Dungeon crawl stone soup speedrun series#

You skip maybe 27 stories by teleporting, but the rest have to be climbed.

Final Fantasy XII had the 100-story Pharos.

However, it is not clear what exactly is going on since the layout of the non-boss floors are random and all of the Alzadaal Ruins is Alexander's body. It is 100 floors and was originally planned to go further up and descend. for anyone who had the time and money to go to the Fan Festivals.

Delkfutt's Tower, the top of which plays an important part in the Rise of the Zilart expansion, and offers a few special fights.

Final Fantasy X-2: Last Mission consists entirely of climbing the 80-floor Iutycyr Tower.

Final Fantasy X-2 has the Via Infinito, which goes down.

However, the fact that the laws of physics aren't strictly followed here makes it more difficult to say 'upstairs'.

Final Fantasy VIII has the optional Centra Ruins, the Dollet Radio Tower, the Desert Prison at the beginning of disc 2, and Lunatic Pandora.

At least one Second Life FFVII RP sim's players have taken to calling it ' Shin Ra Tower' and during the Junon sim's existence, put a fanmade one inside the support structure for the canon. A more classical example would be the Pagoda in Wutai, which, while only five levels tall, is 100% tower and has a guardian on each floor. Especially if you have to take the stairs. While it is not a literal tower in the castle sense, the skyscraper feel to it certainly would classify it as a tower.

Final Fantasy VII has Shinra Headquarters.

Kefka's tower is an inversion for the most part, as you're descending into the depths to fight Kefka (except for a few bits) and then climbing back up to escape it.

Final Fantasy VI has the Tower of Fanatics.

Final Fantasy V has the Barrier Tower, the Phoenix Tower (30 stories tall), the Fork Tower (in which you have to divide your party in order to knock down both sides at the same time), and Walse Tower (home to the water crystal).

You also have to enter the Tower of Bab-il no less than three times and traverse different floors each time.

Final Fantasy IV has at least two towers that serve as dungeons: The Tower of Bab-il and the Tower of Zot, where Golbez runs his operations.

Final Fantasy III has the Tower of Owen and the Crystal Tower.

The Unknown Palace in the Soul of Rebirth story also has ten floors, being a mirrored version of Pandaemonium. The Mysidian Tower and Castle Pandaemonium each have ten floors, with the latter also coming after the five-floor descent down Jade Passage.

Final Fantasy II has the fake final dungeon, Castle Palamecia, which you actually fall several stories down to just so you can climb up it.

Final Fantasy has you climbing the Tower of Illusion to obtain the fourth crystal.

Dungeon crawl stone soup speedrun series#

The Final Fantasy series is littered with examples of this.

It has a lot of depth and replayability, even outside of challenge runs (like speedruns for example). If you've never heard of this game before, but you like similar types of games to traditional roguelikes, I would highly suggest trying it out. However it wasn't nearly as good as p0werm0de's run, so I kept on grinding for another month, and now yesterday I managed to beat the WR. I decided to try to get sub 20 as well, which I did just two days later. This had been a collective goal for us three speedrunners for at least a year, so we were very happy when it happened. Then, sub 20 finally got broken by p0werm0de a month ago, with a 19:12 time. Since then, the record changed hands to another runner, EnegeticOcto, who got a 20:32 and a 20:15 run with just four days in between those runs. The WR had plateaued for over a year at 21:31, but a couple of months ago the world record holder (p0werm0de) beat it (and posted about it here as well).

While the game doesn't have a large amount of active speedrunners, the speedrunning scene has itself been quite active during the last couple of months. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a traditional roguelike that started its development many years ago and is still ongoing today.