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Post by
Kristopher
Should I play FF 8, which I've almost beaten once before, or play FF9, which I've never seen before? I'll have to start a new game for either.
Post by
Squishalot
FF9, then go back to FF8.
Having said that, much of the FF9 plot was a blur to me - too much racing to the end, not enough time spent exploring.(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##Squishalot##DELIM##
Post by
Adamsm
FF9, then go back to FF8.
Having said that, much of the FF9 plot was a blur to me - too much racing to the end, not enough time spent exploring.
Heh, it's an old tale though: Monkey boy meets Princess, Princess asks monkey boy to kidnap her, Queen Butt-Ugly Elephant Woman tries to kill them all to get the special macguffin the Princess has around her neck, evil s/he, Destroyer of Worlds manipulates everything from behind the scenes, lots of cities are destroyed, and Queen Elephant Woman(Kuja actually calls her that during the game) is dealt with, and it turns out s/he and Monkey boy are really from the same species and S/he is about to die so goes nuclear and tries to kill everyone...then, as is normal, the Giant Space Flea from Nowhere shows up as the last boss.
Simple.
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gnomerdon
http://www.justin.tv/lifesaglitchtv#/w/1472639904/3
Post by
Squishalot
then, as is normal, the Giant Space Flea from Nowhere shows up as the last boss.
See, that's the bit I didn't like about FF9.
Post by
Adamsm
then, as is normal, the Giant Space Flea from Nowhere shows up as the last boss.
See, that's the bit I didn't like about FF9.
There's been a lot of them though, all through out the series...and thanks to TVTropes, I can link them!
The Final Fantasy series has a bunch of them.
* Final Fantasy IV contains a prototype for these types of enemies in Zeromus, its final boss. He had only a vague connection to the plot, being the hatred of the main villain given form, and seemed to be present largely to provide a massive, intimidating final boss—which Zemus very much wasn't.
o Calcabrina, the living dolls. They're a particularly triumphant example, as the sequel Final Fantasy IV: The After Years not only ties them into the plot, they even become playable.
o There's also Lugae. Halfway up a tower which you already know contains a boss you'll have to fight, you run into a guy in a lab coat with Einstein hair, who fights alongside an '80s Frankenstein's monster and then turns himself into a gangly zombie. And apparently survives both battles.
* Ultros from Final Fantasy VI, the most amusing Space Flea ever. He's a giant purple octopus who comes out of nowhere and decides to fight you for no reason. When you give him a beating, he escapes and later comes back to wreck the opera you're attending, among with other situations. No one knows why he hates the player characters so much. It's even funnier if you pick Gau and Cyan to go to the opera house. Why? Because this means your party is made up of members Ultros has never met before, and thus he's plotting "revenge" against a pack of total strangers.
o He makes a cameo as a boss in The After Years, and the collective reaction of the party is something along the lines of "what the hell was that about?"
o Atma/Ultima Weapon also fits this trope. He's the boss of the Disc One Final Dungeon, and enters battle delivering a Badass Boast about how ancient and powerful he is while a new, more foreboding boss theme begins to play. Aside from an off-hand mention from a single random NPC much earlier in the game, he's never mentioned beforehand and the party doesn't give him any thought afterward.
* Arguably the most (in)famous example is Necron (nooo) in Final Fantasy IX, predominantly because he is also a final boss who appears suddenly and has no prior lead-up within the context of the storyline. Fans have come up with many Epileptic Trees concerning his relevance and existence, but nothing definitive is ever provided, and his existence is not even mentioned during the ending sequence. Even worse, he directly followed Kuja, a legitimate Big Bad and one of the more popular villains in the series. One is left wondering if the designers wouldn't have been better off making Kuja a Sequential Boss.
o Word Of God says that Necron was a "thematic" final boss, acting to fight Zidane's desire to live with a being who represented total death (as opposed to Kuja, who was pretty much just deluded). The writers never even tried to tie him into the plot, though, stating he "could have" been several things. In the Japanese version, Necron's name is "The Eternal Darkness" when directly translated, making it clear that he isn't meant to be a character at all, but just a thematic force of nature.
* While we can't very well say that all the Notorious Monsters in Final Fantasy XI fit here, as most aren't part of a storyline, and others are actually mentioned before you meet them, there's not much mention of a giant angry snowball the size of a van with teeth. Most of them are at least thematically consistent with the areas they come from, though.
o Worth mentioning are two of the three main optional Mega Bosses (Kirin and the Pandemonium Warden, although the former's not so mega these days) who are thematically inappropriate with the areas they appear in (especially Kirin). Along with Absolute Virtue, there is dialogue indicating vague backgrounds with no real relevance to any of the game's overarching plots.
* Several bosses in Final Fantasy XII are just random monsters that turn up and fight you for no real reason.
Edit: Though, they sorta left out Cloud of Darkness, as she only appeared at the end and it was another bad guy that created all the plots all through out FF3....but thanks to Dissidia, she is now immensely famous, while her Dragon is now lost in the mists of time.
Post by
Squishalot
Heh, I haven't played VI, XI or XII yet. But yes, I've got no problems with the Space Flea generally, just primarily with the fact that he's a
freaking final boss
.
Post by
Adamsm
Heh yeah, they should have just left it at Kuja...but then, if there wasn't a giant space flea, there would have been no reason for Zidane to try to save him at the end heh; which meant we would have missed out on of the more epic looking scenes in the game.
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240140
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Post by
Pwntiff
nerds
You like it when we talk nerdy.
Post by
Skreeran
This thread need more ponies.
Post by
Pwntiff
Lies.
Post by
Adamsm
nerds
If we were talking about Half-Life you'd be right here nerding it up with us.
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240140
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Post by
Pwntiff
I have nothing to wear but pink hotpants. I seem to remember I had more clothes than this.
I'm gonna cry on the floor.
I thought you didn't wear clothes.
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240140
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Post by
Pwntiff
I have nothing to wear but pink hotpants. I seem to remember I had more clothes than this.
I'm gonna cry on the floor.
I thought you didn't wear clothes.
I have to go to the bank today.
It's raining.
Rain is fun. I like rain. Wear the hotpants and a white cotton t-shirt. >.>
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240140
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Post by
Pwntiff
Or not. Not is fine too.
Post by
Adamsm
Speaking of wet; how was your walk in the forest?
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