Favourite Summon

grimloch

Right we've had a favourite everything else so what is you favourite summon in all the games?

For functionality I'd say Knights of the Round but for bling-bling effect I really liked Odin in IX and one of the Bahamut incarnations in VII although I'm not sure which.

Tar.Aldarion

odin or alexander!

Rhyme

Ill stick with m favourite all through the entire series... Shiva

Retr0gamer

Zero Bahamut.

Hated the FFVIII ones. They just wouldn't end.

Although not as visually impressive, I loved the handling of the summons in FFX.

Citizen_Erased

Couldnt you set them to short?

Thats a tough one , Anima in X was cool cause he knosk the sh1t out of stuff.
Probably I could go on but I'll leave it at that.

The Free Man

Neo Bahamut, because i sorta look like him.

amazingemmet

I'll have to go for odin when he done steel edge sword in vii

grimloch

Citizen_Erased wrote:

Couldnt you set them to short?

Thats a tough one , Anima in X was cool cause he knosk the sh1t out of stuff.
Probably I could go on but I'll leave it at that.

Didn't think they could be set to short becasue there was the tapping square business to make them more powerful.

Anima was great, Oblivion was fantastic.

Citizen_Erased

Oh yeah , forgot about that . That was actually a cool system , cause when you really needed it you had to work for it.

grimloch

Yeah it was really handy. It could backfire like there was no tomorrow though, you'd be furiously pounding the button and then you press it at the wrong time and the summon ended up doing crappy damage.

Rhyme

Citizen_Erased wrote:

Thats a tough one , Anima in X was cool cause he knosk the sh1t out of stuff

...she

Citizen_Erased

Does it say that in the game??? God , I gotta listen more.

grimloch

Is that

Seymour's mother?

Must pay better attention.

Citizen_Erased

Oh yeah , thats right. Funny how one thing can make you remember so much...

Rhyme

grimloch wrote:

Is that

Seymour's mother?

Must pay better attention.

Aye, the medallion around Anima's neck is the subtle giveaway for people who've not played through

grimloch

Rhyme wrote:

Aye, the medallion around Anima's neck is the subtle giveaway for people who've not played through

Yet another element of the game that escaped me, never gave that medallion a second look.

I tended to like the summons alot in X, the intro scenes for them didn't impress me but I liked the way you could control them like your own characters.

Matthewthebig

I played the game through and i don't remember the Aenima thingy

also does anyone remember the alternate versions there were of summons in 7?

Citizen_Erased

Yeah that falling fat choco was brilliant.
Odins just rocked when he actually cut them too.
What were the other ones again?

Matthewthebig

They were the ony 2 i saw. Does anyone know what caused them? As they were rare enough

Kare Bear

Bahamut in ffviii was done really well.

grimloch

Matthewthebig wrote:

They were the ony 2 i saw. Does anyone know what caused them? As they were rare enough

It was only Odin and Choco/Mog that had alternate attacks in that game. The alternate attack for Choco/Mog was random. Odin's alternate depended on the enemies you were fighting, the normal monsters get the Zantetsuiken(sp) but against the more powerful fellas he'd use the Gunge Lance, I think.

Infini

I liked Bahamut and Zero Bahamut in 7.

Reku

grimloch wrote:

It was only Odin and Choco/Mog that had alternate attacks in that game. The alternate attack for Choco/Mog was random. Odin's alternate depended on the enemies you were fighting, the normal monsters get the Zantetsuiken(sp) but against the more powerful fellas he'd use the Gunge Lance, I think.

From personal experience I think it's just down to whether the summon will inflict enough damage on it's own to kill all the monsters you're facing, as a result it tends to only work with weaker monsters but it's good to see some variation. Can't say for certain for ChocoMog but I've never had it happen against anything but weak monsters so I assume that it's the same as Odin.

My favourite summon was Zero Bahamut (or any of the 3 Bahamut summons) in FF7, kinda liked Ifrit too.

entropi

My favourite controllable one, probably Bahamut.. don't matter what variation of him it is , non controllable i would go with Gilgamesh in FFXIII.

Although Alexander is pretty cool

Zapho

From VIII my favourite would be Cactuar. I dunno, I just think he's funny
Then from IX it would be bahamut, he's looks class in that.And my
all time favourite would have to be Shiva. I liked her in every one of the
games!

kawaii

I'm gonna go with Leviathan in FFVIII.

I dunno, he just looks so cool. Maybe that's just me...

Glipmac

Doomtrain Ruled All!!!!!!

Mist

Odin
or
Ifrit (His roar was terrifying!)

Cina

In terms of summons I think VIII was a cut above the other games. There were so many great ones .. Bahamut, Leviathan, Cactaur, Tonberry, Brothers ... my favourite of all would have to be Eden though, simply astonishing graphics in 1999. I remember looking at the summon in awe.

In VII I'd go with Bahamut Zero or Odin. KoTR was an awesome summon but boring to watch.

Dunno about IX .. Bahamut and Alexander are obviously the ones that stand out above the rest, mainly cause half the game is centered on them.

X had some good summons aswell, Anima and Magus Sisters were awesome. I also liked Yojimbo.

Overall though it has to be Eden!

Galway22

I liked all the summons in Final Fantasy X, but i liked ifirte and valefor in x the best.

Mr.Nice Guy

In Final Fantasy VIII in a battle with Seifer I called on Odin and Seifer killed him and Squall started shouting "Nooooo!" and then near to the end of the fight, Odin returned except he looked like some sort of super, Uber Odin! He then ended up helping me to defeat Seifer.

Did anyone else experience this? How many different Odins were there?

Hercule

my faves are
FF7 - Knights of the Round = lasted like 2 minutes killed pretty much anything
FF8 - Odin = he always seemed to appear when you really didnt want to bother fighting to save the day
FF9 - Bahamut = Big badass dragon thing
FF10 - Anima or Ixion = they both looked cool

Marth

Bahamut was my favorite summon.

Zapp Brannigan

I think it has to be Knights of The Round from FFVII.

elekid

Anima from FFX. I was so impressed the first time I saw it, she really creeps me out and pain is such a cool attack.

Cravez

One of my favourites is Titan in FFVII, obviously he wasnt good near the end but it was cool the way he could rip the ground up and hurl it over the enemy. As someone mentioned also Neo Bahamut as he would raise the platform into the sky and blow it away was pretty scary. And also my third favourite is the one i cant remember the name but it would shapeshift into different monsters and deal different elemental damage every time it changed.

Vordaci

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

In Final Fantasy VIII in a battle with Seifer I called on Odin and Seifer killed him and Squall started shouting "Nooooo!" and then near to the end of the fight, Odin returned except he looked like some sort of super, Uber Odin! He then ended up helping me to defeat Seifer.

Did anyone else experience this? How many different Odins were there?

Yes, I did.
I think that is wen Gilgamesh appears, not a different Odin.

kawaii

Michael Cravez wrote:

And also my third favourite is the one i cant remember the name but it would shapeshift into different monsters and deal different elemental damage every time it changed.

's Kjata...

Yook

Its gotta be Tritoch from FF VI.
He had a cool elemental attack which was Thunder/Ice/Fire together. If some people dont remember him, he's the Esper found at the start of FF VI.

Cronus333

Alexander!!!! Lots of holy damage and best opener ever!!!!! I liked Valefor too though.

Saviour_Angel

Bahamut from FFVII,
all black and bursting tru the clouds, better then the other Bahamut's.

I wonder if they'd think of putting all the summons from all the Final Fantasy games into one....
That'd be cool, over 60 different summons to choose from

Alexander (6, 7, 8, 9),
Anima (10),
Ark (9),
Ashura (4),
Atomos (9),

Bahamut (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Tactics),
Bismarck (6),
Bomb (4),
Brothers (8),

Cactuar (8),
Carbuncle (5, 6, 8, 9, 11, Tactics, TA),
Catoblepas/Shoat (3, 5, 6, 8, 9),
Cerberus (3, 8, 9),
Chocobo/Choco/Mog/Boko (3, 4, 5, 7, 8),
Cockatrice (4),
Crusader (6),
Cyclops (Tactics),

Diablos (8, 11),
Doomtrain (8),
Dragon (4),

Eden (8),

Fenrir (6, 9, 11),

Garuda (11),
Gilgamesh (8),
Goblin (4),
Golem (5, 6, Tactics),

Hades (7),
Hydra (5),

Ifrit (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Tactics, TA),
Ixion (10),

Kirin (6, TA),
Kjata (7),
Knights Of Round (7),

Leviathan (3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, Tactics),
Lich (Tactics),

Maduin (6),
Magus Sisters (10),
MindFlayer (4, 5, 9),
Moogle (Tactics),
Moomba (8),

Odin (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Tactics),

Pandemona (8),
Palidor (6),
Phantom (6),
Phoenix (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, TA),

Quezacotl (8),

Ragnarok (6),
Raiden (6),
Ramuh (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, Tactics, TA),
Remora (5),

Salamander (Tactics),
Shiva (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Tactics, TA),
Silf (Tactics),
Siren (6, 8),
Sraphim (6),
Starlet (6),
Sylph/Fairy (4, 5, Tactics),

Terrato (6),
Titan (3, 4, 5, 7, 11, Tactics),
Tonberry (8),
Tritoch (6),
Typoon (7),

Unicorn (6, TA),

Valefor (10),

Yojimbo (10),

Zodiac (Tactics),
ZoneSeek (6),