Holy crap this game is hard!

[jammi567]

Evil Wall wiped the floor with my party's sorry asses so many times... T_T

agreed. But that's only on the Playstation version, as on the GBA verson (which only got on Friday...) after beating those two optional dungens, he was piss easy, didn't even get in a hit once.

[Darius]

Try beating it without fighting random encounters.

Done it. The hardest bosses are in the last dungeon and zeromous.

The REAL challenge, and as impossible as it sounds, beating the entire game AND the final 60 floor dungeon without fighting the random encounters. Good luck with that one.

[Sefie1999AD]

I agree, FFIV Hard Type for SNES (and the PSX version) is the hardest FF game I've played. I was playing with the fastest speed, so the bosses are a nightmare because they act so quickly, and fighting (SPOILER)Zeromus is really hard. If you don't act really quickly, he'll cast two Big Bangs in one turn, which will most likely annihilate your party, or at least your mages (healers), and then you're pretty much done for. To make the SNES version easier, reduce the battle speed. I had to turn the battle speed to the lowest to defeat bosses like (SPOILER)Odin and Bahamut.

[boys from the dwarf]

I'd call it harder than most FFs. on my first try, baigan took me ages to beat. carry on trying with the game. i agree with how much levels change the difficulty. the first time i fought zeromus i lost. after 2 or 3 level ups he became pretty easy.

[ReloadPsi]

It gets easier once Yang leaves the party. That useless wuss takes damage like a wet paper hankie.

[Dr. Acula]

Unless you are way overleveled obviously... Its easy until you have to go back to baron to get Cid's airship... After that the bosses are simply insane...

I thought something was wrong with my game so I went to check some videos of FF IV advance on youtube and bosses are SOO SLOW there... If you have the GBA version you have NO IDEA how hard the original (hardtype) game is... Bosses are SUPERFAST and always get 2-3 turns between EVERY CHARACTER... you can just barely keep up with the healing

Im playing using an emulator (thank god, because I cant imagine having to load from save points) and at that boss with the regenerating arms (Baigan) its just insane... every arm hits up to 400 damage (Cecil having the highest HP at 800.. imagine the slaughter) I was about to throw my keyboard out of the window after the 30th try.. God bless the save states LOL

The worse is, after this one boss, every single enemy in the game becomes super fast and does insane damage to characters in the front row.. a typical group of 4 monsters WILL get about 8 attacks before your whole party can act, by which time someone will probably be dead already..

Just wanted to "vent" my frustration :P am I the only one here or is this really the hardest FF by far?

Yeah, I had trouble with Baigan, but wait until you get to Rubicant!
I think FF4 is the hardest FF. I spent many frustrated hours on that game, until i finally gave up on Rubicant and quit.

[Frostwake]

Try beating it without fighting random encounters.

Done it. The hardest bosses are in the last dungeon and zeromous.

The REAL challenge, and as impossible as it sounds, beating the entire game AND the final 60 floor dungeon without fighting the random encounters. Good luck with that one.

You did it in the original version? Because if youre talking about the "kids" GBA version no wonder its easy... How bad of Square to make such easy remakes of games and now people go around thinking they master every FF and have no idea of the real difficulty of the originals.. oh well

Anyway if you did make it in the original version my hats off to you... Levels in this game are as or more important than equipment so I dont see how it can be done

Btw in my own experience the game gets easy again once you get Bahamut.. I was having lots of trouble fighting monsters in his cave and moon core, but once I managed heh... Rydia obliterates anything! And also for those that have no idea of the speed of bosses, you know Bahamut does a 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. MEGA FLARE count right? I managed to put 2 reflects up before he did that...Guy got like 3 seconds in a row.. I was shocked

[Tifa's Real Lover(really]

how do u turn the speed down?

[Ebeneezer Goode]

The only time I've struggled in this game was in my second playthrough when I ran from most random encounters. I was about level 16-20 and nearly every battle in the final dungeon became a life or death struggle, I even died from the monster-in-a-box fight with the Dark Sage's and Serene Guardian's, which is a feat in itself. I've never found Zeromus hard in the GBA version, and only struggled slightly against him in the Playstation version.

how do u turn the speed down?

Go to the in-game menu and select config, then scroll down to the battle speed option. The higher the number the lower the speed will be.

[Psychotic]

Yeah, this is one of the hardest FFs. It wasn't unusual for it to take 3 or more attempts for me to defeat bosses, but then again, I was rushing through and didn't really want to put any energy into levelling up at all, so maybe that's why.

[Genome]

This game is really hard on the PSX version. It's certainly beatable, though.

The SNES version is simple, and the GBA version is pretty easy. However I haven't beaten any of them yet, but from what I've played, the PSX hardtype is the most challenging.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Please don't revive six-month old threads.