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The most nightmarish thing I've ever seen an a Final Fantasy ... FFIII's "splitting" monsters. Holy shit. I cleared the Cave of Darkness or whatever but wow that was annoying, to top it off they give you crap exp. Normal monsters at this point give me about 1,000+ in a small group, but they give like 50-200 exp, completely worthless.

I'm going to explain these enemies just in case people don't know about them. If you hit them with normal weapons that don't kill them in one hit, they "split" and another monster of the same type appears in the monster group. They do not stop doing this, so the only way to take them out where I was, was with a Hunter that had Medusa arrows that killed them instantly, a Mystic Knight that could take them out with Dark Swords, and off and on I had luck with instant death spells for my White/Black mages. In another previous dungeon when I had my Knight instead of a Hunter, it was even more annoying because I'd have to equip a paralyzing sword that would prevent them from splitting, but I had to make sure the Knight hit them first or else well, they split! And this was before I had the Mystic Knight, so I had to take chances with instant death spells wasting away MP, while my upgraded Monk held off on hitting anything until I could paralyze the enemies one by one. And no their stats don't divide at all when they "split", thing of it as just them summoning more and more of themselves. Crap exp, etc, nothing good about these battles.

Also the Cave of Darkness was like 9 floors or something of these battles. At least I knew about the Medusa arrows, that would have been three times as long if I didn't or something.

Oh and another nightmarish thing is all the hidden passages in these dungeons, WTF!

Nonetheless, still loving it! And just got the final jobs, so I think I'm really far.

In a sense this all kind of technically makes up the final dungeon of FFIII:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/563415-fina ... faqs/37700
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/563415-fina ... faqs/37802
http://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/563415-fina ... faqs/38491

Madness.

I seem to remember dark swords killing the splitting enemies without them actually splitting. Magic might work too?

Yeah that's what people in some town said about the Mystic Knight's and Dark Swords. Magic only works if it's an instant death spell (Toad, Mini, Break 2, etc) or kills them in one shot.

"I know what you're thinking. 'Man, that was cheap!'. Sorry, so sorry!"

Ultros is funny. Recurring bosses usually annoy me, but he's quite fun.

I'm in the World of Ruin now. Found Sabin and Terra.

Seeing the collapse of the entire planet was crazy, and it honestly gave me chills.

Gilgamesh > Ultros!

"It's Morphin Time!"

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Really getting into the tactical stuff since I bought (and have 120 hours on) Disgaea 1 for PS2. The customization ability of these games is staggering...

awesome. Another one that no one talks about is Adventures To Go.

Jeanne D'arc is sooooo good. It's not a super deep game in terms of gameplay, but everything about the game is solid and the story drew me in with TWO strong female leads. I love how you can chain turns too if you kill enemies in a transformed state.
That made me feel like such a bad ass

I never played Disgaea 2 on PSP but sunk hours into the PS 2 one. I liked it a lot more than the first Disgaea

Quick update on FF6:

Fuck Wrexsoul. Fuck him so hard that his ancestors will bleed.

That fight was so ridiculously annoying.

Also speaking of FFVI I've been continuing to do a little research into the FFVI Retranslation by RPGOne and it just doesn't really sound worth it (because yes I might be going insane and could play five FF's back to back here with a replay of FFVI next!). Supposedly just lots of random cussing that was maybe censored, maybe not, who cares, but beyond that it apparently is so literal from the Japanese script that a lot of the dialogue just doesn't make a lot of sense or flow well. It's also interesting to see some people claim (so don't totally take my word for it), that Kefka's kind of just a flamboyant ExDeath clone in the Japanese versions of the games, with weird dialect or something. But Woosley's translation of the SNES version was what really flew with the idea that he was a goofy, over the top, and sinister jester-esque villain... that we all kind of know and most of us love. Fairly interesting if that's true, I mean, I wonder how popular Kefka is in Japan himself? Maybe the character made more of an impact here in the US, thanks to how Woosley went about the character and dialogue.

The GBA version on the other hand kind of sounds worth checking out for a nice altered take on the script, but I dunno if I can handle the sound and technical drops compared to the SNES release. Here's a goofy scene I saw someone post from the GBA version showing off some good dialogue or something, though I remember this scene being similar in the SNES release as well...