Did you lose the first time you attempted the final battle?

[Darth Cid]

I put all my eggs into a rather large dragonish basket called "Bahamut". It doesn't seem to take as long as Meteo, plus Zemus himself says that Meteo is "Silly!" so I wouldn't even use it on him. You're trying to kill him, not entertain him with Silly! Theatrics.

Yeah, I eventually figured that out.

[Crystal_Clear]

I was five. Big Bang hurts, man.

Eventually I saved enough GP to buy 50+ elixers on the moon.

[Lawr]

unsatisfactory, and never played the game again because it was such a poor game graphically and, definitely, storywise, despite how cool Rydia is.

Have you gone mad!? (but I agree with the Rydia part.)

[ReloadPsi]

Ah, Zeromus. Yeah, definitely the hardest final battle I've ever done, but then the only ones I've ever done in one shot were FF1, FF5 and FFX-2. FF2 doesn't count as it was DoS and the difficulty was way too low. Not that I'll do the NES version; the ending sucks.

[ScottNUMBERS]

My first battle with Zeromus went a little like this:

Zeromus uses Big Bang
Cecil Attacks
Zeromus uses Big Bang

--End--

Just in case you haven't figured it out yet, I lost.

[NeoCracker]

My first battle with Zeromus went a little like this:

Zeromus uses Big Bang
Cecil Attacks
Zeromus uses Big Bang

--End--

Just in case you haven't figured it out yet, I lost.

Took four Big Bangs to take me down on the PS version. Took me a while to figure out that he was probably countering with Big Bang, as all of them came before Rosa could heal me.

[boys from the dwarf]

the second big bang killed me.

i was on about level 45-47 and i could have won. but at first it was quite hard to recover from big bangs and i didn't have a proper strategy.

i tried it again later on a higher level and won easily which is a shame because i think just those 2 or 3 extra levels made it easy.

[Reyamoka]

I finished the final battle fine, but then again I played the GBA version. Then again, I was at level 53 for all of my characters, so I don't know.

[Peter_20]

I died terrible deaths the first few times, but eventually I found an excellent strategy:

CECIL: fights, uses Lifes and Elixirs
RYDIA: uses Nuke
EDGE: throws stuff, uses Lifes and Elixirs
ROSA: uses Cure4
KAIN: jumps, uses Lifes and Elixirs

[robfinalfantasy]

Yes. I died many times. After a couple of tries I just gave up and started playing the other FFs. More than 5 years passed and I finally beat FFVI as January 29, 2007 and I've been playing FF for years!!

[PuPu]

Yes, Zeromus was a very hard boss, despite me being younger and a little less familiar with RPGs. I would still probably have trouble.

I don't recall exactly, but I think it was one of the easiest boss fights I've ever had to fight in FF. I'm pretty sure I made an absolute mess of Zeromus, deemed his abilities unsatisfactory, and never played the game again because it was such a poor game graphically and, definitely, storywise, despite how cool Rydia is.

Where was I? Oh. Right.

This game is a joke, and I think the only times I died were not to the final boss but to the dragons and hardcore enemies of the final dungeon.

Did you play FFIV Advance or on SNES or PS1? I heard IV Advance made it MUCH easier. For example, Rosa uses Curaja in IV Adv. a lot faster than the PS1 or SNES version. Zeromus would use Big Bang and damage you faster than you can heal, making it VERY HARD.

My first battle with Zeromus went a little like this:

Zeromus uses Big Bang
Cecil Attacks
Zeromus uses Big Bang

--End--

Just in case you haven't figured it out yet, I lost.

To be honest this was almost exactly how it went when I fought Zeromus. All characters except Cecil were dead, and bringing them back to life would have been useless, since they would be immediately smacked down by Big Bang. It went: Cecil Attacks, Big Bang comes, heal with Elixer, repeat.

Good thing I had over 20 Elixers and was able to win finally.

[Zeromus]

Of course i died the first time!... Besides... this one was the first Final Fantasy i played and it was so many years ago that i was a little girl... so it was hard... i wasn't in a good level after all...
I remember that when i first attempted the final battle i lost, and then didn't try it again before being on a higher level... i went to train a lot, spent a lot of time on training, then i came back strongest and kicked Zeromus ass xD...
But that was years ago... now Zeromus is the little girl when i play xD...

[Lynx]

the first time i fought the last battle. i lost i was very underleveled and every battle leading up to it was incredably hard.

but it was nice playing a final fantasy where the final battle was actually a challange.

[Gren]

I got my behind stomped at Zeromus and almost every random battle where I didn't run away in that final f***in dungeon. It wasn't until my nephew got IV for his GBA that I decided to try it again, since I could actually take the time to level up because I could take it with me that I finally beat him. But even then it took me forever cause I would level up, save, fight him, lose, level up some more, fight him, lose, level up some more......you get the idea. I did that maybe......10 or 12 times before I finally beat him.

[Kefka_Almighty]

I really didn't have much trouble with Zeromus, but this was probably due to the fact that:
1) I basically power-leveled before fighting him (all characters in high 50s, low 60s)
2) I went out of my way to get ever item I could before fighting him and
3) I only got as far as Zeromus in the GBA version; I played the PS 1 version before and lost interest upon getting Edge.

IN all honesty, the only final boss I've actually had trouble with was Sephiroth, and that was because it was the first FF I had ever played and I had no idea of the concept of "status ailments" and thus didn't bother to prepare to protect myself from them when he uses Pale Horse.

Really, I kind of acknowledge my survival against Zeromus to either be my power-leveling, or pure dumb luck.