And we've already had it spoiled that Palom and Porom show up in the sequel, so Tellah is the only sacrifice not confirmed to be a fakeout.
This is just me, but I tend to give them to the one with the lower HP (Rydia?). Cecil has the Cover mechanic, yeah, and I get your logic. But I feel it won't do much against magic and party wide attacks.
Yeah. Summons which each game have progressively become more and more tied to lore and plot, that a main FF that wouldn't extensively deal with them would just feel... wrong.
With the exception of XIII, where they've got a plot explanation, but it's basically more a justification than anything related to the overall flow of story, and XII, where they only have more relevance than that if you've played Tactics and do a lot of reading between the lines.
According to the wiki it's only a mana heal in the DS version. In the other versions it only does health, including original and pixel remaster.
If the genesis of their name did not involve "take the name of the cigarette company, then take out the first r so their name contains the latin word for bad and is legally distinct from a trademark", I'll eat my hat.
Strangeness emphasized by how a major component of my victorious run involved casting Shiva at Asura.
Tellah did.
FUCK YOU, EARTH! IF YOU'RE DUMB ENOUGH TO COME LOOKING FOR A NEW SUMMON THIS WEEKEND, YOU'RE A DUMB ENOUGH SHMUTZ TO COME TO BIG SYLPH UNDERWORLD'S SUMMONS! BAD BREATH, SUMMONS WITH RANDOM MOVESETS, TOAD WITCHES! IF YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO FIND A BARGAIN AT BIG SYLPH UNDERWORLD'S, YOU CAN KISS MY ASS! IT'S OUR BELIEF THAT YOU'RE SUCH A STUPID MOTHERFUCKER THAT YOU'LL FALL FOR THIS BULLSHIT, GUARANTEED! IF YOU FIND A HEROIC SACRIFICE YOU CAN SHOVE IT UP YOUR UGLY ASS! YOU HEARD US RIGHT, SHOVE IT UP YOUR UGLY ASS! BRING YOUR DRAGOON, BRING YOUR NINJA, BRING YOUR WHITE MAGE, WE'LL FUCK HER! THAT'S RIGHT! WE'LL FUCK YOUR WHITE MAGE! BECAUSE AT BIG SYLPH UNDERWORLD'S, YOU'RE FUCKED SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY! TAKE A HIKE TO BIG SYLPH UNDERWORLD'S! HOME OF CHALLENGE PISSING, THAT'S RIGHT, CHALLENGE PISSING. HOW DOES IT WORK? IF YOU CAN PISS 6 FEET IN THE AIR STRAIGHT UP AND NOT GET WET, YOU GET TO FIGHT THE KING OF SUMMONS. DON'T WAIT, DON'T DELAY, DON'T FUCK WITH US OR WE'LL BURN YOUR LEGS OFF! ONLY AT BIG SYLPH UNDERWORLD'S, THE ONLY SIDEQUEST DEALER THAT TELLS YOU TO FUCK OFF. HURRY UP, ASSHOLE! THIS EVENT ENDS THE MINUTE STEP INSIDE THIS CAVE AND YOU BETTER HAVE ENOUGH POTIONS AND ETHERS OR YOU'RE A DEAD MOTHERFUCKER. GO TO HELL. BIG SYLPH UNDERWORLD'S SUMMONS, THE EARTH'S FILTHIEST AND EXCLUSIVE HOME OF THE MEANEST SONS OF BITCHES IN THE UNDERWORLD, GUARANTEED!Despite looking like a simple palette swap of the Cave of Summons (with toxic puddles instead of lava), the Sylph Cave is much harder, for one simple reason - it might as well have been called the Cave of Status Effects. Here's a typical Sylph Cave encounter:
The Bog Witch always comes with a pack of Tiny Toads ( either three or six), and her main command is "Ribbit," which causes all her frogs to immediately respond by casting Toad on a random party member. You can try to kill all the toads before she can command them, or you can try to kill the witch before she can get out more than one Ribbit, but either way at least one Toad spell is probably getting through, and in the worst case scenario you might have most of the party toadified and taking maximized damage before you can do anything about the situation.
She is, by comparison, a gentle soul. Much worse are these:
Malboros are back with their trademark Bad Breath, inflicting a random assortment of status effects like Pig, Toad, Blind, Confused, Sleep, and Mini, all at once. It's common for a Malboro pack to open by incapacitating two party members with stacked status effects, and then you have to choose between trying to kill the Malboros with your remaining party members before they can use more Bad Breaths or trying to cure the status effects to get your group back to full effectiveness, and there's no good choice. They're always a painful fight. They also come in mixed parties with other monsters such as Soul-type monsters that I assume still absorb magic and inflict status effects. Typical victory in Sylph Cave:
⅗ of the group are toads, ⅖ are Blind, and 1 of them is silenced. This is just your average encounter down there. It's hell.
Oh. Oh no. You never had that moment of 'there has to still be a way to run from fights, I'm googling this shit' like I did. Nor talked to the NPC in the Baron basement that tells you. Yeah for some reason they decided that having a Flee command on the second command panel was too Normal, so now it's bound to holding down the left and right bumpers simultaneously (dunno what it is on keyboard) until your party gets away.
NO ONE'S EVER REALLY GONEWait.
Wait a second.
Pan left.
Zoom in.
Enhance.
WHAT-
I'M SORRY???
DOES ANYONE EVER ACTUALLY DIE IN THIS GODDAMNED GAME
Heck, who needs to only do that when fighting enemies? I'd totally be the kind of person who drops names if the name I was dropping was 'Skullfucker the Worldsmasher'.
Well, things were going weird because of the elemental crystals getting messed with, so maybe it does.
Stating that is a spoiler at this point
