This is Doom Dragon. Contrary to all expectations, Doom Dragon is neither weak nor one of the eight dragons. Like most dragons that aren't one of the eight dragons, he's actually really tough. N. Cross or Flare Star will happen every fifth turn. Don't worry about Flare Star, by the way. I show it off. I promise.

I will show off Fallen One, even though it does appear again. It reduces your HP to one, leaving you open to death by even a plush tonberry. It's a counter, and your response to it is to heal everyone immediately.

Party number 3. I brought Gogo along to use tools, sketch, and steal. There's a Nutkin suit, which you probably won't use. It doesn't do anything cool like the Moogle Suit (be a moogle! Kupo!) but it doesn't fill Tonberries with a murderous rage or disappoint an intelligent species that's functionally extinct in this game. Don't worry, they'll be back in Final Fantasy IX and XII.

Scullion opens up the battle with Gamma Rays. Gamma Rays are like dying of radiation poisoning (they set condemned), except they're easily blocked. They were blocked in this case. Worry not, as I think they look like something you've seen before.

This is Grav Bomb. Quick! Get out your magnifying glasses, look closely and you can see a dot on Gogo! It's a percentage based attack (50%) that you only saw by using the Lethal Weapon rage. You can steal an Air Anchor in case you missed it. I happen to like the Air Anchor a lot, so if you didn't get it at the Fanatics Tower, you can get one here. Trust me, it's worth it, even this late. It also uses WaveCannon and Lancher, and uses an Atomic Ray as it dies.

Inferno names his arms Striker and Rough. I suggest maybe killing Rough so he can't Delta Attack and using any lightning based attacks.

I'm sorry about this. Just imagine a bunch of those tiny sprites strung together and you get Atomic Ray. ItÕs fire based.

That's Delta Hit. I'm just showing it to you to show how awkward it looks outside of the dream stooges. They're arranged so that it makes sense visually and those red beads appear where each stooge is, this guy isn't.

Land Worm, the last regular enemy I'm going to describe, uses Magnitude 8 and Lode Stone to crush you, Compress, and little else.

This is Skull Dragon, the last of the dragons. It may not have any status vulnerabilities, it has fight, condemned, elf fire, and specter for its first three turns, and disaster for its fourth. Specter you've never seen before and believe me, I did this stupid battle five times in the hopes that he'd use Specter. There's a bug with Specter in his case. Monsters weren't expected to use Specter, so instead of a spectral Skull Dragon, you get a defective character sprite instead. Like all good bosses do, it counters with fight. You get Crusader for your efforts, through which you can learn Meteor really fast and Merton slowly.

Relm won't move the four ton weight if Celes is in the way. I just thought this was funny and ironic. Move Celes and it doesn't take five minutes to move it. I suppose they do have Sabin, the Strongest Man in the World on their team, but even a solo Relm could move it in less time than Uncle Ulty.

Guardian runs through various programs.

Its first program is the basic one, which uses Tek Laser, Missile, and Atomic Ray.

The second program is Uncle Ulty's, lasts two turns like all of them, and goes back to the basic one afterwards, features Tentacle, Entwine, Ink, and Stone.

The third one is nameless but is for all intents and purposes Dadaluma. ShockWave and fight do little, mithrilknives and Ashura do a lot of damage. TekBarrier follows, and then it goes back to normal.

Air Force you probably won't see. It uses Tek Laser, Diffuser, Launcher, and WaveCannon, which hurts. Back to normal.

You want to kill him before Atma happens. Atma uses fight, flare, meteo, and says "vast energy focused" before using Flare Star. Flare Star is unimpressive, and you'll see it. Oh, you'll see it.

You gain nothing except for a shelter made out its remnants.

Move on to the three Goddess statues. This one is Poltergeist, the fire-based goddess. She has image immunity, so she doesn't get the inherent image status she was supposed to have. Made her too hard? She uses fight, Psycgrip (Tyrfing in Japan), and Shrapnel (she just used that on Gogo) and stop. Don't let her stop you or else you get blastered and die.

32640, the same critical HP as Atma, leads to Aero, S. Cross, Meteo, and the pictured Flare Star. I promised it. Here it is. It's cool looking, isn't it? Fire 3 is a counter. You win an Aura Lance.

Here's Doom on the map screen in a really cool looking room.

Here's Doom in all her glory, which doesn't really look that much like her map screen statue. No, really, what the hell? Bring Strago in this battle. Absorbs ice and poison, weak to Pearl. Level 73, so your GP has to be 1mod10 to use L? Pearl. She uses the dreaded N. Cross, along with fight, Ice 3, and Absolute 0.

Doom uses Force Field every 20 seconds, and Strago can learn it so he can render himself resistant to one element per cast. At 32640 HP, her aura shakes and she uses Image, Reflect, and Haste on herself, so Dispel her. She'll use fight and targeting now. Targeting sets someone for Demon Rage. If the targeted person is not around due to a premature death or a pogo jump, she'll target someone else with Demon Rage. Get a Sky Render for your efforts!

This is Goddess. How creatively named. How scandalous.

Goddess is censored. Quick! Get out your copy of Fantasia. The 1940 version. Now watch the segment with Night on Bald Mountain and pay attention to the harpies. Actually, the harpies' nipples made it past the censors, while some nude centaurs did not. The statue sprite out of battle gets away with being naked as well. She wasn't naked in Japan, she just showed a bit more skin.

You can steal a Minerva from her, but you should already have two by now (1 from the pugs, one from a chest here), and she'll use fight, Bolt 2, Bolt 3, Lullaby, and Charm. Charm is bad because Goddess will take a while to defeat and you need to kill the character to prevent bad things like X-Zone or Pep Up or Meteor from happening to you. She uses Love Token as a counter so that whomever attacked her will now take damage for her. Spells and drills and stuff bypass this, so worry not.

At 32640 HP, she'll use things like Flash Rain, bolt 3, and... after eight hits, the dreaded Overcast. It's unique here, thankfully. What it does is puts doom on everyone, and upon dying, either by the timer running out or due to Goddess attack-related causes, they will be reborn as zombies. If you donÕt use Setzer's game-breaking setup, sheÕs probably the hardest boss in the game.

She also uses Quasar, which I described already.

But magical power did not disappear. How odd.

I guess this isn't the end after all. We must find Kefka!