Final Fantasy Legend II (GB) Final Battle

Final Battle vs. Arsenal for Final Fantasy Legend II on Gameboy.
My party sucks, my stats suck, my weapons and armor suck. With that said I BARELY beat this boss. I was totally amazed.

[@Mysticsloth]

It's amazing how I still remember that music in detail after almost 20 years.. ^^

[@ugandahater]

Same. It's been so long and I never completed this game. Apollo was the worst

[@crazyjames1233]

"oh god it just whipped out the smasher!!!" i still have nightmares about that dam weapon

[@Melo.maniak]

I really miss when I actually used to love this kind of stuff! I Spent so much time beating all the final fantasy legends. so much fun lol

[@saltyt9683]

That running statue before this battle.....

[@Thebassmasta3]

This is still my favorite game of all time really an amazing game. This ending battle music still plays in my head randomly!!! The trick to final boss is one bot two human one morpher, all with tanks, tanks will block the smasher attacks. and the specific morphling an imp type guy will do 800dmg per attack with his special attack (5 stock) Love it. Awesome sound for the final boss back in the day

[@soulcitysigma]

I only beat this game once and it was with the help of freaking game Genie. Seeing you beat it honestly was a treat dude, good stuff!!

[@BologneyT]

That was a very clutch finish right there!

[@Melo.maniak]

i was so damn addicted to this song as a kid... that was like 14 years ago

[@Astidcrisse]

SO many fond memories... I still got my old GB tucked in a drawer with FFL1-2-3 Zelda, Castlevania, Megaman 4, Rolan's quest 2... classics

[@Willjin]

Clutch victory, I could never beat this boss as a young teen, then just randomly won when i replayed it some years later haha. Also, LOVED the music and then OH WHAT DO YOU KNOW it's Uematsu!

[@RehcamretsneF]

I couldnt beat this game back when i was in 8th grade, (1998) i got into it again about 3 years ago, and finally beat it, no sweat. I started it up on a ROM Last night, and had it beat by morning :). BEST game boy game ever made.

[@Mysticsloth]

I loved that boss music.... Is there a remix of this somewhere, with real instruments or so? ^^ I could imagine something with violins... and from min 3, with piano ^^

[@Flashlight237]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKG6hKqEpt2JaKc

[@requiemlarp]

Holy hell. This battle music is awesome. :)

[@Aldiggy2000]

3:00 shit gets serious!

[@nate3866]

I remember forming a master plan to steal my 18 year old cousins gameboy slim and this game when I was 10, I succeeded. I was a little bastard, a good kid otherwise, but If I wanted something I did what I needed to do till i got it. I played the whole game in the dark at night when everyone was asleep using an LED light from a pikachu figurine I had so no one would know i had a gameboy (my family was poor, its no excuse but i make none anyway, fuck you if you want to hate) that required 2 AAA batteries and lasted 6 hours each duo, including the gameboy slim which required 2 AAA batteries lasting 6 hours also, the perfect storm, and it was a mystery to all why I spent my pocket money on batteries. I remember getting to this final boss, and failing for months at the final form, until one day I finally beat it with the same shit levels, only that particular time using a plan I'd skipped doing homework the night before so i could put it together. One of the greatest days of my life. I never felt more intelligent.

[@mali5143]

Nate K Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, I'm sure he's way over it anyway :]

[@Artificialraven]

I think it was some sort of planetary protection system that went haywire. Correct me if I'm wrong though it's been almost 2 years since I played it last.

[@bluepikmin6363]

I remember playing my dad's file of this game a long time ago. It looked a bit different, but the boss was the same. I accidentally deleted that file. I've been looking for this for a while.

[@elixd.x.l3342]

What Did your Dad When You Deleted His File?

[@bluepikmin6363]

@@elixd.x.l3342 he did nothing, as the file was really old and he doesn't play it anymore.

[@elixd.x.l3342]

Oh well

[@bluestrife28]

I had this on the old first gen gameboy. Like any saga game it was frustrating and I was the 11 year old shaking his gameboy in rage at those boss battles . I must've fought Odin 10 times . But finally beating Arsenal to that dope song was so worth the 850 million hours of gameplay and grinding .

[@des7911]

The music was always so intense to me lol

[@chyschia]

Really love the final boss music...

[@ysage]

I always had a 2 Human, 2 Mutant party... I was huge into grinding even when I was a child... God I miss this game... I still have it but it's at my parents house.

[@dataridden]

I started playing this game about 2 years ago, and the second I got into a battle, I was reminded of FF: Mystic Quest and Pokemon in one game...

[@xenoexistence]

I remember having the most awesome remix of the final battle (last song that plays), and now I can't find it anywhere. I can't wait for the remake on DS.

[@JRFxtreme]

Nice! ;) Back when I used to play this, I had one of those giant original white with greenish screen gameboys. Then later I traded FF2 temporarily for my friend's FF3 and I never got it back. But now I have a DS and flashcard so I just play FF2 & FF3 on the DS! :D

[@Artificialraven]

Best of luck to ya.

[@PHAEDRIDER]

i remember this game very well

[@nobgs4505]

I love how this doesn't use any like special animations to convey a phase shift. You just hear the different music and KNOW the next phase has begun. Starting with the normal boss theme where you have to keep the cannons offline otherwise you're being hit with 4 attacks per turn, then going into the normal enemy battle theme as the boss only uses the one attack that while strong, is only single target. Then the final boss theme kicks in as that same attack now hits your ENTIRE PARTY and you realize you gotta kill this thing now before it causes a party wipe.

[@Notymenow]

Sehr gut!

[@RaceBandit]

I'll SO want to pick up a copy.

[@idiosyncrazy1980]

@requiemlarp The best musics I know on Game Boy are those from Gargoyle's Quest - they are gorgeous, I would love to hear them re-orchestrated.

[@travischevalier9236]

Here for the 8 bit music good song }\M/ sweet sweep2:35

[@Akuajin]

What no Seven Sword!? ;) Don’t blame ya farming that damn thing takes a very long time!

[@Dislycan]

Man, I grew up on this game. The final boss is easy if you have the right equipment. I usually placed Laser guns on every character.

[@Artificialraven]

Ok I'll go with that. That sounds about right.

[@JRFxtreme]

You mean where you save on a certain tile and then power off and back on again for an enemy encounter that gives you +stats/hp?

[@Sephiko]

Thanks. I had FF Adventure and FFL3 before too, and those were much easier for me back then. I sold them to a friend long ago. Heh, I used to think FFA was the first in the series, so I missed out on the real FFL1.

[@Neo1715]

@Buggaton there were several parts of this game that really really tough enemies attack you every 2-3 steps, so what you did was save every couple steps and when you got attacked, turn it off and back on then walk 2 more steps etc.. made it so much easier

[@Artificialraven]

Correct. Just like how Final Fantasy Adventure is originally part of the Mana series. You've seen the GT retrospective too huh?

[@elgillau]

The music rocks in this game ^_^

[@Artificialraven]

Yeah I have the video for that too. I had almost as hard as a time fighting Xagor as I did Arsenal.

[@Ryan91487]

No, I read a wikipedia article on Kawazu.

[@Artificialraven]

haha Yeah I know there's waaay more difficult character combinations you can use. That's why I like these games, you can decide the difficulty based on what kind of character builds you want. I still have the original cartridges for these but I don't have a gameboy to play them on anymore. Thats where emulators come in handy I guess. Weird thing was I got all 3 from the same garage sale for $1 each.

[@Ryan91487]

BTW this is not Final Fantasy, it is SaGa, they just used Final Fantasy just to increase sales of it in the US. Akitoshi Kawazu: An Executive Producer of Square Enix and the the head of Square Enix's Production Team 2, is the one who created the whole SaGa Series. He also designed FF2 (NES) so that's why the same level up system from that game is in this series.

[@rej72380]

AR, might I suggest spamming the Flare spell on Arsenal on the next playthrough?

[@jamescook16]

Such a good game wish I would of beat it

[@LordKoKuyou]

i beat this game 2 times from the start and i can say this game is really really good. also, the arsenal battle was really fun because it's not a easy battle.

[@Artificialraven]

Right, it's actually part of the SaGa game series. It was given a Final Fantasy name at the time in order to sell more copies in North America since FF1 for the NES was s smash hit.

[@shenmuemasta]

Man I had trouble with that one, mainly because I had 2 humans and 2 robots, no good healers and had to level the mana of one of my humans until I barely beat him.

[@tokinace]

Seven sword. Although it may be a bitch to get, when you do get it you are damn near invincible.

[@Okinawanprince]

From those darn Haniwa.

[@dominickk5293]

I see you got that 2nd Gungnir from Odin.

[@dragames]

anyone know the names of these songs? I wanna see if there's a remixed version of the one that starts at 3:00

[@XcZeus3469]

The one that is of the first stage in the arsenal battle is called "Dreadful Fight" the standard boss track, the 3:00 one is "Save the World". The DS remake of this game had remastered tracks for both songs, and they are excellent

[@Alexei18XC]

Really, I remember playing this when I was younger and beating it in one day...needless to say I didn't do anything else that day lol but I think there are a lot of people who run after many of the battles so there characters never get any better.

[@UmbreonMessiah]

If that party sucks, my party must be regoddamnawful.

[@Buggaton]

@Vidman313 What saving mechanic? o.O

[@mightyminotaur2431]

Dang, I wish there was a good remix of that song "Struggle to the Death"...

[@yfranse4881]

There is but the guy who uploaded it got his channel deleted

[@Sephiko]

My party's much worse, I have 2 robots dealing damage with a Gungnir and the other with missiles. I have one mutant that's useless, and the other heals the party. I can last about 3 turns after the part where it bring out the smasher, but I always lose. I'm using the save file I had from over ten years ago, and I'm gonna keep trying till I win.

[@JRFxtreme]

Oh shit! Breaking out the Glass in the first round huh? ;) Bad move with the hyper though, doesn't affect bosses.

[@TheFF7Encyclopedia]

where did u get odins weapon from.

[@JoeFpoc]

made it look easy, i used to play this game all the dang time when i was younger and couldnt never beat this bastard.

[@tokinace]

The Arsenal is the planets "security system" and after Apollo attempts to assemble the 77 pieces of MAGI, to become a god, something seems to be missing. What Apollo, and everyone else for that matter, (with the exception of the Guardians) didn't know, is there was another piece of MAGI, hidden deep within the Final Dungeon. After you retrieve the final MAGI,you defeat Apollo, and piece all MAGI together to form the goddess Isis. But the plant begins to tremble violently, malfunctioning Arsenal.

[@methodcobra]

to beat this arsenal i use a monster who got a absorb attack lol ( in my party i have 2 robot and 2 monster) ( if u wish to finish the game quickly it the best way) but if ur patient and want to trained ur squad like the choice of AR anyway i was happy too to beat him for the 1st time

[@BigDrewski1000]

Using the 7 Sword is the best way to own this boss. They drop occasionally from an enemy (forget its name) that looks like the love child of a ghost and cactus. Lol. Anyhow, it's a rare as heck drop, but it's powerful as all hell in the fact that it can hit up to 7 times (hence the name) and each hit is at the very least ad powerful as Excalibur. I took a long time to get 4 of them and when I took on Arsenal I literally went thru the 1st & 2nd stages in 1 round each. The last stage was 3 rounds if I'm remembering correctly only because I concentrated on having 2 of my party (mutants btw) focus on healing. Takes work to get the 7 sword, but man, so worth it.

[@BigDrewski1000]

Haniwa is the mob that drops the 7 sword. Careful tho as fighting it is as tough as fighting a boss.

[@dominickk5293]

7 sword is a near impossible drop to get from that Muppet looking Haniwa thing.

[@BigDrewski1000]

@@dominickk5293 Yep. Also doesn't help that it's a rare encounter as well.

[@jamiewarriorwarlordmccallu5712]

awesome gameboy game i bought this at a boot sale a few weeks ago lose cart for 50p what a steal eh. well i saw pitfall gameboy advance boxed and what was inside this. on the plus side i got this and a box of pitfall so if i find pitfall loose cart just put that in there. anyway. the gameplay addictive, the graphics awesome, the music good. the sound great. would i recommend this in anybody's gameboy collection yes. if you find it cheap like i did buy it if not emulate it. cause this game can be expensive. and it is 94 per cent on the gameboy rare rating. overall i give this 10 out of 10.

[@dylanellis4320]

Oh wow man I got this for ten bucks and I only got it because the owner recommended it to me because he knows I like Golden Sun Dark Dawn and Pokémon and Tales of Symphonia thank god he did because this is my favorite game! Right on! XD I laughed so hard when I beat my first wild monsters and they said that :)

[@jamiewarriorwarlordmccallu5712]

Dylan Ellis ha ha i know right such a good game to own, and it is valuable.

[@dylanellis4320]

Jamie Warrior Warlord McCallum beck ya I had no idea it was rare haha good thing I got it then haha I can't wait to beat it soon it's so amazing!

[@jamiewarriorwarlordmccallu5712]

Dylan Ellis thanks mate, and yes e bay gave me a intreresting guide on how rare it is, with gameboy stuff

[@ManateeExpress]

A gun named PSI and a swirly background! hmm this reminds me of something but I cannot put my finger on it! :D

[@garland81]

This bastard used to stress out my childhood

[@Aldiggy2000]

Isis is overpowered! she soloed the other one haha

[@ICountFrom0]

aegis to block all damage, and counter to counter the attack. Flare to power through the first part.

[@crazyjames1233]

man i remember getting to the final boss felt harder than fighting him because you could never run from any of the monsters on the way there and had to waste weapons to fight them

[@110380michael]

I was so depresseed as a kid.... I never beat arsenal. I spent a year on arsenal along as an 8 year old. It had a ggood story. I kinda miss it now.

[@zadomoon]

best ff part ever..

[@gamefreak4789]

i tried the trashcan glitch on my last file but it messed up my game by screwing up my magi count so i had to do it over again.

[@Normal1S]

This game was incredibly hard. I still can't believe I completed it myself, so you're not the only one amazed. . .

[@Artificialraven]

Right it's not even supposed to be a Final Fantasy game. Its part of the SaGa series but back in the day, the Final Fantasy name was put on it to help game sales.

[@TheMrSzony]

What is this music at the beginning?

[@kyleh1127]

Daniel Debert i think its called boiling blood. There used to be an input code on the title screen where you could access all the game soundtracks and sound fx. Me and my friends used to jam out to that and the final music 'save the world' when we were like 10 years old

[@Buggaton]

@Neo1715 oh. I never did that :O I never ran from a fight and therefore ended up with 99 str, agi and mag on each person that needed each stat and 99def on everyone.

[@Buggaton]

@Aldiggy2000 She is a deity...

[@NeoEveryhobby]

how many HP does arsenal have? around 11000 right?

[@Sephiko]

Yeah FFA was a Mana game, and the FFL's were SaGa games. It's cool that FFL2's getting a DS remake.

[@UmbreonMessiah]

INDEED THEY ARE.

[@gwmerryweather]

When i played this the only thing i did was take a robot with me and pimp him up until he was invincible. He was always the only character left alive in every battle.

[@ryant67]

Oddly enough, I had more trouble beating Magnate than I did Arsenal. Odin was a bit of a toughie too. Trial and error to the max.

[@MAZZ0Murder]

Xcalibur...almost had the whole name by that time...I got the roms of the FFL series, but I've only done the opening...I've gotten a lot further in FFA LOL 4 of your ppl beat up one of them and Bob single handedly destroys the others :P

[@gamefreak4789]

Does anyone know an easy way to level up in this game it's hard (btw my team is 2 humans and 2 mutants)

[@PekoponTAS]

Gah! This brings back so many bad memories. I hated this game so much, but I somehow finished it. This was the game that fueled my hatred for the 3 Final Boss thing. Can't there just be ONE end boss?!

[@SnailMaster]

3:00. Now it gets serious.

[@Artificialraven]

she's a goddess. She can do what she wants :P

[@acvfsd]

im getting the first final fantasy

[@dissected1]

Ashura :)

[@happsider]

This boss is SO HARD. Augh every time I fight him he always kills me in the third phase. I guess I'll have to grind

[@Artificialraven]

AH. Well if you have some free time you should go to gametrailers and check out the 13 part Final Fantasy Retrospective they have there. Most of the Wikipedia entries are based on the information in those retrospectives.

[@Neo1715]

@MrJyonouchi heh, 5 month necro here, but whatever.. I actually cheated a bit on that part, I would save every 2 steps, and when I got a battle, switch it off and on, very effective =p also, LOVED this game, had the same kind of replayability that the old pokemon games had, must have gone through red and silver at least 5 times each

[@scarycatsscaringcats]

beaten the game for 4 days... i miss my gb days...

[@dannynip]

Visual Boy Advance runs on Mac.

[@godgouki]

When the music changes for a 2nd time, you know it's time to get serious. Phase 3 Arsenal was broken. Even at max 999 health, you could still be 2 shot.

[@marvelinosaktihatmahutama2765]

2018

[@PaperIsland]

Never could get past Venus with 4 monsters... someday I'll try again. As long as Odin keeps on giving me chances...

[@huskeywoofwoof]

you should have used laser (the gun one) for some of your guys...does about 350 damage each time

[@KurtG85]

I have beaten FFL 1 like 40 times with all kinds of different combos and 2 humans and 2 mutants was always the easiest combo to beat the game with. I beat FFL2 using this combo as well. Never could find 3 even though I went to Toys R' Us looking for it like every other weekend when I was growing up. It was always sold out.

[@Dekomata]

after playing through the remake, the final boss is in the original seems easier to beat compared to how it is in the remake (least to me).

[@Aldiggy2000]

LAWL Isis.. OP, she solo'ed it !

[@MOUPIMOUPI]

Looks like Earthbound