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[–] heavy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Someone remind me, wasn't the final boss of FF9 like the concept of hate or something?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I thought it was death, but then I remembered there was a boss after death

That was a good game, but it was weird

[–] assassassin@fedinsfw.app 3 points 12 hours ago

The older I get the more I want to beat the shit out of god, thank you japanese developers

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 points 15 hours ago

Moon Channel did a pretty great documentary on this:

Why Do You Always Kill Gods in JRPGs?

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

sad that there isn't a Nietzsche jrpg where he kills god.

we get to include contemporaries in the party like wagner, or Freud.

Soundtrack is all wagner nightcore remixes

I need that game

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Have you played Charles Barkley's Shut Up And Jam Gaiden?

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

can't,

Skill issue 😔

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 18 hours ago

Or maybe soundtrack by the Marc Ribot album Yo! I Killed Your God?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

Man, I'll never forget Final Fantasy Legend 3 for the GB. I wasn't super familiar with RPGs yet. You spend the whole game flying through time in a magic stealth bomber, fighting monsters flowing out from a giant pot in the sky flooding the world and releasing monsters.

You finally get enough upgrades and equipment for your jet to travel to the flooded future you were sent to the past from as babies, and get the final upgrades. You're traveling to the farthest past you can, flying directly into the evil pot in the sky, and stopping things at the source before any of this can happen. Bootstrap paradox? No. We're stopping this.

God is there. Begging you to kill them as they are losing the fight to hold back the evil that they have now absorbed to make it an easy target. So the final boss fight starts super somber as your team just fucking pummel the hell out of God while your jet does fucking bombing runs, lays down laser cover fire, etc. God doesn't strike back, just occasionally spurring you on. Sad music.

Then God falls. But not fast enough. A Lovecraftian nightmare bursts out as the true final boss. The real boss battle begins, music switches to what you'd expect. While you still have backup from your time traveling stealth bomber.

It's fucking wild, and a great game. It's actually the third game in the SaGa series, but they wanted to leverage the Final Fantasy brand recognition in the US.

Got a Japan-only remake on the DS that has a (technically incomplete, just missing some automatically triggered cutscene special move names) fan translation.

Again, I must emphasize: Time traveling stealth bomber, that eventually provides air support in battles.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

I think Final Fantasy 3 on the NES (not the SNES one now better-known as FF6) had airship support during battles, too!

I don't think the ship could time-travel though.

[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 3 points 12 hours ago

Time travel? Stealth bombers? Killing god? How come I never heard about this one?

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

You described that beautiful scene but I know I'm gonna laugh when I check it out and discover that it looks as good as the back of Charmeleon did in Pokemon red/blue.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Loved that crossover, and how it was on both shows from different points of view.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Baal probably works as well.