#1221: "Witnesses to our victory!"

[Regulus Tera]

Wait, I thought the "use cure/phoenix down/whatever" trick on the final boss only worked in Mystic Quest.

I'll shut up now!

[PyrosNine]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

Wait, I thought the "use cure/phoenix down/whatever" trick on the final boss only worked in Mystic Quest.

I'll shut up now!

No, the actual trick with four white mages is that there are magical staffs and weapons that can cast non white magic spells for free, that can use the White Mage's magic power to increase their attack. The white mages can also have at least a potent staff attack, use holy, and naturally have plenty of cure spells to keep themselves alive.

The battle ends up being a war of attrition, whittling down Chaos.

Of course, these aren't just white mages, as each of them has extra skills beyond that of a white mage. Healer probably can do stat buffs and regen, Priest can use paladin style healing and attacks, and Shaman can do debuffs and use simple summons. Of course, White Mage can use every white magic spell and is deadly with that hammer, and may have had a hand in the creation of the current universe.

(Of note, other challenges include an all Black Belt Party, One Black mage going solo, etc. The easiest, though harder in the end game, is four Red Mages.)

[Fantabulate]

Originally Posted by Art of Hilt

The second one seems different from what I remember, but I remember Black Belt has always said something about them being decoys. The War-Mech... has also always been there, yeah. I remember that.

Well, I said I wasn't sure about the last one. Really. That was just sort of thrown in there...

However, the first and second I think WHERE different at some point. I think. I thought they used to say stuff more along the lines of the light warriors being twisted into heros, not decoys, where they now are, well, decoys.

There's one other I saw with white mage and black belt wandering around where they refer to them as "Decoys" now and they used to refer to them as "Charges."

[EvilFuzzy9]

... Clevinger, you magnificent bastard!

[Grognor]

Sarda said that Onion Kid doesn't grow up in a world terrorized by the Light Warriors.

He'll grow up in a world terrorized by the Dark Warriors.

Also, I think the Light Warriors will end this comic dead. Not sure why I think that. Just do.

[Leper Messiah TR]

"black"? *roll*

"preist"

but the rest... pure greatness

8BIT MUST NEVER DIE

[tacticslion]

Just four words: EPIC!

[Kurosen]

Originally Posted by Fantabulate

Specifically:

I don't remember THAT being the original plan:
http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/12/...iting-to-suck/

Same in this one:
http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/12/...ight-warriors/

This one I could be wrong about... but I don't remember the mentioning of war-mech before. But IDK:http://www.nuklearpower.com/2002/01/...t-dont-get-it/

Spoiler: you're wrong about all of this.

[Warrioroflightfromanother]

Originally Posted by Xshu

I'm a little annoyed that the only epic fights were against Lich and Kary. I liked it when he pulled the rug out from under us with Kraken, and then it was kind of funny with Muffin since I didn't see it coming twice in a row, and the four fiends fight was replaced with the BM fight so I didn't mind it, and I got a chuckle when Sarda blew himself up, but now it's just disappointing. It's like Brian showed us he could do semi-serious plot with 8-Bit if he wanted to and then he just never did it again. The BM fight was heading there while it lasted, but that became one of the "payoffs that never happen". Oh well.

That having been said, this was the best setup ever. It's almost worth the lack of an epic fight.

Well I think its kind of hard to make epic fight with 8-bit sprites, it would look just too silly. Also what other episode has fake ending? I only know 1070.

[Meister]

Just to prevent any "of course you would say that" posts: I have a good chunk of early episodes on my hard drive from at least six or seven years ago, and checking those three reveals that, like Brian says, they're the exact same that are online today.

Kind of makes me wonder why I also thought something about the second one seemed unfamiliar, but I guess it was just some psychological effect caused by expecting to see an old episode with updated text.