I recenlty beat Final Fantasy II for the third time. This time I did not use the Blood Sword; I wanted to see if I could beat the game without it. I did beat the Emperor without the Blood Sword but I was perplexed once I vanquished him. I did not keep an actual count, but from what math I was doing in my head I don't think I should have beaten him when I did.

My strongest hitter was Firion with the Masamune and the Cat Claws, the Masamune was hitting for 1,000. I had Aura, Haste, Beserk up and casted them multiple times. Everyone else was hitting around 100-200. Now he physically hit me twice. Now it is to my belief that when the Emperor physically hits a member of the party he is healed as it shows him being cured. The first physical attack against me I know he would have been fully healed since I had not accumulated that much damage. I kept attacking him then he physically attacked me again; he was not fully healed that time. After 2-3 more rounds of the same damage output he went down. It says that the Emperor has 15,000 HP and I know I got nowhere near that when I defeated him. There are three rationales I can come up with: 1) The Emperor does not have 15,000 Hp, 2) When the Emperor physically attacks it does not actual heal him even though the game says it does, 3) The game glitched.

I'm thinking that if it was rationale 2 I would have reached the 15,000 mark with the damage I had done. However, I am not sure if it can be true. So I am looking for other players tales of the fight and to see if they experienced something similiar so I can get a better understanding.

When I do play Final Fantasy II for the fourth time I will keep a Hp count on the Emperor to see how much Hp he actually has.