After a long and annoying path full of enemies that are stronger than any boss in the game EXCEPT Sephiroth himself, I finally reached the One-Winged Angel.

His first form was frustrating, but I eventually figured out you have to attack his core as the second team (I assumed it would be as effective as attacking him with the first team), then that deactivates the defense of the left side of his core. Once I figured that out, his first form was history...

Then I reached his second form, Safer-Sephiroth, his one-winged angel form, which I had both anticipated and dreaded. The latter, for good reason. I began the fight by fully healing HP, but with his first attack he killed Cloud in one hit. I use a Phoenix Down to revive him, but then he kills Red XIII. And before I revive him, he kills Cloud again. Then he does Supernova, which is the fraction damage attack, and thus his weakest attack even though it looks like it should be a 1-hit kill. So I revive Cloud, and try to heal from here, but he kills Yuffie, and before I can revive her, he kills Cloud, after earlier turning him to a frog, and confusing Red XIII, who then kills himself.

I barely even got any non-Phoenix Down moves in. It was a slaughter. And I know no amount of level grinding can increase my chances of beating him. I was over Level 60 when I got to him and I know he's designed to be proportionate to what level you are.

You said he was easy, but he's impossible to beat without the God Mode. I wonder what cheat codes people used when they beat him on PS1? Well, I don't know but I'm sure my Switch remote needs charging after all that time, especially how long it took to get to Sephiroth and beat his first form. I'll make some chamomile tea to calm down from the frustration, and then I'll fight him again, this time with God Mode so this time he'll be on the receiving end of a one-sided slaughter.

Before I wanted to beat him coz he's my favorite villain (if that makes sense). Well, he's not anymore! He must have caused so many devoted players extreme frustration, and the extreme difficulty of the path to him - you can't even run from the enemies there without receiving a LOT of damage - probably put players off from trying to fight him again (at least I can turn off random battles now I know I CAN get to him without doing that), you can't even fight him with a refreshed mind and be prepared for him.

Now I want to kill him because of how much frustration he caused me and who knows how many other players here. I had really hoped I wouldn't need the God Mode button to beat him, but it looks like I will.

Right now my instincts about how unbelievably powerful Sephiroth is and how he's WAY out of my league seem to be right. If he fought Palpatine, Sauron, and Voldemort, one thrust and he'd have a Dark Lord shishkabob. If he fought Zanza... it wouldn't even come close, Sephiroth would rend him in two like a hot knife through butter. Frieza? He's tear his tail off, shove it down his throat, and turn him inside-out.

How do people even get to Sephiroth at Level 40-50? Unless all the enemies, Jenova-SYNTHESIS, and Bizzaro-Sephiroth are set to Cloud's level as well.

Is there something I'm missing here?

Just curious what everyone thinks of emulation and ports of ff games?

If you've all been missing my previous post with my updates and questions about my first Final Fantasy VII playthrough, I've been running into serious trouble at a huge difficulty spike.

I was somehow able to catch a Chocobo and cross the marsh to Ether Mine. I mean, Mythril Mine. But I can't get back coz when you dismount a Chocobo it runs away, and the Midgar Zolom will keep me from crossing back to Midgar Area.

And Junon Area is full of enemies that can do 100 damage. But at least I could keep buying Potions at Junon and using them to heal.

The forest is full of overpowered enemies too, but the good news is I got Yuffie.

Now, level grinding in this area is difficult because at first there is no inn at Junon. Turns out, there is, but in order to sleep at it you must first defeat the boss there. Which has an attack that I have no idea how to counter, where he traps you in a ball of water that starts to drown you or something. I don't know how to break that. Fortunately he didn't do this to Yuffie, the only character with an attack that could hit him, so I just barely beat him. And he's not even listed as one of the seven "That One Boss". (If I had this much trouble with a boss this early into the game, I REALLY don't have a chance with Sephiroth. I knew I wasn't near good enough for him)

Now, I can rest at the inn and fight enemies to my heart's content, right? Wrong. As soon as you wake up it forces Cloud to separate from his allies, and I can't get them back together. Furthermore, assuming I was going to do the dolphin jump right away, Barret took the PHS because "it'll break if it gets wet" despite it surviving that boss unavoidably splashing Cloud with a tsunami. In other words, there's nothing more I can do now but do this dolphin jump for another really long sequence before it gets back into a regular swing where I can comfortably fight lots of enemies, if ever. A heads up for all that would've been nice!

So... I caught a Chocobo to cross the marsh. I beat countless enemies at Junon Area. I got Yuffie. I beat that boss that I know I'm missing something on, and if I'm not, he's REALLY difficult. But I can't do that dolphin jump. I don't even know what part of the structure I'm supposed to be aiming for. I'm guessing that red horizontal thing, but no matter what I try I can't jump in the right position for Cloud to grab onto it.

How do I do this, and is there anything I'm missing as far as the others goes? Also, is Level 25 a decent point for Cloud, or am I screwed going forward? I saved over my previous save file not knowing Cloud was alone. I do have one save file from before crossing the marsh but I don't want to try to catch a Chocobo again.

And are there any other "points of no return" I should know about that give no notice or indication that Cloud's allies aren't in the party anymore? I REALLY wanted to level up Yuffie some more!

Edit: Never mind, I found Dyne and beat him. Delete this post

What would be the children of FFXV characters be named? This is my opinion.

Noctis- Annabelle (Daughter) Seamus (Son)

Ignis- Isla (Daughter)

Gladiolus- Marcie (Daughter) Maude (Daughter)

Prompto- Cydney (Daughter)

Ardyn- Kyla (Daughter)

Cor- Sylvia (Daughter) Carley (daughter) Holly (Daughter) Sara (Daughter)

Anyone familiar enough with the game, if I have any questions, can you please answer them for me? (In the meantime I'll keep you updated on my progress, but remember, I won't know a lot of stuff that's probably common knowledge here, such as how to get Yuffie and Vincent)

So, I found out you can heal by sleeping at inns for less gil than you get from winning one enemy battle, let alone the number of battles I can win before I need to heal. And sometimes get potions or, on rare occasion, ether from winning them.

While I was fighting enemies at the train yard for all that and experience I noticed the robot is the most powerful yet he gives me the least experience. So I hated fighting him, but loved fighting those three jellyfish things coz they give the MOST experience despite being the weakest. And don't think I didn't notice those two beasts only using their tentacle attack on Tifa. (I'm not into that but I know of it)

So it seems enemies appear at random, not only at random spots in an area but at random times too. Like I'd be walking back and forth on the upper northwest platform and then suddenly a battle would start. And which enemy it is is randomized too. It also seems that it's not 100% turn-based, but rather you can attack whenever you are able to (after any move, there's a bit of a "cooldown gauge"). Of course, one character still attacks at a time, so still kinda turn-based, just how fast you are determines when. Or something. That about sum it up?

Spent quite a bit of gil on Fire Materia (so it's basically the gems in Xenoblade Chronicles, what goes in weapon slots) and potions, and so ether is what heals magic (but didn't find it at the store, so far only got it from battles, of course ether will throw me off a bit coz Mako is the FF counterpart to XC's ether).

As to where I am... I'm about to go on the second reactor mission, not sure exactly how to get there, but Cloud is Level 12 and Tifa and Barret are Level 11. Is this a good level for this point in the game?

I mean, I know it's a stretch to imagine me getting to Sephiroth, let alone beating him, but I'll get as far as I can.

I've been watching a playthrough of it after hearing so much of it. So, what I can gather, you can only have three party members at a time, any other playable characters stay behind somewhere until you call them in to replace another one or something like that. Obviously it's turn-based, and I hear it requires quite a bit of level grinding like Super Mario RPG and Xenoblade Chronicles.

So a few questions:

1.) Do all your characters gain experience even if they're not in your party?

2.) Are there any annoyingly hard or tedious parts of the game? (Like Bundt in Super Mario RPG or Lorithia in Xenoblade Chronicles)

3.) How much level grinding is necessary to beat each boss easy enough? (I know I had to do quite a bit on Xenoblade Chronicles and get to six levels above Lorithia and later Zanza before I felt I was ready to fight them)

4.) How hard is it to get Yuffie? I read she appears in a forest at random or something and you don't even see enemies outside of battle mode.

Reason being, I saw the Sephiroth battle and that made me want to try it myself, besides, unlike Zanza you actually get to finish him off yourself and I think he's my favorite villain now between his theme song and death scene. And it was re-released for the Switch, which I got and I only got two games for it right now.

I barely got any replies for a similar question about Xenoblade Chronicles 1, but I got it and beat it anyway, and love it. But that game lost its popularity despite Shulk being in the Super Smash Bros. games before Cloud. But I'm sure this game is still popular, it's the first one people think of when it comes to Final Fantasy, since Cloud's addition to Super Smash was recent, in the Switch game at that.

{{delete}} I got it

I’m playing FFXII on the PS2 and I have had the Ring Wyrm in my hunts list for a while, but whenever I attempt the fight, I take insane amounts of damage even with protect. All of my characters are levels 29-30.

It may look like this post is unrelated, but if you stick with me for a spell, you'll see where this will go.

For those who keep up with the universe as a whole, Square Enix recently made the decision to close the English Star Ocean: Anamnesis after 55 weeks in service. As usually happens in social media circles, hundreds of fans reacted with great emotion, from shock and sadness to outright rage. While I will not go into extreme depth about what Star Ocean is (we have an article explaining what it is), my aim here is to present a pattern. Given that no less than ten titles have met similar ends, it becomes clear that SE's mobile gaming experience is in need of an overhaul if it is to survive into the next generation of mobile gaming.

Aside from SOA, only two other MMO mobile games are operated directly by Square Enix or one of its major studios: Mobius Final Fantasy and Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia. Both have survived at least one year. As for the other titles the company has managed itself:

• Justice Monsters Five lasted about five months before it was sunsetted.

• Bravely Archive lived two separate lives, first in Japan for two years, then in Global for nine months.

• The King's Knight reboot was active for just six months before sunsetting.

• Theatrhythm Final Fantasy dropped after five years. Also, it was never patched over time.

• Pictlogica Final Fantasy jumped regions without ever being localized for its six-year run.

• Smaller spinoffs have not lasted more than one year. The exception is an FFXI offshoot, which got four years.

Compare these with games managed with outside help:

• FFXV: A New Empire: 2 years and counting

• Brave Exvius: 3 years and counting

• FFRK: 4 years and counting

• All the Bravest: Still going...

• Brigade: Still has life in Japan?

And even with these successes, there are more than a dozen games that have not been properly patched for bezel-less hardware. All of this leads me to believe that something may be wrong with how SE manages and markets its mobile portfolio. As to what should be done, I suspect that a restructure is needed from the uppermost levels. Get some folks in there who know how to sell and respect all the IP that Square Enix holds.

As a final note, it seems that the Mana series is experiencing as great a comeback as has yet been seen by other SE franchises. It may be clunky, but it's still a great comeback.

What do you all think? Should Square Enix leave the mobile driving to third-party studios?

I just started playing FFIII (Nintendo DS version) on Thursday and completely feel like a fish out of water on this! If you have any tips, or cheats that you could give me, please let me know.

So I finally restarted FFXV after about 1 year of not playing, I had a save from about 6-7 hours in, but I forgot a bunch of the stuff since then. I did the first quest getting rid of the pests and saving I think dave(honestly cant remember his name) then i upgraded the regalia to the type-D model cause why not.

I'm now making my way to Galdin quay. I was thinking about doing some hunts to start my.leveling progression on a good foot? Is hunting a good way to level up?