So last month I decided to speedrun old RPGs after watching Youtube speedrun videos. It gave me an excuse to pick them up again and be a lazy. My other half thinks it's in bad taste to speedrun RPGs… She says that because she likes to take too long on every RPG she plays. Anyway… I played Final Fantasy 4, 6, and 7, only those so far. I will try not to give away too many spoilers.

Final Fantasy 4

Final Fantasy 4 fan art of characters

Final Fantasy 4 Odin battle

My first play through time of Final Fantasy 4 was 10 hours 30 minutes, I took my time some. Had fun with it. This was the first time I played through part 4 since 1997, still remembered quite a bit. For me FF4 was my first great RPG that I will always remember with fondness. It and Sim City were my first SNES games. Looking at them in Nintendo Power I knew I had to have them.

2nd play through time was about 4:00, It was tool assisted as they say.

I used level 99 code

start with best weapon codes

press "A" to summon the big whale at any time on the world map

and later on I figured out a better walk through wall code for version 1.1

I used a few glitches too, like weapon duplicate, Village of Myst skip. I haven't figured out how to use the 64 room glitch yet… It took several tries to figure out how to glitch my way through a certain part. With luck I did it.

My party was: Cecil, Cid, Kain, Yang, and Rydia (young)…

Yes, it was very tricky keeping those characters to beat the game. I wanted a warrior/fighter party. :D

3rd play through I beat it in 1:30, heavily cheated, lol. Very much tool assisted…

I used the same codes as mentioned before, but I started with more items.

My party was: Cecil, Kain. Rydia (young), Palom, and Porom.

Magic users was the theme this time.

I hope to make another run without cheats or glitches, I expect my time will be much higher, probably over 12 hours.

Final Fantasy 6

Final Fantasy 6 fan art of characters

Final Fantasy 6 Atma weapon battle

I only played through this til the end one time, but I reseted many many times. I wasted too much time. I got to the ruin world at least 2 different times. The last time I told my other half that I can beat this time, and so I did. I also had other goals too, not just speed…

Least amount of steps

Lowest levels possible

My final time was 5:56

Steps: 17,301

Tool assisted, I used start with weapons/armor codes, but no experience modifier codes, no stat codes, no level codes, nothing else. I didn't walk through walls or use any glitches. Yes, this was a huge headache…

Final levels:

Terra lv11, Edgar lv12, Sabin lv10, Mog lv15, Setzer lv10, Celes lv10

Cyan lv12, Gau lv10, Umaro lv11, Gogo lv13

I didn't get Relm, Shadow, Strago, or Locke, also I didn't get every esper.

My levels were really low, but I think I can beat it if I tried again. So yeah, I faced the final bosses with less than 400hp per character. One note about being on low levels, higher level enemies tend to miss hitting you a lot. I noticed a long time ago that the higher your levels are the more damage + chance of being hit increases.

I'm currently playing Final Fantasy 7 on my PS2, I'm considering buying it for my PS3 also. I don't think I can speedrun this game, it's way too long and enjoyable for me to run through. I'm not saying FF4 & FF6 are not as enjoyable, but they're easier to go through or restart and try again.

Final Fantasy 7

I beat it 3 times… First time was a terrible 20+ hours, but I did a lot and also took my time and spoke to NPCs. It's almost against my religion to speedrun this game. So my last two playthroughs I tried to make it to disc 3 with a level 6 Tifa and fight the strongest bosses in the game with only her.

It didn't go well, lol. It's too hard of a challenge…

Now I'm playing Mother 3 for the GBA, playing it on my PSP. I never got around to playing, until now.