One of them in FF7 that I thought was weird even as a kid was Ghirofelgo in the ShinRa Mansion - The dude swinging on a chain that has a huge blade for his lower half body... Maybe it was just the animation of him trying to get back up on the chain when he fell. Made it seem like we're just beating up some handicapped dude that cant even use a can or wheelchair. Poor guy must just be hanging around like a chandalier all day just waiting for Cloud and company to walk by. :-) Random ass enemy...
There was a point where I was playing through FF7 when Pete Yorn's "Life on a Chain" was all over the radio, and every time I ran into one, it would get the song stuck in my head. The swinging being close enough to the tempo of the song and the first line being "I live on a chain" was enough to get me every time.
@@Gigaflare8822FF7 was the first translation work by that specific team. "Allemagne" is actually "Ahriman," a recurring enemy of that appearance in the franchise.
@@davidvasquez08 yep Christopher and Gighee the pony, with their choreographed attacks lmfao…. You can find them in the swampy section of North Crater, where you also find Magic Pots, Movers, Master Tonberry, and Allemagnes
i farmed those two stupid screens for days massacering movers and magic pots for that sweet sweet ap after twenty years i remember the creepy pink skin horse thingy having elixirs to steal for the pots or maybe it was christopher i have a fuzzy memory
I love how this wasn't just a straightforward list of 7 obscure enemies. There was a narrative connecting multiple absurd enemies, even comparing them to others within the same game. It felt more like 20+ obscure enemies, and i loved it.
Tankceratops is probably the most memorable enemy outside of the mainline returning enemies. It's like someone's 8 year old son on the dev team came in with their parent for a workday and went around the cubicles showing off their drawing and someone went..."Ya know what...that's not half bad an idea. Put it in."
"A half naked lady riding atop some sort of reptile" - isn't that a tapir? In Japanese folklore, they're dream eaters - specifically, they eat nightmares, which is why it makes sense for them to appear in the dream world.
Not just FATEs and dungeons, Gaelicats appear as field enemies in the Sea of Clouds area of Heavensward. There's even a daily mission where you use catnip to catch one.
FF7 goblin is incredible, by far my favorite goblin design in anything ever (well except ff15, i love that they look like weevils in that gear). Dudes just look so hip and fresh. Beanie, sneakers, the works... its so doofy and unique. Its like if dobby got a soundcloud
Ragtime Mouse was apparently a mistranslation - it should have been called the Ragtime Mouth, which makes a lot more sense. It doesn't look like a mouse at all. Good list. Another FF IX monster which was pretty unique was the prison cage - did they reappear in another game?
Just watched a stream on where they are playing through FF7 for the first time and they were surprised at the Hell House lol. They had no idea he's a boss in the new game.
@@AlexOvTheAbyss You're not wrong, yet it's entirely possible to never have a random encounter on your way out. Plus, the Triceratank isn't on the path, only by the reactor, so easily missable.
@@paulhiggins6433 they will definitely go to Gongaga in the next game. it's tied to Crisis Core after all with Zack; and Gongaga being Zack's hometown, yes! they'll be heading there.
Found this channel recently. I have to say I think you have a great voice, calming but intuitive. I also love the music choices for the videos. Great job 👏
The Demon Paintings in FF6 are also very similar in concept to the demon wall enemies. There’s the boss that’s connected to Relm’s side quests named Chadarnook and the basic enemies named the Still Life. The only difference is that they possessed the items connected to the wall instead of the wall itself.
Not really obscure but the Moombas from FFVIII certainly deserve more love, they have a great design and they're adorable. Even the alien Pupu has more appearances than Moomba in other FF games
The Alluring Rider rides a baku, a tapir-like monster in the Japanese folklore said to eat dreams and nightmares. It’s also the inspiration behind the Pokémon Drowzee
"Military 'Bread' Flan" should be the next itteration of the Flan. A piece of sentient LOAF that has gone moldy and has a sinister Flan like creature growing on it. 🤣
Yan and Friendly Yan from FF9 will always be my favorite mob. The pure hilarity as a child when I found them for the first time and it destroyed me 😂 you find it and go "aww so cute, look at it jump!" Then you get hit by the BAHHHH of doom 😂
One of the best materia in the game is in that burnt out reactor near the triceratank. 2x Cut. It's..amazing. You can do 9999 multiple times with it, and it upgrades to 4x cut eventually. It also turns into the less useful Slash which is an instant battle finisher, but in a game where the damage caps at 9999 multi-hit attacks are king.
Remake cared enough to make Eligor a boss fight. You know, that guy that you can only find in the Train Graveyard at a low encounter rate? A lot of players of the original game never saw him. (meanwhile I played Remake like "it's not the train graveyard without Eligor lol" and then was beyond delighted when he appeared). It's not definite, but I suspect Heavy Tank will show up.
The creature the Alluring Rider is sitting on is called a Baku which is a dream eating creature. I was fond of the ice hockey monsters in FF8 I used to grind levels on them because they gave heaps of exp and were easy to kill.
Christopher and Gighee from the Northern Cave in FF7 blew my mind when i first ran into them. I've always wondered who they were and if there was any lore surrounding them
Ragtime Mouse was one of the many interesting things I encountered in playing through FF IX for the first time recently. I love how he literally explodes after you have answered every question correctly
I think Mover should get a shout out. They appear in scant few mainline FF games, but they are quite memorable in most of the ones where they show up. Their design and name are bizarre, their battles are gimmicky, and their rewards after battle are often immense. In particular I think the FF9 variation is quite obscure due to only appearing on Terra (which is available only briefly and then becomes inaccessible) and thus not being great for end game grinding like they are in other games
4:44 I believe the Alluring Rider is riding on a Baku, a creature from Japanese folklore that consumes dreams, hence it's appearance in the Dreamscape.
the Intangir is a weird enemy. It is from FF6 and is found only in one obscure place where you would never think to go because there is nothing there and nothing in the game hints that you should be there unlike the dinosaur forest. The monster also does not appear all the time. Instead rabbit enemies from the beginning of the game appear most often. Then suddenly you are faced with one of the most powerful monsters in the game. Seriously this thing has more HP than most bosses and many of the end game monsters. It also hits like a truck and is immune to all elemental damage.
If you're looking for another, I strongly suggest FF6. People love FF7, and it is fun using the materia system, but FF6 has an amazing story, excellent music, and wonderful characters. It is more than a game, it is an experience. With the Pixel remaster out now, you can get it on pretty much any console. I strongly suggest it if you enjoy RPGs. 😁
As an aside, 'Ragtime Mouse' was actually a minor mistranslation by the localization team. It's supposed to be Ragtime *Mouth*. A minor thing, to be sure, given that it's bizarre even by the deformed standards of the game.
I got to attend the dear friends final fantasy symphony tour in 2004 I believe, nobuo uematsu was in attendance and it was by far the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life.
I remember the ones in FF8 in your space ship where there are 2 of each colour and you have to kill the same colour ones back to back so they dont respawn.
I found wierd that "correct me if I'm wrong" a boss from FF4 was just a simple imp or elf, from what I remember it was on a cave that cuz magnetic properties you couldn't use metal gear until Edward helped you with his music.
That's Dark Elf, and he's a direct reference to Astos in the original Final Fantasy, who was the king of the dark elves that put the Prince of Elfheim under a sleeping curse.
Vlakarados, anyone? Not astonishly unique. But I've always really enjoyed that one. Had they made him just a bit stronger in the strength department and another attack or two, he could have been really special for an overworld enemy.
You can farm power sources very easily from heavy tanks after the temple of the ancients. Load tifa up with hp plus materias and its very easy to activate tifas powersoul. Put her in critical health and death sentence. You can use deathblow along with vincents sniper cr to help get them a little lower. So easy to get 255 str on disc one.
yep. you'll deal about 3-4k damage with the weapons you'll have at that point it takes a HUGE amount of grinding to max everyone, but it makes the next few parts of the game ridiculously easy. I think guard sources are the only other unlimited sources available at that point in the game.
I nominate the Shell Dragon in FF9. That thing is huge and horrifying - but it easily gets taken down by a solo sad Zidane. How did that thing not get a bigger stage?
Test 0 from FFVII. Japanese exclusive enemy found only at the bottom of the well in Corel Prison. It’s not meant to be fought, but it was left in the game. The writers of the Versus guide even included them in the guide, mentioning that they might not be in the US version of the game.
X is a game people love or hate, usually. I'm a fan, personally. I like how you can take time to think about your turns in that game. It's also fun to be a summon, like Ifrit. If you have some time, I suggest giving it a playthrough. The music is excellent, if nothing else.
'Agree' for the remark that FFVII particularly takes the cake for bizarre enemy design- I think usually-large doses of funny mushrooms were involved 😆. Besides the aforementioned Hell House and Heavy Tank, there's Eligor, Dorky Face, Ghirofelgo, Balba Velamyu, Jayjujayme, Scissors, Ammonite, Christopher, and Magic Pot, and the 3 types of Unknowns. Not sure if it's in X, or X Remaster (or both), but, when fighting the Demonoliths, Rikku sometimes quips "Who actually designs these things?!?". Worth a chuckle. 😄
That Warning Board in the Shinra Building. Just yells, "Warning! Warning!", and shoots either a gun, laser, or spawns random early enemies. It's the sheer randomness of the big sign with the stop "✋️", in the middle of it like some wet floor warning sign, that sent me the first time I saw it. What a blatant way to realize you are trespassing in a high profile building! 😂 Shinra really installed these giant ass Warning boards in their building on the top floors? 😂😂😂
Fighting through the wondrous Cave of Life. Eerie music, strange, gigantic plants, an ancient place unseen by human eyes in thousands of--oh look, a brony. "Hi...I'm Christopher..."
I thought for sure the ffx weirdest creature was spherimorph. When you talked about demon wall I was like ohh it has to be spherimorph for sure! I didn't find demonolith that obscure.
Yeah, demonolith are same as demon wall and they appear in loads of dif areas. Not sure spherimorph would count as it a story boss. I thought Barbatos (inside Sin) was obscure. What is it? How does it eat with those shields coming out its arms and where does it get the bombs from and where are they fired from?
@cloudvii7777 to he fair it was 7 obscure monsters so for that reason I'd stick to spherimorph even if it is a story boss it's still just the most bizarre monster I reckon in terms of "wtf is this?" 🤣 like a ball of water that turns solid and crushes you 🤣 agree with you too thag MF looked like a hand grenade mixed with a lychee 🤣 though I reckon 10 had some of the strangest creatures it's hard to pick just one but it's definitely not demonolith
I had to look up the name, but my vote would be the YKT-63. It's a kickboxing robot-looking thing. FFX does a lot of recolors, so its hard to pick something obscure, but I don't believe this thing has been anywhere else.
I remember level-grinding in Gongaga on the Heavy Tanks and summoning Titan over and over to instantly one-shot them. I vaguely remember there was a free healing point nearby, but I could be wrong.
I'll never forget the first time I ran into one of those Demon Monoliths in FFX. I felt pretty strong at that point, my party was leveled up, we were rockin' and rollin' through the game, and then I get a random encounter with one of those. It looks so stupid and I figured easy win. 20 seconds later I had a game over as my whole party was turned to stone. I pretty much ran from every battle with them from that point on.
I think the Ragtime Mouse would be a perfect addition to FFXIV’s Gold Saucer. Pit 3 players against each other or NPCs in a Jeopardy style true or false game and winner takes big moneys.
I'd like to see a top 7 of different boss battles or fights that change the way the story can progress if you win or lose. Like the Chocobo Eater in final fantasy 10 gives different cut scenes and routes depending on if you beat it or if it shoves you off the cliff🎉
Loved Rebirth but it's pretty disappointing that they turned Heavy Tank into a regular ole dinosaur. (It's called Maloceros in English. In Japanese it's called Heavy Tank). It's also disappointing that Ghirofelgo isn't in Rebirth either. Shinra Mansion ended up being disappointing overall. But at least they gave us weird Lost Number enemy from the locked safe in the original.
Vlakorados from FF7 always springs to mind for me. Found in a very small section of the overworld it is incredibly weak and useless despite sporting 33,333 hp, which when you can first fight it is more than nearly any boss you've fought up to that point. Fascinated me as a kid that some random enemy that barely posed a threat to my midgame level party managed to take more of a beating than anything I had faced up to that point.
1. The Heavy Tank enemy is not a Triceratops, it's a Behemoth, another enemy type, basically a giant horned beast fused with threaded propulsion system as a failed experiment, or the Gongana local Petryfying lizard enemy infused with Mako and then fused with tank propulsion system. 2. The Critic enemy, or Alluring Rider riding a Tapir, which in the east is considered an animal related to dreams, since it is believed it eats them (see a NES title Cocoron for reference)
Alluring Rider appears to be riding a monsterized tapir. Tapir have folklore associated with dreams. The pokemon Drowzee is designed after tapir and eats dreams
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One of them in FF7 that I thought was weird even as a kid was Ghirofelgo in the ShinRa Mansion - The dude swinging on a chain that has a huge blade for his lower half body... Maybe it was just the animation of him trying to get back up on the chain when he fell. Made it seem like we're just beating up some handicapped dude that cant even use a can or wheelchair. Poor guy must just be hanging around like a chandalier all day just waiting for Cloud and company to walk by. :-) Random ass enemy...
For real, what kind of phases did Hojo go through when making all these different experiments? 😅
Another enemy that comes to mind is the 2 headed enemy Yin & Yang. Even stranger were its random mumblings like "Yang's happy/excited"
Excellent call
There was a point where I was playing through FF7 when Pete Yorn's "Life on a Chain" was all over the radio, and every time I ran into one, it would get the song stuck in my head. The swinging being close enough to the tempo of the song and the first line being "I live on a chain" was enough to get me every time.
@@darknessmatinee Funny coincidence. :-)
I’ll never get over the enemy simply named “Christopher” found in the Northern Crater.
Is there?
FF7 had a lot of strangely named enemies. There was one named "Allemagne" in the Crater, which means "Germany" in French.
@@Gigaflare8822FF7 was the first translation work by that specific team. "Allemagne" is actually "Ahriman," a recurring enemy of that appearance in the franchise.
@@davidvasquez08 yep Christopher and Gighee the pony, with their choreographed attacks lmfao….
You can find them in the swampy section of North Crater, where you also find Magic Pots, Movers, Master Tonberry, and Allemagnes
i farmed those two stupid screens for days massacering movers and magic pots for that sweet sweet ap
after twenty years i remember the creepy pink skin horse thingy having elixirs to steal for the pots
or maybe it was christopher i have a fuzzy memory
I love how this wasn't just a straightforward list of 7 obscure enemies. There was a narrative connecting multiple absurd enemies, even comparing them to others within the same game.
It felt more like 20+ obscure enemies, and i loved it.
She’s riding a tapir which is based on a yokai that looks like a tapir that eats dreams
The yokai in question is called a Baku.
Love it
Which is what Drowzee from Pokemon is modeled after. It's also depicted as "Baku" in Naruto as Danzo's summon animal.
@@Animebryan2 also Bakumon in digimon
Tankceratops is probably the most memorable enemy outside of the mainline returning enemies. It's like someone's 8 year old son on the dev team came in with their parent for a workday and went around the cubicles showing off their drawing and someone went..."Ya know what...that's not half bad an idea. Put it in."
I want this to be true so badly.
This is probably the closest theory to the actual origin story of that monster design.
It looks like some Chinese toy
"A half naked lady riding atop some sort of reptile" - isn't that a tapir? In Japanese folklore, they're dream eaters - specifically, they eat nightmares, which is why it makes sense for them to appear in the dream world.
Sure is, that's what the pokemon Drowzee is based on as well
Actually, the Alluring Rider's mount isn't a reptile. It's a baku: a tapir-like monster from Japanese folklore said to eat nightmares.
Baku sounds familiar.
Am i the only one who wishes they made this a mount if ffxiv?
@@WittyCorvianThe tapir or the girl? 😏
That must be the inspiration for Drowzee as well
Heavy Tank? YOU MEAN TANKCERATOPS!!!!
Tankceratops: I SHOULD BE A ACTION FIGURE!!!! 😂😂😂
I AM AN ACTION FIGUUUUUURE
“Harold! I’m sorry! I didn’t know the Tankceratops cereal had so much lead!”
“PART OF A BALANCED BREAKFAAAST!”
TANKCERATOPS 2: THE RETANKENING!!
Giuseppe you're on my good list.
Thank you for that. I came on here to comment something similar and I didn't have to.
The lines that Gilga said during fights are hilarious. And I love thet they made him a reoccurring character.
Never expected to have a pop quiz in any FF game... FF9 pulled out a few nice tricks even with the friendly monsters
The name "Slappers" was accidentally hilarious for those living in the UK.
@@whilstdumpingIt's slang for a promiscuous lady.
@@whilstdumping Let's just say: A slapper is referred to as a woman who has had a lot of partners.
Yeah it made me giggle!
Slappers only!
@@BiggusNickushahaha😂 yeah I used to level up for hours against the slappers they gave you a lot of experience points 😂
Not just FATEs and dungeons, Gaelicats appear as field enemies in the Sea of Clouds area of Heavensward. There's even a daily mission where you use catnip to catch one.
My least favorite enemy to have to handle too, because the sound design team did TOO good a job with its noises. Sad Kitty Crying! Wah!
The "mew mew *purr*" when you give them gaelicatnip is adorably funny.
The Gaelicat also appears as a common enemy in Opera Omnia.
@@Beryllahawk
Yeah, it never felt right beating the little thing senseless.
@@RagnarokiaNG
Yeah, that easily made it one of my favorite daily quests.
I saw the thumbnail and knew the comments were gonna be a whole bunch of Tankceratops quotes.
I am so proud of everyone.
Ps1 Era had the best enemy design. When I think of 7-9, there were a lot of unique enemies and very few straight up palette swaps.
FF7 goblin is incredible, by far my favorite goblin design in anything ever (well except ff15, i love that they look like weevils in that gear). Dudes just look so hip and fresh. Beanie, sneakers, the works... its so doofy and unique. Its like if dobby got a soundcloud
damn u right that goblin looking like a cracked dobby fly as f@%k
Ragtime Mouse was apparently a mistranslation - it should have been called the Ragtime Mouth, which makes a lot more sense. It doesn't look like a mouse at all.
Good list. Another FF IX monster which was pretty unique was the prison cage - did they reappear in another game?
I really hope the Dinotank returns in Rebirth - maybe even as a boss, like they did with Hell House
Just watched a stream on where they are playing through FF7 for the first time and they were surprised at the Hell House lol. They had no idea he's a boss in the new game.
That's assuming that they go to Gongaga in Rebirth. It was a completely optional area after all.
@@paulhiggins6433 I mean, you do wake up there after Temple of the Ancients, but yeah, not required to do anything there.
@@AlexOvTheAbyss You're not wrong, yet it's entirely possible to never have a random encounter on your way out. Plus, the Triceratank isn't on the path, only by the reactor, so easily missable.
@@paulhiggins6433 they will definitely go to Gongaga in the next game. it's tied to Crisis Core after all with Zack; and Gongaga being Zack's hometown, yes! they'll be heading there.
Found this channel recently. I have to say I think you have a great voice, calming but intuitive. I also love the music choices for the videos. Great job 👏
Thank you so much Lewis, that's very kind of you to say. ~Darryl
A list of cutest enemies might be fun 😊
Maybe most important missable moments?
The Demon Paintings in FF6 are also very similar in concept to the demon wall enemies. There’s the boss that’s connected to Relm’s side quests named Chadarnook and the basic enemies named the Still Life. The only difference is that they possessed the items connected to the wall instead of the wall itself.
"TANKCERATOPS AND THE VEHICULARSAURS!"
"I BAKED COOKIES!!!"
@@truetakofame4112 "THE TANKCERAPHONE!!! "
Hiphopapotamus and rhymenocerous?
Reminds me of some of the chimera creatures Mother 3 did, there was some goofy stuff, not always but frequently involving machinery.
Triceratank, Velocicopter, Trainosaurus Rex, Brachioboat
Not really obscure but the Moombas from FFVIII certainly deserve more love, they have a great design and they're adorable. Even the alien Pupu has more appearances than Moomba in other FF games
Agreed. Moombas were awesome looking and have such interesting lore.
Being ambushed by the Mighty Ducks took me off guard when playing FFVIII 😅
The Alluring Rider rides a baku, a tapir-like monster in the Japanese folklore said to eat dreams and nightmares. It’s also the inspiration behind the Pokémon Drowzee
"Military 'Bread' Flan" should be the next itteration of the Flan.
A piece of sentient LOAF that has gone moldy and has a sinister Flan like creature growing on it.
🤣
Ffxiii-2 had tomatoes Flan and even a boss version.
Nonono. What it should be is a military bread ration that soldiers prefer to feed the bread to flans and then eat the flan
Like it 'augments' the taste of the Flan? 🤣@@dethkruzer
@@feverpyretic oh no, the flan tastes horrible, but the bread is worse. Feeding the bread to the flan adds nutritional value to the flan.
If they ever add a bread-based monster, expect endless TF2 jokes because something something Expiration Date.
Yan and Friendly Yan from FF9 will always be my favorite mob. The pure hilarity as a child when I found them for the first time and it destroyed me 😂 you find it and go "aww so cute, look at it jump!" Then you get hit by the BAHHHH of doom 😂
One of the best materia in the game is in that burnt out reactor near the triceratank. 2x Cut. It's..amazing. You can do 9999 multiple times with it, and it upgrades to 4x cut eventually. It also turns into the less useful Slash which is an instant battle finisher, but in a game where the damage caps at 9999 multi-hit attacks are king.
Remake cared enough to make Eligor a boss fight. You know, that guy that you can only find in the Train Graveyard at a low encounter rate? A lot of players of the original game never saw him. (meanwhile I played Remake like "it's not the train graveyard without Eligor lol" and then was beyond delighted when he appeared).
It's not definite, but I suspect Heavy Tank will show up.
I always Grinded the Train Graveyard for Eligors, as that's how you get the Striking Staff real early! 😉
The creature the Alluring Rider is sitting on is called a Baku which is a dream eating creature.
I was fond of the ice hockey monsters in FF8 I used to grind levels on them because they gave heaps of exp and were easy to kill.
These videos are like late night comfort food for me thanks for making them ❤
Christopher and Gighee from the Northern Cave in FF7 blew my mind when i first ran into them. I've always wondered who they were and if there was any lore surrounding them
Triceratops + tank. The devs knew their target audience well!!
I really hope they give heavy tank the hell house treatment and make it a badass boss
I’d be really surprised if it didn’t
I’m glad ffxiv brought back Gaelicats. They made them super cute!
Ragtime Mouse was one of the many interesting things I encountered in playing through FF IX for the first time recently. I love how he literally explodes after you have answered every question correctly
I think Mover should get a shout out. They appear in scant few mainline FF games, but they are quite memorable in most of the ones where they show up. Their design and name are bizarre, their battles are gimmicky, and their rewards after battle are often immense. In particular I think the FF9 variation is quite obscure due to only appearing on Terra (which is available only briefly and then becomes inaccessible) and thus not being great for end game grinding like they are in other games
They give me the creeps for no reason. When i encounter movers i often run away specially in ff 9 movers ughh! 😩
I love games with super obscure mobs like this.
4:44 I believe the Alluring Rider is riding on a Baku, a creature from Japanese folklore that consumes dreams, hence it's appearance in the Dreamscape.
2:23 for these things, they appeared in a dungeon in FF14 called the Anamnesis Anyder. it was the first boss.
Great catch, thanks for showing me this
I'd argue that FFVIII's 'PuPu' is pretty obscure, then again, its conditions for encountering are unlike standard enemies.
They brought the Demon Wall back in FF12 too! Hated that boss lol
Both of them sucked, but at least one of them was optional.
I didn't even anticipated that boss until it squash my party 😭
the Intangir is a weird enemy. It is from FF6 and is found only in one obscure place where you would never think to go because there is nothing there and nothing in the game hints that you should be there unlike the dinosaur forest. The monster also does not appear all the time. Instead rabbit enemies from the beginning of the game appear most often. Then suddenly you are faced with one of the most powerful monsters in the game. Seriously this thing has more HP than most bosses and many of the end game monsters. It also hits like a truck and is immune to all elemental damage.
Congrats on 300k! This was cool to see all the different ones since I've only played Final Fantasy X and XII
If you're looking for another, I strongly suggest FF6. People love FF7, and it is fun using the materia system, but FF6 has an amazing story, excellent music, and wonderful characters. It is more than a game, it is an experience. With the Pixel remaster out now, you can get it on pretty much any console. I strongly suggest it if you enjoy RPGs. 😁
As an aside, 'Ragtime Mouse' was actually a minor mistranslation by the localization team. It's supposed to be Ragtime *Mouth*. A minor thing, to be sure, given that it's bizarre even by the deformed standards of the game.
That makes so much more sense now!
Let's never forget that FF3 has an enemy called Kum Kum
Suplexing a train makes FF6 the best Final Fantasy.
The save crystal mimics in FFXII.
Alluring Rider is riding a Baku(獏) a legendary Tapir like monster that devour nightmares. That is why they are in the dream-scape.
My favourite are from 5. One of the early enemies is just a regular domestic cat with fake wings 😂
I got to attend the dear friends final fantasy symphony tour in 2004 I believe, nobuo uematsu was in attendance and it was by far the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life.
I remember the ones in FF8 in your space ship where there are 2 of each colour and you have to kill the same colour ones back to back so they dont respawn.
Propagators.
When I was a child I couldn’t figure it out and got stuck and thought my game had glitched and made the aliens immortal 😂
Fossil Elvoret on the back of the Demonolith - that one blew my mind.
I would love to see a video for strange enemies in any 1 game
I vote for the literal door with teeth for a FF IV version. And if there are any strange bosses, Baigan has got to be up there.
I found wierd that "correct me if I'm wrong" a boss from FF4 was just a simple imp or elf, from what I remember it was on a cave that cuz magnetic properties you couldn't use metal gear until Edward helped you with his music.
That's Dark Elf, and he's a direct reference to Astos in the original Final Fantasy, who was the king of the dark elves that put the Prince of Elfheim under a sleeping curse.
Vlakarados, anyone?
Not astonishly unique. But I've always really enjoyed that one.
Had they made him just a bit stronger in the strength department and another attack or two, he could have been really special for an overworld enemy.
You can farm power sources very easily from heavy tanks after the temple of the ancients. Load tifa up with hp plus materias and its very easy to activate tifas powersoul. Put her in critical health and death sentence. You can use deathblow along with vincents sniper cr to help get them a little lower. So easy to get 255 str on disc one.
yep. you'll deal about 3-4k damage with the weapons you'll have at that point it takes a HUGE amount of grinding to max everyone, but it makes the next few parts of the game ridiculously easy.
I think guard sources are the only other unlimited sources available at that point in the game.
@@NeroLordofChaos yes the roly-polies by mideel morph into guard sources
I was expecting to see the incredibly rare T-REX from the very first FF
These recent videos have been THE BOMB guys 🤘
I nominate the Shell Dragon in FF9. That thing is huge and horrifying - but it easily gets taken down by a solo sad Zidane. How did that thing not get a bigger stage?
Always thought the Heavy Tank/Tankceratops was a parody of the Dinosaur Tank from Ultraseven.
Test 0 from FFVII. Japanese exclusive enemy found only at the bottom of the well in Corel Prison.
It’s not meant to be fought, but it was left in the game. The writers of the Versus guide even included them in the guide, mentioning that they might not be in the US version of the game.
I was stoked to fight that thing in Rebirth! Even if it was a PITA to fight.
Great video. Surely most the mainline games need their own lists
I haven't played X so it's my first time seeing the demonolith, what a sick monster and such a great name.
The game over potential these guys have is insane! Make sure to have Stoneproof when fighting these assholes
X is a game people love or hate, usually. I'm a fan, personally. I like how you can take time to think about your turns in that game. It's also fun to be a summon, like Ifrit. If you have some time, I suggest giving it a playthrough. The music is excellent, if nothing else.
'Agree' for the remark that FFVII particularly takes the cake for bizarre enemy design- I think usually-large doses of funny mushrooms were involved 😆. Besides the aforementioned Hell House and Heavy Tank, there's Eligor, Dorky Face, Ghirofelgo, Balba Velamyu, Jayjujayme, Scissors, Ammonite, Christopher, and Magic Pot, and the 3 types of Unknowns.
Not sure if it's in X, or X Remaster (or both), but, when fighting the Demonoliths, Rikku sometimes quips "Who actually designs these things?!?". Worth a chuckle. 😄
That Warning Board in the Shinra Building. Just yells, "Warning! Warning!", and shoots either a gun, laser, or spawns random early enemies. It's the sheer randomness of the big sign with the stop "✋️", in the middle of it like some wet floor warning sign, that sent me the first time I saw it. What a blatant way to realize you are trespassing in a high profile building! 😂 Shinra really installed these giant ass Warning boards in their building on the top floors?
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I was bummed to not see the heavy tank in FF7 Rebirth
The best obscure nonsense enemy is FFVII's Christopher, it's just some dude named Christopher.
And his pet goat?
Absolutely!
Ghirofelgo too, that thing is odd, but I suppose in the location of the Shinra mansion, perhaps it makes sense.
Fighting through the wondrous Cave of Life. Eerie music, strange, gigantic plants, an ancient place unseen by human eyes in thousands of--oh look, a brony.
"Hi...I'm Christopher..."
Flashbacks to 10 year old me going Haniwa hunting in FF Legend 2.
I think the gaelicat was there first attempt for Cait-Sith. With the Cat Sith legends being a Gaelic cat.
Yep. Play on words, Gaelic and cat mashed together, it was certainly their first foray into using the Cait-Sith/Cat-sith/Cat Si folklore.
I thought for sure the ffx weirdest creature was spherimorph. When you talked about demon wall I was like ohh it has to be spherimorph for sure! I didn't find demonolith that obscure.
Yeah, demonolith are same as demon wall and they appear in loads of dif areas. Not sure spherimorph would count as it a story boss.
I thought Barbatos (inside Sin) was obscure. What is it? How does it eat with those shields coming out its arms and where does it get the bombs from and where are they fired from?
@cloudvii7777 to he fair it was 7 obscure monsters so for that reason I'd stick to spherimorph even if it is a story boss it's still just the most bizarre monster I reckon in terms of "wtf is this?" 🤣 like a ball of water that turns solid and crushes you 🤣 agree with you too thag MF looked like a hand grenade mixed with a lychee 🤣 though I reckon 10 had some of the strangest creatures it's hard to pick just one but it's definitely not demonolith
I had to look up the name, but my vote would be the YKT-63. It's a kickboxing robot-looking thing. FFX does a lot of recolors, so its hard to pick something obscure, but I don't believe this thing has been anywhere else.
I remember level-grinding in Gongaga on the Heavy Tanks and summoning Titan over and over to instantly one-shot them. I vaguely remember there was a free healing point nearby, but I could be wrong.
I'd always use the ice hockey team to grind a few levels on ff8.
That SE executive in FFXV
I'll never forget the first time I ran into one of those Demon Monoliths in FFX. I felt pretty strong at that point, my party was leveled up, we were rockin' and rollin' through the game, and then I get a random encounter with one of those. It looks so stupid and I figured easy win. 20 seconds later I had a game over as my whole party was turned to stone. I pretty much ran from every battle with them from that point on.
I think the Ragtime Mouse would be a perfect addition to FFXIV’s Gold Saucer. Pit 3 players against each other or NPCs in a Jeopardy style true or false game and winner takes big moneys.
I think FF7 is a little played out, but I LOVE this idea. Well said!
I think Heavy Tank was supposed to be a boss originally. One of Shinra's experiments to guard the reactor.
Slapper's name in the French translation is Jason.
I'd like to see a top 7 of different boss battles or fights that change the way the story can progress if you win or lose. Like the Chocobo Eater in final fantasy 10 gives different cut scenes and routes depending on if you beat it or if it shoves you off the cliff🎉
would be hilarious if Heavy Tank was called Tankceratops and shilled it's merchandise in battle
Loved Rebirth but it's pretty disappointing that they turned Heavy Tank into a regular ole dinosaur. (It's called Maloceros in English. In Japanese it's called Heavy Tank).
It's also disappointing that Ghirofelgo isn't in Rebirth either. Shinra Mansion ended up being disappointing overall. But at least they gave us weird Lost Number enemy from the locked safe in the original.
Magic pot is definitely one of the more interesting enemies. Usually have to feed it an elixir in exchange for someghing extremely valuable.
I think the Rider's beast is a tapir or a Baku. It does look reptile like though.
I learned a lot. Great list!
*sees Tomberry
*screams in terror
Ready for the Heavy Dino Tank to get the Hell House treatment for Rebirth.
A full FFVII rundown would be great
Thank you for another great video!!
Gaelcat is legit my favorite 1-time monster ever, and I would have given it Moogle status if I made my own Final Fantasy 😭💜
Love these videos. Keep them up.
The house is just a mimic
Gremlins in FF7 doing BAD MOUTH. Where it literally throw out curse words at you and it'll make you sad.
Hey found Caine, before he started The Amazing Digital Circus. 11:45
Ragtime mouse 😂
Im looking forward to the Tankceretops boss battle in Rebirth.
After what they did with Hell House, you know we are in for a treat.
I think it'd be good to have seen one bizarre enemy from each final fantasy, just because there's sssssssooooo many
Vlakorados from FF7 always springs to mind for me. Found in a very small section of the overworld it is incredibly weak and useless despite sporting 33,333 hp, which when you can first fight it is more than nearly any boss you've fought up to that point.
Fascinated me as a kid that some random enemy that barely posed a threat to my midgame level party managed to take more of a beating than anything I had faced up to that point.
If i recall, demon wall was featured in more games that don't seem like they were mentioned, 2 i can think of off the top of my head are ff12 and ff14
Alluring Rider is riding a Baku. It eats dreams. It's Drowzee. Lives in a dreamscape
1. The Heavy Tank enemy is not a Triceratops, it's a Behemoth, another enemy type, basically a giant horned beast fused with threaded propulsion system as a failed experiment, or the Gongana local Petryfying lizard enemy infused with Mako and then fused with tank propulsion system.
2. The Critic enemy, or Alluring Rider riding a Tapir, which in the east is considered an animal related to dreams, since it is believed it eats them (see a NES title Cocoron for reference)
Why do i feel like this video will be referenced in the pub quiz lol
Alluring Rider appears to be riding a monsterized tapir. Tapir have folklore associated with dreams. The pokemon Drowzee is designed after tapir and eats dreams
I've always wondered about the gaelicat! They CLEARLY have an agenda they aren't letting us know about!