7 Chests You Absolutely Regretted Opening (If You Weren't Prepared!)

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Final Fantasy has featured some rather devilish traps over the years that revolved around chests. Some of these chests, dubbed "Monster In A Box" penalised players by springing a surprise encounter, while others punished them by decreasing rewards elsewhere if the wrong chests were opened.
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[@keeganfawcett610]

Most regretted chest opening: any of the ones in the original FFXII that made you unable to obtain the Zodiac Spear.

[@Ktjnn]

You could still actually farm low drop rate ZS in vanilla. You just didn't get a free one.

[@01bullbl]

​@@Ktjnn if you call that drop rate free. 🙃😔🙃

[@chisaten]

Could that be called trolling? XD

[@veghesther3204]

That too but even if you don't OPEN those chests its still possible for the Zodiac Spear chest in the Original F12 to still NOT show up EVER in its location.

[@ridensroom6957]

​@@veghesther32041st time I played 12 my friend warned me about that. Luckily I didn't care thst much haha

[@lrod312]

The PS1 version of FF4 had those Mad Ogres in a chest in Eblan castle and if you were under-leveled or just cruising along level-wise before opening it, it would mean game over.

[@Scorp721]

That's the one I was thinking about as well.

[@slapthatmech]

Sooo I played on psp with no means of making a save so my first playthrough became an Iron man run by necessity. You can imagine my "surprise " at finding that party wipe in a box

[@ArbiterWarrior]

I was about to comment about this exact chest with these Mad Ogres. Young child me would keep forgetting which chest had them only to die. Once I learned which chest it was, I often would leave it for later Edit: this was the case on each version of FF4 I've played from snes to gba to ds, heck even in the pixel remaster

[@civilwildman]

Note: That fight was also in the SNES version.

[@laggingdragons]

These are in the SNES version too! It was so terrifying/frustrating as a kid!

[@vigo2669]

The Xande Clone in a chest was referenced in the World of Darkness raid in FF14.

[@DrakonLameth]

Plague is just a FF4 vanilla boss, complete with the same mechanic from 4. It'd suck to get surprised by, but 6 is where Reraise (life 3) was born, so one character with a ribbon and the fight's basically over because they can just reraise the group. Now, the safe in Shinra Mansion in ff7, that's a painful surprise because it's a surprise boss in a "chest" that is opened by a puzzle and with a timer on entering the code to open it. (the one with the boss Lost Number within, guarding the Odin summon, Red XIII's lv4 limit break manual, and the key to Vincent's room in the basement)

[@veghesther3204]

Ribbons are useless Plague in FF4 at least ONLY uses Doom's timer + Haste to make it kill you faster it never attacks you but in FF6 GBA Ribbons won't null the Doom timer and it still uses Haste to make the timer kill you faster but 8x 9999 hits against Plague in FF6 GBA still kills it in 1 turn same wiith 8x 9999 Ultima spells. I had MORE trouble killing NESLUG in the GBA version since ANY attack that hits its shell results in it using a instant kill move that can ONLY be nulled via summoning Phantom but the SHELL part can heal its HEAD part using 9999 Curaga counters.

[@michaelbarnard8529]

Consider my irritation getting party wiped in FF4 buy the doom eye monster in the final dungeon without saving in the next door save room, because I picked the wrong room to go through first.

[@mr.alyosha3747]

Need to mention the mimics in Palace of the Dead and Heaven on High from 14. They can be an absolute terror when trying to solo.

[@Beryllahawk]

I mean Mimics in general are always such an unpleasant surprise! I haven't done HoH yet but they sure had me yelling in Palace...

[@TheAuron32]

there is (maybe was now, cant recall) a system for PotD at least, ONLY bronze will be mimics early on, then Silvers and last golds, you know, the ones you REALLY REALLY NEED to open for pomanders later on. I am trying to beat PotD solo on MCH, that interrupt is useful but im certain they become immune to it later on.

[@austinmartin612]

@@TheAuron32 I don't remember for sure, but I thought it was they can be stunned early on but only Interjected/Head Grazed later on

[@TheAuron32]

@@austinmartin612 yeah it does change, my brain can’t recall exactly how either 😆

[@cwtyger3308]

There is only one time when I like opening a Mimic in Palace: if you're running with a friend and Rage is already active. "Hey, got a Mimic over here." "On it." ^^

[@_Paul_N]

The Shinra Mansion safe in FF7 original 😁. Most veterans are pretty overleveled at that point, but “Lost Number” is no pushover lol.

[@noahhobson4521]

Any of the ultimate weapon chests in the Lunar Subterra in Final Fantasy IV. Low points being Ogopogo and the Wyvern. Both of whom are harder versions of the already tough bosses Leviathan and Bahamut.

[@BlakeAustin2011]

Wyvern in the US version was disgusting since there were no JP items.

[@Shadohime]

If you're unprepared for them, the Hill Gigas encounters in Karnak Castle in FFV can ruin you, especially because you're on a time limit when the chests are available. Collecting every treasure in the castle AND beating the boss AND learning its Blue Magic is an exercise in luck and preparation.

[@veghesther3204]

That too but at least IF you buy like 20 Fire Ice or Bolt rods that's enough.

[@Juror_Grafias]

What a novel & unexpected topic?! Loved all of your various representatives for this one & can attest to having been made to restart XII from the beginning (on account of my failure to have read ahead in my strat. guide)! Love all your work & wishing your family well this holiday season!

[@andyw_uk74]

(Dis)Honourable mention for the 8-Eye chest in the 3 o' clock room in Temple of the Ancients, in FFVII. Those things were over-tuned and game-overed me in my first playthrough, with drain magic.

[@veghesther3204]

I had lv 45 party members with 5000 to 6000 HP 500 to 600 MP by then so those can't kill you in 1 hit.

[@Skyshadow733]

FFXI mimics were a terror. Draw-in so you cant run away, super fast attacks and def. Most ways to survive is just to use a teleport scroll and hope you dont die before the warp goes off.

[@Alirian2]

Most mobs in XI had unlimited attack range if they had line of sight, so running away was almost never an option

[@jasonpelto1164]

Flee saved me a bunch in 11. What a great game that was

[@DarthHawke]

I struggled against Gigantos on the Floating Continent in FF6 when I was a kid. I know Invisible cheeses the fight but I was a dumb kid that only used attacks and Fire 2 and would get countered to oblivion: attack, attack, throat jab

[@veghesther3204]

That too BUT its a LV 20 enemy so Lv 5 doom Strago kills it instantly and you can still learn that lore On the FC itself before opening that chest.

[@bobjoemac1]

Those 3 ogers in Edge's ruined castle in FF4 were impossible when i was little.

[@rayoflight1920]

In snes version not so much, the ds version on the other hand..

[@ultimatecalibur]

@@rayoflight1920 Depends on when you first visited Eblan Castle. You can access the castle once you get the Enterprise, but the monsters in the boxes are from the second half of the Tower of Babil (roughly 4 dungeons later) which makes them very powerful when you have the first opportunity to fight them which also tends to be the point where the Sleep Sword and Blood Lance are the most useful.

[@veghesther3204]

While I STILL had Paladin Cecil LV 45 Yang lv 55 at that point Cid/Tellah are still pure crap then.

[@shermietubevt]

Missing out on the Zodiac Spear was so frustrating. I had it basically null a 100 plus hour run that otherwise might have been 100%. Those are the ultimate troll chests for me. I'll take any boss, punishing or not, over that troll move. Great video, btw!

[@matthewbeard7841]

I attempted opening the FFX Omega Ruins chests over 350 times before I got the perfect RNG of the 12/12 chests opened. I had no enemy encounters equipped and had a save set up right at the start of the dungeon and I'd just run it over and over again resetting when I hit a mimick. It got to the point that my muscle memory was inputting the game's soft reset code the instant I saw the encounter animation begin.

[@AKOverkill]

Ff6 Tonberry, I just couldn't have anticipated that. The other ones were all DS cuz i didnt know mimic chests were a thing

[@danielmeredith4222]

I will be very careful of that Plague monster in the chest. cheers and thankyou so much for the advice and tips.

[@ArcanisUltra]

The chest in Castle Eblan in Final Fantasy 4 that contained the Mad Ogres killed me more times than any other chest.

[@SiegeTF]

I remember 2(NA) having three or four 'GR Ogres' in a box under one of the cities the Redwings bombed. Murdered the crap out of me. Wouldnt be surprised if the GR stood for green, and they were a Hulk reference.

[@MelRetro]

*Plague is an Absolute Nightmare!* 😠

[@veghesther3204]

But it never attacks you it just uses a Full Party Doom Timer + Haste to make the timer kill you faster but that's ALL Plague does or at leasts that's all it Does in FF4 in FF6 GBA you MUST have 4x Ribbon users.

[@GreatestGames777]

Oh fuck it's Shinryu. That wasn't a mega potion. Aaaaaaaaaaannnd my party is dead. And I didn't save for 12 hours, and I'm crying. *This happened to me as a kid and I cried for about half an hour. But then I went back and whooped his ass with a fiery vengeance of Doritos and childhood youth*

[@Magnosummit]

I just beat the PS1 version of FFV yesterday. Ran into Shinryuu in that chest before the boss who presents you with the final save before X-Death / ExDeath. It used a water attack against the whole party as soon as the fight began, and fortunately, Faris had the coral ring equipped and was healed something like 8000 HP. Everyone else died and I was able to escape with Faris, heal my party, fight X-Death and then call it quits. Not interested in the least with trying to defeat Omega or Shinryuu. I was really glad that, unlike Omega, you could run from Shinryuu.

[@GreatestGames777]

@Magnosummit You're lucky I just got swarmed and he whooped my ass and I had to start hours from before that and I felt dumb as hell for not saving

[@Brahmsonite]

I was playing FFXIV's first rogue-like dungeon Palace of the Dead with a friend. We knew that chests could be explosive traps. We did not know that included chests dropped by monsters...

[@blackenedtiamat2807]

Shinryu in a box made me poo my drawers.

[@jammiebooker6489]

Thanks to FF series, we know how an insect feels when it falls victim to a venus fly trap

[@silverhand9965]

Honestly I saw the Neo Shinryu chest coming at least. I did get got by the normal Shinryu chest, so when I saw a very conspicuous chest at the very end of a place called Shinryu's lair, I was immediately sus of it and equipped my coral ring 😹

[@civilwildman]

Note: #1 is in the GBA and iOS/Android/Steam ports of FF6, not the SNES/PS1 or Pixel Remaster versions.

[@TheBlackSeraph]

I think the same is true for Neo-Shnryuu. The GBA (and sometimes PSP) versions had bonus content that got cut by the time Pixel Remaster came out.

[@veghesther3204]

Correct that ENTIRE dungeon is only on the GBA/IOS/Android version of FF5.

[@Lulu-bz9ib]

chests that really make you regret are the ones that give you better rewards if opened in later chapters

[@renewagain6956]

FFIV Destroyed Eblan Castle basement... 3 Ogres (after just getting the airship). Very rough encounter.

[@alchalant4663]

I was super glad to have the strategy guide for xii to tell me not to open those 4. And I was able to sneak and get the spear super early too if I recall. The mimics in ffxiv deep dungeon are pretty wicked too - or the exploding silver chests that can kill you if you’re not at full hp. But I usually put up shields and hope for those exploding chests to help kill nearby enemies

[@laggingdragons]

It's not exactly all chests but I'd love to see you guys cover the equipment bosses like Astaroth and Beelzebub in FF2, Cerberus and Echidna in FF3, Plague and Ogopogo in FF4, etc.

[@TheMadSocrates]

There is a particularly spicy monster on a box under the dwarf castle in FF4 as I recall

[@aceezreal]

Thank you for making all these videos, I enjoy them a lot B)

[@nectsta]

Master Tonberry 😢

[@DamascusTheyFell]

I just discovered John Oeth through this video! Amazing!

[@nathanielarthurhardy419]

FF IV Sylph Cavern, Hidden room, 6 chests, all monster-in-a-box. One containing 4 MALBORO

[@Ryder.Draconis]

I'm going to guarantee that the zodiac spear chests in the original FF12 release, and the magic lamp from FF8 are going to be on here.

[@CerbearusBane]

Accidently opened that chest in Rabanastre and immediately realized it. My last save had been several hours prior...so I never got the Zodiac Spear unfortunately.

[@soma467]

I would say the depth of the Pharos of Ridorana in Ff12 when doing the god or devil hunt... The monster in the chest wiped my party at the time

[@xRocketzFighterx]

Ngl im not losing sleep over not getting that Zodiac spear. FF12 is still awesome to playthrough

[@OverbossZero]

Same. Didn't know about it, but still defeated Vayne. I'm good as long as I can win the final boss fight. xD

[@joshuagrosvenor9837]

I will always hold a grudge against Square for tying the Zodiac Spear to just normal looking chests.

[@venabre]

I was instantly reminded of Puffin Forest's Final Fantasy video

[@jkfaulsev]

Thank you for making great content!

[@RadishDoctor]

Final Fantasy VI; Mount Zozo, Thunder Dragon. Yes I know it's not "opening" a chest, it's pressing a button. That then opens a chest, THEN releases the dragon. While not really a hard fight once you know ins and outs of FF6, it's early enough of a location in the World of Ruin to completely wipe an un-ready party with powerful wind attacks.

[@coreymay918]

I'm just here to make sure the zodiac spear was on this list

[@WestRaz]

FF 4 I own more copies of that game than any other. In the 3-D Remake there is a chest on the moon that stoped me dead, has two Ice Dragons inside, in every other version of that game it is a fire and ice, and you would think two Ice dragons might be EZ then that BUT it not, sooo hard I dropped the game due too it

[@snuggie1849]

I still think the most evil thing in 4 3d is when you climb the tower of babil and theres 2 flame hounds that abush you with flame breath and kill you before u get a turn xD

[@veghesther3204]

That too but you can first encounter Those in the tower of Zot only to still die in 1 turn against them.

[@eddiegesch6299]

I was lucky enough to have the Prima guide when I played the original ff12

[@TheSageJ]

that was the point of the zodiac spear, to sell strategy guides.

[@eddiegesch6299]

@SageJMP I'm glad I didn't buy mine it was a Christmas gift along with a copy of ff12 that was in some special metal case.

[@therealseanw.stewart2071]

Fully expected FFV's Shinryu to appear on this list, and was not disappointed. Damn thing ruined my entire run.

[@cathycatsville67]

If i remember it correctly the FFX chest game in the omega ruins wasn't about opening the wrong chest but rather opening it at the wrong time as it was a time based puzzle making it even much harder to get all 12 chests. The zodiac spear in FFXII original was simply unfair and i highly doubt anyone got it without the guide which was probably the reason they made it so obscure so more people would buy the guide 😅 the remaster though made it still tough to get especially without knowing the new chest location which had only a 1% chance to appear. HOWEVER they decided to add an even more overpowered weapon with the lowest chance to get in the entire serious! This weapon called the Seitengrat was almost impossible to get even if you had the guide! Located in the most obscure place possible AND made invisible the chest had only a 1% chance to appear to begin with but than it also only had 1% chance to have the Seitengrat in it! Oh and that also only if you had the diamond braclet eqipped 🙄 all in all the chance to get the Seitengrat was 1:10000! It was absolutely ridiculous! Thankfully RNG manipulation exists^^ with a specific method the Seitengrat became a 100% chance. There are also 2 other items another weapon and a shield that are similar hard to get but not as hard as the Seitengrat. Overall the probablities in FFXII are insane even in the remaster version for some chests can take hours to appear. 100% completing FFXII both the original and the remaster version without any cheating takes forever.

[@kodytiffany5686]

Dragons den??? never found or heard of it... Was it added in the PS release and further or is that a more recent addition?

[@OverbossZero]

Feral Chaos just gets even worse from there as well...His real fight? Level 130, way more HP, but hey, at least you still have your team! xD I never knew about the Zodiac Spear conditions myself, but I guess I did okay without it as I still defeated Vayne. Suspicious as those groups of chests looked, of course I was gonna go for 'em, lol! Though I guess that's the point, to make you suspect something, but at the same time, tempt you. I wonder if you could save before doing the chest game in X, so if you get a mimic, you can just turn the game off and restart, or if that would also unable you to play again. I'd be pretty dang pissed myself if I missed out due to mimics.

[@TheAuron32]

A non Final Fantasy game with lethal mimics is Rogue Galaxy, those things are tougher than some bosses, absolutely lethal nightmare terminator of monster.

[@SuperNamuGaming]

Absolutely agree! I always dreaded opening them! Theyre so ridiculously op

[@TheAuron32]

@ probably the most over powered mob i’ve encountered in RPGs outside of bosses and super bosses. if i recall correctly they also have drops you really want to get as soon as possible, so you feel obligated to fight them 😂

[@mesothelimoa341]

If we're going with non-Final Fantasy games, it would be remiss not to mention Dark Souls mimic chests.

[@dianteblue-evans8747]

Yo..... the thumbnail reminded me of the terror i expericed when walking up to the piano on the ghost stage joints playin mario sixty-foe ( 64 ) before a chest on Final yall 😅😂

[@rionthemagnificent2971]

Regrettable chests (In no order) Any chest that does damage when opened with low health and its been a while since you last saved. Any chest that was a Mimic that kills you when opening.. ('Souls' series are known for this.) any chest that makes an item disappear permanently (FF has a few trapped chests like this.)

[@colemcgrath2619]

I don't miss these mimic chests

[@AshAsmodeus]

Actually... most people on here talk about being able to farm the spear in the Zodiac Age edition.... in the original it was actually hidden in a sepecific pot... break the wrong one and you can restart because you'll never get the zodiac spear. (source: the original FFXII guide, the hardcopy one)

[@user-battlescar1313]

On PS4 FFX Omega Ruins before I entered I deleted the app and re-installed the game deleting the day 1 patch. The patch on updates says "random chests are truly random". After I did not download that update I was able to go into Omega Ruins and get the 12 chests mentioned.

[@spydermag5644]

I watched Dansg08 open all 12 chests in FFX on live stream a long time ago.

[@Matt-qv8lm]

I keep forgetting that shinryu is in the rift, and that you have to steal off gilgamesh on the necro / save point fight. And each replay i always spend like an hour or two grinding ap to finish jobs FOR these fights, only to forget these 2 things and wipe because i have the wrong setup/forgot to use a thief/mug/steal ability So i quit for a week or 2, come back and do the same thing. Again. Everytime without fail, lol

[@m.a.packer5450]

FF1 had the worst ones: deep in the dungeons there were way out of the way chests they were empty, or triggered tough monster battles

[@OverbossZero]

OMG THE EMPTY CHESTS...Yeah, I hated those! Not as much as a "regret" opening them, but like...Who was the cruel mind that put those there?!

[@m.a.packer5450]

@@OverbossZero if I ever did that to my D&D players, they'd run me out on a rail

[@Chadjessup41]

Great video Great videogame Great youTuber

[@Faunatic97]

Teleport trap in Elden Ring definitely

[@ultimatecalibur]

Going with Neo Shinryu and Plague rather than the original Monster-in-a-Box fights they referenced (Shinryu and Tonberries/Master Tonberry) and overlooking the 3 Castle Elban Monster-in-a-Box fights (the Mad Ogre x3 box being quite killer when you can first access the area) makes this video feel under researched and overly focusing on the advanced versions.

[@ryla22]

I spent over 20 hours reloading omega ruins until I got the 12 chests. It was not worth it.

[@aldwinjasperjoniega8973]

Came to see if zodiac spear made the list... Wasn't dissappointed

[@erikgilson1687]

Zodiac spear wasn't just "cruel" it was essentially unsolvable unless you were just extremely lucky. There would be no other way to figure it out unless you were following a walkthrough. It's the dumbest type of game secret

[@birchthebirch4593]

The the lamp in ff8 a chest?

[@robertfraser8541]

Ff6 tonberry in umaro's cave/narshe ( world of ruin)

[@AncestorEmpire1]

The one I didn’t regret: Lulu 😏

[@yeighseph1976]

I know this video is ff games, but. The chest I regret the most is every lootbox on games I don't play anymore

[@Cloud971]

Never got the 99 Warp Sheres this is just too random for me...

[@cherozkiahyusof4902]

FF12 are really most furastating game i play collecting all weapon n gear just truly hell

[@elementality71]

In ff5 if you let the thief free in jail he opens 2-3 chests in the later game before you can reach them. thus leaving me without my completion trophies. damn you

[@PapaDongzkie]

The Omega Ruins mimic encounters from X are my pick. If you decide to "open" one of them, you'll be thrust into a damage sponge enemy with escape disabled, and pitiful rewards when defeated. Wastes of time.

[@lynxthewise7233]

Also the Mimics in Rogue Galaxy were obnoxious BUT their chests had a little red lock on them, so if you paid attention, they became trivial.

[@RagnarokiaNG]

FF12's Diamond Armlet in general was needlessly cruel. Without access to a guide you might never realise that wearing it might be screwing you over, as it tells you it will give you better stuff so why would you question it? Also even after playing the game multiple times I still need to play with a map up constantly to know if I should wear one or not for each treasure...

[@georgehouliaras7239]

How does Shinryu even fits there?

[@xenxander]

FF1, near the end.. a beginner piece of equipment.. 'can't carry' you think 'must be something nice.. it isn't.

[@dizzyking1843]

Nice just what I needed rn

[@lynxthewise7233]

Zivilyn Bane in Skies of Arcadia could be a MENACE if you weren't prepared.

[@s0urp0wer5]

Filler content is filling.

[@dumdumchord]

One time I opened a chest and found Justin Timberlake

[@FistanDauntilus]

Cool story. I like to super glue my thumbs to my nipples and pretend I'm a 🦖

[@Deathgriever1]

The FFXII one was dumb. If you didn’t have a strategy guide you would never have even known about the zodiac spear and about the chests you couldn’t touch. I had started a play through and got a strategy guide a little later on and when I read it I saw that and was like well shit. Started overs again.

[@quigonkenny]

Frieren disliked this video...

[@choupetto85]

*FF7 Lost Number*

[@NPL4LE]

That's a safe not a chest😂😅

[@NPL4LE]

Ff7 need I say anymore harsh very harsh 😆😂🤣

[@CursedUglyDevil]

Another list, another video where FFXVI is nowhere to be found. Not that it deserved to be in the video anyway. To be fair any chest in FFXVI couldve made this list because every chest you opened was a unrewarding dud you regret wasting time opening.

[@wasabiGT]

Every chest in my trek for the Necromancer title in Palace of the Dead (FFXIV) There were times it ended my run after 10+ hours