FF6 ROTDS 1.3.1 review

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.

Here i believe a golden rule of many RPG was broken: final boss must never be the strongest, there should always exist an optional superboss instead... i must say that it would be cool to put that fight as an optional one.

I'd almost be interested in seeing how Nattak himself would play, if you gave him your save before Zuriel's Tower (presumably with everybody unequipped and everything), and he were to record/livestream (not sure if his livestreams have been working, but I have gotten e-mail notifications about him streaming from Twitch) himself attempting to beat the tower without grinding excessively or watching what you did (excluding AlphaOmega, skip him ). Obviously he doesn't have to take me up on that, it's just an idle thought.

my save is still there... if he wants it, not such a great save, anyway...

The issue with Quicksilvers against 1.0 Zuriel is that the fight lasts maybe an hour. That's a lot of spread for maybe 6 Quicksilvers, assuming that you spent two on AlphaOmega and two elsewhere. It also doesn't help with the issue about needing Arc/Flammie. He does Nuke + Meteor back to back (spread across two turns though) at one point, and even if you are using Reraise, his Nuke hits everybody for 9999, killing them. Even the animation for the Reraise activating takes enough time for him to get another turn, meaning he will use a 9999 Meteor before you can even act, and your team is dead. Quicksilver does nothing to prevent this (admittedly, I'm not sure if that's what you were implying). I'm not sure how feasible it is to kill him before he does that, even with Quicksilvers.

First of all i'd need to know how much HP he has(i assumed he had something like 600K HP but that assumption is really based on nothing) if they were 600K then 6 x 2 omnislash V5 x 40K damage(i don't know if 8x attack is better after a certain point) would be 480K + all what you did meanwhile assuming Oboro tanks properly.
I doubt that it would happen before he does the deadly combo at least once(unless killing an HP bar resets his AI routine)
Clearly i wasn't saying that Cloud can replace Eiko or Arc, but i'm saying that a nerf closer to 1.0 than 1.3 would still had supported quite well from the fact you can use Quicksilvers if you have some trouble, one example of nerf closer to 1.0 was removing one of the 3 moves from his deadly combo, lowering his speed of some(not too much) point and magic in order to not do AoE 9999 unblockable damage, but 6000-8000 instead.

"Harder than the original FF6, but not so hard that it makes you want to quit"

the classic statement so vague to mean nothing(no offence, Gi Nattak) since from vanilla to make you rage quit is the same distance between the Earth and the Moon

Anyway that defeats the whole purpose of a review like that, since the game is hard but it was intended to be less hard, it's difficult to figure that out if it's not clearly stated from the creator (especially if the game tells another story)

While that does mean they shouldn't listen to every noob who comes along, as you said, it also means they shouldn't listen to every hardcore challenge seeker who wants a difficult game.

Since the game started with an hard release(and it was appearently intended to be in that way), while noobs asked for a radical change, i was trying to protect the origins of the hack, that's all.