FFTA2 NHGNBNANI - Final Battles: Neukhia 2/2

See the first part here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpbo9B1SUUM

Another challenge I've finished uploading.

I promised I'd explain the whole Neukhia sequence in this video, so I will.

This boss is very hard and requires good preparation. It's okay that our equipment isn't awfully good, it's proper healing that our party lacks. Something like a doublecasting Summoner would get people through this boss very easily in a normal game (though many will just spam Ultima moves for a one turn win). Here we don't really have any of that.

The wisp, the most dangerous part, will use Sanctity after being charged. It always hits and it hits everybody really hard. Penelo and Hurdy can't survive two of these without dying. You may have noticed Hurdy died in the previous video. No Phoenix Downs, no reviving spells... What do we do?

That's why Adelle's here, because of the Heritor skillset. One is especially wicked and that is Elpe. Its user (which can only be Adelle of course) sacrifices own life in order to revive and fully heal every ally. This is not possible when you've broken a law. This means that we absolutely have to do our best not to violate the law here. The restriction is that we can't use reaction abilities, so we unequip all of ours.

The privilege I chose is Move Up +2. Absolutely essential in the most important part when you have to chase that annoying wisp while it stings everybody really badly.

It's no rocket science that Penelo should cast Reraise on Adelle before the latter gets to use Elpe (to keep the party, mainly its fragile members, alive). Hurdy is flexible and is mostly here for Smile.

You may notice I don't move a lot. This is to get my next turn in as soon as possible. The bosses never move, or does wisp's changing location count as moving? I don't think it does. Either way, the boss gets its turn quickly due to being static for the whole battle and this means we must think before we act.

Adelle has an Angel Ring equipped (treasure chest in the same area you fight Flowsand Lord, it can be revisited once you open a chest with Faerie Shoes granting teleportation). In case of emergency, as in having no Reraise before Sanctity, Adelle will still be revived. Only once, but it's better than losing her forever and being fucked.

You may notice the unnecessary, abundant buffing. This has a purpose. The wisp may waste a turn (it isn't programmed to, but there appears to be a very good chance) to cast Dispelja instead of Sanctity when we're heavily buffed. Dispelja is preferable to Sanctity because it deals no damage to us and it's far easier to renew the buffs to cause it to be used again than it is to Reraise Adelle, use Elpe with her and then Reraise her again. Sometimes even having both Penelo and Hurdy alive and kicking doesn't help, the timing just goes wrong.

This attempt went really swiftly with everything rehearsed until the recording, but it followed a pretty impressive sting of failures.

The second phase where only the core remains alive is nothing worth discussing. Just take the opportunity turn to prevent the boss from doing that powerful move (which can actually miss this time around, so it's more or less of a joke).

This challenge wasn't hard at all, but I'm glad I did finish it because the final battle made it all worthwhile.

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[EnigmaGamer]

So what are you doing next?

Have you ever tried the Fire Emblem series? I tried Radiant Dawn on the Wii and got my ass kicked, and lots of people say that's one of the easiest which put me off from trying the others.

[MoogleBoss]

I'm in the middle of a lot other different challenges and playthroughs. I should finish the LLNSNI challenge in FF6 soon, and I don't have too many BoF2 retranslation videos to upload left

There's also Terres LLNM, a normal Chrono Cross playthrough that's nearing the end and BoF3 which I started a few days ago for the first time and which is a lot of fun

Some old projects that I want to go back to, basically I've been gaming in proportions that leave little time for uploading. Never played FE.

[vruchtegebak]

fire emblem is totally awesome!

[MoogleBoss]

I should try it out then.

[555vidman]

@MoogleBoss well me too

[555vidman]

lol i only used all of my long ranges XD tot it was the only way to kill it

[MAZZ0Murder]

lol guess this final boss just isn't so bad

[ErichtheTormentor]

As usual, the description left no

question unanswered.

That said, good job!

[lobbywww]

WOW. Just WOW . You sir , are very smart .

btw God this music is so epic