Useless Useful Spell: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|"Wait, what's this? You only have status-inducing magic spells? Why, those ''suck!''"|''[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/169933 Final Fantasy VII: All About Random Battles]''}}

 

** Provided, of course, you have reflection. If you don't, and happen to run across something that DOES, it's [[Yet Another Stupid Death]].

** Using it on the Death is also case of Too Dumb to Live

* In its early stages, status-inflicting moves and items in ''[[Opoona]]'' are not very helpful. This is especially so since battles are [[Timed Mission|timed]], and there's not a lot of time to waste fiddling around with menus. Then, [[Difficulty Spike|the game decides to stop messing around]], and throws at you parties of 8+ enemies, many of whom can [[Shoot the Medic First|heal]], some of whom deal devestating damage, and many of whom live in battlefields strewn with bombs. Suddenly, the ability to prevent enemies from casting spells looks pretty useful. Poleena also has several abilities which can stun all enemies at once, which is ''extremely'' useful.

* [[The Last Remnant]] easily averts this trope by simply having all status spells and items deal damage as well. There are few magic spells that don't cause some type of status ailment, in addition to causing damage. The staus ailments themselves are quite useful: poison does a decent amount of damage, while sealing an enemy's mystic and combat arts greatly reduces their offensive capabilities.