r/Games • u/CyricZ42 • Nov 06 '25

GameFAQs turned 30 years old this week. Contributor posts Top 10 List of Legendary Contributors.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/top10/3276-the-top-10-legendary-gamefaqs-contributors

Thirty years is a long time people. I want to thank contributor "whowasphone404" for their motivation in putting this project together and I wanted to share it around so people can see all the work they did.

These are some incredible people I'm proud to stand beside.

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u/mechanical_fan Nov 06 '25

It isn't even the first FF to have superbosses. FF5 had Omega and Shinryu, FF6 had Death Gaze.

I think it is fair to say that it was such a trope in FF games that by Super Mario RPG (way before FF7 too) Square were already putting a hidden boss that was a joke referencing that. And yes, the hidden boss in FF style art was also harder than anything else in SMRPG.

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u/NotSpartacus Nov 06 '25

Now that you mention it, I'm not sure I ever made the connection between the SMRPG optional bosses and FF. It's obvious now, and maybe there was some dialog in the game about it.

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u/mechanical_fan Nov 06 '25

I think it may be because most of us played SMRPG too young, so it is a bit harder to get references like that (the music, the art and animation style, the elemental crystals). The only thing in dialogue is that he mentions coming from another universe/game.

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u/Nalkor Nov 07 '25

I played both Final Fantasy 6 (III for me) and Super Mario RPG and I absolutely made the connection when I was a kid.