/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2523361
I remember it being hard the first few tries, but unless you went straight to da moon and didn't get any good items, he wasn't that hard.

>>2523361
What is this even supposed to be lmao

>>2523401
Yeah, by the time you've blundered around the last dungeon and discovered the best items/weapons/summon skills on the moon you should be a semi-decent position to take him.

I got all the good items...but maybe I'm underleved? Everyone is around 51-52.

>>2523441
The max level is 100 isn't it?
It looks like barely the half.

Protip, if you get him below 10k health, if you let him have 1-2 turns he will heal himself for "9999"| health, but it's actually his FULL health pool.

If you're going to kill him, don't hold back, blow all your load non stop~

>>2523441
I didn't have too much trouble with him, but my party was in the 70s when taking him down.

>>2523361
zeromus was a literally who

terrible way to end that game

>>2523361
Question, do you know how to cast cure on all your party at once? Because the last guy didn't.

>>2523361
Hey are you a complete idiot like me and don't know you can heal more than one person?

Just kidding, no one else is that stupid.

>>2523552
they tell you in the beginner's school at the first town

>>2523564
Haha but I've played RPGs I don't need some stupid tips for beginners... hahaha...

>>2523561
Don't beat yourself up over it, mang. Considering that you managed to get through absolutely everything else in the game without it, I'd honestly say that, if anything, you're far more persistent then this bloke of an OP.

Considering low-level runs are possible, I really don't see why it would be too amazingly hard to beat Zeromus by the time you're level 50. Zeromus is a strictly scripted boss, and predictability is what makes scripted bosses so easy.

>>2523525

but the game came out in 1991

>>2523412
ISN'T IT OBVIOUS

>>2523361
Are you the same anon who played the whole game without knowing about group-cast?

>>2523412
Your genitals.

>>2523741

>>2523534
Not as bad as Cloud of Darkness or Necron. At least they name-dropped Zemus on the first trip to the moon. The others appeared literally at the end. Hell, Necron popped up right when you fight him.

>>2524514
Yeah Necron is probably the biggest flaw in that game

Grind more and stop using Rydia Summons, it triggers some fucking counter spell or something...

>>2523412
It's much clearer in the 3DS version.

I still love that sprite to death though.

Which sprite was better for a final form, the original or Easy Types?

>>2525402
Easy type looks cool but it's not final boss material. Gotta go with the original.

>>2525429
This, pretty much. Easy Type looks like it would still make for a wicked boss, maybe a second-to-last one, but a final boss? Nah, mang.

>>2525402
Centaur with a sword versus eldritch unspeakable cosmic horror, hmm, tough choice.

>The item menu opening up on Palom and Porom
>You can steal Dark Matter from Zeromus
>So many unreachable doors
Love how the game was designed to fuck with rumor-mongers.

>>2525513
I actually liked that aspect of it. They went and made use of the Dark Matter in later versions, at least once they got the New Game+ feature in there.

>>2525519
Only in the 3D remake.
It was fun watching all the people speculate on it's use in the original, thinking that it lowered Zeromus's defense or softened his attacks.

>>2525529
I forget whether you kept it in the Advance version if you stole it and then went to the Lunar Trials. I don't think you did, but oh well.

>>2525535
You do. All of the Advance games save after the end, and the final boss tends to have the best equipment on it.

>>2525529
Honestly I enjoy the GBA/PSP's postgame better than DS though, even though the final final boss may have been a letdown. Dem random floor ruins.

>>2525513
Not really designed for it, just lots of loose ends from the non-easy type version. You were able to unstone the twins in the Japanese version, for example, which is why the menu pops up.

>>2525551
I played the original Japanese version, no, you could not unstone them with any item.
>>2525539
The DS's was just kinda wonky. You had new game+, but only could go through the game a limited number of times. The augmentations were a neat feature, but to get the best use you needed to put them on specific characters. The GBA had a huge dungeon and multiple bosses, while I believe the DS only had two new bosses (though more original and harder than anything in the GBA extras)
The DS remake just had some weird design decisions where as the GBA was just an extended build up of the original. I guess it's neat how different each port of FFIV is.

>>2525556
>you could not unstone them with any item
Really? Well, fuck me, I guess I was rused.

>>2525402
Cool, I never knew Easy Type had a different sprite for the final boss.

It reminds me of Poltergeist from FF6.

>>2525571
yeah, a text pops up that they've stoned themselves out of their own will which is why nothing could ever work. Although gameplay wise you can perfectly petrify and unpetrify yourself.