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[Fro]

I present to you:

The Iron Giant

http://ranobe.sakuratan.com/up/src/up131901.jpg

[Zeromus_X]

Can anyone who's usernames starts with a 'K' translate for us?

Edit: Why can't the Cloud of Darkness have kanji now? ;_;

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Uhm, I'll see what I can do.


Sixth Screenshot
Top of the screen: "Tetsukyojin" (Iron Giant)
Menu: "Tatakau" (Fight), "Mahou" (Magic), "Bougyo" (Defend), "Aitemu" (Item)

Seventh Shot
Top of the screen: "Zenmetsushita..." (Annihilated...)

Eighth Shot
Luneth: "Haahaa...Nandattanda aitsuha..." (Pant, pant... What was that guy?)


From here on, the dialogue gets too kanji-laden for me to translate reliably, although Ingus says something about Prince Allus, and there's a reference to a "Metal Card," which is presumably the Iron Giant's version of the customary useless trinkets you get for killing Final Fantasy super-bosses.

Here's the bestiary shot at the bottom:

Top of the screen: "Monsuta-zukan" (Monster Encyclopedia), "Yarikomide-ta" (Intense Play Data)
No222: "2heddodoragon (2-Head Dragon)
No223: "Ekidona" (Echidna)
No224: "A-riman" (Ahriman)
No225: "Kurayaminokumo" (Cloud of Darkness)
No226: "Tetsukyojin"
Below HP: "Giru" (Gil)
Below EXP: "Jyakuten - Nashi" (Weakness - None)
Below LV: "Kougeki" (Attack)
Below Attack: "Bougyo" (Defense)

"Yarikomi" is usually used to refer to those crazy challenges you see of guys beating Emerald Weapon in two turns and so forth. I don't know how it's supposed to apply here. Maybe you can watch a demo of each boss getting killed very skillfully?

[Captain Maxx Power]

Looks like the characters used were OK's, possibly kitted out in full Onion Gear. The fact that they got annihilated so easily suggests to me that there's some side-quest you have to go through in order to be able to kill him (e.g. Friendly Monsters with Ozma). Still, with 199999 HP it would take a minimum of 20 attacks to kill him with FEOK's, provided they could do 9999 damage per turn to him...

[Fro]

The page I the image from says it's unlocked by sending Mognet letters to Prince Allus http://www12.atwiki.jp/ff3ds/. Apparently once you get the fourth letter from him, it unlocks.

The letters seem to be triggered by some combination of game progression, number of messages sent to friends/number of friends via WiFi/local wireless connection, and time elapsed on the DS's internal clock.

[Sephiroth1999AD]

That's a nice find. Good to see the Onion Knights in action. I hope their weapons and armor aren't as terribly hard to find in DS as they were in the NES version.

[Crossblades]

And they still got beaten even with Max HP

[Elpizo]

Optional Boss (I think)? That's good. Hard optional boss? Even better. Optional boss that can defeat the strongest job in the game with max HP? That'll be a pain. Makes me think of Penance, you know, from X.

I heard the Iron Giant has 130 000 HP. That's quite much, but then again, the Final Boss in the DS version has 130 000 x 2 + 150 000 HP, soooooooo...

I want this game. Difficulty rules.