The 6th plane nightmare.

[Yekkusu]

Look, I'm playing the Evolution version of this game, and that version was rebalanced a LOT, and I never saw so many unfair battles on the game. The only one so far, of the major enemies (the ones who release the seals) that I don't think it's unfair is Kalilika and Cassius, and I'm talking about a character that can buff himself AND insta kill you with an AOE S-Craft. Those two are just a matter of looking at the situation AND resetting the game, equip some acessories, change an S craft, redo your orbment, and so on.

But the Philip Batlle, the Ouroboros battle and the Shwarzlitter or wathever is the name he choose to use at that point are the ones I hate the most.

Phillip started the battle with 4 drones that has a TON of HP and AOE arts that WILL wipe out your team quickly. I had to burn 7 Zeram Powders just to make sure those things were dead. Phillip itself can insta kill you right away burning all your stored CP. Frankly, if it was only him, that battle would be difficult enough but the enemies with him are just the tankiest, and fastest art casters I've ever seen. And I'm playing this game on Normal.

I'm the maximum level possible at that point, those battle are giving me less than 24exp, and I'm dying like crazy.

The ouroboros battle is just... Annoying as hell, one character can put you on Faint and Burn, the other can make you Mute and Sealed, another can put you to sleep AND burn you, ALL AT THE SAME TIME. There is NO equipment in the entire game that prevents all abnormal statuses at that point, (I dunno if the PC version has the equipment, I do wanna see the extra content on the Evolution versions after all). And again, the last enemy in that plane is just, holy hell. I killed his dragon, again, that thing is a tank, and one he's like 40% left to die, he starts creating tanky copies of himself, he can inflict burn AND freeze because the guy has TWO S-CRAFTS, and I'm like: I'm done for today. I will need to change some equipment, yes, I don't like how little the acessories help at all at that point, and I do prefer the Cold Steel change where you have the abilities the quartz provides you instead of having to open a sheet that tells you how much you need to have a certain art.

Oh, yeah, the guy also can undo your shields, buffs and walls. So no matter how buffed you are and how protected you are, he can ignore that.

And that's a common thing. I do like to reload a game and try another setup to defeat them, but when the enemy is the tankiest ever, he has absurd ammount of life, and if you're buffed you aren't taking more than 3k per hit on him, and he keeps healing himself, or essentially ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you with status effects, and you have to juggle between the acesssories because there's not a single acessory that can help you with three or four status like later games, and yeah.

I've died 15 times on Cassius, but it was fun.
I've died 5 on Swarzritter and I gave up the game. I don't like when the AI keeps making my characters buff go to hell every three turns. And I did some unfair fights on Cold Steel for example, but those games on Normal never felt unfair. This one is. XD

Also, the difficulty curve is just, what the hell. From the first to the fifth plane the game is absurdly easy. Haven't died a single time.

As soon as you get your first major boss on the sixth plane its like they made the situation unfair in almost every single battle and that annoys me SO MUCH.


Aaaaanyway, tomorrow I'll try a new strategy because I'm tired, but yeah.

Also, Im playuing the Evolution version on my Vita TV, that thing is helpful, but I really wish XSEED brings the EVO versions to us (I do think they still have the rights to re-release the Sky and Cold Steel series if they want, and I do know the Cold Steel version could get a paint up because there are better versions out there and mods so people made a better work than them, and of course, the Evo versions are out there, they can't just grab those versions but they can talk Falcom and get the rights to do something similar I guess, I would pay that. Also, there is Fan Translation for the extra content of the evo versions already, all they need is to buy them up, and redo the script to their liking).

Anyway, I'm just annoyed and tired at this point and I wanna die. Bye XD

[Berahlen]

By the time those fights roll around you should be having your party at four corners of formation, and sometimes even move them further (Cassius is best handled by moving to the far corners of the whole map to confine lightning flash to one target). Controlling enemy AOE is paramount.

Also you should be planning to open any boss fight on nightmare with 200 CP Grail Sphere. Like, by default. That's what the fountain at the home base is there for.

[mvidov]

Did you manage to beat the game?
I have the same problem on 6th plane, all bosses have around 2.5 more HP then nightmare mode on PC. For example Cassius has 200000 HP. Currently I stuck on Swarzritter fight.

[CalokAndQkourQcuarante]

So wait, was your problem with the EVO version or this one?