Penance isn't hard really. Just takes forever, and you spend your first few turns setting up. Once your characters are all set up as long as you stagger kill his arms so that they never get a turn that's it.
Other than not summoning Yojimbo (he was my favorite summon) this is exactly how my first Penance fight went lol. Summoned him and was like “I wonder.” I gave him like 1 million gil and that was all, folks.
Penance wasn't that hard, it basically predictable Hit both of his arms 4 times with 99,999 quickhits, Auron's overdrive Tornado, and then deal with Penance himself, using auto potion, auto protect, auto haste, and ribbon armor (with max stats, you don't even need break HP limit, Penance "obliteration" only takes 6000 damages) do that for 30-40 minutes and he's gone.
I’ll never forget when I cleared Divine Might during the cap 75 days… We did it with 1 white mages, 2 red mages, and 15 monks. FIFTEEN. It was an absolute bloodbath seeing all those Hundred Fists. We won despite the ridiculous set up xD
Divine Might was tough but possible. Absolute Virtue took repeated nerfing, a vague video of the developers beating him. Eventually they just raised the level cap. Vvrtra also spent a significant amount of time unbeaten.
Literally nothing better then getting off work to this absolute stud of an individual soothing my ride home with that silky voice . Even a BAD day can become a good one when FF UNION drops a new vid
I died like 7 times doing Divine Might. My job was to get beaten to death by the paladin in a corner while everyone else held on for dear life. Great BCNM.
I'm a little surprised to see no mention of Minerva from Crisis Core. She's definitely one of the hardest ones, and I've taken out roughly half of the total list. Oh, and Adamantoise in XV; not especially hard, but definitely one of the more interesting entries in terms of its role in the game. Penance was my favorite!
Ah yes Absolute Virtue. The i want this to take 20 hrs despite the health warning before logging on. Square was definitely on some good shit for the amount of bad press they got for it.
The devs really were dicks about it. We kept finding ways to beat it and they just time and again flipped the bird and gave only cryptic hints like looking at its bracelets
@Malacite "bro you gotta use your 2h abils at the same time it does" "Do you happen to know what server latency is?' "No what's that it sounds like a skill issue" "..."
@@jacobsiron6929 and like that the game director presented himself as very contemptuous of foreign players, and nationalistic, as he claimed only the foreigners were having skill issue, and the Japanese players were better (even though they struggled with AV as well, as despite the low latency, the timing was still very tight)
I remember as a 12 year old I left my PS2 on all day as I began the fight before school and wanted to ensure nothing went wrong. Amazingly, it wasn't wasted time! I won that evening.
Man, I remember spending my entire winter break working my way through the dark aeons and Penance. I was on a fairly strict time limit because I was playing on a borrowed console (my friend who owned the game and I traded so I could play through FFX and Kingdom Hearts 1&2, while he could play Dead Rising) which I had to give back in time for him to go back to college, as we went to different universities on opposite sides of the country. I was so ecstatic when I finally beat Penance that I went for a run in the middle of the night while it was one degree above freezing outside (I didn’t stay out for very long, just went around the block once to work off the excess energy). Another excellent video; I feel like you guys are doing a great job tackling this subject in a new and interesting way, given how many others have already done it to death. Eagerly awaiting the next installment! Also, as other commenters have said, you have such a delightfully soothing voice. It’s so relaxing/calming to listen to. Oh, and great job on the music selections! The go perfectly with the edits and script; highlighting and complementing without overwhelming or distracting. The overall quality of your content is absolutely inspirational; it makes me want to work harder on my own videos, to produce stuff that looks even remotely as polished and professional. And I don’t know if I can come up with a more sincere compliment than that. All the best, -NB
12s bestiary is prolly the best one in final fantasy. all the bosses and somehow they never get old. i have vivid memories or taking on the golden chocobo and those lil veggie knights, game basically made me excited to be scared of enmies- and the orange mimic crystal in the deadlands was brutal when i was a kid XD. i dont think a single rpg has a better bestiary than ff12
I'd argue that FFX had a lot more super bosses in the Species and Area conquest monsters, as well as the Original ones from the monster arena. A lot of those are harder than the story bosses.
There are very specific setups to beat it, due to the nature of that battle, there's not much room to experiment against him. Either you insta kill him with Zanmato, you get an HP limit break armor for your party and get reaaaaally high enough HP to survive his attacks, or you use use auto-protect with defense +20% and the effect of Cheer x5 combined with max defense and then spend a good while chipping away his HP with Quick hits making sure that you kill both arms before the main body's turn. It's quite a tedious battle without Zanmato. A proof that having a boss with insane amounts of HP doesn't necessarily make it more challenging, just more boring.
@@Danahell oh I know, I'm doing the 20% defense plus auto protect, But I read multiple places that you don't need to worry about status effects. Well I was just making an attempt chipping away at him, not paying too much attention to the animations after I would make my selection. So I'm looking away for a moment and then when I turn back, there's only one of my characters left. Not KO but petrified and shattered so they are just gone gone. I was pretty salty and had to put the game down for a day or two.
It's great to see more attention given to the contributions of the FFXI expansions! Just one quick correction. Relic weapons are still among the most powerful weapons today. While this is highly dependent on what job/weapon is being discussed, Relics are still a part of FFXI's modern endgame even now, 20 years after their debut in RotZ.
Small correction: you mentioned that Nemesis has 10x the HP as Omega Weapon, that’s only the case in the International. In the original it’s 100x the HP! And in the International, Omega Weapon doesnt have the same HO as Nemesis. He only has 1 million HP. The stats were displayed so not sure how that was overlooked😅
Yeah that really messed with me too when I was watching it. Nemesis is leagues more powerful than Omega Weapon no matter which comparison is being made.
To this day i haven't beaten any dark aeon aside valefor... Especially dark yojimbo, you must fight that dude like 4 times and my yojimbo just refuses to do zanmato in all the fights.
About that the hard part is reaching that boss as in theirs at least 1 FIXED Malboro battle on the way to it and WITHOUT a FIRST strike weapon that 1 will always start WITH BAD breath and since you need like 99 Dark matters that are NOT easily stolen just to get the Ribbon skill to MAKE bad breath harmless do NOT enter the Omega Ruins without First strike weapons and at least 1 part of the Omega Ruins the Encounter NONE ability won't actually work at all. EG Zeromus is a JOKE due to some of the grimoires forcing Mini/Toad on it I started with the one from Toad and by the time I needed to MINI it you'll likely drain at least 75% of its HP the OTHER enemy ALL of its attacks do 9999 and the ONLY way to survive the AGA spells is with the Adamant armor + Cursed rings on most party members too bad on the PSP/GBA version of FF 4 I never really had a SINGLE curse ring drop or even the Pink Tails itself.
I've said this before, but I'd still like to see a breakdown of the evolution of the Ultima. That being everything that has the name Ultima in it: weapons, spells, enemies, summons, villains, lore, etc. The name seems to occur so often in FF that it should get a video.
I imagine that FFXIV is going to have a full video dedicated to it. Special Boss FATEs - Behemoth, Odin, Coeurlregina, Noctilucale, Tamamo Gozen, Ixion, Archeaotania, Formidable, Daivadpia, Chi Savage Raid final bosses S rank Hunts SS rank Hunts Ultimate Fights Solo Deep Dungeons Diadem (retired) - Star Mobs and Emergency Mission Eureka (Baldesion Arsenal) Save the Queen (Solo Engagements and Delubrum Reginae (Savage)) Did I leave anything out?
I still remember my fight against Dark Yojimbo Saw he was preparing an attack, right sacrifice time, summoned Yojimbo and paid 1 gil, Yojimbo used Zanmato Me:... you couldnt wait a few encounters? That was the only time he ever used Zanmato for me
Final Fantasy XI still features some incredibly difficult Superboss fights, now called the Master Trials. They aren't just single enemies, but full parties meant to fuck your team up. The first of these were the Shadow Lord and the three Beastman Leaders, then they introduced Ultima and Omega, as well as Alexander and Odin along with all his Valkyries. They introduced two more later one, one featuring Eald'narche and Kam'lanaut with all five Ark Angels at the same time, and another with August and Teodor from Seekers of Adoulin. These fights are BEYOND brutal, the arenas have very funny aggro effects in place, so a tank has to work hard to keep enmity on him, and death is very hard to recover from as about every square inch of the arena is an aggro zone after first engagement. The prizes for the Master Trials are interesting too, cause they only provide you technically useless level 1 weapons with no stats, but the weapons are awesome laser weapons that activate the blades when they are drawn (players like calling them lightsabers). There's a sword, greatsword, hand-to-hand weapons, a dagger, and a spear. They can be locked as glamour weapons (replacing what your real weapon looks like) and they are great bragging rights rewards. I've been in a party that was able to beat the Shadow Lord one (for the greatsword), and attempted the one with Alexander and Odin, before I took an extended break from the game.
absolute virtue also DID get a few nerfs after a certain....incident where a player nearly died during an attempt against it but yeah till the level cap was boosted that thing would devour your entire day to date 14 has not yet introduced any boss that is as much a time sinc indipendently, there are a few who if you track the questline for them begining to end take longer, but there respective fights...not so much.
It's hard for me to have any respect for Absolute Virtue as someone who never played XI because all combat in that game just looks like the boss is just sitting there auto attacking and nothing is happening
AV is often the one that comes to mind, but it was PW - Pandemonium Warden that truly earned notoriety for XI in a rather horrendous way; As a resident of Seraph server (now merged with Bismarck) I actually knew (loosely) some of the members of BTL - Beyond The Limit, one of the premier guilds back in the day and it was they who infamously fought that nightmare for over 8 hours straight onoy to eventually wipe to it; The incident actually made the news at the time and as a result, forced SQEX to adjust it and eventually AV as well as it was a PR nightmare. Let it be known that Vana'diel will not suffer the weak :P Oh also: hoping that for 14 you guys pick Nael Hard Mode from 1.0 because hoo boy... Even the Savage version in Coil pales in comparison.
When I was 8 and crashed my Submarine into Emrald. I was shitting bricks. Then after finding out how to fight it thanks to my Bradi Games guide I was so stoked! Now as a man in his Mid 30s I replay some of my childhood fav games and just steam roll them and think goddamn I was dogshit when I was a kid. Lol
29:11 this is perhaps the best example I can think of of how different countries or more specifically cultures have completely different almost Alien ways of thinking to each other. I’m a fairly hardcore gamer or I was at times in my past (now I’m both ill and disabled so I can’t keep up the levels of gaming I used to even if I still had the time) and I know some even more hardcore gamers but none of them would have considered doing the level of gaming it was taking to fight this boss that’s a completely different level of thinking.
I think Absolute Virtue is the toughest boss ever created in any game ever. My LS (linkshell) on the Diabolos server fought that thing numerous times, and always ended up frustrated. Just getting the pop items required to spawn it represented a lot of time and effort running around Sea to beat all of the Jailers. The Jailers required their own pop items gained from other Sea mobs too. We'd usually accrue pop items for multiple of each Jailer since they also could drop rare gear. I quit FFXI not too long after the level cap was raised to 99 since the game just became too easy at that point, so I never had the satisfaction of beating Absolute Virtue.
I hope at some point the omega weapon from final fantasy 15 will be talked about. He is the only other omega i defeated beside ffx, and is my absolute favourite in the whole franchise
"Oh boy, part 2! I can't wait to see my favorite Final Fantasy covered! It has so many superbosses and references to the older games!" *Sees video length* "Oh :/" I'm actually curious how much time you'll spend talking about 12 lol
Very good, now we're going to see Kaiser Dragon, Omega Weapon in FFVI, Zodiark, Omega Weapon Mark XII and Yiazmat in FFXII and finally Long Gui and Vercengetorix and FFXIII in part 3. 🙂
Man, Zeromus EG seems so familiar, but I don't remember playing the GBA version of 4...I know I've seen it though. Maybe it was just that long ago, since an ex-friend did introduce me to FF via FFI on the GBA...
I remember playing for the first time FFX withou leveling up, but I had Yojimbo, and I remember all my aeons has been clapped on the Braska final aeon fight, but not Yojimbo, AND that moment when Tidus is down, Auron is down, And Yuna have abou 1k hp I just summoned Yojimbo my last hope, then I pay him my all overwhelming amount of gil (like 80k gil because i didnt farm the whole game) then Yojimbo just one shot Jecht, my fucking heart in that exact moment just start to pulse like I do cocaine for everyday, that memory will be in my head to the end of my days.
I've never played FF11, in fact it might be the Final Fantasy I know the least about, but from the horror stories I've heard, Absolute Virtue might be the hardest boss in the franchise's history. There are accounts of people fighting it for over THIRTY HOURS, and to no avail at that! People have gotten physically ill in real life just trying to fight it. I know it's a running gag in the community about how absurdly long it takes to fell bosses like Yiazmat from 12 or the Adamantoise in 15, but at least you could pause those games. 11 is an MMO, so there is no pausing.
Uhh...Wait hold up. Around @26:50, their HP is over 999? How is that possible? I played the crud out of the PSP FF1 (not the dawn of souls version) and I always wondered if that was the true max or not.
I NEVER could complete ALL 50 floors of that PSP only FF1 dungeon to even FIGHT it in the first place so that's a LOT harder to do then the actually boss fight against it especially due to LACK of Save points.
i do hope we see how savage fights different from ultimate fights in FFXIV, since we had to wait until Stormblood for the first ultimate fight against Bahamut
My hardest super boss is Chibi Terra from World of FF. How can anyone possibly attack something as cute and adorable as sweet little Terra? Oh, same goes for Vivi. World of FF is cruel!
So we are not gonna talk about the super boss that guarded Vegnagun? That Fiend was a menace in its own right. 😂. Had me was like; fuck this, lemme play this piano and skip this guy.
As much as I hate mobile games down to their very concept, I will admit that the little facet with Jade Weapon's battle changing depending on your real life location is actually a pretty wild idea.
Ugh, the look on my face when I grinded 6 Iron Dukes in the original FFX-2.... only for the remaster to give 5 of them from a single Major Numerous fight....
Though I have played and beaten most of these Final Fantasy games, the super-bosses (for the most part) were always unbeatable for me. Only few were somewhat manageable, the weaker ones such as Ultima and Omega in FFX, but beyond that - good lord. Never had the patience to grind that much, and cheap one-hit kills were beneath me. Well, admittedly, I did defeat Angra Mainyu by abusing that one ability which allows you to shoot an enemy a bunch of times for massive damage. The most I ever achieved without such tricks were a few of the Dark Aeaons, but only a handful of them. While I enjoy the idea of super-bosses, it sure is often a task for those who have no other obligations in their lives and just grind, grind, grind. Impressive for sure, but also quite insane.
The only one I didn't at least try was Tiamat from XII. I'm a nervous person and wouldn't even want to leave my console on that long lol. Ozma from IX and Ruby and Emerald from VII are the only ones I've never beat from the games I actually played. I never played III or IV or XI and otherwise I;ve been through every main game and spin off. A lot of them have a cheese of some sort. He mentions most of them in these videos honestly. I didn't know about the Cait SIth strategy for Ruby until a few years ago, and always wanted to go back and try, but there's just too many games and only so much time.
the sheer difficulty of Absolute Virtue is a bit down played here, I only remember cause i was there lol. the dev team released a video 3 years after the introduction to him to give clues how to beat him, didnt work. even when his hp got reduced cause the 18 hour battle with pw, it didnt work. i remember going to sleep after a wipe on him, and coming back the next day and different LS's were still fighting him
I never even played Final Fantasy XI but I definitely saw the news articles of Absolute Virtue (and Pandemonium Warden) requiring an unhealthy amount of time to beat. And these were articles in non-gaming media sites too, it was nuts.
Or you can cheese Major Numerous with an impale team and Mushroom Cloud, then get all the those sweet sweet Keys to Success and Iron Dukes you can dream of.
Does Greg or the leadup fights to him in 7 Rebirth count as superbosses? While they were the hardest fights in the game without question, they still didn't really feel as impossible of a wall as most superbosses usually do.
@@maybayV2 I did it at level ~48 on normal on my way to start Chapter 13. And yeah I wasn't sure how "hard" it is in the context of some of the hard mode stuff. (Edit: Also that odin + alexander fight was imo way harder) I needed a break after sinking 120 hours into it so it'll be a while before I go back for the completion cleanup.
@Xenodyne I mean, literally all I did was focus Odin, and he just teleports away. Meaning it's just Alexander 1v1 until he comes back like 5min later. It was probably the second easiest for me.
My first super boss was Bass from Megaman BN 6, I dunno if it’s actually a super boss. But it’s optional and I had mentally stuck myself on that fight as an 8 year old.
I really don’t see the issue with these horror movies. If they don’t like them, just move on to things they enjoy and ignore them. Peter Pan in a certain light is pretty horrific, though. So it’s the only one that kind of makes sense?
Absolutely no mention about every time players would find a way to down Absolute Virtue, Square would retaliate, punish the players, and "fix" the way they downed it. This lead to players to push well beyond reasonable fight lengths and compromise their health.
Thanks for the comment! It is indeed a shame that players had to endure such odd behaviour by the developers. I'd perhaps recommend re-watching that section of the video though, as there is mention of the developers voiding strategies that were not deemed correct in their eyes. ~Darryl
Just letting you know, omega had 99,999 in ff10 original and went to 999,999 on the international, nemesis always had 10m, 100x the original and 10x the international
Ultima and Omega weapon were...disappointing the first time i beat them. Granted, i did some grinding in the dungeon you find them in, and the dungeon has some initially difficult monsters before you get used to them.
um ff4 had super bosses on the moon, rewarding many ultimate weapons, all optional. not to mentin the optional summon fights which we also meant to be super bosses, compared to most other bosses in the game
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I fought Penance once.
I had never summoned Yojimbo in the entirety of the game, so I summoned him, gave him all of my money and that was that
Exactly how I did it.
Penance isn't hard really. Just takes forever, and you spend your first few turns setting up. Once your characters are all set up as long as you stagger kill his arms so that they never get a turn that's it.
Other than not summoning Yojimbo (he was my favorite summon) this is exactly how my first Penance fight went lol. Summoned him and was like “I wonder.” I gave him like 1 million gil and that was all, folks.
Penance wasn't that hard, it basically predictable
Hit both of his arms 4 times with 99,999 quickhits, Auron's overdrive Tornado, and then deal with Penance himself, using auto potion, auto protect, auto haste, and ribbon armor (with max stats, you don't even need break HP limit, Penance "obliteration" only takes 6000 damages)
do that for 30-40 minutes and he's gone.
I’ll never forget when I cleared Divine Might during the cap 75 days…
We did it with 1 white mages, 2 red mages, and 15 monks. FIFTEEN.
It was an absolute bloodbath seeing all those Hundred Fists.
We won despite the ridiculous set up xD
Divine Might was tough but possible. Absolute Virtue took repeated nerfing, a vague video of the developers beating him. Eventually they just raised the level cap. Vvrtra also spent a significant amount of time unbeaten.
Literally nothing better then getting off work to this absolute stud of an individual soothing my ride home with that silky voice . Even a BAD day can become a good one when FF UNION drops a new vid
I died like 7 times doing Divine Might. My job was to get beaten to death by the paladin in a corner while everyone else held on for dear life. Great BCNM.
I'm a little surprised to see no mention of Minerva from Crisis Core. She's definitely one of the hardest ones, and I've taken out roughly half of the total list. Oh, and Adamantoise in XV; not especially hard, but definitely one of the more interesting entries in terms of its role in the game.
Penance was my favorite!
Ah yes Absolute Virtue. The i want this to take 20 hrs despite the health warning before logging on. Square was definitely on some good shit for the amount of bad press they got for it.
particularly the devs, they were just being spiteful, prideful DMs that want their illusion of the invincible, ultimate super boss
The devs really were dicks about it. We kept finding ways to beat it and they just time and again flipped the bird and gave only cryptic hints like looking at its bracelets
@Malacite "bro you gotta use your 2h abils at the same time it does"
"Do you happen to know what server latency is?'
"No what's that it sounds like a skill issue"
"..."
@@jacobsiron6929 and like that the game director presented himself as very contemptuous of foreign players, and nationalistic, as he claimed only the foreigners were having skill issue, and the Japanese players were better (even though they struggled with AV as well, as despite the low latency, the timing was still very tight)
Wasn't he also responsible for the 1.0 version of FF14 being the way it was?@@granmastersword
Judge Reinhold is the BEST name for a superboss (or any boss) ever
I will never do anything but imagine the actor Judge Reinhold under that helmet
8yo me was so happy when 16yo me beat Angra Mainyu
Big mood
Same except I was 28 when I finally beat it lol
That boss fight was when I fell in love with the Dark Knight dressphere. It's one of my favorites behind Mascot.
See, I’ve never played X or X-II so I only know that name from Granblue Fantasy 🤣🤣
I remember as a 12 year old I left my PS2 on all day as I began the fight before school and wanted to ensure nothing went wrong.
Amazingly, it wasn't wasted time! I won that evening.
Man, I remember spending my entire winter break working my way through the dark aeons and Penance. I was on a fairly strict time limit because I was playing on a borrowed console (my friend who owned the game and I traded so I could play through FFX and Kingdom Hearts 1&2, while he could play Dead Rising) which I had to give back in time for him to go back to college, as we went to different universities on opposite sides of the country. I was so ecstatic when I finally beat Penance that I went for a run in the middle of the night while it was one degree above freezing outside (I didn’t stay out for very long, just went around the block once to work off the excess energy).
Another excellent video; I feel like you guys are doing a great job tackling this subject in a new and interesting way, given how many others have already done it to death. Eagerly awaiting the next installment! Also, as other commenters have said, you have such a delightfully soothing voice. It’s so relaxing/calming to listen to.
Oh, and great job on the music selections! The go perfectly with the edits and script; highlighting and complementing without overwhelming or distracting. The overall quality of your content is absolutely inspirational; it makes me want to work harder on my own videos, to produce stuff that looks even remotely as polished and professional. And I don’t know if I can come up with a more sincere compliment than that.
All the best,
-NB
One of my favorite bosses is the 2 part fight with gilgamesh in ff12
12s bestiary is prolly the best one in final fantasy. all the bosses and somehow they never get old. i have vivid memories or taking on the golden chocobo and those lil veggie knights, game basically made me excited to be scared of enmies- and the orange mimic crystal in the deadlands was brutal when i was a kid XD. i dont think a single rpg has a better bestiary than ff12
@36inc playing through Zodiac Age now. Still enjoying the game on my 3rd playthrough.
12s Gilgamesh has a permanent place in my gaming memory
"Dang it Bobby, why you had to become a Super-boss?"
"I am just a kid, dad"
Joe from Family Guy: FOR THE SEXUAL THRILL...THE SEXUAL THRILL!!!
I'd argue that FFX had a lot more super bosses in the Species and Area conquest monsters, as well as the Original ones from the monster arena. A lot of those are harder than the story bosses.
What good timing, I've been working on beating Penance for the first time and now I get to learn all about it before I do (or give up).
There are very specific setups to beat it, due to the nature of that battle, there's not much room to experiment against him. Either you insta kill him with Zanmato, you get an HP limit break armor for your party and get reaaaaally high enough HP to survive his attacks, or you use use auto-protect with defense +20% and the effect of Cheer x5 combined with max defense and then spend a good while chipping away his HP with Quick hits making sure that you kill both arms before the main body's turn. It's quite a tedious battle without Zanmato. A proof that having a boss with insane amounts of HP doesn't necessarily make it more challenging, just more boring.
@@Danahell oh I know, I'm doing the 20% defense plus auto protect, But I read multiple places that you don't need to worry about status effects. Well I was just making an attempt chipping away at him, not paying too much attention to the animations after I would make my selection. So I'm looking away for a moment and then when I turn back, there's only one of my characters left. Not KO but petrified and shattered so they are just gone gone. I was pretty salty and had to put the game down for a day or two.
Awesome videos, been helping me get through work. 👍
Nice, I think the XVI DLC will be out before the end of this compilation so you will get to be the most up to date for a while !
pog i just watched part 1 yesterday and was sad no part 2, now im happy again
Absolute virtue was absolutely vicious
For the Zanmato friends in FFX,I will always say money doesn't buy happiness in real life and it doesn't in Spira either.
It doesn't buy happiness. It buys *penance* .
@@BaalFridge never used Zanmato, never will. Might be my proudest platinum in my collection
@@mattsully2238those celestial weapons still elude me
@mattsully2238 I didn't use it for dark aeons or penance, but nemesis cam get boned.
@@mattsully2238Beating Penance is tedious but still a great experience. No Zanmatou, obviously.
It's great to see more attention given to the contributions of the FFXI expansions!
Just one quick correction. Relic weapons are still among the most powerful weapons today. While this is highly dependent on what job/weapon is being discussed, Relics are still a part of FFXI's modern endgame even now, 20 years after their debut in RotZ.
Ayyy! I've been so excited for this one!
I like all the FF9 music in this video...
Thank you for another great video! I really enjoy watching/listening to these, as they are really calming
Small correction: you mentioned that Nemesis has 10x the HP as Omega Weapon, that’s only the case in the International. In the original it’s 100x the HP!
And in the International, Omega Weapon doesnt have the same HO as Nemesis. He only has 1 million HP. The stats were displayed so not sure how that was overlooked😅
Yeah that really messed with me too when I was watching it. Nemesis is leagues more powerful than Omega Weapon no matter which comparison is being made.
To this day i haven't beaten any dark aeon aside valefor... Especially dark yojimbo, you must fight that dude like 4 times and my yojimbo just refuses to do zanmato in all the fights.
Never forget the true super boss: Morgan Freeman
I remember Angra Mainyu. I solo'd it with Yuna's special dress sphere. She was absurdly overpowered.
Excellent content FFU! I think the only bosses I haven attempted from this video are just a couple of the Dark Aeons from the PS4 version of X.
I managed to beat Omega Weapon in FFX with Yojimbo when he used the Zanmato move.
About that the hard part is reaching that boss as in theirs at least 1 FIXED Malboro battle on the way to it and WITHOUT a FIRST strike weapon that 1 will always start WITH BAD breath and since you need like 99 Dark matters that are NOT easily stolen just to get the Ribbon skill to MAKE bad breath harmless do NOT enter the Omega Ruins without First strike weapons and at least 1 part of the Omega Ruins the Encounter NONE ability won't actually work at all.
EG Zeromus is a JOKE due to some of the grimoires forcing Mini/Toad on it I started with the one from Toad and by the time I needed to MINI it you'll likely drain at least 75% of its HP the OTHER enemy ALL of its attacks do 9999 and the ONLY way to survive the AGA spells is with the Adamant armor + Cursed rings on most party members too bad on the PSP/GBA version of FF 4 I never really had a SINGLE curse ring drop or even the Pink Tails itself.
That’s how I got back into besaid village
You had to use zanmato on HIM? Did you suck at the game?
@@vegamineral207 No, I did not. It just happened due to luck and paying enough money to Yojimbo.
I remember Yojimbo still using his weakest sword after been given the Gil cap 😢 I was not a happy bunny after that.
I've said this before, but I'd still like to see a breakdown of the evolution of the Ultima. That being everything that has the name Ultima in it: weapons, spells, enemies, summons, villains, lore, etc. The name seems to occur so often in FF that it should get a video.
Ah, so THAT'S how you get to fight the Dark Magus Sisters separately. Must try that next time I play FFX.
Cant wait for your next one. Seeing ff12 and all ff13s super bosses laid out will be awesome.
I imagine that FFXIV is going to have a full video dedicated to it.
Special Boss FATEs - Behemoth, Odin, Coeurlregina, Noctilucale, Tamamo Gozen, Ixion, Archeaotania, Formidable, Daivadpia, Chi
Savage Raid final bosses
S rank Hunts
SS rank Hunts
Ultimate Fights
Solo Deep Dungeons
Diadem (retired) - Star Mobs and Emergency Mission
Eureka (Baldesion Arsenal)
Save the Queen (Solo Engagements and Delubrum Reginae (Savage))
Did I leave anything out?
Yes the ultimate XIV boss endless grinds
Savage Criterion Dungeons?
I still remember my fight against Dark Yojimbo
Saw he was preparing an attack, right sacrifice time, summoned Yojimbo and paid 1 gil, Yojimbo used Zanmato
Me:... you couldnt wait a few encounters?
That was the only time he ever used Zanmato for me
Well you have to defeat Dark Yojimbo 5 times to actually beat him, so don't feel too bad about it.
@@callmeshaggy5166 its more against Yojimbo than Dark Yojimbo here
Final Fantasy XI still features some incredibly difficult Superboss fights, now called the Master Trials. They aren't just single enemies, but full parties meant to fuck your team up. The first of these were the Shadow Lord and the three Beastman Leaders, then they introduced Ultima and Omega, as well as Alexander and Odin along with all his Valkyries. They introduced two more later one, one featuring Eald'narche and Kam'lanaut with all five Ark Angels at the same time, and another with August and Teodor from Seekers of Adoulin. These fights are BEYOND brutal, the arenas have very funny aggro effects in place, so a tank has to work hard to keep enmity on him, and death is very hard to recover from as about every square inch of the arena is an aggro zone after first engagement.
The prizes for the Master Trials are interesting too, cause they only provide you technically useless level 1 weapons with no stats, but the weapons are awesome laser weapons that activate the blades when they are drawn (players like calling them lightsabers). There's a sword, greatsword, hand-to-hand weapons, a dagger, and a spear. They can be locked as glamour weapons (replacing what your real weapon looks like) and they are great bragging rights rewards.
I've been in a party that was able to beat the Shadow Lord one (for the greatsword), and attempted the one with Alexander and Odin, before I took an extended break from the game.
Can't wait for part 3 with FFXII and FFXIII Trilogy. ;
absolute virtue also DID get a few nerfs after a certain....incident where a player nearly died during an attempt against it
but yeah till the level cap was boosted that thing would devour your entire day to date 14 has not yet introduced any boss that is as much a time sinc indipendently, there are a few who if you track the questline for them begining to end take longer, but there respective fights...not so much.
Zeromus EG took me so many tries. But it felt good when I finally defeated him.
It's hard for me to have any respect for Absolute Virtue as someone who never played XI because all combat in that game just looks like the boss is just sitting there auto attacking and nothing is happening
Are you going to cover the super boss from final fantasy 7 crisis core
The ones I've beat: Shinryu FFV, Emerald FFVII, Ruby FFVII, Sepentarius FFT, Omega FFVIII, Ozma FFIX, Nemesis FFX, Trema FFX-2, Adamntoise FFXV.
AV is often the one that comes to mind, but it was PW - Pandemonium Warden that truly earned notoriety for XI in a rather horrendous way;
As a resident of Seraph server (now merged with Bismarck) I actually knew (loosely) some of the members of BTL - Beyond The Limit, one of the premier guilds back in the day and it was they who infamously fought that nightmare for over 8 hours straight onoy to eventually wipe to it;
The incident actually made the news at the time and as a result, forced SQEX to adjust it and eventually AV as well as it was a PR nightmare.
Let it be known that Vana'diel will not suffer the weak :P
Oh also: hoping that for 14 you guys pick Nael Hard Mode from 1.0 because hoo boy... Even the Savage version in Coil pales in comparison.
When I was 8 and crashed my Submarine into Emrald. I was shitting bricks. Then after finding out how to fight it thanks to my Bradi Games guide I was so stoked! Now as a man in his Mid 30s I replay some of my childhood fav games and just steam roll them and think goddamn I was dogshit when I was a kid. Lol
16:34 min as a german ive had a good laugh on this one 😂 (it sounded like rise of the Salat (Salat = salad in german))
I am here to claim first, and to say I adore this channel.
7 seconds dam you
You got 2nd actually
Thank you so much! ~Darryl
Talking of Penance, I got the trophy for beating him in the PS4 version when I beat a random enemy in the Calm Lands. It was pretty weird.
29:11 this is perhaps the best example I can think of of how different countries or more specifically cultures have completely different almost Alien ways of thinking to each other.
I’m a fairly hardcore gamer or I was at times in my past (now I’m both ill and disabled so I can’t keep up the levels of gaming I used to even if I still had the time) and I know some even more hardcore gamers but none of them would have considered doing the level of gaming it was taking to fight this boss that’s a completely different level of thinking.
Cries in Dragonsong's Reprise (Ultimate) flavored self destruction
I think Absolute Virtue is the toughest boss ever created in any game ever. My LS (linkshell) on the Diabolos server fought that thing numerous times, and always ended up frustrated. Just getting the pop items required to spawn it represented a lot of time and effort running around Sea to beat all of the Jailers. The Jailers required their own pop items gained from other Sea mobs too. We'd usually accrue pop items for multiple of each Jailer since they also could drop rare gear. I quit FFXI not too long after the level cap was raised to 99 since the game just became too easy at that point, so I never had the satisfaction of beating Absolute Virtue.
I would argue the dark aeons are just a string of bosses with Dark Penance being the "super" boss of that group
I hope at some point the omega weapon from final fantasy 15 will be talked about. He is the only other omega i defeated beside ffx, and is my absolute favourite in the whole franchise
"Oh boy, part 2! I can't wait to see my favorite Final Fantasy covered! It has so many superbosses and references to the older games!"
*Sees video length*
"Oh :/"
I'm actually curious how much time you'll spend talking about 12 lol
I had no idea you could fight the Dark Magus Sisters separately.
Very good, now we're going to see Kaiser Dragon, Omega Weapon in FFVI, Zodiark, Omega Weapon Mark XII and Yiazmat in FFXII and finally Long Gui and Vercengetorix and FFXIII in part 3. 🙂
I always forgot yojimbo existed until I fought penance. Then I thought fuck it lets make cheese. Gave him my life savings and won lol
The final fantasy xi portion screams “I have not actually played much of this game”
you mentioned yojimbo for penance but if i remember correctly you didnt mention the end for omega weapon in ff8
Man, Zeromus EG seems so familiar, but I don't remember playing the GBA version of 4...I know I've seen it though. Maybe it was just that long ago, since an ex-friend did introduce me to FF via FFI on the GBA...
I remember playing for the first time FFX withou leveling up, but I had Yojimbo, and I remember all my aeons has been clapped on the Braska final aeon fight, but not Yojimbo, AND that moment when Tidus is down, Auron is down, And Yuna have abou 1k hp I just summoned Yojimbo my last hope, then I pay him my all overwhelming amount of gil (like 80k gil because i didnt farm the whole game) then Yojimbo just one shot Jecht, my fucking heart in that exact moment just start to pulse like I do cocaine for everyday, that memory will be in my head to the end of my days.
One thing about Divine Might: ArkAngel MR can use Charm on players.
I've never played FF11, in fact it might be the Final Fantasy I know the least about, but from the horror stories I've heard, Absolute Virtue might be the hardest boss in the franchise's history. There are accounts of people fighting it for over THIRTY HOURS, and to no avail at that! People have gotten physically ill in real life just trying to fight it. I know it's a running gag in the community about how absurdly long it takes to fell bosses like Yiazmat from 12 or the Adamantoise in 15, but at least you could pause those games. 11 is an MMO, so there is no pausing.
Imagine being so angry that you become a superboss (Omega FFX)
Great episode but it makes me sad that I gotta wait for ff12, 13, 15, and 16
Uhh...Wait hold up. Around @26:50, their HP is over 999? How is that possible? I played the crud out of the PSP FF1 (not the dawn of souls version) and I always wondered if that was the true max or not.
Meanwhile Chronodia
"Am I a joke to you?"
Don't worry, Chronodia will have its time to shine. We just haven't got to that part of the chronological evolution yet! ~Darryl
I NEVER could complete ALL 50 floors of that PSP only FF1 dungeon to even FIGHT it in the first place so that's a LOT harder to do then the actually boss fight against it especially due to LACK of Save points.
What mods are being used in the XI clips? I have mine modded and it doesn't look as good as that. lol
I remember having to spam quick hit repeatedly to beat nemesis 😂
i do hope we see how savage fights different from ultimate fights in FFXIV, since we had to wait until Stormblood for the first ultimate fight against Bahamut
My hardest super boss is Chibi Terra from World of FF. How can anyone possibly attack something as cute and adorable as sweet little Terra?
Oh, same goes for Vivi. World of FF is cruel!
Black rabite from mana series is hell
If i rember right you had a extreamly small chance to steal Excalibur II from ozma so their was 2 ways to get Excalibur II
So we are not gonna talk about the super boss that guarded Vegnagun?
That Fiend was a menace in its own right. 😂. Had me was like; fuck this, lemme play this piano and skip this guy.
I can't wait for the FF14 segment, at the very least Ultimates should count as a multi-phase superboss encounter if nothing else.
As much as I hate mobile games down to their very concept, I will admit that the little facet with Jade Weapon's battle changing depending on your real life location is actually a pretty wild idea.
I have to ask, where can one download all of these piano themes of FF music?
I hope next you will talk about the super boss in XV
Ugh, the look on my face when I grinded 6 Iron Dukes in the original FFX-2.... only for the remaster to give 5 of them from a single Major Numerous fight....
Angra Mainyu was such a letdown;
Two Dark Knights > Darkness x2,
One Alchemist > Al Bhed Hi Potion,
Repeat as necessary
Though I have played and beaten most of these Final Fantasy games, the super-bosses (for the most part) were always unbeatable for me. Only few were somewhat manageable, the weaker ones such as Ultima and Omega in FFX, but beyond that - good lord. Never had the patience to grind that much, and cheap one-hit kills were beneath me. Well, admittedly, I did defeat Angra Mainyu by abusing that one ability which allows you to shoot an enemy a bunch of times for massive damage. The most I ever achieved without such tricks were a few of the Dark Aeaons, but only a handful of them. While I enjoy the idea of super-bosses, it sure is often a task for those who have no other obligations in their lives and just grind, grind, grind. Impressive for sure, but also quite insane.
The only one I didn't at least try was Tiamat from XII. I'm a nervous person and wouldn't even want to leave my console on that long lol. Ozma from IX and Ruby and Emerald from VII are the only ones I've never beat from the games I actually played. I never played III or IV or XI and otherwise I;ve been through every main game and spin off. A lot of them have a cheese of some sort. He mentions most of them in these videos honestly. I didn't know about the Cait SIth strategy for Ruby until a few years ago, and always wanted to go back and try, but there's just too many games and only so much time.
If you say check the link in the description you should put a link in the description
Would Cluex from mario rpg be considered a ff superboss? Being across dimensions with four elemental crystals, and appropriate music lol
the sheer difficulty of Absolute Virtue is a bit down played here, I only remember cause i was there lol. the dev team released a video 3 years after the introduction to him to give clues how to beat him, didnt work. even when his hp got reduced cause the 18 hour battle with pw, it didnt work. i remember going to sleep after a wipe on him, and coming back the next day and different LS's were still fighting him
I never even played Final Fantasy XI but I definitely saw the news articles of Absolute Virtue (and Pandemonium Warden) requiring an unhealthy amount of time to beat. And these were articles in non-gaming media sites too, it was nuts.
Or you can cheese Major Numerous with an impale team and Mushroom Cloud, then get all the those sweet sweet Keys to Success and Iron Dukes you can dream of.
What about the Dragons on the Dragon Isle in the post game of FFVI advance.
Absolute virute also didnt have a 100% spawn rate and people were scared of him. In fact people would start running when jailor of love died
Does Greg or the leadup fights to him in 7 Rebirth count as superbosses? While they were the hardest fights in the game without question, they still didn't really feel as impossible of a wall as most superbosses usually do.
Ngl, they honestly weren't that hard.
I had a harder time fighting White Terrors on hard mode.
Who’s greg
@@HoneybadgerGames it's a joke for people that play FF14 ;) My hint is that it's a reoccurring summon that's name also starts with the letter G
@@maybayV2 I did it at level ~48 on normal on my way to start Chapter 13. And yeah I wasn't sure how "hard" it is in the context of some of the hard mode stuff. (Edit: Also that odin + alexander fight was imo way harder)
I needed a break after sinking 120 hours into it so it'll be a while before I go back for the completion cleanup.
@Xenodyne I mean, literally all I did was focus Odin, and he just teleports away. Meaning it's just Alexander 1v1 until he comes back like 5min later. It was probably the second easiest for me.
There were alot of other neat bosses that were added to FF1 with the dawn of souls version. Kinda sad only omega and shinryu got mentioned
No mention of Yiazmat XII?
31:55 Espers in ff4??🤣🧐
My first super boss was Bass from Megaman BN 6, I dunno if it’s actually a super boss. But it’s optional and I had mentally stuck myself on that fight as an 8 year old.
Show of hands, who else just cheesed Penance with Yojimbo?
Hello British Darryl I'm your American counterpart LOL
@@whilstdumping my name is Darryl and I'm from Texas? Lol
Not ff but my battle against dulahand and the three you must beat before that where my greatest achievement in rpg.
I just wish Dark Valefor and Dark Shiva weren't in the way, and that Dark Shiva didn't ambush you. I hate that about the FFX remaster.
I really don’t see the issue with these horror movies. If they don’t like them, just move on to things they enjoy and ignore them.
Peter Pan in a certain light is pretty horrific, though. So it’s the only one that kind of makes sense?
Omega in FF10/JP had 99.999 HP
In international it was 999.9999 HP
Nemesis has 10 Million HP in both versions
Absolutely no mention about every time players would find a way to down Absolute Virtue, Square would retaliate, punish the players, and "fix" the way they downed it. This lead to players to push well beyond reasonable fight lengths and compromise their health.
Thanks for the comment! It is indeed a shame that players had to endure such odd behaviour by the developers. I'd perhaps recommend re-watching that section of the video though, as there is mention of the developers voiding strategies that were not deemed correct in their eyes. ~Darryl
Are you saying "two hour ability?"
Just letting you know, omega had 99,999 in ff10 original and went to 999,999 on the international, nemesis always had 10m, 100x the original and 10x the international
Ultima and Omega weapon were...disappointing the first time i beat them. Granted, i did some grinding in the dungeon you find them in, and the dungeon has some initially difficult monsters before you get used to them.
um ff4 had super bosses on the moon, rewarding many ultimate weapons, all optional. not to mentin the optional summon fights which we also meant to be super bosses, compared to most other bosses in the game
5:30 Nine!!