Heh. Sorry. He was just bragging and I wanted to cut him down somewhat
Dragons Revenge, you have summed up my emotions on Zeromus perfectly. I have yet to kill him. I will one day…and maybe, one day, I’ll be able to pull off that blitz in FF6 on FF Anthology:(. Would anyone think less of me if they knew I couldn’t take care of Vargas because I don’t have the time right…and haven’t in the last three years or more…>___<
You gotta be on a pretty high level. High enough for the white mage (forgot her name) to be able to go before Zeromus does. That way she can heal every one before he does big bang/flare. I was up into the high 60’s/low-mid 70’s.
I figured out exactly how the junction worked waaaaaaaay at the last minute. Actually, I knew from the start, but it took me till the end of the game to realize the MORE of a certain spell you have, the better the stats… fucking up the system even more, cos then essentially the more of that spell you use, the weaker you become.
I understood the Junction system…enough to the fact that I thought I could get by. I mean, it might’ve been good, but in that case, why did it feel so freakingly cumbersome?
My demise came even quicker, I didn’t even get to Ultamieca, or whatever her name is, it was all over by the time I tried to storm the Pandora.
Oh and FF4 because that goddamn Zeromus irrated me with his Big Bang, thus making my characters “poisoned” luckily I had the Admantine Armor equiped on Cecil, basically the only USEFUL character. Besides Kain who can dodge that bastard’s attacks. I hate the bastard. Him and his hate…
I abused the living shit out of the junction/draw system… Oooh, whats that? I can draw magic from water based creatures at the beach at the BEGINING of the game? OOooh, and what’s this? Ifrit just happens to be fire elemental… hrm… PWNED…
Thats how the whole game was for me, FF8 was a push over, but the idea was neat none the less.
To me, sure that didnt spoil anything worth knowing…
To someone like my roommate who would get upset by that post, would say he doesnt want to know ANYFUCKINGTHING in advance, not the strategy of the creature, the creatures name, the fact that its hard, nothing at all…
So yeah, it can be considered a spoiler because it gives SOME aspect of the game away. At the very least it reveals the enemies name which may hold some significance to the plot (even if only for 5 minutes before the fight) and it tells what attacks he uses.
I have this habit of experimenting with about every option a game has before even doing my first quest, so by the time I got to Ifrit, I already could refine items/cards into magic and had a few level 2 spells junctioned. Needless to say that the game was child’s play until I got to my good ole friend Omega Weapon.
I noticed the junction system when I was fighting the oil thingies. I kept getting killed and I noticed that in the gameguide all the characters had way more health then me.
Oh crap, I forgot about Omega Weapon, yeah, there was a rough spot in the game… Still, he’s no Atma Weapon… (Atma’s music and design were cooler even if he wasnt as hard… >_>)
It’s Ultima Weapon actually, another of Ted Woosley’s “minor” mistakes on the translation. Atma/Ultima wasn’t even REMOTELY as hard as Omega, hell, it took me thirteen tries, six Lion Hearts, 67 Pulse Ammos, Two Heroes and Three Invincible Moons to beat the sucker.
Even if it was supposed to be Ultima Weapon, the way it translated and is now known as in america would be Atma, correct? I mean, while it may be incorrect, Square has certainly not rereleased the game fixing that, thus making the english copy say “Atma”.
And I kinda like the way it sounds. More original than Ultima.
And while Omega was rough, fucking rough… Atma still looked cooler and had better music (cause at least Atma HAD a theme…).
I don’t know, FF is built over it’s [STRIKE]repetitive crap[/STRIKE] redundant themes, so I’d like it better if the had put the names correctly. Like with FFT’s Altima (Also an Ultima mistranslation).
aaw, see? I liked Altima as well… I think the “mistranslations” give that NEEDED break crom redundancy.
Things like the Ultima Weapon just dont mean anything if they have been in all of the games, where as we KNOW who Altima is, and we KNOW who Atma is… You know? I say it’s better this way.
