I die within your reach, or, that last boss is a tough bastard!

Any of you have games laying there waiting to be beaten, and all that stands in your way is the final boss or level? For a while now the final boss in Shinobi has made certain I don't get to play the main game again (I've allready forgotten what the rest of the game looks like:( ). Also, I had a bad habit of quiting on a rpg when I got to the last dungeon or boss and never getting back to the game before I sold it. I got to the last boss in Vagrant Story and quit, I got to the last dungeon in Xenogears and didn't go any farther, and I did the same for first Lunar game on PS1. When I had the resolve to beat Lunar 2, I saved in the last dungeon and didn't have enough stats and items to possibly beat the last boss:bang:. FF3, probably my favorite rpg of all time remains unconquered even though I rented it all the time on Snes and bought the PS1 vesion (which I brought back fast). One day Kefka will fall before me, but not untill I beat that cheap ass Shinobi boss :mad:

I have that habit with RPGs a lot too. I'm still pissed that I got to the last boss in Xenogears, too weak to take him out, too pissed to try going back.

Right now I'm in the last dungeon of FF4 (Chronicles) as well, with only the last boss standing in my way. I have almost unlimited supply of everything though, so I guess I'll just keep leveling every few days until I'm so damn strong the boss doesn't stand a chance.

Skies of Arcadia (DC). Played the hell out of it and really enjoyed it, but when I got to the last dungeon, I saved at the save point right outside it and turned the game off. Haven't touched it since.

FFX, after logging something like 50 hours into the damn thing, I got up to a boss that just kept crushing me without mercy. It's at the top of a snowy mountain, it's a big ass 4 legged creature the shoots spines or some shit out of its back. Got so frustrated I haven't touched it since...

I havent played DMC for months now, I'm on Mundus on DMD mode and try to beat his second form with an S rank but he's to damn hard and I don't want to skip it since I would have to go trough the whole game in DMD mode again someday. Maybe I'll pick it up again in february.

Grandia 1. I didn't level properly, and now I have to beat 2 cunt bosses in a row...

I was just two hits away from beating Solidius in MGS2 so I'm sure I could cut him down my next try, but it's not gonna happen due to the very sour taste the game has left in my mouth. Ditto for Grandia 2.

*Flashback sequence*

Back on Nes, 2 games pissed me off beyond belief. It was Batman and Fester's Quest.

Batman was a tough game, but nothing really prepared you for Joker. Everything else in that game took only one life bar... all of a sudden, Joker makes you his bitch by taking 2 or 3 per hit. The day I beat that game, I felt it was like one of my greatest life accomplishments.

I hated Fester's Quest with burning passion. I think I got up to the last boss(alien space ship? Correct me if I'm wrong), only to be sent flying back to the beginning of the game. That game still haunts me to this day.

I like it when final bosses are tough. It gives me a sense that I've "mastered" the game. I mean, everything that you've learned and gotten accustomed to should come into practice and challenge you to the limit. I hate it when courses and bosses in the middle of the game(secrets included) are more challenging than the final areas. It just works as an anti-climax.

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I have that habit with RPGs a lot too. I'm still pissed that I got to the last boss in Xenogears, too weak to take him out, too pissed to try going back.

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:D the same exact thing happened to me. it's been a few years since i've played it and i've completely forgotten the story, so i really have no desire to ever finish the game.

i'm also stuck right at the end of castlevania: circle of the moon. damn dracula.

This has happand to me several times, you get to that boss and you are just like, "Great green gobblers! This dude sucks the big one!" And then you quit, and every time you look at that games box you think, "I would play that but that damn boss is a jerk!" And then someday you will break down and put the game in and try it again, sometimes you suprise your self and beat the boss with ease, or its only harder because you forgot everything.

every game maentioned here has caused me to do the same thing....except for the Lunar games :D i hate stopping in an RPG (especially Skies) because if you're not in a dungeon it's so damn hard to figure out what the hell you were doing the last time you played.

Jet Force Gemini. I went through and collected every tribal on every level and got all the ship parts just so I could go face an unbeatable boss on the asteroid. I've tried maybe 20 times. I loved the game but that final boss left such a bad taste in my mouth. Grrrrr.

Well, Necromandia Cave in Rygar Legendary Adventure on PS2. Very fun place to visit - 30 levels of fighting, with a tough boss at the end. Die and you restart from the top. Leave, and you will have to do the same.

While not bad on Normal and Hard difficulties, it becomes a problem in Legendary Mode. Especially, on the Boss fight, where Boss is Invisible, and has 2 lives !!!!

DMD mode in DMC was fun. Hard as hell, especially Nightmare 3 and Mundus battles, but fun :p

Games I haven't beaten? I won't do that. I'll fight to the bitter end, and always have. Theres no way I'm gonna trudge to the end of a game only to back down at the end. No wait, I take that back. I've never beaten R-Type 1, III, & Zanac. Actually I did beat them, but cheated. :) With R-Type I, I cant get past the last boss, with R-Type III, its the last stage I can't get past. Zanac just eventually overwhelms me with enemies to where even if you are super-upgraded, the upgrades become basically useless.

As for near-quitting, this is my list.

Toughest boss ever may be Jaquio from the first NES Ninja Gaiden game. Almost gave up.

Phantasy Star 2's Mother Brain was downright impossible, if I remember. Didn't quit until she was dead.

Shadow Dancer (genesis) had a really, really, tough last board and last board boss. Beat him too, but it still gives me nightmares.

Oh yeah, almost forgot. The "hidden" boss in Demon's Crest, the Dark Demon. *screams from terror at the thought of trying to beat it again*

I remember getting stomped more than a few times by the boss in Ninja Gaiden 2.

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I have that habit with RPGs a lot too. I'm still pissed that I got to the last boss in Xenogears, too weak to take him out, too pissed to try going back.

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The last boss in Xenogears is certainly tough, but I think beating it has more to do with the order you send your guys out and the tactics you use against the spheres rather than your levels. It took me 2 or 3 tries, but once I figured out how to tell which spheres were which bosses, who I needed to use to fight them and who to hold back, and what to do against them, it wasn't so bad. Just remember to take out all the spheres, or the final boss will fry yo' azz.

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Batman was a tough game, but nothing really prepared you for Joker. Everything else in that game took only one life bar... all of a sudden, Joker makes you his bitch by taking 2 or 3 per hit. The day I beat that game, I felt it was like one of my greatest life accomplishments.

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Joker's actually dead easy - stand on his cane, and all his shots will go behind you. Memorize where the lightning appears, and you should be able to take him out without getting touched.

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I remember getting stomped more than a few times by the boss in Ninja Gaiden 2.

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Yeah, I never won any of the Ninja Gaiden games...the endings were impossible for me. Of course, I haven't really played any of them in 12 years, but one day I'll find a copy of Ninja Gaiden Trilogy and go back & spank all three of them.

Sega CD Silpheed. 'Nuff said, its impossible.

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I have that habit with RPGs a lot too. I'm still pissed that I got to the last boss in Xenogears, too weak to take him out, too pissed to try going back.

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Ditto. Same goes for FFVIII, which made be doulbe pissed because I didn't enjoy that main game in the least, I was playing through it just tpo play through it. So once I couldn't defeat Ultimecia (sp?), I was even more angry.

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Sega CD Silpheed. 'Nuff said, its impossible.

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*Groan* Why'd you have to make me go and remember that?


The last boss in Red Faction still owns me. :(

I'm gonna have to go with Jaquio from NES Ninja Gaiden as well. The whole level leading up to him was a bitch, and then you had to restart if you died. Ugh.

Some of the off-planet levels that opened up after you beat Blast Corps on the N64 kicked my ass too. Fun game though.

Xenogears for me, too. I still have a save file right at Deus, and I haven't played it for years. He ownz me azz.

Man, seems like alot of people are up to Deus and haven't been able to beat him, myself included. I've tried a few times, but it's pretty tough. It's a great fight though, cuz it really takes alot of strategy and not necessarily brute force. Strider gave some good tips too. Actually, I'm gonna try to beat his punk ass right now!! Wish me luck! :D

I would have to agree with Final Fantasy 8. I actually really like the game, but I didn't go through and do anything extra. I didnt have the most powerful weapons or magics, quite frankly I didn't care and towards the end of the game I was still destroying all the bosses easily. But that last boss... agh! There was no way for me to defeat her without backtracking to the normal world and getting more powerful magics to boost my stats, and that would have taken eons. I actually went to Compusa, picked up a Gameshark Lite (which cost almost as much as my copy of FF8) JUST to beat the boss's ass. I haven't used the Gameshark since.

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Some of the off-planet levels that opened up after you beat Blast Corps on the N64 kicked my ass too. Fun game though.

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That game goes on forever! Some of those levels I do not believe can be done by a human.

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Man, seems like alot of people are up to Deus and haven't been able to beat him, myself included. I've tried a few times, but it's pretty tough. It's a great fight though, cuz it really takes alot of strategy and not necessarily brute force. Strider gave some good tips too. Actually, I'm gonna try to beat his punk ass right now!! Wish me luck! :D

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Good luck! Tell us how you fair! :D

Guildenstern in Vagrant Story. I spent 2 hours fighting it first time, my weapons were doing 0 damage to him, he was staying out the reach of my attacks, and his flying around was really annoying. Finally he finished me off, but I before I died, I found the way to get him. Just watch for Ultimate attacks, and reflect them back at him.

So couple tries later, he was Done. And by his own attack :p

Now, that made me feel soo good :p

The only boss I can think of would be the main baddie from Serious Sam. Unload countless amounts of ammo onto him, and nothing happens. That's about it, really.

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Same here...

Its been A LONG time since ive pulled this out but I could never beat the final guy..

Justice in Guilty Gears. I fought really hard to get to Testament, he was tought, and took me a while but I beat him. But after his defeat, I had to meet with Justice, and what the cheap bastard he is. After eternaty of looses and restarts, I finally gave up on him.

Some day I will get him though. Some day.

Contra: SS - that last guy tore me a new one. I even managed to reach him without dying, and...whoops! There goes a continue. And another. And another. Cheap sphere's of death...

Completely different genre, but I'd consider the black Diablo in Ridge Racer to be a boss, and he was an evil, evil bastard. But that's probably just me.

Perfect Dark never could land a hit on the final boss, and eventually traded the game in.

It took me 4 years of regular playtime to beat Saishu and Rugal in King of Fighters '95. SNK put the Devil in that game.

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Any of you have games laying there waiting to be beaten, and all that stands in your way is the final boss or level? For a while now the final boss in Shinobi has made certain I don't get to play the main game again (I've allready forgotten what the rest of the game looks like:( ). Also, I had a bad habit of quiting on a rpg when I got to the last dungeon or boss and never getting back to the game before I sold it. I got to the last boss in Vagrant Story and quit, I got to the last dungeon in Xenogears and didn't go any farther, and I did the same for first Lunar game on PS1. When I had the resolve to beat Lunar 2, I saved in the last dungeon and didn't have enough stats and items to possibly beat the last boss:bang:. FF3, probably my favorite rpg of all time remains unconquered even though I rented it all the time on Snes and bought the PS1 vesion (which I brought back fast). One day Kefka will fall before me, but not untill I beat that cheap ass Shinobi boss :mad:

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The easiest way to beat Guildenstern in Vagrant Story is to make sure you have the Phantom Pain skill, and that you have 8 weapons with full phantom points. His first form is easy, his second form is what the phantom points are for. If you have it, cast Magic ward, and when he uses a spell, more than likely after its done, he'll move closer so you can hit him. Hit him with Phantom Pain from one of your weapons and repeat the process over until he's dead. It helps if your weapons have over 100 phantom points.

What was so hard about the Jaquio? When he throws his fire, position yourself so that you are in the middle of the two balls and they'll go right by you. Some times they'll come back from off screen, but there ain't shit you can do about that. Also, for those of you that haven't done it, destroy the demon statue's tail, then its head to get to its heart.

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Ughhhh not good. That damn Ultimate Break attack is so unfair! 13,000 damage!?!? Ludicrious! :mad:

I played a few times and didn't even get up to him on a few tries. I had a good run going once and was fighting the last orb but Seibzehn died and at that point I was screwed. I was pretty sure I had a good shot of beating him that time too. Ah well.

I'll beat you Deus...I will...

I never did beat Lavos thanks to Omnigear telling me to kill Magus (wrong game before :confused: ) ... I'm going to attempt CT in 1 sitting next week though, since I don't have school til 2/3. Also, FF4 gave me trouble somewhere towards the very end, but I don't remember any of it because it's been so long since I've attempted to beat it.
Finally, FFT had this really hard boss that had me trying for days, but I eventually beat him. :)

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Just remember to take out all the spheres, or the final boss will fry yo' azz.

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My first time through I took Deus head-on without destroying any spheres and won. :D

My second time I decided to drop a couple spheres first and found the battle much easier. He's a pain but I didn't find him that hard, nor the final dungeon. I never quite got the frustration so many had with it.

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Any of you have games laying there waiting to be beaten, and all that stands in your way is the final boss or level? For a while now the final boss in Shinobi has made certain I don't get to play the main game again (I've allready forgotten what the rest of the game looks like:( ). Also, I had a bad habit of quiting on a rpg when I got to the last dungeon or boss and never getting back to the game before I sold it. I got to the last boss in Vagrant Story and quit, I got to the last dungeon in Xenogears and didn't go any farther, and I did the same for first Lunar game on PS1. When I had the resolve to beat Lunar 2, I saved in the last dungeon and didn't have enough stats and items to possibly beat the last boss:bang:. FF3, probably my favorite rpg of all time remains unconquered even though I rented it all the time on Snes and bought the PS1 vesion (which I brought back fast). One day Kefka will fall before me, but not untill I beat that cheap ass Shinobi boss :mad:

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Happened to me in SFA. I can't beat Andross to the laughter of my friends. I didn't find Kefka too hard, I've beaten him time and time again. It's all about structuring your 3 groups. I found the first battle to be the hardest, the second to be hard, but moderately so. Just watch the multiple targets and the last to be hard, but if you plan your 3rd team to be key and train all of your party members so none of them slack, it's excellent.

It also helps to have alot of good throwing materials and have Shadow in the 2nd or 1st grouping with Cyan. I always placed Edgar and Sabin in the third with Celes and Yumaro (whatever the sasquatches name is, I can't remember).


Ahh, memories.

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I never did beat Lavos thanks to Omnigear telling me to kill Shadow...

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His name is Magus, and I didn't tell you to kill him! Well, maybe I did, but I didn't know what I was talking about! I had totally forgotten any repercussions that that would have had! Having Magus wouldn't have made a difference anyway. Your ass is grass regardless.

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My first time through I took Deus head-on without destroying any spheres and won. :D

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:eek: What level were you at?

I got so close to beating him, I honestly did, and then he whips out that stupid Ultimate Break move. I survived it once and didn't expect him to do it again, and I had like 12,000 HP and thought I was safe for a little while, but NO, he has to be an asshole and do that fucking move again, and it just happens to do 13,000 damage. Fucking bastard! :mad:

I never had any problems beating Kefka...I consider the end of FF6 to be the easiest in almost all of RPGdom. Kefka might manage to kill off one person out of my original group of 4.

It is worth noting, that although I don't level up in the game, I always spend lots of quality time in Kefka's tower learning magic. By the time I beat the game, at least 5 characters know Ultima. And one of them has a Gem Box and Economizer.

I found it mazingly funny that whenever the last boss in FF 9 decimated my party down to one man with next to no life, it seemed like the idiot would wait for me to bring everyone back to life before doing any attacks that caused damage.

I would consider FF7's Sephiroth to be the easiest boss. I beat his final stage with one limit break with the cloud (one on one).

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I would consider FF7's Sephiroth to be the easiest boss. I beat his final stage with one limit break with the cloud (one on one).

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i believe once you get to him one on one it's impossible to get beaten by him....

*embarassed* I never beat the last boss to Mario Sunshine.........It wasn't because of toughness really, its just because I got a new game and started playing that instead XD

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I would consider FF7's Sephiroth to be the easiest boss. I beat his final stage with one limit break with the cloud (one on one).

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Hahahaha that's because it's staged! Go you!

You're actually right though. Sephiroth, the real fight, is quite the pushover, especially if you have Knights of the Round. :D

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Level doesn't matter since you can only get so far with Gears. There's no real way to make the battle significantly easier aside from having certain deathblows. I don't remember exactly how I beat him, I just remember always using Hyper Mode deathblows and I went into the battle with Fei, Maria...and I can't remember the last one but it might've been Citan. I used Maria for the high hit points and Fei for damage. Make sure to have the Speed Shoes on Fei (and anyone else if you've got them, obviously), and there were a few other items that really helped, but it's been too long.

I just didn't feel like dicking with the orbs at the time. My roomie did the same thing and managed to beat him, so I know it wasn't a fluke. Getting Speed Shoes for all three members helps a lot, which I did my second time.

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I found it mazingly funny that whenever the last boss in FF 9 decimated my party down to one man with next to no life, it seemed like the idiot would wait for me to bring everyone back to life before doing any attacks that caused damage.

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My problem is that Cross Break would kill all my members except Eiko, who could easily bring back the entire group and heal them if she wouldn't get confused and berserked from the attack. ARGH!

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Hahahaha that's because it's staged! Go you!

You're actually right though. Sephiroth, the real fight, is quite the pushover, especially if you have Knights of the Round. :D

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OMG I thought that was my doing! lol, if you haven't noticed I have an extremely bad memory.

The other battle was pretty easy, though. I found the last boss of FF2 to be bastardly hard. What's the sword before the Ragnarok (crystal) sword in FF2? I think I used Edge to throw that at the thing.

That moon story was cool........... yeah....

Star Ocean 2 (psx) had the toughest boss ever. I had to fight him 4 times before I figured out that I needed to counterfeit an item to make my characters faster, before I even stood a chance. That was without the limiters removed. I can't even imagine how hard the final boss would've been with the limiters removed.

Thanks to those who gave advice for Vagrant Story and FF3, but like I said, I sold those games. I'm not touching VS again. FF3, I never made it far in the last dungeon (hey, I had no instruction manual, it was a few day rental, and was the first true rpg I'd ever played, can't beleive I made it so far in the first place), so I never even faced Kefka. I will one day, though.

the last boss in onimusha 2. i kept getting my ass handed to me so i gave up and sold the game to my friend.

They only games I can think of I've given up on are RPGS. Lunar for PS1 I stopped playing after 15 hours cause another game came out and I never went back to it. Xenogears got insanely hard for me at one point cause I wasnt leveling up for shit, so I never went back. Final Fantasy 8 I stopped playing right before the final boss just because I couldnt stand playing that crap anymore.

Otherwise for last bosses that I remember whupping my ass would have to go to Shredder in the first TMNT game on the NES. The only way I can remember finishing that game was using donatello for the last level otherwise you were fudged in the ass. As of lately I cant think of any games that I've played with anything to impossible at the end.

Syphon Filter 2 damnnit, took me forever to get that stupid guy to run into the helicopter blade. But like everyone says, it's the sense of gratification upon watching a final boss melt into defeated pixels.

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Syphon Filter 2 damnnit, took me forever to get that stupid guy to run into the helicopter blade. But like everyone says, it's the sense of gratification upon watching a final boss melt into defeated pixels.

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:wtf: That sounds almost as retarded as the boss in the first Syphon Filter. The "Mystically Invunerable To Every Weapon Known To Man Except Poison Gas" retard.

I figured out fairly quickly that I could climb on top of the lockers and he couldn't hit me if I crouched against the wall. I then spent the next 45 minutes unloading my entire arsenal into him, completely and totally puzzled as to how many damn headshots and grenade blasts he can take. I even killed myself a couple times to retry when running out of ammo. Needless to say, when I found out it only took a single gas can I was not only pissed as hell at such a horrible way to handle the last fight, but I swore to never touch Syphon Filter or any sequels ever again.

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Level doesn't matter since you can only get so far with Gears. There's no real way to make the battle significantly easier aside from having certain deathblows. I don't remember exactly how I beat him, I just remember always using Hyper Mode deathblows and I went into the battle with Fei, Maria...and I can't remember the last one but it might've been Citan. I used Maria for the high hit points and Fei for damage. Make sure to have the Speed Shoes on Fei (and anyone else if you've got them, obviously), and there were a few other items that really helped, but it's been too long.

I just didn't feel like dicking with the orbs at the time. My roomie did the same thing and managed to beat him, so I know it wasn't a fluke. Getting Speed Shoes for all three members helps a lot, which I did my second time.

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Yah, that's true. Did you ever get any of Fei's third level combos? I still only have his level 2 combo and I think that may be holding me back a bit. For one thing, it prevents him from getting into hyper mode. I don't know if I have the Speed Shoes either...

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:eek: Get to it! Fei needs access to the Infinite attack level, You should be doing nothing but Kishin on Deus. If you pump up Fei all the way and he doesn't reach Infinite during a round, cancel it out and start again. Kishin is your best and only hope against a fully-powered Deus.

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They are so insanely helpful it's not even funny. Odds are you don't about the Trader Card (and neither did I until a FAQ for my second time through), so you'll be unable to get more then one set of Speed Shoes (I think that's all there are). There's a pair at the Snowfield Hideout (not show if they're there for the rest of the game) in the display cases. On people they work like Speed Up, on Gears they do the same thing but without the fuel loss every turn.

Argh! Now I have to start going back and getting combos and crap. That = annoying. I never even really understood how you got combos. They seemed to just magically pop up, with no real logical connection to what I did in battle. The booklet said something about using different button combinations, but not button combinations you've used already, or something, but that seems really vague, and a bit too reliant upon luck. Care to englighten me on this?

Here's how combos work, and how to figure them out:

You're given a set amount of points, and each attack takes up different points. A deathblow will always end with X (3 points, I think) but can begin with anything. So if you have four points available, how many deathblows can you have? One (Triangle, X). But, if you have five points, you can perform Triangle, Triangle, X or Square, X. The trick is to figure out what combinations you can create that will let you end in X depending on how many free points you have.

To get a deathblow, you simply have to keep doing the combination over and over during battle. So if you want Triangle, Square, X, just keep doing that in battle and the progress meter (on the deathblow listing screen) will grow. I believe it doesn't show up until the deathblow is at 50%, but just keep at it and it will rise. I believe the lesser ones rise faster as you get more powerful, but I could be wrong on that. In any case, you can end up with a 100% learned deathblow and still not have it. That means you either aren't a high enough level or don't have the AP. Fei's most powerful Deathblow (which I don't think you need) requires something like level 89, IIRC.

Some of them are gorgeous as hell, I remember Citan's sword in particular to be slick.

[edit] You can get deathblows whenever you have the points, no matter what level you are. My second time through I had four or five deathblows at 100% but unaccessable a few times. The time from six points to seven was irritating to me because I wanted to learn the rest so badly. :D

Yeah, I've managed to get most of Citans deathblows, but haven't made much progress with Fei. Thing is though, on the Skills menu, it only shows you the buttons for the deathblows that you've learned. So I'm guessing you just have to press random buttons in battle hoping that it'll turn out to be a deathblow? And I don't believe they always end with X either...

People deathblows always end in X while Gear deathblows end in various buttons, but Gears can't "learn" new deathblows. Once a person has one it transfers to the Gear as well.

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All button combinations that end in X are deathblows. So pick a combination and go with it until the character learns it, and move on to another one.

Alright, I see now. Thanks alot. :)

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Star Ocean 2 (psx) had the toughest boss ever. I had to fight him 4 times before I figured out that I needed to counterfeit an item to make my characters faster, before I even stood a chance. That was without the limiters removed. I can't even imagine how hard the final boss would've been with the limiters removed.

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My brother was that moron. He took the limiters off. Idiot. He was faster than Claude with Bunny Shoes on. He was faster than Diaz' Air Slash. And if you cast a "target unit" spell on him, he could move out of the way before it hit...and those spells are supposed to auto-hit!

Needless to say, after seeing that, I took it nice and easy, and stayed away from the jerk's dead niece's spirit. ;)

Super Metroid - Ridley

Maybe I don't have enough energy tanks or missles or something, but this guy keeps tearing me a new one. =/

EDIT: How ironic. I just post this and then I go and beat him.

On to Mother Brain I go. :)

*curses Lavos*
*leaves*

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*curses Lavos*
*leaves*

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Lavos was a pushover compared to the guy from SO2. Though, he's got some nasty fight in him. And damn Square for hiding his true freaking weak-point!!!

Zero Gunner 2 - Call it easy all you want, but the last level surpasses any other Psikyo level in terms of difficulty (yes, even Gunbird 2, and actually much more so than any, unless you get into the second round levels). The last boss isn't so hard, but the level is killer.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES. Goddamn whore ass shit the Technodrome was then you get to Shredder with hardly any life. I still finished it but goddamn.

Anyways, I'm sure its easier now but thats one I remember being a bitch.

Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 also get props from me.

You know its a hard game to beat when you really want to do it and your heart starts pounding as you almost killed off the boss. I havent had that feeling from any game in a while.

My problem with Final Fantasy games is that the first time I play through I go as fast as possible just to see the story, and get everything on my second time through. I really rushed through FFX, without getting any extra stuff, and it took me like 2 hours to beat the last boss. Then I played through again and got all the extras, and killed him in 2 attacks.

FF4 was easy. I remember being at a friends house and watching him die on the final boss about 5 times, then he let me try and I beat him the first time.

FF5 was easy.

FF6 was easy.

FF7 was easy.

FF8 was pretty tough because I hated that game but wanted to beat it, so I rushed through it. (Damn now I'm reminded of how absolutely heinous that game was. What a complete fucking piece of shit.)

FF9 was easy.

Chaos in FF1 was complete luck.

Xenogears was a BITCH. I would've never beaten it if I hadn't found the secret shop in the last cave.

Ninja Gaiden was fucking HARD, but NGII was EASY, and III was pretty tough.

Oh, yeah, Castlevania was damn near impossible. I only beat it once, and I'm still amazed to this day that I got through it.

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Oh yeah, almost forgot. The "hidden" boss in Demon's Crest, the Dark Demon. *screams from terror at the thought of trying to beat it again*

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I can remember that, had to get everything in the game to fight him, let alone last 5 min. If I'm gonna fight another boss like him again, my head is gonna explode! :eek:

for awhile, I was having trouble with dracula in castlevania 3, but I finally managed to beat him after about what, 10 tries? :rolleyes: oh yeah, I'm having enough trouble with hard mode in DMC, can't get past the phantom for some reason.

Jet Force Gemini and Contra: Shattered Soldier made me go crazy 2X. After tons of tries and continues, I gave up. Maybe someday I will beat both. :mad:

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FF8 was pretty tough because I hated that game but wanted to beat it, so I rushed through it. (Damn now I'm reminded of how absolutely heinous that game was. What a complete fucking piece of shit.)

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FUCKER!
FF8 is the best in the series out of what I've played (4-6-7-8-9-10-tactics), with the exception of maybe 7. However, I enjoy 8 more than 7 because I get nostalgia from it. :)

Heh. Yeah, drawing 300 of each new spell so your guys can have high stats must be some people's idea of a good time, I guess. Oh, and that weapons upgrade system was just genius *sarcasm*. And I loved that monsters leveled up with me, and that I had to wait a set amount of time to get more gold, and that magic was useless, and that summons took FUCKING FOREVER!

What a GREAT game...