Ultimecia's Castle as a Mid-Level Raid

[Andevom]

Interesting.

It still doesn't change the fact that it looks nothing like the place though:



Maybe nostalgic fights will occur there (akin to the Demon Wall), but it still doesn't strike me as being a raid completely lifted from FFVI like the Crystal Tower was from III. Guess we'll just have to see! I'm not so proud that I won't eat crow if I'm wrong =)

[Cyrus-Wallace]

I'm down for it. FFVIII is among my favorites, I would love to see an Ultimecia so I can have a remasterized version of "The Extreme", which is one of my favorite boss' themes, along with "The Final Battle" from FFIV. However, if implemented, don't know how they're going to chain it with the story, since the introduction of the Crystal Tower actually made sense... being related to the Allagan Empire and Dalamud.

[KittytheSheGeek]

As long as it as an awesome remixed version of the music from Ultimecia's Castle, I'd be on board xD Unfortunately I don't think it would ever happen

[Balipu]

Well if I went through a lot of trouble to craft a storyline for Ultimecia, I won't just leave that post to die in a long forgotten thread(like my poor little vampire thread ) and link it here:

Okay, so here it goes. I hope Yoshie and his friends are taking note.
A few things will be hidden to make sure not all plot points are spoiled if the devs decide to use it.
I'll cut it in parts as it is far too long.
Okay, so either in the 3.0 patch cycle, during a raid attunement quest or even the 4.0 main storyline the Scions are summoned

by Inspector Hilldibrand himself, who got stuck with the case

to the Moogle Village, to help solve the recent kidnapping outbreak.
It turns out the evil witch living in her nearby castle, Ultimecia somehow grew more evil and decided to kidnap everyone with sufficiently advanced magical powers to use in her experiments.

The victims will soon include all the Scions

excluding Minfilia, who will be forced to be actually usefull

, but the player won't be alone for long as Ultimecia, with the power of the Echo and all the captives she has bound and gagged in her dungeon initiates time compression and this gives the heroes an opportunity to fight alongside the younger 1.0 versions of the Scions, possibly including Louisouix himself and against former enemies like Nael, Gaius, Travanchet and Shantotto as they go closer to the monster and vampire filled castle of the witch.
Naturally Ultimecia is defeated and time compression reversed.

And in a delicious case of irony instead of her posessing other sorceresses, it was she who got posessed by a yet unknown female Ascian who wanted to use Ultimecia's knowledge of time compression to bring the future resurrection of Zodiark closer.