Topic: FF4 Item - Dark Matter

[Deathlike2]

Seriously, is the rumor of it reducing damage from Big Bang true... or what the hell is up with this item?

[Lenophis]

I've never heard any rumors about it.

Also, there's a reason why there is a board called "Research & Development."

[Deathlike2]

It's relatively tough to test since the damage variation is relatively insane and low magic defense equipment barely does much vs Big Bang.

[Dragonsbrethren]

I tested this along with several other people on the FF4 Advance board at GameFAQs and found it did absolutely nothing in that version of the game. One interesting thing is that the item is always removed from your inventory after killing Zeromus, unlike the Crystal, which you can keep if you kill him without using it via Grimoires.

[Deathlike2]

I personally think this needs to be looked into... either by script or battle script...

Killing ZeromusEG without using the Grimoires is easy in FF4A anyways.

[Dragonsbrethren]

Not EG, normal Zeromus's first form can be killed with the Grimoires.

[Deathlike2]

Not EG, normal Zeromus's first form can be killed with the Grimoires.

Why would you do that in the first place... other than to keep the Crystal...?

[Dragonsbrethren]

No reason other than that. It would've been nice if they had EG react to the Crystal or something but it's obviously just an oversight, the Grimoires can kill anything.

[Deathlike2]

The spell multiplier on thos Grimoires must be equal, if not greater than "magic immunity" the game does.

Anyways, I've concluded this item is simply just a "token" item as it simply represents the state of the evil being Zemus happens to be.

[Dragonsbrethren]

Yeah. And the two items that come after it (Event 0015 and Event 0016) are just unused event items, as the names suggest, in fact if you count the event items you will find that those are indeed the 15th and 16th in the list. My guess is they didn't know how many event items they would need so they just reserved 16 slots for them, they realized they had three extras, gave one to Zeromus as a secret then just left the other two unused. Some guides try saying they're used by the game somehow, only reason I brought them up.

[Deathlike2]

Well, the original game was never really finished, so go figure.

[Dragonsbrethren]

It was finished, stuff just got cut during development. If you're going to use that fact to say it's unfinished then every game ever released is unfinished.

[Deathlike2]

It was finished, stuff just got cut during development. If you're going to use that fact to say it's unfinished then every game ever released is unfinished.

 

[Gemini]

Seriously, is the rumor of it reducing damage from Big Bang true... or what the hell is up with this item?

It does absolutely nothing in the DS version. Well, it's a Key Item you can use to trigger a secret boss battle, but it does absolutely nothing vs Big Burn. As a matter of fact, he killed me with a single Big Burn one second after I've got Dark Matter, and my characters were at their best with Protect and Shell active. ._.

[Dragonsbrethren]

Not EG, normal Zeromus's first form can be killed with the Grimoires.

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