OK, time to try this again. Last time, my patience wore thin after a long, long battle with Zehaal’s “Wings of Doom” form, and I ended up quitting in the middle.
This time, I’ve got a plan. Two characters will be stationed at each of the three points that Zehaal warps to. Mel and Cecille will stay towards the middle of the stage, providing healing and resurrection for whoever needs it. That way, I won’t need to run around every time he changes position. I’m hoping that this will work, because I’m not really in the mood for long, drawn-out final battles. Here’s hoping I’ll get lucky.
For the sake of keeping things interesting, I won’t describe every little thing that I do. I’ll just try and give an overview. Here goes.
When I saved, it was Mel’s turn. I begin to move everyone to their positions. All of a sudden, Zehaal uses an instant death spell. That’s odd. I’ve never seen him use that before. Anyway, Alph’s out for now. I’ll wait until Mel or Cecille’s turn, seeing how I want to conserve my items. When Mel’s turn comes around, I have her do it.
Man, Zehaal is so incredibly hammy. “MY WINGS ARE THE WINGS OF DOOOOOOMMM!” It’s pretty laughable…or it would be, if this fight wasn’t so annoying.
I’ll be honest – this strategy isn’t working out too well. I think it’d be a good idea to use up all those FP-boosting items I have lying around. This is the final battle, after all, and flash drives are probably my best bet.
He uses his third flash drive, and kills three guys. I’ll try and bring them back, but it’ll be kind of a pain. Right now, I just need to heal the ones I have left.
My guys are still dying here. Not fun. I’m still wondering why I brought in Theo and Nicolai. They’re my lowest-level characters, and they’re just not very useful right now. Zehaal has charged up his flash drive again, meaning another round of slaughter is coming up. I’d better heal.
I guess I did a good job, because only one or two characters died. Zehaal’s HP is at about 600 at the moment. He’ll probably heal, but I’m hoping he doesn’t.
Shouldn’t have said that. He heals himself to maximum HP again. I’ve noticed that he did this when there was no one nearby to attack. Maybe I could take advantage of that, assuming that I’m onto something here.
At some point, I decide to bring Nicolai back. His buffs might be helpful. On a completely off-topic note, I’m not too happy with how it says my status effects can hit, but I’ve never seen it actually work. I kind of doubt it would.
Right now, my healers are the only ones left. Better put them to work. A few turns later, I have six guys left. But then Zehaal uses his third flash drive. You know what? I’m restarting. This isn’t going anywhere. And I really wish I hadn’t battle-saved here. It would’ve been much better to do that right before I won the last fight, so that I could have changed characters if I needed to. I should’ve swapped Mavi and Leon out for Theo and Nicolai.
Second try. I try buffing a bit more this time. I also remember that Claire has lots of debuffs, which could really help me out here. A while in, I still haven’t done much damage, but I’m surviving nicely. Once I start dealing damage, it’s mostly with flash drives. I want to do damage in larger increments if possible. Alph’s third flash drive is the best I’ve found, but everyone else can usually do a little bit.
I’m actually doing a decent job right now. Almost everyone is alive, I’ve got about 200 of his HP down, and everyone’s got pretty good health. Zehaal seems to be charging for his third flash drive, though, so I’ll need to be careful.
A few turns later, he’s fully charged. I have Cecille move away, and try to heal everyone. By the time he uses it, everyone is sufficiently healed so that only three characters die. Not good, but I can still get them back easily. I’ve now got Zehaal down to about half his health. Cecille heals the remaining characters. I think the trick now will be to make him focus on attacking so that he doesn’t heal.
Annoyingly enough, Zehaal gets two turns in a row, leaving me with only Cecille and Alph. Even so, I still try to provide targets. I can’t let him heal. Over the next few turns, I’ve recovered well, having six guys on the field at the moment. Well, make that five. Vanessa just died. Then the rest of my group starts to fall apart. Mel is currently confused, but she’s slow and doesn’t have much in the way of offensive power. I go over and let Vanessa cure her.Once I get more guys out on the field, I might end up saving.
And then he heals. He’s back at like 800 HP. I can’t do this, I really can’t. Reset time. This time I’ll save partway in so that I don’t have to repeat so much.
I have to deal more damage, more quickly. But that’s really hard to do when I’m trying to keep everyone alive. This time I’ll try and not describe much until I’m a good way in. Partway in, I save. I think I’m at a point where I’m doing well. Really hoping I don’t regret this. Thankfully things go well after that. Eventually his HP is at about half. I continue to do pretty well, slowly taking away his HP.
He heals, but he’s still short about 200 HP. I think I can keep this up. Then he heals again, leaving him at full health. This is so stupid. I reset again. I really would rather not do this, but I have to. I’ve got to finish this liveblog. It wouldn’t be fair to you guys to just give you the ending video or some crap like that.
He has 788 HP at the point I sa….yeah, he just heals. That’s odd, he didn’t do that before. I reset, and he does it again. Wow, what a pain. Now I have to essentially start over, and I’m not in as good shape as I was on my last save.
I’ll be honest – I have half a mind to do the first half of the final battle over again so I can pick new characters for this. It’s something I’d rather not do, but if it comes down to it I’m willing to do that.
Fortunately, though, I’m making good progress. Until he heals. You seeing a pattern here? If only there was some way to stop him from DOING that! If he didn’t heal, I would’ve won by now. It’s ridiculous.
Four of my guys get confused, and I decide to quit for now. I’m sorry about the pointlessness of this entry, by the way. I can't really predict what'll happen.
I need different characters. Specifically, I need Leon and his ridiculously powerful attacks. I could probably use Heath and Mavi as well. I’m not willing to try everything over right now, but maybe later I’ll be up for it. For now, I’ll stop.
