Goddamned Bats/Video Games/Role-Playing Game/Final Fantasy: Difference between revisions

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* In [[Final Fantasy I|the first]] ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', given the randomization of damage, frequency of encounters, and general [[Nintendo Hard|Nintendo Hardness]] of that game, pretty much every enemy is a Bat. Especially the 9 billion enemy types that can poison you. Or paralyze you.

** None of those hold a candle to the Sorcerers in the first game, which had a random chance to instantly kill you with every attack. Nothing like getting ambushed and losing your entire party before you can even take a turn to make you call them "Goddamned Sorcerers!"

* In ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', for those attempting to level grind by fighting Grand Dragons on Lanar Island, the Gimmie Cat is incredibly annoying. It appears almost as frequently and acts in a way similar to a Friendly Monster (the lack of their unique theme should tip the player off), by asking for a Diamond. If you give it one, it runs away. If you attack it while it's in that mode, it reacts with Comet. You can defeat it by waiting long enough or using a non-damaging command on it (like Steal), and your reward? ''One EXP point.''

* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' has several enemies like this, but the most maddening would have to be the Zaurus in the bonus Omega Dungeon. Terrible EXP, insanely high encounter rate, and very high evasion. Thank god they don't actually ''have'' wings...

* People often complain about Tonberries being nerfed in Final Fantasy X-2. However, by the point you can meet them, they have more HP than anything you'll fight (Including bosses) for a long time (9999), they can be encountered randomly anywhere in the Mushroom Rock Road, can kill or severely injure your characters in one hit and give terrible EXP rewards.

* ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' has some particularly [[Fake Difficulty|evil]] examples. First, the three beastmen strongholds are filled with, well, beastmen. While they only detect by sight or sound, you will soon find out that there are plenty of other enemies that detect by the ''other'' method of detection, making it a scramble to find a spot without enemies at all, which will be next to none. Then there are the areas in the game with undead, which detect by sound and ''low HP'', the blood-aggro being not only a longer radius than sound detection, but also not being able to be covered by a spell (Unless it heals HP, obviously). Then we have the monsters that detect people ''casting magic'' ([[Game Breaker|ninjutsu]] isn't detected, though), which seems to have the same large radius as blood-aggro. By ''Chains of Promathia'' the developers said "screw it" and added monsters that would detect by sight or sound no matter what stealth buff you had on you. ''Treasures of Aht Urghan'' actually had it worse by including not only the above examples, but mobs that could detect by Job Abilities, as well as chigoes, which are microscopically small mobs that are hard to see... and ''can't be targeted'' outside of fighting them. Arrapago Reef is pretty much a giant middle finger to stealth as a whole. And they actually didn't run out of ideas in ''Wings of The Goddess'', as they added gnats, which aggro ''dead people''. As in players, not undead.

** On that subject, Microchus are basically the same, but worse. The real problem is that they're a much more durable than you'd expect from a [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]. (they have around 100,000 HP, ''each'') And you have to deal with them while fighting an [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Ochu]]. Did I mention he's an [[Enemy Summoner]] [[It Got Worse|AND can buff them?]]