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FF7 Magic-Only Run, report #3
Mar. 9th, 2022 10:19 amSooooo I had my first TPK in the Shinra Mansion. :D
It wasn't Lost Number, to my shock - it was a near thing once or twice, getting the magic half in phase 2 is hard enough but then having to beat it with only magic is brutal - but the regular enemies that did me in. The Mansion is just plain hostile to magic users. You got:
1) Dorky Face - uses Silence
2) Jersey - switches between being invulnerable to magic and being invulnerable to physical attacks, and of course its default position is invulnerability to magic
3) Mirage - has Auto-Reflect
4) Ying/Yang - discount Lost Number, in addition to being just creepy as fuck
So it was unfortunate enough when I had to break my own rules to beat a couple of Jerseys, smacking them for minimal damage just to get them to switch to being vulnerable to magic. I should've run, really, but I'd just gotten their Enemy Skills and I had learned from painful experience with a Zolom that if you run away after acquiring an Enemy Skill it falls off your Materia. XP I took to just running from most encounters after that.
BUT THEN. On the way out I got the worst encounter - two Mirrors and a Jersey, attack from both sides. I was already low on MP because I was being a cheapass with my Ethers - which, can you blame me, I burned through six to get through Lost Number - but okay fine, I got set to smack the Jersey with Yuffie so Cloud could magic it to death and in the meantime I had Aeris take care of those mirror guys with Matra Magic and oh fuck they Reflect abORT ABORT-
...long time no see, Game Over screen.
Fortunately I'd run outside and saved after I beat Lost Number so I didn't have to suffer through that again, but I did have to repeat kicking Vincent awake and listening to Sephiroth be a smug bastard again. And my heart was in my throat a bit until I got back outside.
Sooooo compared to all that Mount Nibel was kind of a cakewalk. And there's lots of enemies to steal Ethers from so I was able to build my stock back up. :D
Next stop, Rocket Town~!
It wasn't Lost Number, to my shock - it was a near thing once or twice, getting the magic half in phase 2 is hard enough but then having to beat it with only magic is brutal - but the regular enemies that did me in. The Mansion is just plain hostile to magic users. You got:
1) Dorky Face - uses Silence
2) Jersey - switches between being invulnerable to magic and being invulnerable to physical attacks, and of course its default position is invulnerability to magic
3) Mirage - has Auto-Reflect
4) Ying/Yang - discount Lost Number, in addition to being just creepy as fuck
So it was unfortunate enough when I had to break my own rules to beat a couple of Jerseys, smacking them for minimal damage just to get them to switch to being vulnerable to magic. I should've run, really, but I'd just gotten their Enemy Skills and I had learned from painful experience with a Zolom that if you run away after acquiring an Enemy Skill it falls off your Materia. XP I took to just running from most encounters after that.
BUT THEN. On the way out I got the worst encounter - two Mirrors and a Jersey, attack from both sides. I was already low on MP because I was being a cheapass with my Ethers - which, can you blame me, I burned through six to get through Lost Number - but okay fine, I got set to smack the Jersey with Yuffie so Cloud could magic it to death and in the meantime I had Aeris take care of those mirror guys with Matra Magic and oh fuck they Reflect abORT ABORT-
...long time no see, Game Over screen.
Fortunately I'd run outside and saved after I beat Lost Number so I didn't have to suffer through that again, but I did have to repeat kicking Vincent awake and listening to Sephiroth be a smug bastard again. And my heart was in my throat a bit until I got back outside.
Sooooo compared to all that Mount Nibel was kind of a cakewalk. And there's lots of enemies to steal Ethers from so I was able to build my stock back up. :D
Next stop, Rocket Town~!
