Star Ocean 4 The Last Hope Final Boss Battle (Part 1/2)

Split into two parts because of Youtube's 10-minute limit. Part 1 I had to encode different than usual to keep it under Youtube's 1 GB limit, so it may look funny.

This boss has two parts. In the first part you have to eliminate the orbs that spin around in front of him. Until you do the rest of him is invulnerable, so Sight Out is kind of useless. The yellow orb causes a bunch of status effects so it was annoying in the beginning when I got Pumpkin'ed/Silenced, but I was able to get the yellow orb done first so that wasn't a problem later. Once all four orbs are gone he does a little 'rage' animation and then his whole body is now vulnerable, making the boss relatively straightforward from then on.

I finally used the good weapons I have available instead of my crappy early low ATK +80% EXP weapons. But I haven't done that much IC yet so I'm still probably a little on the underpowered side. Also, Bacchus's AI seems pretty bad. I had to change his AI to the most aggressive possible and it still looked like he stood around doing nothing half the time, even though he had plenty of MP.

Towards the end I saw how fast I was getting Rush gauge so I started spamming Rush comboes. I was trying to get Edge's "Defeat a Grigori with a Rush Combo" Arts Collection/Battle Trophy, but looks like I missed out on it by a little.

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