Can you beat Final Fantasy 9 at Level 1?

[@tantacles]

My discord server is pretty cool if you're not a member yet. 🙃(and it's free) discord.gg/jy7VsGMFFc

[@deesmith8576]

lamo you wen the hard way in boss fights frey can solo all bosses with jump

[@tantacles]

@ um… at level 1? Not really lol

[@Primalliquid92]

at first i was like "Damn" when i saw this drop because i was just about to start something very similar but then i was like aww when i saw zidanes name. EDIT: YOU LET ME DIE TO SEALION AND BW1? i feel so betrayed...

[@tantacles]

haha, you made the Selphie video I streamed 2 months ago, so I'm glad I got you back. ;-)

[@Primalliquid92]

@@tantacles ahhh so it was you who did a selphie video, i saw some people mentioning somebody did a run like that but when i checked everywhere i couldnt find it on anybodies channel

[@haniramadhan]

Both of you are my fav FF streamer haha😅

[@CmotDribbler]

Loving the love.

[@wjezra09]

Clearly that just means you need to do it while getting Excalibur 2.

[@NGPlusVideos]

This should be a good video, and not just because I'm Vivi. Can't wait to finish this one 😁

[@NGPlusVideos]

I took a back seat to PressA at the end, I understand. Great video, and congrats on a successful level 1 run

[@tantacles]

You can’t be the hero ALL the time.

[@zombieasparagus6021]

You guys are all awesome, each with your own strengths and charms.

[@JustTheGems]

Watching this has made me genuinely appreciate the combat in FF9 more, and I'm happy about that

[@seanheadrick4191]

Is that a snake in your tent or are you just happy to see me? It's a snake.

[@RagnarAlvarrGaming]

Last one to join, first one to be sacrificed 😢 but hey I made it in and was situationally useful so thats something!

[@tantacles]

You will be remembered forever

[@sebastianguerra6358]

You naming all characters after other challenge run youtubers is actually a very sweet detail. Thanks for this great video :)

[@PTp1ranha]

I like how the "You Are Not Alone" sequence is just this beautiful, moving payback from the party to Zidane for all the times he's been there for them, pulling him back in his darkest moment... and yet in all the challenge runs, it's specially designed to throw a wrench into whatever rules you're working with.

[@TheyLoveThemLLC]

Flygon HG stands for uhhhhh Handsome Gsteiner of course

[@pippofranco879]

really cool of you to promote other challenge runners

[@carltaylor2975]

I was gonna say the same thing lol.

[@erikofskullisland3987]

Epic video. People just don't understand the THINGS you have to do to avoid experience IN THIS GAME... THE THINGS.... The luck you need to have... OH, the black waltz 3 secret about physical attacks making him fly into the air, is seriously SO SO helpful. Thank you. The Meltigemini battle, I resumed my own lvl 1 run recently, and that battle was so hard, with that damn multi-target Bio and Virus, but you really helped with that one. 58:00 damn, Ruby so crystal-clear sexy there. Hunting dragons before Terra, so good. Love ya, Freya (Quina. Eiko for that Phoenix luck).

[@SgtSnuggles2008]

Ive heard many interpretations of summon names over the years but Ray-moo is a new one for me lol. Great video!

[@ShadowDanGaming]

35:25 Quina: revives Garnet: "And i took that personally." Seriously, the power behind that swing and the hatred in her eyes lol

[@vicopop3143]

The “I think that’s a lot of emotion for safe” joke had me DYING 😂

[@Galaxyhoppah]

First Tantacles movie has dropped

[@onernoa]

What a labor of love! It's wonderful to watch your passion at work, Tantacles!

[@Crispy_Sprite1]

Hearing the entire party being named nothing but my subscription box is so pleasant. happy to add you to the roster

[@knightky975]

Another great video~ so glad to be part of that Discord group

[@KingNothing191]

Awesome work dude! This was a banger ^-^

[@tantacles]

Thank you

[@barneybetsington7501]

Linking creator's channels and their videos you mentioned inside of your description is very nice. More people should do that. Thank you.

[@NesuCross]

I remember I was 15 when I uploaded my Level 1 run. It was a big challenge, but I was glad to have achieved it. To take note for those who don't want to deal with the pain that Tantacles had to deal here we go: To make more easy to get Add Status or effects based in probability as well as filling up Trance bar, be sure to have a high level of Spirit, this makes easier to get Quina to petrify the mages and Vivi to Stop every single enemy. There are other options like Freya's Heavy Lance for the Red Dragon, but it's heavily dangerous due the damage inflicted. Cotton Robe Trick is useful if you made yourself with the 10.000 gil of the sword scene with Blank. Other ways to make more money are with Leather Plates or Desert Boots, but Cotton Robe is way more easier and more if you are in disc 3. Disc 4 is more complicated due you need to make two travels from Burmecia and Dali. On certain places like the route to Treno and in general if you want to avoid stubborn encounters, you can use Stutter Walk Trick by mashing the d-pad without holding it, this helps a lot. On normal scenarios, Thievery is a great move, but to achieve the neutral full damage is tedious at a ridiculous level as the full damage is reached after 870 successful steals, you can easily spend 30+ hours stealing with Bandit and Master Thief abilities activated to optimize the stealing rate. One of my common strategies was to mainly steal Serpion and kill as these are assured 100 successful steals and kills, at Dali I can find Pythons that has at least 4 items to steals and are always found in groups of 2 or 3, the usual is after disc 3 synth Sargatanas and use Soul Blade to petrify them and make the process way more easier. If you felt lost about the calculation, Thievery's fixed damage is based in (N°of steals) x (base speed/2), as Zidane's base speed, you have to divide the damage by 11.5 to get an estimated amount of steals. On other things, there are missable item steals, so be sure to take these.

[@ashm4938]

most enemies after Lindblum have 2-3 drops, I farm about 650 there (also gives a good opportunity to go to Qu's Marsh for frogs a few times too), as for the other 200 or so steals, I make those up as I play the game up until the point I get thievery, by then almost max damage

[@catlinkerswell3696]

Amazing video man ! I had a blast watching this. Youre editing and voiceover is righteous. Thank you. This video made my day.

[@rowanmorris2187]

Fantastic video ace!! Terrific effort!

[@timemonkey]

Wow, that's real dang impressive that you managed to not only beat the game but all the bonus bosses as well!

[@7mixam]

Even seeing most of this live I was really lookinh foreward to the video. It was a nice journey! Well done!

[@Hidden_Fern]

Loving this video so far! Only been a couple challenge runners I haven’t watched lol. That fake better help segment cracked me up. I’m def gonna be putting on some of your videos for my bf lol

[@tantacles]

If you like fake commercials I strongly recommend final fantasy vii with cloud only

[@Viertis]

Not once in all my years of playing FF9 have I ever had Phoenix actually get summoned, even with 99 pinions and purposefully dying to see what it looked like.

[@zerovolt1406]

Never forget Gamerchamp’s sacrifice, our queen will live on in our memories

[@820krose]

How does this not have more views?!? This has been a fantastic ride!

[@tantacles]

SKI-DOO CEOS suppressing legitimate voices

[@EvilCronos13]

I don't say it enough, but thanks for all the work that goes into these challenge videos! I could never have enough patience to do it and you make them very entertaining!

[@Gary_P2]

This video definitely deserves a sub excited to see what else you got!

[@Etnaese]

That was wild! Enjoyed the ride!

[@billmartovich9009]

When I played through FF9 I got caught up overleveling by grinding out all the equipment at every available location and then grinding out all the abilities rinse and repeat at evey new location and equipment. I got as far at the Red Hat Rat Tree before I got bored and played something else for a while. And I forgot all about FF9. And I forgot about FF9 for so long that I never picked it back up. I'm glad I could vicariously beat this game through you!

[@markanderson4824]

Legendary run dude! Great video.

[@Rocko_onionprince]

Lovely video, my friend. Glad youtube showed me this! ❤

[@Nashaliya]

Been loving your FF9 challenges since it's my all time favorite in the series, plus your humor makes them so much better 🤭

[@TheMoogleKing93]

Always love the vids my man!

[@IzunoTheWolf]

underrated youtuber right here, folks.

[@teemukettunen4824]

Amzing stuff never would have tought this is possible well done man👌

[@andreseh87]

What I love about self-imposed challenges like this is that it showcases the strength of the combat system.

[@dragonrider8891]

Literally JUST beat ff9 on switch, this showing up on my yt is magical

[@LizzieQueen18]

Thank you for validating my childhood by mentioning Kablaam

[@tantacles]

Did you know thunder girl flies like thunder?

[@OMUNDODETUTU]

Another ffix challenge! Thanks for this, more excited about these than new tv show episodes now ❤️

[@GuiltyluizMao]

Great video!!!! Had lots of fun

[@hanibully]

Hilgigars did not buy a boat. Instead, he *owned* a boat. He smashed it, took the anchor, and wore it on his right hand. Don't buy a boat :)

[@TheOneTwoThree]

Love the challenge vids! Keep up the positivity! We will need it for the forseeable future!

[@TheMacTastic1]

oh wow a whole hour and a half of tantacles! time to bring out the popcorn and snuggle up

[@Stryder467]

I've already subscribed to the channel, Tantacles, so Captain Tantasea's crowdsourcing shall be hindered.

[@twatirl5717]

Probably the best 90mins of my life.

[@biancaarmstrong5097]

Fun Fact: On the near end of disk 3, when you fight Kuja, do not, and I repeat, DO NOT use auto reflect on your team because Kuja will spam Flare Star on your team. I did this a long time ago thinking I can trick Kuja by using his magic spells since that's what he has that it will bounce back on him. But I was wrong. He was smart, knowing my trick, and punished my team by spamming Flare Star. So yeah... that got me off guard.

[@pichugirl6]

With how many challenges among several FF existing or any other RPG's. This is both scary, crazy and impressive how you did this at just lvl 1 for FF9. Part of me is scared if someone attempted a FF8 lvl 99 attempt as early as before fighting Ifrit.

[@tantacles]

That would be primal liquid who did that. 😉

[@JXIII]

I haven't had the time to watch the video yet, I just really want to compliment the fantastic thumbnail art.

[@tantacles]

Lycel did an AMAZING job. Thank you!

[@JXIII]

@@tantacles And now that I've a had chance to sit down and watch the video, holy crap! Good job! I really wasn't expecting you to take Hades and Ozma. I've done some needlessly hard challenges but nothing even compares to this.

[@Yeaster]

This is insane. I can't believe this is actually possible

[@Seloliva1015]

I had 0 idea of the tent strategy, I didn't even know you could use tents in battle, but it is kinda awesome

[@i_duditz2076]

I can’t believe you were able to pull that off. Congratulations!

[@williamlafond1319]

Tantacles : So I revive anyone who falls and eventually eliminate this reptile from existence. This reptile : slithers away*

[@chrisdixon7377]

Im big fans of primal and flygon, gonna have to check out NG+

[@acedfirefist]

LOVE IT

[@adiksaff]

HYPE!! FF9 is my favorite FF, and those post Terra characters (except Vivi) are my go-to endgame party. I didn’t think Stop could end a battle like that. I thought it could wear off or something.

[@geofff.3343]

12:20 You didn't think I wouldn't notice Illusion of Gaia (Illusion of Time for the Europeans I think) music, but I did because I'm a huge nerd! 16:15 I told you, I'm a huge nerd!

[@nesoukkefka1741]

Great run as a side note tough : -For Lani's Water spell I think you could have learn Reflect on Garnet, with a staff you can still to one of the 2 clown twins. -Similarly for Meltigemini you could have counter his Bio by setting Reflect on everyone with Carbuncle, the same goes for Necron's aga spells.

[@tantacles]

DOH! These are actually great tips.

[@plushysheep]

I remember doing this run in 2019. Great memories

[@Lord_Shal]

The pain of leveling?!? Oh no my friend, that’s the beauty of these games IMO. Doing this at lvl 1 sounds like the pain. Great video. 🍻

[@Spookybluelights]

A guest appearance from Partnercles! He's so cute (probably)!

[@webejammin9937]

Run was pain, but for sure it was good.

[@MrTylerWpg]

Some familiar names but a lot of new ones. Can't wait to check them all out.

[@two_spirit_sun]

38:00 the FF8 boss music while fighting an FF9 boss is wonderful 😂😂😂

[@Spookybluelights]

I like how your thumbnail artist gave Kuja a breastplate and now he looks like a Glamazon ready for the runway.

[@AdamenceXIII]

I didn't know about the Marcus grind impacting eikos stats not lv? That's a cool strat, also the zombie thing yes very annoying but once you get it, for whatever reason you can heal the zombie character with a tent at a save point for 1/2 hp, so 2 tents you'll have full hp in zombie. This doesn't work in the overworld tho.

[@Despicablehobbit]

The dagger also teaches flee, but mage masher is a must cos it basically doubles your attack at the start. Good video!

[@Galaxyhoppah]

Tents floating high up in the sky on the dragons is wild

[@Bramhallthefifth]

fwiw, and im not sure this knowledge would have changed anything, but flare star is a scripted counterattack for when trance kuja is below half health, or somewhere around there

[@HoshiiKun]

I been waiting for this video ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@thomaswilliams1533]

Shame on you KZbin for not recommending this video until 6 days after it comes out. Algorithm was prolly out looking at boats or something.

[@tantacles]

The algorithm did not buy one, though, which is why you made it

[@Galaxyhoppah]

Looks Lani just wanted your entire team to be extra MOIST.

[@Alleroc]

Great work! Loved the video!

[@tantacles]

Thank you!

[@blackmagekongs2588]

This took a lot more effort than i could have imagined

[@thunderchild1083]

It's been a while since I played this but I'm pretty sure you can give yourself the zombie status through a weapon or item that teaches you the status to help with the zombies at 39:02

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

Interesting thing is that most of these strategies are used to get the Excalibur II or just speedrunning in general. Also love all the references. I've actually seen vids from almost everyone mentioned.

[@DreadnaughtZero]

Ive done this challenge once and the amount of frustration I had to endure trying to petrify fork everything on the way to Cleyra was maddening. My luck is insanely rotten.

[@Nanoaiello]

One of my favorite challenge youtubers is The Backlogs, he does amazing soulsborne games challenges, they're super fun

[@thomasnewton2935]

I didn't think you could drag beatrix down low enough for the bandersnatches to kill her like that. 🤣

[@16BitBass8]

Bravo sir! What a ride

[@rpproductions6241]

I remember doing this challenge without a guide my first time. Didn't steal the Silver Fork from Zaghnol (incorrectly thought I could get the Oak Rod before Gizamaluke's Grotto). 15 hours of reset (Chocobo Hot and Cold). Then thought stopping dragons may count to Dragon's Crest. It doesn't.

[@DiegoG2004]

20:53 It may not be "put cat in face time", but it is "put bre in face time". I agree with this.

[@Someguyhere111]

Black Mage: "This is where we bury our friends who "Stop". Haven't figured out what causes it yet." Tantacles: *tugs collar*

[@tantacles]

😭😭😭

[@iamthehobo]

This was so crazy

[@cleardrop4531]

This was one of the funnest challenges from back in the day. So many reloads…

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

21:06 today i found out You can make the refight of black waltz 3 go crack when the princess is the only one alive

[@ArealDesEffekts]

I did that challenge some years ago, to get the max stats how I wanted them :D FF9 is so nice by allowing to do such things

[@zeig_dragoon]

its here!!

[@Delsus89]

Easily the best part of this video is watching PrimalLiquid die over and over and over again.

[@TheOrzhovSyndicate]

Love the illusions of gaia royal theme

[@donavonhoho]

respect the commitment

[@ashley2449]

blogan waltz and waltz coin is a 10/10 bit lmfaoo

[@mwbwyatt]

primal is probably my favorite sadist challenge runner next to NGplus and flygon is probably one of my favorite nuzlockers. so this is a good video for sure. 👍

[@TheStrahl]

Not only can you beat it at level 1, you can do it Level 1 Solo Character

[@tantacles]

The second someone makes a video about that I’ll watch it!

[@TheStrahl]

@@tantacles I did a series on my channel. It's done 1 video per boss so it's not really well edited like this,

[@MTtheHuman]

No😮....no😮....you're a monster.🫣

[@texanoni0904]

@TheStrahl that's pretty cool, you should try to edit them together whenever you get the chance, doesn't have to be great editing and it would prolly bring more people to your vids

[@samsoncooper1]

I've done a run in under 12 hours but I have always wanted to do this kind of challenge. I am guessing (before I have watched) that Eiko will be a big part of this run!

[@UrgentForce]

The Level 1 Challenge is one of my favourite ways to play Final Fantasy IX haha. Did it 2 times.

[@mustachesamurai]

The chapter breaks are so cute!