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Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster |OT| G - A - F in position, it's showtime gurlz!
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Gotcha. From the sounds of it the gameplay is fun, so I will likely enjoy it. I look forward to it, and thanks!
TheSlySoul
Member
So I beat
the first attempt. I was so glad I was able to Grand Summon Bahamut before he did his 2500+ attack. Bio and Silence really did help. Also, crafting Mighty G really helped speed up the buffing. Now I feel like
is the only challenge left.
Also, Yojimba was a pain. He would keep denying my deal. Luckily I got him to budge for 200,000 gil eventually.
Seymour Flux
Yunelesca
Also, Yojimba was a pain. He would keep denying my deal. Luckily I got him to budge for 200,000 gil eventually.
chickdigger802
Banned
it's just weird.... i thought the crusaders and folks have this placed 'secured'? Why is the encounter rate worse than the other places lol.
This was way less of a hassle on my first playthrough on pc due to me having it run at 4x lol.
Sir Griffith
Member
So of all these people attempting 100% X-2 and using a guide, which one seems to be the most accurate/foolproof? I see a few people have had to reset even while following a guide.
TheSlySoul
Member
Heh, Tidus will be my first since all I need is to get access to the airship to finish his. Kimahri's is pretty easy and will probably be the first one most people do. The butterfly game I find is just to memorize the pattern and give up once you hit a red. You are always teleported back to the start. You can also look at a map if you want to get it your first chance. Lulu and Tidus have the hardest tasks to get their weapons easily.
Edit: The funny thing is my Mt. Gaz. journey that I did not have that bad of an encounter rate. I think Calm Lands takes the cake for that. Going to wait to get No Encounter before crossing that again.
I think pretty much every 100% guide has been group - verified by this point. Having to reset typically is because (for me anyways) I misread or skipped a line or wasn't careful.
TheSlySoul
Member
Pretty much. The more stones you activate, the more Qactaurs come out. It is worth doing the activation to get Kimahri's weapon anyways.
how does one activate them?
SkylineRKR
Member
Why should you give up after hitting a red? Seriously, I am fairly positive I hit 2 reds on the narrow course (I never dodged the upper ones that are very close to eachother anyway) and made it with half a second left. I think I got one red on the wide course (The bend before the last straight, the only difficult part). The narrow course does seem to be more lenient with time, but the wide course is easier.
Under the shelter on the left of the second part of the plains. Thats where they spawned for me.
Under the shelter on the left of the second part of the plains. Thats where they spawned for me.
Press Square when they're glowing.
Press square at a glowing stone to pray.
SkylineRKR
Member
I tried this earlier, but the bolt never triggered this way.
Then you're doing it in the wrong part of the ditch. Do it exactly like the video. I know because I thought it didn't work for me the same as you and I realised I was just doing it wrong.
TheSlySoul
Member
It may be possible to get it while hitting the red, but the time limit is so narrow for the sigil. I find the first two sets of games to be easy enough, but 30 seconds is very strict.
I already stated that one particular ending is terrible in FFX-2.
And yeah this isn't an LR thread and I amnot going to discuss why the story was awful.
Its my most disappointing game this entire gen and pretty much most agree that the story was absolutely terrible.
It's your opinion and it's fine but since when "most agree" is indicative of anything. I play a very niche genre called JRPG that "most agree" is for waifu fags and fans of "anime bullshit and nonsense".
"Most agree" that OOT is the best best game ever made and jesus christ himself, while I personally don't like it. Using "most agree" as an argument of personal preference is an insult to the actual concept of personal preference.
Birgitte2004
Member
It was always this simple.
Barring flat not leveling up some characters, the only fights which are at all likely to be lost in the story arc are Evrae, Seymour Flux, the final "real" boss, and Yunalesca.
And Yunalesca is more of a gimmick than straight up hard.
you are saying this before entering Thunder Plains? You might regret those words very soon, depends on how many battles you run from!
that's so not true, so painfully not true about almost any RPG, it all depends on how you play, if you are overleveled everything is easy, of course. And Y is no gimmick!
Gimmick usually refers to fights which are massively hard or massively easy hinging on a few factors, usually related to knowledge and preparation, rather than the usual number-crunching or skill-related factors. Y is totally a gimmick. The gimmick is that you can't heal (without special consumables), and as a result the boss hits for much less than a typical boss. (And of course there's the much more common debuff management at play, which is confuse in this case) Gimmick is not necessarily a negative term.
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
For those having a hard time getting Yojimbo under 200,000, here's how to do it:
Y offer: 250,000
Counter: 125,001
Y offer: 225,000
Counter: 130,000
Y offer: 205,000
Counter: 150,000
Y offer: 191,000
Counter: 191,000
Y offer: 250,000
Counter: 125,001
Y offer: 225,000
Counter: 130,000
Y offer: 205,000
Counter: 150,000
Y offer: 191,000
Counter: 191,000
Sir Griffith
Member
TalentBurke
Member
The guy in the video doesn't explain what you need to do, properly. You're supposed to run to the tower, it's not just "a certain distance from the crater" it's running close enough to that tower to the left that resets the bolt. So you run to the tower when you first get there, then approach the crater, you don't even have to do it as fast as him but it helps build rhythm and speeds up the process.
but that's not exaclty true about Y, it's just really hard to get confuse wards and close to impossible proofs in this game until much longer after you encounter her, and that makes this fight not only unpredictable, but painful to behold. She is no massively easy even with those wards on, I think.
Preparation or not, I'm not willing to spend hours after hours stealing from eyes, when I did it all the time during all game, and had not enough musks even for one extra ward! You see what I mean? She's supposed to be painful, and she is!
If you classify her as gimmicky because of zombie stat,she's not the first to use it.
Seymour uses it before her and is more aggressive with it.
There is also mega death and her counter attack dispelling every buff. She is really a dangerous boss.
So I don't know what to do in this game anymore.
I got this and started with X despite being way more excited to play X-2.
I'm at around 70 hours in X and I'm super bored because of how grindy it becomes if you want to actually beat the dark aeons. I used Yojimbo to kill all dark aeons save for Dark Yojimbo with who I can't get Zanmato to work. I already defeated both Ultima and Omega Weapon. I hate Blitzball so I'm not gonna bother playing it. I can't get past 50 Lightning Bolts. I also can't finish the Remiem Temple race with 5 chests. So basically I feel like I already did everything I can do but I still want to beat Penance at some point. Oh and I captured 10 of most monsters already, just missing a few from Inside Sin and the Omega Dungeon which I can't get to spawn.
It's horrible since I'd really like to do everything but it's like literally everything is locked behind extremely boring mini games or side quests, thus I'm thinking of moving on with X-2, which I'd like to 100% complete but I don't know which guide to follow, does anyone have a recommendation? From what I've seen here most people seem to still be doing X so I don't know.
I got this and started with X despite being way more excited to play X-2.
I'm at around 70 hours in X and I'm super bored because of how grindy it becomes if you want to actually beat the dark aeons. I used Yojimbo to kill all dark aeons save for Dark Yojimbo with who I can't get Zanmato to work. I already defeated both Ultima and Omega Weapon. I hate Blitzball so I'm not gonna bother playing it. I can't get past 50 Lightning Bolts. I also can't finish the Remiem Temple race with 5 chests. So basically I feel like I already did everything I can do but I still want to beat Penance at some point. Oh and I captured 10 of most monsters already, just missing a few from Inside Sin and the Omega Dungeon which I can't get to spawn.
It's horrible since I'd really like to do everything but it's like literally everything is locked behind extremely boring mini games or side quests, thus I'm thinking of moving on with X-2, which I'd like to 100% complete but I don't know which guide to follow, does anyone have a recommendation? From what I've seen here most people seem to still be doing X so I don't know.
It's not even a matter of wards. You don't need them. If she Zombies you, don't heal everyone. That way your party won't wipe from either Mega Death or her curative spells. It's totally just a gimmick and in no way hard once you come across it the first time. She doesn't do a whole lot of damage otherwise.
EDIT: I see you're referring to Confuse - my bad. I suppose that can be a pain, but it confusing the entire party is pretty rare, in my experience. Everything else is easily manageable.
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
If you're talking about Yunalesca, don't heal Zombie. Once someone is low enough to where they won't survive the next Hellbiter, kill them on purpose, then use a Phoenix Down to bring them back up. Most times, the next attack is Regen or Curaga (random target, though). If you're lucky it's a free heal on the person you just brought back to life. If not, she kills someone and you just bring them back up. Mega Death can't kill anyone who's already a Zombie, so it's almost impossible to get a Game Over from that one ability. She has no after-death ability, so once you have her at like 6000 health and a full turn of characters, she's done.
What's the point of even fighting these uber bosses if you're just going to beat them the cheap way?
Isn't that what I basically said? Other than instead of killing a party member + reviving them, I just would rather use a remedy. Why waste a turn killing/reviving them?
CambriaRising
Member
Trophies mayne.
Because why bother grinding when I can just kill them in a relatively easy way?
Those two, along with, again, the fact that she hits for much less than other bosses, ARE the gimmick in that you're expected to have Zombie on you. Mega Death is part of the gimmick.
This is in contrast to Seymour where the Zombie debuff is much more integrated into a 'normal' boss fight, in that it's something you don't want on you.
Or just ignore them entirely? How can your way possibly be fun or satisfying?
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
Whoops. Quoted the wrong post hahaha.
Did you screw up your compatibility stat in your previous playthroughs, or answer the first question differently perchance? Those two are huge factors.
I don't think so. I remember grinding out the all-hit normal attack because it would supposedly make him more likely to Zanmato. And eventually he would, sometimes. In this HD remaster, he used Zanmato as his first attack ever, and out of the ~7 times I summoned him, he used it something like 5 times.
Oh, actually, according to this, you're right! (Original values at bottom of document)
CambriaRising
Member
I never ever saw it in the original release, but I used it a couple of times here reliably.
The thing is, the dark aeons have horrible locations that can prevent someone getting the weapons they need to even fight them. I didn't feel bad at all Zanmoto'ing dark bahamut and dark valefor.
Birgitte2004
Member
I think you fall in to the exact opposite category from what you stated: If you are underleveled everything is hard.
But you have to try to be underleveled in the majority of FFX. And Fleeing is certainly a way to go about it, since you refer to "how many battles you run from".
A person playing FFX without fleeing will have little challenge from most bosses. And playing without fleeing a lot is hardly what I would refer to as "overleveled".
BrokenIcarus
Member
Just tryed Lightning Dodging and didn't even get to 30. Urgh, this sucks.
Dark Aeons don't block World Champion, that's the big one.
This doesn't always work, but yes, that's the gist of it. I usually got the 205,000 offer, would offer 150,000 and he'd give me the 'no deal' speech and boot me out of the fayth room.
