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For anyone that doesn't know, they are secret accessories, that usually buff your stats, while fucking you over with something else.

With Death Sentence, for example. That has a 1 minute count down, that instantly kills you when it hits zero.

It has been a long time since they appeared. And I miss them dearly, because they are super fun, for me.

According to the wiki, the last one that had it, was Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. Or Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, if you count it as a "proper" FF (I don't).


(I misspelled "niche", sorry)

 

[Bloobs]

Ive tried some cock rings but they have no effect

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[jshackles]

Agreed. Even better when you could do something (kind of challenging) to lift the curse itself and keep the good stats. Give me a reason to grind.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Agreed. Even better when you could do something (kind of challenging) to lift the curse itself and keep the good stats. Give me a reason to grind.

Cursed shield in FF6 which gave you lots of bad status effects (Doom, Poison, etc) but if you fought with around 250 times it would turn into Paladin Shield, the best shield in the game. True that you could wear one of those ribbons to negate all but Doom so it wasn't that bad but it was always a challenge because you would not be able to wear a different relic combo.

 

[Isa]

Agreed. Even better when you could do something (kind of challenging) to lift the curse itself and keep the good stats. Give me a reason to grind.

Seriously! In any rpg, originally table top games, finding a cursed item was half the fun. Except I can't really recall any videogame that continued the game design so table top wins again. Its so easy, offer up an actual decent side quest to purify, remove or destroy the curse on the item or character. But no, instead remove the concept and put in a murder so many x or collect y. People may claim we're being nit pickers or grognards but game devs have really dropped the ball.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Cursed shield in FF6 which gave you lots of bad status effects (Doom, Poison, etc) but if you fought with around 250 times it would turn into Paladin Shield, the best shield in the game. True that you could wear one of those ribbons to negate all but Doom so it wasn't that bad but it was always a challenge because you would not be able to wear a different relic combo.

Plus IIRC it taught you the Ultima spell, which was the only way you could learn it if you chose the Ultima sword over the esper. What fun game design.