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[Anonymous No.6183220]

What would Zeromus do if he had managed to defeat Cecil and the others? Just devour everything with his hate?

[Anonymous No.6183243]

Zemus wanted to genocide the Earth people, wake up the Lunarians and have them move there. Zeromus was just a hateful ghost, though, and might even just disappear once he got revenge on the party.

[Anonymous No.6183252]

Recruit the dwarfs and genocide the midgets.

[Anonymous No.6183307]

>>6183220
Simple the best final boss theme of all time, even better than dancing mad.

[Anonymous No.6183342]

I've never been able to tell what the hell is going on with those sprites.

[Anonymous No.6183356]

>>6183307
Absolutely patrician opinion.

[Anonymous No.6183368]

>>6183307
>>6183356
This

[Anonymous No.6183564]

>>6183307
>Simple the best final boss theme of all time, even better than dancing mad.

I'm gonna still say dancing mad is a hair better (I don't even like FFVI) but yeah it fucking rules. I used to just get to the zeromus battle and leave my SNES blaring the music for a while.

also to this day I cannot wrap my head around what the fuck zeromus looks like, it's such an incomprehensible design. where's your face bitch

[Anonymous No.6183573]

>>6183564
>I don't even like FFVI
How?

[Anonymous No.6183581]

>>6183573
didn't capture me, I quit playing halfway through because I really wasn't into it. I didn't give a shit about anything that was happening or any of the characters. I might just not be FF's target audience, I've liked 4, 5 and 7 though.

[Anonymous No.6183585]

>>6183342
90% of the time it's a pile of demon penises

[Anonymous No.6183624]

>>6183581
>I quit playing halfway through
then how did you fight Kefka?

[Anonymous No.6183856]

>>6183585
The one on Zeromus is especially obvious.

[Anonymous No.6183892]

>>6183342

Yeah Zemus' visual designs are awesome. He goes from absurd yet imposing clown-bishop-whatever to exotic and sorta cute hairball to R-TYPE NIGHTMARE OF FLESH AND EXOSKELETON. So he's cool and then he's cool and then he's super-awesome. And yeah once he loses his normal Lunarian body he's just incomprehensible. I find it refreshing. Usually in these games almost everything's got to be humanoid or based on some known monster from real-world mythology. But not this thing!! It's not just original, it's also unapologetically confusing-looking, with no explanation given. It's not reminiscent of any known creature from zoology or from mythology. It's just blue Koosh guy and freaky skelecrabarms, take them or leave them. It's great.

[Anonymous No.6183893]

>>6183220

He would have caused those on the Blue Planet to say gram, instead of himself having to say gram.

[Anonymous No.6184008]

>>6183624
never said I fought kefka but I've still listened to dancing mad

[Anonymous No.6184081]

>>6183342
>>6183564
>>6183892
The 3D remake attempts to make sense of the design, but I honestly feel it kind of ruins the magic of the original.
The 3D version is actually pretty fantastic. It's worth a playthrough if you've played the original a million times.

[Anonymous No.6184116]

>>6183220
I don't know sorry

[Anonymous No.6184751]

>>6183307
As much as I love the Zeromus theme, I think this is a big hyperbole. Dancing Mad is like 20 minutes long and there's not a single full second. That's a major accomplishment imo. Dancing Mad is like art, where Zeromus is like a really catchy and successful pop rock song. Do you know what I mean? Honestly I think that the overworld theme in FF4 is better than the final boss music.

[Anonymous No.6184752]

>>6184751
>single full second
I meant "single dull second".

[Anonymous No.6185325]

>>6184081
Notice how Kain is off screen with full health waiting to land the deathblow and save his comraden.

[Anonymous No.6185337]

>>6184081
oh yeah ew I don't like that. I'll take inscrutable over dumb, although I'll still say the original design could've done inscrutable slightly more intelligibly. I'm no graphic designer though so don't ask me how

[Anonymous No.6185432]

>>6183220
>Filename
Kek

[Anonymous No.6185589]

>>6183220
Zeromus would probably find another host to fester in until he could find a way to cultivate more hatred among the Earth's populace. Considering that one of the major themes is how controlling, destructive and ultimately pointless Hatred is I can't see Zeromus having any real long term goal aside from existing and survival.

The real question is who he would use after Zemus to continue cultivating Hate in the world?

[Anonymous No.6185601]

A big shiny demon parasite
Maybe its a heart in a cage?
The early SNES sprite sort of has a face- so I can see why someone would think that

[Anonymous No.6185603]

[Anonymous No.6185607]

[Anonymous No.6185614]

[Anonymous No.6185638]

>>6185601
You mean that despite all his rage, he is still just a heart in a cage?

[Anonymous No.6185682]

>>6185603
Nice

[Anonymous No.6186093]

The more I think about it the less different it actually seems.
Zeromus, upon defeating Cecil, Rosa, Kain, Rydia and Edge would probably pick a new host to control and then try and find some way to inspire war between nations or between Lunarians and Humans.

The chosen host doesn't really seem to matter, maybe it'd shape their specific method of control and warfare? But say if Zeromus chose Cid or Yang as the next blue-boys to wage his Hate Campaign they'd probably just use their given devices/military to keep a war burning between neighboring nations. I do kind of like the idea of a Blued character running around with a new unique set of Hate Enhanced powers to challenge the world.

Oh, I suppose a Zeromus + Rydia combo would be pretty strong. She could potentially start shit between Humans, Lunarians and Aeon, Esper, Eidolion(sp?) god beings all at the same time. She's also the one character with probably the most potential for some deep seated Hatred considering she watched her mother fucking die and her village burn right at the start of the game. Though maybe an Evil Blue Edward would be unstoppable?

[Anonymous No.6186674]

>>6184081
He looks like he's wearing one of my grandma's knitted wool sweaters.

[Anonymous No.6187632]

>>6186093
>Oh, I suppose a Zeromus + Rydia combo would be pretty strong.

Zeromus lingering on after his defeat and trying to infect the old cast would've been an interesting take on the sequel instead of the crossover boss bonanza nonsense they made instead.

[Anonymous No.6187723]

>Yeah Zemus' visual designs are awesome. He goes from absurd yet imposing clown-bishop-whatever to exotic and sorta cute hairball to R-TYPE NIGHTMARE OF FLESH AND EXOSKELETON. So he's cool and then he's cool and then he's super-awesome. And yeah once he loses his normal Lunarian body he's just incomprehensible. I find it refreshing. Usually in these games almost everything's got to be humanoid or based on some known monster from real-world mythology. But not this thing!! It's not just original, it's also unapologetically confusing-looking, with no explanation given. It's not reminiscent of any known creature from zoology or from mythology. It's just blue Koosh guy and freaky skelecrabarms, take them or leave them. It's great.

[Anonymous No.6187814]

>>6187723
what an insightful and humorous post.
gee wow.

[Anonymous No.6187842]

>>6187723
kek

[Anonymous No.6187878]

>>6183564
>>6183581
I feel the same about 6 actually, the game actually gets better after you get to the World of Chaos and it becomes more nonlinear, but I tried and gave up on the game many times before I gave up.

4, 5 and 7 are my favorites too, though I have a fondness for 8. It's an enjoyably broken mess.

[Anonymous No.6190370]

>>6185614
who drew that?

[Anonymous No.6190373]

>>6187723
>>6187723
why do people shit on genres that don't interest them?

[Anonymous No.6191259]

>>6187878
thanks anon I've been wondering if I should give FF8 a shot, our similar taste makes me wanna go for it

[Anonymous No.6191580]

>>6183307
the GBA version of the theme was pure justice

[Anonymous No.6192047]

open a restaurant on the moon probably

zero burgers

put bahamut in a little apron and chef hat

[Anonymous No.6192125]

>>6192047
lol

[Anonymous No.6193243]

So which version of the final boss theme was better?

[Anonymous No.6193248]

>>6191580
It’s the only time across all of the NES/SNES Remakes that I actually prefer the GBA version to the SNES version. The pace is just much, much better.
Every other song is better on SNES, especially the FF5 tracks.

[Anonymous No.6193289]

>>6192047
hot

[Anonymous No.6193416]

>>6183220
Anyone else think it's funny how not even the artist knew where the fuck he was going with Zeromus' design? It;s ike they started designing him at full-profile from the top and then decided to turn him more outwards as they worked their way down. He either looks like a gormless alien retard with big blue eyes one way, or just a mess of shitty tentacles with a brain case sitting on top of it the other way. When they had to translate the design to 3D they had no fucking clue what they were looking at, so they made him look like a stupid wizard hunchback wearing a blue-jeweled cloak and little face.

[Anonymous No.6194967]

>>6193416
I still like the "Heart in a Cage" theory
I think he's supposed to just be a really really big parasite with some demonic qualities.
Or maybe he's all the weird variant things you could consider Hate to be:
>Insectoid arms & legs that attach inside of you and won't let go without tearing/pain
>Demon Wing just because? Maybe its like a fin and he navigates with it?
>Weird brain egg sac of all the different reasons to Hate
>Weird veins that drink up your life essence, time, reason, other emotions
>Some weird worm thing under its "arm" with a big spike mouth? Maybe its a spike hand? Or the real face of the cowardly parasite creature

The only indication of a face is that one stray red line on the right side with the two spikes serving as a weird mouth. The human brain is really good at making faces out of anything though.

The EG version is weird. He's basically just the Ultima_Weapon and isn't very much like a parasite at all.