Minion Classic Turn-Based Minigame

[Parz3val]

Please Contribute Your Own Ideas or Design a Minion's Abilities for Fun!

SE, please implement an old school FF turn-based minigame for us to battle our Minions in against one another.

Each Minion could have a small pool of classic Abilities, to keep the system from being too convoluted or imbalanced there could be significant skill-overlap among archetypes with statistical differences being the major factor.

Heck, you could even go as far as making it a system we can level up our Minions in & queue for. Even do it vs. AI.

Minions could even cross-class... this could be huge.


How I imagine it to play out:

I imagine matches as 4v4 (perhaps also having 2 or so Minions you can sub/tag in mid-match)... careful comp-selection is key.

First team to KO all opponent Minions is declared the Winner.


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Here's some rough drafts I created:

Keep in mind, these are just simple rough drafts & the final product need not look similar (these are even perhaps a bit too complicated)


Wind-Up Moogle

Type: Support-Healer
Element: Holy

Power: C
Magic: A
Speed: A
Vitality: C
P. Defense: C
M. Defense: B


Passive: Dance - Mog unleashes a random, special effect at the beginning of every 3rd turn.

Ability 1: Mog Attack - 100 Potency attack (holy), 50% chance to Stun.
Ability 2: Mog Aid - 50 Potency heal, removes a single detrimental effect from target.
Ability 3: Mog Guard - raises target's defense and resistance for one turn.
Ability 4: Mog Rush - 250 Potency attack (non-elemental), 50% accuracy.

Cross-Class Ability: ???*

*may choose abilities from "Buffer", "Healer", "Magician", "Support-Buffer" or "Support-Magician" types.


Wind-Up Odin

Type: Assassin-Debuffer
Element: Dark

Power: A
Magic: B
Speed: A
Vitality: C
P. Defense: C
M. Defense: C


Passive: Zantetsuken - Odin has a 50% chance to instantly KO a random opponent at the beginning of every 6th turn.

Ability 1: Gungnir - 150 Potency attack (non-elemental), 50% chance to Critical.
Ability 2: Hall of Lead - 25 Potency attack (earth) against all enemies, inflicts 25% Heavy for 3 turns.
Ability 3: Hall of Stone - 25 Potency attack (earth) against all enemies, inflicts Vulnerability Up for 3 turns.
Ability 4: Einherjar - 50 Potency attack (dark) against all enemies.

Cross-Class Ability: ???*

*may choose abilities from "Assassin", "Debuffer", "Fighter", or "Debuffer-Fighter" types.

[CodeCass]

As a competitive Pokémon player, I'd be 100% behind this. Sounds like a GREAT idea, and give our favorite little sidekicks an actual purpose! They've already been fleshed out considerably by the Minion Guide. Give them a few abilities, balance it out a bit, and let us have a fun minigame

Great idea OP

[Dannythm]

It could even be played in the coming casino, the golden saucer.

Hell, there could even be tournaments and player bets on the teams.

I'm up for this.

[Parz3val]

It could even be played in the coming casino, the golden saucer.

Hell, there could even be tournaments and player bets on the teams.

I'm up for this.

Omg this idea just got HUGE.

[Moqi]

This is such a fantastic idea. As long as they keep it simples (like, two abilities per minion), it would be a very fun minigame. I love Pokemon!

[KoujiMoreno]

inb4 copying WoW

[Parz3val]

inb4 copying WoW

Eh. WoW's is too much of a Pokemon rip. This would be good old school JRPG combat. Quite different.

Also this' very much a FF Staple.

[CodeCass]

Since all of the minions have names that general reflect "small" (mini mindflayer, cherry bomb), their abilities could be named such as well. Example: Malboro Seedling's "Bad Breath" could be called "Baby Breath".

[JayCommon]

- Plush Cushion casts "Bedtime Story" and instantly inflicts Sleep on <t> for 30 turns + RNG-based side-attack which awards a cookie to <t> if it can withstand 30 turns of Fluffy Barrage.

- Owning Garlic Jester, Eggplant Knight, King Tomato and Onion Prince gives a 31.8% chance that these 4 will combine into the "Super Salad" minion. Casts pungent, yet aromatic defense auras that, when damaged by opposing minion, causes "confuse" status for 3 turns. PC inventory must have "Spicy Tomato Relish HQ" on hand to prove it's friendship to Super Salad, or Cider Vinegar to cleanse the smell. Queen Mandragora can force despawn of Super Salad and the original casted minion must spend the next 2 turns /grovel - ing to regain right to attack.

- Magic Broom insta-gibs any rodent minion.

- In the event a Moogle minion squares off against another Moogle minion, they both instantly break into song and the mini-game turns into a round of Theatrhythm with the winner being determined by pure twitch reflexes.






In all seriousness, I would love a minion battle minigame

[Nayto]

Yes...

and then the minion that gets the OP abilities might seem profitable for sales. Good... good...

Blue bird should get gil toss... BECAUSE FORTUNE FAVOURS THOSE THAT ALREADY HAVE IT!