Final Fantasy III (NES) - Final Battle & Ending (Flashing Lights Warning)
1Please note that this video contains frequent and rapid screen flashing.
As is always the case, I went into this battle well overgeared, but even though all the Cloud of Darkness does is sneeze FlareWaves at you, it's still a horribly dangerous fight. Two Ninjas would have probably made it much faster with double the Shuriken, but I like my punch guy. The Karateka's Build Up might also have been nice, but he wouldn't have lived long enough to use it since the FlareWave would have pretty much oneshot him.
The reason I unequipped the Quake spell from CROOW! was because in prior fights I'd end up accidentally choosing it when I meant to cast Cure4 and you can't undo that mistake on the last member of the party ("Attack All" spells skip targeting). Also, sorry if I skip the text too fast, I tried to pace it so it's readable without lingering too long on one line.
I read later on that swapping weapons mid-battle cancels the effects of Haste, which explains why the Shuriken damage dropped so much after the first turn. Maybe I should have had the Karateka pouring wine down the Ninja's throat on every turn. I was kinda hoping the wine would buff the Karateka a bit more. I expected the Asterix PAF! with just the caligae left on screen like what the first game pretty much lets you do. A Hasterix, if you will.
The last dungeons are hell. I don't remember it being that hard in the remake.
Well, this completes the missing link in my final battle videos for FFs I through X. I initially didn't plan on recording this -- I'd have picked less silly names otherwise. I just wanted to play through it since I'd never fully played the original and even the DS remake I've only beaten once over a decade ago. Maybe I'll do that one in the future, too.
This translation of Final Fantasy III is the v1.1 fan translation by Alex W. Jackson, Neill Corlett and SoM2Freak.
You can get the patch here: https://www.romhacking.net/translations/141/
In unrelated news, this channel turned 14 a little over a week prior to this upload. I didn't think I'd end up using this much after the first day, but here we are.
Chapters
0:00 Inventory/Stats Display
1:08 Confrontation
1:58 Final Battle
6:55 Ending
14:35 Cast
16:12 Staff
18:16 The End