Any idea what is in patch 2.57?

[kyuven]

Usually, beating the optional / side dungouns makes the final dungouns a joke... If you can beat the Weapons of FFvii, you'll have no problem with sephi.

The only game that broke this mold for me was Tales of Vesperia. If you did an optional quest, THEY GAVE THE FINAL BOSS AN EXTRA FORM THAT WAS EVEN HARDER...

Oh god I love that game.

At least one of the Star Ocean games did that too.
Except they didn't really warn you and the quest was just a cryptic as hell Private Action in one of the towns.
The result was the hardest boss in the game that I only managed to beat because one of my weapons proc'd a death effect (which is extremely rare)

[Eidolon]

At least one of the Star Ocean games did that too.
Except they didn't really warn you and the quest was just a cryptic as hell Private Action in one of the towns.
The result was the hardest boss in the game that I only managed to beat because one of my weapons proc'd a death effect (which is extremely rare)

Yea. Looks like they're both basically in the same vein - some of the hardest fights in the game, triggered by doing optional content. In ToV, you got it by collecting all the weapons (which is something you had to purposely do - usually completing puzzles to get them. But a player might not understand the repurcussions until it's too late)

God I love these games. xD