Your favourite Final Fantasy and why?

[Poncho]

Originally posted by Raen Ryong
If you're just starting Final Fantasy, I recommend from 5-10... X-2 might turn you off the series unfortunately...

Final Fantasy 1 and 2 (non-gba versions) ARE challenging (FF2 especially), possibly too hard if you're starting.

One of the things I like about the Final Fantasies is that they have so many sidequests and secret bosses... I like my hidden challenges... some games have a few secret bosses, but the bosses tend to be weaklings. Not the case in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time...

FF1 - No secret bosses (non-gba version)
FF2 - No secret bosses (non-gba version)
FF4 - Asura (Easy-Medium), Bahamut (Medium)
FF5 - Omega (Medium), Shinryu (Medium)
FF6 - The Eight Dragons (Easy-Medium)
FF7 - Ultimate WEAPON (Easy), Emerald WEAPON (Hard), Ruby WEAPON (Hard), Lost Number... I guess (Easy)
FF8 - Ultima Weapon (Medium), Omega Weapon (Hard)
FF9 - Hades (Medium), Ozma (Very Hard-Extremely Hard)
FFX - Dark Valefor (Medium-Hard), Dark Ifrit (Medium), Dark Ixion (Hard), Dark Shiva (Hard), Dark Bahamut (Very Hard), Dark Yojimbo (Hard), Dark Anima (Hard-Very Hard), Dark Magus Sisters (Very Hard-Extremely Hard), Penance (Extremely Hard), Nemesis (Hard)
FFX-2 - They're all fairly simple, with the exception of Paragon (Medium) and Trema (Medium-Hard)...

Well, those are my opinions on them anyway. The Dark Aeons are considerably harder than most of the others, but I've tried to keep more or less the same scale throughout. There is a big difference between Medium and Hard, as there is between Hard and Very Hard. The other differences not so big.

FF12 is supposed to be amazing. Hopefully there will be lots of lovely secret bosses... though harder than Penance means I may just die... took me bloody ages to beat him. Without Zanmato -- I'm not cheap.

Loved what you were saying about the game, Raen I can relate to liking these things aswell. When a game ends, just with the last boss, I get like "meh" and it all feels like a let down.

And ah. FFX was the **** with uberhard secret bosses -_-

Don't think I even beat one, eh. Xcept Valefor maybe...

[Raen Ryong]

And ah. FFX was the **** with uberhard secret bosses -_-

Don't think I even beat one, eh. Xcept Valefor maybe...

Don't be ashamed... it's not exactly easy to beat them. Dark Valefor you can beat through fluke, but it's not worth relying on. She only has 700,000 HP so if you have 255 Strength you can beat her down in no time. There's something unusual about her though: Her Energy Ray deals 9,999 damage at most yet her overdrive can deal over that. So she only has Break Damage Limit for some of her attacks? Weird...

As far as the Dark Aeons are concerned;

Tier 1 - "Easy"
Dark Valefor, Dark Ifrit

Tier 2 - Not too bad...
Dark Ixion, Dark Shiva

Tier 3 - Getting there...
Dark Yojimbo

Tier 4

Tier 5 - This will hurt.
Dark Anima

Tier 6 - Ouch.
Dark Bahamut

Tier 7

Tier 8 - This is sheer agony.
Dark Magus Sisters

Tier 9

Tier 10 - Claim victory here to become a god at RPGs...
Penance

Some tiers are deliberately left unoccupied, just to show the difference in difficulty. Eg, Dark Bahamut is A LOT harder than Dark Ixion, for instance, whereas Dark Ixion is only a step up from Dark Valefor. Nemesis is about on par with Dark Bahamut. Be aware that anything from Tier 5 onwards is harder than any other secret bosses in games...

[Cerebus]

Originally posted by coasterkrazy
I wonder if I'm the only one who beat Bahamut without using reflect. I did it such a ridiculous way though. I just timed Kain's jump so he would never get hit. Everyone else died, but I was just focused on winning. Though in the end, I wish I had known about the reflect method so everyone else could have taken in part in the massive amount of experience.

That's what I was doing first too, but I lost... Then, I saw he only used Mega Flare so I tried Reflect and it worked. However, I only used it on Cecil and still made Kain jump for the rest of the fight.
Also, I found Odin not too dificult. My friend said he was strong because of his Sword attack ( wich I don't know the name ) but he never had the time to use it on me. And, I never found Sylph...