As I have done several times, I decided to restart my Final Fantasy marathon after being forced to take a bit of a break. Today, I’m playing Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster.

I already have all the Steam achievements for this one. There are six classes and four party slots and you can choose any combination you want.

Playing all the combinations would take way more playthroughs than I’m willing to do, so I’m going to do just two. This will allow me to use all six of the classes.

Party formation

For this playthrough, I chose a party of Warrior, Thief, White Mage, and Black Mage. I then named my characters Rand, Matt, Nynaeve, and Egwene after some of the main characters in the Wheel of Time series.

Once I left the party selection screen, the game played a brief sequence of scenes to introduce the story. Basically, some bad shit is happening and my four party members are the fabled Warriors of Light who will fix the bad shit by restoring the crystals.

The princess is in another castle

I start the game on the overworld map, near a castle and a town. I head into the castle, where a guard recognizes my party as the Warriors of Light and takes us to see the King.

We show the King our crystals and he is convinced we are the prophesied warriors; however, the chancellor is skeptical. The King knows we want to travel to the northern continent, but the bridge is out.

He tells us if we rescue his daughter from the fallen knight Garland, he will restore the bridge. Garland is holding the princess in the Chaos Shrine to the north.

There are six chests in the castle, but none are accessible yet. I leave the castle and head into the town.

At this point, my half-hour is about up. My goal is to play a half hour every day until I finish my marathon.

I save the game outside the town. Tomorrow, I will head into Cornelia to gear up for the Chaos Shrine.