Velorien said:
The skill turns out to inflict the Berserk status effect on the entire party. Berserk doubles the subject's attack power, makes them more vulnerable to damage, and makes them uncontrollable.
Now in theory this would turn the battle into a curb stomp. But here's how it played out:
1) First three party members attack. Monster is heavily damaged.
2) Garnet attacks with her healing weapon. Monster is healed to full health.
3) Monster attacks. A party member takes damage.
4) The Auto-Regen skill heals said party member to full health.
5) GOTO 1.
Repeat until player finishes beating head against wall and switches off console.
I know it's kind of the opposite of the topic, but I couldn't resist this. Same game, final boss, first time playing. Basically, he has a Malboro-type move that inflicts every status under the sun, and, among other statuses, inflicted Berserk on ALL of my teammates. I watched as each character ran in and slashed the boss while being poisoned to death or what have you.
The twist? With only Amarant remaining, and probably a good two minutes of staring at the screen hopelessly, I WON against the dude! I just stared at the game in disbelief while the credits rolled.
Now, as for games that I could never finish, most of them were pre-GameFAQs era, honestly. I could never beat Sigma in any of the Megaman X games, ESPECIALLY 3 with that massive armored body of his; couldn't even get one hit on him. Zelda, too. I could never beat Ganon, no matter how hard I tried. I beat them all several years later, so I guess it's kinda moot.
Though, one game I refuse to touch ever again is Final Fantasy 2. I don't know how you're supposed to play this game, but you level up differently than other FF's. Instead of getting EXP, leveling up, and raising all stats, you raise stats by doing stuff related to it. Attacking raises Str, being attacked raises Def and HP, using spells raises MP and Mag, and so on. Here was my dilemma: in the starting zone - a little island-like place - you have Goblins and whatnot that are all at a relative level of 1-5, not much damage, no magic to speak of, etc. Now, JUST ACROSS THE BRIDGE to this zone, ALL enemies are in what I can only guess is the mid-30's, with most of them having -ra spells and strength levels that hit for 2-300 damage! I grinded on Goblins for three hours straight and couldn't go up against any of the monsters across the bridge - and grinding on Goblins was SLOW! I could spend thirty minutes letting them beat the crap out of me, attacking them now and then and expending all my MP casting Cure on me and them to keep us all up, and be lucky to get a point or two in each respective field, and maybe 10 or so extra health.
Never. Again.
