I'm closing to the end of the game. I'm now trying to master the last few summons and one or two magic materias to get the Master Materias. I pretty much just have Emerald, Ruby and Sephiroth left. So I've been leveling up in the North Cave to have a chance of surviving against them. The North Cave is an interesting place as pretty much everything can kill you instantly. So trying to pick up all the items and not die between the save points is tricky. The worst of the lot are the Master Tonberries.

Death at Two Feet Tall

Follow up:

These things are EVIL. Not only are the stupidly powerful, they have a ton of HP as well. I barely survived the first time I ran into one of the suckers. From then on I didn't waste time and summoned Knights of the Round just to be on the safe side. Ever see one of those horror movies where they think the monster is 100% dead and in the ending it pops up in a place they aren't supposed to be? Well, the same thing happened to me. Tonberries are only supposed to be in two areas, very close to the center of the planet, but as I was trudging back to the Highwind, thinking that I finally escaped those evil little demons, one popped up in an area where they were not supposed to be! I actually yelled when I saw it.

In another interesting thing I noticed, Kingdom Hearts now officially has to include Prydain from the Black Cauldron in one of their games. Testuya Nomura has to be a fan, because Hades looks exactly like the Horned King

and people think that's a coincidence, the name of Hades' attack is 'Black Cauldron' and the scenery is near identical to the film.

Within the KH franchise there are only two of my favorite movies (and one of my favorite FF characters) that haven't been included: Atlantis and Black Cauldron. I'm still hoping they'll be included eventually.