Seriously? Is this, like, the acid test for any so-called “hardcore gamer”? Well, I have actually completed Um Jammer Lammy, but when I got my PSP video lead this was something I wanted to capture once I was done with the FFVII playthrough, just for being such a cruel, cruel way of telling you you failed.
Every. Game. Are they trying to say that it’s supposed to be so easy that it’s completion should be a fundamental skill in any gamer? Hmm.
So we’re still trying to buff and recover from that last Super Nova, throwing Ethers and Cures around and setting up Big Guard, but when he casts it again at 2:40…well, I didn’t fancy Barret’s chances much. Amazingly, we all survive and I spend ages rifling through my items, looking for a Megalixir and wondering why I didn’t bother arranging my inventory. At 5:17 he uses a new skill, Heartless Angel, which reduces the party’s HP to 1, which made the timing of the Megalixir pretty lucky. I finally get a chance to throw a few limits at Sephiroth and set up Big Guard, and then it’s all over. And, well, you’ve seen the ending, but if not, I captured that a while ago for another YouTube user, so go to http://www.youtube.com/user/gameendings and check it out!
Ladies and gentlemen, we are doomed. We didn’t cast Big Guard in time and only one of us has full HP, and Sephiroth has only gone and cast yet another Super Nova. Jesus Christ. Thankfully we manage to survive it without being knocked unconscious or suffering any status effects, which is pretty remarkable considering. Yuffie hits back with another Shadow Flare and I spend a while trying to get our party back in shape with Cures, Ethers and Big Guards. Yuffie barely survives Sephiroth’s own Shadow Flare, making me think I really need to cure quickly, so Clear Tranquil couldn’t have come at a better time. After another handy Level 4 from Barret, we buff like mad in anticipation of the next Super Nova at 6:30, and somehow survive, granting us time for another buff…