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Post by Reiji-kun on Oct 1, 2015 0:02:43 GMT -5
Ever had that happen to you?
You're on your last legs. Barely any health, the boss is overwhelming you and defeat seems inevitable. And yet, you manage to emerge victorious, either by skill, or pure luck. Usually luck, depending on how you manage it.
It's happened to me on a few occasions, some of which I can't remember, but I can recall a couple recent moments. In Devil Survivor, for example, the final boss defeated everyone but one character, who was in very critical health and no MP left. I managed to luck out because one of my demons had Retaliate and responded to the attack in kind with a counter, securing the win. If it didn't activate I would've been dead the next turn.
I just recently defeated Rei with Raoh in Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage too in Harbinger of Death mode, with only a small bit of health left (I had already used the health and spirit items at the time) and managed to pull off the finisher sequence without skipping a beat to win the mission. If I had missed, I'd likely have lost shortly after since I didn't really have much left in the tank.
Just a couple examples I threw out there. I thought it'd make for an interesting topic.
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Post by Weasel on Oct 1, 2015 0:22:30 GMT -5
This wasn't me (credit goes to Xaser for pulling this off) but I're remembered this video:
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Post by kaoru on Oct 1, 2015 2:58:24 GMT -5
I just recently had this a couple times in the four job fiesta. Like that flying snake thing before you get the final crystal? I think each time I had only one or two characters with very low health standing. Golem also was defeated only by a 4HP dragoon Faris at one run.
I usually over-prepare in RPGs though, so it doesn't happen that often. More likely in harder dungeon crawlers, like that one boss kinda thing in an Etrian Odyssey, 7th Dragon and some such.
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Post by retr0gamer on Oct 1, 2015 5:54:47 GMT -5
Happens to me quite a bit in RPGs. Get unlucky during a long boss fight and have one guy left and if I try to revive I end up in a loop of deaths I can't get out of so I just auto attack to end the battle to get another try and end up winning with a tiny amount of health left.
Xenosaga is another weird one. The battle system was very unbalanced and often times I'd be in a fight and be so underlevelled the only logical explanation is that it's a battle that you have to lose. Then it drags on too long and I realise that it's not one of those and come out by the skin of my teeth.
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Post by llj on Oct 1, 2015 11:12:58 GMT -5
I first beat The Boss in MGS 3 just as the Snake Eater song was ending (which means time is up). There's nothing like beating her just as the final flourish of the song sounds out. Did not plan it that way but it's a helluva dramatic and fitting way to finish the game.
I've had it happen to me a lot in RPGs but they are usually still unmemorable to me.
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Post by hummy on Oct 1, 2015 11:22:46 GMT -5
Kishgal from Ys Origin (who was an optional boss) gave me this kind of grief. Grinding would yield little EXP, and Yunica kept dying; I eventually beat him, but that was due to luck more than a change in strategy or anything. Something similar happened against Nova and the true final boss in Azure Striker Gunvolt, so I guess this usually happens to me with difficult bosses.
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Post by Chronis on Oct 2, 2015 1:07:23 GMT -5
In Ninja Gaiden Black, I saved in a spot with low health and one of the small potions. It was basically a desperation save. The very next thing that happened is a fight with Alma. It took me a ton of tries and I really thought I was going to have to restart the game but eventually I managed to barely beat her.
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Post by Allie on Oct 2, 2015 5:24:58 GMT -5
Happened to me when fighting Diva in SaGa Frontier.
My entire party save for Emelia ended up dead, and she got the killing blow with the attack that used up the very last of her WP.
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Post by dskzero on Oct 2, 2015 11:09:57 GMT -5
Happened to me in Marathon Infinity at the end of Eat the Path yesterday, only to find myself stripped of guns and health on the next stage.
I also remember this happening this at the end of Crysis: Warhead, against the walker at the air strip. It was pretty exciting to be fair. Curiously, this never happened to me IIRC on RPGs because of the inherent preparations before boses.
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Post by Nester the Lark on Oct 2, 2015 11:44:40 GMT -5
This happened to me with the arcade version of Wonder Boy in Monster Land. I was fighting the dragon's second form (I used the Ruby since I had the labyrinth memorized by that point). I was playing it a bit safe and sticking with a methodical pattern, so it was a drawn out battle. Eventually, I had less than one heart remaining, and the hourglass was almost empty, so I was about to die anyway. I took a chance and broke the pattern, and I made a risky leap at the dragon's head. Not only did my sword connect, but it turned out to be the fatal blow! I had beaten the game for the first and (so far) only time. Yeah, I felt pretty good after that.  |
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Post by The Great Klaid on Oct 2, 2015 13:04:24 GMT -5
Final Fantasy IV for the DS. Zeromus. Kain had the Phoenix Augment. The one where he dies and spends all of his MP to revive everyone else. Kind of a genius stroke if I may, because he usually missed the Big Bangs being in the air most of the fight. By the end he's all that's left. We're out of items. And he just narrowly misses every single attack. Finally we hear that double lightning crack and he starts exploding. Goddamn that was so close.
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Post by Ryzuki on Oct 2, 2015 15:43:33 GMT -5
I feel this happens to everyone at some point. 'S happened to me more times than I know. (Especially in fighters)
I recall a time in Fallout 3 I was severely underleveled and decided to shoot up Paradise Falls...involved blindly swinging a sludge hammer while constantly pressing the hotkey for stimpaks. By the time it was over I had no stimpaks, my armor was destroyed, all my limbs were broken, and I was one bear trap away from death. Fast traveled away the first chance I got.
There was also the boss I mentioned before in the Evil Within where I'm just constantly running away and shooting behind me whenever I get a chance. Eventually it gets to a point where you can't outrun it and you just got hope you have enough ammo to kill it... I used my last bolt and by some miracle it worked, despite my many past failures...
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Post by dskzero on Oct 2, 2015 16:20:13 GMT -5
I feel this happens to everyone at some point. 'S happened to me more times than I know. (Especially in fighters) Oh boy I hadn't thought of this. I'm terrible at fighting games and I ussually beat them out of sheer luck, on the brink of defeat. |
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Post by blackdrazon on Oct 2, 2015 16:35:02 GMT -5
Not quite applicable, but the first time I beat Pokemon Red back in the day, I hadn't been, urm, trying to win. I had saved inside the Elite Four area (after beating Lance?) and couldn't beat Blue. So I deliberately tried to lose and get out of the building to grind by doing nothing but basic attacks like Cut or Surf. To my surprise I started winning and scraped together an honest effort at the last minute, pulling off one for the record books.
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Post by Ryzuki on Oct 2, 2015 22:49:32 GMT -5
I feel this happens to everyone at some point. 'S happened to me more times than I know. (Especially in fighters) Oh boy I hadn't thought of this. I'm terrible at fighting games and I ussually beat them out of sheer luck, on the brink of defeat. It's always amusing when cocky punks who're way better than you take ya lightly and ended up getting killed by a random poke.  |
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