It is far easier to create a mouse/elephant hybrid than it is to kill Barthandelus.

Ok been playing final fantasy for 8 days now and just got onto disk three, i got stuck on this bloody bastard.

He is resistant to everything, stops you from staggering him and can killl you with one move. Destructo.
Which is a pretty cool move! he lights up like a bright chiristmas tree then partly explodes at you.

Anyway, tried to kill him like 5 times and died everytime without even getting his HP down halfway. I get to the point were all the upside down faces that seem to burp magic at you are gone, then you have to face him. He also 'burps' some of his attacks, opening his mouth and shiny lights come out to drain your HP. His attack called Thanatosian Smile is pretty deviestating to, his entire face opens up and lighting comes shooting out at all party members leaving with little HP and some dead.

So to kill this fugly duckling i level grinded for 3 hours to compleatly fill my crysteriam, also playing with paridgrams because i just rush into things without trying stuff first. The most effective group is lighting (rav) hope (rav/medic) and fang (com)  i had it set up so that when Hope is healing fang and lighting are attacking differnt phantom of the opera faces till they kill them, also when all fully healed had Hope casting magic on the face that lighting was attacking.

After all the armour is gone you have to face Bathandelus himself, i used relentlus attack most of the time (rav, rav com) and had hope healing when  nesicary. When this hunk of junk decides to do Destructo he has to warm up first, this is anytime up to 30 seconds. When he is doing this use relently attack constaly and he will stop charging then start again, this means that the attacks power has just halved and you WONT DIE! which is ultimatly very usefull.

After doing that for practically half an hour he actualy died.
I was so shocked because i thought that I had died.
But as it turns out! he doesnt even give you anything very usefull... just 6000 CP which dont even go very far any more.

If i was the animators i so would have made lightnings face look like this after that battle:

Actually....

OK! thats much better they can all be happy after that.

Because in acttualy fact they wernt happy at all!

Pixles can be so disapointing sometimes.