Insane Difficulty: Blindfolded FF6 LLG - Insane Difficulty

Segment 92: Niesenlauf



In case you have a life, don't absolutely love watching me climbing stairs, and don't absolutely love watching me complain about climbing stairs, I recommend that you skip straight to the boss fights:

6:11: White Dragon
15:36: Magimaster

Both bosses are really stupid. As the White Dragon's only attack is Pearl, there has to be a dozen different ways to make yourself invincible here. I chose Mute to avoid the animations. I use Ultima to take him down as quickly as possible. As long as you have Reflect on and don't attack, Magimaster will never Wallchange and he'll just wreck himself with Reflected spells. Life 3 protects me from Ultima, so he has nothing threatening.

Segment 93 - Ebot's Rock



Ebot's Rock is basically the same as in BNW, but it doesn't have any encounters. If you've watched that video, you might as well skip the intro because it's exactly the same. Otherwise this segment is worth watching.

I have to be more careful with Hidon than most other bosses at this point, since some of his attacks have the potential to be dangerous, and I also want to learn Grandtrain just for kicks. Thankfully, I can abuse Hidon's AI to make him a complete scrub. If a character is dead, he will spend every turn attempting to use Chokesmoke on them to turn them into a Zombie. So if I have a dead character that is immune to Zombie status, he won't be able to do anything, except for Grandtrain. I need to have a Ribbon equipped to Mog, since the Hidonites like their status effects.

With everything in place, I need to kill all the Hidonites before killing Hidon in order to have him cast Grandtrain. It's unlikely that I'll be able to kill the Hidonites with Step Mine before killing Hidon, since there are four Hidonites and Hidon dies after three hits. However, three Hidonites aren't immune to instant death, so I can OHKO the first three and Step Mine the last one (now the odds are in my favour). I need Life 3 to survive Grandtrain, but he won't threaten Mog again after that.

Segment 94 - The Final Frontier



Time to finally enter Kefka's Tower. I planned this out carefully so that a team without the Moogle Charm wouldn't run into any Great Behemoth's (who I can't conveniently escape from) unless another team is parked on the save point. This makes the navigation a lot less painful.

The first boss is Inferno. He doesn't take very long to kill, but Shrapnel (non-elemental) can be painful, as it can kill the party members who don't dodge it. Delta Hit will also turn some people to stone if it hits, and if I kill either of his arms he can bust out Meteor (which is an instant kill). The problem is, since I can't target Gogo's Step Mine attacks, I will kill Inferno's arms unless I am extremely lucky. So I need to kill him as quickly as possible.

I start by inflicting Slow (I wasn't going to use status effects on most WoR bosses, but Slow isn't that incapacitating), which gives me extra turns when it really matters (i.e., after I kill the arms). After that, I can use Shoat to kill both arms at once, making it so that Gogo can only target the boss. This allows me to kill him a great deal faster, even if it does provoke potential Meteors. Not only that, but as an added bonus, when the arms are dead he'll waste a turn using a useless TekBarrier. This allows Gogo to get three turns off before he even gets a turn to try using Meteor. If Gogo uses Step Mine three times in a row like he did in the video, I win. Much more likely would have been Gogo using Step Mine twice instead, and the other party members making up 10K damage in the meantime. This would have given Inferno only a single chance to use Meteor, so I'm hardly relying on astronomical luck.

Segment 95 - Party Two



In this segment, the titular party advances to the three switch room. Since party three is on the save point, I can save every time I hear a noise and restart if I enter a battle with Great Behemoths (which didn't happen... somehow...). I fight two bosses in this segment, but there are random encounters that are more dangerous than the Gold Dragon, so I'll ignore him.

Atma, like Inferno, has a chance of using Meteor. However, he can be dealt with in a similar way. I can inflict Slow, for one, but he also cannot use Meteor until I trigger his second phase by doing damage to him. Thankfully, by hitting him eight times, I can cause him to begin charging for Ultima, which can't do a thing as long as Celes is in the party waiting to Runic. This will give me three free turns to whale on him. So as long as I trigger his Ultima charging more or less when I enter his second phase (by hitting him a couple extra times with Cyan/Celes), I can reduce the odds of seeing Meteor dramatically.

Segment 96 - Party One



Party one really doesn't do a whole lot in this dungeon. This is the last segment in the game without a boss fight in it. This segment was mostly about manipulating the odds of a Great Behemoth encounter occurring. It went fairly well, except for a mishap with switching to the wrong party.

Segment 97 - The Statue of Darkness



Green Dragon can kill off Gogo with Elf Fire. Mog can also die, since he has the Moogle Charm equipped, and therefore he is vulnerable to either Condemned or Disaster (I can't remember which). However, the dragon only has time to kill everybody if I make a lot of mistakes in a very short period of time. I play well here, so this is not an issue.

In his first phase, Doom only has Ice attacks, which I am immune to, and physical attacks, which Terra protects the party from. In the second phase, he uses ForceField as a timed attack. If I inflict him with Slow beforehand, he will move so slowly in comparison to the timer for ForceField that he will basically just keep charging for ForceField over and over again. The only other attack that he could use is Demon Rage, which he takes one turn to charge up. It would basically just kill one party member. So yeah, he's the easiest of the three statues.

Segment 98 - The Statue of Light, The Statue of... Red?



Guardian is weak and can't do anything.
Poltergeist has exploitable AI.
I got great luck against Goddess.

I'm sweeping straight through to the final boss now!

Finale - The Angel of Death



Well, it's the final battle. Parts of it are luck-reliant, but there's usually things I can do to increase my odds of winning. I use status effects against the first two tiers because they make my preparations faster without really increasing my odds of winning. It would just be tedious to keep reviving the characters and applying Life 3 as they die.

First tier: They mostly use physical attacks, which are not very threatening. I'm not even using True Knight strats here. Celes' Magic Evasion is perfect, Gogo's is nearly perfect, Gau's Defense is perfect, and Mog's is nearly perfect, so they're all protected. The head can death counter with Quake, but I applied Float, so this isn't a big deal. At least, it isn't in theory. I was unlucky enough here to have an attack slip through Gogo's Magic Evasion, which meant that Quake eliminated his Life 3 before the next phase. It wasn't a huge deal though.

Second Tier: This tier has four opponents, but that isn't as scary as it could be:

Magic can be Muted.
Tools is vulnerable to Doom.
Tiger can be Poisoned.
Hit just punches me. That's it.

However, Tiger can still be threatening. He has Flare Star, which can kill Mog and Gogo. Far worse is Doom Tusk, which is hard to hear and inflicts Zombie. If Gau is zombified, I may not notice right away and things can get nasty from there. I feel like very little can harm Celes though, even if Magic and Tools could do whatever they wanted.

Third Tier: I elected not to use Stop here to make it more interesting (honestly, I didn't even know he was vulnerable to Stop before checking it out for this challenge). I'm more likely to die here, or have this fight make Kefka more difficult. Meteo and Calmness can kill Gau right near the end of this fight, which is something I want to avoid at all costs. I want to keep Life 3 on Gau for certain to make sure this doesn't happen. Merton is also bad, as it kills Gogo/Gau and leaves me vulnerable. Sleep has trouble killing Celes/Gogo, but if I lose my momentum and Mog/Gau are both lying on the floor I might lose Gau before the fight ends.

Kefka: Kefka can use a few things that are akin to party wipes:
-Meteor: He'll use it if I deplete him below 7K HP and leave him there for a while. However, this is unlikely to happen since after throwing my Ice Shield my Step Mines will likely deplete him from 9K+ HP to 0HP in one fell swoop. Even with Gogo using his Desperation Attack, there was no chance of Meteor on this run.
-Goner: I could survive this with Mog if I stacked him for high Magic Defense, but I didn't think it was worth the trouble. Kefka gives me some time to attack without fear of counterattacks while he's charging this. I don't want him using this more than once, which is why it's important that he dies as quickly as possible after the first three Step Mines.
-Ultima: The second last Step Mine I use can provoke this (the last will kill him), as can any punches that Gau/Gogo use after he drops to this HP. Thankfully I can Runic this, so Celes may save me if the circumstances are right.

That's all folks!

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Thanks Tenka!