FFVIA LLNSNI Part XI: Ultima Weapon
17I have, as usual, been anticipating this battle. Atma Weapon always makes for a great challenge, regardless of the challenge you face it in.
This recording is actually one of my earliest attempts. I was recording just in case and had only some ideas as to what I would do. This battle lasted for 20 minutes so I had to speed it up a bit, and put music over it. I had to use the most epic music on my computer to do justice to the intensity of this epic, epic battle.
I did plenty of mistakes, but I was also lucky/unlucky, meaning I was in extreme situations a lot but was on the verge of dying too many times, with many times when one of the characters had to fight solo, still surviving somehow.
I later managed to beat the boss in under 8 minutes when I had the pattern figured out clearly in my head, knowing exactly what to do and how to do it, making full use of the opening menu trick, and getting immense luck.
But that attempt was boring compared to this one, though still impressive as far as pedantic gaming goes. Meteor, Graviga, Tornado, Mind Blast, Blaze were NOT used at all, because I didn't give the boss a chance to do so. Here however, they're all used and not just once too, putting me into risky situations.
Having to defend and revive so much on this attempt, I couldn't get Ultima to transition quickly between his phases and was forced to eat TWO Mind Blasts and Flare Stars, which is always terribly dangerous.
I also kept forgetting to dispel Protect/Shell/Haste from the boss so he took more turns and less damage than he should have.
Not my best playing, but it's fun to watch so I figured if I upload a video of this fight, it should be the most entertaining one.