FF4 DS MBO - Part XVI: Four Elemental Archfiends

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Published on March 20, 2011 1:29:05 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV29eAGMgvM

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Final Fantasy IV (2007)

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Blighted Despot, Scarmiglione, the Drowned King, Cagnazzo, Empress of the Winds, Barbariccia, and Autarch of Flame, Rubicante - all defeated in one video.

FF4 DS - Mandatory Battles Only challenge
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=591F88F81A8B1995
Playlist of the challenge, updated each new video.

Last time we defeated Rubicante, he claimed to have learnt the lesson: that it is more advantageous to fight in groups than alone. Really, he speaks nonsense as he hasn't learnt shit - the archfiends come one after another instead of actually cooperating as a group, and we maintain every and all buffs we put on in the preceding fight. Rubicante also hasn't learnt to abstain from covering like a little girl when a certain ninja reaches for his precious treasure. So really, he hasn't learnt at all I tell ya.

Seriously though, it's not that bad. I just regret coming here with the Excalibur, Cecil's super blade, just to see it's actually a bad idea to swing it around. There's either a counterattack that punishes the whole party for Cecil's bravado, or as is the case with Barbariccia it misses. The rest of the party functions fine in spite of avoiding every random encounter in the game, included a lot of cool chest with cool equipment that we didn't open because there was a scary exp-awarding monster inside.

FuSoYa (come on, how can you not capitalise it in this version?) replaces Kain and does so well, because he runs support with Bless, and can help with the healing duties if necessary.

The fiends haven't changed much at all since the past encounters; well, they're bulkier in hit points but that's it, nothing Edge can't handle with his Shurikens. The party has also improved, what with available Holy damage for Barbariccia and all that. Also, Cagnazzo shouldn't be hit with physicals so that he doesn't cast Slow on the entire party as a counter. Not very cool.

I thought Scarm was holy-weak for some reason (which he is not, though he takes damage from restorative magic), but obviously the weakness I was supposed to penetrating there was fire. He died quickly anyway. Could've also used Elixirs but that's a bit too cheap for my tastes.

All that's left at this point is the CPU battle (annoyingly hard), and after that we fight Zeromus. Should be pretty fun and I think this will be the next challenge I finish (4HoL requires extensive farming, and in FF3DS LLG the RNG keeps screwing me over).

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