Part 30: The Fate Of The World Hinges On Us

Today, we fight for our world.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OjB0abkWnE
Final Fantasy X - Seymour's Ambition

No matter the cost.



Reckoning approaches. Do we have the strength to make it Kefka's?



The fiend reveals himself.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmn_xy9Vl60
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Song of Storms/Windmill Hut

God dammit BC you are too good for this world.

Look how adoorable Kefka is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cH6xD49Amw



Scar and Ukyo get tossed around a bit while everyone else stands around silently.



Zepeli tries to reason with Kefka, and Kefka murders more people in response.



There is no reasoning. There is only violence.



Final Fantasy IV has a final fight against a single boss. Final Fantasy V has two fights; a single boss then a four piece boss. Final Fantasy VI has four separate boss fights with ten total targets. Beyond Chaos makes that eleven targets; we'll get into that later.

Overall, it's the most badass fight in an RPG.

Watch Tier 1 here

The general strategy is to check if Long Arm has Death protection, then kill Face after Long Arm. Save Short Arm for last because Face counters with a heavy spell if it dies last. In this case it is Quake but it could be something like Merton! Short Arm also only has physical attacks so if you have Vanish, you can buff up and Vanish while killing any characters you don't want to bring with you to the next tier.



Ukyo has pretty good defense so they're not worried about regular attacks.



Long Arm is ID vulnerable! Demi/Quartr reduce enemy HP by a percentage and don't work if they're immune to Death.



The next time Long Arm does anything, it will die afterward. I think it gets pulled off the body by the airship, which is hardcore.



Zepeli is much less equipped to deal with physical attacks. I need to keep them alive to provide Quick to Rein.



So far, it's not too bad.



Chainsaw does more damage than Drill but has a chance of trying to use Death instead of damage, which won't work on Face.



I don't have Ultima here but Meteor is acceptable. Generally you don't want to use MT attacks because you want to kill one boss at a time.



Hmm I wonder what this does..




Exactly what is says, actually. Whoever gets hit with it will use a random Dance on their next turn, and will continue until killed or until they Stumble. The only way to Stumble is to try and use a different Dance than one that is already going.



Dance sucks here but GrandTrain is better than Meteor.



Rein, notably, is wearing a Ribbon but not any ID protection. They're immune to all statuses but can still be killed outright.

This is the easiest way to stop their dancing.



I found a reasonably easy encounter in the tower that dropped Megalixirs. It's now or never, hoarding be damned.



"This is fine, Face will die long before Short Arm since they have similar HP totals*"

*they did not



I wanted Scar to die to get someone better. I did NOT want Zepeli to die to Quake.



In the end, it seems to have worked out OK!

Watch Tier 2 here

Much like Tier 1, some of this Tier is vulnerable to death. You want to try and Mute Magic if possible, and Death Tools. You should also check Magic for Death, as mine is vulnerable here. Tools is only vulnerable to Condemned but in all my attempts I never got it to stick. I think the problem is that being vulnerable to Condemned doesn't automatically make you vulnerable to Death. After those two you want to kill Tiger, as when Hit dies, they do ten physical attacks to the group that can be easily avoided with Vanish, same as Short Arm.



Rein don't care.




Let me know if you can figure out how to block a world encompassing ice block with a shield.



Goodbye, Magic. We hardly knew you.



Kaoru is my hero, they brought Ultima for Rein



Being Frozen isn't a big problem because:



A world ending firestorm will warm you right up!



Popuko is mad.



Oh no not that spell from the very beginning of the game!



Another reasonably easy Tier so far. I think I only died once to Tier 1/2 in all my attempts, due to bad rolls.




Flare Star CAN be dangerous. Not here.



Since I'm an idiot, I did things out of order at first. Vanish means you always get hit by a spell targeted at you, and you lose Vanish status but you cannot be hit by physical attacks.



I use my time wisely, buffing everyone up. I think this is probably the best party I can get, since Zepeli is already dead.




Ultima does NOT fuck around.



Rush Dirk will straight kill someone if it hits. I make sure it doesn't.



Yes, everyone is supposed to resemble Kefka. It's a whole thing.

Watch Tier 3 here

If you're going in totally blind, this Tier can be a real problem. Girl absorbs all eight elements and casts Pearl Wind and Life 2. You absolutely need to kill Girl first unless you're some kind of masochist. Sleep will counter with Meteo and also does several obnoxious attacks so you don't want to dilly dally on them either.



Obnoxious like this. Poor Rein.



MT spells are a bit of a fool's errand here but Girl only has 15k HP so it isn't actually as bad as you might think. I do over half their HP in two castings of Ultima.



Pearl Wind recovers HP equal to the caster's current HP. It'll max out at 9,999 which still isn't great.



Ukyo ain't scared.



Popuko is entirely done with this shit.



So close!



Meteo has a low chance of hitting but it really hurts when it does.




So does TekMissile but at least it only targets one person.



Sleep has Reraise because why not?



Train is unblockable and puts Blind/Silence on all targets. Annoying as hell and the entire reason I put a Ribbon on Rein. I don't care if the rest of them are Blind/Silenced because I don't need to attack or cast spells with them.



Finally, the tenth out of our eleven bosses!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCHLrls0P1Y
Lufia and the Fortress of Doom - Battle 3

Watch the Final Fight here

I....actually no idea why Abyssonym added this in. Let's just roll with it. This fight is MOSTLY used to buff yourself up and get ready for Final Kefka. If you time things right, you can kill it right after it uses Fallen One which will make Final Kefka come in at a part of his script that is a bit easier.



First things first, gotta unfreeze Ukyo. Not like I'm gonna use this Flame Shield for anything else.



I love you, Kaoru and Rein.




DANGER! DANGER! Fallen One suuuuuucks. Unless you get it on a Dance or Slots..



At least the regular attack isn't too bad.



Neither is the special, unless it targets Rein.



Reraise, because nothing in this randomizer is ever easy.



Top everyone up, as Wild Cat here now has 8,192 HP.



Popuko from downtown!



Surprise, motherfucker!

Timestamped to Kefka's entrance

I've seen some really easy Kefkas, including one that had half this much HP. This is not an easy Kefka. This is a damage race, and a fast one. Kefka WILL kill everyone in one shot with Goner/Meteor/Ultima if he gets the chance. I didn't grind out 4-5k worth of HP. Should I have? Maybe but that's boring.

Kefka will counter most things, either with an attack or HyperDrive. This happens even if you're in the middle of a Quick+X Magic combo, so the best strategy is to use a defensive spell last so he won't counter. Once Kefka enters Goner phase, he's not supposed to counter attack anymore so you need to go all in. Remember to spend as much time as needed in Menus (if playing on Wait mode) to let animations play out. Done right, you gain some extra time while denying the same to Kefka.




Kefka comes out swinging. He's rude as hell.



This is his regular attack but with NINE TIMES damage. That's just under half of Popuko's HP if they were at full. Rein would be gibbed instantly.




I'll need roughly 8 Ultimas, if I do nothing else, to kill Kefka before he kills me. Rein can do two in a turn if he doesn't get countered to death. Luckily, sometimes Kefka will only use a regular attack.



I forgot I had Safe and Shell on, so Rein doesn't take as much damage as I thought.



When Kefka's head appears, we're in Goner phase. The screen shakes, and at any moment he will cast Goner.



That's when we go in as hard as we can.



Kefka doesn't let up either, because fuck me.



Yeah, sure, why not?



Life sucks, then you die.



Kefka laughs at our misfortune, going into Goner phase again?




Go Kaoru! Show that overgrown angel that it's his time to die!




Ukyo didn't deserve this fate



In the beginning, there was time. Time lead to clocks. Clocks lead to the end of all.



This was my 15-16th attempt. Look at how down to the wire it came.



Naru and Sakura join us, leaving literally no one flying the airship. C'mon, I gave you one job!



Zepeli goes into Esper form, their body being torn apart from the inside as Magic itself begins dying.



Our Magicite turns to dust as the Life Force inside each one is lost. The Warring Triad gave Magic to this world and with their death, Magic goes too.



Hope is not lost while our friends live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZHeWJ_OvLo


I will not be documenting the ending. Please watch it in video form. It's a damn good ending. Zepeli has one final surprise for everyone.

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It took me just three days shy of a year to start and finish this LP. There were weeks when I just didn't want to do anything, and weeks where I wanted to do three updates. It was a lot more work than I thought it would be, and a lot more learning as well.

I want to thank all of you for sticking through to the end, accepting my mistakes and learning as we go, and always believing in me (I assume.)

I also want to thank the members of the Beyond Chaos Community for always answering my questions and being supportive of everyone that likes this randomizer. You might say they are Beyond Cool.

I don't know what the future holds for me in the LP world. Maybe I'll do another one someday, I've got plenty of ideas. For now, I just want to relax a bit without this LP dangling in the back of my mind.