Ultima Weapon
Posted by Mike Blitz on December 31st, 2006
Instead of talking with the townsfolk, I decided to take a closer look around town last night. I quickly stumbled onto another transporter. This one took us to a small castle with only a couple or rooms. In the larger room, there were several daises that gave us power ups. Feeling relaxed, we climbed the last dais and touched the golden orb that lay there.
Whoops. Big mistake.
A mega-dragon called Ultima Weapon attacked us. We were in no condition to take this beast on. Our regular weapons did nothing against it. Only two party members could do any sort of significant damage to it: Richard through a drain spell that hit for about 250 points, and Gordon with a fire spell that hit for about 100 points. The dragon, however, could kill anyone in our party with one shot.
The battle would turn out to be the toughest battle I’ve had yet in Final Fantasy, tougher even than Omega in Final Fantasy I. It went on for at least 40 minutes. We burned through the few good potions we had with us in the first 20 minutes. Outside of Richard, our three main characters each died at least 20 times. I am not exaggerating here. At one point, we only had one character alive, with only 130 hit points. Heck, halfway through the fight my battery light even turned red, so I thought we were going to lose all our progress at any moment. The only thing we had working for us was that three of our characters knew the resurrection spell, which allowed us to bring our dead back to life in pairs and groups of three. Finally, however, the dragon fell to a Drain spell from Richard!
For our efforts, we received the Ultima tome, which doesn’t seem like a good deal to me, but perhaps can come in handy in future boss battles.
We’re now healing up and heading back to town to see if there is some more information we can get to point us in the right direction.
Status: Lost
Photo Credit: MQuimayousie
December 31st, 2006 at 8:42 pm
Man I love battles like that where you *just* hang on untill the end! Good job!
In other news: Why do I seem to be the only one comentng? Come on people!
January 1st, 2007 at 5:14 am
Hey, well done on beating Ultima Weapon so quickly! Ultima is weak because it depends on how high your over spells are. I know this because I’ve played the English version. You’re characters are quite weake because you had to train them up when you had them alive in the main game. To be honest I couldn’t be bothered though!
January 1st, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Random Passerby: Thanks! I was amazed that we survived. I thought for sure I was screwed when I only had one person left with 130 hit points.
Those battles are a ton of fun, though.
anonymous: Thanks as well. It sure would have made things easier if I had trained these guys up in the regular game, that’s for sure.
I’ve been trying to play without looking at any hints, so I tend to mess myself up that way quite a bit. Heck, I played all of Final Fantasy I without knowing about the world map. D’oh!