7 Boss Fights You Could Accidentally Make Even Harder

[@tommyfraz.]

Honorable mention to boss fights with party members you ignored for most of the game 😂

[@XxXAlexAutopsyXxX]

FFX Khimari for sure

[@johnvendettiri]

THIS!!! hahaa

[@KaminoNeko]

The most memorable 'make this harder through stupidity' moment for me is the first time I played the original game. I didn't realize you could visit Bahamut and have your classes upgraded, so I did the final dungeon with a fighter, thief, black mage, and white mage. I did eventually take down Garland, but there was a lot more 'fail, grind, retry' than there should have been.

[@dungeonscrew491]

My favorite example of this is definitely Ozma in FFIX. Equipping things that made you resistant to certain damage types would make him not use moves that use those damage types...meaning if you decided to become resistant to his main damage types, he'd start using doomsday frequently, which even at level 99, has a chance to automatically kill anyone

[@DMaster8686]

Also unless you do the sidequest you basically can't even touch it

[@badassoverlordzetta]

You can go immune to doomsday with dark absorb. The danger is that ozma stops using doomsday and spams Meteor instead lol. Similarly, leaving one character vulnerable to Lvl 5 Death and one character vulnerable to lvl 4 Holy significantly weakens the boss.

[@felipebisi4145]

Same can be done with Zodiark on ffxii

[@callmeshaggy5166]

Ozma's gimmick is that it reads your party, and also uses 1 of any of its I think 8 moves at any time.

[@Veladus]

I hate Ozma so much. He's pure RNG. You can go in with the perfect setup and strategy, and if the RNG decides he's going to school you with his most powerful attacks, YOU. ARE. FUCKED. You can go in totally winging it with a party that shouldn't be able to lace his boots, and if the RNG decides he's going to suck then you're going to own him. He's the only superboss in the franchise like this.

[@SchlossRitter]

Zodiark from XII came to mind on reading this video title. If you equip everyone with Dark absorbing equipment then it spams Darkja. The damage is of course absorbed, but the attack has a secondary effect of highly accurate instant death. Also, like many bosses, Zodiark begins battle with some buffs, but there's a trigger in its combat script triggered by using Dispel. Late in the fight besides when it always uses Paling to become immune to physical damage for some time, which has a very short window when it expires before it's activated again, if you've used Dispel then it also uses Magick Barrier to also become immune to magic.

[@ademasdanjuro]

Holy!, that explains why I never beat him when I was a kid, then when I was a teen, I did all of those things, so that’s why he oneshooted my party… interesting

[@dirrdevil]

Yeah, Zodiark is made much easier by just blitzing him. Shell, Bubble, Haste, and Berserk with a few Holy Weapons. Its HP is nothing.

[@rustycalloway1814]

My favorite example of accidentally making boss fights harder is from FFX. If you leveled up Kimari before his solo fight against the other two Rhonso they leveled with him. Honestly, I maxed him completely out along with the rest of the characters and that one fight took almost 4 hours to complete.

[@Mavuika_Gyaru]

Exactly why I only level up Kimari for steal then I never touch him 😅

[@dirrdevil]

Never had that issue myself. Most people complain about neglecting Kimahri and the fight being hard for that reason. I usually make my Kimahri a general grabbag, get Steal and Use, pick up some other abilities on the way to Auron's Sphere Grid, Lancet every Fiend I encounter first. But then again, Seymour Flux at Gagazet was always easy for me too. People struggle with this, but when I get to the Calm Lands, this is where I really start the post-game grind and tasks to make the party tough.

[@rustycalloway1814]

@dirrdevil it wasn't necessarily a hard fight it took forever due to them each having more hp than most of the creatures of the monster maker (can't remember it's official name right now)

[@ThundagaT2]

Surprised you didnt mention the mechanic in Ultimecia's fight where your characters get absorbed into time if you dont revive them fast enough. Do this enough times and you can be left with two or just one character left. On top of the fact that if you take too long in the phases after the first, she starts blowing away your magic stocks, if she happens to pick a spell that was critical to your build such as HP, Attack, or Spirit, then you may end up being screwed

[@SomewhatSlightlyBored]

the first time i fought her i was down to just squall in a never ending loop of attack and recover each turn, this lasted nearly an hour after she drew the ultima magic i had junctioned to my strength. eventually i just got bored and decided to chance a limit break over a recover and it beat her.

[@mesothelimoa341]

​@SomewhatSlightlyBored I was left with Rinoa on critical health so I kept spamming limit break, fortunately she kept using the one that made her invincible followed by her more damaging ones and refreshed he invincibility whenever it wore off. It was a long and tedious process but I got there in the end.

[@karasutsuki1733]

I was hoping the Desert Palace in FF9 was gonna get mentioned, the mechanic with the boss getting weaker the more items u find was awesome, but if u happen to not find a lot of them, the boss isnt weakened much

[@noyoucantnoicantnowecantsostop]

Idk if it counts, but in FFIV (3D remake, PC version at least) there's a certain element that heals Scarmiglione and i HAD NOT noticed it and was starting to get suspicious that this fight took longer even for it to be low-level mages-friendly. The damage & heal text color in this game is hella dangerously similar with dark red-brown & dark green, I'm glad that in any other version or continuation it's fixed.

[@DavidRYates-tk2tq]

Bizarro Sephiroth also has hidden mechanics which have something to do with amount of turns Jenova takes during her final fight which make the fight harder by making you use multiple parties instead of just one.

[@matthewlandoll7812]

I recently did a job challenge run of FF7 where I restricted each character to only certain materia and equipment relating to a particular job. I fought Sephiroth at L99, and to my surprise, I actually lost because he was hitting like a truck and I was barely damaging him. I had to go back in and actually strategize what to do with my party in order to win. It was rather fun.

[@steveoconnivo9666]

I kind of always play ff7 with role restrictions 😅 I've always leaned wayyyy more into roleplay than min/maxing so I don't usually end up with the strongest versions of characters. But I don't mind lololol

[@masteroflight7296]

in lightning returns on Day 7 or later the Noel boss can also be made stronger and turn into Noel Kreiss + the final boss Bhunivelze can be Bhunivelze+ but only in new game +

[@kerjectroter3761]

All 7 of the bosses listed on this video, I made the boss battle not by accident but on purpose. I really like a good challenge for theses games to be a more enjoyable and memorable experience. I still remember fighting the Omega weapon in FF8, I accidentally made it easier by using Selfie the end. I was lucky, that time that was in 2013.

[@juancarloang]

My personal entry to this list would be the Riovanes Castle rooftop fight in FF Tactics. Depending on the jobs or characters you have available, the character you're supposed to protect may go charging towards the enemies, who just happen to have touch-of-death attacks. You can get a game over screen without even getting a turn.

[@matthewlandoll7812]

I hate when that happens. But if you place the same units in different spots when preparing for battle, it affects the AI and what choices it makes. Did the battle with the same team in a different formation, had Rafa get killed before I took a turn the first try, then they left her alone the second try.

[@DolFunDolhpinVtuber]

1st thing I thought of was that Mirror or whatever is was in IX. It gets stronger and has resistance to things if you wear specific gear that gets picked up in the castle. I think another thing was that the weakest weapons are actually the strongest in that place.

[@scitizenkane1]

Yeah Ipsen's Castle on the Forgotten Continent.

[@BiggusNickus]

If you don't deactivate the bloodstones the boss would indeed get all kinds of power-ups.

[@Hushoo]

FF8 also has an arguably harder fight if you're going through the game casually for the first time and ignorant of the level scaling mechanics. By not reading a certain "Timber Maniacs" in Shumi Village, a dream sequence fight against a Ruby Dragon in disk 3 becomes much harder as it allows the monster to use its "Breath" attack. The thing is programmed to only use this attack at higher levels and only if there are 3 active party members.

[@andrewheitz2328]

Thought for sure yunalesca would make the list, if you thought it was a goof idea to clense zombie off your party, but I guess that doesn't so much as make the fight more difficult, as it does end it very suddenly lol.

[@Knuckx117]

yeah, I wouldn't really call that 'making the fight more difficult', but more of a 'gotcha' moment.

[@NuevaBestia]

Damn remember when Hironobu Sakaguchi's true boss fight was doubling their initial print run of Final Fantasy I from 200,000 copies to 400,000 copies? Remember when he went as far as showing his work to other companies to convince Masafumi Miyamoto and the others in order to do extra damage? If Sakaguchi didnt win that boss fight, we might not have had any of the bosses in this video.

[@WombatMan64]

I was really expecting to see Materia Keeper (FF7) on this list. If you'd collected Vincent by this point, and didn't realise that A: his level 1 limit break, once activated, simply continues to deal massive fire damage each time his turn came around, with no way to end this without dying; and B: Fire heals Materia Keeper. Yeah. That killed me back when I first played it. Fortunately there's a save point just before the fight, so I was able to change up my party and try again; much easier without Vincent.

[@RogueSeraph]

That happened to me when I was a kid but as soon as I saw him heal Materia Keeper with his beast flare, I immediately killed him to revert him back to normal.

[@ayakotami3318]

Happened to me too. Oops. 😅

[@paulhiggins6433]

When I saw the thumbnail, Soul Cage was the first thing that popped to mind for me. I remember the first time I played FF9 and got to him. I didn't know Phoenix downs would work, and assumed he was weak against fire. Boy was in for a surprise. He wrecked me. Took me forever to figure out how to beat him the first time. But that'll always stick out in my mind as one of my favorite bosses because of how he reacted to the player's actions. And I just found out from this video that using ice on him would put the fires out. I didn't know that before! Honestly, I think that including Cloud of Darkness, Air Buster (FF7R), and something like Ozma shouldn't be considered as the player has to actively weaken them. For CoD and Ozma, weakening them are technically side quests. Skipping the tasks to weaken them is completely possible. For CoD, the four boss fights are optional though highly recommended. For Ozma, doing the friendly monster quest is potentially missable if you aren't careful. And with the FF7R Air Buster, you can literally choose to do nothing and fight it at full strength. Fighting something at it's base power instead of weakening them shouldn't be considered for the purposes of this list, but it could be a good topic for it's own video.

[@seanrhodes8817]

The thing about Final Fantasy VIII, though, is that good junctioning almost makes the level scaling obsolete. I've always found it kind of silly to say, "Final Fantasy VIII gets harder as you level because the enemies level up with you..." when your level is actually quite insignificant in the long run. Final Fantasy VIII's core engagement is the junction system, and once you learn it well, you can actually make Final Fantasy VIII among the easiest Final Fantasy gaming experiences out there. This means as you junction and level up, your enemies have to level up... to keep up with YOU, not the other way around. You're too strong, so the enemies need a boost to have a fighting chance against YOU. They may become "stronger" but rarely--VERY RARELY--are they actually becoming harder. Final Fantasy VIII is extremely straightforward in this regard. Your level matters so little in the game that each level only requires 1000 EXP to level up because there isn't much that leveling does for you in the game. They want you to junction. If you junction well to HP, Str, Def, and Spr, then Ultimecia is merely an enemy that has a lot of HP, but hardly any devastating attacks. Ultimecia gets stronger... but not really that much "harder." In fact, most players likely won't even notice a difference. This is doubled by the fact that you can far more easily manipulate your stats even at level up by equipping abilities that'll give you certain stat bonuses. I was hoping to learn of another way for Ultimecia to gain strength, but it's kind of cop out to continuously say, "the enemies leveling up with you in Final Fantasy VIII makes the game harder!" That's simply not true. What makes the game harder is failing to understand and/or make effective use of the junction system. That will trip players up far more than the enemies leveling up with them. All of this is compounded more by the fact that Final Fantasy VIII's limit break system allows access to limit breaks when HP is low, with no gauge or anything to monitor it (or just casting Aura). Once down to around 30% HP, you start getting limit breaks, and it's not hard to have someone's HP hover there. The point is that making Final Fantasy VIII takes time because it's one of the games in the series that gives you far more tools than you actually need to be nothing short of a beast to your enemies. Including the Final Boss.

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

Yeah, FF8 was the one exception to the "enemies getting harder if you're too strong" rule. Square wanted to try something different at the time honestly. It's just that a lot didn't take the time to figure stuff out.

[@vashuchiha117]

Add devour and you can max out most stats as well. Or exploiting the time you have control of Siefer to power level at Dollet to get higher level magic early game.

[@prismdrone3475]

When it comes to FF7 i didn't bothered with grinding to level 99 but i did bother into source farming and duping them for max stats.

[@AlexOvTheAbyss]

I feel like Supernova is FF7 is mostly iconic for how long it takes lol

[@theuncannyalex]

the two that spring to mind for me are Evrae and the Rhonso Twins vs. Kimhari, both from FFX. if you've not been building all of the characters then you can really easily be punished by both

[@AubreyTheKing]

It's small details like this is why I love the Final Fantasy games!!! Great video you guys!!!

[@MasterAngelification]

Definitely the tree boss from FFIX! I never realized the difficulty spike was because of the fire magic despite playing the game multiple times.😂

[@hatsunemikufanboy]

I always liked that you can kill him using life and landing any other attack

[@Godoflegos]

For me, it was made worse by the fact that I didn't fully understand how the skill system worked, and by the time I had, it was no longer possible to get equipment that taught "Scan"

[@Malacite]

Surprised Ozma wasn't included - he actually has 2 dickish things he can do. The first is if you equip a bunch of immunities to the status effects he can inflict, it will make his AI cast direct damage spells more frequently instead. The second is using Quina's Magic Hammer - while on paper it's a good idea, in practice what ends up happening is he starts stealing the party's MP to recover. One last thing I wanna add is levelling up in FF6 - grinding for XP before getting Espers (especially the later ones) can actively make the rest of the game MUCH harder as you will have missed out on significant stat increases.

[@veghesther3204]

Not really even in the PIXEL remaster I got the first espers like at lv 50 to lv 60 and still did 9999 per Ultima spell on ALL But Cyan at lv 99 so FF6 is still a joke.

[@Malacite]

@@veghesther3204 how TF did you hit 50 that early into the game? More importantly WHY ?

[@Voldrim359]

@@Malacite Grinding can do wonders

[@RockerDanM]

I ended up with the Knights for Safer Sephiroth, lit the Soul Cage on fire, and was in the high 70s when fighting Ultimecia. The only one of the fights I remember being a nailbiter was UItimecia where I was lucky enough to have Selphie get The End while she was the last remaining party member.

[@sinned6us]

Same with me when first played ff8

[@Turkeybatr]

That's actually incredible lol

[@TheBlackSeraph]

What makes FF8's levelling system more devious is that the level cap is 100, meaning that any max level character basically HAS to junction 100 Death spells to protect against Lv.5 Death (used by Omega Weapon).

[@KrowsGraveyard]

In FFII Dawn of Souls, I removed all of the spells from the powerful mage at the beginning of the game, and in the post game when he returned, I had to fight solo with him without his spells because of my decision lol.

[@Bravale]

As a kid playing FF8 back in 2002(I was 10), I noticed that enemy levels were always the average of my 3 party members. My favorite characters were Squall, Rinoa, and Irvine and they were maxed at 100 but the other 3 were level 50. Well Kid me, challenged Omega Weapon and lost numerous times and then eventually beat it with my maxed team. Later I revisited the game later in high school and it dawned on me, I beat Omega Weapon at Max! I could have used Quistis and Zell at level 50 with my 100 Squall and beat it with much ease! What the heck!?? Anyway, well personal achievement to know that 10-year old me beat Omega Weapon with maxed 100 characters.

[@Kartissa]

Omega Weapon is always level 100 in FF8 in the original PlayStation version.

[@Bravale]

@@Kartissa I never knew that trivia. Thank you, I looked it up. I am just recounting from my memory

[@iLuminarious]

Yuuuuup! I was one of those players that lvl'd all party members to 99 on ff7 and was left scratching my head on why he was still a challenge. Had no idea about the alterations until years later.

[@Khalith]

Even with her scaling, ultemicia isn’t that tough because of how broken the combat system is. Aura and the Zell combo was my go to back in the day. It didn’t matter what boss you fought.

[@fluffybacon]

The scaling was only a problem for peoplethat didn't know the game. If you didn'tknow that 95% of your strength cames from junctioning then you'd assume your character strength came from levels like all the previous games. As such you'd end up at high level but super weak and essentially just spamming your GFs for damage.

[@groudonvert7286]

I would add Bhunivelze+ to the list.

[@RPsj]

Actually almost every boss in LR has an upgraded form, except for Caius, which is so badass he does not need an upgrade 😂

[@groudonvert7286]

@@RPsj Well Bhunivelze+ is much harder than the normal form.

[@RPsj]

@@groudonvert7286 I know, I even intend to replay the game on hard mode someday just to face him, I wish every final fantasy had the means to upgrade the final bosses, it would make the experience even better

[@RoySamuelClark]

Jeez, I remember fighting the Cloud of Darkness on my DS and getting annihilated so hard that I started to call her the Cloud of Dankness from then on

[@veghesther3204]

the DS/PSP remake even the NORMAL final dungeon enemies are brutal at least in the PIXEL remaster the CoD only attacks ONCE a turn even if it still Spams Particle beam BUT on the PIXEL remaster all 6 games have Auto Saving/Quick saving which in FF3 is a blessing.

[@RoySamuelClark]

@@veghesther3204 very true! That place messes you up. I am unfamiliar with the pixel remaster, but that does sound like a godsend

[@Hero-of-Midgar]

Guard Scorpion in FF7, because of the mistranslation asking you to attack when its tail is up, missing the words DO NOT in front of attack 😂. Also Jenova Life could count, very difficult if you hadnt grinded a bit, unless you equip the Water Ring on someone which makes it essentially unfailable.

[@Eternalwarpuppy]

I wonder how many people accidentally met the conditions to remove Indalicio's limiter in Star Ocean 2. Doing so changes him from a battle that is challenging if you are around level 90 to a battle that expects you to be maxed out at level 255 to even have a chance.

[@PyrenKir]

we'll find out rather soon with the remaster now won't we?

[@tomfrost6049]

I had no idea I made every single boss battle more difficult for myself with the one exception being the Air Buster in FF7remake. I stole EVERY damn AI unit possible lmao i wanted a dumb machine and wondered why the fight was so easy.

[@samuelspencer2078]

I have played 7 many times and choose to fight Safer Sephiroth in his hardest form. My first time through I did every thing right and was disappointed when the fight seemed so easy.

[@SaveriaLP]

In ff8 the machanics of ultimecias castle should be mentioned as well. Because they could make the fights significantly harder the fewer seals have been broken and therefore more options are locked out

[@Mastabacc]

8:30 No wonder why he felt harder than I'd imagine. All my characters were max lvl, max stats all summons everything. I made sure I did everything I wanted to do before beating the game.

[@Veladus]

Sephiroth seems like list padding. I know he technically gets a boost, but if you're lvl 99, have KOTR, or Hydaelyn forbid, BOTH, you're going to go through him like a burning chainsaw through warm butter. "even harder"? He's softer than pudding.

[@MrEvilbyte]

Golem (and the Golem Twins) from Chrono Trigger definitely count. It starts off using it's physical damage moveset. Where it alternates between using an attack which halves your current HP, and an attack which will flat out one shot you. The trick is that using an elemental magic spell will change it's moveset to that element. The elemental magic movesets are WAY less dangerous. And that's without using tricks like forcing it to use elements you're protected against. Or alternating different elements to reset it's ATB bar, so it rarely even attacks.

[@codyholley]

Chrono trigger isn't ff so no it doesn't count....

[@glennbriggs6490]

"enemies lv as you do". The way to counter this was to keep your lvs low, UNTIL your GFs unlocked abilities like str bonus, mag bonus etc. Etc. This way, along with other methods as well, you could boost stats to 255 and thus not need to rely on the junction systems. Furthermore, you could erase lesser GF abilities once you'd learnt their higher tiers. This helps empower you even further, making being lv 100 a beneficial boon. One last handy tip for final fantasy 8, squall has 255% hit naturally, meaning blind status junction & hit junctions are pointless for him.

[@Kartissa]

I give Squall hit junctions for completeness, and for the few times you shift to Laguna, who doesn't have 255% hit.

[@regenbogenvoorkelly]

Ultimecia was a breeze at level 99. Even Omega was doable. The fights that i still have nightmares about regarding FFVIII battles, were the ones with the Malboro Tentacles. Of course i tried to junction all the status weaknesses, but that wasn't foolproof against a lvl 100 Malboro. it mostly came down to praying Odin would show up and straight up kill the beast, because i had about a 30% chance of winning the encounter, and i needed its items for Quistis' ultimate weapon.

[@saltyk9869]

And Doomtrain. Can't forget Doomtrain.

[@soultpp]

You know, I honestly don't remember those pesky tobacco plants as being that hard. Annoying sure, but as long as my party was immune to berserk/confusion/petrify and maybe sleep, I don't recall it as being that terrible. Besides, if all you wanted was the tentacles and you were already LV100 yourself, a single Lv Down would cut the cigarette breathed shrub down to Lv 50 and still have it dropping it's best drops. But of course all this is knowledge you may or may not have had at the time since it's kind of in retrospect, so perhaps that's why you struggled more? Or maybe I'm forgetting something about the fights after all these years. That's definitely possible with my aging brain. 😅

[@whitethunder9064]

Thank you for telling me how to beat Soulcage and what NOT to do! I'm about to start a Final Fantasy 9 run, and I don't want to accidentally make the game hard.

[@vashuchiha117]

In Resident Evil 5 Lost in nightmares, you lose all your weapons as Chris in Jill in the Spencer mansion. Just before you fight Wesker you are supposed to pick up a handgun that you can't accidentally miss. Since some games had scripting to always makes sure you have what's needed in a boss battle no matter what I thought that this might do that so me and my friend ignore picking up the handguns. On the hardest difficulty in the game where 1 hit takes you into dying mode with less than a second of a window for your partner to heal you. We spent nearly four hours fighting him as the checkpoint starts at the fight so we couldn't go back for the handguns unless we restart the whole mission, that we'd been at all night by that point just to get to the fight. We only had knives and reaction commands as a way to fight a the superhuman close combat Wesker on the hardest difficulty.

[@gqphoenixclops3056]

I firmly believe Cid from FF13 should've been insanely more difficult rather than a Status Ailment machine.

[@DOC_951]

My answer was the FF7 weapon when you try to fight it without the breathing apparatus

[@celestialstar6450]

Emerald Weapon - brutal even with the ability to breathe underwater

[@veghesther3204]

it takes 25 minutes MINIMUM to KoTR its 1 million HP so you MUST remove its timer.

[@WombatMan64]

@@veghesther3204 Mug glitch allows you to kill him pretty quick. I've seen it done but not done it myself, so can't tell you exactly how it works.

[@RinJackson]

First thing that came to my mind wasn't from a Final Fantasy game, but from Star Ocean 2

[@paulbolger6218]

FFX and Yu Yevon using your own Aeons on you? The stronger your aeons, the harder the fight!

[@Veladus]

No? It's purely a story battle. You have perm. reraise. The only possible way to lose that battle is if you get petrify, and the enemies don't do it so you'd have to do it to yourself. Braska's Final Aeon is the final boss, everything after is just an interactable cutscene.

[@Mavuika_Gyaru]

​@@Veladuseven against the aeons? I thought only against Yu Yevon you get infinite raise?

[@TheBanishedWind]

People saying examples were forgotten, this is just 7 examples, not all examples.

[@DolFunDolhpinVtuber]

Bhunivelze - Getting to the final day and doing the ultimate lair makes him uber + version.

[@walvegasgunsandoutdoors]

I can't even focus on the video with those great FF arrangements on piano

[@VinlandicSoul]

Damn I forgot about being able to buff Safer Sephiroth via Jenova; I should try that. I recently did a playthrough and I nuked him with Tifa’s limit breaks with Yuffie’s Doom of the Living to round it out

[@wanaan]

I want all of these contents with FF adjacent games included! Like Bravely, etc.

[@SteveRudzinski]

Didn't Safet Sephiroth ALSO get more HP every time you killed Bizarro Sephiroth's head? Or did I make that up?

[@ayakotami3318]

It's reduced actually by 100 HP. BUT if you defeat JENOVA Synthesis with Knights of the Round he gets an extra 80,000 HP.

[@manuelito1233]

I was young when i faced against the soul cage, i fucking got hard stuck fighhting against it that i stopped playing lmao Needless to say, i fought it another day when i was older, finally beat it and the game was great the rest of the way

[@grawlix311]

Ruby Weapon; having 3 party members

[@spydermag5644]

Soulcage… I just accidentally beat this boss without even trying. Vivi took the first hit and was almost dead. I had Dagger case Cura on him while he had reflect ring on him. Soulcage died instantly. 😂

[@FalloutJack]

Ah yeah, umm, I did set off the tree, yeah. I still won, but I really should've seen coming that I'd set fire the battleground I'm standing on, and that that would be harmful to me. Cloud of Darkness' method of defeat is, by the by, also the way things were done in Xenogears against Deus. By removing Deus' four functioning parts, you remove one of his abilities and a chunk of his HP. People still took on Deus at full strength, and probably did same the Cloud of Darkness, but I am basically saying Square sometimes reuses certain methods of play. Safer Sephiroth can be annihilated before he goes Super Nova if Cloud, Barret, and Cid unleash Level-4 Limit Breaks at least once. This was done with everybody at the max level, and the Knights of the Round bit wouldn't make any difference when you consider just how much Omnislash, Catastrophe, and Highwind hit when your characters are truly strong. FF8's entire system was a mistake. I went through that whole entire game, and I didn't like a single thing about it. It was just a bad game.

[@TheDarkFuryKnight]

Actually hoped to see that horse transformer from ff13, it felt impossible to fight against, I haven't played the game since a long while so I can't say if it was an age thing

[@Zhortac]

The boss of the Fanatics Tower in FF6 can fit here. Depending on your magic grind, he can be not to hard, or so hard you might as well bend over and die. And the only cheese strat that works is berserking him, but he also phsyicallt hits pretty hard, even if it makes the fight super easy. But imagine playing it back in the day, no real internet, so no way of really knowing

[@srhg6300]

i beat the damn thing back in the day by casting rasp over and over. my plan was that he'd have no mp left to cast ultima, but it turned out that getting him to 0 mp killed him directly.

[@Zhortac]

@@srhg6300 probably where they got the idea for the second fight with the Zombie Dragon in FF6A, where it wouldn't die until it had 0 mp

[@chaoticcrazy]

This is awesome.. the last time I played FF7 OG, I had 4 characters at lvl 99, and had Knights of the round at Max LVL, plus 2 mimic materia at max level, I didn't even realize he was harder, I just had the max level KotR used, then spammed mimic by the other 2 lol

[@ryanchurchill5081]

I had tifa be surprised and fast kotr from master summon materia then a limit break killed him.

[@fabian9072]

I would personally remove Dark Cloud and Airbuster from this list, because your actions in game don't make them harder. You can only make them easier by taking certain actions, ignoring to take those actions leaves them at their base strength and not above it.

[@TheBlackSeraph]

Although not the hardest boss fight in FF history, Final Fantasy X's Yu Yevon definitely deserves an honourable mention. In the final fight, you summon every Aeon you have in order for Yu Yevon to possess them and you then kill them to force Yu Yevon out in the open. This means that getting any of the game's optional Aeons prolongs the final battle and forces you to fight against stronger Aeons.

[@Squall0506]

Yeah but you have permanent auto life so it's not actually harder just more time consuming On a side note YuYevon is vulnerable to zombie strike so you can actually kill him in 2 moves, zombie strike then toss a phoenix down at him

[@mee07521]

I had to start FFVIII all over again because I got all my characters to LV.100 and couldn't get past Ultimicia's second stage.

[@blindaim]

I levelled my characters to max 100 in FF8 without knowing enemies scaled together. Just played normally and I don't feel any boss is very hard except Omega weapon. Just need to spam more Hero Potion and a bit of luck with Omega weapon.

[@ShenMerrick]

So THAT is why Sephiroth was so hard for me in FF7 years and years ago....I had maxed out everyone, so thus maxed out Seph himself.

[@kevinburke1325]

I never found Sephiroth to be that hard of a fight even with a maxed out team. He was pretty easy imo.

[@WombatMan64]

@@kevinburke1325 Agreed. And having used KotR on Jenova didn't make him that hard either, two KotR on him and he's still dead (only gotta deal with that wall he puts up immediately); didn't even need to have levelled KotR up, just de-barrier his wall, KotR once and then mime it; you're done, he's dead, game over.

[@veghesther3204]

NOT A FF game but if you turn OFF the final bosses limiter and you don't any Bloody armor user even in the R version of Second story the FINAL boss even at the games max lv is likely to hit the entire party for 9999 damage per hit and game over you in under 10 SECONDS on Earth/Easy mode.

[@Phatboino1]

6:33 a 900% stagger point ouch

[@georgehouliaras7239]

Speaking of bosses. Chaos! Let's mug him.

[@LordPegasusBudda]

lightning returns had a glitch when I played it that on the 2+ playthrough the final boss was hard difficulty regardless as to my settings

[@kaiharald3335]

Man, I remember my first ff13 run. Not really upgrading weapons or accessories. Made everything much more time consuming, while story was working, the content afterwards not xD

[@chriscabrera830]

In ffxiii lightning returns I’m pretty sure a few bosses get stronger the later you fight them

[@BigMujK]

There is a way to make every boss fight in ff9 harder, keep them alive till you steal the loot

[@Black217]

Just starting the video. Hoping to see the final Jenova/Sephiroth battle on here from the OG FFVII.

[@bluestrife28]

I got hit by this by my first finish of X. You can max out your aeons stats ….. and then the ending fights come at you 😱😱😱😱😱

[@JoeyCentral]

Where is Dancer of the Bornean Valley if you accidentally kill that woman at the very start of the game? Some poor soul probably suffered thinking DS3 was an unfair tough game.

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Wow this is is a very interesting list!!

[@natecunha2795]

I accidentally made the final fight with the Emperor in FFII much harder by completely forgetting to use Ultima...

[@westonmeyer3110]

Ultima sucks in FF2

[@yeahsure.6083]

With the dynamic level system, and a GameShark you might accidentally break a FF8 playthrough. I know I did....

[@FinalSeraphLeo]

*9 year old me who liked using summon* Me: "I'll summon Phoenix!" Soulcage: "The fuck you are!!!"

[@Metalhead8489]

in FF8 if you keep the magic lamp and not use it until you are high level you will face a very powerful Diablos that will kick your butt. i accidentaly did that when i first played the game as a kid because i didn't know that enemies scale with your level

[@veghesther3204]

Not really I used it at lvs over 30+ Drew Flare/Holy off of it and when BLINDED most of its physical hits will always miss and its Gravija spell can never kill you so with 1 HP left Gravija doesn't do any damage.

[@Metalhead8489]

@@veghesther3204 he had questionmarks as level and health when i scaned him, he was max level probably. He 1 hit killed me with his swipe attack, keep in mind i was a kid around 10-11 i didnt know much about the game.

[@Mcgreag]

No Emerald Weapon Aire Tam Storm from FFVII? The more Materia you had the equipped the more damage you took, with 9 or more it would insta kill all your party members.

[@luizjunior4012]

Galura - FFV Omniscient - FFV Gogo - FFV

[@doujin2610]

Surprised not to see FF7's Ancient Temple wall guardian boss in there. I had to reset my very first walk through because I managed to get to it at too low a level to possibly beat it. Made the mistake to use you the save point provided before you go into the fight: at that point, you only have access to the save point room - which is enemy-less, meaning you have no possibility to level up in order to make the boss defeatable. Nightmare.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

You can fight in the room you fought the Red Dragon, the 6 o'clock room where one of the clock hands is fixed.

[@corran1189]

I had that problem in the beginning too on my first playthrough

[@Hell_Soll]

huh how funny, since I ALWAYS went for max level when I faced Ultimecia, so I NEVER encountered her "weaker" form before, and even then she mostly was a cakewalk.

[@dragonprinceHP]

I was waiting on the Ultimecia fight mentioned as so many people I see level up in FF8 and I'm like NO you're just making it hard on yourself lol

[@recentteen14]

Final Fantasy IX, I was borrowing the game as a kid from my cousin and got to disc 3. I was skimming through parts of the story and was really excited when I got to choose my party for the next part of the game - so I chose my favorites. Garnet, Eiko, Vivi. Guess which dungeon I just brought all my magic users to? If you guessed Oeilvert, congratulations! The dungeon wasn't too bad, the boss SUCKED. Bonus points? Switching back to the other party after made me find out another issue. There's an enemy in that dungeon that swaps weaknesses between Physical and Magical - the Grimlock. Guess which idiot kid had basically ignored Quina? So yeah, I was a lot smarter when I replayed the game many years later, but that sort of stupidity that I did definitely belongs here.

[@MyPisceanNature]

I accidentally made Ultimecia harder because on my first playthrough of the game, I used GFs as my ENTIRE offense, which becomes completely useless in the final battle. I ended up having to restart the game.

[@isenokami7810]

Oh yeah, felt this burn rather recently, albeit not from a Final Fantasy game. For anyone playing Tales of Vesperia, do NOT collect all the Fell Arms! Trust me on this one.

[@Shadohime]

I'm a bit disappointed that the Soulcage was the FFIX representative in this video. The Valia Pira, the boss of the Desert Palace, would fit far better, since it has multiple things you can miss that will power it up, unless you know what you're doing.

[@veeshadow]

Most players will pick treasure chests in the area, even if you missed one or two you will never fight its strongest version unless you intentionally skip treasure chests...

[@Shadohime]

@@veeshadow It's not the treasure chests that matter, but the bloodstones. And it is very possible to miss bloodstones by accident. Each one you miss adds to Valia Pira's power. And in fact, the very first one is extremely missable, and extremely important: if you miss it, Valia Pira becomes immune to all elemental damage. Which, given that your party likely consists of mostly mages due to taking all the heavy hitters to Oeilvert, makes fighting it in that state a pain.

[@veeshadow]

@@Shadohime Most of bloodstones got ! Mark when you walk in their hallway and only idiots will ignore them when only few places pressing ! give you penalty. We are talking as if someone is playing first time so you assume you will leave Mage types right? It's hard to miss ! Mark unless you are zig zagging in the hallway and only speedrunner is doing that for style... For veteran players, you might want 2 Mages to Oeilvert since you can throw Dead Peppers for damage and the best Armors you get in the game are equippable to Mages only so Ark and random encounters only deal 50 damage to Mages which is not one hit even on level 1 party... Again, we don't assume the player know this mechanic. Soulcage in other hand only give hints about Fire penalty and it's 50-50 to blind or first time players using Fire or not...

[@Kaimine08]

I always found Ultimecia to be a really fun boss. If you got strong enough once she uses the skill that forces everyone's HP to 1 HP, boy that is where the timer start. Cloud spamming Renzokuken, Zell spamming brawls. Irvine spamming rifle shots. Rinoa going into Angel form and spamming Meteor. Just DISHING OUT the HP DAMAGE and not even trying to heal. It becomes a DPS/atb haste test. Who can win first? Your party of 1 HPers or you spamming the living crap out of 9999 damage attack limit breaks. Aboslutely love that fight.

[@BYERE]

I always used to go for Rinoa's invincibility limit break when spamming limit breaks. Nothing like staying at 1 hp while dishing out loads of damage, and the boss not being able to hurt you :P

[@Kaimine08]

Can always do Invincible moon and then go with her angel wing LB. I always avoided putting in certain limit breaks with Rinoa just so I had a better shot at getting invincible moon@@BYERE

[@ThundagaT2]

@@Kaimine08 Cant do Angel Wing after Invincible Moon. Angel Wing is considered a status effect, and invincibility causes you to be immune to everything, including Angel Wing lol, it will just miss. That might've worked in the OG PS1 version tho. But HD, it doesnt work.

[@Veladus]

Don't insult Cloud like that. Cloud only pretends to be a boring stoic jackass, he's actually a dork who says things like "mosey." Squall actually is that boring stoic jackass.

[@JustAnotherGamerUS]

was Ultimecia's english name spelt as Ultimatia in the PAL version of FFVIII?

[@huzidamasta]

Both the thumbnail AND the title are funny. Thumbnail - Literally ANY boss "could" be made harder. Title - How would they "accidentally" make a boss harder? They're programming everything 😂 unless by "you" you mean the player, in which case ANY boss "could" accidentally be harder because you didn't intelligently prepare haha.

[@huzidamasta]

So basically the answer to both the thumbnail and the title is: Any boss haha

[@djlamar2]

I once used fire magic against number 7. Made that boss hard. I thought "Okay its undead. I can use fire." Big mistake

[@nickeverything4433]

Diablo from 8 definitely belongs on the list. I've heard at lvl 99 he can't be defeated, idk if that's true though

[@BryGuyJohn]

Is that Cloud of Darkness fight technically possible? Like as a challenge boss?

[@gsquaredfam4385]

I know it aint ff, which i presume from the name is the focus of this channel, but star ocean 2, unlocking the trial dungeon then going back to the final boss.... phew.

[@arisen456]

In final fantady 4 heroes of light the gsmes harder the more you level up. The final boss is INSANE and near unbeatable at high levels.

[@TrickstarXindustries]

is it possible to have some timestamps?