Poll of the Day > Say what you will of Necron... FF12 has the worst final boss

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I enjoyed playing FF12 again, smashing Yiazmat in 20 minutes thanks to quad-speed...

But that final boss... I mean, ya. He does nothing for the battle and the heroes gain nothing FROM the battle proper. He's just the appointed enemy...
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Necron wasn't bad. Zemus/Zeromus from FF4 was bad.

Necron was an entity whose sole purpose is to "reboot" the universe. Necron's existence made sense.

what is Zemus/Zeromus? some Sith lord on the moon who feeds evil into Golbez?
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Byron808 posted...

what is Zemus/Zeromus? some Sith lord on the moon who feeds evil into Golbez?

At least it's not an angry tree.

Byron808 posted...

Necron wasn't bad. Zemus/Zeromus from FF4 was bad.

Necron was an entity whose sole purpose is to "reboot" the universe. Necron's existence made sense.

what is Zemus/Zeromus? some Sith lord on the moon who feeds evil into Golbez?

Final Fantasy IV came out in 1991, which was fairly early in the SNES's life cycle. It's not entirely fair to compare him to later final bosses, but even so he still has more backstory and explanation than Necron. When the Lunarians' home planet was destroyed, it was decided that they would enter cryogenic sleep while waiting for Earth's civilization to mature so they could coexist peacefully. Zemus was a Lunarian who opposed this decision, believing that they should just wipe out the puny humans and colonize Earth now. Because of the threat he posed, he was forced into cryogenic sleep at the center of the moon, but even from there, he was able to psychically control Golbez and Kain to carry out his ambitions. He's shown to be fairly cunning, as he engineered Golbez's rise to power in Baron and manipulated them into getting the Water, Air, and Fire Crystals, then manipulated Cecil to get the Crystal of Earth. He also successfully stole the four Dark Crystals and was able to summon the Giant of Bab-il to destroy the world, which was narrowly averted only because every nation came together in the nick of time to fight it off. After Zemus was slain, his feelings of hatred and anger were so powerful they took on a life of their own, giving rise to the evil spirit of Zeromus. Zeromus is hatred incarnate, and will always exist as long as there is hatred in the hearts of humanity. As opposed to the mortal Zemus who wanted to destroy life on Earth so that Lunarians could settle there, Zeromus just wants to destroy everything. As paper thin as that is, we at least know where Zeromus came from and why he wants to destroy everything. Necron just shows up out of nowhere and decides to kill everyone because reasons.

Honestly, Necrons have been shit since the 5E codex wrecked their background.
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Necron is actually a great final boss, if you really think on it. The game is pretty much a game about life, ya know? Finding ones purpose, a reason to live, a reason to exist, your place in the world. Sounds corny, but ultimately, those are the central themes to the story...as are life and death.

Necron is the personification of death. Not just your death, but everyone's death. The end of all things. The end itself. He is the antithesis to everything the story stands for. The final battle is literally life's struggle to overcome death and total oblivion.

It's all really metaphorical, but Necron fits right into the game's story and underlying themes, even if the character itself came completely out of nowhere.
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Selenara posted...

As paper thin as that is, we at least know where Zeromus came from and why he wants to destroy everything.

... and then The After Years takes a shit on that.
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WindMouseHanpan posted...

Necron is actually a great final boss, if you really think on it. The game is pretty much a game about life, ya know?

Maybe, but what you just said applies to a lot of JRPGs, if not most. And even if that was the intent, Necron still didn't have to come out of nowhere. If it wasn't expected for a game to always have a final boss, I really wonder if it would have been in the game at all.

I_Abibde posted...

... and then The After Years takes a s*** on that.

The After Years never happened <____<

Selenara posted...

. If it wasn't expected for a game to always have a final boss, I really wonder if it would have been in the game at all.

the game did have a final boss though

Kuja worked just fine

FF12 has the worst everything.

When I got to the cutscene before the last boss I switched the channel on the TV to Breaking Bad then when I switched back at the commercial the boss was dead and the credits were playing lmao.
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