greatz RA

greatz RA

now for my list of hardest bosses:

#3, from FF8, omega weapon, without Holy War or Hero. But the battle does become easier with those items used.

#2, from ff7, Emerald WEAPON. granted it would have been way easier if i mastered KOTR and mime materia but it still would have been a pain. Final Attack-Revive combo is a must.

and now number one, and for those of you who have played FF10 international, you know what i mean… the winner is Penance (WITHOUT ZANMATO). this SOB makes Nemesis look like a pushover. 12 million HP and ur stats need to be maxed out just to try and keep up, AND you have to defeat all the Dark Aeons (honorable mention) first.

And therin lies the reason why I pwnt Emmy on the first try. Wait mode is for the weak, I tell you!!!

After that would be Edea from FF8. I’ve never been able to beat her on my own. It’s also a really annoying battle, but that’s another topic.

A challenging non-FF one was in Lunar 2, which was a great contrast to Lunar 1. The final boss there was way too easy.

Oh, josh, the ff bosses do require skill, and knowing what accessory to put on, character combo, etc. Luck isn’t really that high. Well, maybe with Edea, but FF8 is in a class all it’s own.

Remember that option that every final fantasy game makes you pick in the beginning of the game about whether you want the battles to be set on wait (enemies waited to attack while you scrolled thru menus), or to be set on active (enemies attacked while you scrolled)? Only a fool would choose active, and so I chose wait just like everybody else, that way when I was in a tough battle I could think about what I wanted to do and change my mind if necessary and the enemies would wait for me.

Not Emerald. Emerald doesn’t wait for anybody. Seriously. Even if you had the game set on wait, Emerald would continue to attack you as you scrolled. I was getting frustrated after dying for like the 20th time at the speed at which Emerald attacked, so I tested to see if he waited if the game was set on wait. He didn’t. I kept scrolling through menues, and he kept attacking. I know the computer can’t cheat or anything, but…Emerald totally cheats.

FINALLY I was able to beat him by setting the battle speed to the slowest setting.

The original ninja gaiden series also had a number of ridiculous bosses (particularly the last one).

What about the original half-life boss? The one where you have to jump on ramps and shoot rockets into some things head. That may be unreal though, can’t remember exactly.

I find that most RPG bosses are either very hard or very easy. Neverwinter nights is a good example of pretty much always easy boss fights. By the end of those games your character is so ridiculously powerful it is sad. On the other hand your FF games (which admittedly I’ve never played) seem to just make bosses so difficult it requires luck to win. Any game where it requires pure luck to defeat the boss is a poorly designed game, but that’s just me.

While I’ve strugged with a number of Final Fantasy end bosses in my day, there’s one that stands out in my mind as the absolute hardest boss ever, who I have never beaten: the boss of Final Fantasy Legend 1 for the original Gameboy.

The reason the boss is so hard? He’s God! He decimated me every time in only a few turns. I guess there’s a lesson there somewhere.

Actually one of the hardest bosses I can remember was the final one in the very first Final Fantasy, Chaos. Perhaps it was escalated by the fact that I must have been only 9 years old at the time, and strategic turn-based thinking was not yet in my vocabulary (this would be the first place I learned it however), but for having a paltry 2,000 hit points (the most you’d see back in those days) he was one hell of a fight.

Other then that I can’t think of any one major enemy that gave me a lot of problems, but I also haven’t played the new Ninja Gaiden very much yet.

I still have not beat him, despite several hours of trying.

Besides the fact that you had to play until it sucked the correct two party members into the sand, leaving Cloud to face it solo…when I finally did beat it, my computer crashed. I was on the phone with my best friend at the time, and I don’t think he can hear correctly to this day.

Needless to say, I didn’t waste anymore of my time on THAT bitch. Stupid Desert Rose.

I’ve had more exciting boss battles than that, but usually they were the first or second try, and I pulled it out of my arse to beat them. Ruby stands as the hardest.