Zodiark is literally the coolest... if you read his lore, the "Gods" had to keep him imprisoned in his smallest form because they feared the power that he could achieve. a power that could end all existence. in the limit break, you can see he takes on his latter forms, being reborn into an Archangel, then transforming into a Blazing astral Phoenix, then finally intensifying into the Umbral Inferno. with this power, he creates a massive explosion that tears apart the fabric of reality rendering the foe completely Stricken from all existence... if that is not epic... i dont know what is
To this day I personally still feel out of all the Final Fantasy titles, FFXII has the most aesthetically creative, well designed summons/espers. Excellent use of colour palettes, nuances and details, and thematic forms that could've been inspired in the designer if he was high on something. lol.
Indeed he was high, and are always high on their best games, almost all of them! you written all I was philosophically having doubts or not irrefregabilities about the game's quintessential gubernator marvelous esthetism!!! Just look at 3:45!! And the sound of 4:05. 4:09, just... wow.
Each esper has unique and interesting backstories. One quite funny esper is Cuchulainn. It appears that he was created beautiful at first but was tasked to absorb all of mankind's crap and corruption, but it transformed him to a corrupted form of Baymax. The reason he rebelled was pretty much obvious for such a crappy job.
He rebelled because all of the evil he absorbed corrupted him, hence "Cúchulainn the Corrupted", and why he acts like a little kid all the time. He's not evil per se or never wanted to rebel, he just lost his way.
The comment below was actually explaining it: "Zodiark is literally the coolest... if you read his lore, the "Gods" had to keep him imprisoned in his smallest form because they feared the power that he could achieve. a power that could end all existence. in the limit break, you can see he takes on his latter forms, being reborn into an Archangel, then transforming into a Blazing astral Phoenix, then finally intensifying into the Umbral Inferno. with this power, he creates a massive explosion that tears apart the fabric of reality rendering the foe completely Stricken from all existence... if that is not epic... i dont know what is" Said LoneNightFury
This was the most under-appreciated Final Fantady game eever. Each Esper was unique, had a background, and literally can devastate the planet or landscape with powers unimaginable.
lumberluc Most surprising yet, is see they destroying entire cities but not strong enough than 1-2 hits from a sword made by a wannabe sky pirate teenager with badly draw abs.
I mean Vaan himself and his party have some special moves that can destroy the planet 😂😂 even Ashe is using Stars and calling out the heavens and Balthier sending meteors and Vaan almost like doing Volly ball Super Nova and Basch breaking reality with his fists 😂😂
『FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE』 Teaser Trailer here: czcams.com/video/D2-bWotLKqo/video.html It's finally come true! We only have to wait one more year!
Vayne Solidor #Tchau Querida I know this can have be done in PCSX2 (actually i'm playing FFXII-IZJS English Patched in PCSX2), but even if they only do a remaster i'll buy if they sell that on steam, for me this is the best FF and i don't mind buying it only to have it. but a Remake will be really good, too.
The coolest summon attacks, yet the most useless summons in the entire series, literally never even needed to use any of them except for belias to open that gate.
yep cuz they are used like a replacement for 2 other party members which makes the "team" weaker as they are not equal to two party members and die fairly easily even with a max level summoner unlike most other FF games where they are just a flashy super attack
I think Square finally learned from their Mistake. I noticed that in Final Fantasy VII: Remake, Summons are once again going to Fight Along side you like in XII and XIII. Only this time you keep your whole party, so the Summon truly is an Extra Party Member. Which means extra DPS, extra Healing and an extra target to distract enemies.
I watch these from time to time and I am still blown away by what Square did with some of these finishers. Even on the PS2 they completely broke the limits of the hardware. In a way the quality and style of these finishers even surpasses modern gen. Some of the best in the entire FF franchise, if not THE best.
When you're 8 years old and go in the darkest place of Henne Mines and don't understand at all who Zodiark is until he kills you like nothing. Yes that's my Story 😂😂
(6 years later) They have "death blows"? I thought FF XII espers were just useless NPC's that kinda stood around and did virtually no damage to your enemy.
I like FFX because of their background story and a major character, as for FFXII I really appreciate some new original ideas (and... bgnd story). But overall their cool appearance and attacks :p
I love the summons in this game (and the Lucavi in FFT), there is something cosmic and at the same time terrifying and incomprehensible about their design
They are all awesome, but of course Zodiark had to be the most mighty of them all, because he is the "Keeper of precepts"...the supreme beings who created him and the other Espers knew that the moment they unleashed Zodiark to fought the other 12 Espers and stop their rebellion, he would emerge victorious, he is supposed to have greater powers than his other 12 brothers and sisters togheter...In fact I can't think of any other summon/mythological being in any other Final Fantasy game that barely comes close to Zodiark's power....much less knowing that he was deprived of growing older and reach his full power because the supreme beings feared him..... PS: Pardon my bad english
Well there’s knights of the round from ff7 that did potentially 13 hits for 9999 if caster strong enough in magic and anima from ffx oblivion attack also did over 100k dmg
Don't worry about your English skills buddy because you did a far better job than the majority of the natives in the U.S as a bunch of them are absolutely terrible at it but other than that, zodiark is actually the toughest and most powerful of all espers.
@@jussblazzin2430 i wouldnt answer in this case with dmg numbers, every ff game converts dmg different, and in fact, in zodiac age version you can push zodiarks dmg to 999k if done correctly, wiping any none boss monster instanly out of existence. but still, lore is what counts in this context, not a dmg number. yiasmat the last hunt trial in ff12 has the most hps of ALL enemys in the whole franchise and takes good a hour without doubling the gamespeed to defeat, he also has pretty unfair attacks that can insta wipe your group that is out if all stay infront of him and a dmg block at 50% hps that halfs all dmg he takes, what makes the fight even longer than it is. but still, zodiarks lore is aside bahamut, ark and eden the best, doesnt matter the dmg he does in other games. 60k doesnt sounds much compared to other ffs, in 12 it was a good bunge of hps a boss lost, aside the fact he does always maximal dmg against all enemys that arent dark element, so 99.999 with banish ray, and aoe dmg of 49.999 to all enemys around a target enemy. so he does in any case way more dmg then your knights of the round or oblivion over time. + he can heal atleast in 12 your whole party fully up, casts ignore reflect, stage effects and vitality effects on the party and himself, can cast reflect on the party and himself and sets his gambit timer to 0, what triples his attack speed. but like i said, dmg doesnt matter, zodiark is zodiark, literally a god of the universe.
+R. Essel Exodus is my favorite esper, he looks like a boss and his Limit Break is a huge freaking meteor falling from space! Also, his name is pretty badass as well.
+Alexis Mercer yessssss and I was like sooo disappointed when the FFXIII came out and the back to the old separated screen battle, I mean come on its ps3 and they can make a stunning graphics and massive world/area with monsters spawning but when we approach them it back to the old separated screen battle..... FFXII looks more real and liberal like you said, every battle happens very quick and fun without removing the ATB bar, I really love the draw-sword-when-see-enemies battle style, its fast and we can target them from far away. Feels like MMORPG
Catthy Wulan yeah wasn't really impressed with 13 honestly. Like I love final fantasy but none have given me the same, immersive feeling final fantasy 12 has given me. Great worlds, great enemy designs and graphics practically ahead of its time for 2006. And just the fact the amount of effort in it really paid off. Brilliant game honestly. I could go on lol.
I'm playing FFXV so far and I think FFXII is way better, considering it was created in 2006 for the PS2. If this was created for the PS4 with realistic environment and graphics, this would beat FFXV 100x.
Sad to say but I agree with u... I got addicted with FFXII a decade ago now eih? OMG.. and now I bought a ps4 and a tv just to play FFXV but I'm not that excited anymore I chose to watch CZcams vids instead of playing... 😧
I do think FF 12 is a really good game but an awful Final Fantasy, 15 was an unfinished game with no story at all. So i'm willing to give 12 another chance with the new release in ps4. I do think 12 is way better than 15
The reason that Ffxv is a unfinished game is they wanted to make it bigger and longer, but they could not. A game like FFxii would had the same production problem in ps4. The awful of FFXII is that almost anyone remember anything about this game. I forgot the characters, the antagonist and the plot, I only remember the espers and the secret boss.
Eder La Barrera As much as I want to disagree with you, I believe you are right. The only thing I remember about XII as good as it was is Yiazmat, the awful task of farming for the Zodiac Spear and Ultima.
It's been so many years and I've never finished FFXII because I couldn't beat Belias and just gave up. Seeing this video makes me want to dust off my copy of the game and finally understand the combat system this time around being older and wiser and all. Side-note: I'm really loving all of these animations because they remind me of the GF animations from FFVIII
Don't feel bad. I was stuck and unable to beat the final boss of the game for months. I gave up the game for a year. Picked it up one day. And beat the game A few months later. Because for some reason I couldn't beat the final boss of the game and just keeped dieing. When I finally beat him. I almost cried. 😅
+ARMOR15 the difference between this and FF8 in my opinion is that Espers aren't used every battle as you may already know, meaning you enjoy their music + animations just that little bit mawr. Must be nice to read a comment not boasting about how many Espers and ultimate weapons you had.
+ARMOR15 You got stuck on Belias? Damn man, you still have so much more of the game to play! Have your characters have gambits that heal your party with Cura and revive teammates with Raise. Also check vendors repeatedly because they usually restock better stuff as you progress through the story. If you pick it up again, good luck dood.
Nostalgic. As the game progresses, each battle with these Espers make it relatively hard. Being unable to use Attack, Magick, Items, Sap with Ultima having all the restriction shuffled. Zodiark using paling and barrier makes him also damn hard. Not only that, some Esper requires certain conditions to be met before they can do their Ultimate moves. Took me almost forever to know that Exodus needs to the Immobilized. I remember randomly exploring Barheim's Passage and encountered Zalera. Silly me, thinking an undead Esper can be obliterated by a fallen angel - I summoned Ultima to battle only to be dismissed by Zalera's Kill. Hahahaha Same goes for Zodiark. Going in unprepared due to random exploration, I summoned Ultima during his critical health only again to be obliterated by Banish Ray. Indeed, Zodiark is all powerful. Being able to wipe Ultima with one blow. Hahahaha I loved how Zodiark has 12 wings, an allusion to the 12th FF entry in the series.
i mean ye zodiark was not easy, but also not hard if you knew what you are doing, first you need the accessoire to revert potions ability, instead of heal, it does dmg, now you take a remedy to put all debuffs on him he isnt immune against, before you enter the room you also use revert on your party and the provoke on 1 member and disable the heal gambits and swap them out with recasting revert, revert converts all dmg into healing you, doesnt matter what it is(aside his ulti) but for this we have the black mask that absorbs any dark elemental attack, and thats it, this way you can beat him without any trouble
+DJXistance when did they announce that 12 was getting a remake or HD upgrade? that being said I wish it wouldnt it dose not need one it is not that much of a old game plus it was one of the worst games they should give the HD treatment to some of the seriously old ones as new fans are willing to go back to play a ps2 but they are not as willing to back and experience the ps1 ports of the super old ones (1-9) let alone experience them on any system older than ps1
ChaosCloud96 it was kinda leaked through some final fantasy distant world concert, anyways your opinion is kinda dumb about not remaking ff12. there's no reason not to seeing how they are pretty much remaking every ff game anyways, 8 has been confirmed but i dont know about 9 yet, id much rather have ff12 remade even tho the story have have been lacking i had way more fun exploring and engaging in battles in 12 then any other ff
but it plays itself how is that fun? and he world is bi and open but its copy and paste backgrounds, even the dungeons for the most part are all the same the only cool thing about this game is the hunts, its by far and away the worst in the franchise, and it may seem like i hate them game but that is not the case it is still better than most games released around the same time, its jut that it does not live up to the FF name for me
Played this when I was 12.. Zodiark and ultima are my only missing esper. Zodiark is too damn hard to beat, ultima's lair was like a labyrinth I give up finding her. This brings memories.
All of these were so epic, but when i saw Shemhazai i was like "shut up meg". The coolest ones are definitely between Exodus's meteor, Chaos's tornado, Famfrit's gourd and Zodiark's... Whatever that is. I think Zodiark's is the coolest, i'd say. Meteor looks so grandiose though, you see the trees all bend towards the ground right before the impact. Famfrit's gourd is a little lame, but the raging ocean it shows is pretty badass. Belias's hellfire gets a special mention for the aesthetics.
There's the fact almost each of these also represents a major antagonist or final boss throughout the series. The most oblivious ones are Mateus the Corrupt, Zeromus the Condemner, Chaos the Walker of the Wheel, Exodus the Judge-Sal & Famfrit the Darkening Cloud as they are Emperor Mateus, Zeromus, Chaos, ExDeath & The Cloud of Darkness either by name or look. But the others... From their backstories and compared to the others, I have compiled the fallowing: Adrammelech: Kuja Hashmal: Jecht Zalera: Sephiroth Shemhazai: Ultimecia And on a personal note, I equate Ultima to Kefka. Reasons: Both wanted to become god, Ultima's Eschaton is similar to Kefka's Light of Judgement. The only ones I have no counterparts to are Belias, Cúchulainn & Zodiark
+gustinex True no point in using a esper when you can literally just pound the mobs into oblivion with a fully decked out crew XD honestly dont think they balanced the summons right lol.
+Taco Dan that's probably 'cause they abandoned the OP edge of summons in favor of more strategic gameplay. i actually prefer this one, because it makes me have time to better my team, instead of relying on summons to do my work for me. though, yeah, i do kinda miss my OHKO monsters. :)
Imo this is the more difficult FF series. I've never been in such grueling fights before in the regular fields. Enjoyed it very much so though in a different FF way.
my personal favorite are marteus, ultima, zodiark and chaos but my favorite symbols ( the little black tattoos) are chucahclan, exodus,belas and zeromaus
With the lore behind the idea of the Zodiacs in this game, their badass yet unique look and name to each and every one of them, you could just make a Dark Souls game with these things and I think it would fit perfectly
Zalera the Death Seraph has the most metal backstory in FFXII lore about it: “Heretic scion who wrapped the world in dark energies, seeking to take the souls of all living things unto himself. Created in opposition to Emet-Selch, Angel of Truth, and scion of light. Originally tasked with the judging of men upon their deaths, his soul was tainted by the curses of those who raged against the heavens, and seizing one of the gods' servants, a shamaness, as a hostage, he rebelled against his creators. Even now, in defeat, he clutches the shamaness to him in his right arm, and with the aid of her death-wail does he summon the soul of darkness to do his bidding.” So he is a fallen angel who is gripping a shamaness who is constantly being killed by him, her dying wail the source of his power. Pretty goddamn metal.
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this game really pushed the ps2's capabilities back in the day
It did, only thing holding it back was it was pretty blurry.
so true
This game was an example of good programming and optimization. Just imagine something like this today
*Instant erection*
Something like this today.. that's uncharted right? It looks pretty awesome
Zodiark is literally the coolest... if you read his lore, the "Gods" had to keep him imprisoned in his smallest form because they feared the power that he could achieve. a power that could end all existence. in the limit break, you can see he takes on his latter forms, being reborn into an Archangel, then transforming into a Blazing astral Phoenix, then finally intensifying into the Umbral Inferno. with this power, he creates a massive explosion that tears apart the fabric of reality rendering the foe completely Stricken from all existence... if that is not epic... i dont know what is
+LoneNightfury That's amazing
+seraphxl18 lol
Just imagine the power that Valvatorez from Disgaea 4 would get from eating this Sardine then :P.
"This is SARDINE POWER"
+1
Yeah that's all coo and shit but after all you have said it does like 130hp damage
From this date, I still can't explain myself how did my PS2 handle this amount of graphic.
yeah... most beautiful graphic game for ps 2
+Omi Gwiyomi
Shadow of the Colossus?
True.
UlisesSLT
That game was beautiful too
MGS3
To this day I personally still feel out of all the Final Fantasy titles, FFXII has the most aesthetically creative, well designed summons/espers. Excellent use of colour palettes, nuances and details, and thematic forms that could've been inspired in the designer if he was high on something. lol.
Indeed he was high, and are always high on their best games, almost all of them! you written all I was philosophically having doubts or not irrefregabilities about the game's quintessential gubernator marvelous esthetism!!!
Just look at 3:45!! And the sound of 4:05.
4:09, just... wow.
Each esper has unique and interesting backstories. One quite funny esper is Cuchulainn. It appears that he was created beautiful at first but was tasked to absorb all of mankind's crap and corruption, but it transformed him to a corrupted form of Baymax. The reason he rebelled was pretty much obvious for such a crappy job.
Chaos too. His purpose was to live and die in a constant cycle.
my favorite esper,placed it into vaan ahahaha
Ayanda Nxumalo Didn't remember this. Clear reference to FF 1 there.
That's pretty much one of the most recent villains in the series' backstory too.
He rebelled because all of the evil he absorbed corrupted him, hence "Cúchulainn the Corrupted", and why he acts like a little kid all the time. He's not evil per se or never wanted to rebel, he just lost his way.
The most underrated FF summons ever, they were unique, had amazing design, and all felt powerful and epic!
and all of them where completly useless
Heiler Der Welten The real tragedy of FFXII
No, Belias was extremely useful in this game!
For opening Doors of course.
Coolest cutscenes I never got to see!
@@HeilerDerWelten and they need a buff, an extreme buff
I always liked Zodiark's attack even though I have no idea what's going on.
Dude's breaking reality.
The comment below was actually explaining it:
"Zodiark is literally the coolest... if you read his lore, the "Gods" had to keep him imprisoned in his smallest form because they feared the power that he could achieve. a power that could end all existence. in the limit break, you can see he takes on his latter forms, being reborn into an Archangel, then transforming into a Blazing astral Phoenix, then finally intensifying into the Umbral Inferno. with this power, he creates a massive explosion that tears apart the fabric of reality rendering the foe completely Stricken from all existence... if that is not epic... i dont know what is"
Said LoneNightFury
Fajita Falcon Super fish bomb attack is what's happening.
This was the most under-appreciated Final Fantady game eever. Each Esper was unique, had a background, and literally can devastate the planet or landscape with powers unimaginable.
I love FF12 because it's linked to FF Tactics 😊
Still amazing how Vaan and the group managed to get these Espers to work for them.
lumberluc Most surprising yet, is see they destroying entire cities but not strong enough than 1-2 hits from a sword made by a wannabe sky pirate teenager with badly draw abs.
I mean Vaan himself and his party have some special moves that can destroy the planet 😂😂 even Ashe is using Stars and calling out the heavens and Balthier sending meteors and Vaan almost like doing Volly ball Super Nova and Basch breaking reality with his fists 😂😂
"Guys let me summon this Esper so he can drop a meteor on this one wolf with like 10HP"
for science!
『FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE』 Teaser Trailer here: czcams.com/video/D2-bWotLKqo/video.html
It's finally come true! We only have to wait one more year!
This will be a instabuy if they sold that in steam, at least for me.
Vayne Solidor #Tchau Querida It's not a lie but it does look like PCSX2 graphics -_-
Hope they do more!
Vayne Solidor #Tchau Querida I know this can have be done in PCSX2 (actually i'm playing FFXII-IZJS English Patched in PCSX2), but even if they only do a remaster i'll buy if they sell that on steam, for me this is the best FF and i don't mind buying it only to have it. but a Remake will be really good, too.
Vayne Solidor #Tchau Querida Well, let's see how the game will come them.
I'm so happy about that, take my money already😭
The coolest summon attacks, yet the most useless summons in the entire series, literally never even needed to use any of them except for belias to open that gate.
yep cuz they are used like a replacement for 2 other party members which makes the "team" weaker as they are not equal to two party members and die fairly easily even with a max level summoner unlike most other FF games where they are just a flashy super attack
well they're great only by the ffxii izjs
azurephantom100 xxfcvbu
They're useless even then. Never used them or had any reason to use them.
I think Square finally learned from their Mistake. I noticed that in Final Fantasy VII: Remake, Summons are once again going to Fight Along side you like in XII and XIII. Only this time you keep your whole party, so the Summon truly is an Extra Party Member. Which means extra DPS, extra Healing and an extra target to distract enemies.
I watch these from time to time and I am still blown away by what Square did with some of these finishers. Even on the PS2 they completely broke the limits of the hardware. In a way the quality and style of these finishers even surpasses modern gen. Some of the best in the entire FF franchise, if not THE best.
When you're 8 years old and go in the darkest place of Henne Mines and don't understand at all who Zodiark is until he kills you like nothing. Yes that's my Story 😂😂
*plays into Zanarkand
Appreciate the heads up I’m in Henne Mines now LOL
I'll always love the over the top special attack animations in this game.
The music give me goosebumps... all that power!! HAHAHA
Same here!!
+najolesor omg.. same here!
Omg I got chills and TEARS in my eyes!! This moved me to my very soul!!
it's awesome!
And still just 725 of damage ^^
I don't know about the new version but in the origin, let's face it, they were pretty weak.
Just realized most of these summons made it’s way to FFXIV, so cool to see them there (battle music included)
yeah and now i'm trying to connect zodiark's finishing move to ff14 zodiark
Little did we know that Zeromus holds sooooo much power!
全部迫力あってカッコいいですね👍️
Even though Cúchulainn is a big fat green ogre creeper, I'm still proud to be Scorpio
Ikr
I am a Scorpio too.. and i'm proud that Cuchulainn represents our zodiac.. "The Impure" hehe
Scorpios are trash
Donda Nana haters...!!! haha poor soul
Jewelry Valentine - hurt
Ultima l'angelo (della vergine) è chiaramente un omaggio a shaka di virgo di Saint Seiya. memorabile quando apre gli occhi.
i've always loved the espers' scenes... makes me proud that i was able to acquire every one of them
+Miu Bunny I'm libra!!
Just realized famfrit looks like exdeath
I remember when i first saw Zodiarks Final eclipse finisher all those years ago
I was blown away at its awesomeness
It is still awesome to watch
7:01 how the last week of finals hit me.
FFXII was the first Final Fantasy game I ever played. I remember being blown away by it. It'll always have a special place in my heart.
so many people didn't like this game, I loved it!!
STUNNING! 0__0 BEAUTIFULLY-made video!!!
(6 years later) They have "death blows"? I thought FF XII espers were just useless NPC's that kinda stood around and did virtually no damage to your enemy.
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Wonderful work. This is my favourite Final fantasy game thus far. Thank you for your video. I certainly hope FFXV is a good contender. 😆
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+Coouge Thankyou for the this! I do love HD xD. Zodiark..oh man..now i want to replay this game again now, I do miss Chain Misting xD
Thanks guys! Much appreciated!
Imagine being a werewolf ready to hunt and you have Gods summoned to smash you out of existence.
You know you can be proud when “your“ Esper doesn't even bother standing up before he blows away everything in sight with a gigantic tornado!!
Thanks!
I love summons in ffx and ffxii the most. Who's with me? :D
I like FFX because of their background story and a major character, as for FFXII I really appreciate some new original ideas (and... bgnd story). But overall their cool appearance and attacks :p
+kyota75 Aeons are major characters in this one
Lol I love how all the enemies are like helpless wolves and small guys just being totally demolished.
Still the best summons in the whole FF series, love the horoscope theme.
Best summons and summon system ever.
Epic Exodus
I love the summons in this game (and the Lucavi in FFT), there is something cosmic and at the same time terrifying and incomprehensible about their design
Damn i love Chaos's & Exodus's Finishing Move!!!
They are all awesome, but of course Zodiark had to be the most mighty of them all, because he is the "Keeper of precepts"...the supreme beings who created him and the other Espers knew that the moment they unleashed Zodiark to fought the other 12 Espers and stop their rebellion, he would emerge victorious, he is supposed to have greater powers than his other 12 brothers and sisters togheter...In fact I can't think of any other summon/mythological being in any other Final Fantasy game that barely comes close to Zodiark's power....much less knowing that he was deprived of growing older and reach his full power because the supreme beings feared him.....
PS: Pardon my bad english
Well there’s knights of the round from ff7 that did potentially 13 hits for 9999 if caster strong enough in magic and anima from ffx oblivion attack also did over 100k dmg
Don't worry about your English skills buddy because you did a far better job than the majority of the natives in the U.S as a bunch of them are absolutely terrible at it but other than that, zodiark is actually the toughest and most powerful of all espers.
@@jussblazzin2430 i wouldnt answer in this case with dmg numbers, every ff game converts dmg different, and in fact, in zodiac age version you can push zodiarks dmg to 999k if done correctly, wiping any none boss monster instanly out of existence. but still, lore is what counts in this context, not a dmg number. yiasmat the last hunt trial in ff12 has the most hps of ALL enemys in the whole franchise and takes good a hour without doubling the gamespeed to defeat, he also has pretty unfair attacks that can insta wipe your group that is out if all stay infront of him and a dmg block at 50% hps that halfs all dmg he takes, what makes the fight even longer than it is. but still, zodiarks lore is aside bahamut, ark and eden the best, doesnt matter the dmg he does in other games. 60k doesnt sounds much compared to other ffs, in 12 it was a good bunge of hps a boss lost, aside the fact he does always maximal dmg against all enemys that arent dark element, so 99.999 with banish ray, and aoe dmg of 49.999 to all enemys around a target enemy. so he does in any case way more dmg then your knights of the round or oblivion over time. + he can heal atleast in 12 your whole party fully up, casts ignore reflect, stage effects and vitality effects on the party and himself, can cast reflect on the party and himself and sets his gambit timer to 0, what triples his attack speed. but like i said, dmg doesnt matter, zodiark is zodiark, literally a god of the universe.
Let's be real, Ultima is just Bahamut Zero
My fav summons in ff series.
+R. Essel The best looking limit breaks too
+R. Essel Exodus is my favorite esper, he looks like a boss and his Limit Break is a huge freaking meteor falling from space! Also, his name is pretty badass as well.
+R. Essel Where did you find your profile picture?
+R. Essel same here..
hey.. are you guys excited for the new final fantasy for the ps4?
Can't wait to play this game again.
FF12 was, alongside X and VIII, the coolest Final Fantasy worlds to be a part of.
The first game I played on my Samsung Hd tv way back when HD was first introduced. I'll always remember this game for that.
Getting all these espers is insane to do unless you have guide. The animations on these esper attacks are beautiful.
this is the first Final Fantasy which my main character reached level 99. Love the fast leveling system
fast? I think its the slowest leveling system ever.
+Alexis Mercer I mean fast in the battle time and the efficiency of not having random battle animation that basically took time.
Catthy Wulan oh yeah I guess so. I do like the whole, no battle sequences approach. It is more liberal
+Alexis Mercer yessssss and I was like sooo disappointed when the FFXIII came out and the back to the old separated screen battle, I mean come on its ps3 and they can make a stunning graphics and massive world/area with monsters spawning but when we approach them it back to the old separated screen battle.....
FFXII looks more real and liberal like you said, every battle happens very quick and fun without removing the ATB bar, I really love the draw-sword-when-see-enemies battle style, its fast and we can target them from far away.
Feels like MMORPG
Catthy Wulan yeah wasn't really impressed with 13 honestly. Like I love final fantasy but none have given me the same, immersive feeling final fantasy 12 has given me. Great worlds, great enemy designs and graphics practically ahead of its time for 2006. And just the fact the amount of effort in it really paid off. Brilliant game honestly. I could go on lol.
overdrive are very impressives !! so great and beautiful !!!
I'm playing FFXV so far and I think FFXII is way better, considering it was created in 2006 for the PS2. If this was created for the PS4 with realistic environment and graphics, this would beat FFXV 100x.
Coouge I wholeheartedly agree. XV is garbage IMO.
Sad to say but I agree with u... I got addicted with FFXII a decade ago now eih? OMG.. and now I bought a ps4 and a tv just to play FFXV but I'm not that excited anymore I chose to watch CZcams vids instead of playing... 😧
I do think FF 12 is a really good game but an awful Final Fantasy, 15 was an unfinished game with no story at all. So i'm willing to give 12 another chance with the new release in ps4. I do think 12 is way better than 15
The reason that Ffxv is a unfinished game is they wanted to make it bigger and longer, but they could not. A game like FFxii would had the same production problem in ps4. The awful of FFXII is that almost anyone remember anything about this game. I forgot the characters, the antagonist and the plot, I only remember the espers and the secret boss.
Eder La Barrera As much as I want to disagree with you, I believe you are right. The only thing I remember about XII as good as it was is Yiazmat, the awful task of farming for the Zodiac Spear and Ultima.
I always liked the music
thank you
It does look like it has been remastered from the source. Great video.
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Glad to see this many fft references
The best song for all espers! 👍💓
Virgo have much in common with the independent horror movie teeth but at a more titanic scale.
It's been so many years and I've never finished FFXII because I couldn't beat Belias and just gave up. Seeing this video makes me want to dust off my copy of the game and finally understand the combat system this time around being older and wiser and all.
Side-note: I'm really loving all of these animations because they remind me of the GF animations from FFVIII
Wow I've beaten every esper, yiazmat and omega mark xii..guess you have your work cut out.
Don't feel bad. I was stuck and unable to beat the final boss of the game for months. I gave up the game for a year. Picked it up one day. And beat the game A few months later. Because for some reason I couldn't beat the final boss of the game and just keeped dieing. When I finally beat him. I almost cried. 😅
+ARMOR15 the difference between this and FF8 in my opinion is that Espers aren't used every battle as you may already know, meaning you enjoy their music + animations just that little bit mawr. Must be nice to read a comment not boasting about how many Espers and ultimate weapons you had.
+ARMOR15 You got stuck on Belias? Damn man, you still have so much more of the game to play! Have your characters have gambits that heal your party with Cura and revive teammates with Raise. Also check vendors repeatedly because they usually restock better stuff as you progress through the story. If you pick it up again, good luck dood.
+Matthew Scooby how under leveled can one be lol...
Nostalgic.
As the game progresses, each battle with these Espers make it relatively hard. Being unable to use Attack, Magick, Items, Sap with Ultima having all the restriction shuffled. Zodiark using paling and barrier makes him also damn hard.
Not only that, some Esper requires certain conditions to be met before they can do their Ultimate moves. Took me almost forever to know that Exodus needs to the Immobilized.
I remember randomly exploring Barheim's Passage and encountered Zalera. Silly me, thinking an undead Esper can be obliterated by a fallen angel - I summoned Ultima to battle only to be dismissed by Zalera's Kill. Hahahaha
Same goes for Zodiark. Going in unprepared due to random exploration, I summoned Ultima during his critical health only again to be obliterated by Banish Ray.
Indeed, Zodiark is all powerful. Being able to wipe Ultima with one blow. Hahahaha
I loved how Zodiark has 12 wings, an allusion to the 12th FF entry in the series.
i mean ye zodiark was not easy, but also not hard if you knew what you are doing, first you need the accessoire to revert potions ability, instead of heal, it does dmg, now you take a remedy to put all debuffs on him he isnt immune against, before you enter the room you also use revert on your party and the provoke on 1 member and disable the heal gambits and swap them out with recasting revert, revert converts all dmg into healing you, doesnt matter what it is(aside his ulti) but for this we have the black mask that absorbs any dark elemental attack, and thats it, this way you can beat him without any trouble
Hashmal & Exodus are epic.
well this just got me really hyped for the ff12 remake remaster rewhatever :D
+DJXistance i honestly cannot wait... i want to see what the trophies for ff12 would be... wanna get platinum on this game...
Holy shit, you ain't kidding!!! I actually got teary-eyed watching this, because I was so moved by how beautiful and powerful it was!!
+DJXistance when did they announce that 12 was getting a remake or HD upgrade? that being said I wish it wouldnt it dose not need one it is not that much of a old game plus it was one of the worst games they should give the HD treatment to some of the seriously old ones as new fans are willing to go back to play a ps2 but they are not as willing to back and experience the ps1 ports of the super old ones (1-9) let alone experience them on any system older than ps1
ChaosCloud96 it was kinda leaked through some final fantasy distant world concert, anyways your opinion is kinda dumb about not remaking ff12. there's no reason not to seeing how they are pretty much remaking every ff game anyways, 8 has been confirmed but i dont know about 9 yet, id much rather have ff12 remade even tho the story have have been lacking i had way more fun exploring and engaging in battles in 12 then any other ff
but it plays itself how is that fun? and he world is bi and open but its copy and paste backgrounds, even the dungeons for the most part are all the same the only cool thing about this game is the hunts, its by far and away the worst in the franchise, and it may seem like i hate them game but that is not the case it is still better than most games released around the same time, its jut that it does not live up to the FF name for me
楽しみ:-)
With Zalera's ability, after the scream....did anyone else hear a Kekfa laugh? o.0
It's at 5:18 I think
Love the Espers from FF 12 😍
Very cool, I enjoyed this game a lot.
FF12 is peak godhood character design
Square Enix always know how to create a good ones
Played this when I was 12..
Zodiark and ultima are my only missing esper.
Zodiark is too damn hard to beat, ultima's lair was like a labyrinth I give up finding her.
This brings memories.
Just watching Zodiark's scene filled me with a very real sense of existinal dread and I don't know quite how to feel about that...
All of these were so epic, but when i saw Shemhazai i was like "shut up meg". The coolest ones are definitely between Exodus's meteor, Chaos's tornado, Famfrit's gourd and Zodiark's... Whatever that is. I think Zodiark's is the coolest, i'd say. Meteor looks so grandiose though, you see the trees all bend towards the ground right before the impact. Famfrit's gourd is a little lame, but the raging ocean it shows is pretty badass. Belias's hellfire gets a special mention for the aesthetics.
There's the fact almost each of these also represents a major antagonist or final boss throughout the series. The most oblivious ones are Mateus the Corrupt, Zeromus the Condemner, Chaos the Walker of the Wheel, Exodus the Judge-Sal & Famfrit the Darkening Cloud as they are Emperor Mateus, Zeromus, Chaos, ExDeath & The Cloud of Darkness either by name or look. But the others... From their backstories and compared to the others, I have compiled the fallowing:
Adrammelech: Kuja
Hashmal: Jecht
Zalera: Sephiroth
Shemhazai: Ultimecia
And on a personal note, I equate Ultima to Kefka. Reasons: Both wanted to become god, Ultima's Eschaton is similar to Kefka's Light of Judgement.
The only ones I have no counterparts to are Belias, Cúchulainn & Zodiark
Jarock316 wow very cool!!
2:57
“Anyone thirsty?“
Lmao that wolf got fucking obliterated. On topic tho, I never had to use espers in the game. They're weak af
+gustinex True no point in using a esper when you can literally just pound the mobs into oblivion with a fully decked out crew XD honestly dont think they balanced the summons right lol.
+Taco Dan that's probably 'cause they abandoned the OP edge of summons in favor of more strategic gameplay. i actually prefer this one, because it makes me have time to better my team, instead of relying on summons to do my work for me. though, yeah, i do kinda miss my OHKO monsters. :)
+Taco Dan that is a good point: )
+gustinex Except for Zodiark. Dude uses scathe all the time. Deals 9999 damage all the time lol
They are a lot better in IZJS version where you can fully control them, change their gambits and fire their limit at will.
GREAT
Gosh dern This gave me a nostalgia trip. Got 10 out of all 13. Might 100% this gem on my pc.
Ultima just looks like she took an eye opening dump of the millennium on her foe.
im excited
Interesting
Ps2 version was so good that the remaster literally looks -ALMOST- the same lol
Still my favorite FF of all time. I gave hundreds of hours of my life into this bad boy during the ps2 era. ;D
That poor skeletal warrior, just standing there as Ultima fires off her butt-cannon at him.
Dude got wrecked.
OK, the Esper Gemini looks totally AWESOME. Hands down to the floor.
Imo this is the more difficult FF series. I've never been in such grueling fights before in the regular fields.
Enjoyed it very much so though in a different FF way.
Nah early FF game are way harder then FF12.
FFX-2 is more difficult then FF12.
Ultima, Exodus and Zodiark was simple badass
Geez!!! So pretty and so epic!!
Famfrit pouring water can be such dramatic event.
6:23 "Can I offer you an egg in this trying time?"
Very nice. Nothing beats Yojimbo tho :D
Sensacional
My favorite game, i can't wait for the Ps4 version, the graphics still amazing after all these years, i can't belive it. :D
My favorite game as well, very enjoyable platinum as well.
my personal favorite are marteus, ultima, zodiark and chaos but my favorite symbols ( the little black tattoos) are chucahclan, exodus,belas and zeromaus
For the longest time I never drew the connection between the Espers and the Zodiac. Egads!
Especiales Perfectos y Música Épica perfecta, mas no se puede pedir de este juego.
With the lore behind the idea of the Zodiacs in this game, their badass yet unique look and name to each and every one of them, you could just make a Dark Souls game with these things and I think it would fit perfectly
THIS ISTHE MOST UNBELIEVABLE BUST MOVIE SEQUAL I HAVE EVER INTEISPITHED IN LYFE
The best final fantasy in term of gameplay. And it's the zodiac version yay!
I think I'll get it. I liked it when I first played it
It reminds me how difficult is defeating Zodiark back in the day. No save point. And how silly i am miss the zodiac spear. Lol.
召喚獣それぞれが十三光導になぞらえてあるのが好き。殆どの召喚獣使い物にならないけど
Zalera the Death Seraph has the most metal backstory in FFXII lore about it:
“Heretic scion who wrapped the world in dark energies, seeking to take the souls of all living things unto himself. Created in opposition to Emet-Selch, Angel of Truth, and scion of light. Originally tasked with the judging of men upon their deaths, his soul was tainted by the curses of those who raged against the heavens, and seizing one of the gods' servants, a shamaness, as a hostage, he rebelled against his creators. Even now, in defeat, he clutches the shamaness to him in his right arm, and with the aid of her death-wail does he summon the soul of darkness to do his bidding.”
So he is a fallen angel who is gripping a shamaness who is constantly being killed by him, her dying wail the source of his power. Pretty goddamn metal.
So basically, a scion of darkness.