Hey i've been hearing stuff about "dark aoens". I would be most thankfull if someone could tell me what the hell they are.

Dark versions of the Aeons you fight in the International Version of FFX.

well that cleared everything up. Why do you fight them, why are they dark, where do you find them, are they hard, Is it a seriouse side quest I missed?

Dude, you need the International Version of it, if it doesn't say that on the box you can't do the extra stuff. You fight them cause well, they wanna kill you. Look, it's like the American Weapons of VII, just more powerful. I'm not telling you where they are. It's just a side quest like any other.

Oh, sorry

No need to apologize man.

A Dark Aeon is something you sit and curse Square-Enix at for not putting in your version of the game if you live in the U.S.

I couldn't have said it better.

Na, I found the Dark Aeons pretty boring, and a bluddy nuicance, (no idea how you spell that) especially Yojimbo

I think the Dark Aeons are awesome *is glad to be in australia with a better FFX* except for Dark Bahamut which is stopping me from getting the damned Sun Sigil for Tidus! A shame that the hardest battle for americans is Nemesis. And Omega Weapon's harder in our game too. Ah well...

I beat all of the Dark Aeons easily, it was a piece of cake, I had to use all of my great gaming skills. Well actually I used Zanmato, I dont understand why people dont use it. But I beat Omega the proper way

I beat all of the Dark Aeons easily with Yojimbo

Zanmato is always the way

Hey ive been hearing stuff about "dark aoens". I would be most thankfull if someone could tell me what the hell they are.


Thanks for asking, I've been wondering for months.

Boba Medina, you've been here quite a few months now, and you didnt know what Dark Aeons were.

I haven't used Zanmato yet but i've beaten all of the monster arena guys, and Dark Ifrit, Valefor, Shiva, Yojimbo, Anima and Ixion. Bahamut and the magus sisters bug me still.

there are dark aeons in the european version to, i barely beat Ifrit without zanmato

The dark magus sisters wore giant strap ons and played with my ass for hours. I just can't even put the game in the ps2 these days... hard.

ZANMATO

If you say "Zanmato" one more time, I'm going to bust a Zanmato over your heard. You know, some people like to beat this stuff without resorting to little cheaty-tricks like Zanmato.

ZANMATO is not a cheat.
How dare you insult ZANMATO zanmato ZANMATO zanmato ZANMATO

I beat all of the Dark Aeons easily, it was a piece of cake, I had to use all of my great gaming skills. Well actually I used Zanmato, I dont understand why people dont use it. But I beat Omega the proper way

Well some gamers want a challenge. Using Zamato against the Dark Aeons defeats the purpose of them being there in the first place.

OK, if that is the truth, what is the point of Zanmato then?

What's the point of FFVII W-Item cheat? What's the point of FFX-2 Trigger Happy / Cat-Nip or Random Reels / Lady Luck / Pause?

Are you trying to make our heads explode?

Well not right now..... but yer its the eventual plan, and your my first victim.

Careful, i suspect you're on thin ice...and i can see why you've been banned before.

Funny how you people always wonder why you get banned saying "aww it was for no reason" but you always get fair warning.

And Zanmato is a cheap way of finishing hard bosses...be a real gamer and level up.

I got another warning today that if I muck up again I'm out of here..... permenant.

But keeping on the subject, I do level up, my three main characters all have a full sphere grid

Good! Then you should be able to take on the Dark Aeons without Zanmato then.

Yer, but I cant cuse i've killed em all already. (apart from Yojimbo, too hard)

A full sphere grid? With all the blank ones filled with something? Must've taken a while.

Mmm, especially with Final Fantasy X International, which has an expanded Sphere Grid. Or did you just mean full as in all of the existing nodes filled in, but not the empty ones?

Well if he's in the advanced Sphere Grid, then it doesn't have as much, but it still takes a while.

My one is in the Starting Grid. And I havent filled them all up, ive only done all of the existing nodes

In the version of FF10 that I have, you have to defeat all of the dark aeons to complete the game. I had no idea that there were so many versions of FF10. Anyone know what version I have then?

You have to defeat the Dark Aeons to complete the game, never heard of that one before

Yeah. It's kinda odd though. I live in the UK, that MIGHT explain it, I think it's the Euopean one, but it's second hand so I'm not sure.
Before you fight the dark aeons you have to fight Sin/Jecht, then after the aeons Yu Yevon.

lol, you've got all mixed up.
I live in England too, but I'm pretty sure everyone fights the Aeons like that.
The Dark Aeons are different, and are a million times harder.
You fight them around Spira mainly where there are temples.
If you left inside Sin now and went to Besaid Island village, I am certain you will come across Dark Valefor

Ok..you're probably right, because I've missed part of the game, I used an old save lol.
so, if you don't fight the aeons in the temples, do you fight them at the end of the game?
Soo confuffled!

No they are optional, you dont have to beat them to complete the game either

Okies, always been curious about that! Thanks..but one more thing, when I fight them, the characters automatically get auto-life put on them. It's confusing, but oh well! Thanks again!

I dunno why that happens, but at least you definetly wont die

Yeah! Hehheh. Thanks again for clearin up it for me!

Thats a good boy, Rude.

Thats a good boy, Rude.

Thats funny, the last time we met you called me a stupid prik..... but HEY, it dont get to me

i dont have international......jw wut makes Yojimbo the hardest, figure it be like oblvion or the sisters

I would imagine that it would be Dark Yojimbo's Zanmato mainly and I imagine a pretty high HP. I'm sure his other moves are pretty tough too.

Dark Yojimbo's annoying...Zanmato you can just chuck an aeon in front of, but most of his moves do about 20-30 thousand and he's fast. The dog petrifies you too :P

And if you go back to save and heal yourself, you cant face Yojimbo, cuse he runs away. Thats what makes him so hard

I thought that you can go back and save, you can carry on from where you left off, but if you leave the cavern, or reload you have to start all over again

Are you serious, you mean, I can go back and save and heal every time after I fight him?

i think so, yeah. theres a save sphere just dow the path/cave after you first beat up yojimbo. its the only save sphere in the cavern, but using it won't affect the challenge, unless you board the airship or reload, not so sure about if you play blitzball, i might have to check that out...

I might actually have a chance now.
Before I thought you werent allowed to save, and that you had to beat him like 5 times in a row without stopping

Wow, that's amazing how far one question will go

And ummm what's Zanamato...yeah

It's Zanmato and it's Yojimbo's most powerful and ultimate move. Instant death to any and all targets on the screen, no blocking it. That's why you have to chuck an aeon in front of it. But of course, if you run out of aeons, you're screwed.

I never use Yobimbo

Well thats very silly of you then

Boba Medina, you've been here quite a few months now, and you didnt know what Dark Aeons were.


Nope, I live in the US, we don't dave Dark Aeons out here:sad:

I dont see the point of that.
And America is a bigger more important country than England. You normally get the best of everything

Yeah, well, regardless of that, we don't have it. And the United States doesn't always get the best of everything, there's a lot of stuff that's only released in other countries that isn't released here and we don't get unless we're willing to shell out the cash to import it. We don't get Kingdom Hearts Final Mix or Final Fantasy X-2 International and Last Mission either.

And the point is, since we don't get that stuff our version in the U.S., it's very easy to not know about it.

OK, but thats the minority.
You know for a fact that you nearly get everything.
XII will get to you before it comes to me.

We don't get FFX-2 international + last mission either...and we're international!

Thats funny, the last time we met you called me a stupid prik..... but HEY, it dont get to me

I don't recall zis but I must say that you was a bit of a stupid prick back then, you're cool now, i guess. Peace.

btw. I let my Yojimbo die too many times and he hates me now so Zanmato isn't somthing I rely on. Wait, hold on.... are we even talking about Zanmato? Anyway...

Wait, hold on.... are we even talking about Zanmato? Anyway...

Not anymore

And Kie what does that matter. I dont have that, so it cant be a big deal

Well, as for Zanmato, yeah, if your Yojimbo hates you because you let him die too much, then Zanmato is troublesome to get. I think you might still be able to reestablish compatibility though if you summon him a lot, pay him nicely, heal him after battles, let him win battles and don't let him die anymore.

BTW, what did you choose as far as the reason why you wanted his services? To Defeat the Most Powerful of Enemies gives you the best chances of getting Zanmato.

I like Bamahut...bahamat. Oh well, anyways I like him because he does like 90,000 with his overdrive, I took out every boss with it=)

He's good at the sart, when you first get him, but the Magus Sisters and Anima are a lot better

Yep, Anima is the shit. When Oblivion strikes, nothing in sight survives. Magus Sisters were decent too.

Anima is easily my favourite in every single way. But Oblivion in my opinion is its downfall. The reason for this is cuse when you use it against anyone thats any good, it nearly completly fails. Am I right?

That depends on how strong the aeon is, which depends, by extension on how strong Yuna is. If both are weak, then Oblivion is rubbish, is both are the best possible, then both are strong. Although i do notice some fiends out the arena, they only get like 6000, ie low, damage regardless of whose overdrive hits them

No, my Anima is extremly strong and my Yuna is extremly strong, but when I use Oblivion on a tough enemy, it does like one punch that does 99,999 and when it comes back to normal it does 99,999. So overall it does like 200,000, which basically aint a lot. But when I use it on a weak enemy it does loads of punches. Why is that?

hmm, I'm not too familiar with Animas overdrive, but I'm sure Oblivion always does 16 hits. You sure you're counting it right?

I'm sure he does do 16 hits..... on weak enemys.
But on strong enemys he does like 1 hit. For some reason he is unable to do more hits. The strong enemys must have a protection or something against it

hmm... like I said, Im not to familiar about its overdrive, so it'll be someting i'll have to watch out for, thnx

Anima does sixteen hits I believe in the Japanese and/or International versions. As for the specifics on that, I don't know. In the North American version, Anima's overdrive only does one hit.

Anima does sixteen hits I believe in the Japanese and/or International versions. As for the specifics on that, I don't know. In the North American version, Anima's overdrive only does one hit.

I'm not from North America but its probably the same sort of thing

In the PAL/International versions Oblivion is always 16 hits. Whether you actually see the hits or not depends on what you have your animation set to in the config menu. If it's set to short, you only see the final hit.

AHA, I never thought of that. It must be that, I just need to change the configuration. Cheers

How do you get Anime? I can't get the magus sister either because you have to have anime. Which also means I cna't get yunas sigil thingy

Heh. Anima, not anime. Anime is Japanese animation. And in order to get Anima, you need to have found the Destruction treasure at all temples. This can be a real problem if you're playing the International version because the Dark Aeons will block your path. Once you have all of the Destruction treasures (including Zanarkand's, but don't worry about Bevelle --- you get that one automatically), then you travel to Ba'aj Temple and it's in an area you can navigate too after defeating the monster that attacked Tidus at the beginning of the game.


P.S.: Has this just sort of turned into "The General Aeon Discussion Thread?"

Well its still sort of on the right track

so it's the items you get by blowing stuff up with the purple spheres. Oops, I think I might have sold some of that

Anywho, So are the dark aeons part of the main story or a side quest?

It doesnt matter if you sold the items, as long as you got them out of the temples at some point.

No, the dark aeons are not part of the story, merely a side quest.

Can you by the version with the dark aeon from America anywhere or do I have to go online.

That depends, do you have a console that can read PAL discs (the region encoding for International games). If not, then you probably shouldnt bother, but if you do, I think that there's a good chance that they're only available in the country they're coded to, so i doubt it you'll be able to buy them anywhere but online.

If you happen to be in japan, and can understand japanese, Square has taken another oportunity to screw the non japanese by re-releasing FFX to the japanese market with all the international features, but with an additional movie at the end that links X and X-2 that plays after you complete the game, (this is ecoded to the japanese format, but I'm not sure if NTSC-J and NTSC-NA (the coding for japan and North america respectively) are the same) so if you are in japan, and can understand japanese, you might be able to get that.

To summarise, unless you've got a suitable console, its pointless getting the international version, if you have, online is probably your best bet

:-(

Why you would want Dark Aeons anyway is beyond me. All they do is just stop you from getting the stuff you need to kill them. So like, = really dumb

I can`t believe they would take this stuff out of other versions of the game, somebody is getting ripped off and I`m glad its not us Brits.

They didn't take anything out, they added stuff in to another version. Oh, and from what I've come to understand, most people think the dark aeons are pretty sucky, so we're probably not missing much.

They didn't take anything out, they added stuff in to another version. Oh, and from what I've come to understand, most people think the dark aeons are pretty sucky, so we're probably not missing much.

I originally thought this but I think they add a lot of longevity to the game giving you a lot more stuff to do which is good.

More of the same to do, you mean. And the absurd amount of training you have to do to beat them makes it a pretty stupid idea. Having to grind levels in console games sucks pretty badly.

Aww now I remeber the dark aeons which I fought were in X-2 the aeons I fought in X bellonged to umm forget her name but that's where you get Magus Sisters. I did curse SE for not putting it in US version.

Zanmato is always the way
the way to blow your wallet.

More of the same to do, you mean. And the absurd amount of training you have to do to beat them makes it a pretty stupid idea. Having to grind levels in console games sucks pretty badly.

Do you actually like anything??

I like things that are good. If you would pay more attention to those and stop being a fanboy cunt for things that suck, you would be a much better person. Also, you are a cunt for reviving this thread to do nothing more than take a pointless potshot at me.

Going back to Grey Wing's comments......The dark aeons she is talking about is at the very end where everyone has to fight. They arn't the *optional* dark aeons. You just have to do that to let the spirits go...or something. So that's why you get auto-life. Everyone gets it at the end

Sorry, wha MeruRikku? Maybe you could just quote those comments, because this thread is so old, I don't think anyone can remember what you're talking about, or be bothered to look.

In the version of FF10 that I have, you have to defeat all of the dark aeons to complete the game. I had no idea that there were so many versions of FF10. Anyone know what version I have then?

There ya go. The Dark Aeons are optional bosses found only in the PAL/international versions.


More of the same to do, you mean. And the absurd amount of training you have to do to beat them makes it a pretty stupid idea. Having to grind levels in console games sucks pretty badly.

True, except that there are Sphere Levels in FFX. And anyone who actually did this part of the game properly wouldn't call them grinding. Thanks to the Overdrive->AP ability, it's possible to gain 99 Sphere Levels in a few minutes if you use the right strategy. Frankly, you sound like the fox in the "Fox and the Grapes" fable.:-P

Yeah, I think lightning_burn has a point on you, Prak. If you use some of the little tricks like Double AP / Triple AP / Triple Overdrive / Overdrive ---> AP (getting the point?), it's really not so much of a grind to get all those Sphere Levels.

But that assumes that a person is aware of those exploits, which would not be true in all cases. Of course, there's no way to know how many people that applies to.

Well, if people are interested enough to be serious about going mano-a-mano with the dark aeons and winning, then I think it's odds-on that they do know about those exploits.