Batter the Beast

It wasn't really a mess, but Final Fantasy 2 for the NES was chock-full of bugs, some of which could make the game so easy it's not even funny

I'm not extremely excited about the character reveals, mostly cause none of them were Captain Falcon, Wario, or any Fire Emblem characters, but I'm still super hyped about the game with all this info and with a summer release for 3DS, it looks like I don't have to wait that long at all.

Veld because he had a lot of impact on the plot and he was such a challenging boss Ashnard for having mostly natural badassery and not being a dragon/possessed by a dragon/a god until he uses the medallion... which only gives him a slight stat increase

You have no idea how pissed I was when I got to the 50th floor and had half a heart left and only one purple potion. Needless to say it was impossible to kill Moldorm without getting knocked off the platform and it took a long time to get to that point in the first place. Purple potions are basically a great spin which covers a massive area (which happens to cover every possible room in the tower) and is unblockable, meaning that almost everything in the game is killed by a single purple potion after the LV3 master sword barring bosses and hinoxes/lynels. They aren't really needed or honestly that helpful in general in the maingame except for making both mandatory Moldorm fights a billion times easier since they automatically hit the weak spot. In all honesty, yellow potions would have been better for almost all the bosses but I kinda set a soft restriction on those just to see if it was possible to beat the game without them. And yes, great spin is broken as all hell, especially when combined with the tornado rod

Treacherous Tower gear: master sword LV3, red mail, hylian shield, flippers, titan's mitt, pegasus boots, bee badge, stamina scroll items: nice lamp, net, 5 bottles, all of Ravio's items, hint glasses deaths: 40 Comments: In general, spamming the tornado rod/boomerang/sword beams are a really good idea when dealing with individual enemies. A bigger problem happens when they are in groups. Oh and bring 5 purple potions because they make some rooms much, much easier [spoiler=Beginner]1: 8 mini-moldorms 2: 8 crabs 3: 8 octoroks 4: 8 stalfos 5: moldorm time: 0m 09s 5 rooms. 5 purple potions [spoiler=Intermediate]1: 1 popo, then 8. kill the first with a sword beam, great spin in the middle 2: 8 chasupa. great spin as many as you can and slash the rest 3: 6 crows. great spin in the middle 4: 11 terrorpins. the tornado rod makes short work of them, but they can't be hit by purple potions 5: 8 sword soldiers. purple potion 6: 7 hardhat beetles. purple potion 7: 6 bow soldiers. great spin in the middle 8: 7 snap dragons. great spin as many as you can and slash the rest 9: 6 helmasaurs. purple potion 10: 8 gibdos. spam great spin 11: 4 hinoxes. purple potion then kill them with your sword one at a a time. Probably the most dangerous room without a plan 12: 6 zirros. spam the nice tornado rod 13: 7 ice gimos. spam the fire rod 14: 2 short sword soldiers + 1 ball and chain soldier. Tornado rod the two short sword soldiers, use the flame rod agains the ball and chain soldier 15: 5 moblins + 5 shield moblins. purple potion time: 1m 16s [spoiler=Advanced]1: 1 blob, then 8, then 12. kill the first one with a sword beam and great spin in the middle when the others spawn both times 2: 12 rats then 12 ropes. spam great spin 3: 7 keese. tornado rod 4: 10 short sword soldiers. run up to them, tornado rod -> great spin 5: 9 armos. kill the first with the sword then great spin the rest 6: 4 poes then 8 hyus. spam great spin 7: 11 rupee likes. you can swing your sword to tell which are the fakes, just be really careful since they do a heart of damage 8: 10 tektites. spam great spin 9: 8 red soldiers. tornado rod -> great spin 10: 5 hearts 11: 10 kodongos. spam great spin 12: 8 slaroks. spam great spin 13: 9 karat crabs then 12 kus 2 at a time. kill the crabs with great spins and tornado rods, back to one of the walls and keep slashing at the spawning enemies 14: 6 pengators. spam great spin 15: 10 bari. spam great spin 16: 8 goriyas. use the fire rod then lead them into the pillar of fire 17: 8 taros. tornado rod -> great spin 18: 2 big pengators. 2 great spins 19: gigabari. spam the fire rod 20: 3 hearts 21: 8 dactos. spam great spin 22: 10 dark rats then 12 skullropes. spam great spin on the dark rats and great spin in the middle when the skullropes drop down 23: 7 vultures. kill them from a range while they are still sitting there 24: 1 popo then 4 fire wizzrobes. kill the popo with a sword beam, great spin the wizzrobes and dodge any attacks they do then kill the rest with the bow 25: 8 minimoldorms. constantly slash and use the boomerang/tornado rod to stun them if they dont run towards you 26: 6 eyegores. great spin when they start moving 27: 4 sword soldiers + 4 bow soldiers. move up then tornado rod -> great spin 28: 4 spear throwing soldiers + 1 ball and chain soldier. move up then tornado rod -> great spin 29: 3 lynels. pelt them with ranged attacks to make them fall off 30: 1 heart 31: 6 hardhat beetles then 4 buzz blobs. purple potion the beetles and spam great spins on the blobs 32: ??. spam great spin, moving up slightly in between each one 33: 4 freezors. use the fire rod upwards on the walls where they spawn from 34: ??. use the fire rod then spam great spin moving up between each one 35: 1 heart then 8 zazaks. grab the heart then great spin the enemies that drop 36: 4 zirros and 4 ropas. spam great spin/tornado rod 37: 8 eyegores. great spin when they start moving, then great spin the next two 38: 2 ice gimos then 4 ice wizzrobes. kill the gimos with the fire rod then great spin the wizzrobes, making sure to dodge the magic attacks. bow the surviving wizzrobes 39: 1 ball and chain soldier. spam fire rod 40: 1 fairy 41: 6 taros and 4 zirros. tornado rod -> great spin the taros and spam tornado rod on the zirros 42: 12 stalfos. spam tornado rod -> great spin 43: 8 bari. spam great spin 44: big ice gimo. fire rod 45: 6 shield moblins and 2 bomb soldiers. purple potion 46: 8 zazaks. charge great spin in the middle and release when they are all in range 47: 9 gimos, 3 regular, 3 fire, 3 ice. great spin the regular gimos, purple potion the fire gimos, then use the fire rod on the ice gimos. dodge the ice balls that come out of the statues 48: 6 soldiers. move up then tornado rod -> great spin 49: 3 lynels. knock them off as soon as you can with the bow/sword, this is probably the most dangerous room and i have no concrete strategy for it. these ones like to shoot fireballs so slashing one off the edge while moving forwards makes them miss quite a lot 50: moldorm. 2 purple potions time: 6m 16s And with that, I'm done with the three heart hero mode challenge, which is something that I found more enjoyable than I should have. Thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this thread and thanks to those of you who commented so that I actually know that some people have seen this.

This. Recruiting Tina has a funny convo as well Xavier is actually my favorite recruitment for life

After Lorule Castle (woo beat the game \o/) gear: master sword LV3, red mail, hylian shield, flippers, titan's mitt, pegasus boots, bee badge, stamina scroll items: lamp, net, 1 purple poton, 4 bottles, all of Ravio's items, those useless glasses i forgot to pick up deaths: 31 Comments: Lorule Castle is a nice place where all of the new enemies OHKO with the blue mail on. With the red mail, very few things in the game OHKO, but it's gotten at the very last stretch of the game. Oh well, at least it makes Yuganon's second phase a little easier. The ball and chain soldiers are easy to take care of with the tornado rod or purple potions and the Moldorm rematch goes down in two purple potions, making that fight way easier than it should be since he OHKOs even with the red mail IIRC. The other rematches really aren't worth mentioning since they picked the easiest enemies to fight again. Boss: Yuganon Phase 1 When I started this playthrough, Yuganon's second phase was the thing that scared me most, but nothing could prepare me for this monstrosity. Everything, and I mean everything this guy has OHKOs even with the red mail on and his charged spear thrust seems to randomly decide to actually hit link every now and again, meaning that that attempt is over. Attacks that he doesn't charge up can be blocked, but the thrust might hit twice, so I died once or twice due to not holding down the shield button long enough. A general rule of thumb I found is to stay on the side that he isn't holding the trident on so I could hit him more often. The best way I found to dodge his charged thrust is to just run away from him and towards the side he isn't holding the trident on, though that worked like 70% of the time. After he starts blinking red, the magic balls that drop from above can easily be dodged by running and changing directions every time a new one appears. Yuganon liked to spam those on my last attempt, but at least that time he also did nothing but uncharged attacks, making it an easy attempt. Boss: Yuganon Phase 2 It's kind of amazing how absorbing the triforce of wisdom made this guy go from being a monster to being a scrub. Standard tennis boss with a seemingly hard to dodge attack every time you succeed the tennis game. This attack is shooting a bunch of flaming bats from the wall that I basically can't dodge 100% of the time. However, unlike the previous fight, the walls aren't blocked off, meaning that link can merge into it and dodge these bats, as long as he isn't standing on the spot where the bats fly out of. Due to these bats flying out of the same spot every time, link can just stand in the same spot in the wall and be completely immune to this attack as long as he has the stamina scroll, making this boss go from nightmare to joke. [spoiler=Crappy Phone Camera Pics] Sorry for the particularly bad quality on this one, my hands were really shaky by this point and I didn't know if he could break free so I had to take it quick Mere millimeters from the end Postgame stats. Looks like I was spot on with the number of deaths Plan: I'm not done with this game just yet; the Treacherous Tower awaits. But first, I need to restock on purple potions. Good thing the second room in Lorule Castle with all the skulls is a good room to grind for materials in.

After Ice Ruins + Turtle Rock gear: master sword LV3, blue mail, hylian shield, flippers, titan's mitt, pegasus boots, bee badge, stamina scroll items: lamp, net, 2 purple potons, 3 bottles, all of Ravio's items deaths: 23 Comments: I kinda didn't save my txt document that I used to record/tally my deaths so I'm going from memory here so it'll probably be wrong. Anyway, things in these dungeons like to OHKO more than things in other dungeons, accounting for a decent portion of my deaths. These are the dungeons that I would consider to be the hardest, so it's a good thing that they really don't have anything important so I can do them last. One thing to note is that the flaming statues in Turtle Rock can be damaged with a purple potion, which makes the room with four of them really easy. Great spin might also work there, but I didn't want to test it since they OHKO link if they are hit with the sword Boss: Dharkstare I had to be really careful while fighting this guy, since everything he has OHKOs link. When I was able to hit him with the fire rod, I just mashed the button while dodging if the triangle things would have hit me. I think that the nice fire rod is almost required for this boss to not be ridiculous, but I haven't tried it with the regular fire rod so I can't be too sure. Boss: Grinexx Holy moly this guy was a pain until I learned how to properly fight him. His bite attack which is difficult to dodge if you happen to be swinging your sword just happens to OHKO, leaving almost no room for error if you go that method. However, his second phase goes down in three great spins/purple potions with the LV3 master sword, meaning that you can cheese him from a safe distance. Doing this also allowed me to easily dodge his explosion attack too since I was already a good distance away from him. Plan: Stock up on purple potions and go to Lorule Castle

After Dungeon Cleanup gear: master sword LV3, blue mail, shield, flippers, titan's mitt, pegasus boots, bee badge items: lamp, net, 3 purple potons, 2 bottles, all of Ravio's items deaths: 17 Comments: The LV3 master sword made the bosses even easier to deal with this time around, I only had one death to any of the bosses. The other 8 deaths... well let's just say enemies do a lot more damage in general than I thought they did, leading to some silly deaths like running into a hinox. I also made a bunch of money just running around and finding the maimais, so I don't have to grind on minigames, which would've been hard in the first place since the good ones have pieces of heart as a reward and I can't get those. I found a golden bee randomly so now I have the bee badge, not that it really helps since I catch any bee I find and sell it to the bee guy anyway. As far as dungeons go, the Desert Palace gave me a surprising amount of trouble; I think I might have died 4 times in there, though deaths seem to matter less the more you accumulate. The other dungeons were pretty easy, especially since great spin with the LV3 master sword one shots every normal enemy in dungeons while also killing those stupid bari that like to do the electrocuting thing at the specific time I swing my sword at them. Boss: Arrghus This guy is a complete joke though he can OHKO with the eye lasers but they are really really easy to dodge by just running around so they don't pose a threat. I just stayed near him and mashed the sword button in his second phase until he shot the eye lasers, after which I repeated the staying next to him business. If I really wanted to cheese this guy, I could have just spammed purple potions. During the second phase, he doesn't have a gimmick that prevents this like a lot of other bosses do. Boss: Knuckle Master I actually have a pretty hard time against this guy in general but at least he doesn't OHKO and there are four hearts on the wall IIRC so I was allowed two extra fuck-ups, which I definitely needed. The best way I found to dodge him slamming himself on the floor is to run towards the side of the hand that the thumb isn't on. He is one resilient mofo and actually took a while to bring down relative to the other bosses. Boss: Zaganaga okay really, who names these guys IMO the easiest boss in this game, because at least Yuga in the Eastern Palace might mix you up or something and actually requires timing. All I had to do is keep up with him, which is really easy due to the massive range of the sand rod and the fact that the nice sand rod pillars don't go away. Once I'm next to him, all I have to do is keep swinging the sword, maybe changing direction once or twice to kill the things he sends out. His beam thing that he charges up only did a heart of damage when I was next to him, so I didn't even have to worry about dodging that thing. Boss: Gemesaur King This is the guy that killed me once, and for good reason; without a game plan, this guy will cause a lot of frustration. Fortunately, I had this nifty fire rod which allowed me to light the torches in the two corners while staying in the relative safety of the middle of the room while he just kept circling around the room. Lighting the torches this way does require really quick aiming because you have to be almost constantly moving up and down in the center of the room to dodge this guy's rampage, but at least it's better than running up to the torches only for the boss to smack you in the face for trying. Otherwise he is really frail, going down in two bombs then two great spins/purple potions. Plan: Complete the Ice Ruins then Turtle Rock because I feel that the stamina scroll will be marginally more useful than the Hylian Shield, especially because I have a bad habit of not using my shield at all lategame

After Thieves' Hideout gear: master sword LV2, blue mail, shield, flippers, power glove, pegasus boots items: lamp, net, 3 bottles, fire rod, bombs, boomerang, hookshot deaths: 8 Comments: As my screwing around in Lorule shows, everything one shots link before getting the blue mail. Now that I have the blue mail, only most of the things in Lorule one shot me. Got the master ores from Skull Woods, Dark Palace and Thieves' Hideout but I only cleared the Thieves' Hideout because I'm curious as to how fast I can clear the bosses with the LV3 master sword, and this is the only boss that is in the way of the LV3 master sword. Good thing the Thieves' Hideout is ridiculously easy and has generally low enemy density with the only threatening looking guys charging at link's sword all day. Boss: Stalblind One death to this guy due to being dumb and standing next to him constantly. Turns out that the nice fire rod is quite effective against him in his shield-less phase since he's big and gets hit so many times by it, not to mention that you can attack him from a range with little risk of getting smacked yourself. One thing to note is falling of the ledge is a nice way to dodge attacks since half a heart < two hearts of damage. Plan: Buy/upgrade the sand rod, get the Titan's Mitts from the Desert Palace, get the last master ore, get the LV3 master sword and all the maimais, get great spin, then kill the bosses in the dungeons I partially completed.

After Hyrule Castle gear: master sword, shield, flippers, power glove, pegasus boots items: lamp, net, 2 bottles, fire rod (from now on, you can assume that all non-rented items are nice/upgraded) deaths: 4 Comments: So I forgot that Ravio did the half off for the first purchase you make so I bought the fire rod at half off because it's useful when upgraded and it's one of the most expensive items from him so I figured I should get it. The thing that makes Hyrule Castle somewhat hard is that when an enemy is on stairs on a floor above you, its almost impossible to hit them with your sword, leading to a few stupid deaths. Fortunately, the fire rod circumvents this. Also, a nice thing is that the doors that you opened will stay open if you die in the dungeon, so you can just run through the dungeon if you've cleared a good portion of the rooms. The pegasus boots allow you to dash through a surprising amount of rooms with ease. Boss: Yuga Since I don't know how to tell the real one from the fakes, my strat for this guy is to follow one of the paintings of him and just swing the sword repeatedly when he comes out, usually killing the guard that spawns when you attack a clone or hitting him. This also prevents this clone from attacking, meaning minimal dodging is required. He did kill me once, but that was a hilarious death where he did the attack that makes fire pillars come out of the wall right before I beat him, so the cutscene afterwards played and he ran off into the next room, so I follow him. Straight into a pillar of fire that just spawned. And died. It's a good thing the game remembered that I beat him so I didn't have to do it again but I still had to go through the dungeon a fourth time. Plan: Now here's where the planning gets interesting. Due to the nature of this game, the only dungeon that really needs to be cleared to access the others is the Thieves' Hideout so you can get the sand rod. After that, I can go in and out of dungeons as I please, which I will be doing. I plan on dipping into the Swamp Palace first to get the Blue Mail so a few enemies no longer OHKO, then I will go to the Skull Woods and the Dark Palace to get the Master Ores inside them, get the LV2 Master Sword, then clear the Thieves' Hideout while getting the Master Ore and get the Titan's Mitt to get the Master Ore in the Lorule Sanctuary. After this, I will get the LV3 Master Sword and proceed to complete each dungeon, probably leading to something akin to a boss rush. I also plan on finding every maimai and upgrading and buying every item so I can get the great spin, so I will be doing an assload of minigames to make some sweet cash.

After Tower of Hera gear: sword, shield, flippers, power glove, pegasus boots items: lamp, net, 2 bottles, tornado rod (rent), hammer (rent) deaths: 1 Comments: Spamming the tornado rod in this dungeon makes dealing with the mini-moldorms and the stalfos that throw bones at you a lot easier to deal with. Fortunately the room full of stalfos don't do anything until you get near them so I was able to stun them and kill them one by one so I didn't run the risk of getting hit by stray bones. Despite how short the Tower of Hera is, it is one of my favorite dungeons ever just because of the nature of the puzzles and needing to go outside of the dungeon. Boss: Moldorm This guy went down after a spin attack and two purple potions. I don't know if the purple potions alone would have done it but I really didn't want to run the risk of trying to hit him while he's going really fast Plan: Maybe stock up on purple potions for Hyrule Castle but otherwise get the Master Sword and make a beeline for Hyrule Castle. I might rent the bow or boomerang to make a few rooms in the castle easier

At Tower of Hera gear: sword, shield, flippers, power glove, pegasus boots items: lamp, net, 2 purple potions, tornado rod (rent), hammer (rent) deaths: 1 Comments: Holy smokes I am surprised that I didn't even die once on this hellish trek. This was the stretch of the overworld that I was most concerned about and it definitely scared me more than once. The rolling boulders in the caves OHKO link so you have to really be careful while traversing the caves and the randomly falling boulders from the volcano two shot link so it was a very stressful time, especially since I can't just go rambo with bottled fairies in this run like I always do in Zelda games. Plan: I'm not sure exactly how many hits Moldorm will take or if purple potions even work on bosses but I hope two is enough to take him down because I think he OHKOs and is a generally random boss that I would rather not deal with normally

Okay to be honest milk won't help all too much because a lot of things OHKO later on, but I won't use milk either. That boss is actually what worries me the second most on this run, so I just plan on getting the LV3 Master Sword before fighting him and cheesing him with purple potions after his stupid berserk thing is over. Fortunately the Blue Mail will let me survive a hit from him. After House of Gales gear: sword, shield, flippers, pegasus boots items: lamp, net, 2 bottles, tornado rod (rent) deaths: 1 Comments: First blood goes to a random bat. I thought it was going to be some random Lorulean enemy that just one shots me because I'm being stupid, but this slippery bastard manages to not get hit by any of my sword swipes and hits me twice. This further proves the Law of Video Games that states that the most dangerous enemies will always be the bats. The dungeon is full of small enemies and is generally less forgiving than the Eastern Palace. Boss: Margomill Thank god falling in pits still only takes away half a heart or I would be really frustrated at this boss. Not too bad if you don't try to bumrush him like I always do, but this run's existence means that I don't do things the easy way Plan: Rage at being killed by a random bat, rent the bow and hammer, and head for the Tower of Hera and probably die a lot to boulders due to them being the first thing to OHKO in the game

Fortunately I have a plan to tackle that thing which is basically spamming great spin, the tornado rod, and purple potions After Eastern Palace rupees: 477 gear: sword, shield items: lamp, bow(rent) deaths: 0 Comments: The shield makes one or two rooms of the dungeon really easy, and the only other possibly difficult room is the one with the butt ton of rolling balls. All in all, a short, easy dungeon. The bow makes dealing with some enemies so much easier and I will probably be spamming the hell out of it Boss: Yuga Really really easy battle, he didn't even get to attack once since his pattern is so predictable that I shot him with an arrow right when he came out of the wall each time Plan: Rent the tornado rod and bombs, get the net from the bee guy, buy a bottle, get the bottle under the bridge, visit mother maimai and do all the other stuff needed to get to the House of Gales including nabbing the pegasus boots

For some reason I thought it would be a brilliant idea to do a 3 heart challenge on this fantastic game. Then I got another brilliant idea that was doing said challenge on hero mode, where everything does four times damage. So, anything that normally does half a heart of damage will two shot me, and anything that normally deals a heart of damage OHKOS. Since I don't have any fancy streaming things, doing a playlog is the only way I can share this painful experience and maybe help others who are playing this game on just about any difficulty. And to top it off I added the restriction of getting every item in each dungeon because I still need to satisfy my completionist side. Anyone is welcome to suggest any other restrictions I should do (within reason, please) Rules 1) No grabbing any heart containers or pieces of heart 2) No bottled fairies, hearts, or red/blue potions 3) Get every item in every dungeon unless this conflicts with 1 4) StreetPass battles are allowed for money making purposes, but I cannot reset if I lose After Sanctuary Dungeon rupees: 53 items: sword, lamp deaths: 0 Comments: Really easy introductory dungeon, though I almost die at least once because I'm always an idiot when I start a new file on anything. I'm also glad I remembered to pull the left switch in the last room because I really didn't want to deal with a room full of snakes. Plan: After all the other intro crap, buy a shield and make a beeline for the Eastern Palace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWZQc7Dg0Ck

Yeah, the Dark Palace was one of my favorite in any Zelda game mostly because of its gimmick

I was referring to this dungeon but the title is misleading since it isn't technically in the swamp but whatever. So you have two votes for this dungeon

Doing the southernmost dungeon makes the rest of the game much easier, and it is one of the easiest dungeons to clear.

Action/Adventure: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past RTS: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness Turn Based Strategy: Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 RPG: Final Fantasy V Advance FPS: Half Life 2 Platformer: Megaman X Fighting: Project M (SSBB) Beat Em Up: Double Dragon II Art: The Stanley Parable Third Person Shooter: Spec Ops: The Line Survival Horror: Amnesia: The Dark Descent Visual Novel: Super Dangan Ronpa 2 Sports: NBA Jam Awful Game: NES Bad Dudes The GOAT: Mother 3

The coolest title screen music that you'll probably never hear fully because the title literally has nothing but what you see there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJh8_p5ZvPg Never heard of this game until a few days ago and it's a pretty crap game but it has a really catchy theme