Can You Beat Final Fantasy 5 Using Only Knights?

[@BacklogBuster]

Want more Single Job Challenges? The Playlist is right here: kzbin.info/aero/PL831ag0wyJdRZ_aWO7CgLHf2I7EolQMv4

[@termitesc.aardwolf3644]

You should make a tier list of which FF5 job challenges are from easiest to hardest when you eventually finish this series.

[@BacklogBuster]

Get outta my head Charles!!!

[@termitesc.aardwolf3644]

@@BacklogBuster All White Mages is probably gonna be a nightmare.

[@marcosdheleno]

@@termitesc.aardwolf3644 dont white mages get access to holy? which is the strongest spell in the game? i said this before, but, IF, the challenge allowed to equip other class abilities, white mage+ bare handed is REALLY good.

[@michaelmills8205]

@@BacklogBuster My prediction is that Berserkers will be the worst. You have no control over their attacks which is a problem in several battles, their weapons are inaccurate, no magic or pseudo-magic, and worst of all: no ability to use items in combat. The only option to get pass problem areas is to grind.

[@HeruCS2]

@@termitesc.aardwolf3644that’ll be the 2nd hardest after berserker

[@icyblue878]

I am straight up addicted to these FF5 runs and I absolutely love the narrative style! I've even had to go back and watch some of the videos on games I don't know anybody about just because these are so good! Thanks Wes!

[@gavingodwin635]

My reccomended has had me watching all your videos. you absolutely deserve more subs man.

[@BacklogBuster]

Maybe one day.

[@AzureTheSky]

Oh shit, these are coming out FAST! I wasn't expecting one so soon after the other, really cool!

[@sertiana2512]

Well, at least 4 Knights are less painful to do than Monks. Also, exclusive in PR version, you can "recover" Brave Blade's attack power if you previously ran a few times in battle by doing more consecutive battles without running.

[@notsure1350]

White mages oughtta be a blast

[@younesakdah1803]

Defender. The sword that parries death and tidal waves.

[@mhc706]

loving these videos and your commentary style makes them really enjoyable and rewatchable. thanks for making them and sharing them

[@richardxavier5442]

This series is great! Keep them coming!

[@avatarmew]

When you get to Mystic knight, you can use the mute spellblade to mute Omnisence!

[@jonathantifone8001]

Mute spell has odds. Mute knife has odds, mute spell blade is 100% unless they rebalanced in the PR.

[@jonathantifone8001]

@@veghesther3204 Yeah, spellblade is cracked in FFV. If a status CAN land on the target it DOES land. Give break a try against TwinTania after she removes her defense to charge gigaflare. One shot territory.

[@GarlyleWilds]

Here's an alternate Omniscient strat any class should be able to do: Equip reflect rings as usual, then attack yourself using the Mage Masher, a knife anyone (except Monk) can use. They have a % chance to cast Mute, which will then get reflected - this wears off quick but gives you a brief window in which you can strike at Omniscient with your partner without getting countered.

[@Jikkuryuu]

@@veghesther3204 That's certainly a valid concern, but the Mage Masher is not a very strong weapon. A couple high potions can patch up the damage before it kills you.

[@Jikkuryuu]

@@veghesther3204 I haven't played enough of the pixel remaster to know. They can be reflected in the gba, I've done that before.

[@GarlyleWilds]

​@@veghesther3204 Traditionally, actually, they can be reflected; this is a core strat of old single character class challenges. I do not know if it has changed for the Pixel Remaster.

[@Delmworks]

Any reason you can't use the fire whip to spam fire 3 instead?

[@sertiana2512]

​@@Delmworksbecause physical attacks will always trigger Reset

[@marcellosilva9286]

I used two-handed swords a lot in my playthrough of this game, combined with Spellblade, that shit was dealing insane amounts of damage, I later turned my two physical fighters into Freelancer dual-wielders with Rapid Fire, but I'll never forget two-handed's insane damage output for the majority of the game. Zweihander gang, let's go!

[@cormacolinde]

@@marcellosilva9286 Same here, I always use Knights a low in the first world, and combine 2-handed with Magic Knights, it’s awesome until you get dual-wielding.

[@EricHeckermoo]

Nailing cheesy jokes tip

[@BacklogBuster]

thanks chief

[@keithgreen8026]

loving the series , keep up the good work bud

[@jacobfair794]

“Dragoons always lose” didn’t realize how true this was until I thought about it 😂

[@Jikkuryuu]

_Technically_ there's no real advantage to not running ever vs running a whole heck of a lot. It's 'better' to run a whole lot. But screw that, I'm here for no running. Everyone has to try it once. And if not this challenge, then when? That was a fun run. Both unga bunga for most of the game and a nail-biting seat-of-your-pants victory against NeoExdeath. I had no idea the Defender could block magic, that was a fabulous tanky combo with the Aegis. Thanks for the video!

[@marcosdheleno]

he will probably run all fights for the chicken blade(i think that's what's called). for thief run.

[@reloadpsi]

I have an odd self-imposed rule of never fleeing combat in any turn-based game, unless it's a somewhat different game with a special mechanic that depends on it (like one I played where it was how you levelled up your speed stat.) And since I've always taken the Brave Blade, this isn't one of those different games for me :P

[@Jikkuryuu]

@@reloadpsi The number of times I've gotten all the way to the choice only to realize I both haven't run once _and_ the Chicken Knife is the optimal weapon for my Fiesta team is higher than I'd like. So I end up with a 1 atk knife sitting in my inventory for the rest of the run XD. If running still rewarded your exp and gil for defeated enemies I might actually use it sometimes in RPGs. It's an all risk and negative reward scenario in most of them. FF1 excepted, _that_ game you want to run from everything and cherry pick easy/profitable wins instead.

[@RaineAsteria]

Your commentary is freaking hilarious! Actually, I've been using your videos as ASMR because your voice is just that nice.

[@leonhart483]

just watched the monk video for the first time, waiting to see if you had more videos and here it is! videos are great man

[@BacklogBuster]

Thanks. This is going to be an ongoing project for the foreseeable future. I'll try and get them out at a reasonable rate but I will be doing other videos in between just to keep things interesting.

[@NightVisionPhantom]

Looking forward to the four berserkers run

[@leonhart483]

@@BacklogBuster in your own pace brother, i love the idea especially when you get to the more niche jobs

[@marcosdheleno]

even though monk is really bad later in the game, its still my favorite classs in 5. i specially like to give its bare handed to the party white mage and black mage/summoner. as it allow them to deal decent damage.

[@asteroidrules]

Kinda surprised you hadn't used double-hand before. I'm a big fan of using it on classes that normally can't equip or don't need shields like Red Mage and Samurai.

[@BacklogBuster]

Why? Barehand crushes world 1, and the Dual wield is more fun.

[@psychmyst]

I've never killed the bombs without the Bard's stop song.

[@williamdrum9899]

You can cast Berserk or Silence on them to stop them from reviving

[@nintendbro3275]

Im loving these playthroughs. Ff5 was one of the first games i ever played, so im very nostalgic for it. But this lets me enjoy it with new perspective and the ability to skip the slow ass cut scenes 😂

[@iamthehobo]

Lots of good gear + doublehand should mean not much trouble, maybe at the end though. Let's see. I'm so down for 22 ff5 videos btw

[@Myrope]

Knight is one of my favorite Jobs in FFV! I'm so glad you got to see it's true strength. Awesome video! Things felt a little more manageable than the Monk playthrough. Maybe I'm misremebering but can't you use the various Rods as Items to cast spells? Man, I'm really looking forward to the Berserker and Mystic Knight playthroughs! Okay, honestly I'm looking forward to every single playthrough, lol. I'm curious which Jobs the game cannot actually be beaten with. Are you including Mime and Freelancer in this series?

[@marcosdheleno]

i used to really dislike knights, as i was a monk fan. but since i replayed the game, i did see how amazing 2-hand is. what sucks is the rest of its "unlockable" abilities. they are pretty much trash.

[@leargamma4912]

Equip shields has its uses with some party set ups and boss strategies. ​@marcosdheleno equip swords is useless, but sometimes you need to put someone to sleep. The knight is a solid job with lots of damage potential and synergy. The only real issue is that it's a simple job. You either attack a ton for massive damage, or you take a ton of hits or mitigate damage with shields/equipment. Very good job.

[@ClintonKE]

Glad u found out how good knight and 2 handed is.

[@christaylor86]

Subbed! I pray you complete all jobs!

[@TheAngelChaz]

I think its frowned apon beating a panda with a 2 handed sword

[@stuart959]

4:27 I laughed when you complained about being arrested and about you thinking this was America. While saying out in a great lakes / Canadian fashion.

[@BacklogBuster]

Its NORTH AMERICA BABY

[@casiokidd]

Love this video, dude

[@lordofhyphens]

FYI: You can re-equip weapons and shields in combat for free. Useful if you find yourself surprised by an elemental absorb

[@Chromiell]

Quick question because I saw you having issues with Excalibur against enemies absorbing light elemental attacks, in previous versions of FFV you could switch weapons in battle by going into the Item menu and hitting Up to access the equipped weapons, here you could swap between weapons in your inventory, is this option not available in the Pixel Remaster?

[@leargamma4912]

It is

[@Victini415]

Doesn't Self-Destruct deal damage based on the user's own HP? Couldn't you whittle the bombs down, THEN have them explode for pitiful damage and save Phoenix Downs?

[@PixiePulse_]

Possible that im incorrect but according to the wiki, Omniscient isnt immune to silence. So any class that can use the Mage Masher should be aɓle to beat him with only physical attacks?

[@BacklogBuster]

Silence lasts for like 1 round vs. Omniscient. You'd need to get insanely lucky and have silence go off back to back until he died.

[@hurngusmcdurngus9106]

Hahaha in the anthology version omniscient would punch for max damage when silenced

[@MatthiaGryffine]

Kudos to you for trying this

[@Rolo1507]

I never knew that "Phoenix Up" Gobblegum from COD Zombies was a Final Fantasy reference until now for "Phoenix Down".

[@iantaakalla8180]

I thought “Phoenix Down” was named that because it rescued a “downed”/fainted person, and was not named that because it was the down feathers of a phoenix.

[@jacquelineking5783]

Probably a play on both ideas.

[@gg3xneptune920]

Peak dropped

[@LS-mb4my]

Did the PR undo the Chicken Knife's damage calculation? If they didn't Chicken Knife would have actually done more damage than Braveblade due to double dipping into stats for damage calcs, at the cost of running 25-90% of the time....

[@BacklogBuster]

Don't know but the Knight and Freelancer are the only ones who can even use the Brave Blade. The chicken knife will get used for every other job.

[@LS-mb4my]

@@BacklogBuster I see so you figured you might as well let the brave blade actually shine instead of letting it collect dust.

[@LS-mb4my]

@@veghesther3204 I think they actually fixed that part in the pixel remaster at least. Before if you ran away once it permanently lost attack, but now it lets you regain attack by doing more battles.

[@chocobro7]

Fanatic run, can't wait for red mage

[@stevesamuals2651]

Ive always Wondered if it was possible to apply all jobs to a single character, since you can permanently learn skills of classes.

[@leargamma4912]

Yes. Called the freelancer

[@williamdrum9899]

Yes, you can master every job if you wanna grind enough

[@MechaOracle]

Knights are perhaps the best job in the game because not only are they great as your primary job but they give you some awesome features to use with your other jobs. They're boring but effective / 10

[@firstnamelastname8107]

This is redundant now as I think it can only be used by knights, but in the Pixel Remaster, the blood sword counts as magic damage and can deal with Omniscient without triggering the counter. Accuracy sucks, but it's proobably gotta be faster than draining MP. If you do a freelancer run, might come in handy. (Can confirm that worked on an earlier version anyway, I know they patched PR but i don't think they'd change it. Bone mail to deal with drain, reflect ring, Omniscient can do nothing to you)

[@williamdrum9899]

I swear the Blood Sword always misses in the GBA version unless you use Aim

[@cosmog420]

I played a rom hack of the SNES version of ff5, called super custom jobs, it lets you also change the fight and items commands. And so I gave my knight the commands x-fight, guard, enchant, and two-handed. With the enchant command I could enchant my sword with firaga, doing 3x damage to anything weak to fire. Making it x6 damage with two-handed. My knight was so powerful.

[@Mingodough]

When was this recorded? It’s still using the default font instead of the pixel font (unless you just like the default one)

[@BacklogBuster]

Last year in Feb I think. I have like a terabytes worth of playthroughs to go through. I think I change to the (superior) pixel font at like Red Mage.

[@AxeMain]

Fun series

[@JGeMcL]

You think you'll just do one Freelancer run and then continue from save states for the all the advanced jobs?

[@BacklogBuster]

There are no advance jobs in the Pixel Remaster.

[@soichironagi9993]

It's been too many years since I've played FF5, but I swear I remember Gilgamesh vanish in to a dimensional portal with Nechrophobe...is my memory playing tricks on me?

[@BacklogBuster]

He gets sucked into the void by Exdeath in his castle. He blows up Necrophobe.

[@soichironagi9993]

@@BacklogBuster That makes sense, thanks for refreshing my memory!

[@HeavenOnHigh]

in this episode of 4 warriors of light against the world The crusade

[@dexteradams6515]

Why not use freelancer to beat the game first and set save states at each crystal so you don't have to repeat using freelancer over and over again?

[@BacklogBuster]

if *every* start was exactly the same it would get super boring. I'm going to group them up for sure (like upcoming Samurai/Dancer/Dragoon, and later Ranger/Bard) but youu gotta mix things up to keep it interesting.

[@Tankurtle]

wait will you do the gba's jobs? or is that just a freelance run?

[@BacklogBuster]

No, I have zero interest in the GBA version. Besides, the GBA jobs are all post-game anyways arent they?

[@williamdrum9899]

​@@BacklogBuster Necromancer is. I think you get the other three after collecting all four tablets but before you travel to the rift

[@brenoldt]

knight goes hard

[@ahmedfalahy9337]

How about going all AFK? *Can you complete FF5 using Berserkers*

[@marcosdheleno]

that's a pretty common challenge, alongside white mage only.

[@hkillerpr]

Grind Grind Grind baby xD

[@heyBurmecia]

CheatEngine can speedhack the pixel remasters over 75x speed with 1 button and virtually no setup if you wanted to do the Fork Tower without changing jobs

[@crossjmail]

Commentus Maximus

[@lordoftheredead]

On Neo Exdeath you can save the magic lamp Odin until the woman is the last part left. The woman is generally the least dangerous part and if used this way it skips the meteor phase entirely.

[@marcosdheleno]

man, looking at how fun equipment is in FFV makes me really scratch my head why they went with the blandest equipment in FFXVI. i guess its that idiotic "ssiv equipment is trash and people love xiv" mentality. at least ffvii remake/rebirth went ham on making weapons interesting.

[@BacklogBuster]

Gear and Jobs is what FF really needs to go back to for real. FF7's colored marbles can come too.

[@marcosdheleno]

@@BacklogBuster lets just be honest, ff7 balls, are just espers done right. for all my love for FFVI, i cant help but think the gameplay really lose its charm once you can turn everyone into spell casters with espers. VII on the other hand really managed to take that idea, and turn it into something REALLY GOOD.

[@Wajulillo]

Knights are really strong but so boring to play. I wonder if you can do a Red Mages only challenge 😎

[@BacklogBuster]

The job that peaks at Karnak? Yeah I can do it.

[@derekminna]

Its crazy how you pronounce it MON-k and not MUN-k

[@andytaker3073]

Dragoons don't always lose

[@LarryJ2022]

GJ

[@grauenritter9220]

HMMM ITS ALMOST LIKE USING THE BEST WEAPONS AND THE BEST ARMOR WITH 2 HANDS IS OP

[@BacklogBuster]

YEAH?

[@sirloinestakegames7866]

What's your point? The challenge isn't "initial equipment" or something. He's using the tools that the game gives him.

[@Valderious_Toriador]

I see what you did there with the Girugamesh comment.

[@Dolceandgabana]

I know it's a ton of work, but it would be really cool to see you try to find the best duo job set up. (Only playing a job to get the skills and then sticking with those skills on another job)

[@Dolceandgabana]

I feel like there are a ton of great combos