The Arena monsters are said to be tougher than anything else in the US version, though the Dark Summons in the International version are nastier. After taking on the ones for the Calm Lands and Mt Gagazet, because I really wanted to get Yuna's ultimate weapon and have Valefor doing over 9999 damage, even Yunalesca was no problem - Having Rikku and Auron overdrive and Lulu Doublecast Flare at her disposed of the first form, Bahamut's overdrive did the second in one hit (40k HP vs. 55k or so damage), and then Valefor's Energy Blast did the third in one hit (60k HP vs. 79k damage). Since Tidus went first and Yuna was one of those hasted, Yunalesca only got two or three actions in. The stat maxing is really just a 'because I can' thing - if people can play and win in a No Sphere Grid game, anything else is unnneccesary.
And the chocobo race... yeah, it's (to use one of my father's favorite expressions) an ass-frost, both the one against the trainer (I iognore the balloons until the second half and concenrate on getting ahead, then take the ones that are close to in a row) and under Remiem (again, ignored the chests in favor of getting ahead, just enough to get the Cloudy Mirror. If I remember the FAQs right you have to get enough ballons for a negative score on the race in order to get Cadlabolg, so I'm thinking Tidus is going to just have to make do without it.
...and after all this discussion, I've gotten sucked into Kingdom Hearts in a major way, after putting it in as a break from the dozen seasons of Blitzball that are required for my Nth-re-start re-build strategy. Ironically, the biggest attraction to it is the Gummi Ships retro-arcade-style minigame... I have one that looks very vaguely like a TIE, with a central pod that has the cockpit, engine, and two guns and big slabs of Dispel-G armor bricks on either side, and one that looks like an Aztec pyramid, with the 'wing' peices flat on the underside to not break up the look. Aztec astronauts, what a new concept (smirk). And now KH2 is coming out. I'd have to say that the action-rpg style of KH is more fun in battle than the Final Fantasy stand-there-and-wait type, but it makes for poor control over the rest of the party. Fighting infinite monkeys in Tarzan-Land, I went for about an hour on the one area before realizing that they really WEREN'T going to stop coming, and I'd have to just cut out through a load gate in the middle of fighting.
- CD did not see any monkeys with scripts for Hamlet, but that may have been one that Tarzan or Goofy killed before he got thereThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
And the chocobo race... yeah, it's (to use one of my father's favorite expressions) an ass-frost, both the one against the trainer (I iognore the balloons until the second half and concenrate on getting ahead, then take the ones that are close to in a row) and under Remiem (again, ignored the chests in favor of getting ahead, just enough to get the Cloudy Mirror. If I remember the FAQs right you have to get enough ballons for a negative score on the race in order to get Cadlabolg, so I'm thinking Tidus is going to just have to make do without it.
...and after all this discussion, I've gotten sucked into Kingdom Hearts in a major way, after putting it in as a break from the dozen seasons of Blitzball that are required for my Nth-re-start re-build strategy. Ironically, the biggest attraction to it is the Gummi Ships retro-arcade-style minigame... I have one that looks very vaguely like a TIE, with a central pod that has the cockpit, engine, and two guns and big slabs of Dispel-G armor bricks on either side, and one that looks like an Aztec pyramid, with the 'wing' peices flat on the underside to not break up the look. Aztec astronauts, what a new concept (smirk). And now KH2 is coming out. I'd have to say that the action-rpg style of KH is more fun in battle than the Final Fantasy stand-there-and-wait type, but it makes for poor control over the rest of the party. Fighting infinite monkeys in Tarzan-Land, I went for about an hour on the one area before realizing that they really WEREN'T going to stop coming, and I'd have to just cut out through a load gate in the middle of fighting.
- CD did not see any monkeys with scripts for Hamlet, but that may have been one that Tarzan or Goofy killed before he got thereThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows