Samson Wood actually I've only played through the whole game once and beat her first try. I don't know the struggle lol. Actually haven't games over even once yet and all that left for me is sin I assume. That's where it wants me to go on the airship so I guess it's the final boss.
Not sure how many times you lost but after my 4th attempt at trying to defeat her , my buddy (who hasn't played ANY final fantasy game in his life) grabs the controller and beats her on his first try, I was dumbfounded. Lol
Which is why he slings his arm in his jacket. It's to represent that he failed his master (Braska) and he lives with that shame that he couldn't save them.
Allah: Which nation must be destroyed Putin : Ukraine USA : I will not let you get away with murder Allah : Then you shall be destroyed too USA : For the sake of humanity Nuke both Russia and Iran !
Allah: Which nation must be destroyed Putin : Ukraine USA : I will not let you get away with murder Allah : Then you shall be destroyed too USA : For the sake of humanity Nuke both Russia and Iran !
There is nothing deep about it. Sin and humanity's "impurity" is an empty excuse created by religions to keep the population in check. "You are impure so you must atone, not be greedy, and not desire too much." This lie is exactly what the writers of this game wanted to criticize.
God this bitch made me so angry every damn time i played through the game..... Remake came out and once i faced her my body filled with hatred that was felt throughout the faiths. My girl Rikku used her divine trio of 9999. Lulu laugh hysterically as she casted 10 fire spells on yunalesca; Braska was proud and scared at the same time. Time stood still. Bahamut couldnt move. Yunalesca what happened?.... Bitch couldnt get the licence plates of the truck that hit her. It was soooo rewarding.
+Damien John umm, my Yuna was strongest character in the game. I had here complete her sphere grid, plus Auron's, and Lulu's by this point in the game. Her regular attacks were doing 9999. I also had everyone elses sphere grid completed so this boss battle was easy
What I love about the Yunalesca fight's mechanics is that they completely fit the theme of Yevon and Spira as a whole. Yevon preaches healing and faith as evidenced by Yunelesca's use of Curaga, which becomes more sinister due to the stagnation of zombification. The status ailments are Yevon's deceptions. Yunalesca herself embodies what Yevon appears like on the surface but gradually rises to reveal the rot and gnawing at it's roots. The use of Zombification to counter Mega Death means that you are damned if you do, damned if you don't. Your characters will die one way or another and you have to repeat this cycle until Yunalesca finally falls or you do. Spira's spiral of death everybody, manifest in this very boss fight.
@@antonyduhamel1166 That’s how I did it, too. I’ve never been skilled at final fantasy games, and my party is always massively under-leveled at the later stages because I never farm experience.
I loved this fight. Turns you into zombies and tries to kill you with heals. You can stop the damage with reflect, but then she heals herself. If you insist on not being zombies so you can heal yourself, she kills you with mega death. It really plays with the themes she represents too. False hope with "cures" that bring death, and pretty much needing to have characters die and revive in a cycle of life and undeath similar to the whole final summoning loop.
if u use grand summon on bahmut at that point u can usally one shot the second and third form with 2 imidiate overdirives if uve trained bahmuts abilities at that point
And yet she herself refuses to die. In the game it is said that the unsent come to resent and hate the living, and that's why they become fiends. Think of how much she hates all life to have such a monstrous form. After so many years of undeath as a recluse, it is little wonder that she is completely detached from the rest of Spira.
This game had so much great character development. Some of the best in all of media. Watching Wakka literally fight Yunalesca is CRAZY considering how far he's come along from worshiping Yevon as if it could do no wrong. He seemed to get motion sickness every time his beliefs were cracked learning new information. Funny how right before the fight he had the most lines. It's fitting. Auron finally coming out of his reserved behavior and bringing back his spunk from his young days even as an old spirit. Lulu finally gets a chance to save Yuna and redeem herself from letting her former summoner be killed. Rikku gets to fulfill the Al Bhed's wishes by protecting the summoner. Khimari is ALWAYS ON SIGHT when it comes to protecting Yuna. He's the first one up, always. He's the one who protects Yuna even over any teachings or self-doubt. Tidus was the agent of change. Every since he showed up he caused a shake-up. This scene is everything he's been symbol of up until this point all built up for a final exposition. He's an Aeon facing an agent of non-change, Yunalesca. Yuna is one of, if not the, strongest female (or even male) character in any media. She saw through the pilgrimage even though she would be an enemy of the entire world, go against literally everything that made her a summoner, risk DYING, and even if she lives, she will no longer be a summon, so she will be throwing everything away no matter what. Having to summon her aeons one by one was like a long cut, watching every part of her journey, every final step in her temple runs fade along with the teachings that they stood for. Being willing to die for your life's cause is admirable, but this is a sacrifice that acts as a different kind of death and this strength all packaged in a soft, "fragile" woman.
@@Darkblade-8558 you mean the official fanfiction that literally seems like it was written to totally undermine the unity of the main couple in FFX AND the subsequent developments in FFX-2? Yeah, let's just keep acting like that trash doesn't exist.
She's my favourite boss in this game actually. Awesome music, awesome lines by Auron and it was the turning point where the protagonists finally admitted that the whole pilgrimage was pointless.
What's kinda sad is that Yunalesca, at the end of the day, isn't truly evil: She, like everyone else who knows the truth, honestly believes that Sin is eternal, that the cycle cannot be broken or humanity will die. She has more or less given up all hope that Sin could ever be destroyed, and that a lie that gives hope is better than a truth that brings utter despair. She truly believes that by perpetuating the cycle, she's doing the right thing.
All of this kinda loses meaning when Yunalesca, unprovoked, decided that Yuna and her party deserved to die simply because they decided they didn't want the final Aeon.
When you remember that Yu Yevon is her own father, that adds a whole other level to it. Is she trying to honour him? Or did she oppose him, then give in to her own despair and keep the cycle going?
@@VaatiOfDarkness I thought they teamed up to create Sin from Yevon, Yunalesca being the first to "defeat" him, resulting in a religion (more like cult) that worships them for ages to come.
follow the last news, Yunalesca didn't actually form Yevon religion or know about it. Someone created it after her death. They rewrote her story, Yevon and Machina War. She only knows about it when some summoners reached Zanarkand and told her. But she agrees with Yevon's teaching. Follow what she said in this clip, we know that she and Zaon tried to defeat Sin. But Final Aeon is the best way they discovered to do. She become unsent just to help people can continue defeat Sin with Final Aeon.
Its because of his speech that I was able to beat Yunalesca on my very first try so many years ago, even though during my first play through when I was like 9 or 10 and got my ass kicked around by the Sinspawn fiend in the Mihen operation, fucking Seymour and ofcourse the damn worm of Bevelle. I was amazed fast I defeated her.
if it make you feel better he kicked my ass too. i had to level my characters to get past i was stuck there for a while. never will i forget sinspawn gui
My 12 year old self would've agreed with you. Rewatching it after beating this game made me realize that Aaron maybe speaking to himself more than anyone else.
Auron: NOW this it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands! As someone who had suicidal thoughts, this line really means a lot to me!
It was a really good way to live, I mean they were fighting the teachings of god at the end of it and god near the end and gods creations, sin etc... And they were just mortals who were together but each had a story a life and those stories came together and became one story, the pilgrimage. Just freaking good... What a crappy journey to die and be free of pain, not even seeing the end of the pilgrimage, no matter how much it hurts you fight your sorrow the thing that hurts you most until you become like a rubber band to your life and resist all it has to give you.
Not really. A religious system with a salvific tradition maybe but overall not really. Actual religions have no empirical evidence to suggest that there is a supernatural being who when you place faith in it, it will spare you from some undesirable circumstance, whether temporal or eternal. In the world of ffx you can clearly see that's it's traditions do work eg. A summoner using the final aeon does defeat Sin and that the undesirable consequence of living a particular lifestyle does occur in tangible (and not spiritual) way eg. dense population centres and advanced technology attracts sin to destroy such things. The problem is that the religious beliefs of Yu Yevon isn't a final solution eg. The final summoning doesn't permanently defeat Sin. The cult of Yevon is working on what Yunalesca has discovered to work and unlike our religious belief systems based on some kind of salvific economy it is provable and evident. It is clear that Yunalesca and Mika both hold two pieces of the puzzle that offered the final solution to Sin. I think Yunalesca upheld the ideology of the cult of Yevon for a mixture of reasons: 1) partly because it honoured her father eg all of Spira could unwittingly acknowledge what a great man he was having defied the aggressive ambitions of Bevelle 2) mocking bevelle as it now served as the religious centre fo the cult of Yevon 3) because she herself didn't make a leap of logic that there could be another way to defeat Sin by realising that Yu Yevon is merely using aeons as armour and by eliminating all potential hosts could you directly attack Yu Yevon 4) Yu Yevon was her father and keeping him in this world honoured him, even if that meant he had to exist in a corrupted form 5) the summoner's pilgrimage gave Spirans who observed a summoner's journey hope and that the final summoning actually worked - not a perfect solution but what what else have Spirans got?
If you want turn based RPGs you literally have to look to indie game companies they make them a lot and there cheap but the quality is like SNES PS1 era better than nothing tho I guess I'm not happy with modern RPGs either a few gems but that's about it
For me, best twist in a Final Fantasy game!! I so expected them to find the answer here, and Yunalesca's like, "NOPE!!" And I had a new respect for Yuna after this scene.
***** yeah. I don't know if I would have had the strength or courage to actually defy Yunalesca...it's like how do you say no to a demi goddess? Especially when you know of no other way to fight Sin? Yeah..Yuna had guts.
I'm glad somebody said it they need to do more than stay are totally in my opinion Rudy RPG games for PS4 and hopefully not for PS5 they need to keep it like this this was Classic this work this was the shit
I love how yunalesca talks. The emphasis on every letter. So well spoken. So calm. The fact shes badass in battle makes her so much greater. Like shes not afraid of anything so no need to be angry when being confronted.
Me: Sh*t this is really hard (only Yuna left on my party) The aeon I only have is this stupid Yojimbo. Summon Yojimbo Yuna Paid 1000gil Yojimbo used Zanmato Yunalesca Defeated Me: What? What is Zanmato? A 1hit K.O? Whhhhaaaaat? I beat Yunalesca? WT? What kind of attack was that? OMG!!!! This what really happened when I beat Yunalesca.
jassy xoxo idk,, i just got lucky on that battle i guess since after battling yunalesca, i keep summoning yojimbo and paying him higher amount but still, he can’t do zanmato anymore.
my team was literally dead. all characters had zombie status and had very little life. I've also finished all antidotes and panaceas. so i summoned yojimbo and gave him a lot of gil because i didn't think i would win (i gave him 169690 gil for the meme lol) and he did zanmato so I beat Yunalesca (Sorry for my English)
I always think Yunalesca is the very interesting character. She and Yuna, two girls have the same name, but follow different ideas. Both of them have their lover, the men ( Zaon, Tidus) were believe and gave their soul to them ( Lesca, Yuna). But Yunalesca began the chaotic age, and Yuna ended it. " you better die in the hope, more than live in the despair." Why we don't have any game about Yunalesca's story. How she live and die, see her nation be destroyed, her father became the Sin, and her husband died because of her. It will be very great story, i think.
I played this game on cheats as a kid yet it was my favorite game & I beat it at least 12 times. story in this game is by far one of the best storylines I've ever had the pleasure to experience. so many different aspects of it that make it incredible
Not quite yunalesca tried to end it the best she could, by creating the final summoning, her downfall was that after a thousand years she had become stuck in her ways, and possibly slightly mad
+nessunday Overton The game's really an amazing story, and relatable to today about religion and a lot of religions today, and how those beliefs and ideals shaped a lot of cultures to how they are today. A lot of wars, violence and problems have stemmed from religion and different beliefs, that when people get to the core of where they came from, they would realize it's not what they thought, and how so much time can get people stuck in false ways and beliefs.
Actually Yunalesca wished to end things at the beginning. An in depth " fanmade" story that covers a HECK of a lot to do with her, but also follows alot of timelines and how they interlink and so on! Look up Renmiri.
I never finished the game and havent played since it first came out. The criticisms of religion are obvious but what about Sin, isn't he population control? And the purity that humanity can never reach is that when we overpopulate, self destruction follows? When a new group of heroes defeats the old just to recreate it again - that's like how one idealogy gets overthrown by an uprising, only to find themselves stuck in the same corrupt paradigm as the old, while they become the thing they "defeated" buying only a brief period of peace for the average peopple. Hope is the belief that they can do things differently if they sacrifice themselves, and yet history has shown that it never does.
@@wawanskylar2815 With 86 hours yes whew and that sir Jecht guy took me 2 hours to beat after me getting hit by his overdrives almost killing my squad and I repeat 2 hours of playing that battle and winning but atleast the music reminded me of wrestling though then I I had to sacrifice all my aeons and that took almost an hour. Now I’m finally in this monster arena thing and one or two monsters took me an hour to beat💀💀💀💀💀 still fun though cause the music and my thoughts.
I got teary-eyed while watching this, oh the memories...This game definately deserved to be remastered. Too bad we don't get games like this anymore. "Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow." That was one of the most powerful memorable quotes in the entire game. A quote that I needed hear again.
I remember on my first play through, I was so relieved when I beat her 2nd form, but then her transformation (which was scary as fuck to me back then hahaha) 15:58 scared the shit out of me and destroyed what little hope I had left because I was so under leveled and had BARELY survived the 2nd phase lmao, and ended up getting killed on the third phase. I had to rewatch the cutscene I think 4 -8 times (don't remember XDDD) Ah good times. But when I bought the remaster for PS3, I schooled her this time! ahaha
I love the way this fight represents the hidden dark part usually present in neverchanging dogmas, such as the one which is the driving force behind the plot.
This scene influenced me a lot: I still have shivers thinking about Auron's past journey. Religion, hope, corruption. It's all mixed and there's no answer, except: "Freedom"
MattSD Pell Solution lies within darkness, all summoners have followed the known (light) path, although Tidus' party chose to walk down the unknown path and found a way to get rid of Sin forever.
+Thomas Attenborough Let's not let such silly things like environment hazards get in the way of giving videogame characters smexy armors and metal bikinis shall we? :P
I love how this game gave you the impression that the plot twist was for Yuna to die, to them have a double plot twist at the very end. This game really hit hard in the feels.
I cried when the group eventually told Tidus in Home. I thought it was gonna be a typical wreck house then live happily ever after but then Yuna didn't die and I cried again...
Julia Havens I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that, Yuna was way more expressive before, specially her eyes and mouth, now she looks like she can't frown even
Auron's line is so amazing if you consider what he experienced himself with Jecht and Braska. He speaks of dying to be from pain or live to fight sorrow. Auron, he who refuses to die but faces his sorrow instead of being freed by dying. All so he can uphold his promise. The way he addressed everyone to choose their own stories in hindsight shows what his own pilgrimage with Braska and Jecht has taught him and how he has grown himself. You could also tell from his tone that this was personal for him and that it's either now or never where the fate of Spira will be decided. Also, his VA is so goddamn amazing in that scene IMO compared to everyone elses.
Also considering that Yunalesca killed Auron previously, it’s like Auron is letting the party know “y’all gotta bring your A game to this being, cus this is where I lost my life”
Why the fuck are their faces way more detailed in the original compared to this? Never understood that. Tech now is so much more advanced then it was back in 1999-2000, yet the faces look almost dead. Hell, Auron's face is the most detailed and has the most expression, and he's Stoic and actually DEAD..
Should have only casted reflect on members afflicted by zombie. Her AI was so stupid she was casting cure on non-afflicted members, without reflect she would have ended up healing them. The fight got prolonged cause heals kept bouncing off and healing herself instead.
Mikael Eklund I died so many times because of her mega death, curaga, and hellbiter. Hellbiter turns you into a zombie, and this ailment cannot be dispelled so you have to make that character die and revive him/her again. When you think that it's gonna be okay, she twinkle her finger to you, summon death, kill all your party members and you cried in frustration....it's happened before...
I remember being so mad when this happened to me lol. This video's strat of keeping some members in the Zombie state worked. I just summoned an Aeon to finish off her previous form as death doesn't work on Aeons.
I love the theme of the entire encounter. A crossroads between the worlds of the living and the dead. It's especially cool to me how you've actually kind of gotta embrace the Zombie status affliction and avoid healing your characters. A rejection of false hope means having to play this boss fight in a unique way and reject healing your characters. Because once that Mega-Death arrives, you're screwed if you're not already undead!
Don't understand why they ever decided to go away from games like these over the new Final Fantasy games. Turn based and simple combat and the story is awesome.
The opening scene to this fight is a metaphor for the battle against depression its feels everlasting and endless you take one battle after the other and it feels like it never changes but in some they rise above the challenges and defeat sorrow in place of others who have died for it
This fight had its suprises but i got through it with ease after i figured out how to fight it. I had more problems with the seymour battles. Fuck seymour
Much respect for this creatively, something I’ve grew up with, that I can look back, and still love. Also thank you to the artist that posted this on RU-vid.
Julia Fletcher is a really great, yet Underrated Voice actress. She's awesome as Lady Yunalesca and as Carmilla in Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. It's a shame she hasn't been doing any voice work since Final Fantasy 13. She clearly deserves more roles.
I hate this fight. It wouldn't be so bad if I just had to repeat it a few times to get it right, but the unskippable sequence before the fight kills me.
Alex Griffin No the dialouge when you're about to fight Yunalesca is 3 minutes long All the dialouge combined is like 10 minutes (But I can save after those)
Yunalesca was tough, but I'd argue that, by comparison, Seymour Flux is far more difficult. Seymour Flux dealt high-damage attacks that damaged the entire party. Hell-biter is a rough spell, but at least it doesn't deal high damage. Also, Yunalesca won't cast any full-life spells like Flux will after a party member has contracted Zombie status effect. From my experience, Yunalesca is a push-over compared to Seymour Flux who gave me seven game overs.
+TitanMaster4554 Playing the HD remaster after 1 year, and I still hate it. Tried first go, got to about ~1.5k of her final form's health left before megadeath. Guess I'll have to grind, or at least get my overdrives ready on everybody. Went in without ready overdrives, so maybe that's the problem.
Fun fact: you can get holy early with 3 things a white mag sphere(lets a party member learn a white magic spell already learned), a lev 3 key sphere, and rikku near sphere grid location near holy then done
aaah, this boss. I still remember breaking my friend's tooth for telling to equip all my characters with curseproof before fighting her. good 'ol times.
youreveningcoat I can't tell if your talking about the original or the HD (remix) one. But if your talking about the HD one, how is it more more intense then the original? Have to heard the original? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QlCAGgGkACM.html that build up before the drums and guitars comes in, was great. Especially when you hear it right before you fight the boss. This remix version, there really isn't any build up and it's more subtle then the original. To me, the remix version makes you feel no weight to the boss. It feels less threatening and it doesn't pull you in like the original does. In the original version you felt like you were probably going to get your ass kicked and hell alot of players did more then once. I also notice something weird after beating this boss in the original and then in the HD one. Lady Yunalesca feel way harder in the original. In the HD one, she's a push over. I didn't even have to try. Very pathetic. They dumb her down in the HD version. *So no, I think it's just you*
This scene is so good that I actually liked replaying it over and over again, after being defeated by Yunalesca. Seeing the final truth about Sin and the Aeons revealed and Auron's demise, while trying to avenge his friends, was mindblowing. I would love to see a Final Fantasy X-III game telling the story of Braska, Auron and Jecht.
When you realize that if Yunalesca had simply let Yuna and her guardians go rather than try to kill them, she would have still been able to give later summoners the Final Aeon.
SOS defenses, Grind for holy on Yuna so Lulu can learn it to easily crush her. After losing to her so many times my first run of this game, I ALWAYS made it a point to grind Yuna in zanarkand up to Holy and use a friend sphere for Lulu so both of them could use holy. 9999 damage every time they take a turn = quick fight.
“LET ME BE YOUR LIBERATOR” 😔 I’ve heard that countless times tryna beat Yunalesca back in 2001. Definitely the hardest boss in the main story (not including optional bosses)
"Now this is it! Now...is the time to choose: due and be free of pain, or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!" Amazing how Auron reiterates "Now...now...now..." he, who's a shadow of the past, and who knows that there isn't a real present for him and even less a future. And Wakkah...oh men...the closest and narrowest mind of the game...finally breaks out and decides for real freedom
Nice fight. I beat Yunalesca again yesterday on the HD remaster, and it was so easy, so i did the same thing as you with a savedata from previous hours
