Last boss!! [spoilers]

[feioncastor]

So, who else thought that Zeromus was among the harder final bosses from the FF games? I mean, with Kefka or Sephiroth, by the time you can get to him, you can usually take him right then and there. But with Zeromus, you can usually get to him by level 50 or so. And you don't stand the slightest chance until you hit level 60, unless you're ridiculously good at the game.

I think they may have made him a bit too hard, even on FF4 easy type. I got to him for the first time in 1993, but I didn't beat him until about 1999 or so. It's not that I was trying everyday for that whole time period, but it goes to show that he was so frustrating that I'd actually just lay the game down and play something else for a bit, rather than keeping on with the leveling and finding a way to beat him.

What did you all think?

[Zeromus_X]

There's a great Rengori quote I could insert here, but yeah, he's definitely among the harder final bosses. Of course, this was back when difficult final bosses were actually a priority, so...

I often have a really hard time with him unless I dupe some Excaliburs. And even then he's really annoying.

[Elpizo]

In the US FF II I beat him in my first try.
In teh GBA version he kicked my behind 5 times before I finally could beat him. He used Big Bang every turn and healing was a pain...
Now with all Ultimate Weapons, I screw him, and with soem mega-elixers he has become quite easy, but I still need to watch out, for hsi Big Bang still takes away 2000 HP with everyone.

So yeah, he is one of the thougher cookies in FF. But Neo-X-Death was harder, IMO.

[Captain Maxx Power]

I could point out he's possible with a single character, but I hate to repeat myself.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I think they may have made him a bit too hard, even on FF4 easy type. I got to him for the first time in 1993

Just so you know, the American SNES version of FFIV isn't FFIV Easy Type. Easy Type is even...well, easier.

[XandrewX]

FF4 final boss I killed it with my first attempt...

[Jowy]

The first time I played through, I was slightly underleveled and more or less was told by Zeromus to sit in the car. And then I leveled up to ~60, and didn't seem to have much difficulty. I beat the GBA version at around level 50 or so and didn't have any trouble at all, though.

[Decessus]

Neo-Exdeath is harder.

[boys from the dwarf]

yeah. neo X-death takes longer and has loads of HP, has ultragust and the grand cross type attack along with flare. i beat him at level 39. i got everyone as a summoner with white mage or something like that and just bahamutted away at him.

a very tough boss

[Znake]

I think they may have made him a bit too hard, even on FF4 easy type. I got to him for the first time in 1993

Just so you know, the American SNES version of FFIV isn't FFIV Easy Type. Easy Type is even...well, easier.

The part entitled The Incredible Invisible Treasure!. Can that be found on the GBA version?

[Ender]

Heck, the whole game is pretty hard--and certainly so on the first run-through. If you know what you're doing I'm guessing you could get through relatively unscathed, but it's definitely the type of game where if you make a mistake you can get hurt bad (ie try casting Holy against a Behemoth) no matter what level you're at.

I defeated Zeromus last night for the first time, and even with levels in the high 70s, the battle was pretty intense. For the amount of relatively mindless leveling the game encouraged, at least the payoff in terms of the story, final level, and final battle, made it worth it.

FFIV = Double Plus Good

[Brian The Pink Shark]

zeromus was tough, but FFIV is one of my favorites for levelling up in and the last boss music is fantastic, in fact the whole game is just great, the only FF game i have immediatly started again after completeing it

[Jowy]

I think they may have made him a bit too hard, even on FF4 easy type. I got to him for the first time in 1993

Just so you know, the American SNES version of FFIV isn't FFIV Easy Type. Easy Type is even...well, easier.

The part entitled The Incredible Invisible Treasure!. Can that be found on the GBA version?

Nope, no monster on the floor in the Lunar Palace, or Shadow sword on the floor in the Sealed Cave in the GBA version. By the way, thanks, Kishi. I lost the link to that site a while ago.

[Sefie1999AD]

I also think Zeromus was amazingly hard, even in the US SNES version (FF"2"), but that was because I was playing on the fastest battle speed, which makes things a lot harder. With the fastest speed, Zeromus was hard until you get to levels 58-60+ in the US SNES version, at least for me. With the fastest speed in the SNES hard type version, he was almost impossible unless you reach levels 60-65, and even then he was really hard. In GBA, I've only fought him with the normal battle speed around level 65, and I found him really easy.

[KoShiatar]

In the Japanese SNES version I first got to him at level 60, and he handed my ass to me on a silver plate. I beat him at level 80 or so.