Square Enix Toughest Fight of them all

Think back to all your FF gaming experience. Which fight is the hardest one you've had to overcome (or not) ? And why do you think you had such trouble?

 

Exdeath, natch. That guy's insane, especially since that damn big bang attack...better make sure characters can take a few of those without Rosa casting too many cure4's or Rydia doin' too many Asuras.

And hell, most last-level normal enemies in...FFV? are a pain. The main characters die too easily.

But, I'd say that FF bad dude in Mario RPG is damn hard too, if you don't have the Lazy Shell.

 

Hmm, Imma bring this to the top because I'm surprised none of the FFVII fans mentions Ruby and Emerald Weapons. Those guys were pains in the neck...and freakin' Ruby didn't even give you anything more spectacular than a Gold Chocobo. And usually a very slow one at that.

Ruby pisses me off because of his damn status tentacles. I mean, yeah, he's rather easy once you know the trick, but damn...what a nutty jerk. The only way I really won was due to the fact that I had speed maxed out. I didn't bother going the, "Revive the other part members" route because I was just tired of having to cast Life and waste all those Pheonix Downs. Especially since I'M the one that kills them. I think the only reason I took the time to beat this jerk was because I wanted to fully complete the game. It was a #()$*(*#@&$ too, since I insisted on EVERY FREAKIN' enemy skill...though I only used Goblin Punch, Angel's Breath, and the two/three elemental all spells (Beta, and Trine.)

Emerald was even worse. Had to freaking waste a materia slot just for "underwater" and I had beat him once without it, but then ran outta time before the win screen came up. DAMMIT. Air Tam Stom and those freaking JEWELS!!! bAAAAAAAH!!!! Boo to them...forever! Thank god for all the Limit Breaks and Knights of the Round 2x -> Mime.

 

I have yet to beat the Emerald Weapon. I just got bored of leveling to take him on...

I spent about 10 hours worth Morphing things in the crash plane Gelniki for Sources to pump my stats...

I tried my fancy 7777 trick...he survived it and then whomped me...

Basically I just quit on him.

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Ozma, yes, looks to be another Emerald Weapon. Seems this sucker has a chance of whipping out a blast attack that wipes your entire party (9999 HP each). At least he does it to me every fight...

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Exdeath was also a challenging fight. There were a number of those in FFV, which was a nice thing. But Izzy, tell me how Rosa and Rydia managed to jump ahead to help you with this fight?

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Other mentions and my comments:

Dyne was maybe a bit tough the first time if you're like me and neglect Barret. Still, some timely healing items or Materia and he's not all that tough. Wouldn't really label him tough.

Ultros was pretty much a joke in any of his incarnations, wasn't that the idea behind him? I'd say the toughest fight against him is during the raft ride even...

One-Winged Angel Sephiroth or Bizzaro Sephiroth? In either case, I was really disappointed by these fights...they were way too breezy.

Kuja and Necron were moderate difficulty. I say so, because they presented some challenge, and you have to actually think while fighting them...unlike *cough* *cough* Kefka *cough* *cough*...

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I hafta tack on Chaos from the original Final Fantasy, cause he could be a real pain. Instant death spells (RUB, XZONE, ZAP!) and all the mega ones (NUKE, CUR4)... made him a very tough nut to crack. And back in those days, we had to walk thru 5 levels of dungeon without saving to face him, fighting the four fiends as bosses along the way...Ouch was that frustrating sometimes...

 

LOL, okay...ya got me. I was wrong. Somehow, I was thinking of whoever that last boss in IV was. HE pissed me off. My bad, Baka-sama. But, yeah, exdeath was hard too. I want to reiterate that I was talking about the FF with Cecil in it...not FFV. Just call me an idiot for a day.

And what's the "fancy 7777 trick?" I've never done the actual technique...does it just happen to be lots of attacks in continuation?

 

Well, I only played FF8 till the near end of disk 2 because my [what was his name again? you know, the evil GF which comes out of a lamp or something], wasn't too strong and I couldnt win.

When I wanted to try to play the game once more, I couldnt because Rashid lost them :anger:

Now I play FFX, and you know which monsters I am stick with from my posts here :sweat:..

Speaking of stuck with monsters, Does anyone knows how to stop Seymore *again* -.-; the one that appeared before the gang reaches Zandarkand..
PM me .. ^^;

 

Call me crazy, but I didn't find Zeromus (the final ff4 boss) all *that* challenging... he was about on par with the Kuja/Necron fights... kind like the final 4 or 5 straight boss fights in ff8.

It's all relative to how pumped your characters are with those type of fights.