Final Fantasy 5 is one of the most played entries in the series when it comes to challenge runs. The way the game is designed, it's easy to remove numerous sources of power to make the experience that much more harrowing. Knowing this, I decided I could do something a little more meta; remove the usage of the menu. It turns out, that is one source of power that you SHOULD NEVER remove. And now we must ask whether beating Final Fantasy 5 Without the Menu, Running, or Spending Gil is a reasonable thing to achieve? The answer is definitely not. Thanks for watching! I apologize thoroughly for the delay in releasing this video, but I am incredibly happy to have it done and ready to share with all of you. If you enjoyed, I'd thoroughly appreciate if you Liked, Shared, Commented or Subscribed! And why not hit the bell, he's a casual that uses the menu in video games. As always, I need to offer my firmest and most heartfelt thanks to my Patreon and YouTube supporters. You give me confidence, comfort, and reassurance in what I produce, and I'm thankful for you everyday. And finally, I have a discord server! If you want to ask about when the Final Fantasy 7 run is coming out, among other questions! And as a special shoutout, the wonderful ending rendition of "This is the End" by Fredrik Häthén! https://fredrikhathen.bandcamp.com https://tidal.com/artist/5515039 / @fredrikhathenmusic
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Of all the crazy restrictions I have seen suggested, “Never opening the MENU” we never even suggested. Hell yes.
The moment we have all been waiting for. This sounds like hell.
"hey ̶j̶i̶m̶m̶y̶ seer, gimme a FF5 run with nothin'" seer: nothin'?
>ff5 challenge video >50 minutes longer than the previous longest challenge video >banning literally everything by only banning three things Oh yeah it’s ball torturing time
I genuinely thought the title said "without opening the game" and thought "yeah, seer can do that, I believe in him"
Can't wait for the "Can you beat Final Fantasy 7 without ever playing Final Fantasy 7?" challenge.
We're eating good today, boys. We're eating Mighty Man Meals.
Long have I waited for this day. Entertain me, ballman
Before I started watching, I wanted to make a small list of stuff that I thought might happen, and the main ones were "he's gonna get fucked by Lv 5 Death (which made me do a weirdly evil cackle when it happened), Zombie is gonna fuck him over (didn't end up mattering since I didn't know Dechirers could drop Revivifies), and Tote Aevis would randomly destroy you (oh yeah)". It takes a much greater man than me to think of doing a challenge run to this extent of a game that I'd only be partially familiar with, so at this point after finishing it, there's not a lot I can say aside from, "god damn, I'm glad I didn't have to do that." Amazing run!!! And thank you for the shout-out at the end! I wish I'd known to mention that you can steal Defenders from the Landcrawlers in that big desert in world 3, that probably woulda helped you, but your solution to Fork Tower was pretty smart, I've never even considered using the Berserk strat. Also, random nerd shit: Atomos IS vulnerable to sleep, but as he has the Heavy flag, he's immune to Harp damage. And Harps are even worse than you imply, because they do percent damage based on CURRENT HP, so unless the enemy has 1 health remaining, Harps can't kill stuff. Heavy doesn't necessarily make you immune to instant death and the like, there are multiple Heavy bosses that can be killed by the Death Scythe as you discovered, but the overlap is pretty significant. Also, yes, Omega's activation range is super bullshit. That's all I got, I'm seriously stunned you didn't say "okay I'm never playing final fantasy again!", but I guess that would be pretty out of character. I hope your future runs don't cause any more physical or mental anguish.
insane refresh pull
Reading the words “opening the menu” in the title and not even the rest of it and thinking “oh, that makes sense why it’s been a bit”
Seer, perhaps your next entry should be "Can Seer Beat Final Fantasy 7 Without Hating Himself?" You know, have yourself a beach episode. Be kind to yourself.
Oh boy, the long awaited video. Time to watch.
... I read the title, and my first thought was "I'm sorry, huh?"
"This bird can fly over mountains, Fuck Final Fantasy 3" I can feel that down to my core.
Oh it's finally here! In its 2 hour and 24 minute glory! Here's a little bit for the road Seer, get yourself a drink. Edit: All those parts where you end up just beating yourself up either through a fast forward mistake, a surprise attack or just plain bad luck really drives how bad things really were. I've never heard you sound so devastated before. I HAVE to know how long the actual video file was, because some of those deaths were so dumb like the instant level 5 death on Page 64.
I read "No Menu" and I didn't consider what that might've actually meant. I cannot imagine what a nightmare this must've been.
Most anticipated video of the year
Hort 9 is officially the only character in the Seer universe to understand the concept of money.
OH MY GOD IT'S REAL