Failed Experiment

Failed Experiment is a monster in Final Fantasy VII Remake that resides in the Underground Test Site, leading a pack of smaller unknown entities. It is taller than its smaller brethren, and grows an appendage out of its back that can be targeted to subdue it. The Failed Experiment serves as the boss at the end of Chapter 13, "A Broken World", during "Finding Wedge". It is fought by a party of Barret and Tifa. Uniquely, the player can steal from it.
==Stats==
==Attacks==
The attacks used depend on the boss's battle phase.
:Phase 1: 100–70% HP (the boss attacks the platform Tifa is on and keeps summoning Unknown Entities).
:Phase 2: <70% HP (the boss destroys the platform Tifa is on and stops summoning minions) 
: = Physical damage
: = Magical damage
Attack 	Pic	Phase	Description 	Block	
Fury 	 	All 	Lashes out with its tentacles. 	 	
Hammer Punch 	 	All 	Punches a target. 	 	
Leap 	 	All 	Leaps at a target. 	 	
Catch and Release	 	All 	Binds a target with tentacles, then hurls to the ground. 	 	
Toxic Volley 	 	All 	Ejects poison bombs that detonate into gas that persists for 10 seconds, inflicting those who touch it with for 240 seconds.	 	
Rally 	 	1 	Summons Unknown Entities 	- 	-
Demolish 	 	1 	Jumps onto the platform, breaking it and damaging both allies and enemies in vicinity. 	 	
Ground Smash 	 	1 	Jumps at a target. 	 	
Intimidate 	 	2 	Screams and stuns anyone in range for 7 seconds. 	 	
Torment 	 	2 	Binds a target with tentacles, and attacks them with claws. 	- 	
Defensive Action 	 	2 	Has Unknown Entities themselves, immuring against physical damage. 	- 	-
Reflective Action	 	2 	Has Unknown Entities themselves, immuring against magical damage. 	- 	-
Voltaic Action 	 	2 	Has Unknown Entities use to heal it. 	- 	-
Energize 	 	2 	Absorbs the Unknown Entities' Thundaga to electrify itself with and regain health. 	- 	-
Livewire 	 	2 	Releases into its vicinity and prepares to use Plasma Discharge. 	 	
Plasma Discharge 	 	2 	Releases homing orbs. 	 	
Claim 	 	2 	Picks an Unknown Entity up. The held Unknown Entity can still damage the player. Can grab up to 4 Unknown Entities at once. 	 	
Fling 	 	2 	Throws the Unknown Entity it is holding at a target. 	 	
==Battle==
Like the smaller Unknown Entities, the Failed Experiment is weak to . Unknown Entities at first appear to help the boss, but toward the end of the battle, new ones stop coming. For the first phase of this boss, Tifa is on a platform while Barret is on the ground below. Later, Barret and Tifa must defeat the Failed Experiment while separated. The Experiment has tentacles growing from its back that can be targeted separately; if destroyed, the Experiment's heart becomes targetable, and attacks against the heart rapidly fill the boss's stagger gauge. Afterward, the boss regrows the tentacles and the process can be repeated.
After it loses a third of its HP, the Failed Experiment becomes more aggressive and gains the ability to seize characters. It can also heal itself by having its minions cast spells onto it, as it absorbs the element. It stops calling for more minions, but can use the ones it already has as throwing weapons, and can immunize them to physical or magical damage, but not both at the same time. When the Failed Experiment electrifies itself and releases a charge across the battlefield, the player can avoid damage by taking shelter behind objects.
Defeating the Failed Experiment earns the weapon for Tifa, which builds her more towards magic damage. The player can get a free poison materia by stealing from the boss as well.
===Strategy===
Bringing for both Tifa and Barret is advisable. They can be linked with in their weapons to make normal attacks a little bit more worthwhile, or with , if available. For her portion, Tifa should defeat the Unknown Entites that swarm on the platform her using abilities with area-of-effect to destroy them in clusters. Her Whirling Uppercut combos into Divekick that works well against clusters.
After Tifa joins Barret on the ground floor, she can cast ice spells if she has while the Failed Experiment focuses on Barret. While it focuses on Tifa, Barret can shoot its appendage or cast ice spells. Crippling the appendage will pressure the boss, and using ice spells can significantly raise its stagger gauge. When it staggers, Tifa's Unbridled Strength abilities can be used to raise the stagger bonus damage, useful here as the Failed Experiment has a rather long stagger period. Tifa can also drop a Chi Trap on top of it when the boss staggers and then continue attacking while the chi keeps damaging it at the same time.
After destroying the Unknown Entity enemies, the player can focus on attacking the Failed Experiment's appendage. If the boss makes the Unknown Entities immune to physical damage, the player can cast spells or allow Shiva to destroy them, if she is available.
===Hard Mode===
Area-of-effect damage is ideal, meaning Tifa can equip , and Barret benefits heavily from equipping a melee weapon using Smackdown to destroy waves, though he must then use spells for distant enemies. Tifa could pair Deadly Dodge with HP Absorption while Barret can pair ice materia with it. Tifa should also equip to help with her mobility against the quicker Unknown Entities. Pairing with provides resistance to (or the player can equip Headbands). Again, elemental materia can be paired with ice for damage, which is useful later in the fight when the Unknown Entities become immune to physical damage temporarily, though it can also be paired with on armor to absorb attacks.
 is helpful, and Barret should use Steelskin and Lifesaver. and/or is also useful on Barret, or on both party members; the player can cast it on both at once with . Tifa's Unbridled Strength techniques, Divekick, and Deadly Dodge are especially useful for the waves of Unknown Entities, while Barret's Overrun and Smackdown with a melee weapon are ideal. Against the Failed Experiment, Tifa should use Starshower and True Strike while Barret uses and . There is no need to conserve MP for beyond this battle.
Defeating the Failed Experiment will reward Barret the Sharpshooter's Companion Vol. VIII.
==Gallery==
Failed Experiment artwork for FFVII Remake.png|Artwork.
Failed Experiment from FFVII Remake Enemy Intel.png|Enemy Intel.
Toxic Volley from FFVII Remake.jpg|Toxic Volley.
Demolish from FFVII Remake.jpg|Demolish.
==Etymology==
The being is called simply "anonymous" in Japanese, referring to the being's previous human identity being unknown. The English localized name may call back to Professor Hojo referring to Cloud Strife a "failed experiment" in the original Final Fantasy VII.
==Related enemies==
*Unknown Entity
==References==
Category:Bosses in Final Fantasy VII Remake