heavy armor. Damage low? Throw money, and somehow everything dies like its nothing. Legit, Samurai is the Pay2Win job.
When I first got ahold of the rom back in the day when I found a full translation, and had no clue what the hell I was doing because you have to beat it once before you use a walkthrough, gp toss was how I beat the game lol
@@veghesther3204 Vegh I know reading isn't your strong suit, so I'll tell it to you again in a more clearer way. SOLO character and job. Let me repeat it. SOLO
@@sertiana2512 I know right? whenever I see Vegh comments I know I'm about to see a lot of complains without reading, and I'm not even complaining about the RANDOM WORDS IN CAPS SPREAD over all the text. I know Vegh has been like this since years (seriously, comments in old videos like 8 years ago) but a change would be amazing
I've never had any interest in playing Final Fantasy V. But after watching your videos, my interest is really growing. And this pixel remaster looks sharp.
Honestly, I'm liking the Pixel Remaster a lot. I think I'd be hard pressed to play the original these days. I dont own the others at the moment but thats probably what I'd be most interested in playing.
I dunno if there's a difference between pc and mobile but part of the reason your physical attacks seemed to be doing so little for a while is because Mineuchi actually deals HALF damage and paralyzes enemies. I figured this out when I decided to use it with the chicken knife in a fiesta run in PR, and I even went back and did some testing with it to double check that was still the case.
Funny to see me Finish Like a Dragon Ishin Last night and get graced with more samurai content the next day that I never knew I wanted. Truly a Blessing…of the Emperor.
I dont know why ive watched so many of these and am now only Subbing. You deserve so many more. Love your content! Love to see more of these videos from different games in the series too!
Probably even stronger in a limited-job run because you can just sell everything that you know you won't be able to use with the jobs you're using that run.
I definitely approve of parking a save at the earth crystal. That's just smart. Somehow I completely forgot about Iainuki. Was trying to guess whether the final Samurai ability was Shirahadori or !EqKatana. :D "I-am-nuking" made me laugh. Achelon absolutely deserve to be ginsu-d, screw those guys in particular. On paper, I know that some abilities don't count as physical or magical 'attacks.' Seeing TwinTania sit down and take your golden shower is a different story. Not sure if Haste accelerates the Doom counter in the pixel remaster. Because that would only make the NeoExdeath win even more impressive.
I remember when I first unlocked Samurai and spammed Zeninage because it was so powerful and then it stopped working. And the next time I visited a shop, I saw that I had no money and was so confused.
Next time on Backlog Buster: Every fight is the Garuda fight from FF3! If nothing else, that means nobody gets squished thanks to a Dragoon being in the air...since they'll all be in the air.
Just tossing this out there, not sure if you were already doing it, but for the rod-smashing trick on Freelancer, you can still get the 50% damage bonus by also having a rod of the same element equipped on the smasher (which you can of course change to mid-battle, even). If you weren't already doing that, it might make things a little easier next time around!
Been thinking about the comment at the end of the video and... Yeah, it's actually kind of sad how despite how iconic it is, dragoon never fails to be an awkward and inefficient class. Even in the bravely series it's still only been "okay". Though I hear it's gotten a lot better in ff14 at least. Alas, jump as a mechanic is novel but just too impractical.
What would a good dragoon class be? Would it basically be Mario in Super Mario RPG, where jumping is done all at once and is only unique to Mario and is literally only two of his moves?
One of the fun things about these sort of challenges is finding out things that are actually useful that you wouldn't learn in a normal run through the game. For example it is nice seeing you learn how things like 2 handed from Knight is useful and the group instant kill attack from money cannon job also known as samurai is also busted on it. Shame you didn't get chicken knife though.
@@MissMaryanne1 iirc that required the game being on repeat for several days worth of time before the run was successful. Doesn't have sound for it cause of it lol.
I've played this on the PS1 back in the day and gil toss was freaking broken. U can make Neo X-Death never use that annoying Grand Cross by throwing money at it.
Been following your videos since recommended playing, wanted to leave a comment but comments were disabled. I wanted to thank you for the insanely good guides that you put out, you're a saint and to create a guide with such finesse is just incredible. You deserve much more recognition than you currently get so honestly thanks so much for putting out videos. 👊🏻
I believe you can beat Omniscient - I mean, without that hours-long wait - with a Mage Masher, as Silence apparently stops the return gimmick. Which, upon reflection, means Berserkers are actually plausible as the only Job without access to magic or the Mage Masher is the Monk.
Red Mage is just going to be another rod smasher, but a little slower because their Magic stat is pretty low. Also, unlike Blue Mage, they cannot equip shields.
Red Mage peaks at Karnak, so yeah, its rod smashing all the way. It doesn't even get the good white magic like protect/shell iirc. Dualcast Level 2 spells is still worse than smashing a rod unfortunately.
FF5 Dragoon sucks ass. They have mediocre stats, have nothing to offer to Freelancer, and their abilities are also lackluster. Basically you can play FF5 just fine by completely skipping them.
Shinryu is susceptible to Berserk status, and it's permanent on him. Anyone who can cast it, and be able to defend against his massive attack stat should do just fine. No Dragon Lance necessary.
Dragoons leavinng their friends behind to take the brunt of the enemies attacks, all to do incredibly mediocre damage. Truly the best job in the series.
Silence lasts for like one round on omniscient. If you want to rely on a random chance going off back to back like 40 times sure. But thats not the reality I live in.
So, for those unaware, when you level up in final fantasy games, it increases the number of hits you land, melee jobs progress faster than caster jobs for weapon attacks, and casters progress faster than melee for spell attacks. In the nes games the combat will show hits (maybe not in three, can't remember off the top of my head, I think they just display the numbers from then on), so that Backlog Buster is doing this at as low level as he can is quite impressive, really, since every job (... except goddamn failementalist) significantly benefits from leveling up.
1) He only uses Magic Lamp against Neo Exdeath up to Odin (Zantetsuken) to instantly defeat one part of him, which there are FOUR of them. 2) Magic Lamp is still susceptible to user's Magic stat, most of the jobs have low Magic to make Magic Lamp more relevant. 3) You need to recharge it.
I imagine he's just shaking things up for a bit, doing all the wind crystal jobs, then the water, etc, could get a little dull. Jumping around makes things more interesting.
@@DisplayThisOkay Not exactly. White Mages can't use rods, and the only thing they can smash is Staff of Light, which you can only farm as a rare drop in World 2. Until then, you're stuck attacking with Flails. There's also the problem that Staff of Light is, well, a rare drop.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Start
11:43 - Samurai Unlocked
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Expectation: final fantasy rising-revengance
Reality: Zenny wars 3: the endless quest to escape poverty
Gil Wars 2: The Quest for Money...
The Samurai Job is the most accurate job to real life, after all money can buy you happiness and is the way of life. Truly a comparison of the ages.
Samurais be solving the world's problems the old fashioned way: Bribery
Accurate enough to their role during the Shogunate…
Can’t wait for the “jobless only” and it’s just cut up bits of the other videos from before he gets the right job crystal
So freelancer?
Apparently freelancer is not that bad, since you’ve got access to every piece of equipment. A lot of utility, like fire rings and flame swords.
The ability to use All the gear in the game is better than some jobs entire skillsets. Trust me.
@@BacklogBuster I mean I fully trust you that it wouldn’t be that bad, mostly joking that it would just largely reused content as you would have technically beating a good chunk of the game as freelancers already
@@BacklogBuster *cough* Berserker*cough*
I've never played this game and am genuinely getting fascinated by this
When I used to work as a projectionist for a local movie theater, I would play this game all night at work. I've beaten it so many times, it's a great game to just experiment with.
IIRC, Sulla rated Samurai as the #1 Job for Solo Character and Job challenges. The Elf Cape + Main Gauche + passive Dodge + Shield makes it difficult to take damage from Physical attacks, and that's not factoring HP and Defense with the Heavy armor. Damage low? Throw money, and somehow everything dies like its nothing. Legit, Samurai is the Pay2Win job.
When I first got ahold of the rom back in the day when I found a full translation, and had no clue what the hell I was doing because you have to beat it once before you use a walkthrough, gp toss was how I beat the game lol
@@veghesther3204 Vegh I know reading isn't your strong suit, so I'll tell it to you again in a more clearer way.
SOLO character and job. Let me repeat it. SOLO
@@veghesther3204 Solo challenge runs exist, and they're as valid as other challenges, once again learn how to read
@@sertiana2512 I know right? whenever I see Vegh comments I know I'm about to see a lot of complains without reading, and I'm not even complaining about the RANDOM WORDS IN CAPS SPREAD over all the text.
I know Vegh has been like this since years (seriously, comments in old videos like 8 years ago) but a change would be amazing
I've never had any interest in playing Final Fantasy V. But after watching your videos, my interest is really growing. And this pixel remaster looks sharp.
Honestly, I'm liking the Pixel Remaster a lot. I think I'd be hard pressed to play the original these days. I dont own the others at the moment but thats probably what I'd be most interested in playing.
I dunno if there's a difference between pc and mobile but part of the reason your physical attacks seemed to be doing so little for a while is because Mineuchi actually deals HALF damage and paralyzes enemies. I figured this out when I decided to use it with the chicken knife in a fiesta run in PR, and I even went back and did some testing with it to double check that was still the case.
cant wait for the summoner run. final fantasy was the series that made me into the summoner addict i am today
Faris and Lenna aren't twins. Faris is Lenna's older sister.
I definitely don’t see myself obsessively watching this entire series. Great stuff!
Funny to see me Finish Like a Dragon Ishin Last night and get graced with more samurai content the next day that I never knew I wanted. Truly a Blessing…of the Emperor.
The entire team: i cast... 100 million dollars!... in NICKELS!
I dont know why ive watched so many of these and am now only Subbing. You deserve so many more. Love your content! Love to see more of these videos from different games in the series too!
Wasn't expecting a sick animation reference
love the Baseketball reference :)
Only Samurai? Well, my boy, the answer is simple: CASH MONEY 💰
Im gonna scrooge mcduck everyone.
@@BacklogBuster pay em 200 Gil to piss off.
Or, to quote Randy Moss: "STRAIGHT CASH, HOMIE".
Probably even stronger in a limited-job run because you can just sell everything that you know you won't be able to use with the jobs you're using that run.
This proves that if you toss money (Gil) at a problem (Enemies), it solves the problem (Wins the fight for you). Got it.
The baseketball reference 👌 chefs kiss and a like and subscribe earned!
I definitely approve of parking a save at the earth crystal. That's just smart.
Somehow I completely forgot about Iainuki. Was trying to guess whether the final Samurai ability was Shirahadori or !EqKatana. :D "I-am-nuking" made me laugh.
Achelon absolutely deserve to be ginsu-d, screw those guys in particular.
On paper, I know that some abilities don't count as physical or magical 'attacks.' Seeing TwinTania sit down and take your golden shower is a different story.
Not sure if Haste accelerates the Doom counter in the pixel remaster. Because that would only make the NeoExdeath win even more impressive.
I remember when I first unlocked Samurai and spammed Zeninage because it was so powerful and then it stopped working. And the next time I visited a shop, I saw that I had no money and was so confused.
22:05 a BASEketball reference in 2024?
My man!
Samurai introduces pay to win in a single player game, now that I think about it, haha.
I’m replaying ff5 now myself
Gil toss is the most comically overpowered thing lol
Next time on Backlog Buster: Every fight is the Garuda fight from FF3!
If nothing else, that means nobody gets squished thanks to a Dragoon being in the air...since they'll all be in the air.
That "get destroyed, IDIOT" line killed me, lol!
I hope you call the freelancer episode the unemployment run. With all the extra pointless hoops to jump through it's a lot like looking for a job.
Just tossing this out there, not sure if you were already doing it, but for the rod-smashing trick on Freelancer, you can still get the 50% damage bonus by also having a rod of the same element equipped on the smasher (which you can of course change to mid-battle, even). If you weren't already doing that, it might make things a little easier next time around!
He was already aware with it. Also, Pixel Remaster buffs rod smashing a bit by allowing you to spend rods on your inventory instead of your hands.
Can you beat Final Fantasy V while being a samurai (must adhere to the bushido code while playing)
I remember once beating the last boss with one samuri and 3 mimes copying the coin toss, i don't remember why it worked so well
Dragoons are good in Final Fantasy Tactics!
Question for the magic only boss: What about the rods?
Rod Smashing triggers Omniscient to cast return.
I'm digging this series..
CAPITALISM RULES!
maybe the wind crystal wont shatter this time
Been thinking about the comment at the end of the video and... Yeah, it's actually kind of sad how despite how iconic it is, dragoon never fails to be an awkward and inefficient class.
Even in the bravely series it's still only been "okay". Though I hear it's gotten a lot better in ff14 at least.
Alas, jump as a mechanic is novel but just too impractical.
What would a good dragoon class be? Would it basically be Mario in Super Mario RPG, where jumping is done all at once and is only unique to Mario and is literally only two of his moves?
Samurai are silly OP.
Toss money at your enemies and they go away
One of the fun things about these sort of challenges is finding out things that are actually useful that you wouldn't learn in a normal run through the game. For example it is nice seeing you learn how things like 2 handed from Knight is useful and the group instant kill attack from money cannon job also known as samurai is also busted on it. Shame you didn't get chicken knife though.
When normal runs usually recommend you with "Dualcast, Dual Weild, Spellblade, Rapidfire" route, it's easy to overlook other niche abilities.
Forced to be unemployed until earth crystal is painful
Can't wait for Berserkers run
Personally looking forward to the Mime run.
Is the Berserker run even possible? Like, even grinding to level 99, is it even possible?
I watched someone play solo Berserker and made it to the final boss :)
@@MissMaryanne1 iirc that required the game being on repeat for several days worth of time before the run was successful. Doesn't have sound for it cause of it lol.
Berserker only is very possible, on all versions of the game.
First up welcome back, and love to see the content I just started to see it now this one
I haven't watched the vid yet but I'm gonna answer the question anyway.
YES
I've played this on the PS1 back in the day and gil toss was freaking broken. U can make Neo X-Death never use that annoying Grand Cross by throwing money at it.
Nice video man 🎉🎉 injoy .
Been following your videos since recommended playing, wanted to leave a comment but comments were disabled. I wanted to thank you for the insanely good guides that you put out, you're a saint and to create a guide with such finesse is just incredible. You deserve much more recognition than you currently get so honestly thanks so much for putting out videos. 👊🏻
I believe you can beat Omniscient - I mean, without that hours-long wait - with a Mage Masher, as Silence apparently stops the return gimmick. Which, upon reflection, means Berserkers are actually plausible as the only Job without access to magic or the Mage Masher is the Monk.
Ahh yes. Been waiting.
How about when freelancer challenge is up add an extra challange of mastering all classes to show case the strongest freelancer ever 🔥🔥🔥
A fistful of dollars
Commentus Maximus
Hyped for red mage
Red Mage is just going to be another rod smasher, but a little slower because their Magic stat is pretty low. Also, unlike Blue Mage, they cannot equip shields.
@@sertiana2512And they don't get the -ga spells
Red Mage peaks at Karnak, so yeah, its rod smashing all the way. It doesn't even get the good white magic like protect/shell iirc. Dualcast Level 2 spells is still worse than smashing a rod unfortunately.
@@kbowman772 The lack of -ga spells can be compensated by rod smashing, but their Magic stat is just too subpar for a "mage" class
Are you going to do the 4 job fiesta?
Nope. Single Job Challenges are taking precedence.
Can you add the Condition for Mastering the Job...
Mastering Jobs is inevitable.
Can you not just use Reflect Rings to cheese Fork Tower without failing the challenge?
If you watch his first video (or acutally pay attention this one) he mentions it takes 16 HOURS for the boss to run of of MP even with reflect rings.
Easier way to beat Ouroboros...is to throw money at them....not cheaper perhaps but easier.
White Mage run when?
#20.
I’m so excited for some of the really trash jobs
I dont like your opinions on the coolest most amazing class in the final fantasy series, dragoons are the best
Being Cool is not the same as being good and useful lol
FF5 Dragoon sucks ass. They have mediocre stats, have nothing to offer to Freelancer, and their abilities are also lackluster. Basically you can play FF5 just fine by completely skipping them.
Shinryu is susceptible to Berserk status, and it's permanent on him. Anyone who can cast it, and be able to defend against his massive attack stat should do just fine. No Dragon Lance necessary.
Thief and White mage challange skiped from wind crystal
Not skipped, just post poned
I love the concept of dragoons, but a lot of the execution of them is awful in these games
Dragoons leavinng their friends behind to take the brunt of the enemies attacks, all to do incredibly mediocre damage. Truly the best job in the series.
@@BacklogBuster with 4 though there is no one to leave behind.
FF Tactics Advance might be the only FF game where Dragoons were ever good ( well good at acutally being a combat class).
so freelance only run the finale?
Well, mime and freelancer are basically the same. But yes, the turn order is set.
@@BacklogBusterAt least Mime will be able to spam items without wasting them.
For most melee classes, you can beat Omniscient with Mage Mashers. They silence him and prevent him from casting Return.
Like this man, I want to see Omni shanked to death in an alley
Silence lasts for like one round on omniscient. If you want to rely on a random chance going off back to back like 40 times sure. But thats not the reality I live in.
So, for those unaware, when you level up in final fantasy games, it increases the number of hits you land, melee jobs progress faster than caster jobs for weapon attacks, and casters progress faster than melee for spell attacks. In the nes games the combat will show hits (maybe not in three, can't remember off the top of my head, I think they just display the numbers from then on), so that Backlog Buster is doing this at as low level as he can is quite impressive, really, since every job (... except goddamn failementalist) significantly benefits from leveling up.
Lol DRG will follow me around forever it seems
I played a Dragoon in FF11 and FF14. I know the pain.
Jesus you sound exactly like strat-edgy.
i feel like you shouldn't use the magic lamp for the later battles because it kinda makes them seem a bit too easy-
he uses it only for Exdeath, so no he shouldn't skip it.
1) He only uses Magic Lamp against Neo Exdeath up to Odin (Zantetsuken) to instantly defeat one part of him, which there are FOUR of them.
2) Magic Lamp is still susceptible to user's Magic stat, most of the jobs have low Magic to make Magic Lamp more relevant.
3) You need to recharge it.
"I'll make an offer... in cash!"
What, just gonna skip White Mage for some reason? 🙃
I imagine he's just shaking things up for a bit, doing all the wind crystal jobs, then the water, etc, could get a little dull. Jumping around makes things more interesting.
It's just gonna be a another rod smashing job except you can heal.
@@DisplayThisOkay welllll, yes and no. 'Yes,' in that, yes he will absolutely do that from Karnak on, and 'no' in that he has to beat Garula first...
@@DisplayThisOkay Not exactly. White Mages can't use rods, and the only thing they can smash is Staff of Light, which you can only farm as a rare drop in World 2. Until then, you're stuck attacking with Flails. There's also the problem that Staff of Light is, well, a rare drop.