FF6 ROTDS 1.3.1 review

IIRC, *everybody* I heard from except myself and RaikouGilgamesh (who was level 99 and spent a lot of time on this) quit against 1.0 Zuriel. Having to quit against the final boss after playing through the game is painful for most players, and a huge turnoff. I think a better course of action is not to make the bosses befitting of DIFFICULTY HACK XTREME, but to turn away from that difficulty entirely and conform the hack better to the original vision listed above. The most important things (from my perspective) are that the difficulty curve is smooth from beginning to end (and the hack is closer now in 1.4, with the probable exception of the Starmie nerf), and that it's around the difficulty level appropriate for most of the dev team (Madsiur, James, Angelo and Nattak are the ones I'm thinking of most here).

From what I can understand Zuriel 1.0 difficulty could fit an optional superboss, a bit like FFXII Yiamzat (dunno if I spell this right) or FF7 Ruby Weapon. I don't especially like difficulty hacks, but an important thing to keep in mind is that if a boss is so hard that you absolutely need a special combinaison of equipment (not saying one or two mandatory pieces but a special full set for each char) and characters (a mandatory party of 4 defined char when in fact you have the choice of 14) then there is a problem. Even a difficulty hack should allow flexibility to beat most mandatory bosses with different parties and equipment sets with no abusive grinding. If those criteria are met, I can't complain.