Feel the shame. Challenges in games you've never completed.

[Retrogamer0001]

I've never been able to get past the grim reaper boss in the first Castlevania...well, correction, I've never been able to get past all of his flying scythes. I've killed him twice but a leftover scythe got me both times...and anyone who says this isn't a challenge obviously hasn't tried it!

[Fragems]

The only Final Fantasy game I have ever completed is FFXIII . I literally am sitting at the final bosses in FFIII(DS Port), FFVII, FFVIII, FFX, and FF Tactics Advanced . In the cases of FFVII and FFX I have gotten to the final bosses on 3 separate occasions only to get stuck and eventually move on to other games . The multistage final battle in FFX slaughters me and I am to afraid to fight Sepiroth without getting the 99 knights summon(can't remember if that is right) which requires getting a Gold Chocobo which takes a lot of work.

[KalessinDB]

Sephiroth's a pussy. Knights of the Round is completely unnecessary to destroy him (though fun).

If you're REALLY worried, go fight the Magic Pots and.... whatever the bouncing orange balls in the same room are called. You'll need to W-Item trick up a couple elixirs to feed to the Pots, but they'll power-level everything and then you can crush him.

Wanna feel what it's like to kill Sephiroth with Knights of the Round?

Knights of the Round
*go defrost some bread*
Mimic
*make the sandwich*
Mimic
*eat the sandwich*
Mimic
*do the dishes*
Oh look he's dead. That's all forms, mind you.

[Fragems]

Sephiroth's a pussy. Knights of the Round is completely unnecessary to destroy him (though fun).

If you're REALLY worried, go fight the Magic Pots and.... whatever the bouncing orange balls in the same room are called. You'll need to W-Item trick up a couple elixirs to feed to the Pots, but they'll power-level everything and then you can crush him.

Wanna feel what it's like to kill Sephiroth with Knights of the Round?

Knights of the Round
*go defrost some bread*
Mimic
*make the sandwich*
Mimic
*eat the sandwich*
Mimic
*do the dishes*
Oh look he's dead. That's all forms, mind you.

Yeah I figure my party in the first play through could probably have mopped the deck with him but a friend made me really paranoid and I was young at the time so I spent like 15 hours trying to breed a gold chocobo before I got bored and left it .

[brunoafh]

The multistage final battle in FFX slaughters me

You must have a whacky set up or something. I've never heard of someone having issues with the difficulty of that game. It's basically designed to make it so you don't have to grind (unless you want to attempt challenges), and be a straightforward experience.

In any case, ~30 minutes of grinding within Sin is enough to make your party able to obliterate anything, unless your strategy is whacky or you're using bad equipment. Always be sure to have Yuna in the party while grinding though because upping her stats is crucial to making your Aeons powerful, which is a very useful tool in the final battle. It's also a good idea to have your party pretty well rounded because the final boss likes to hit you with nasty attacks that can be easily alleviated by party swapping.

[Fragems]

The multistage final battle in FFX slaughters me

You must have a whacky set up or something. I've never heard of someone having issues with the difficulty of that game. It's basically designed to make it so you don't have to grind (unless you want to attempt challenges), and be a straightforward experience.

In any case, ~30 minutes of grinding within Sin is enough to make your party able to obliterate anything, unless your strategy is whacky or you're using bad equipment. Always be sure to have Yuna in the party while grinding though because upping her stats is crucial to making your Aeons powerful, which is a very useful tool in the final battle. It's also a good idea to have your party pretty well rounded because the final boss likes to hit you with nasty attacks that can be easily alleviated by party swapping.

For whatever reason every time I got to his second for there was a certain attack that would usually wipe my entire squad in 1 hit . It was a long time ago though. Even with hours of grinding at the last save point I still had the same problem over and over again. Think my composition was Tidus, Yuna, and maybe Lulu plus I always kept them in the best equipment available .

I will admit though my tactical thinking wasn't exactly top notch when I was younger.

Thinking about going back and playing through the entire Final Fantasy series again. I usually breeze through RPGs so it shouldn't be to difficult.

[Scissors Shrimper]

I somehow managed to play through Pulseman hundreds of times without figuring out how to clear the bonus rounds from stage 4 and onwards.

I have cleared every zone in Darius Gaiden without autofire except for M, V and Z'.

I gave up on 100% completion for MMBN4 despite only being 5% away from it just because I didn't feel like filling out the P.A. folder. (involved corrupting Mega Man with dark chips, urgh)

Mega Man & Bass as Mega Boy is still too hard for me even after all these years. NES ROM hacks ain't got nothing on this MM8 hack.

I have never beaten Metroid Prime before despite previously owning the Gamecube version at least 5 or 6 years ago and buying the Prime trilogy recently to try again.

[prfsnl_gmr]

I literally am sitting at the final bosses in FFIII(DS Port)...

Are you sure about that? The final boss in FFIII is a beast, and the bosses immediately before her are much more difficult than most of the final bosses in later Final Fantasy games. It takes a lot of grinding, planning, and preparation to get to her, and I am not sure you would be able to do it if you can't get past Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII (who, as other posters noted, is incredibly easy).

[Ack]

Always be sure to have Yuna in the party while grinding though because upping her stats is crucial to making your Aeons powerful, which is a very useful tool in the final battle.

I disagree with this, since you have to fight your Aeons as part of the final boss "ordeal." When I finally fought him, my characters had been completely around the sphere grid, and almost everyone had their ultimate weapons and armor to make them immune to status effects, automatically revive, haste them, and so forth. The final boss was a cakewalk, but the only difficult part was having to take on my most beefed-up Aeon, Bahamut. The others all went down with a hit. I didn't feel there was much reason to use the aeons, because after a while the regular characters could dish out so much damage, it wasn't really worth it using anything else. Tidus, Wakka, and Auron destroyed that final battle. I didn't even have to pull out the others.

[brunoafh]

I disagree with this, since you have to fight your Aeons as part of the final boss "ordeal."

But you can't get game over during that part (everyone has perma auto-life), so...

Also I only suggested that because it sounds like his party isn't very strong, so use of Aeons to chip away and take damage in place of party members would be useful in his circumstance. The hidden Aeons in particular can almost win the battle themselves. Even if he doesn't have them just throwing all your Aeons at the boss will do a pretty good dent with zero damage to your party.