(Chapters 9 & 10 thread) All was Fun and Games

[Loony BoB]

Now I'm up against early-ish chapter 10 spoilerCid and urgh, it's just like the last one. Too many of the games bosses rely on you getting your party exactly right, there is too little room for experimentation. That's one thing I liked about previous FF's - you could do it in a few different ways.

And yes, totally agree with you Rye. Hopefully that won't actually end up being the case. Surely the creators of FF games have got more originality than that?

EDIT: Yay, finally found a system that worked.

[Psychotic]

Ch9
(SPOILER)Vanille totally puts her hand on Fang's boob when they meet again for the first time. I knew they were lesbos!

[Loony BoB]

Man, did you see that FMV? Talk about nipple hiding. And before anyone says she's underage, she's over freaking 200 years old. That counts as "of age", right? Right?

[Psychotic]

I like how being turned into a crystal means you lose all your clothes if you're a chick, but Dajh got to keep his. Fal'Cie are clearly perverts.

Jesus ting christ this guy is hard.

Chumps. I beat him first time.

[Loony BoB]

I'm genuinely impressed. Did you guys look at guides or anything?

Re: chapter 9. (SPOILER)So Vanille is apparently so much stronger than a massive bird monster that's 50+ ft long that she can easily pull it back from mid-flight? Ok.

Just noticed this. Well, if the likes of Yuffie can single-handedly take down massive monster in FFVII, it shouldn't have surprised you

[Shlup]

Yeah, what's up with (SPOILER)Vanille, Fang, and Serah turning into [naked] crystal, but (SPOILER)Dahj being encased in crystal? Tsk.

P.S. So finally deciding to bite the bullet and upgrade some weapons from level 1 to 8 in chapter 9 was a brilliant idea. OMG I was like "DO MORE DAMAGE WHORES." Still scary, committing to a weapon like that. ;______;

[Rodney]

The first time I went against him, he cast Doom on me, the SOB. :/

You're kidding. I thought only Eidolons do that.

[Siegurd]

I find the boss fights so far to be pretty flexible in terms of the strategy you can incorporate really. It's just a matter of being fast enough on the draw with hot-swapping between roles, and in a lot of cases, if you don't appropriately time your change, you are going to die (barring of course, being over-"leveled").

I do really like that the boss fights haven't been a walk in the park, which mostly applies to (SPOILER)the Eidolons.

As for the boss of chapter 9, (SPOILER)I found out after my first death that just switching to relentless assault and pummeling him while he was charging destructo would result in him getting interrupted, it's just a matter of hitting him hard and fast enough. I used Lightning/Fang/Vanille and used Ravager-Syn-Syn and Ravager-Commando-Medic and of course Ravager/commando/ravager for pummeling.

The first phase of the fight is purely about living through the constant attacks (rav/com/med I found was best for me) then using rav/syn/syn at phase 2 onset, and sitting in rav/com/med until destructo started and going all out with rav/com/rav.

(SPOILER)Cid just has three distinct phases that you have to be on the ball to take on, (for me, I just used the same team) debuff and Lightning medic during guard phase, rav/com/med during attack and rav/com/rav during heal. I tend to use the summons as an emergency "Oh sh*t moment safety net," (like...when everyone is taking massive damage and the healer is silenced or stopped completely).

Pummeling with what hte mob is weak against after it's debuffed means a very, very quick stagger blitz, it's just a risk you take that does very well lead to random deaths from time to time when you choose to go all out with attacking...but geez that damage is beautiful. Ravager Lightning and Commando Fang are things of beauty.

[NeoCracker]

I just pummeled one head until it was almost dead, summoned Odin, finished of that head and a second one, leaving the others damaged.

Then I just pummeled them down and finished off the body. Wasnt' really too difficult after the first battle with him, which I lost.

Overall, this game provides a decent challange. It's certainly no P3 or P4, but the challenge is definitely fun.

[Shlup]

The chapter nine boss is a dick. I'm all "haha I'm kicking your ass" and he's all "NO U *BLAST*" smurf that guy.

I beat him alright but that big attack gave me like PTSD. ;_;

Ch9
(SPOILER)Vanille totally puts her hand on Fang's boob when they meet again for the first time. I knew they were lesbos!

Lawl, I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.

[Madame Adequate]

Once we changed from my turtly defensive mindset, Ch9 boss was pretty easy to do in.

[Loony BoB]

Once we changed from my turtly defensive mindset, Ch9 boss was pretty easy to do in.

Haha, yeah, I guess I'm the same as you in that regard. Big attack = Need lots of health at all times, in my head. I guess in this game you have to second-guess yourself on a few occasions.

On a sidenote, regarding chapter 10, did anyone else think spoiler, if you consider level design something to do with spoilers, I don't know"Man, I guess the level designers got pretty bored around here"? My least-enjoyed level so far, personally.

[Psychotic]

Well, regarding that level 10 design, it's pretty obvious they made a smurfing subway station and then had no story reason to use it. So they were like, (SPOILER)"Uh....PULSE TRAINING FACILITY! The Ark! Yes Yes!" I mean really, they're actually openly calling it a dungeon used to train heroes for the end of the world? God damn.

[Sephiroth]

And before anyone says she's underage, she's over freaking 200 years old. That counts as "of age", right? Right?

If you really count the crystal years. Anyway she is not underage. No matter what people think or just because Sazh says she is a kid. Sazh says she is a kid because of the age difference (of course you haven''t mentioned the thing about Sazh, I just want to mention it before someone says "but Sazh..."). Square-Enix and the Ultimania Omega themself say Vanille is 19 years old.

[Shlup]

Well, regarding that level 10 design, it's pretty obvious they made a smurfing subway station and then had no story reason to use it. So they were like, (SPOILER)"Uh....PULSE TRAINING FACILITY! The Ark! Yes Yes!" I mean really, they're actually openly calling it a dungeon used to train heroes for the end of the world? God damn.

My thoughts exactly. I'm like, mm'kay guess no subtlety here. xD