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[shinyglorchan]

I...think I just had the most epic fucking battle ever in Final Fantasy history. Seriously. Listen up, people, because this story is fucking RIDICULOUS!

So I'm playing FFIV: The After Years on the Wii. I have all the character stories done; I'm just going back to level them up a bit before I import them into the final bit. So, I try Edward's Tale, to level him up because him and his people are pathetic HP and level wise.

And after beating each tale, Namingway becomes Challengeway and has a challenge dungeon for the chapter. Curious, I go into Edward's Challenge Dungeon unawares and not very prepared (I was rather low on gil and supplies, it seems). So, the dungeon pretty much revolves around lots of gil, treasure chests, and trading stuff. Cool, right?

Yeah, no. Not when you're not paying attention. There're no save points. There're no potions, remedies, or phoenix downs at the damned Sundries store (the other one had remedies, but fucking 5000 gil a pop)! Argh, so I get caught in a battle with this thing called a Gil Bird. Sounds relatively harmless, right? Hell, it sounds like it wants to give you money!

Fucking heeeeell no. D: The damned thing not only had bad breath, it knew break and fucking HIDE! IT HIDES LIKE EDWARD! UGH! So, I'm chipping away at the damn thing, healing slowly with Edward, but it's not dying, and as I found out later at THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME, I couldn't run away from it.

So, this is actually the spot where I was a few plays ago. I just left it on with pause. And I play tonight, and everything goes terribly wrong. Bad Breath was used on two characters (and one was Edward), and I was out of any helpful supplies at this point. I let Edward use Bardsong after I get silence off him, but he's still a frog, so APPARENTLY, that means he MUST use Frogsong and turn the rest of the party into frogs.

Mother. Fucker. >:O EDWARD, YOU TOOL! I was furious, and it wasn't like I had any mages in my party to fix this. It was Edward, his secretary Harley, and three guards. So, my characters are all frogged, none of them are mages, and there's no remedies. And since Bad Breath won't undo ailments like just casting frog, and Edward's Bardsong is at random, I figured I was boned.

Soon, I used all my items that did magic damage. Using a bestiary to check the Gil Bird's stats didn't help. ;-; Most tedious battle, and I can't get out of the battle! I thought it was just that an all frogged party can't run, but not true, I find later.

Then the battle gets WORSE. How, you ask? One of my frogs gets stoned, that's how! It was terrible. And the battle was going forever since sometimes the Gil Bird would use Hide because it's like Edward in fucking bird form!

I'm talking to Mina while playing, and she says restart the battle, but I hadn't saved in a while, and the dungeon made me a fucking shitload of gil. Then I was, well, it'll be a bit epic if I win, not thinking this was doable at all. Weirdest battle ever with Edward healing a little bit and buffering with shell, protect, and haste, all at random. Haaaaaste frogs. XD

Then it was two stoned frogs, which MORE PANIC! Then Mina IMing ramblings with “I have no words for now ridiculous this battle is sounding to me.” XD Well, then there were THREE STONED FROGS! Which she responded: “I mean, how are you even still alive??”

Gooooood question, really. Mainly, all the free healing and buffering from Edward. Theeeen, Edward got stoned, and I was boned. All I had was the secretary in frog form, healing herself with my limited supply of potions and doing one damage.

Then, a miracle happened. A little purple frog one against the Gil Bird. I FUCKING WON!!! Sweetest victory theme I ever heard. Then it hit me, oh shit, I don't even know how to get out of this dungeon! It was terrible! No more battles, or I'd die.

Luckily, I found out I could run as frogs (and pigs, because apparently some were pigs and fuck if I could tell, stupid little pixel-y things), but I still couldn't find my way out. Hell, the stores were made of fail in the dungeon. D: Then I walked into a room labeled “BOSS ROOM” and hightail it outta there because no fucking thanks.

Then there was more randomness with a Chocobo Chamber. Not that I got to ride them to safety; some of them just had gil in their beaks. *sigh* I had plenty of money, but no stores that had what I needed. After some more wandering and running from battles, I made it out. I don't think I was ever so happy to see Kaipo in my life.

The End. Also, fuck you, Edward. Never playing you again, okay? Okay. *dies* And if you read all this, I commend you. @_@

Comments

[zombie-moogle.livejournal.com]

...that IS awesome. I love Edward as a character in The After Years, but I still never want to use him in a fight.

This reminds me that I need to see about getting the Wii from my in-laws and trying all the challenge dungeon stuff. I missed that in my hurry to speed through the game before moving.

[shiny-glor-chan.livejournal.com]

XD And his character art is so pretty too. It's like, guh, when did that spoony bard turn into that? >>;;

I need to finish some leveling up then get back to the main story. >>;; I figured leveling up in their Tales would be easier than in the last part since I was having difficulties. >>;;

[zombie-moogle.livejournal.com]

You're probably right. >.> I really wish I had taken the time to do that, since it might have made that last dungeon so much easier. Then again, it was brutal anyway, so...who knows for sure how much it would have helped.

And yes, he is pretty. I completely agree.

[shiny-glor-chan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, usually I beat games really underleveled (sometimes under lvl 50), and I'm sure I could have done it, but if I wanna be able to have time to learn all the bands, I gotta not die in battle before the bands finish. >>;;

[tamerlane.livejournal.com]

God I loved that game.