Game:

Bravely Default (2012)

Duration: 21:02

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Ah-RAW-buh-ras

Rules:
- The difficulty must be set to Hard for all fights the party participates in.
- EXP gain must be turned off (JP gain is still allowed).
- Norende must not be developed in any way. This is to prevent access to items, equipment, and special moves that can completely break the game.
- The use of Bravely Second is not allowed (not that you can get more SP with Citra, but still).

After the slew of cheap auto-battle bosses, Ouroboros is an actually quite involved and gratifying puzzle boss that requires manipulating his AI so your damage dealers can get to the final round so they can do their usual nonsense.

0:00 - Phase 1

The fight starts a bit gimmicky, with Big O pulling his moves from the party's active jobs, meaning he can use his basic attack, Quaga, Stomp, or Pay to Play. I get around all of this options by having Tiz Kairai him onto someone with a Reflect Ring. Once he gets extra BP from Haste World, he'll use Multiburst in a predictable manner, which is also easily solved with Full Leverage and Rampart. Once he's hit 19 times, he goes to Phase 2.

2:32 - Phase 2

He gets big and can use Mudo. Just Karai him onto Tiz with a Null Death ring equipped and hit him with six meteors.

5:16 - Phase 3

This time around he needs 11 hits to change phases. Nothing to fear if you know what to do, since his new BP drain skill is very easy to work around.

8:48 - Phase 4

The intended way to play this phase is to drop him to half health three times to trigger his Armageddon, but he also does that if he has extra BP. Thankfully, Armageddon is a magic attack, so anyone with Absorb Magic can no-sell this phase quite easily. Don't worry about Tiz and Agnes, they auto-revive at the end of the phase.

17:07 - Phase 5

Jesus, that's a lot of cutscene. Anyway, this is the last phase and the easiest. After Tiz directions any misfortune towards him and away from Agnes and Ringabel, just hit Absorb Magic and Meteor, then auto your way through the rest of the fight like it's the Perfect Airy boss. It's really that simple.

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