Part 29: Judgment Day Part 2

Welcome one and all, to the penultimate update!



Last time, if you recall, we killed a palette swap boss in a factory section.



Oh no! A monster in a box!



Oh no, the little brother of Atma, that thing we killed. Whatever horrors will it inflict upon us?

Reasonably terrifying, especially that HP total, if we were fighting it on the Floating Continent.




We are not on the Floating Continent.



Cool sprite, useless stats. I could steal a Kung Fu Suit or a Tonic!



Night time in Thamasa, until a battle occurs. Gotta watch out for these Kubrs, they have a strong special attack.



We've fought the Vaune at some point in a treasure chest but Teh Fea is new. They have 35,300 HP which goes quickly enough but is still obnoxious to chew through. Low Loyo has an Attack x5 with an attack stat of 41 so they're not dangerous but kinda hurt.



This stupid room was a dead end. Toffles are terrible to fight but Oat Tro basically melts AND uses Sneeze so who cares?



Success! Switch one of three flipped.



Just tiny rooms from everywhere, all over the place.



Oh no!



Oh, actual, fucking, no!



You piece of shit dragon!




Not even Love Token can save me!



I didn't heal myself up when I opened it the first time. Second time was the charm.



Each of these little bastards has 45,344 HP. I run when I can.



Doom will be the death of us all.

You'll note that this thing was also in the Fanatics Tower. Luckily, I didn't encounter it.




Wall Rings are very important for some fights. A fact I learned after my first attempt.



That ain't gonna cut it, Zepeli.



Fuuko, however, is rolling the dice of pain.



Nnnnnargh!




Peep those damage rolls. Not everyone had fire or wind protection.



We've seen this attack before and it sucks. The person hit with it gets a countdown, like Condemned but shorter, and when they die from ANYTHING they get turned into a zombie. I don't think there's a way to prevent this; there is also a bug involving zombie protection that means you can't heal them afterwards so you gotta be careful.



Targetting is basically a free turn that I'm very grateful for.



Things get pretty dire at points, it's a long fight.



Funnily enough, Phoenix revives people but their sprites don't pop back up until all the casting is done. Which means their dead corpse can still block attacks like Acid Rain.



I summoned Crusader just to see what it would do. It's worse than Quake, good job Zepeli.



This is not an easy fight. I probably should've started over with some gear changes but I'm stubborn.



At one point, zombie Kaoru jumped onto my only living character and I thought that was it but they only did 29 damage and didn't proc Ultima. Hooray!



Sometimes, life just isn't fair.



God what a slog. I hope that's the worst we face!



Someone should do a remake of Home Alone but call the kid Kelvie. That would be more interesting than the monster.



The heal bucket does not, in fact, offer a free heal.



I hope everyone likes boss battles!

Wait, wait a minute. What's that? SKILLS: Goner. Oh my god why?



No no no no no!



Goner does NOT fuck around. It has the highest spell power in the game at 220, is unblockable, and non-elemental. You CANNOT survive it without enough HP to do so. Only Kefka has it in vanilla. Maaaaaaybe with enough magic defense you could live.



My best hope is just that she doesn't use it at all, really. Serena says it all here.



Fixed Dice are broken.



Quake still isn't good enough.



GrandTrain is much higher in power but also costs way more MP.



Broken as hell!



Oh cool, that thing I don't need which bets for an Excalibur! Thanks!



I don't know if South Figaro is guaranteed to show up in the Final Dungeon but if it does, the treasures in the barrels are upgraded even further. That's why I always leave them until now. You'll see at the end with the list of treasure.



Like the ProtoArmor in the Magitek Facility, Prometheus isn't randomized and will normally appear in Kefka's Tower. I'm not sure why. I also just noticed that I forgot to mark which one is which but I believe Whizo is the floating robot. Topsarm is a real badass sprite!



We already fought this guy in the Collapsing House but here we are again. 10,690 HP is average for this dungeon so .



Beep boop, I'm a shitty boss!



I'm sure that somewhere, in the millions of possible seeds, there exists a Guardian fight that sucks.



This is not one.



I didn't need to do this.



But it's fun!



Poor bot can't catch a break.



You can try to fight a form of it in Vector when you go there in the World of Balance. It's specifically designed to immediately kill you and be unkillable. I haven't actually tried with any broken attacks but I'm sure nothing would happen.

This fight, however, Wei actually killed it with Zombie from Mind Blast! A robot that can become a zombie, what a world we live in.



Lime green? Slimer will have words for this boss.



Oof. I really hope it doesn't multi target that attacks.



I love that shields take on the colors of the spell they block.




Hey, look at this dummy that didn't put Wall Rings on again!



Magnitude8 is a WoB Zozo tier spell. Even if I didn't null Earth it wouldn't do much.



Things get dicey.



Eventual Merton strats cure all ails, however. I got very lucky that I didn't see X-zone or a lot of Shrapnel.



That's just rude, Rein. Wait a minute, I just noticed that Rein's sprite is a different color in battle. That's..weird as hell.




I don't know why we do a dance after beating just this one boss.



You may have noticed that I skipped a lot of shots of the dungeon, particularly the parts that aren't changed. Honestly they aren't all that interesting besides showing where I've ended up. I don't think anyone cares to see how I navigated the room with three switches.

ALL TREASURES
23,000 GP
Minerva
Heal Rod x2
Wing Edge
Aegis Shield x2
Muscle Belt
Minerva
Thunder Shield
Stunner
Force Armor
Fixed Dice

I now have three Fixed Dice, and at least two Merit Awards. This turns some of my more useless characters into powerhouses!

Next time is the final update and it's a doozy. The final battle video alone is 40 minutes, and it took me AT LEAST a dozen tries.