Hello everyone and welcome back to Gaming Union's Community bookclub activity, New Game Plus. As a group of gamers, members of GU come together with an on-going game and pre-determined checkpoint which we all play to for that specific week. Through this community event, participants find themselves all fighting the same bosses and travelling the same areas of the map, and because of this have lots of topics to discuss as they know there'll be other people who know exactly what they're talking about because they'll have just played it too! It's exactly like playing a game normally, but plus the GU community! The feature encourages more in depth discussion about games by pushing people to focus on one title at a time. This can create a space where we can be more analytical or critical about levelling systems or art design. No conversation topic is barred, but you must remember to do your homework to keep up with everyone else!

At the moment New Game Plus and the Unionite Warriors of Light are working their way through the quintessential Final Fantasy I! Last week, our adventurers finally got around to restoring the Earth Crystal and the Fire Crystal. Dungeon crawling and grinding aplenty, I think it's about time that we took to the skies...

This is our third week! There's been plenty of grinding so far, but we're slowly making our way towards saving the world from an evil force! Check out below for the guidelines to participate and details of where to start from and where the next checkpoint in the game will be. Make sure to come back regularly to let us know how you're finding the game!

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We're hoping to split FFI into five sections. This is Week 3.

The checkpoint which you need to play up to is:
Get to the Entrance of Mirage Tower
Inside the following spoiler tags is a slightly more in depth description of all the locations you go through plus boss fights before you get to this point, just to dispel any confusion:

ALL DISCUSSION FOR WEEK 3 IN THIS THREAD.
(Previously: Week 1, Week 2)
Also if you need any clarification of the guidelines then please ask!
Have fun exploring, guys!

GUIDELINES
- You can play any version of this game! There are a fair few out there, so just choose one!
- A new thread will go up each Thursday telling you where the next check point is. All discussion for each section must go in the relevant threads. Previous threads will remain open to let people catch up and let the conversation continue.
- You MUST resist playing on past the scheduled check points. For these discussion threads to work we need to all be at the same point in the game. Besides, it's not in the spirit of this activity!
- Please don't post spoilers for things that haven't happened in the game yet. We love that you're enthusiastic about it, but some people will be playing for the first time.
- However, you CAN post spoilers for anything that happens within the given section of the game, so long as you use tags [ spoiler][/spoiler ] to protect those still playing through.
- Talk about anything and everything! Story is just one aspect, but if you love the music or hate the map, then speak up! Get a little more specific and in depth than usual!
- If you get hopelessly stuck, you're encouraged to say so in this thread as soon as you can, and I can guarantee that there'll be a whole bunch of people willing to offer up their strategies or tips.
- On the converse, feel free to challenge yourself if you've played the game a billion times before! Suggested challenges could be a Solo Run or a party of White Mages!
- Remember to HAVE FUN!

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Woot! May get an early start at it tonight. Also planning on doing the class up asap, beefed up warriors of light are so much cooler looking.

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working on uploading a couple tips involving this week, and Chloe, idk how, but you somehow got a location wrong (may have been me mixing up places by accident when we were talking about it) but anyways, these vids are still uploading, but I should have the links by the time I'm done typing this

a ship docking tip, along with the airship and the Citadel of Trials
finding the fairy
I probably won't be getting to it until this evening, but you can guarantee that I have been looking forward to this part ^_^
and if I have any annotations to make to the vids, I will make them this evening as well ^_^

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Oops, that's my bad. Obviously didn't research that properly!
Thanks for correcting me Zero. Saves confusion for everyone else along the line. <3

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It disturbs me how much I look forward to the class change when I play this game. It's like when a pokemon evolves. But then again who wouldn't be excited about going from a thief to a ninja.

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I guess it's about time I jump in on NGP. I'm a bit after where Week 2 left off and I was really busy with school work (stayed up til 5 AM yesterday) so I wasn't able to do much but I can start during Spring Break. Excited to see how this thing works

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June Member of the Month and 10000th poster of the 10000 posts thread

(March 29, 2012 04:36:06 PM)Chloe Wrote:  Oops, that's my bad. Obviously didn't research that properly!
Thanks for correcting me Zero. Saves confusion for everyone else along the line. <3

no prob. just doing my duty

anyways, finally getting ready to get going on week 3 @_@

::EDIT:: had my first game over going through ice cave. I didn't even have this problem going through the citadel of trials @_@

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(March 29, 2012 09:56:36 PM)Zero Wrote:  ::EDIT:: had my first game over going through ice cave. I didn't even have this problem going through the citadel of trials @_@

Should I be worried? I've not had a single KO yet

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(March 30, 2012 03:08:37 AM)Kevio17 Wrote:  Should I be worried? I've not had a single KO yet

well I was at Lvl 17 when that happened. I simply got overpowered.

I went through again and got the levistone, but got surrounded by 4 dark wizards who cremated me via Fire3 -_-

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For those who've grabbed the Levistone and need a way out of the dungeon but don't have Teleport - go back around to the room where you fell into the cave with the Levistone, and just beyond it and up the corridor is a staircase that'll get you straight out of there. Had me worried for a second

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