How FFX's Most Absurd Challenge Was Beaten

This FFX challenge requires Tidus to defeat the tutorial Water Flan, defying Yevon's teachings of elemental affinities

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[max-yjxb]

Congratulations to the player who created a challenge a hundred times more absurd than dodging lightning 200 consecutive times.

[MaximumRaxx]

54 hours to skip a 10 second tutorial with additional downsides.

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[requiemzer]

Can confirm, I cheated for the stats. The description of the video says cheats were used, but I figured I could give a bit more context here:
I spent maybe 30 minutes going through boards because I was bored, then I got bored of that, so you can see Wakka's stats aren't maxed out.
When I discovered what happens if you kill the flan, I laughed so hard at it, and I just had to share. 😆
What a crazy, in-depth video! Loved it! 100% subbing 😇

[NGPlusVideos]

Wow, I was legit researching this same thing. You'll have to make a video on how many Sinspawns need to be defeated, during the Sin Finn encounter on the boat, just so Kimahri can one-shot the plant in Kilika with Lancet.

[ManillaHeep]

This reminds me of the guy who grinded to level 99 in the first reactor in FF7. It took over 500 hours iirc.

[zimbu_]

Tbf Keepa is pretty interesting in how he skyrockets in stats towards the end.

[emergencystoppingonly]

My roommate did this with a game called cosmic fantasy. The first boss is unbeatable. He wanted to see if it could be beat. Your first weapon is literally a butter knife. He killed slimes in the forest for days on end. We found out the first boss is still unbeatable but he was taking thousands of hit points off per round. This was in the mid 90s

[AlymereWoL]

Great video. As I was watching it, I was thinking the whole time, "I wonder if he'll mention my video" 😂

[evelynveilwinter]

*cough cough* the damage variance is more around +- 6%, you mistakenly got the 16% by looking at the variance being 256 +- 16 / 256 behind the scenes lol
Bonus: It's not actually +- 16, it's [240, 272), which doesn't actually include the 272, making the variance extremes -6.25% and +5.86%

[stevenschmidt-bg]

6:43 after Tidus cuts in in half "i told you only magic can kill that thing" lmmfao

[tomsawyer]

I remember reading that best “grind” strat was don’t leave an area until you could 1 hit enemies….it took awhile but I was comically op!

[jarg]

This is awesome! I’m really glad other people were wondering about these forced tutorial sections too! I wanted to know what would happen here too but had no desire to actually do this legit. I messed around with a save editor to win or lose tutorials I wasn’t supposed to and uploaded the results to my channel. Sometimes some unexpected things would happen like camera angles being broken or battles just ending prematurely.

[joekruger]

I love things like this and finding out how much time and resources would be required. Makes me want to try it but I never could have that patience.

[TrookieNL]

Still one of my favorite Games of All Time.🎉

[FrosHandle]

here's what i got from this video, Numbers go and the bag was claimed! great vid as always my man!

[Trikean]

I did a pretty similar thing to one shot the armored enemy tutorial fight outside Luca. Wound up killing more sinspawn on the ship than I care to remember.

[johnbrickel]

My old roommate had 300 hours in this game and I personally saw him defeat Sin with two physical attacks by Yuna

[Dabuin]

That is always what I wondered as a kid. Is it actually possible to kill them with Tidus at the beginning? Will the game crash?
20 years later I get this recommended... xD

[llshinda]

seeing these kinds of damage calculations make me so thankful for Paper Mario

[CGoody]

I used a gameshark to max my stats and give everyone their ultimate weapon (just for kicks and giggles) but I remember it causing issues in the tutorial. Probably because i had party members I shouldn't have had at that point.