Category: spotlight

  • Open World Compared

    Whirlwind Family of Mods

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    This table summarizes the open worlds offered by the Whirlwind family of mods of Final Fantasy I-VI.

    Note that “⏯” represents a feature that can be toggled in game.

    ModCutscene SkipsSequence BreaksStarting VehiclesVehicle SummonWorld Warps
    Headwind2
    Upwind3
    Crosswinds2
    Downwind3
    Whirlwind2Emergency button sequence
    Tailwind1

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  • Pure Chaos Compared

    Whirlwind Family of Mods

    For the Whirlwind (Four-Job) Fiesta event, click here.
    For the Whirlwind family of mods, click here.
    For clymax’s projects, click here.

    This table summarizes the Pure Chaos playstyle as offered by the Whirlwind family of mods of Final Fantasy I-VI.

    Note that “⏯” represents a feature that can be toggled in game.

    ModConfig MenuChest RandoShop RandoEnemy RandoBonanza1Job Rando
    Headwind
    Upwind
    Crosswinds
    Downwind
    Whirlwind
    Tailwind
    1. Random bonus drops after each battle. ↩︎

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  • Top-Sixty Ranked Player NeonHenchman Perma-Muted out of the Blue

    Covered at the sole discretion of clymax for sake of transparency on Retro Achievements, which was one of the aims of Moderator BahamutVoid in leaving his farewell letter not long after Administrator televandalist’s own resignation letter dropped. If you have any concerns with this mirror, please reach out to clymax directly.

    Global Points Ranking Leaderboard

    By RetroPoints – Current

    By RetroPoints – Historical, Before Formula Change

    By Points – Current

    You can follow NeonHenchman on YouTube or RA.

    August 31, 2026

    No Warning or Recourse

    I’ve been muted until 2038, even though I really feel wronged, still to this day.

    The Muting was just recent and there was no notification about it, but it all stems from a lot of bad faith months prior.

    DM-ing a Mod & then on-site’s RAdmin, they never responded, it’s obvious what it’s about.

    First Mute… Then Thread Locked

    The timeline is that, I really loathed the Resident Evil 4 GameCube Set, not because of the creator, but because it’s badly designed, like one of the achievements about Regenerador was impossible to follow on Professional Difficulty, while a lot of others had you abuse the adaptive difficulty, it’s just cumbersome.

    Then I was muted for a week, because when I made the argument that adding RPG-level of grinding to that game is inappropriate, they kept going in bad faith like saying “What do you think of Final Fantasy’s grinding achievements then?”, they wouldn’t understand context which ticked me off. I then made a Thread to vent my frustration, but while they did locked it, they hadn’t muted me again, that was on February/March.

    Perma-Muted out of the Blue

    [Editor’s note: it is believed that the mute is for the longest supported duration, amounting to a perma-mute.]

    Up until August, I was in good standing it seems, and I wasn’t using the service actively, only really responding to a few people, but then out of the blue in August, they did muted me until 2038. I believe I’ve had a doomspell put on me as I was about to say something about a crappy game that yet got a revision just recently. Basically, all my problems were about Quantity Vs. Quality.

    They also seemed more pissed at me reusing my old memory cards, than they were my criticism, which was odd, their portugese channel made it seem I was just skipping across games to get Points, even though I used to be Top-40 in terms of RetroPoints.

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  • Trails in the Sky Remake Demo

    Post-Stream First Impressions by NeoKakarot

    NeoKakarot is a fanatic of JRPGs, anime, and DOTA with an especially soft spot for games by Nihon Falcom. You can follow Neo’s work via YouTube or Patreon.

    First Impressions

    Writes Neo:

    So after experiencing the demo of Trails in The Sky First Chapter which is a remake for The Legend of Heroes: Trails in The Sky I just had to share my initial thoughts and impressions of it for this video!

    The video is below, so check it out!

    Stream VODs

    For players who wish to check out the stream VODs of the demo playthrough, see below.

    So, what do you think? Have you played the Trails series? If so, which Trails entry is your favorite?

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