Final Fantasy IX - Black Waltz #3 (Boss)

Yes, that's right, I'm doing some FFIX. I have most of the other older FFs uploaded in some way, but I skipped this FF. (The only clip of this game I had up until this point was in my Omnislash Vs Lion Heart Vs Grand Lethal Vs Blitz Ace video)

I chose to do this game next because I feel like it's one of the more underrated FF games. It's a very fun and solid game to play IMO, and the game has a bunch of awesome boss fights and cut scenes (and FMVs). I WON'T be uploading every single boss. This boss is not the games first boss, it's about the 4th-5th. It's the first really epic fight in the game, so I figured it's perfect to start with this. I'll be uploading only what I feel like are the epic and badass parts of the game.

For you Brawl fanatics that are missing tourney videos, relax, more to come very soon, I'm not uploading all my FFIX in one shot like I did SSE Mode. Anyway...onto the video.

Plot

These sections will be a small summary of the current plot of the game, since I'm skipping a lot, it would be confusing to have no clue what's going on in some of the fights.

The game started out with Zidane, the main character, part of a group of thieves to kidnap Princess Garnet. Their motives were unknown at this point, and to Zidane's surprise, she willingly wanted to escape the castle. Steiner is her apparently personal bodyguard for the most part, so he pursued Zidane, and is now stuck with them. Garnet wanted to blend in with normal people, so she "changed" her name to Dagger....Yea, weird. I'll refer to her as Dagger now.

The queen, who wants Dagger back, had Zorn and Thorn send out these Black Waltz enemies to retrieve her alive. There were two before this one. The first one Zidane was forced to fight solo (one of the harder fights in the game) and the second one is almost exactly like this, except not as epic. As for why Vivi is so emotional about the other Black Mages dying, he was the only Black Mage he knew of until they saw these lifeless Black Mages. That's about it for a plot summary.

Strategy

This guy works about the same as the other two. Just spams spell attacks on you. He has basic magic and Thundara. It's not a huge threat, but don't let your HP fall too low. Regular Potions are all you have to heal at this point in the game. Thundara may target one or all members.

I'm not sure what it means when he floats in the air, but it seems to heavily reduce your accuracy on him. For offense, just have Vivi spam spells. He starts off in Trance in this game. If you've played FFVII and FFVIII, this is similar to Limit Breaks. Battle system wise, when your bar under your time bar is filled, you auto go into Trance, where some commands may be replaced by more powerful ones, or stat changes may happen, such as higher strength. In this case, the game explains that Trance can be invoked with emotion, which is why Vivi goes into Trance. Vivi gets the double cast ability. Use that to make quick work of this boss. Just have Zidane and Steiner spam attacks and backup heal.

One last bit of advice. Zidane has a Steal ability. Bosses tend to have amazing items to steal for those points in the game where you can steal them. I strongly suggest stealing everything bosses have as often as you can. Most bosses will have 3 items, though some have from 1-4. It's annoying as hell to do this though, so what I do with these fights is I play through it and steal all the items, then save. Then I go back to the previous save and record a display fight. This is so that you're not stuck watching me attempt to steal all the items a boss has. Equip the Bandit ability when you get to learn it to make stealing MUCH less painful.

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