Insane Difficulty: Blindfolded FF6 LLG - Insane Difficulty

Segment 58 - (Not Quite) That One Boss



This boss fight is not nearly as difficult as its BNW counterpart, despite the LLG restriction. In fact, this is probably the easiest challenge that I've fought vanilla Atma Weapon in thus far. Even in a fairly standard LLNMG he's harder than in this playthrough. Getting as much damage off as possible is crucial to avoid a party wipe from Blaze, and although I may be blindfolded, this is the first time I've ever had access to the full toolset to take this guy down.

In an LLNMG (natural Magic), I don't have easy access to Float, I have less attackers, and the lack of Slow greatly increases the number of turns that he gets (sure I could apply it with Gau, if I were willing to awkwardly kill off and revive him). Unlike in LLNSNI (no specials, no Items), I have Aspik for Gau, Morph to increase Fire 2's power more, reviving is plentiful from Phoenix Downs, and since I can use Tinctures, Rasp (which can bring me down to 0MP, meaning I can't Osmose) doesn't cripple anybody. And unlike the LLNEG, I can use Earrings to boost my damage, and Reflect Rings help me survive his other attacks so that I don't waste time dealing with those.

When all's said and done, only being blindfolded isn't looking too bad at all! XD

Segment 59 - Fall From the Light



Another timed segment, but this one is extremely forgiving.

Imp on the Naughties will defeat them. Doom on Nerapa will defeat him. There's actually a surprising amount of logistics behind just simply selecting those spells, but I think I explain it well enough in the video, since I have so much time during that cutscene.

Segment 60 - A Brave New World



This segment is essentially all cutscenes.

Segment 61 - Collapsing House



This couldn't have gone any better than it did.

Just found this thread. What the heck, man! Also, whats a BNW run?

BNW stands for Brave New World. It's one of the hacks on this site. I'm doing a sister series to this run that can be found in this thread:

http://www.insanedif...784-bnw-bf-run/

Segment 62 - Leisurely Stroll



This segment has so much content that your eyes will bleed.

(seriously though, this is probably the most unnecessary segment for the rest of the game. It was only left this short to be able to push out more videos while I was in the time period where I was making this episode)

Segment 63 - Phunbaba



It wasn't particularly hard to figure this out, but it was fun and easy to execute. No luck involved, meaning that a good execution is enough to win the fight. Of course, I did take some risks near the end which were unnecessary and unhelpful, but I didn't die, obviously.

Basically:

-Bolt 2 and Bolt 3 do nothing, so use this time to launch an offensive. Every second turn in a three turn cycle is one of these, so I can get reliable damage there.
-Solar Plexus will kill somebody if it hits, which it probably will. But since I know this, and I only have two characters whom I can distinguish by controller noise, I can always revive easily with the remaining character. Blow Fish is the same deal.
-If he does a physical attack, I have to heal with both characters. If somebody was just revived, I need to check if they died again before healing, so that I can revive them if necessary. It's not a run ender if I mess that up since he only uses physical attacks before Turn 2, my freebie turn.

Segment 64 - This Segment Exists



Well, the title is accurate.

Segment 65 - The True Dark World



Let's just copy the BNW description, because this is the same segment without dash.

In truth, this segment required a great deal of effort to actually accomplish. This town is extremely cramped, with many NPCs milling about. And to boot, I get the unrelenting joy of having to cross the place three times! Add to that a Cafe full of thieves I have to talk to, and this segment is a complete disaster to navigate. I also remember discounting using the path to the left of the Cafe, although I don't remember why. BTW, I guess I messed up that title or something...

Here's the thing; nothing in particular is too likely to go wrong. But this segment is the spiritual opposite to the BNW IAF segment. There I couldn't expect any one particular thing to go right, but I could rely on *something* going right to carry me through. Here, I can expect *something* to go wrong, if I'm not being completely vigilant at every moment. So evidently, this segment is going to take a long time. Well, maybe not *that* long in the scope of this playthrough, but compared to how long walking through this town normally takes, this is taking way too long!

It's not too bad until I get to the main square where the merchants are, but then the "fun" begins. Where possible, I walk in straight lines. This is because walking in straight lines is infallible provided I walk for long enough. NPCs can't stay in my way forever. However, on four different occasions, I have to take one step to the side to line myself up with the place I should be in. On these occasions, I press A when I'm taking that step. This way, if I am running into an NPC, I will talk to them. This doesn't tell me exactly where I am, as I could have taken a step before talking to them, or ran into them without taking a step and then talked to them. It's hard to tell. But it does tell me something's fishy, so if things aren't as expected I can probably guess what my mistake is, or I can line myself up to try again, instead of panicking and having no clue what's happening.

With a hearty helping of patience, this is enough to essentially secure victory over the town itself, but I still have to talk to the thieves. Two of them are stationary, and therefore require no effort to talk to. However, two are moving around, and this messes me up a great deal. My best idea is to enter/exit the Cafe over and over, mashing the A button as I walk in a vertical straight line in line with the doorway. Doing this enough times can make it fairly likely that I'll talk to each of them. I figured five would probably be enough. Exiting after contacting every thief is also a pain, as the ones walking around are still there, at least until I leave the Cafe. But if I run into one on the way out, I can determine that I haven't made it by opening the menu after ostensibly exiting the Cafe (which closes the Cafe door due to what could almost be labeled a bug) and walking upwards. If I have made it out of the Cafe, I will walk back in through the door. If not, I can try again as many times as I want. It will waste time, but I will always be able to get out of the Cafe, so this won't kill the run.

Once I get to South Figaro the segment is essentially over. There's nothing wrong with that place.

Segment 66 - North Figaro not Included



Finally have a bit more time to start have uploading again, with the main Christmas shenanigans out of the way. This episode is nothing special though.

Segment 67 - Caves, Castle, Tentacles, Desert.



The navigation in this episode is somewhat long, but completely standard.

The Tentacles boss fight is a joke. Runningshoes prevent Entwine and Seize from doing anything. Reflect Rings nullify Poison/Bio. So at the end of the day, all we have are the rare weak physical attacks to deal with. Thanks to Golem, even these don't really matter. And thanks to the Poison status, we have damage, so all the bases are covered.

Segment 68 - A Full Party Again



Hooray.

Segment 69: Dark Crypt



The only thing interesting about this segment is that I made up part 3 on the fly. This dungeon is broken up into tiny bite-sized chunks that are difficult to mess up.

Segment 70: Cheddar, Mozza and Blue



Cheese in the title, cheese in the video...

Segment 71: Around the World in 18 Minutes



This video actually has some gameplay. I need to identify a bunch of different random encounters that have particular Rages. I need these Rages in order to get Step Mine. I want to encounter all the formations that have these Rages because searching for Rages is a massive pain in general, which means that I want to maximize my odds of acquiring one of these Rages.

The three Rages I'm looking for are Mesosaur, Tomb Thumb and Crawler. Two of those appear on the overworld, and those are my target in this segment. The Tomb Thumb appears deep in Umaro's Cave though, which means that I'll have some things to do before acquiring the destructive Step Mine.

After that I get Bum Rush and Gau.

Segment 72 - Yet Another Cave



This dungeon is fairly craggy and not very well suited to being remembered easily. The plain cave aesthetic doesn't really help either. I also have to deal with the possibility of encountering a Rhyos, which is instant death.

Is it really worth the trouble of posting all your segments twice? Why not just link to the main thread?

Like this?

There are two completely separate series. One is for BNW Blindfolded, the other is a vanilla LLG.

Lockirby2, on 11 February 2016 - 02:01 PM, said:

Aaaaaaaaaand boy is there egg on my face! In my defense, I came in here and saw Segment 72, when over in the other run you're on Segment 73. If the numbers had been different I may have noticed.

I'm not sure if there' a proper emoticon for "boy, I'm an idiot." So here's one at random.