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By the way, just to elaborate for anyone who really loves FF4, I think it's worth your time to check out Final Fantasy IV Free Enterprise. It does a really great job realizing the untapped potential of the original game.

Picrel is from a seed I generated last night. I started with Rydia and Edward. Rydia got the flame whip right away. I went to check the Mist Dragon boss first to take pictures for this thread, and got the "Fabul Gauntlet variant", which creates a random sequence using the nearby encounter sets. With Rydia's flame whip, most of the battles were pretty trivial but picrel was potentially threatening as the Needle counter-attack would one-shot either character. Rydia was out of mana for magic and if you wait long enough, they might use Needle anyway unprovoked. So I used Edward's Songs to crowd control, he landed one sleep and one charm. The charmed rat killed one other and suicided itself, while Rydia OHK'd the rest with her whip.

When do you ever have a reason to use Edward's songs in the OG game in a situation where it actually might make a difference? Fucking never. But Free Enterprise deals up unusual situations like this all the time.