FSI - Killing Zure First Fight

I decided to replay the game before moving onto FSII since I never beat that. Figured I'd try something difficult. Before the final battle with Zure, you're supposed to lose to him once but I thought I'd try to beat this version too.

Leveled my party to 65 each. Each has Divine Armor, Circlet, Sharenian Shields and Final Weapons upgraded twice.

Slash Blast still 1-shots my team at 2k+ damage but Darkness does 1-1.2k which all of my party lives barely. One full rotation of 7 Dragon SR Spells does almost 50% of Zure's health.

My strategy was to spend 1 full rotation of SR skills, get hit by Darkness to up my SR back to 75%+ and then do a second rotation and hope the numbers roll well enough in both rotations to kill him. From there, the swords are easy.

What actually happened: 1 full rotation brings him to almost half. He does a regular attack and knocks out Royke. I Final Strike with Zeru, Pheonix Feather Royke with Serene and Tuna Soup to full heal the party with Antlan. He uses Darkness and my party all goes low. A second rotation of final weapon SRs was enough to take out Zure. From there it was easy.






As you can see in the end, the story doesn't progress unless you lose but you get exp and money at least. (Unlike Drena in FSII apparently. I actually didn't even remember or see my old post until I was just making this one.)



For proof that I beat the first Zure fight and not the second one you're supposed to beat. (Compare the HP, MP and SR to the screen where I beat him. See that I'm able to fight him again after.)

The actual fight after became a joke. Darkness did single digit damage to my party.

Whoah nice, I didn't expect someone to pull that off. And that is around nearly 9 years after FSI was released :sweats: I wonder if it's possible to pull that off in "impossible" to defeat bosses in FSII (One being Drena the one I remember right now), FSIII and FD.

The other possible impossible fights are the first Zure encounter which may be doable since he only uses 99 Slashes of the Dark Dragon if I remember correctly. You probably would just spam Phoenix Feathers and never get wiped since he only kills 1 of your party every turn. I don't remember if you're able to do significant damage to him though. I suppose if you trained your party high enough. Your weapons would be significantly weaker though since the final weapons haven't been unlocked yet.

I think the second impossible fight at the end where Xeru comes in after the first impossible fight is probably not doable though because it's the same fight as the first that just beat but you can't 2-shot Zure with only Xeru.

Though since you mention it, I might try stuff like this again in my FSII run. I already beat Drena once in my past post apparently even though I was using some sorta glitch or something. I don't remember exactly. Currently trying to find the Toy Sword before transfering files. Trying to complete all content before I move on. (Unlocked all skills and gathered extra gear for the transfer.. etc)

Edit: WOA WHAT. I swear I checked this place before. Is the Toy Sword not obtainable before post-game? I was considering trying to find it to see if it'd help beat Zure "impossible" mode but I ended up giving up and beating him without it anyway.



Also random question, what was supposed to be #8 in the Monster Book? (Since it skips from 7 to 9)

From what I see from my old dev files there's no requirement for the Toy Sword. You can get it when you get in to the room.

As for the monster book #8 the monster is the Nocturnal Snail. In which I'm not sure if there's actually an enemy encounter of that mob in the actual game.

Oh I meant as in you can't actually enter Zeru's House until post-game. I tried loading up a save file from earlier and checking the same spot. Doesn't work.

Yeah, you need to clear the game with the good ending first.