Suikoden III walkthrough

• Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chapter 1 =========== Chris's part of the game is really easy as she starts off at a high level, and has tons of money. Watch the opening cut-scene, then choose go to Chapter 1. Vinay Del Zexay ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene. Chris will start talking about how they didn't have a proper burial for two knights killed in action. She thinks that the parade was only for the council. Keep watching all the cut-scenes. You'll get to choose what to say from premade selections in some of the scenes, but the outcome will be the same. Level up Chris's weapon to level 7. After a while, take Chris to her house. It's on the left side with grass on the small gates. Once there, choose to rest. The next morning, Salome, Roland, Borus, and Louis will join your party. Upgrade their weapons to level 7. Buy some Medicine D, Antitoxin, and Throat Drops. On the equipment menu, exchange the Medicine A with the Medicine D. Go to the Zexen Forest. Level up everyone at least one level. Get to Brass Castle. Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene. You'll be in Chris's room. Downstairs will be the Bujutsu Teacher. Raise everyones Armor Protect, and Swing. Get outside, and open the door on the right of the Blacksmith. The shops will all be open now. Get back to your room. Talk to Louis, and choose to rest. Watch the cut-scene. Time for your first battle. - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #1 - - - - - - - - - Conditions for victory: Stay alive for _x_ number of turns. Conditions for defeat: Chris's unit is defeated. Have Roland attack the Lizard Clan beneath him. Move someone else beside Chris to the bottom. End your turn. It should turn into a battle. Have one of your clan attack Bazba. They'll attack again. Roland should die after a while. Move Chris and the remaining units to the East. You'll fight 4 soldiers. After the battle is over, move the remaining units to Chris's position. Your HP will be restored. Continue moving Chris to the East. Keep moving to the East, and you should win. You'll be in Plain Amur. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Karaya Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene. Here, you can't run with your horse. Salome, Roland, and Borus will leave your party. When entering the village, you'll encounter 8 Karaya Fighters, but 4 at a time. For them, just keep attacking them. They should be easy to take down. After getting through the village, you'll be back in Brass Castle. Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Exit the room. Enter the room on the right side. Leave that one, and get to the outside of the castle. You should meet up with Leo and Percival. Travel to Vinay Del Zexay. Vinay Del Zexay ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Go to the meeting. Then, head to for Chris's house. You just beat Chapter 1. > Chapter 2 =========== Watch the cut-scene. Leave Vinay Del Zexay and head to Brass Castle. Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Teach Chris and Borus tons of skills like Swing, Armor Protect, Damage, and Heavy Damage. Trust me, you'll need them! Go inside the room on the right side of Chris's. Rest in your room. Go back to that room, and add everyone to your party. Teach them some new skills like Armor Protect, Swing, Damage, and Heavy Damage. Level up their weapons to. Level up 1 level with each character. If you need lots of expierence, fight Shadows in the Zexen Forest. If you don't want to do that, you can go to the North Cavern... North Cavern ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Before entering this place, your weapons should be at level 7. The monsters here are kinda strong so you can get lots of EXP. When you reach the end, you'll encounter a mini boss. - - - - Chimera - - - - This battle is hard as hell. Just keep attacking it. Watch out for it's poison attack. When someone gets poisoned, immediatley cure them as you don't want them to lose 20 HP per turn. Heal people when needed. Having Heavy Damage, and Swing maxed out is very good in this battle. Good luck! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Get back to Brass Castle. Talk to Salome, and choose that your ready. Time for a battle. - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #2 - - - - - - - - - - Conditions to win: Defeat 5 enemy units. Conditions to lose: Chris's unit is defeated. Move Leo to the bottom. Have Chris and Roland defend. Three Lizards will attack Leo. After they attack, move all of your units to the top. Have Leo's unit intercept the attack by the enemy. You should win. Beecham will withdraw. Have Borus attack the same unit as Leo. Borus should win. Make Percival group attack the Lizards in front of him. Let Chris attack clan right beneath here. Chris should win. You just won a major victory. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Leo, Roland, Borus, and Percival will join your party. Group them up according to their defense. The person with the highest defense should be placed in front, and so on. Walk into the burning the village, and you'll fight 6 Lizard Fighters. If you had your Swing, and Armor Protect in the ranges of B's, each Lizard should go down in one hit. After the battle, continue walking. Watch the cut-scene. When you reach the entrance of the Lizards, you'll fight a boss. - - - - - - - - Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Shiba - - - - - - - - Focus all your attacks on Shiba as the battle will end when he dies. If you had your Swing, and Armor Protect in the ranges of B's, it should be pretty easy. The other reason to go after Shiba first is that he has pretty strong attacks out of his clan. He's really strong, but he should go down in a couple of turns. I hope that helps. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, the Lizards will run inside, and hide. Watch the other cut-scene. Choose to deul Lucia. You will lose no matter what. You'll be back in Brass Castle. Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Talk to Salome who is at the gate. Enter the Zexen Forest. Zexen Forest ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ When entering this place, Chris will say that she's not feeling so good. After getting to the end of the forest, Chris will faint. You'll be back in Brass Castle. Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Talk to Percival near the gate. He'll join your party. Get ready to go to Iskay Village. Before getting there, head to Budehuc Castle. Budehuc Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ You should only come here if you want to start recruiting people. I suggest that you do come here because recruiting people really helps out. Anyways... when you reach the village, watch the cut-scene. After the cut-scene, you can start recruiting people. Now, get to Iskay Village. Iskay Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene. Percival will leave your party. Recruit Watari for 100,000 potch. Watari is between the first 2 buildings on the right side. He'll join the 108 Stars. Get to the right side of the windmill. Lizards will ambush you after the cut-scene. You'll fight 4 Lizard Fighters. You'll lose the battle. Fight them again. Then run back to the windmill. You'll fight a boss. - - - - - - - - Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Shiba - - - - - - - - Just focus on Shiba as he inflicts the most damage. Besides, your party is pretty weak since you don't have Leo, Borus, and all the others with you. It's just common sense to go after him first. Right now, Nash is in your party. So, when you get hurt, DO NOT use healing items. Instead, use Nash's Rune power called "Kindness Drops". They heal tons of HP, and cure all status's. I hope that strategy works. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, Chris will deul Jimba. Jimba lets you win. When the deul is over, Borus, Roland, Leo, and Louis will join your party. Level up everyone's weapons before leaving. Get back to Vinay Del Zexay. Vinay Del Zexay ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ When you enter the city, you'll see soem guy chasing a kid. Talk to the wierd looking singers to learn about their missing child. Go to the footsteps of the council building. There, you'll deul Guilaume. For him, DO NOT use Deathblows as he will always defend. Instead, just attack. You should win if you leveled up your weapons in Iskay Village. After the deul, tell the people to go to Budehuc Castle. Nei, Toppa, and Shaban will join the 108 stars. Get back to Brass Castle. Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene. Rest in your room. Watch the other cut-scene. After you wake up, enter the room on the right side. Check the bookshelfs to find Nash hiding. Do not agree with him right now. Instead, go to Mt. Hei-Tou. Mt. Heo-Tou ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ When you enter this place, the monsters in here should be fairly easy to beat. Anyways...I forgot where the mini-boss is located at. Sorry! Well... When you find it, it's name will be Blue Mantix. - - - - - - Blue Mantix - - - - - - Before starting this battle, make sure everyone is in the correct formation according to the level of defense. Put the highest in front, and so on. Start attacking it, but heal when you can. You don't want anyone to die. It doesn't really matter if you die or not because this mini-boss gives out very little skill points. Anyways...Do not use any Rune magic. Just focus on attacking it. If you had everyones' Heavy Damage, Armor Protect, and Swing skills maxed out (which means having them at an A), it should go down in little or no time. Keep attacking it, and it should die. Good luck! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After defeating it, leave Mt. Heo-Tou and head back to Iskay Village. Iskay Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ In Iskay Village, there is a guy named Gordon. Say yes to his question for him to join the 108 Stars. Then, enter the Inn. Go upstairs and choose the first option. Mio will join the 108 Stars. Now, head back to Budehuc Castle. Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Nash will be near the gates that are closer to Zexen Forest. Agree with him. When you get inside the well, just keep going forward. If you are to get attacked, just use Nash's Kindness Drops Rune magic to heal your HP, and Status. After escaping from Brass Castle, you'll beat Chapter 2. > Chapter 3 =========== Duck Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Fred, and Rico will join your party, and the 108 Stars. Enter the Tutor Shop and leave. Watch the cut-scene. You have to find the Chief. Talk to the villagers to get dumb clues about the whereabouts of the Chief. Get to the area behind the Inn. Enter the house on the top screen. Agree to help Kidd solve the "murder" mystery. Check the window, and the shelf for some clues. Talk to Kidd. Then, get the Letter Fragment from the Trader Shop. Get to the back of the Inn. Talk to Janitor Howard who is around the 2 houses for some more info. Go back to Kidd, and choose whatever option you want. You just solved the mystery! Tell him to go to Budehuc Castle for him to join the 108 Stars. The Duck Chief is outside the Trade Shop. After talking to him, talk to Wilder and Rhett. You'll pay 2000 potch for them to join your party. Cross the Kuput Forest. Kuput Forest ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Keep walking until you get to a two-way road fork. Take the right one. Keep going. You should reach the end of the Forest. Enter Chisha Village. Chisha Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene. Walk a little, adn you'll trigger another cut-scene. Yun and Yumi will join you. Talk to the lady in the middle of the village. Enter the underground area under the inn. Get to the 2nd part of the area, and talk to Emily. In order to beat her in arm wrestling, your partys POWER must be greater than 600. If you don't want to do that, talk to the litte boy near the coy to get Medal Set #2. After that, confront the flying things. Time for a boss fight. - - - - - Franz Ruby Mntrlegnr Montor - - - - - Take out Franz, and Mntrlegnr first because they do the most damage. If you had your Armor Protect, and Swing skills at an A or higher, they should do little damage to you. After Franz, and Mntrlegnr go down, get rid of Ruby, and the Montor. They don't do a lot of damage, but if you were hurt from Franz or Mntrlegnr, heal right away. After while, you should win. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, they'll leave. Yuun, Yami, Wilder, and Rhett will leave your party. The same guy who thought Budehuc Castle was Duck Village is in Chisha Village. Tell him the right direction. Try to leave the village. After the cut-scene, talk to Yun and Yami who are in the middle of the village. Agree to help them. Yun will join for now. Go back to Brass Castle. Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Talk to girl named Belle who's trying to fix a barrel. She'll want a Screw. To find a screw, fight some Dark Hares in Plain Amur. TAke it back to Belle for her to join the 108 Stars. Gadget Z will also join the 108 Stars. Head to Duck Village. Duck Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene. Report the attack on Chisha Village to the chief. Wilder and Rhett will leave your party. Try to enter the Inn and you'll trigger another cut-scene. Caesar will join for now. Leave the village. Wilder and Rhett will join your party. Head back to Chisha Vilage. Chisha Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ When you reach this village, you'll fight a strategy battle. Keep the formation that is given to you. - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #3 - - - - - - - - - - Conditions to win: Stay alive for x number of turns. Conditions to lose: Chris's unit is defgeated or base ares are captured. Have Chris attack the group of enemies in front. The battle should conclude. Have Fred attack the group in front. A unit should get attacked during the retreat. Let Nash defend because he's so weak. The enemy should attack Nash. Your HP will be restored. Have Chris attack the people in front. Vios unit should get attacked during retreat. Chris should win that battle. Have the rest defend. Nash should die. Your HP will get restored again. Move Chris all the way to the back and have Fred defend. Fred should die after getting attacked twice. Your HP will get restored again. Make Chris defend for the next 2 turns. Hugo should enter the battle now. You should win a major victory. The enemy will leave behind Earth Chain Mait. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Watch the cut-scene. Head to Alma Kinan Village. Yumi will join you party. In order to reach it, take the left path when you see a fork in the road in Kuput Forest. After walking a while, you'll fight Yuber. - - - Yuber - - - Yuber blocks any attack from a sword while chanting. Only a person with a Bow 'n Arrow can attack him DURING his chanting. He deals a ton of damage. After he takes enough damage, he'll turn Berserk. Keep attacking him, and heal. Try to stop his chanting. Heal when needed. Um...That's all... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Yumi will leave your party. Enter Great Auntie's House (2nd house on right). Watch the cut-scene. Chris will leave the house. Talk to Nash for a while. After talking to Nash, enter the little trail thing at the end of the village. Leave the place after the cut-scene. Then, talk to Fred who is on the steps of Great Auntie's house. Choose to rest. When you wake up, leave the Inn. Time for a boss fight! - - - - - - Yuber Masked Man Sarah - - - - - - It doesn't matter if you win or lose. BTW, it is IMPOSSIBLE to win so don't even try! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Watch the cut-scene. Leave the village, and re-enter it. Talk to the person in front of the Inn. Meet up with his master who is inside the Inn. Head to the shrine that the girl was talking about. Say that there is no such thing. Go back to Estella. Estella and Rody will join 108 Stars. Now, head to the Flame Champion Hideway. Flame Champion Hideaway ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Take the first left. Continue walking until you see a teleporter. Step on it. Chris will be teleported. Walk down the path, and you'll meet up with Sana. You just beat Chris Chapter 3! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • Hugo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chapter 1 =========== Watch the cut-scene. You'll be in Karaya Village. Karaya Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Do not buy anything except some medicine. You will need the money later on!!! Anyways...Go to Lulu's house (the one that his a guy polishing a shield). Rest in the house. Watch the other cut-scene. You'll be leaving the village. Walk a little further, and Jimba will ask you a favor. Choose yes! Now, head to Brass Castle. Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the opening cut-scene. Keep walking until you meet up with Chris. Upgrade your weapons to level 6 and then head for Vinay Del Zexay. But you must cross the Zexen Forest. Zexen Forest ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene. After walking, you'll meet up with Fred and Rico. Welcome to Vinay Del Zexay. Vinay Del Zexay ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene. Go to the council building (it's the huge building in the middle of the city). After that go to the market if you want to. You don't have to as it if 100% OPTIONAL. When you are in the market, talk to the little boy who is by the man. The man will say that the kid's father is lying. Now, enter the Rune Shop and leave. Pay attention to the password that the kids will say. Actually...You don't have to remember it because I will do it for you! The kids will be in the alley on the left. Enter that alley, and climb up the ladder. Go up to the window, and choose "The (I forgot) Knights". After the LONG cut-scene, head to the gates of the city. Before leaving though, buy some lottery tickets. My recomendation is to buy 5 Seqntt and 5 Random tickets. Wait 45 minutes. Once that has passed, save at the inn. Then go to the Lottery Ticket seller. Check your tickets. If they did not win, reset the game, and go back to the Lottery place. Keep doing this until you win at LEAST 500,000 potch. Trust me, it's worth it. When you win that much money, level up everyone's weapons. Also, level up everyone's Armor Protect skill. You'll need it later on. Also, buy Hugo, and Sgt. Joe some armor. When you are all done, head to North Cavern. North Cavern ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene. Walk a litte, another cut-scene will be triggered. When it is over, climb up the spiral stairway. Watch out for the holes on the way up. You'll find two people. Time for a boss fight. - - - - Bandit Bandit - - - - Attack with Hugo, Sgt. Joe, and Lulu. Have the others defend since they are weak. Both Bandits have low HP, but their attack is pretty high. Use Lulu's Rune Magic, Sword of Cyclone to get rid of them fast. Heal when nessecary. Keep everyone alive. DO NOT USE ANY RUNE MAGIC TO HEAL YOUR PARTY!!! Ok? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Continue walking. You'll fight them again, except there will be 4 instead of 2. Use the same strategy as before. Watch the cut-scene after the battle. Time for a deul. You'll lose no matter what. Get back to Vinay Del Zexay. Vinay Del Zexay ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene as you enter the place. Remember that Pentacle that Jimba gave you? Well...Deliver it to Chris's house. It's the one on the left side that has grass on the gate. Once inside, Chris's butler will greet you. You can either get 10,000 potch, rest for free, or nothing. I chose nothing. It does not change up the story if choose another option. Rest or save at the Inn at least three times. After doing that, go back to the Council Building. Once inside, you'll give the letter to the represenative no matter what option you choose. Head back to the Inn. Before doing do, make sure that each character has a Medicine D equipped. Enter the Inn, and relax as a LONG cut-scene will start. You'll be outside the Inn. Take a left, and you'll fight a boss. - - - - - - - - Zexen Knight Zexen Infantry Zexen Infantry - - - - - - - - Attack the Zexen Knight first as he does a lot of damage. The Zexen Infantry don't do a lot of damage. Use Hugo's Water Rune to put everyone to sleep. That will make all the enemies go to sleep. Remember though, when you attack them, they'll awaken, so use it wisely. Also, use Lulu's Sword Of Cyclone to get rid of them quickly. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Keep going. Take a right, and run towards the gates. You'll fight another boss, except, there will be 2 Zexen Knights instead of 1. Use the same strategy as before. When you get to the gate, you can choose to fight. If you choose to fight, it will stop after a while. Head to Brass Castle. Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Enter the castle. You'll be underground after the cut-scene. Keep walking until you reach the exit. Now, you're in Vinay Del Zexay. All you need to do is to go to Karaya Village. Karaya Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Get to the main part of the burning village. Watch the very sad cut-scene. You just beat Chapter 1 with Hugo. > Chapter 2 =========== You'll be in Duck Village. Duck Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene. Choose the first option. Buy 5 Seqntt and 5 Random Lottery Tickets. Try to win the 500,000 Potch prize. Enter the Inn. Lilly, Reed, and Samus will join your party. Leave the village, and head to the Ancient Highway. Ancient Highway ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Keep walking until a split road will be visible. Watch the cut-scene. When you get out of the place, choose to join the fighting. Time for a boss fight! - - - - - - - - Zexen Infantry Zexen Infantry Zexen Knights Zexen Knights - - - - - - - - Attack the Infantry first as they are in front of the Knights, and they will cover them. The Infantry do not do a lot of damage, but the Knights deal a lot of damage. Use the Wind rune to put them to sleep if you are having trouble. Heal when nessecary, and you should win. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Walk a little, and you'll fight the same battle again. After this battle, Lucia, and Chris will deul. Enter the lizard home called the Great Hollow. Great Hollow ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ One inside, watch the cut-scene. Sharpen your skills like Swing, Damage, and Armor Protect. Level up your weapons as high as you can. Talk to one of the lizards to get crop seeds. Lilly and the gang are upstairs. Talk to them. Talk to one of the lizard guards to get a Sunbeam. Talk to the lizard near the Bujutus Teacher to get Old Book Vol. 3. After doing that, go the Inn. Rest if you are hurt. Once you wake up, get the Iron Hammer from the guy in the Trade Shop. Lilly will now be on the bottom right side of the stairs. Go over to them. Lilly, Reed, and Samus will join party. Now, leave the Great Hollow. Once outside, you'll find Jimba. Take Jimba to Lucia (Lucia is near the Inn). After taking him to Lucia, leave the place. You just beat Chapter 2. > Chapter 3 =========== First, head to Mt. Heo-Tou to fight a mini boss. Mt. Heo-Tou ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Go past 2 screens. Take the first left. Then, take the first right. Now, it does not matter which path you take as both will lead you to the same place. Continue walking, and you'll see the monster. Walk up to it to fight it. - - - - - - Blue Mantix - - - - - - Attack it, and put it to sleep with the Wind Rune. You need to do that because it does a strong magical attack and all the characters in your party don't have a high MAG DEF except Hugo. His is not that high. Anyways...You need to keep everyone alive if you want the EXP and Skill Points. Keep putting it to sleep so it can't attack. If you run out of the sleep attack and the monster is still not dead, attack with Hugo and Fubar. Have the rest defend. That way, you'll just have to worry about 2 people getting seriously hurt. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Now, head to Lake Castle. Lake Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Enter the big house at the end to find Thomas, the castle master. Sebastian will greet you. Leave and go to the gate. Watch the cut-scene, and go back inside the big house. Choose to rest. Get outside and talk to Thomas. Yet again, go back to the gate, then back to Thomas. Prepare yourself (build up your skills, equip healing items, and etc...). Come back to Thomas. After that, rest in the Inn. When you wake up, leave the Inn. Meet with Caesar who is near the Lottery Ticket place. Watch the strategy battle. You should be in the Yaza Plains. Yaza Plains ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Start running. After a while, you'll fight some soldiers. - - - - - - - - Zexen Infantry Zexen Infantry Zexen Knights Zexen Knights - - - - - - - - Attack the Infantry first as they are in front of the Knights, and they will cover them. The Infantry do not do a lot of damage, but the Knights deal a lot of damage. Use the Wind rune to put them to sleep if you are having trouble. Heal when nessecary, and you should win. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Keep running, and you'll fight more of them. Use the same strategy as before. When you reach the end, go to the Great Hollow. Great Hollow ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene. Head to Brass Castle. In the middle of the place, two people will be arguing. Choose to fight. Hallec and Mua will join your party. Time for a boss fight! - - - - - - - Zexen Knights Zexen Knights Leo Roland - - - - - - - Use the sleep magic to put all of them to sleep. Leo, and the Zexen Knights will be in front so take them out. Roland will be at the back because he is an archer. Take out Leo as fast as you can. He is one of the best tanks in the game. His defense is very high, and so is his HP, so just keep pounding on him. You can't afford to lose this battle. Heal when nessecary. When Leo is gone, go after Roland. He won't do much damage to you because if you are close to him, his damage greatly decreases. His defense is very weak, and he has kinda high HP. When he is gone, use the sleep magic on the remaining Zexen Knights, and attack like crazy. Heal when needed again. I hope that helps. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, Mua and Hallec will join the 108 Stars! Now, head back to the Great Hollow. Great Hollow ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Meet Apple who is near the waterfall. Agree to help Chisha Village. Go, and inform Luce. Now, go to Duck Village. Duck Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Talk to the boy upstairs in the Item Shop. Give him the bowl if you have it. If you don't, you can get it in chapter 4 or 5. Now, head to Chisha Village. Chisha Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Walk up to men in blue. Time for a boss fight. Before going up to them, make sure that Fubar and Hallec are teamed up together! - - - - - - - - - Harmonia Soldiers Harmonia Soldiers Harmonia Soldiers Harmonia Soldiers - - - - - - - - - Use Hallec's and Fubar's combo attack to hurt all the soldiers bad. You can use the sleep magic if you want, but I suggest that you don't. You are going to need it for an upcoming battle. Instead, heal when needed, and continue using Hallec's and Fubar's combo attack. That combo attack shouldv'e hurt the soldiers bad enough that they will die with one hit. Do not use no rune magic. OK? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Run down to the middle of the village. You'll fight the same battle except this time, there will be 5 Harmonia Soldiers. Use the same strategy as before. Continue walking. Time for a boss fight. - - - - - - - - - - Mantor Mantor Montor Legionnaire Montor Legionnaire - - - - - - - - - - Use the same strategy as the Harmonia Soldiers. The only difference from the Harmonia Soldiers is that the Montors do tons of damage. Use the sleep magic, and take out the Montors first. Also, use Hallec's and Fubar's combo attack to hurt all of the enemies. When the enemies wake up, use the sleep magic again. Continue using it. Don't let them stay awake for more then one turn. Also, heal when needed. When you run out of the sleep magic, attack like crazy. Do not let no one die as this battle gives out a lot of Skill Points. The Montor Legionnaire's do about the same damage as the Harmonia Soldiers. Their defense is low, and their HP is kinda high. The Montor's defense and HP are pretty high. I hope that helps. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Finally, after all the comotion, talk to the old lady in the middle of the vilage. You can recruit Emily (in the second part underground) only if the PWR of your party is more then 600. NOT ATK, PWR!!!! There is a difference. If you are not strong enough, you can get her later. Talk to the guy who is underneath the Armor Shop. Agree to pay his bar tab. He'll join the 108 Stars. Try to leave the village, and you'll deul the Bishop of Harmonia. I forgot the effect of each phrase he says. Sorry! Anyways, you'll wake up in the Inn. Go outside, and talk to Caesar. Sasarai will challenge you to a deul. I forgot the strategy for this one too. Sorry! After all that is done, leave the village.you'll be able to go to two new places called Flame Champion Hideaway, and Caleria. DO NOT GO TO CALERIA. YOU MUST FIGHT A VERY STRONG MINI-BOSS BEFORE BEING ABLE TO GO THERE. IT IS NOT WORTH IT BECAUSE THE BOSS IS VERY HARD. YOUR PARTY IS TO WEAK SO DO NOT GO THERE. Sorry about the all caps disclaimer, but it had to be said. Instead of going to Caleria, head to the Flame Champion Hideaway. Flame Champion Hideaway ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene. Head straight to the teleporter (looks like a small white dot on the mini-map). Step on it, and you will be teleported. Straight ahead will a door. Enter the area beyong that, and....You just beat Chapter 3 with Hugo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • Geddoe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chapter 1 =========== You'll be in Vinay Del Zexay. Vinay Del Zexay ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Choose the first option. Walk down the set of stairs to greet your fellow party members. Buy some lettery tickets and try to win the 500,000 potch prize. I suggest buying 5 Seqntt, and 5 Random tickets. Talk to little girl upstairs of the Inn to get Script #2. After winning the 500,000 Potch prize, level up your party's weapons. Head to the gates of the Zexen capital. Go to the Great Hollow. Great Hollow ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Before gong here, level up your characters and try to get some more Skill Points. When you get to the Great Hollow, follow Shiba up the stairs. After the cut-scene, build up everyone's skills like Armor Defense, Swing, and Damage. Buy some Armor from the Armor Shop, and level up your party's weapons to the maximum level that you can. That is why I said to win the 500,000 Potch prize. When you are all done with that, talk to the lizard fighters who are near the right set of stairs. Who cares about what they say, just follow them. When you finally reach the lizard fighters, you'll fight them! - - - - - - - - Lizard Fighter Lizard Fighter Lizard Fighter - - - - - - - - Use Ace & Joker's combo attack. That attack should hurt them pretty badly. There is not much to say about them because they are easy to take down. Just use hit them a few times and they should die because they have low HP. Really low. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, Shiba will join your party. Go back into the main part of the Great Hollow, and buy him some armor. Also, level up his Armor Protect, Damage, and Swing skills as high as you can. Rest in the Inn if you took some serious damage from the previous battle. After all that is done, go back to the place that the lizards were running to. You'll meet the Zexen Knights and their captain, Chris Lightfellow. Time for a boss battle. You don't have to win, but if you do, you get a ton of skill points, so...... - - - - - - - Zexen Knights Zexen Knights Zexen Knights Zexen Knights Zexen Knights Chris - - - - - - - Use Ace and Joker's combo attack. Go after Chris first as she heals her comrades. Also, Chris will do a VERY powerful water attack. If that happens twice, you will lose the match. Just hope that she does not do that attack. Instead of having each character attack Chris, use their combo attack. It will do a lot of damage. You can also use Geddoe's Lightning Rune, but it is very weak since you couldn't level up his Lightning Magic Skill (There is no Skill teachers yet). Now, heal when needed. You should be able to win if Chris does not do that water attack. After a while, Chris will become Berserk which means she'll do tons of damage. I hope that helps. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ During the battle with the Zexen Knights Captain, Chris Lightfellow, Chief Zepon of the Great Hollow was killed, or more like "murdered" without a trace. Go back to where you had met him before (inside the Great Hollow, upstairs). Watch the cut-scene. After that, head to Karaya Village. Karaya Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ When you get here, a girl will fight you (kinda dumb, don't ya think?). Anyways..... - - - - - - - - Karaya Fighter Karaya Fighter Karaya Fighter Alia - - - - - - - - Use Ace and Joker's combo attack to hurt all of the enemies. The Karaya Fighters do TONS more damage then Alia because Alia is a archer. So, take out the Karaya Fighters first. The good thing is, they have low HP. You can use Geddoe's Lightning Rune but it is weak because you can't level up his lightning magic yet. Instead, use your regular attacks. When the fighters are gone, use the entire group's combo attack on Alia. It should weaken her pretty badly. If she doesn't die, attack her again. When you are going to attack her, the characters are going to go up to her. That is good, because the closer you are, the less damage she will do. Heal when neeeded. I hope that helps. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ If you are a really cheap person who hates to spend potch, talk to the girl near the Blacksmith to recieve a Antitoxin. One is better nothing, isn't it? Now, you have to talk to Jimba. You are probably wondering where Jimba is... Jimba is at the house that is located at the end of the village. Go over there. After the cut-scene, try to leave the village. You'll meet up with this girl who looks nothing like a Karayan. Being as stupid as she can be, Alia chases the lady. Time to follow her. First, she'll be near the save point that is on the plains. Continue following Alia. When you finally meet catch her, Joker will save all of yall with his fire MGC. Yay! Head back to Karaya Village. You will find that it is on fire. Alia will join your party. Choose not to fight. The zexen knights are strong, and you don't want to die. After it is all done, Alia will join the 108 Stars. Now, head to Caleria. Before doing so, head to Mt. Hei-Tou. Mt. Heo-Tou ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ The only reason why you should be here is if you want to level up a bit and gain a lot of skill points. Take the first turn in the road. Enter the area on the right side. It doesn't matter what road you take now. Continue going forward. There, you will see a big blue crab. Walk up to it to fight it. - - - - - - Blue Mantix - - - - - - Do not use the Mercenary B combo attack because there is only one enemy. The Blue Mantix will do two attacks. One that targets one person, and another that hurts everyone. Be aware though, both attacks are magical so heal when needed. The attack that hurts everyone does a lot of damage compared to the single target one. This mini-boss has a lot of HP, so...It will take a while to take it down. Now is a good time to use the lightning rune that Geddoe has. Use the strongest attack that you got. If you are having a hard time hurting the boss, use Alia's Shield Rune -> Battle Oath to make your characters berserk (DMG x 1.5). Also, use Alia's Earth rune to heal your comrades. Now, good luck! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, there will be a treasure chest in the place of the monster. Open it to get 85,790 potch and tons of great items. Now, head to Lake Castle. That way, you can start recruiting people. Lake Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ If you are running low on cash, buy some lottery tickets, and try to win a prize (preferably the 500,000 potch one). When you are all done, head to Great Hollow. Great Hollow ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Remember where those lizard fighters were in the beginning? Go there, and get to the place that has like three different pathways. In the corner will be a little person digging. Go up to him, and he will join the 108 stars. Finally head to Mountain Pass. Mountain Pass ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Go straight. Take the first right. Continue going forward. Now, use the save point when you see it. Up ahead, you will see a huge monster. Before engaging in battle, make sure that everyone's HP is very high. Now, here it is... - - - - - - Twin Snake Right Head Left Head - - - - - - The Right Head uses a fire attack that hurts anyone that is close to it. The Left Head does a very strong rune attack that hurts everyone no matter where they are. Use the Double Tusk rune on the left head. Use Alia's Shield -> Battle Oath to make your party members berserk (DMG x 1.5). Keep using that until at least 4/6 people in your party are berserk. Perferably Joker, Ace, Geddoe, and Queen. Have everyone else go after the Left Head. The reason you are focusing on the Left Head is because it will heal it's comrades, so it is in best interest to take it out first. If you are hurt, use Alia's Earth Ruen to heal you. You need to attack with as many people as you have, so don't use items unless you are out of the earth magic. Once the Left Head is gone, focus on the Right Head. Since most of your party members are berserk, it should go down in a while. When that is gone, use Geddoe's strongest lightning attacks on the Twin Snake. Continue healing when needed, and you should do fine. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ That monster shouldv'e given you a lot of skill points. Open the treasure chest that is in the place of the monster to get 37,370 potch and tons of great items. Take the path that the man says that leads to Caleria. Welcome to... Caleria ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the cut-scene. Talk to the kid in the blacksmith place to get Tomato Seeds. Talk to the masked man upstairs in the Inn to learn about the Theater. Now, head to the big building at the end of the city. Listen carefully to what Joker says. You just beat Chapter 1 with Geddoe! > Chapter 2 =========== You will be in the Inn that is located in Caleria. Caleria ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Leave the Inn. Climb up the set of stairs outside near the trade shop to recieve a bag with a letter in it. Ace and the rest will be outside the Inn. Go, and meet them. Now, head to Le Buque. Le Buque ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ When you get here, you will be greeted by the super friendly visitors! - - - - - - - - - - Franz Ruby Mantor Mantor Mantor Legionnaire - - - - - - - - - - Use Ace and Joker's combo attack to hurt everyone. Franz and Ruby will the most damage. First, get rid of the Mantor Legionnaire's. Use Alia's Shield -> Battle Oath to make your party members berserk. When both Mantor Legionnaire's are dead, go after the Mantors. Continue using Ace and Joker's combo attack when you can. The Mantors don't do a lot of damage but they still pose a threat. Heal when needed. When both Mantor's are gone, use Geddoe's strongest attack to get rid of Franz. Continue healing your comrades. When Franz is gone, use your entire party's combo attack to hurt it badly. It has pretty high defense so it will take a while to take it down. Continue using Geddoe's lightning rune to hurt it badly. I hope that helps. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, walk to where all of the people are meeting. Talk to the men on the far left corner. Agree to pay him 1000 potch to deul him. Beat him, and he will join the 108 stars. Now, get to the far right side near the Armor Shop to see Sarah walking. Talk to Franz who is on the in the far middle, I believe. Get the Arabian Kennel from the person who is near Iku (beside Franz). Finally, walk to the middle of the village. Go and talk to Iku. Now, leave Iku's place. Talk to the little kid near the Armor Shop to get some Herb Seeds. Leave the village, and head to Mt. Senai. Mt. Senai ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Use the save point. Enter the next area. Cross the bridge, and walk forward. When you get to the 2nd bridge, you'll see Sarah walking. Walk over to where she was. Continue following the trail. Do not fight them. You will not gain any EXP or skill points. Watch the cut-scene. Don't even go on further into this mountain as there is nothing left. Head back to Mountain Path. Mountain Path ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watch the really cool cut-scene. You just beat Chapter 2 with Geddoe! > Chapter 3 =========== You'll be in Brass Castle. Level up your Armor Protect, Damage, and Swing skills if you want. Also, level up Joker's fire skill, and Geddoe's lightning skill. When you are all done, head to Vinay Del Zexay. Vinay Del Zexay ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Recruit Dominic by going outside the Armor Shop. Buy the Mole Armor from him, and he will join the 108 stars. Go to the Inn, and rest. After the cut-scene, leave the city, and head to the North Cavern. North Cavern ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Go through the first tunnel. Do the same thing again. You'll see a spiral stairway. Climb it to the top. Stay close to the walls since there are holes in the ground, and you can fall down them. That is a bad thing, just so you know. When you get to the second spiral stairway, use the holes to get to the bottom fast. It takes less time to fall down the holes, then to go down the stairway. Now, you can choose to deul duke if you want, but I say don't do it. After all that is done, run towards the light. After the interesting cut-scene, head to Lake Castle. Lake Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Buy whatever you want, especially armor from Dominic. Visit the libary which is upstairs on the right. After the cut-scene, leave the room, and head downstairs. Choose "I suppose". Get outside to greet the the Zexen Knights. Time for a boss fight! - - - - - - - - Zexen Marshall Zexen Marhsall Zexen Marshall Zexen Marshall Zexen Marshall - - - - - - - - Use Ace and Joker's combo attack to hurt all of them. Have the others focus on Zexen Marshall. Keep using the mercenary b combo attack. Use Alia's Shield -> Battle Oath to make your comrades stronger. These Zexen Marshalls have low HP, and low attack. Also, they have low defense so it should be easy to take them. That's all I got to say. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Hurry, run towards the castle. You'll fight them again. Continue running towards the castle, and you'll fight them again. After all that is done, head to the Flame Champion Hideaway. Flame Champion Hideaway ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Walk to the next area. Take the left path. The teleporter is straight across. When you get teleported, head straight. You just beat Chapter 3 with Geddoe. Start Thomas's chapters before going on to Chapter 4. Once you start Chapter 4, you can't do any of Thomas's, so... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • Thomas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chapter 1 =========== You'll be in Lake Castle. Lake Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Head towards the big house at the end. Sebastain will greet you. You'll wake up in your room. Head down stairs to greet Sebastian again. Greet everyone. Martha, and Piccolo are to the right of the big house. Take the left that leads towards the bottom to find Juan lying on the ground. Take a left and enter the metal door. Follow the corners and go upstairs. On the far right will be Muto, the warehouse keeper. Enter the big house. Go upstairs and enter the room on the far right. Inside here will be the libarian, Eike. The last person, Cecile, is at the gate. Finally, after you have met the current members of Lake Castle, head back to the big building at the end. You will recieve a letter that you have to deliver to the Zexen Knights. Cecile will join your party. I suggest to build up everyone's Armor Protect skill. Also, buy 5 Seqntt, and 5 Random lottery tickets and try to win the 500,000 potch prize. Trust me, you will need it. Leave the castle, and level up a bit at the Yaza Plains. When you are done, head to Brass Castle. Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Once inside, listen to what Cecile says. Talk to Roland who is inside the castle. He'll say that Salome is upstairs. Enter the room that is located at the bottom right side. In there, you'll see Percival and Borus talking. Go up stairs. Salome is in the middle room. After you greet him, and talk, leave the Brass Castle. Head back to Lake Castle. Lake Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Enter the big house at the end. Sleep in your room (third and fourth door upstairs). When you wake up, get outside to see Sebastian talking to a villager from a nearby village. You have to find the baby named, THOMAS!!! Start by checking the doors on the right side. Check the tombstone area (beside the warehouse). Look in the libary. Talk to Juan, and he'll join your party. If you have enough money, buy him some armor from Brass Castle for him. Also, level up all of your weapons. After all that is done, head to Mt. Hei-Tou. Mt. Hei-Tou ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Keep going straight. Don't turn into the other paths. Just go straight. When you reach the "end", you will see a little boy. And, BOSS FIGHT!!! - - - - - Wild Boar - - - - - Use Cecile's and Thomas's combo attack to hurt this boss pretty bad. Have Juan and Piccolo attack. Keep using Thomas's and Cecile's combo attack. This wild boar has tons of HP, does a lot of damage, and has a high defense. That is why you have to keep using that combo attack. Also, that is why I said to upgrade your weapons. Anyways, heal when needed, and you should do fine. If a character dies, reset the game. This boss gives out a lot of EXP and skill points so you need to keep each character alive. That is all. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Take the little boy back to the castle. Talk to Muto, Juan, and Martha to learn the whereabouts of Sebastian. Then, enter the main part of the castle. Watch the cut-scene. Now, you have to find the record. The record is inside Thomas's room. After that is done, talk to Juan, Martha, and Piccolo to trigger a cut-scene. Leave the castle. Many towns will now be open. Enter the castle again. Thomas will go to sleep. When you wake up, you'll find that Eike has been missing for weeks. Head to the front gates. Shizu will join the 108 stars. Head to Iskay Village to recruit a strong person. Iskay Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Talk to Mel who is between the 2 buildings in front. Tell her to come to Budehuc and she'll join the 108 stars. Go back to Lake Castle. Lake Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ When you get here, rest. The next morning, talk to Shizu. The elevator is now working. Go over there, and Shizu will take you to the last floor, or more like the "unknown" level. From here, go down the path until you see a fork in the road. That is why I said to recruit Mel. The monsters down here are very strong. Keep going down the road until you see a path that leads to the left. Continue walking. Take the right path. You just beat Chapter 1 with Thomas. > Chapter 2 =========== Now, you can recruit tons of people. So...Here it goes...Check the 108 stars section to recruit them. The reason I'm not listing them here is because it will confuse yall. You probably got them from the other chapters. NOTE: You can get all but 8 stars in chapter 4, so I'll have all of the stars listed in Chapter 4. Ok? Head to Iskay Village. Iskay Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Tell the soldiers where Budehuc Castle is at. Now, go to Budehuc Castle. Lake Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ After the cut-scene, level up everyone's Armor Protect, and Swing to an A or higher. Have Mel, Cecile, Thomas, Juan and Piccolo in your party. Go to your room to rest. Once you wake up, head to the gates. After the cut-scene, everyone will be in front of the big house at the end. Talk to Caesar and Apple who are in front of the lottery ticket place. Listen to Caesar, and go to the courtyard (area in front of big building). Once the cut-scene is over, rest in your room. Then, head to the front gates. Once that is done, talk to Martha, Piccolo, and Muto who are inside the huge building to the far right side. When you finish doing that, rest in your room. Yet again, in the morning, everyone will be in the courtyard. Choose the option titled "Oh, right. Ready." if you are ready to fight. Commence Battle! - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #1 - - - - - - - - - - Conditions for victory: Stay alive for _x_ turns. Conditions for defeat: Ally units are destroyed. Have Cecile, and Thomas defend until the enemy units get close enough for Thomas to use his wind magic on them. After a couple of turns, Hugo and Lilly's unit should now come. These are the new conditions: Conditions for victory: Hugo and Lilly's units escape to the East. Conditions for defeat: Hugo and Lilly's units are defeated. Move Hugo and Lilly to the same circle each time you move them towards the East. Have Thomas and Cecile defend. The Zexen Knights will go after either Hugo or Lilly. Always have Hugo intercept the attack because Lilly's unit is so weak. Continue moving Lilly, and Hugo to the East but make sure that they are in the same circle. Have Thomas and Cecile continue defending. And, keep moving Lilly, and Hugo to the East. Once Hugo, and Lilly escape, the battle will end. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, talk to Cecile. Get to the courtyard. After the cut-scene, rest in your room. Go down stairs. Talk to Muto who is at the far left side of the castle, downstairs. Move Thomas back to his room. The next morning, Leo and Percival will be outside, in the courtyard, waiting to greet you. Well, don't keep them waiting. Sit back and watch the cut-scene. When it's over, rest. The next morning, meet everyone in the courtyard. Organize your party. Make sure that Mel is in your party!!! Commence Battle!!! - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #2 - - - - - - - - - - Have all of your units defend. When the enemy gets close enough, use Thomas's wind magic on them. Every 2-3 turns, your HP will be restored but not completely. Move everyone's units to where Thomas is at. You just need to stay alive for a couple of turns. After the a while, it will be a safe retreat. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, run toward the huge house at the end. But, the Zexen Marshalls will somehow catch up to you while wearing all of that armor. Teach them Zexen idiots a lesson! - - - - - - - - Zexen Marshall Zexen Marshall Zexen Marshall Zexen Marshall - - - - - - - - Attack them. Do not use any rune magic on them. Use Thomas and Cecile's combo attack to kill one marshall in one turn. Thomas and Cecile should stay alive while Juan and Piccolo should die. Mel should also stay alive. Piccolo is useless so just have him, along with Juan, defend. Continue using Thomas and Cecile's combo attack to get rid of the Zexen Marshalls fast. The Zexen Marshalls have high attack power, but low defense. The should all die in as little as 5 turns. Also, heal when needed. You don't want your party members to die. Well...That's it... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Keep running, and you'll fight them again. Use the same strategy as before. After the battle, continue running. You'll fight them again. Except, there is NO WAY TO WIN. No matter how amny times you hit them, you WILL NOT WIN!!!! All you have to do is defend, and heal. That's it because after a while the battle will end. Geddoe and his gang will come and help you out. Finally, you will fight them one last time. Instead of there being 4 Marshalls, there will be 2 Marshalls. In the words of Yoda "Easy, it is". Once you beat them, you will have beaten Thomas's POV (point of view). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • Chapter 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You will learn that the flame champion died. So, one of the main characters is given the choice to be the successor of the True Fire Rune. To have the best storyline, choose Hugo, or Geddoe. Chris sucks at magic, so I wouldn't give her the True Fire Rune. NOTE: THE BATTLES AND MOST OF THE STORYLINE WILL BE THE SAME IF YOU CHOOSE ANY ONE OF THEM. JUST SOME SCENSE WILL BE DIFFERENT. Just so you are wondering, I chose Chris. Once you choose the new Flame Champion, arrange your party according to this: ------ Geddoe ------ Hugo Chris ------ Geddoe will still have this True Lightning Rune. Time to prove if Hugo is ready to recieve the True Fire Rune. - - - - - - Fire Rincar - - - - - - Use True Lightning -> Hammer of Raijin, and have the Hugo, along with the Captain of the Zexen Knights attack. Use True Lightning -> Hammer of Raijin again. If you ran out of that, use True Lightning -> Soaring Belt, the second strongest lightning attack in the game. Continue having Hugo, and Chris attack. Heal when nessecary, and you should do fine. Oh yeah, the Fire Rincar's attacks, are ugh....FIRE ATTACKS!! Duh! And it is common if one of your characters die. But, try to keep everyone alive as this monster gives out tons of Skill Points. Now...Good luck! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Right after you defeat the Fire Rincar, the main villians will arrive. You have no choice but to fight them. It doesn't matter if you win or lose. If you want to win, do this... - - - - - - - Masked Bishop Yuber Sarah Chimera Chimera Chimera - - - - - - - This is an optional battle that you do not have to win. To actually win this battle, you have to be quite skilled. Your level should be at least 43 (I had levels around 48, and won it in 2 rounds), and you should have Geddoe's Lightning skill maxed out. Chris or Hugo should also have a Water Rune attached. Remeber to keep that formation from earlier, it will allow you to heal easiest. Lastly, you have to have not used up all your most powerful magic in the last battle. If you did, this will be virtually impossible to win. The best place to get the requirments is leaving Flame Champion Hideaway and fighting in the forests near Alma Kinan (Kaput Forest). You may get into a battle with 2 large, blue crabs. Its one of those mini boss battles. This battle alone should net you with 3-4 levels. If you can get to Alma Kinan, then go, as they have all the things you need to create and ideal party. In the battle itself, have Geddoe start out with his True Lightning -> Thunder Storm to do about 1,000-1,200 damage to ALL the enemies on screen. This will kill off the Chimeras, and will put Sarah and the Masked Bishop into critical zone. Remember to use the Water Rune on whatever character it is equipped on, to heal on the first turn. On the second turn, Sarah will most likely heal herself and her party, also use this turn to continue keeping yourself healthy. On the second turn, have Geddoe use that same spell again, this should kill off the Masked Bishop, and maybe Yuber if he wasnt hit by the Kindness Drops. Have Chris or Hugo attack Sarah, and if you are lucky, the battle will be over in 2 rounds. If it isnt over, then attack Yuber with the strongest magic you have, and Sarah with physical attacks. Attacking Yuber physically is asking for destruction. one last note: You may want to have each character: Chris, Hugo and Geddoe in a different section, so you can cast 3 spells a turn, one healing, and two attacking. It will be harder to heal with Kindness Drops, though. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Chisha Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ You'll be inside the Inn. Exit out of it. You'll be at the entrance of the peaceful village. Head down to where Caesar is. Commence Battle! - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #1 - - - - - - - - - - Conditions for victory: Destroy 5 enemy units. Conditions for defeat: Ally units number 5 or less. You won't be able to control the lizard clan, or the Karaya clan even if you chose Hugo as your Flame Champion. Move Chris to the lizard clan in front of her. Move Salome's unit to where Beecham is located. Have everyone defend. After a couple of turns, you will retreat to Duck Village. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Duck Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Talk to Beecham, Salome, Lucia, and Dupa who are inside the Inn. After that, build up your fire magic skill using the Tutor Shop as you will need it later on. After doing all of that, rest if you want. Once you are done with that, go to the entrance of Duck Village. Commence Battle! - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #2 - - - - - - - - - - Conditions for victory: Destroy enemy units. Conditions for defeat: Ally units are destroyed. This time, you can use the Lizard and Karaya clan units. Do not send any units out to get Sarah. Have everyone defend, and let the enemy attack you. If you get hurt, use Dupa's healing skills to heal them pretty good. Just wait a couple of turns, and some units from Le Buque will come. Also, the Flame Champion will pursue Sarah... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Time for another boss fight. You fought that you were going to fight Sarah, right? Well, she isn't dumb. She has tons of "Harmonian Soldiers" protecting her which means that you have to kick their ass to get to Sarah. Here are the first set of "Harmonian Soldiers". This is why I said to build up your Flame Champions's Fire skill. - - - - - - - - - - Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers - - - - - - - - - - Use Hugo's True Fire -> Explosion to kill all of the "Harmonian Soldiers" in one hit. If they don't die, have Alia defend for the whole time, and the others attack. The Harmonian Soldiers deal tons of damage. That is why I said to build up your Fire magic skill. Heal when nessecary, and you'll do fine. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You'll fight them again. Use the same strategy as before. Then, you'll meet up with Sarah along with 5 Harmonian Soldiers... - - - - - - - - - - Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers Sarah - - - - - - - - - - Focus on the Harmonian Soldiers. Use the same strategy as before to take them out. Sarah will only heal, so you need to kill the Harmonian Soldiers in one hit (by using True Fire -> Explosion). You see, that is why I said to build up your Fire magic skill. Once all of the Harmonian Soldiers are dead, the battle will end. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You'll be in Brass Castle. Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Note: From here on, the main character is Chris. I will try and get the other differences, but this is the strategy for Chris's party. She is probably the worst choice for Flame Champion. The main strategy is the same, but sometimes you have to talk to someone you wouldn't normally with your other characters. - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #3 - - - - - - - - - - This battle can be very hard. It is annoying, and the enemies are powerful. The best thing to do is to stay on the castle, because there, the damage is reduced by 40%. Let the enemies come to you. Also, DO NOT lose that area that is shining White, the battle will be considered lost if you do. As always, try and spread your party out, I suggest not going 3 squares from where you normally start, because if you do you will face more enemies that way. Don't let anyone die, as you need all the help you can get. Dont be afraid to run, as you just need to survive a long time in this battle. If your characters are on the Shining area, they will be healed, so try and keep your wounded party members there. Be patient, and dont go on a wild attacking spree. That will just en dup with your defeat. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Note: From here on, the main character is Chris. I will try and get the other differences, but this is the strategy for Chris's party. She is probably the worst choice for Flame Champion. The main strategy is the same, but sometimes you have to talk to someone you wouldn't normally with your other characters. After the battle, your party celebrates inside Brass Castle. Watch a few scenes, and head left, and back into the main castle. Head straight, and left near the end. In the area near the entrance to the inn, head up the stairs on the right. On the second floor hallway, head down, and enter the first door you come to on the right. There will be a conversation going on when you enter. Watch the scene, and when you can control your character again, exit the room the same way you entered, and head up. Go down the stairs to the right, and back into the first floor of the main castle. Head back into the center hall, and head up. Head left through the town, and exit Brass Castle totally. Your goal is Lake Castle. Lake Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Once you enter the castle, watch the movies, you will be able to name your Castle at this point. Call it whatever you want, I will refer to it as Homeland. When you can control your character again examine the bed. You can save and rest here for free. When you are done, exit the room through the door on the right wall. Back in the main room of the castle, head downstairs, and exit. Exit the castle, and prepare your party. Go to the world map. Your next goal is Great Hollow. Note: This is a GREAT time to build up your 108 Stars of Destiny. Since you have access to most areas of the world map, you can do almost anything. Look at the sub-quests and the Characters sections to see what you can do. Also, this is a great time to build up. You can go to the Flame Champions Hideaway, and fight enemies there. You can easily get to level 52 or so withing 5 battles if you want to. Also, try and get a Pale Gate rune from the skeletons in Flame Champion Hideaway. Just keep reseting if you dont get one from the Skeletons. It will help a LOT in the next few major battles. Also, try and get Viki, as she will help a LOT while travelling. Great Hollow ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Entering Great Hollow, follow the path, and shortly, you will see a short scene. Ignore the man, and exit Great Hollow the same way you entered. Now, you head back to your Homeland. Homeland ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Once back home, head back to the main Castle, and enter it. Once inside, head left, and go back into the meeting room. It's the first room on the path to the left, and the same room you named your castle in. Once inside, you will watch a scene, and your goal will to then follow Jimba into the Highway. Remember to do your building before you follow him, as you will be entering a rather difficult area. Make sure to prepare your party, buy items, and do whatever you need before leaving. When you are done, go back into the Highway. Ancient Highway ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ When you enter, ignore everything else, and head directly to the center of the area (where Yuber and Hugo once fought). There, you will watch a scene, and the door will open. Head through the door. Note: Try to have a Pale Gate rune going into this area. Without one, the bosses you face will be hell. To get one, go to the Flame Champion Hideaway, and look at the Skeletons there. If they have items, then you can do the trick. Keep reseting until one of the items you get is a Pale Gate rune. Do not save after if you dont have the item. Just reset. It may take a while, but it will be worth it. Cyndar Ruins ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Note: For those of you who have played the previous Suikoden games, you will somewhat know this name. The Cyndar in this game is considered a mistranslation. It should be Sindar. And you know what that is. When you enter this area, you will have three paths to choose from. First, save at the save point to the left, and then you want to go down the right the direction, right) path. On the larger screen, head straight until you get to an intersection. At the intersection, take a right. Follow the next screen as it twists and turns. Keep going in this direction until you see a save point. SAVE HERE. When you are sure you are reasy, head foward and you will see a scene. - - - - - - Sarah Ghost Armor Ghost Armor Chimera Chimera - - - - - - This battle can be really annoying. First rule of the thumb, DO NOT use all your big magics here. This means you should stick to lower level magics. Unless of course, you really need to heal and don't have a Flowing Rune (so Kindness Drops is level 2 instead of 3). Make sure to save at least 4 Heal alls (AKA Shield -> Great Blessing, and Water -> Kindness Drops) for your next battle. If you want to do things the easy way, have Estella (with a Pale Gate rune and skill) use the level 1 attack. This should end the battle. If it doesnt, then attack Sarah normally, as she should be the only one left alive. If you have to do things the hard way, be prepared to make a long battle short, as if this drags on, you most likely wont win. Try to have Futch mounted on Bright, and you can do over 1,000 damage an attack. That should kill off the Chimeras fast, while your other party members can focus on doing what they do best. As always, Sarah heals with Kindness Drops, so you need to kill the Chimeras in one turn. Try to up your defense with Earth spells. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, watch the scenes, and heal up. Head down, and back onto the screen you fought Sarah on. SAVE NOW, and even harder battle looms ahead. If you must, head back to a town, and heal up. When you are ready, head back up the stairs. On the icy screen, head straight, dodging the ruins on either side, and continue going onto the next screen. On this next screen, do the same thing, except heal before getting near the end, as a HORRIBLY evil boss is waiting. - - - - - - - Water Dragon Ice Pillar Ice Pillar Ice Pillar Ice Pillar Ice Pillar Ice Pillar - - - - - - - This boss can easily be considered one of the hardest bosses in the game if you dont have the Pale Gate rune, and are able to use it. Without it, you WILL go through hell, no matter how good and built up your party is. There are seven targets, with the Water Dragon the main target. But to actually get to the water dragon, you have to kill off at least one or 2 of the Ice Pillars. Each pillar does from 100-200 damage with each attack. Meaning they can easily wip the floor with your characters in one round. And you also have to count the Water Dragons attack, which does around 200 or so to the entire party. I have seen my entire party wiped out in two turns with an A rank Water rune character, and an B+ Earth. Characters like Hugo mounted on Fubar, and Futch mounted on Bright will make the battle easier, but still very difficult to survive. Even worse, is the fact that the Water Dragon can revive his Ice Pillars, making it longer, and more tedious for you. The best, and easiest way to win this battle is to have a Pale Gate rune attached to a character like Estella or Viki (or Joker, if he has a head slot available). Then use the same strategy you used for Sarah. Use the level One spell from the rune on the Water Dragon to hit all of the Ice Pillars. This will kill off all 6 Ice Pillars in one hit (the first spell has an instant death chance) and do around 1,000 damage to the Water Dragon. Then you are free to attack the Dragon itself, he has a lot of HP, so it may take a while to kill him. Keep your HP high, probably about 200, and you can survive. Remember, he can revive his Ice Pillars though. If you want to do this battle the hard way, you are in for a long, and most likely battle you have to reset in 5+ times battle. The best way to do it is to have a magic user with a Mother Earth rune casting the spell that gives immunity to magic spells once per character. Or up your defense with an Earth rune. Then have Futch and Bright (mounted) and attack one of the Ice Pillars. Have your magic users use Fire spells, as strong as you can. Final Flame does a good amount of damage. Once one or two Ice Pillars are out of the way, you have a choice. Either keep the damage from the Ice Pillars, and go after the Water Dragon alone, or to kill off most of the other Ice Pillars. Killing the Water Dragon is the faster alternative, as you may not survive killing off all of the Ice PIllars. This battle is very difficult, but it IS survivable, you just need a certain amount of luck. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, heal. Now, you can head up the stairs. On the next screen, head straight and continue onto the next screen. After 2 more straight screens, you will be shown a screen. At this point either Chris or Hugo will inherit the True Water Rune. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • Chapter 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter five begins where you can choose your character again. It doesnt matter whom you choose, as you will just be given control of your Flame Champion. Homeland ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ You begin by watching a scene. hen you are given a choice, choose to sleep to progress. Watch some more scens, and when you are given control of your Champion, head downstairs, and try to exit Homeland on foot. You will then watch a scene involving Franz. Watch the longer set of scenes. Geddoe ====== You are now in control of Geddoe again (if he wasn't you're Flame Champion), but not for the rest of the game. You can do almost anything in the castle with Geddoe, but Viki will not teleport you anywhere, so you are forced to move on foot. You automatically exit the Homeland. You can re-enter when you want, and I sugeest you do so, to build up the party that you may not have built up after the Flame Champion Hideaway. If you didnt builkd them up after Flame Champion Hideaway, they should have around 1,000 Skill points, so use them all. Your goal is now Le Buque. Head all the way over there from Homeland. On mountain path you will probably have to fight a boss again, use all the spells you want, as you wil be able to heal in Le Buque. At the end of the area, you will watch a short scene, and be placed on the world map again. Le Buque ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Entering Le Buque, and watch a scene. Head up the path to the main town. Walk forward a bit, and another scene will play. Head straight over the mesh netting, and exaiming the door to the first house on the right, which is Iku's house. Enter the house, and go into the second room of the house, where Geddoe and party talked to Iku before. After a scene, and your goal will be layed out for you. Make sure to stay the night at the inn if you are missing even a little magic. Your goal is Mount Senai. Exit town, and head there. Mnt. Senai ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ When you enter, you will be presented with a short scene. You may know Senai by now, but I will give you directions anyway. Go left, and follow the path to the next screen. Head right down the planks, and continue straight. Head right when you can, and follow the path in one direction some more. On the next screen, head across the second platform on the right, and continue straight, ignoring that side path (unless you want and dont have the doggie). On the next screen, head down either of the platforms on the left, and enter the door to the shrine area. Head straight in this hall, and on the next screen, you will watch a scene. - - - - - - Sarah Luc Mirage Mirage Mirage Salamander Salamander - - - - - - Like most of the battles with Sarah, Luc and Yuber, you are not required to win. Luckily, Yuber isnt here to kick your ass, so you have a much better chance of survival normally. Sarah, as always, heals and uses water magic, and Luc uses wind and pale gate magic. Get sarah out of there first, as she can cause a lot of problems, even though Lucs attacks are stronger. The Salamanders are immune to Fire spells (or rather, the spells do 1 damage), so dont try to kill them with that. You can end the main problems of this battle in a single round if you use Geddoes True Lightning -> Thunder Storm and Jokers Fire -> Explosion or any other strong fire spell). Queen may have a Wind rune (she is best at Wind magic, so naturally you would want to get her one), of so, have her use Wind -> The Shredding. Aila should start with using defensive earth spells on your party, and uing Shield -> Great Blessing to heal your party when needed. You get a Wind Magic Ring for winning this battle. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, a long scene will play, and Geddoe will lose his True Rune (either Lightning or Fire). After that, watch some more scenes, and head right over the bridge, and exit the shrine area. Heal before, though. Here, you will watch a scene, and you are then required to fight Three (3) progressively harder battles with Ghost Armors, Salamanders, and Mirages. After these three battles, you are given a choice. MAKE SURE TO CHOOSE "We can't just run away!" THREE TIMES! If you don't, you lose the ability to gain three new party members. Choose that option 3 times, unless your party is really close to death. After the third battle, you will be shown a scene. When given the option, choose "Please help us!". This will then allow you to have Duke, Elaine, Gau, and Nicholas as 4 of the 108 Stars of Destiny. When you are back on the world map, re-enter Le Buque. Le Buque ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ When you are back in Le Buque, enter the main town area again, and watch a long scene (you gotta love how Geddoe doesnt put up with shit). After this, you lose control of Geddoe once again, even if he is your Flame Champion. ===== Chris ===== Homeland ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ You are now in control of Chris, even if she isnt your Flame Champion. Remember to up her skills, and her parties skills when you can go to a Skill shop. Watch a scene, and when you regain control of Chris, it looks like your destination is Vinay del Zexay. Why dont we take a short brake at Brass Castle though, first? Remember: Like Geddoe, you cant warp with Viki at this point. Viki will be tired, or just not able to warp your party at this point. So you are forced to walk wherever you want to go. Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Ah, Brass Castle. Home, sweet home. Why not take a look around? Head right, and into the main town. Continue right, and and down through the castle. On the third screen, watch a scene, and your goal is now Alma Kinan. Head in that direction. Kaput Forest ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ When you enter Kaput forest, head right, and continue down the single path. Continue past the intersection, and when you are at the last intersection to Alma Kinan, a surprising scene will play, and you will be forced into another battle. - - - - Sarah Azodess Azodess Azodess - - - - If you have fought the Azodsesses before, you know how annoying they can be. And with Sarah there, this battle can be a pain in the ass. Remember, like most Sarah battles, you dont have to win this, but since it is rather easy, why not try? Sarah, as always, will heal herself and her party with water magic. She also attacks with the magic. The easiest way to win this battle is exactly the same way you won the last battle, the level 1 Pale Gate rune will slaughter the Azodesses, and severly harm Sarah. If you cant do that, make sure to kill off Azodesses as fast as you can, with any magic it takes, as you wont be needing it after this (or rather, there wont be any battles after this one). Remmeber that the Azodesses can silence your party, so it may be harder to heal this way. Protect your magic users with anti-silence guards, and have your strongest physical attackers go all out. Futch mounted on Bright helps this battle progress steadily, though it is possible to win without it. Sarah hasnt really gotten any stronger since your last encounter, and actually, this battle is much easier then the one in the Cyndar ruins. If you win, you get a rare Drain rune. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, watch a scene, and Chris' True Rune (Water of Fire) will be taken away. You then lose control of Chris' party. ==== Hugo ==== Hugo's scenario is like Chris' and Geddoes', you cant use Viki, even if he is your Champion. This is like a short chapter inside another chapter. Remember to build up the skills of Hugo and his party, and remember Fubar (Must. Resist. Urge. To. Make. Bad. Comment) and that Hugo can mount him. When you begin, watch a short scene, and dont worry about a party just yet. When you can control Hugo, head to the exit of the Homeland on foot. Watch a short scene, and exit the Homeland. Enter the neighboring village of Iksay. Iksay ¯¯¯¯¯ Look around Iksay village, and do whatever you need to. There are no scenes you need to trigger in this village. Just search around, and shop. When you are done, exit, and go back to your Homeland. Homeland ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ When you enter, and you will be automatically shown a scene. You are then prompted to choose a party. I suggest Fubar with Hugo at least, as one mounted pair will be a lot better then anything else. Any other characters are your own choice, there wont be a boss battle, so you dont have to worry about that. Hugo then gets back on his kick ass Zebra-Horsie, and your goal is Brass Caslte. Remember to build up your characters at this point. Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ When you enter, you will automatically watch a scene. Head right, and enter the town. The complete lack of people is disturbing. HEY! Is that shop left unattended? And, wasnt Jeane's shop that rune shop? There may be something left of her! Lets go and-er...Anyways, continue right,and enter the main castle. Head down, and enter the second part of town. There are people in this area, so dont let your fantasies get ahead of you just yet. Power up anything you need to, and heal before you go through the door to the opposite side of Brass Castle. Once here, you notice the chaos. You are then attacked by a set of 5 Harmonian soldiers. They arent that tough, especially if Hugo is mounted on Fubar. Kill them physically, and they wont be too tough. After this, you will see a scene, and are then required to fight two more sets of Harmonian soldiers. This is a great time to level up your low level characters. After these battles, Hugo will lose his True Rune (which can be any of the three runes), and an awesome movie will then commence. After the movies, you will be given a set of three choices that you always get before a major battle. I suggest you go and save before entering this battle, as people can die (permanently!). Prepare your battle parties, and your choices, and prepare for a huge war. - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #1 Conditions for Victory: Destroy Yubers Unit Conditions for Defeat: Successors unit is destroyed Take note that the first thing you should not allow to happen is let any of your parties die. If they do, there is a chance that a character can die off, permanently, leaving you with less then 108 Stars, and you then wont be able to see the special secret at the end of the game. Don't be afraid to reset, as this battle can be a pain. Let Yubers Units come to you, as you are severly outnumbered when you being this battle. If Yuber attacks any party, make sure that you run from the battle on the first turn. The best way to harm Yubers unit is by Lightning and Fire skills, so save those for him. The main goal of the battle is to survive for the first few turns. In 3 turns, Sasarai will come into the battle. He will not attack anyone though, and it is highly doubtful your party is over to that side of the battlefield by now, anyways. Try and stay on the Castle, or on the Plains so your party will be healed after each round. A few rounds after Sasarai joins, then a short scene will play, and he will join your party for the battle. Now your goal is to kill off everyone and everything. Killing Yubers unit off first will end the battle, but it is a lot easier to kill all of the enemies before going after him. Remmeber not to waste Sasarai's or any other characters Spells on the normal enemies, and use them on Yuber. When Yuber gets to half health, the spells wont effect him anymore. You are then required to attack him physically (prepare for ouchies). Have a strong party, one with a "Tank" (one that doesnt take damage from physical attacks well, like Nicholas, Ceceil, Leo and a built up Fred). Remember that Yuber has amazing dodge capabilities, so it may take a long time to kill him. You get a Flowing Rune for winning this battle. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ========= Successor ========= Homeland ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ After the battle, you are automatically brought back to your Homeland, and changed back into the control of your main character. You will watch some scenes, and are given characters 102-104. During this scene, you will have the ability to start battle, but befoe you do, MAKE ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU ARE READY!. Being ready means having 104 of the 108 Stars of Destiny (dont worry about the other 4, you'll get them automatically). It also means preparing 3 main parties. Yes, you heard me, three parties. Level up in the Flame Champion Hideaway if needed, and build up all these characters to the nest you can. Play around, and do everything else you need. The day of destiny will soon arive! Remember to only go if you have 104 characters of the 108 (unless of course you dont want the best secret ever). Lastly, dont remove the skills of magic from your Flame Champion. When you are ready, go into the meeting room, and talk to everyone. Then choose to get going and finish this. Ceremonial Site ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ The Ceremonial Site is the location of the final battle. But befoere you can get in, you must deal with Yuber, Sarah, and their hordes of monsters. - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #2 Conditions for Victory: Destroy Yubers Unit Conditions for Defeat: Successors Unit is destroyed This is the hardest major battle in the game. Not only do you have to worry about the extreme amount of monsters, but you have to worry about keeping your party members alive, as just like the last battle, they can die permanently. The first rule of this battle: It WILL take a long time. No matter how strong you are, this battle will be very long. Start by having your characters slowly move upwards, going the opposite direction of Yuber. Try to head towards Sarah, as getting rid of her can make this battle easier. The enemies in this battle are strong, but nothing you didn't face in the last major battle. When you reach Sarah, be warned. She has 1-hit-kill with her killer Final Flame spell. Just attack her as much as possible with magic before you attack her normally, and before going after her, try and get her Water rune skill down a bit, so you dont waste all that damage and she heals it when she is close to death. To get the skill down to zero, let the enemies run from you when they are close to defeat, and she will most likely heal them. Remember to run when you get into battle with Yubers unit, as he is still as strong, if not stronger then before, and can easily wipe the floor with your party. The reason you want to go after Sarah's unit is because once hers is gone, 80% of the monsters will disappear with her, and wont come back. Then you can go after Yuber with whatever you want. Kill him like you do normally, just remember to use magic on him first, and try to have a healthy party when going at it. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, make sure you don't save until you are positive that you don't have any dead party members (My biggest mistake the first time through the game was getting all these characters, and then saving, only to notice that one died in that last battle. Grrr). You will watch a scene, and be given control of the holder of the True Lightning Rune; either Geddoe or Hugo. The character is then given the ability to pick a party. He can alsoleave the Ceremonial site and go back to where ever he/she wants, except remember the deadline for the 108 Stars is up. And lastly, if you want, you can go look at the Tablet of Stars,as you have just gotten your last 4 characters, but only if you had 104 alive Stars before that last battle. Party consideration is a major effect here. Since you have to balance your parties, you can be in trouble. If you had one main party throughout the game, then you can be in trouble. Let Hugo have Fubar (if he isnt your flame Champion), and have Futch and Bright with the True Lightning character. Have Franz and Ruby with your other character. If Hugo is your champion, have Franz with Chris, and Futch with Geddoe. If Chris is your Champion, have Futch with Geddoe, and Fubar with Hugo. The same with Geddoe. Don't let the Champion have a mounted character, as he wont need it. Note: There are some special scenes you can see if you choose a party of characters that the Inheriters of the True Runes start with. Hugo has to have Fubar and St. Joe in his party, and everyone else has to have their base characters (the ones that were main characters throughout their story). These are some of the best scenes in the game, and some of them are certainly the most heartwarming. ============== True Lightning ============== The best type of party for this area is a a party of high HP "Tanks". Futch mounted on Bright is also very useful. The enemies here are some of the hardest sets in the game, so be warned. It's best to run if you have to fight more then 2 Azodesses at once, as they can seriously decimate you, more then the other enemies. When you control the character going to True Lightning, save (remember only if you know that everyone is alive!), and go through the door on the top right corner of the main room. Watch a short scene (this will be a special scene if you chose a party from the earlier note.), and go straight. Follow the path, and go through the door at the end. In this next room, head over the platform and go to the next screen. Continue following the single path, and you will eventually get to the last door at the end of the third screen. Heal before going into it, and beware. Enter the door, and head straight. Watch a scene, and you will be attacked. - - - - - Yuber Skeleton Skeleton Skeleton Hellsteed - - - - - Alright, this is one big ouchie. Yuber is capable of attacking a single character up to 5 times in a row, for around 100-200 damage each time. This will easily slaughter even the strongest mounted characters. The Hellsteed is another strong physical attacker which does around 150 damage per attack, and can attack twice. You have faced Skeletons before, these are just powered up ones. To win this battle cleanly, you have to get rid of the monsters within the first 2 turns. This means you have to go all out, and slaughter everything in sight, and do it quickly. Kill off the Skeletons first, as they are the easiest to kill. You should be able to kill them all within two turns. Then set your sights on the Hellsteed. One round of attacks bu all your attackers against him should kill him. Make sure to heal if anyone gets under 300 HP. When Yuber is alone, then you have an easier time, but it will still be difficult. He goes berserk easily, and then does around 200 damage with each attack, slaughtering everyone in his way. Even if you have gotten to this point, you arent safe, and can still be killed just as easily as you could normally. In fact, near death, a berserk Yuber can do 300 damage to even the strongest tanks. This is one of the hardest battles in the game, so dont worry if you have to reset a few times. It's only natural, especially if its your first time hrough. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Remember that Yuber has a high physical evasion, and counters a lot of your physical attacks, so spells are the safest way to win this battle. When you are done, your character reclaims his True Lightning Rune, and you are automatically given control of another character. ========== True Water ========== Either Chris or Hugo will be your starting character for this area. Remember not to get into too many battles, as the boss will be hell if you do. This party needs to be stronger, dont show mercy, because the last party (the next one) doesnt really need strong characters. So use your strongest characters as much as you can. Choose your party, MAKE SURE YOU SAVE!, and head through the door on the top left corner of the main hall. After a scene, head straight, following the path onto the next screen. On the second screen, head over the platform, and onto the third screen. On the third, follow the path, and near the end, heal. Head onto the fourth screen, watch a scene, and prepare for battle. A long, and hard battle that will make you mad enough to throw your controller down at times. - - - - - - Sarah Azodess Azodess Horrobeast Horrobeast - - - - - - The Azodesses present the main problem of this battle. You have fought them many times before, but unlike previous monster/character battles, the monsters here dont die from the first level Pale Gate. The Horrobeasts have a hell of a lot of HP, so it will take a while to kill them. Their attacks do about 150 damage, or 100 damage too all your party members, so you need either Shield -> Great Blessing, or Water -> Kindness Drops for this battle. And you will probably need to do it once a round, and SHOULD do it once a round. Sarah will attack a lot more often in this battle, then she did in previous battles. Her attack does around 100-200 damage to the entire party, and is water elemental. The Azodesses are powered up, but are still basically the same as before. Kill off the Azodesses first, as they are the fastest, and can silence your entire party, cutting off your healing. Kill them off with whatever means necissary. The best way to do it is by strong physical attacks, as they take more damage physically then magically. The Horrobeasts aren't damaged from Fire Magic, so use whatever means you need to kill them. Since they are so slow, they are the least threat of the battle, and should be killed near last. As always, Sarah heals. But like I said before, she attacks more. Try to kill off all the enemies fast to keep her from healing them. This battle can be even harder thenm the Yuber battle, because the enemies target your entire party, not just one character, like Yuber. Keep your HP way up, and be prepared to die multiple times before winning this battle. The best way to actuallty defend yourself in this battle in the Mother Earth Rune and its immunity to magic spells for the entire party. If Hugo is your Water Rune character, he will be fast with the Earth magic, so you may want to use him for defense if he is in your party. The immunity to spells will save your ass a LOT. Have a character with a good water spell, and a Flowing Rune so you can heal fast. Try not to use Fire magic, and work with whatever else you need. Be patient, it is a little bit of luck. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ After the battle, you are automatically given control of another character. ========= True Fire ========= This is by far the easiest of the paths, because there is no hugely impossible boss battle to fight here. Choose your party, it doesnt have to be uber, just a party you are able to survive with. When you begin, save your game, and go through the center door of the top floor. Watch a scene, and follow the paths straight until the second screen. Head over the platform, and onto the next screen. Follow the path as it "U's", onto the next screen. On the last screen, follow the path, and save your game. Head toward the center of the room, and a scene will play, and your character will now get his or her True Fire Rune back. Watch the long scene, and go through the newely opened door. Watch another scene, and you are given an option to choose party members. At this point, Chris, Hugo, and Geddoe can all be in the same party. You can also use Sasarai, and his True Earth Rune. The final battle awaits beyond that last door.Your party choice is really your own, but I usually use Geddoe, Chris, Hugo and Sasari, yes, they have the True Runes, and yes that is shallow, but so what? Sasari is great at ALL forms of magic, and Chris will be a good healer throughout the battle. Geddoe will be good at offense once you get one problem out of the way, and Hugo just kicks ass all around. For my last two characters, I usually have Futch mounted on Bright. They are almost indestructable. Its really your own personal opinion though. Some may prefer Estella to Sasarai, or anything else on that matter. Going through the door, watch a long scene, and you arer foced into some odd minor battles. Just use physical attacks, and they should die rather quickly. After this, you are given the chance to back off, or don't. You can back off, and prepare your party, in fact, it is actually advised to do this. When you are absolutely sure you are ready, then choose to approach him. Watch more scenes, and the final battle will begin. - - - - - - - - - Wind Rancor Fire Crystal Lightning Crystal Earth Cryatal Water Crystal - - - - - - - - - Alright, now THIS is a confusing battle. First off, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT use offensive magic! That is, until you destroy the elemental crystal of that power. So don't use Lightning spells until the Lightning Crytal is destroyed. The Wind Rancor can attack up to 3 times a round, and can use whatever of the Crystals are alive to attack, or heal. Earth supports, Lightning attacks, Fire attacks, and Water heals. The way to finish the batle fastest is to go for the Lughtning Crystal first. This may seem weird, but the faster thats gone, the more you can go after the most annoying target: The Water Crystal. The Water Crystal is the healer, and can completely revive any of the other Crystals. Once you kill off the Lightning Crystal, then go straight for the Water Crystal. Use as strong as attacks that you have, and remember that you can now use Lightning spells. In a round or two, the Water Crystal will revive the Lightning Crystal, putting you back at square one. But the damage the Water Crystal recieved will still exist, so you only need to kill off the Lightning Crystal again, to get to the Water Crystal. You should be able to kill it now if you didn't before. After the Water Crystal is dead, the battle becomes MUCH easier. After the Water Crystal is dead, you are capable of killing everything else off. Remember, don't use the elemental attack spell against the enemies unless the Crystal of the same element is dead, or else the spell will be forced back onto your party. Keep your HP over 300 with all party members, and heal with Water (Flowing, True Water) -> Kindness Drops once a round. If you have a character with a Shield Rune, use Great Blessing. Once the Crystals are dead, you have a much better time. The Wing Rancor can then only attack twice a round, (at max). Just atack with whatever you find necessary at this point, because he is not going to last too long. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Now, the game will be over. If you have all of the 108 Stars Of Destiny, you'll get to play as Luc. NOTE: Me or Cyril didn't add Luc's POV to our FAQ because it is 100% story based. You can't level up or explore. IT IS STORY BASED SO WRITING A WALKTHROUGH FOR IT IS 100% USELESS. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: Section 9 - BOSS STRATEGIES :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chapter 1 ============ Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Commence Battle #1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Conditions for victory: Stay alive for _x_ number of turns. Conditions for defeat: Chris's unit is defeated. Have Roland attack the Lizard Clan beneath him. Move someone else beside Chris to the bottom. End your turn. It should turn into a battle. Have one of your clan attack Bazba. They'll attack again. Roland should die after a while. Move Chris and the remaining units to the East. You'll fight 4 soldiers. After the battle is over, move the remaining units to Chris's position. Your HP will be restored. Continue moving Chris to the East. Keep moving to the East, and you should win. You'll be in Plain Amur. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Chapter 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~ North Cavern ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - Chimera - - - - This battle is hard as hell. Just keep attacking it. Watch out for it's poison attack. When someone gets poisoned, immediatley cure them as you don't want them to lose 20 HP per turn. Heal people when needed. Having Heavy Damage, and Swing maxed out is very good in this battle. Good luck! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #2 - - - - - - - - - - Conditions to win: Defeat 5 enemy units. Conditions to lose: Chris's unit is defeated. Move Leo to the bottom. Have Chris and Roland defend. Three Lizards will attack Leo. After they attack, move all of your units to the top. Have Leo's unit intercept the attack by the enemy. You should win. Beecham will withdraw. Have Borus attack the same unit as Leo. Borus should win. Make Percival group attack the Lizards in front of him. Let Chris attack clan right beneath here. Chris should win. You just won a major victory. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - - - - - - - - Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Shiba - - - - - - - - Focus all your attacks on Shiba as the battle will end when he dies. If you had your Swing, and Armor Protect in the ranges of B's, it should be pretty easy. The other reason to go after Shiba first is that he has pretty strong attacks out of his clan. He's really strong, but he should go down in a couple of turns. I hope that helps. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Iskay Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Lizard Fighters Shiba - - - - - - - - Just focus on Shiba as he inflicts the most damage. Besides, your party is pretty weak since you don't have Leo, Borus, and all the others with you. It's just common sense to go after him first. Right now, Nash is in your party. So, when you get hurt, DO NOT use healing items. Instead, use Nash's Rune power called "Kindness Drops". They heal tons of HP, and cure all status's. I hope that strategy works. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mt. Heo-Tou ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - Blue Mantix - - - - - - Before starting this battle, make sure everyone is in the correct formation according to the level of defense. Put the highest in front, and so on. Start attacking it, but heal when you can. You don't want anyone to die. It doesn't really matter if you die or not because this mini-boss gives out very little skill points. Anyways...Do not use any Rune magic. Just focus on attacking it. If you had everyones' Heavy Damage, Armor Protect, and Swing skills maxed out (which means having them at an A), it should go down in little or no time. Keep attacking it, and it should die. Good luck! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Chapter 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Chisha Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - Franz Ruby Mntrlegnr Montor - - - - - Take out Franz, and Mntrlegnr first because they do the most damage. If you had your Armor Protect, and Swing skills at an A or higher, they should do little damage to you. After Franz, and Mntrlegnr go down, get rid of Ruby, and the Montor. They don't do a lot of damage, but if you were hurt from Franz or Mntrlegnr, heal right away. After while, you should win. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chisha Village (again) ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #3 - - - - - - - - - - Conditions to win: Stay alive for x number of turns. Conditions to lose: Chris's unit is defgeated or base ares are captured. Have Chris attack the group of enemies in front. The battle should conclude. Have Fred attack the group in front. A unit should get attacked during the retreat. Let Nash defend because he's so weak. The enemy should attack Nash. Your HP will be restored. Have Chris attack the people in front. Vios unit should get attacked during retreat. Chris should win that battle. Have the rest defend. Nash should die. Your HP will get restored again. Move Chris all the way to the back and have Fred defend. Fred should die after getting attacked twice. Your HP will get restored again. Make Chris defend for the next 2 turns. Hugo should enter the battle now. You should win a major victory. The enemy will leave behind Earth Chain Mait. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - - - Yuber - - - Yuber blocks any attack from a sword while chanting. Only a person with a Bow 'n Arrow can attack him DURING his chanting. He deals a ton of damage. After he takes enough damage, he'll turn Berserk. Keep attacking him, and heal. Try to stop his chanting. Heal when needed. Um...That's all... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - - - - - - Yuber Masked Man Sarah - - - - - - It doesn't matter if you win or lose. BTW, it is IMPOSSIBLE to win so don't even try! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • Hugo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chapter 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~ North Cavern ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - Bandit Bandit - - - - Attack with Hugo, Sgt. Joe, and Lulu. Have the others defend since they are weak. Both Bandits have low HP, but their attack is pretty high. Use Lulu's Rune Magic, Sword of Cyclone to get rid of them fast. Heal when nessecary. Keep everyone alive. DO NOT USE ANY RUNE MAGIC TO HEAL YOUR PARTY!!! Ok? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Vinay Del Zexay ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - Zexen Knight Zexen Infantry Zexen Infantry - - - - - - - - Attack the Zexen Knight first as he does a lot of damage. The Zexen Infantry don't do a lot of damage. Use Hugo's Water Rune to put everyone to sleep. That will make all the enemies go to sleep. Remember though, when you attack them, they'll awaken, so use it wisely. Also, use Lulu's Sword Of Cyclone to get rid of them quickly. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > Chapter 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Ancient Highway ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - Zexen Infantry Zexen Infantry Zexen Knights Zexen Knights - - - - - - - - Attack the Infantry first as they are in front of the Knights, and they will cover them. The Infantry do not do a lot of damage, but the Knights deal a lot of damage. Use the Wind rune to put them to sleep if you are having trouble. Heal when nessecary, and you should win. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > Chapter 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Mt. Heo-Tou ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - Blue Mantix - - - - - - Attack it, and put it to sleep with the Wind Rune. You need to do that because it does a strong magical attack and all the characters in your party don't have a high MAG DEF except Hugo. His is not that high. Anyways...You need to keep everyone alive if you want the EXP and Skill Points. Keep putting it to sleep so it can't attack. If you run out of the sleep attack and the monster is still not dead, attack with Hugo and Fubar. Have the rest defend. That way, you'll just have to worry about 2 people getting seriously hurt. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Yaza Plains ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - Zexen Infantry Zexen Infantry Zexen Knights Zexen Knights - - - - - - - - Attack the Infantry first as they are in front of the Knights, and they will cover them. The Infantry do not do a lot of damage, but the Knights deal a lot of damage. Use the Wind rune to put them to sleep if you are having trouble. Heal when nessecary, and you should win. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Great Hollow ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - Zexen Knights Zexen Knights Leo Roland - - - - - - - Use the sleep magic to put all of them to sleep. Leo, and the Zexen Knights will be in front so take them out. Roland will be at the back because he is an archer. Take out Leo as fast as you can. He is one of the best tanks in the game. His defense is very high, and so is his HP, so just keep pounding on him. You can't afford to lose this battle. Heal when nessecary. When Leo is gone, go after Roland. He won't do much damage to you because if you are close to him, his damage greatly decreases. His defense is very weak, and he has kinda high HP. When he is gone, use the sleep magic on the remaining Zexen Knights, and attack like crazy. Heal when needed again. I hope that helps. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Chisha Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - - Harmonia Soldiers Harmonia Soldiers Harmonia Soldiers Harmonia Soldiers - - - - - - - - - Use Hallec's and Fubar's combo attack to hurt all the soldiers bad. You can use the sleep magic if you want, but I suggest that you don't. You are going to need it for an upcoming battle. Instead, heal when needed, and continue using Hallec's and Fubar's combo attack. That combo attack shouldv'e hurt the soldiers bad enough that they will die with one hit. Do not use no rune magic. OK? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - - - - - - Mantor Mantor Montor Legionnaire Montor Legionnaire - - - - - - - - - - Use the same strategy as the Harmonia Soldiers. The only difference from the Harmonia Soldiers is that the Montors do tons of damage. Use the sleep magic, and take out the Montors first. Also, use Hallec's and Fubar's combo attack to hurt all of the enemies. When the enemies wake up, use the sleep magic again. Continue using it. Don't let them stay awake for more then one turn. Also, heal when needed. When you run out of the sleep magic, attack like crazy. Do not let no one die as this battle gives out a lot of Skill Points. The Montor Legionnaire's do about the same damage as the Harmonia Soldiers. Their defense is low, and their HP is kinda high. The Montor's defense and HP are pretty high. I hope that helps. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • Geddoe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chapter 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Great Hollow ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - Lizard Fighter Lizard Fighter Lizard Fighter - - - - - - - - Use Ace & Joker's combo attack. That attack should hurt them pretty badly. There is not much to say about them because they are easy to take down. Just use hit them a few times and they should die because they have low HP. Really low. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - - - Zexen Knights Zexen Knights Zexen Knights Zexen Knights Zexen Knights Chris - - - - - - - Use Ace and Joker's combo attack. Go after Chris first as she heals her comrades. Also, Chris will do a VERY powerful water attack. If that happens twice, you will lose the match. Just hope that she does not do that attack. Instead of having each character attack Chris, use their combo attack. It will do a lot of damage. You can also use Geddoe's Lightning Rune, but it is very weak since you couldn't level up his Lightning Magic Skill (There is no Skill teachers yet). Now, heal when needed. You should be able to win if Chris does not do that water attack. After a while, Chris will become Berserk which means she'll do tons of damage. I hope that helps. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Karaya Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - Karaya Fighter Karaya Fighter Karaya Fighter Alia - - - - - - - - Use Ace and Joker's combo attack to hurt all of the enemies. The Karaya Fighters do TONS more damage then Alia because Alia is a archer. So, take out the Karaya Fighters first. The good thing is, they have low HP. You can use Geddoe's Lightning Rune but it is weak because you can't level up his lightning magic yet. Instead, use your regular attacks. When the fighters are gone, use the entire group's combo attack on Alia. It should weaken her pretty badly. If she doesn't die, attack her again. When you are going to attack her, the characters are going to go up to her. That is good, because the closer you are, the less damage she will do. Heal when neeeded. I hope that helps. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Mt. Heo-Tou ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - Blue Mantix - - - - - - Do not use the Mercenary B combo attack because there is only one enemy. The Blue Mantix will do two attacks. One that targets one person, and another that hurts everyone. Be aware though, both attacks are magical so heal when needed. The attack that hurts everyone does a lot of damage compared to the single target one. This mini-boss has a lot of HP, so...It will take a while to take it down. Now is a good time to use the lightning rune that Geddoe has. Use the strongest attack that you got. If you are having a hard time hurting the boss, use Alia's Shield Rune -> Battle Oath to make your characters berserk (DMG x 1.5). Also, use Alia's Earth rune to heal your comrades. Now, good luck! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Mountain Pass ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - Twin Snake Right Head Left Head - - - - - - The Right Head uses a fire attack that hurts anyone that is close to it. The Left Head does a very strong rune attack that hurts everyone no matter where they are. Use the Double Tusk rune on the left head. Use Alia's Shield -> Battle Oath to make your party members berserk (DMG x 1.5). Keep using that until at least 4/6 people in your party are berserk. Perferably Joker, Ace, Geddoe, and Queen. Have everyone else go after the Left Head. The reason you are focusing on the Left Head is because it will heal it's comrades, so it is in best interest to take it out first. If you are hurt, use Alia's Earth Ruen to heal you. You need to attack with as many people as you have, so don't use items unless you are out of the earth magic. Once the Left Head is gone, focus on the Right Head. Since most of your party members are berserk, it should go down in a while. When that is gone, use Geddoe's strongest lightning attacks on the Twin Snake. Continue healing when needed, and you should do fine. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > Chapter 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Le Buque ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - - - Franz Ruby Mantor Mantor Mantor Legionnaire - - - - - - - - - - Use Ace and Joker's combo attack to hurt everyone. Franz and Ruby will the most damage. First, get rid of the Mantor Legionnaire's. Use Alia's Shield -> Battle Oath to make your party members berserk. When both Mantor Legionnaire's are dead, go after the Mantors. Continue using Ace and Joker's combo attack when you can. The Mantors don't do a lot of damage but they still pose a threat. Heal when needed. When both Mantor's are gone, use Geddoe's strongest attack to get rid of Franz. Continue healing your comrades. When Franz is gone, use your entire party's combo attack to hurt it badly. It has pretty high defense so it will take a while to take it down. Continue using Geddoe's lightning rune to hurt it badly. I hope that helps. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > Chapter 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Lake Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - Zexen Marshall Zexen Marhsall Zexen Marshall Zexen Marshall Zexen Marshall - - - - - - - - Use Ace and Joker's combo attack to hurt all of them. Have the others focus on Zexen Marshall. Keep using the mercenary b combo attack. Use Alia's Shield -> Battle Oath to make your comrades stronger. These Zexen Marshalls have low HP, and low attack. Also, they have low defense so it should be easy to take them. That's all I got to say. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • Thomas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chapter 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Mt. Hei-Tou ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - Wild Boar - - - - - Use Cecile's and Thomas's combo attack to hurt this boss pretty bad. Have Juan and Piccolo attack. Keep using Thomas's and Cecile's combo attack. This wild boar has tons of HP, does a lot of damage, and has a high defense. That is why you have to keep using that combo attack. Also, that is why I said to upgrade your weapons. Anyways, heal when needed, and you should do fine. If a character dies, reset the game. This boss gives out a lot of EXP and skill points so you need to keep each character alive. That is all. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > Chapter 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Lake Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #1 - - - - - - - - - - Conditions for victory: Stay alive for _x_ turns. Conditions for defeat: Ally units are destroyed. Have Cecile, and Thomas defend until the enemy units get close enough for Thomas to use his wind magic on them. After a couple of turns, Hugo and Lilly's unit should now come. These are the new conditions: Conditions for victory: Hugo and Lilly's units escape to the East. Conditions for defeat: Hugo and Lilly's units are defeated. Move Hugo and Lilly to the same circle each time you move them towards the East. Have Thomas and Cecile defend. The Zexen Knights will go after either Hugo or Lilly. Always have Hugo intercept the attack because Lilly's unit is so weak. Continue moving Lilly, and Hugo to the East but make sure that they are in the same circle. Have Thomas and Cecile continue defending. And, keep moving Lilly, and Hugo to the East. Once Hugo, and Lilly escape, the battle will end. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #2 - - - - - - - - - - Have all of your units defend. When the enemy gets close enough, use Thomas's wind magic on them. Every 2-3 turns, your HP will be restored but not completely. Move everyone's units to where Thomas is at. You just need to stay alive for a couple of turns. After the a while, it will be a safe retreat. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - - - - Zexen Marshall Zexen Marshall Zexen Marshall Zexen Marshall - - - - - - - - Attack them. Do not use any rune magic on them. Use Thomas and Cecile's combo attack to kill one marshall in one turn. Thomas and Cecile should stay alive while Juan and Piccolo should die. Mel should also stay alive. Piccolo is useless so just have him, along with Juan, defend. Continue using Thomas and Cecile's combo attack to get rid of the Zexen Marshalls fast. The Zexen Marshalls have high attack power, but low defense. The should all die in as little as 5 turns. Also, heal when needed. You don't want your party members to die. Well...That's it... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • Chapter 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - - - - - Fire Rincar - - - - - - Use True Lightning -> Hammer of Raijin, and have the Hugo, along with the Captain of the Zexen Knights attack. Use True Lightning -> Hammer of Raijin again. If you ran out of that, use True Lightning -> Soaring Belt, the second strongest lightning attack in the game. Continue having Hugo, and Chris attack. Heal when nessecary, and you should do fine. Oh yeah, the Fire Rincar's attacks, are ugh....FIRE ATTACKS!! Duh! And it is common if one of your characters die. But, try to keep everyone alive as this monster gives out tons of Skill Points. Now...Good luck! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - - - Masked Bishop Yuber Sarah Chimera Chimera Chimera - - - - - - - This is an optional battle that you do not have to win. To actually win this battle, you have to be quite skilled. Your level should be at least 43 (I had levels around 48, and won it in 2 rounds), and you should have Geddoe's Lightning skill maxed out. Chris or Hugo should also have a Water Rune attached. Remeber to keep that formation from earlier, it will allow you to heal easiest. Lastly, you have to have not used up all your most powerful magic in the last battle. If you did, this will be virtually impossible to win. The best place to get the requirments is leaving Flame Champion Hideaway and fighting in the forests near Alma Kinan (Kaput Forest). You may get into a battle with 2 large, blue crabs. Its one of those mini boss battles. This battle alone should net you with 3-4 levels. If you can get to Alma Kinan, then go, as they have all the things you need to create and ideal party. In the battle itself, have Geddoe start out with his True Lightning -> Thunder Storm to do about 1,000-1,200 damage to ALL the enemies on screen. This will kill off the Chimeras, and will put Sarah and the Masked Bishop into critical zone. Remember to use the Water Rune on whatever character it is equipped on, to heal on the first turn. On the second turn, Sarah will most likely heal herself and her party, also use this turn to continue keeping yourself healthy. On the second turn, have Geddoe use that same spell again, this should kill off the Masked Bishop, and maybe Yuber if he wasnt hit by the Kindness Drops. Have Chris or Hugo attack Sarah, and if you are lucky, the battle will be over in 2 rounds. If it isnt over, then attack Yuber with the strongest magic you have, and Sarah with physical attacks. Attacking Yuber physically is asking for destruction. one last note: You may want to have each character: Chris, Hugo and Geddoe in a different section, so you can cast 3 spells a turn, one healing, and two attacking. It will be harder to heal with Kindness Drops, though. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Chisha Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #1 - - - - - - - - - - Conditions for victory: Destroy 5 enemy units. Conditions for defeat: Ally units number 5 or less. You won't be able to control the lizard clan, or the Karaya clan even if you chose Hugo as your Flame Champion. Move Chris to the lizard clan in front of her. Move Salome's unit to where Beecham is located. Have everyone defend. After a couple of turns, you will retreat to Duck Village. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Duck Village ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #2 - - - - - - - - - - Conditions for victory: Destroy enemy units. Conditions for defeat: Ally units are destroyed. This time, you can use the Lizard and Karaya clan units. Do not send any units out to get Sarah. Have everyone defend, and let the enemy attack you. If you get hurt, use Dupa's healing skills to heal them pretty good. Just wait a couple of turns, and some units from Le Buque will come. Also, the Flame Champion will pursue Sarah... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - - - - - - Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers - - - - - - - - - - Use Hugo's True Fire -> Explosion to kill all of the "Harmonian Soldiers" in one hit. If they don't die, have Alia defend for the whole time, and the others attack. The Harmonian Soldiers deal tons of damage. That is why I said to build up your Fire magic skill. Heal when nessecary, and you'll do fine. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - - - - - - Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers Harmonian Soldiers Sarah - - - - - - - - - - Focus on the Harmonian Soldiers. Use the same strategy as before to take them out. Sarah will only heal, so you need to kill the Harmonian Soldiers in one hit (by using True Fire -> Explosion). You see, that is why I said to build up your Fire magic skill. Once all of the Harmonian Soldiers are dead, the battle will end. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #3 - - - - - - - - - - This battle can be very hard. It is annoying, and the enemies are powerful. The best thing to do is to stay on the castle, because there, the damage is reduced by 40%. Let the enemies come to you. Also, DO NOT lose that area that is shining White, the battle will be considered lost if you do. As always, try and spread your party out, I suggest not going 3 squares from where you normally start, because if you do you will face more enemies that way. Don't let anyone die, as you need all the help you can get. Dont be afraid to run, as you just need to survive a long time in this battle. If your characters are on the Shining area, they will be healed, so try and keep your wounded party members there. Be patient, and dont go on a wild attacking spree. That will just en dup with your defeat. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Cyndar Ruins ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - Sarah Ghost Armor Ghost Armor Chimera Chimera - - - - - - This battle can be really annoying. First rule of the thumb, DO NOT use all your big magics here. This means you should stick to lower level magics. Unless of course, you really need to heal and don't have a Flowing Rune (so Kindness Drops is level 2 instead of 3). Make sure to save at least 4 Heal alls (AKA Shield -> Great Blessing, and Water -> Kindness Drops) for your next battle. If you want to do things the easy way, have Estella (with a Pale Gate rune and skill) use the level 1 attack. This should end the battle. If it doesnt, then attack Sarah normally, as she should be the only one left alive. If you have to do things the hard way, be prepared to make a long battle short, as if this drags on, you most likely wont win. Try to have Futch mounted on Bright, and you can do over 1,000 damage an attack. That should kill off the Chimeras fast, while your other party members can focus on doing what they do best. As always, Sarah heals with Kindness Drops, so you need to kill the Chimeras in one turn. Try to up your defense with Earth spells. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - - - Water Dragon Ice Pillar Ice Pillar Ice Pillar Ice Pillar Ice Pillar Ice Pillar - - - - - - - This boss can easily be considered one of the hardest bosses in the game if you dont have the Pale Gate rune, and are able to use it. Without it, you WILL go through hell, no matter how good and built up your party is. There are seven targets, with the Water Dragon the main target. But to actually get to the water dragon, you have to kill off at least one or 2 of the Ice Pillars. Each pillar does from 100-200 damage with each attack. Meaning they can easily wip the floor with your characters in one round. And you also have to count the Water Dragons attack, which does around 200 or so to the entire party. I have seen my entire party wiped out in two turns with an A rank Water rune character, and an B+ Earth. Characters like Hugo mounted on Fubar, and Futch mounted on Bright will make the battle easier, but still very difficult to survive. Even worse, is the fact that the Water Dragon can revive his Ice Pillars, making it longer, and more tedious for you. The best, and easiest way to win this battle is to have a Pale Gate rune attached to a character like Estella or Viki (or Joker, if he has a head slot available). Then use the same strategy you used for Sarah. Use the level One spell from the rune on the Water Dragon to hit all of the Ice Pillars. This will kill off all 6 Ice Pillars in one hit (the first spell has an instant death chance) and do around 1,000 damage to the Water Dragon. Then you are free to attack the Dragon itself, he has a lot of HP, so it may take a while to kill him. Keep your HP high, probably about 200, and you can survive. Remember, he can revive his Ice Pillars though. If you want to do this battle the hard way, you are in for a long, and most likely battle you have to reset in 5+ times battle. The best way to do it is to have a magic user with a Mother Earth rune casting the spell that gives immunity to magic spells once per character. Or up your defense with an Earth rune. Then have Futch and Bright (mounted) and attack one of the Ice Pillars. Have your magic users use Fire spells, as strong as you can. Final Flame does a good amount of damage. Once one or two Ice Pillars are out of the way, you have a choice. Either keep the damage from the Ice Pillars, and go after the Water Dragon alone, or to kill off most of the other Ice Pillars. Killing the Water Dragon is the faster alternative, as you may not survive killing off all of the Ice PIllars. This battle is very difficult, but it IS survivable, you just need a certain amount of luck. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • Chapter 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mnt. Senai ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - Sarah Luc Mirage Mirage Mirage Salamander Salamander - - - - - - Like most of the battles with Sarah, Luc and Yuber, you are not required to win. Luckily, Yuber isnt here to kick your ass, so you have a much better chance of survival normally. Sarah, as always, heals and uses water magic, and Luc uses wind and pale gate magic. Get sarah out of there first, as she can cause a lot of problems, even though Lucs attacks are stronger. The Salamanders are immune to Fire spells (or rather, the spells do 1 damage), so dont try to kill them with that. You can end the main problems of this battle in a single round if you use Geddoes True Lightning -> Thunder Storm and Jokers Fire -> Explosion or any other strong fire spell). Queen may have a Wind rune (she is best at Wind magic, so naturally you would want to get her one), of so, have her use Wind -> The Shredding. Aila should start with using defensive earth spells on your party, and uing Shield -> Great Blessing to heal your party when needed. You get a Wind Magic Ring for winning this battle. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Kaput Forest ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - Sarah Azodess Azodess Azodess - - - - If you have fought the Azodsesses before, you know how annoying they can be. And with Sarah there, this battle can be a pain in the ass. Remember, like most Sarah battles, you dont have to win this, but since it is rather easy, why not try? Sarah, as always, will heal herself and her party with water magic. She also attacks with the magic. The easiest way to win this battle is exactly the same way you won the last battle, the level 1 Pale Gate rune will slaughter the Azodesses, and severly harm Sarah. If you cant do that, make sure to kill off Azodesses as fast as you can, with any magic it takes, as you wont be needing it after this (or rather, there wont be any battles after this one). Remmeber that the Azodesses can silence your party, so it may be harder to heal this way. Protect your magic users with anti-silence guards, and have your strongest physical attackers go all out. Futch mounted on Bright helps this battle progress steadily, though it is possible to win without it. Sarah hasnt really gotten any stronger since your last encounter, and actually, this battle is much easier then the one in the Cyndar ruins. If you win, you get a rare Drain rune. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Brass Castle ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #1 - - - - - - - - - - Conditions for Victory: Destroy Yubers Unit Conditions for Defeat: Successors unit is destroyed Take note that the first thing you should not allow to happen is let any of your parties die. If they do, there is a chance that a character can die off, permanently, leaving you with less then 108 Stars, and you then wont be able to see the special secret at the end of the game. Don't be afraid to reset, as this battle can be a pain. Let Yubers Units come to you, as you are severly outnumbered when you being this battle. If Yuber attacks any party, make sure that you run from the battle on the first turn. The best way to harm Yubers unit is by Lightning and Fire skills, so save those for him. The main goal of the battle is to survive for the first few turns. In 3 turns, Sasarai will come into the battle. He will not attack anyone though, and it is highly doubtful your party is over to that side of the battlefield by now, anyways. Try and stay on the Castle, or on the Plains so your party will be healed after each round. A few rounds after Sasarai joins, then a short scene will play, and he will join your party for the battle. Now your goal is to kill off everyone and everything. Killing Yubers unit off first will end the battle, but it is a lot easier to kill all of the enemies before going after him. Remmeber not to waste Sasarai's or any other characters Spells on the normal enemies, and use them on Yuber. When Yuber gets to half health, the spells wont effect him anymore. You are then required to attack him physically (prepare for ouchies). Have a strong party, one with a "Tank" (one that doesnt take damage from physical attacks well, like Nicholas, Ceceil, Leo and a built up Fred). Remember that Yuber has amazing dodge capabilities, so it may take a long time to kill him. You get a Flowing Rune for winning this battle. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ceremonial Site ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ - - - - - - - - - - Commence Battle #2 Conditions for Victory: Destroy Yubers Unit Conditions for Defeat: Successors Unit is destroyed This is the hardest major battle in the game. Not only do you have to worry about the extreme amount of monsters, but you have to worry about keeping your party members alive, as just like the last battle, they can die permanently. The first rule of this battle: It WILL take a long time. No matter how strong you are, this battle will be very long. Start by having your characters slowly move upwards, going the opposite direction of Yuber. Try to head towards Sarah, as getting rid of her can make this battle easier. The enemies in this battle are strong, but nothing you didn't face in the last major battle. When you reach Sarah, be warned. She has 1-hit-kill with her killer Final Flame spell. Just attack her as much as possible with magic before you attack her normally, and before going after her, try and get her Water rune skill down a bit, so you dont waste all that damage and she heals it when she is close to death. To get the skill down to zero, let the enemies run from you when they are close to defeat, and she will most likely heal them. Remember to run when you get into battle with Yubers unit, as he is still as strong, if not stronger then before, and can easily wipe the floor with your party. The reason you want to go after Sarah's unit is because once hers is gone, 80% of the monsters will disappear with her, and wont come back. Then you can go after Yuber with whatever you want. Kill him like you do normally, just remember to use magic on him first, and try to have a healthy party when going at it. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - Yuber Skeleton Skeleton Skeleton Hellsteed - - - - - Alright, this is one big ouchie. Yuber is capable of attacking a single character up to 5 times in a row, for around 100-200 damage each time. This will easily slaughter even the strongest mounted characters. The Hellsteed is another strong physical attacker which does around 150 damage per attack, and can attack twice. You have faced Skeletons before, these are just powered up ones. To win this battle cleanly, you have to get rid of the monsters within the first 2 turns. This means you have to go all out, and slaughter everything in sight, and do it quickly. Kill off the Skeletons first, as they are the easiest to kill. You should be able to kill them all within two turns. Then set your sights on the Hellsteed. One round of attacks bu all your attackers against him should kill him. Make sure to heal if anyone gets under 300 HP. When Yuber is alone, then you have an easier time, but it will still be difficult. He goes berserk easily, and then does around 200 damage with each attack, slaughtering everyone in his way. Even if you have gotten to this point, you arent safe, and can still be killed just as easily as you could normally. In fact, near death, a berserk Yuber can do 300 damage to even the strongest tanks. This is one of the hardest battles in the game, so dont worry if you have to reset a few times. It's only natural, especially if its your first time hrough. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - - Sarah Azodess Azodess Horrobeast Horrobeast - - - - - - The Azodesses present the main problem of this battle. You have fought them many times before, but unlike previous monster/character battles, the monsters here dont die from the first level Pale Gate. The Horrobeasts have a hell of a lot of HP, so it will take a while to kill them. Their attacks do about 150 damage, or 100 damage too all your party members, so you need either Shield -> Great Blessing, or Water -> Kindness Drops for this battle. And you will probably need to do it once a round, and SHOULD do it once a round. Sarah will attack a lot more often in this battle, then she did in previous battles. Her attack does around 100-200 damage to the entire party, and is water elemental. The Azodesses are powered up, but are still basically the same as before. Kill off the Azodesses first, as they are the fastest, and can silence your entire party, cutting off your healing. Kill them off with whatever means necissary. The best way to do it is by strong physical attacks, as they take more damage physically then magically. The Horrobeasts aren't damaged from Fire Magic, so use whatever means you need to kill them. Since they are so slow, they are the least threat of the battle, and should be killed near last. As always, Sarah heals. But like I said before, she attacks more. Try to kill off all the enemies fast to keep her from healing them. This battle can be even harder thenm the Yuber battle, because the enemies target your entire party, not just one character, like Yuber. Keep your HP way up, and be prepared to die multiple times before winning this battle. The best way to actuallty defend yourself in this battle in the Mother Earth Rune and its immunity to magic spells for the entire party. If Hugo is your Water Rune character, he will be fast with the Earth magic, so you may want to use him for defense if he is in your party. The immunity to spells will save your ass a LOT. Have a character with a good water spell, and a Flowing Rune so you can heal fast. Try not to use Fire magic, and work with whatever else you need. Be patient, it is a little bit of luck. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - - - - - Wind Rancor Fire Crystal Lightning Crystal Earth Cryatal Water Crystal - - - - - - - - - Alright, now THIS is a confusing battle. First off, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT use offensive magic! That is, until you destroy the elemental crystal of that power. So don't use Lightning spells until the Lightning Crytal is destroyed. The Wind Rancor can attack up to 3 times a round, and can use whatever of the Crystals are alive to attack, or heal. Earth supports, Lightning attacks, Fire attacks, and Water heals. The way to finish the batle fastest is to go for the Lughtning Crystal first. This may seem weird, but the faster thats gone, the more you can go after the most annoying target: The Water Crystal. The Water Crystal is the healer, and can completely revive any of the other Crystals. Once you kill off the Lightning Crystal, then go straight for the Water Crystal. Use as strong as attacks that you have, and remember that you can now use Lightning spells. In a round or two, the Water Crystal will revive the Lightning Crystal, putting you back at square one. But the damage the Water Crystal recieved will still exist, so you only need to kill off the Lightning Crystal again, to get to the Water Crystal. You should be able to kill it now if you didn't before. After the Water Crystal is dead, the battle becomes MUCH easier. After the Water Crystal is dead, you are capable of killing everything else off. Remember, don't use the elemental attack spell against the enemies unless the Crystal of the same element is dead, or else the spell will be forced back onto your party. Keep your HP over 300 with all party members, and heal with Water (Flowing, True Water) -> Kindness Drops once a round. If you have a character with a Shield Rune, use Great Blessing. Once the Crystals are dead, you have a much better time. The Wing Rancor can then only attack twice a round, (at max). Just atack with whatever you find necessary at this point, because he is not going to last too long. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: Section 10 - BIOS :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: i. Chris ======== Chapter 1 --------- The Captain of the Zexen Knights, Chris is known as the "White Hero" and "Silver Maiden" in her country. On the way to a meeting with the Six Clans for truce negotiations, a sneak attack by the Grassland Allied Forces surrounds her. Following the advice of the military strategist Salome, she escapes and burns Karaya Villaga to destroy the enemy's front. She unintentionally kills a child in the process. In remorse, she returns to Vinay Del Zexay where she recieves orders from a special council to prepare for attacks by the Lizard Clan. Chapter 2 --------- Chris encounters a man called Nash when she is taking a break at a village Thanksgiving Fair in Iskay. The buoyant Nash makes Chris uneasy. At that moment, turmoil erupts as the Lizard Clan makes a suprise attack on Iskay Village. During the battle, Jimba of the Karaya Clan tells Chris to seek the Flame Champion to find out about here father. Unsure of this, Chris decideds to travel with Nash as the loyal Salome advises. Chapter 3 --------- Chris travels with Nash and meets Yun and Yumi, girls from Alma Kinan in Chisha Village. As they follow the girls into their village, they learn of the ceremony where Yun's life will be sacrificed to spirits. Misinterpreting the cultural significance of the ceremony, Chris tries to stop it but is caught up in a battle with a mysterious group. In the meantime, Yun's life is taken. Chris becomes convinced that there is one force behind the recent violence. She starts her journey to the place where the Flame Champion is said to be waiting. ii. Hugo ======== Chapter 1 --------- Hugo, a Karayan boy, is snet as Clan Chief Lucia's envoy to Zexen's capital, Vinay Del Zexay. Simulyaneousty, a battle between Zexen and Grassland begins. Hugo and his party are seized by the Zexen Knights. They namouly escape back to their village. As they approach their village, they find that Chris, the Zexen Knights Captain, has snet it ablaze. Enraged, Hugo's best friend, Lulu, raises his sword, but is slashed to death by Chris. After the Knights depart, Hugo, reapproached by his helplessness, visits Lulu's grave. Chapter 2 --------- Hugo and his party meet Lilly in Duck Village, and together they head for the Great Hollow of the Lizard Clan to gather information about the Flame Champion. On their way, they encounter four pople who suspicioulsy try to open a door to an underground tunnel. They again barely escape to reunite with the surviving villagers in the Great Hollow. There, Hugo learns that it was the Flame Champion who led the Grassland people in a battle 50 years ago. Jimba of the Karayan Clan makes an appeal to Hugo, and he sets off for Lake Castle where the Fire Bringer is supposedly in hiding. Chapter 3 --------- When Hugo and his party arrive at Lake Castle. They are captured by the Zexen Knights. Caesar, a military strategist who happens to be present, assists then in escaping the castle. Just then, they hear that the Harmonian Army is advancing into Chisha Village. They head for the village to help fend off the attacks. By this time, Hugo is dreaming of becoming a defender of Grassland just like the Flame Champion. The Chisha Village chief, Sana, recognizes Hugo's wish and tells him the location of the Flame Champion. The hero is said to be waiting in the mountains North of the village. iii. Geddoe =========== Chapter 1 --------- Captain Geddoe of the Twelfth Unit Of The Holy Harmonia Kingdom's Frontier Defense Force, leaves for Grassland to seek information about the Fire Bringer who is said to have surfaced recently. In the Great Hollow of the Lizard Clan, he witneses the assassination of the Clan Chief, Lepon, by Chris. Next, he visits Karaya Village st ablaze by the Zexen Knights. No clues were found in either village to aid him in his search for the Fire Bringer. Geddoe and his party return ti Caleria, but soon they hear a rumor about Harmonian forces preparing tp advance into Grassland in a hunt for the True Runes. Chapter 2 --------- Geddoe, following information about the Fire Bringer, arrives at Le Buque, a village of Mantor trainers. They see a masked Bishop and a female magician whom they met before the Karaya Village was set on fire. The two are scheming to do something suspicious at an alter on Mt. Senai, but Geddoe is unable to find out more. Geddoe leaves Vinay Del Zexay with his unit to solve the mystery of the masked Bishop and the mysterious magician and to learn more of the sudden Harmonian campaign into Grassland. Chapter 3 --------- At a meeting with Salome, a Zexen Knight, Geddoe finds out there is a powerful group of nagicians who are behind all of the recent incidents. As requested by Salome, Geddoe secretly backs the defense of Lake Castle. He also informs his unit comrade, Joker, that he is the successor of the True Lightning Rune and adds that the Flame Champion is his sworn friend. Geddoe, now determined to meet the Flame Champion again, heads for the land where the champion awaits. iv. Thomas ========== Chapter 1 --------- Young Thomas, who comes from an unknown land, obeys his father's orders to become the lord of a declining castle. Although he is not acquainted wtih the unruly inhabitants of his new home, he gradually becomes fond of them and the castle. When he learns that the castle is financially windered, he makes a proposal to freely rent to their merchants, castle property, which stands on land jointly owned by Zexen, and Grassland. Thomas and his friends visit nearby towns and villages to recruit tenants, hoping to return the castle to it's previous prosperity. Chapter 2 --------- Thomas slashes with a council who pronounces the castle to be within the Zexen boundary. He resolves to fight against the council, who try to force Thomas's surrender. Thomas counters the attacks by Zexen in collaboration with Hugo and his military strategist, Caesar, along with a mysterious supporter. He succeeds at invalidating the councils reason to attack the castle, forcing the council to withdraw