Zeromus 3, Us 1!
Posted by Mike Blitz on June 1st, 2008
Yes! Finally! Victory! I’m actually not sure if we would have needed the kitchen knife or not, but this time we managed to take Zeromus down!
The fight was still long, but this time I did a much better job of managing my casualties. I focused on using both Rosa and Rydia for healing, and left the damage to Edge, Cecil, and Kain. This worked much better, as I could cast the “Asura” summons from Rydia and all sorts of good things happened, most of which involved healing our party to full strength. This freed up some turns for Rosa, who could use her powerful full resurrect spell to bring back dead members to life with full health. This made a huge difference in our party’s ability to fight.
It was still dicey at times, as at one point we had three members dead, including Rosa, and only a few hundred hit points left on Cecil and Edge. But we managed to get Rosa up, she cast a powerful heal, then things remained stable enough to cast resurrects on Rydia and Kain.
I was getting concerned at the end, however, as both Rosa and Rydia were running out of magic points. Even though the fight was under control, there were several times when we really needed heals from Rosa, and if I had to stop her for even one turn to bolster her dwindling magic points, I’m not sure we would have lived. But just as the lack of magic points was becoming a concern, Edge hit Zeromus with a shot that took him down.
After the victory we are treated to a long and winding wrap up. Following this, our party came back from the Moon to reunite with all the other adventurers. Apparently there is another dungeon that opens up now, and I can switch in other party members, but I’m not quite sure how this all works, because at the end of the game we got messages that the five character classes belonging to the five members of our final party had unlocked something. Not sure what that was.
Status: Done!
June 1st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ba-duh-da-dum! (That’s the FF Victory Theme, BTW.)
I have the perfect song for this occasion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3jda591M4
June 1st, 2008 at 4:06 pm
“After the victory we are treated to a long and winding wrap up.”
Aw, I was looking forward to your comments about the ending.
Okay, an explanation might be needed since the GBA post-games are quite strange.
Basically, by winning, you have unlocked an extra dungeon, but the game is “rewinded” to before the battle. Zeromus is alive again and the ending didn’t happen.
And I’ll stop before I spoil anything. But the new dungeon is massively entertaining.
June 1st, 2008 at 4:16 pm
That was kinda a spoiler. And Big D, you beat me to it, I was gonna post that song! Oh well.
Well, now that you’ve completed what is easily the best game of the first half of the Final Fantasy series, what’s next? Mystic Quest or Final Fantasy V?
Dun dun dun-dun-dun dun dun! Dun de dun, dun dun dun de, dun de dun de dun!
June 1st, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Dang, I’d forgotten all about Mystic Quest! While we’re on the topic of forgotten titles, anybody remember the 4 Gameboy Final Fantasy games (Final Fantasy Legend, Final Fantasy Legend II, Final Fantasy Adventure, and Final Fantasy Legend III)? I actually loved those old games, I have no idea what my mom did with my old Gameboy games, but I had (and had beaten) all of them way back in the day.
June 1st, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Yeah, I’m actually surprised that you didn’t give any impression about the ending! I know it’s pretty cliché by today’s standard, but still…
Great job on beating him, though!:P
June 2nd, 2008 at 12:15 am
Congratulations!
I say you should skip the post-game stuff, since it doesn’t really add much to the story (and it’s all extra anyway), and go for FF V next!
I just have to say that I played the GBA-version of this game as well, and although Zeromus was tough, I didn’t have as much trouble with him as you did. But you’re playing in Japanese, which of course makes the whole game harder. So you did well!
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:49 am
YAY!!! Well done Mike! Finally! Well done! A well deserved victory! Awesome.
Anyway, I’d say you leave out MQ. Its not really that good…and the Gameboy FFs, that were mentioned technically weren’t actually FFs, they were just some other series that originally went by the FF name so it sold well. I say you miss that out too.
Anyway, congrats. As Sami said, you can maybe go back to all the extra stuff another time and continue to FF5
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Thanks, everyone.
I think part of the trouble I had with Zeromus is that I had been away from the game so long that I lost my feel for things. In this last try at Zeromus, I started to get a better sense for when I was in trouble, and could protect myself accordingly. I had no idea that Zeromus would react to my attacks with different attacks of his own. That could have come in handy when I got in trouble.
Sorry that I left out some impressions about the ending. The Japanese came at me somewhat fast there, and I’m rusty again. I’ll make a short post on that soon.
And I’ll add a new post about what’s next.
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Terpkristen, I loved Final Fantasy Legend and Legend II, but I disliked Legend III and Adventure, and I still have my Legend II and III. They’re hard to find, though, so Mike might skip these over.