mechanixis said:
Fucking Prototype. The boss battles in that game rapidly get straight-up ridiculous, the final one in particular. He spends most of the time invincible and just wails on you with undodgeable attacks. It's all you can do to run around the stage eating people to keep your health up, and then they slap a time limit on top of it all so not even that works.
You've got to be kidding me. The final boss was a lot easier than the one with giant tentacles and you must defeat them all, while dodging hits waiting for the invulnerability to wear off.
Last time I had a "fuck this" moment?
Persona 3's last boss
To anyone who haven't played it - Boss has 14 phases, starting out doing nothing, then every turn changing his abilities and resists/drains/nulls. Every turn you must change your allies' Tactics to make sure they won't waste time attacking an enemy and by an accident healing him, changing your Persona to a different one that can Resist the enemy's attack AND still manage to damage him... While each form has only 1k or so, 13 of them make up for a total of 13k health. The last one, the Death Form, is the most assholish of all bosses I've ever seen. This is what happens:
1. Besides being able to attack twice a turn (he does it every other form, too...), he can get 3 attacks if he exploits your teammate's weakness. And since there is no way you can have a full team with no weaknesses... He does it often.
2. He is Strong against everything you throw at him (except for Almighty spells, but they either auto-miss or, like Megido/la/laon, they cost a lot more SP than it's worth using on a single enemy), so every attack deals 30-40 damage at best, and you can't lower his resistance in any way.
3. He can use about 90% of the skills in the game except for Fusion spells and healing spells. Meaning that you can't really protect yourself against his assault. Oh, and he loves using party-wide instant-kill spells. If you are really unlucky, you might lose your whole team except for yourself in 1 round.
4. He LOVES using his special skill, a barrier that reflects every single type of damage back onto the attacker for 2 turns, during which you can only heal yourself and prepare for another attack.
5. ... And he can do it over and over again. This means that the last 10 minutes of the battle are like this: Attack him once with everyone, he puts up the barrier and attacks you once, you heal yourself as best as you can and set allies to Stand By, he attacks you twice, you heal yourself again, he drops his barrier and attacks you once, you heal yourself, set allies to Full Assault and attack him once, HE PUTS IT UP AGAIN, attacks... over and over again.
6. When he's about to be defeated, he starts using one of the most powerful attacks that leaves your team at 1/4 of health and randomly inflicts a status ailment.
...The only reason I didn't throw the controller out the window was because I was saving up every single healing item, including 10x Soma (restores HP/SP of your party to full), so every 3-4 forms I used a Soma and used two at the last form. And 30 Revival Beads.
Never again.
