Alternate Title: *Ways Square Enix wants to test your patience Final Fantasy Edition.*

I still have ptsd about the ffx minigames, the chocobo race one specially. The only celestial weapon that was kind of fun to obtain was Yuna's, imo

What also makes Caldbolg so hard to obtain is that if you don't get the second element (Sun Crest) the first time you can, then when you come back, it's protected by Dark Bahamut.

Those FFX weapons. Wheeew.

You two make such well-produced, informative, and downright cozy videos. It's a joy seeing info about Final Fantasy games I've never touched, and just hearing your perspective on ones that I have. They're wonderful to see on a rainy day! Thank you both for this channel, and these videos!

Back in the day, I had an absolutely legendary FFX file, I was pretty obsessed with that game. I had everyone's celestial weapons maxed, along with two sets of ultimate armlets, countless hours spent in Blitzball, and an unheard of record of 551 lightning bolts dodged in Thunder Plains; I shit you all not, I WISH I had the footage. It literally took me over 2 hours of pure concentration, and upon exhaustion, I chose to end the record instead of being struck randomly, and the reason I went that high was because I couldnt keep track of how many bolts I'd had dodged, so out of fear I kept going, and going.

Really glad I found this channel a while back. High quality content.

Love your content, also if I was to add one - the Mythic weapons from FFXI were insane. Especially back in the day, where you would only see a handful of mythics per server. I still shutter at the idea of 30,000 Alexandrite

Danjuro from FFXII. Not the Zodiac Age version, where the trial mode allows you to basically get it for free. I'm talking about chaining gargoyles in Giruvegan, then going into the great crystal and getting 256 necrophebes to divide, then killing the Larva Eater for a 12% chance to get the best dagger.

I class myself as an expert at the chocobo racing in FFX as I've done it so many times. I can usually get the sun sigil very quickly. I paid my mate £5 to do it for me the first time though 😂

I always found Wakka’s weapon to be second most difficult to get after Lulu’s. Tidus’ was tricky but because it was fun it never took that long but Blitzball was duuuuuuull and I hated grinding thru it just for that sigil!

I’ve gotten Caladbolg on every one of my many ffx playthroughs and I rage at that stupid Chocobo race EVERY TIME!

I cannot stress to you all how much this channel means to me. Final Fantasy has been a constant in my life and its the franchise I feel at home and love the most, so seeing this channel with such in depth and granular analysis on characters, lore, jobs and everything else has been a complete treasure!

Great video :) I've literally just bought 2 new controllers while doing Tidus Ultimate weapon with the bloody chocobo race! If only I had to dodge the balloons and hit the birds I'd rock at that race!

I love the vanille cover, also nice shout-out to OperaOmnia 👑💗 it hasn't been forgotten

Whe I saw this title, I was like "If they don't include Caladbold from FFX, they have a brain leak." Also, Onion Knight in FFX had a cheese strat. A spot on the Thunder Plains where you could trigger a lightning bolt at will, which involved one of the towers and as such granted you a safe spot to take a break, and it still works in all the HD remasters.

Ooooh!!! I love Fuzzfinger's videos! He's very detailed in explaining

this is my third attempt at watching this video. I put it on while relaxing twice and never made it past Caladbolg before dozing off. Love the channel

I still have nightmares from that Chocobo-minigame! Even completed it again in the remaster...

Cloud's hard weapon is something no one seems to be able to obtain. Tifa can't get it, Barret can't get it, and Aerith literally dies trying.

I always learn something new every time you upload. I’m playing to get Final Fantasy 9 and I’m very excited to play. Thank you for uploading these videos!

Great video! Dunno if someone already mentioned this, but for Dissidia Opera Omnia Burst aren't the strongest weapon in JP anymore, they've gotten weapons actually called "Ultima Weapon" now. It doesn't have a burst phase, but it provides a huge stat boost.

For FFX Caladbog was so much more frustrating than any other of the celestial weapons. I got the 200 lightning bolts first try, but the Chocobo racing was so rng based it made me feel helpless

I love the direction you are taking your channel! Keep up the great work.

Hey, thanks for including stuff from the legends series!

Great content man 🙏 look forward to the part two of the history of square 😊 great job 👏

There's some misinformation here. The Chocobo minigames in FFX only the very first challenge does the chocobo move in random directions. After clearing the first challenge, the Chocobo does obey the player's directions. Meaning Dodger Chocobo, Hyper Dodger Chocobo, and Catcher Chocobo, you have full control over your chocobo. The only time the chocobo will ever turn on its own, is if the player wanders out of bounds.

That video a few years ago was one of the 1st videos I saw on your channel. Can't believe I've been subbed for so long. Keep up the great work

I recorded a time under 1 second 3 times in that chocobo race. Never got the sun sigil. It soured me on FFX for good

You play dffo?!?!?!?!? I love dffo

i havent paid any attention to this video but your voice with the background music is so damn calming! just straight zen lol

Hi. Thanks for making cool videos that take me back to my most beloved games. Also, thanks for taking the time to make save points in the video. It's a bit of extra work that reminds me of true RPGs.

I learned by accident with the X|X-2 version of FFX that the Chocobo race mini game is highly adaptive. Out of rage I purposely held left on the controller and managed to get stuck in a corner taking over 3 minutes to complete the attempt. I beat the challenge on my next attempt as hardly any birds or balls came my way. so I believe you can cheese the challenge by sandbagging your first attempt and then simply trying your second.

i've never played a Final Fantasy game yet i LOVE the videos you make about its mechanics and lore

I'm surprised none of the relic weapons of FF14 are in here, as they all require an intense grind. Still working on my first Resistance Weapon, grinding Eden raids for 60 crystals, after also doing Omega and Alexander raids 60 times each. And that was just one part of the grind.

I never had a problem doing the chocobo races on ffx, even back when it first came out and I played the game to death I remember passing these fast and then I played the remastered version on PS3 and still didn't have problems and once again I played the remastered version on PS4 and still did it easy. Just something my brain snapped to learning very quickly and was able to do it always with just a couple of races, the lightning one is easy if you have patience and know the area to make it happen when you want so it's not hard in a challenging way just in a tolerance way and will show how much dedicated time can you give in one go if you want a guarantee win.

Thanks for including Final Fantasy Legend 2!

Life was so good when FFX was new. Funny enough I never had any issue with the Chocobo races or blitzball (played it to death anyway). It was dodging lightning 100 times straight where I gave up on.

With Opera Omnia i have several Burst weapons. I have Terra's, Firion's, 2 of The Emperor's, Yuna's, and Garland's. Terra and Firion were my biggest i wants, really would like the ones for Lulu, Beatrix and Agrias.

The Epic o Alexander is so hard, a static (group of people playing together to clear raid) are averaging at 100-120 hours of progress to clear it. Which mean 2-3 months of you dying over and over again with the same people. It need commitment, and patience big enough for you and your team to not blow up and breaking up the static because impatience. Also, if you join a static for TEA, you automatically agreed to re clear it for loots, because finding new people to clear it again is painful.

Unrelated but words still cannot explain how much I adore the people that run this channel. There’s just something about their aura that’s not only calming but really fun to be around. Kinda like Zeltik.

Next you should make a video about the hardest puzzles required to progress in story. First, is the clock puzzle in Ffxiii2. One person literally made a program to solve the puzzles because it becomes so hard to solve in the later games

I'm so glad that you put dissdia in that video because man ^^ its truly luck to have Burst weapons but I'm glad that I menage to get a couples of them 😄😄😄

Loving all the content and even more so now that FFXIV is getting mixed in more often. Also I'm super hype for the next part in the Square Documentary! (Imagine telling a child version of yourself you're excited for a documentary?). Random thoughts aside keep up the great work and I'll see you in the next one! :D

If you think getting the burst weapons from DFFOO was bad, there's Burst+ weapons too.

I can't believe I conquered the FFX chocobo races and the lightning dodges back in the PS2 days. I don't think I'll be doing it again in the remaster.

I remember getting just 0 seconds on chocobo race and not winning I was so mad or just 1 second I broke so many controllers. Or when you did so good the whole race and ultra instinct dodged everything but right at the end 3 balls and 2 birds smack right into you

I was way too emotional after getting each ff10 celestial weapon 😭

As someone with multiple TEA clears, the hardest part of that entire fight is the first phase. Whilst the later mechanics definitely get more complex, they only punish you by getting them incorrect. The first phase has adds that you need to weaken and feed to Living Liquid, and if you kill them they wipe the party. The amount of wipes on that phase because of accidental direct critical hits my static has had is insane as it's something you can't really control 100% of the time XD

I love how FFX still has such a solid community. More of a reason for ..... FFX-3?...... ;)))))

Love the Highwind theme on the background.

So glad to see Opera Omnia on this video!

Love these type of videos, there's a reason the first part has a million views :)

I struggled quite a bit to get to the final chocobo race in FFX, but once I got there I got it on my second try. Luck definitely had everything to do with it!

Whenever there is RNG/Gacha involved, there's a bad time to be had in games.

i actually did the FFX celestial weapon run. the longest one was the blitzball one even with the AI exploit. though the Chocobo was frustrating in if you got hit or got stuck on that sharp turn's geometry then you'd have to restart. The easiest one had to be Lulu's lightning dodger because of a certain exploit on the map where you know lightning will strike when you enter that spot

Hardest Ultimate weapons in the FF series? FFXII: "Hello! It is me again!"

For me, it was Tifa's Premium Heart in FF7, just because I could never find the damn key to return to Midgar. I spent hours searching Bone Village, but never found it.

Fuzzfinger had my whole party equipped with Seitengrats. It was silly strong.

SWEET!!! I love your videos so much!!

That Chocobo racing to get the Sun Sigil was pretty much designed by Satan himself.

So while the info on the Burst weapons in Opera Omnia is correct, you did also neglect to mention that there is a token system that allows you to grab a BT weapon is you have 50 of them. While it still is hard to get a Burst, just like woth the lightning dodging in X, there is a way to not make it so bad. Otherwise, great video. Love to see your vids pop up in my notifications

I remember getting all the FFX ultimate weapons. Felt so good to have all that power and a full sphere grid

Imagine if Boromir didn't get the One Ring because the number of times he blinked in a day once was a prime number. FFXII seems do ridiculous in its idea of getting the best weapons.

Ugh the Chocobo race one is one of the reasons I didn't finish FFX. I believe even now it would still be impossible for me to even attempt that one.

Damn they even added in Opera Omnia

4:15 One correction here: the chocobo during the last challenge doesn't actually change it's path at random. You can even see this is the case in the footage. There were also no blitzballs, though that's superfluous on my part. Unless of course you were talking about the challenges as a whole up to the last one having included such, but it's fine. The challenge itself is bad enough, but imagining it with added random movements gives me a headache. I still remember doing it on my Vita in high school during class. Good times.

The only one I'd push back on are the burst weapons. If you were to start a new account today, you can get a premium mog pass, which boost your Summon board farming, but more importantly gives you burst weapon tokens. In order to get a free burst you you need 50. The mog pass gives you 10 of them. So you can either wail on the premium pass for 4 months, or do challenge quest which are lvl 180 quest that give you a burst token. The challenge quest require you to use the surgery character for that event, but even if you start a new account, just playing for around a month or two you'd be able to get them done in no time. In regards to burst+, you just gotta play the game long enough to have around 12 current characters and a decent set of calls with a couple good support friend units to get through the lufenia+ quest. The burst, from the perspective of someone who's been playing it for nearly a year, dont sound too bad. But I can see how they're seem very hard to obtain. But I'd personally say getting something like the sun sigil or some of the other weapons on this or previous list are harder to obtain.

The choccobo race nearly broke me, I was yelling at the TV at 1:30 in the morning about broken Choccobo pathing and aimbot birds...in the end I beat it, but man if that was not one of the most annoying things I did in a videogame.

When I played FFX remaster I was able to beat the Chocobo race at 00:00 first time. Problem was I forgot I needed the celestial mirror, had to get it and then do the race again which then took me much longer. Still never been able to get Lulu's Venus Sigil item for it that you need to dodge 200 lightning bolts in a row for.

The funny thing is I didn’t even know the overpowered bow existed when I randomly bumped into it in ff12. I was like “huh? What’s this?” So luck was on my side and I didn’t even know it 😅

I remember trying to get the sun sigil. The best I could get was ~+1 second. For the life of me, I could never get better than that.

Totally random, Kiona Lynaer was an old buddy of mine! We raided together for about a year when ARR dropped. Love how I randomly came across a video he's in.

That f****** choccobo race in 10. The one time I rage quit and broke a controller. Ugh

Last play through, I got the sun sigil on my first attempt. The playthrough before that, I got it on my second attempt. There are 5-6 different maps of where the balloons are placed. There are 2 that I can tell you right at the start have the possibility of being a winning run.

I may have been not that lucky with seitengrat in ff12 but I sure been blessed with the great tango when i fought the zodiark and made at out alive at the very last moment.

Yet another great video guys!!! I tried to get seitengrad before and even with the rng been manipulated i ended up timing it wrong and I didn’t get it so I gave up 😂

I struggled so much recently with that chocobo race and no walk through was helping. After a few days, I found a new walkthrough that explained the map of the race and how the controls work in each part of the map. I finished the race perfectly less than 5 minutes later. It’s not hard, no one goes over the mechanics and their behaviors and the fact the controls change at the last stretch. It was insanely easy.

Back in the day, Caladbolg was really hard for me to get. It wasn't because of the sun sigil, it was the sun crest. I didn't pick it up after I had beaten Yunalesca so when I went back, well you all know what is waiting for you in that room.

I'm so glad that at some point developers decided that an ultimate weapon should be challenging to get, but not force players to spend days trying to get

Wow didn't expect to see Opera Omnia listed ^^ Also, I would contend that the best entry for FF14 are the 1.0 Relic Weapons - both because they were insanely difficult to obtain (Hamlet was a pain) and because well... they're unobtainable anymore lol. They got re-created for ARR, but their original forms (which were also utterly game-breaking and amazing) no longer exist and as I said, can no longer be obtained.

Caladbolg was by far THE most difficult to obtain in my opinion

Small correction to note regarding the butterfly hunt in FFX: You can still get the sigil for Kimahri’s ultimate weapon if you touch a red butterfly; all it does is subtract a few seconds from your remaining time so as long as you catch/touch all the blue butterflies, that’s all that matters.

After all of those chocobo races, especially with a defiant chocobo. Not only was I beyond relieved to see it over, I wanted to resurrect the chocobo eater, handing it over a years worth of overgrown chicken meat.

I felt extremely lucky when I went Sigil hunting in FFX. I got the Sun Sigil in two tries. I'd like to offer a correction, however. In the final Chocobo race, your chocobo will listen to your commands 100%. There is no randomness involved in its movement.

I just recenttly got the Sun Sigil again in the HD remaster. It seems that if you turn the Chocobo far enough it swerves back towards the side.

I find it weird how often I see people talk about how hard getting the Sun Sigil for the Caladbolg is. Whenever I play FFX and hit endgame, I always get the full power Caladbolg and Nirvana first, and I don't even bother going for the Venus Sigil at all because IMO, that is a far greater challenge. I've never struggled with the Chocobo races, but the Thunder Plains can git farked.

You can pity burst weapons btw in dffoo its really not that bad I have 12 burst and am f2p

i remember this chocobo clearly until now, idid that race for 2 weeks

I never tried too hard to get the ultimate weapons in ffx, I'm so glad you could customize weapons & armor to parallel/surpass everyone's ultimate gear

Wooo ^_^ nice to see Legend 2 on here ^_^ I had the seven sword ^_^

Anytime someone mentions ultimate weapons in Final Fantasy I think of Davricle (FFXI, Valefor server) and his Aegis shield.

I just beat the perfect of Alexander last week. It was quite the fight!

I still have a photo on my phone from many years ago when I finally got the sun sigil on the PS2 version.

Ah yes, Part 1 of the documentary was so good I was hooked the whole way through

I wonder if we'll ever get a second part of the Battle System video

Happy I got 5 of the 7 weapons in final fantasy X when I was a kid not getting lulu or wukka had the us version so no dark arons so didn't think there was much point when I was already crushing everything

Wakkas was hardest for me cause Blitzball was so time consuming and Wakka is a top tier character. Like idk why they made him so loaded it makes for really complacent team comps with Tidus cause he's also loaded and Rikku for Mix. I think that's what I'd say if they remade FFX today talk to people who no life that game about how to make other party members as worth it as Tidus, Wakka and Riku.

As at the brink of tears when i finally got caladbolg. In hindsind, nirvana is much better imo

Are there any plans to go over the different fantasy races in FF and their possible influences?