Part 189: Tom

Semi-Partial-Omni-Solo Red Mage Part 1: Tom



Meet Tom



You already know him though, right?



You don’t remember him? It’s Tom. You went to high school together.



You aren’t alone though, most people forgot about Tom pretty quickly. He seemed like an alright guy, but everybody knew he’d never accomplish much.



After all, he always had some sort of scheme or plan.



But the guy just never knew how to follow through.



Classic Tom.



Even now as an adult, he’s always starting things…



But he never finishes them.



Always taking the easy way out.



Remember Tom yet? Everybody knew Tom.



If you still don’t remember, you probably were Tom.


DEATHS: 1

Welcome to the Semi-Partial-Omni-Solo Red Mage run! I’m a bit surprised the gent in the feathered cap was still not represented, and I could use a break from fiesta season, so why not start. For anyone who doesn’t know, the Red Mage is classic Final Fantasy’s “sucker” class. They can cast both White and Black magic, and are usable melee fighters, and you wonder why other classes even exist when Red Mages can just do everything… but then they blueball you. The more specialized classes only grow in usefulness while the Red Mage smacks into a brick wall headfirst. I decided to take that to its extreme.

Basically, instead of getting every ability like Zerky! or being just a solo Red Mage which has been done before, Tom is halfway done with every class (obviously except Red Mage). While he will steamroll most of the early game with his abilities, the Red Mage class itself isn’t very good and he will eventually hit that wall because he’s stuck without any late game abilities. Even the red mage’s only saving grace in FFV, the “super ability” !Dualcast, can’t save it. In a normal playthrough when you can put in on a different class it’s one of the best abilities in the whole game, but it just isn’t worth as much when you’re stuck with shitty early-midgame spells. We're gonna take this perennial underachiever as far as his drive my sanity lets us.

So, I should probably explain what happened at the end of that. Well, because I wasn't just hacking in all abilities, I had to give myself buckets of AP and actually finish battles to level up and half-master all my classes. One battle for every class but Red Mage meant that I had ~20 battles of experience in the pirate cave, and I had grown to level 7. Apparently, the black goblins in the wind tower are also level 7. Being the same level meant that he could one-shot me with an 8x effective Goblin Punch