Star Ocean: The Second Story
Claude Solo FAQ/Walkthrough
Author: Star (Scott)
Date: June 24, 2007
Last Updated: June 26, 2007
StarGundam2@hotmail.com
Table of Contents for Claude Solo
-What's this about?
-Tips and Suggestions
-Characters and Recruiting:
-Save Often:
- Items, Talents, and Specialty:
- Unlocking Hidden Talents
- Learning how to use Specialties and Item Creation
- Necessary Items
- Suggested Skills:
- Levels 1-30
- Levels 31-60
- Levels 61-100
- Levels 100-255
- Killer Moves Suggested:
- Disc 1 Walkthrough
- Welcome to Expel:
- Cross Castle:
- Cross Cave:
- Port town of Clik:
- Mars and the Heraldry Forest:
- Herlie and Getting to Lacour:
- Continent of Lacour:
- Linga:
- Lacour tournament of Arms:
- Sanctuary of Linga:
- Hoffman Ruins:
- Lacour Frontline:
- The Continent of El:
- Eluria Tower:
- Disc 2 Walkthrough
- Welcome to Nede
- Central City
- North City:
- Cave of Red Crystal:
- Things to do on your Synard:
- Field of Courage:
- Field of Power:
- Field of Intelligence:
- Field of Love:
- Mihne Cavern:
- Fun City:
- Arm Lock:
- Fienal Showdown:
- Cave Of Trials
- Level One
- Level Two
- Level Three
- Level Four
- Level Five
- Level Six
- Level Seven
- Level Eight
- Level Nine
- Level Ten
- Level Eleven
- Level Twelve
- Level Thirteen
- Legal Stuff
- Big Thanks
----------------------------- What's this about? -----------------------------
This guide is a walkthrough and a couple of tips for anyone wishing to beat
Star Ocean the Second Story with using only Claude C. Kenni. Also, proving
that you only need Claude, the hero of light, to win. First off, beating the
game with only one character is almost an impossible feat, but I've done it
and I'm willing to pass on my knowledge to how I accomplished this. Also I
have added a Claude and Rena Solo for Cave of Trials. I'd like to give a big
thanks to tri-Ace for creating such a great game. It's one of my first loves
as well as Star Ocean 1, Star Ocean till the end of time, Radiata Stories and
Star Ocean EX. Thank you tri-Ace for the Star Ocean Series.
---------------------------- Tips and Suggestions ----------------------------
Here's some tips and suggestions to make your Claude Solo game a much easier
experience. Pay careful attention to everything I list, it will be crucial
when you go try it for yourself.
------------------ Characters and Recruiting ------------------
First of all, your obviously only going to use Claude in this game. So pick
Claude's Story, or otherwise you could end up using Rena and not doing a
successful Claude Solo. I already know that Rena Lanford is an automatic
character so you should shove her in the back of the party. I also suggest
that you do not recruit anyone, for obvious reason your can only hold up to
four characters, including Rena, on your reserves. If you recruit more than
three, someone will end up in your battles. Also, don't recruit more than two
because there are a lot of scenes where you are forced to travel with people
like
Celine, Leon, and Noel. In order for you to create a successful Claude solo,
you must put all of your characters in your reserves.
- How do I switch out my characters?
Press triangle to bring up your status menu, go to combat, click on
replacement, and put Rena in the last slot. The last slot is the bottom right
corner.
------------------ Save often ------------------
I can't stress enough how important that is. If you've headed really far in
the game, it's a good hint that you should go ahead and save. I save before
and after every dungeon and long conversation with scenes. It can get very
frustrating because with only one character, as soon as he's dead the game's
over.
------------------ Items, Talents, and Specialty ------------------
Well another thing you might want to know is what items it would be best for
Claude to acquire. This is will majorly affect your success in your solo
game. Always save before using any customization, that way you can reload if
you have failures. Check for talents by clicking status on Claude and
pressing triangle in the status menu.
---------- Hidden Talents -----------
To acquire hidden talents you have to constantly use a certain item creation
until the hidden talent unlocks. For example if you want to acquire 'Sense
of Taste' you will need to constantly cook with that character until it
unlocks. Unlocking skills will provide your character with a bonus 100 sp to
play around with
- Getting the Hidden Talent Dexterity
Its pretty simple, all you have to do is a bunch of metalworking until the
talent unlocks. Basically you need a one in the skill level's of Craft,
Mineralogy, and Esthetic Sense. Of course metals aren't cheap, so waste your
money only one Silver and Iron ore. Only 200 fol a piece.
- Getting the Hidden Talent Originality
Originality is one of the Talents besides Dexterity that will allow you to
Make a successful Customization. Claude should automatically receive it
during the game, so you won't have to work for this one. Lucky you.
----------- Learning how to use Specialties and Item Creation -----------
Item Creation a is must during Star Ocean games. Some are classified as Item
Creation including skills like customize, cooking and compounding, and others
are classified as specialties like pickpocketing, oracle, and practice.
There are some that are classified as Super Specialty Skills that uses the
skills of everyone to create good items, but during your Claude Solo, you
won't be getting any of these.
- Learning how to Customize
First you have to increase all of your skill levels in Functionality, Metal
Casting, and Craft. But in order to create successful Customizes you must
have Dexterity on Claude.
- Learning how to Pickpocket
All you have to do is build up your Courage and Poker face skills. In order
to pickpocket you must either have the Bandit's Gloves or the Magician's Hand
and press square near a NPC or party member (during Private Actions)
Pickpocket is guaranteed to be successful if you have the talent of Dexterity
and a level 10 in pickpocketing.
------------ Necessary Items------------
Here's a list of all the necessary items in the game that you need to make
your Claude solo successful. Missing out on some of these items could
seriously hinder your chances at beating the game. When I played my Claude
solo, I did something stupid and forgot to get the Sharp Edge, it's very easy
to miss, and you can't go back in time to get it. Luckily I made it with the
Windsley sword. Also, if you already have the Eternal Sphere, getting the
Windsley sword is pointless. I didn't add the Levantine in this guide
because you get it in the Cave of Trials, but as long as you defeat
Indalecio, you beat Claude solo. So adding in info on the Cave of Trials
isn't necessary.
- Trickster
Trickster can be acquired on the continent of El inside of Eluria tower.
Trickster is essential because when your on Energy Nede you can pick up
Mithril's needed to Customize the Eternal Sphere. When you first enter
Eluria Tower run up the left stair case and head left through a hidden
doorway to acquire the trickster in a treasure chest. Place the trickster on
Rena so it doesn't waste an accessory slot on Claude.
- Paralysis Check
Paralysis Check is an accessory that can be acquired in chests or from
enemies. Stores also sell them, well some of them do. You shouldn't have
any trouble getting your hands on one of these, it'll be necessary when
battling enemies that cause paralysis. If you get paralyzed during a fight,
it's game over and you have to start over.
- Stone Check
Stone Check is an accessory that can be acquired in chests or from enemies.
Stores also sell them, well some of them do. You shouldn't have any trouble
getting your hands on one of these, it'll be necessary when battling enemies
that cause stone. If you get petrified during a fight, it's game over and you
have to start over.
- Sharp Edge
After losing to Dias in the Lacour Tournament of Arms go to Gamgee the sword
smith on the West side of town and pick up the Sharp Edge. Do not customize
or sell this weapon until later in the game.
- Windsley Sword
Until you get the Eternal Sphere, the Windsley Sword is a great weapon to use.
The Windsley Sword can be acquired through Fun City battle arena. You must
Win Rank A in the solo battles.
- Eternal Sphere
Always save before using any customization, that way you can reload if you
have failures. First, make sure you have a talent of Dexterity. If not, use
metalworking until you do. After you have a customization skill level of 10
by increasing craft, functionality, and metal casting, you must customize the
Sharp Edge with a Mithril to get the Minus Sword. Customize the Minus Sword
with another Mithril to get the Eternal Sphere. Only thing stronger than the
Eternal Sphere is the Levantine, but you don't get that till Cave of Trials.
- Bunny Shoes
Bunny Shoes are a must. They give your character incredible speed during
fights, and there are only a few you can get in the game. First off, if your
lucky, you can win one in the bunny races, but if you don't want to waste your
time you'll do this. Since your only using one character, Claude, you should
pickpocket the bunny inside of fun city near the bunny race counter.
First, you must have a level 10 pickpocket and Dexterity talent. Save before
you enter Fun City incase you fail.
- Resurrection Bottles, Resurrection Mists, 1-Up Puddings
Guess what? When your doing a Claude Solo, if Claude dies, it's game over.
The only good thing about that is that you don't have to waste your money on
items that cure Incap. Including but not limited too: Resurrection Bottles,
Resurrection Mists, 1-Up Puddings.
------------------- Suggested Skills -------------------
Here's a set of the skills I suggest increasing at certain levels during the
game. If it looks like you got a lot of extra skill points you should focus
more on some of the battle skills like Below the Belt, Flip, Counterattack,
Feint, Body Control, Mental Training, Parry, Cancel, and Gale.
------- Lower Levels (1-30)
Perseverance - I recommend that you don't spend any skill points towards
anything until you get persverance. Perservance lowers the cost for leveling
up in skills, which will allow you to spend those needed points towards other
things. Max out Peservance as soon as you can.
Herbal Medicine - Herbal Medicine will increase effectiveness of Blackberries
and Blueberries outside of battle. When maxed out, berries will cure you 100%
instead of 20% saving you money and time. It can waste a lot of time running
back and forth to Inns and blackberries can cost a pretty penny at lower
levels. I recommend at least a level 5 for Herbal Medicine.
Kitchen Knife - Kitchen Knife will work miracles in lower levels. It'll will
save you time and take out enemies quicker. For each level of Kitchen Knife
it'll will add 20 pts to base strength. I recommend at least a level 5.
Effort - Effort will lower the amount of experience needed to increase levels.
It'll save you time as well, and allow you to get sp points quicker and build
up Claude more. I recommend as least a level 3
Strong Blow - Increasing this will allow you to stun you enemies more giving
you an advantage in battle. Also increasing it in level shouldn't be too hard
When Perservance is maxed, Strong Blow only takes 55 sp to max out.
Spirit Force - This will allow your defense or AC to increase a bit during
battle. When fully maxed out you take no damage if you successfully perform
this skill. Which is usually like a 30% chance so Spirit Force is strongly
recommended. I recommend at least a level 3
Skill Level Suggested at Lower Levels
Perservance - 10
Herbal Medicine - 5
Kitchen Knife - 5
Effort - 3
Strong Blow - 10
Spirit Force - 3
------- Mid Levels (31-60)
Functionality - I call this skill the god skill. It's necessary to get maxed
out as much as it's necessary to max out perservance. Reason is simply
because it's one of the main skills in customization and the fact that it adds
points to Strength, Dexterity, Agility, and Intelligence. I recommend getting
a level 10 functionality before you reach level 60.
Craft - And I call this skill the servant skill. It serves purpose for
Metalworking and Customization. If your trying to get the Dexterity Talent, or
your trying to get the Eternal Sphere, your going to need points towards this
skill. Craft will also increase your agility somewhat. I recommend getting at
least a level 5 in Craft.
Metal Casting - I call this one the pain in the ass skill.
It serves purpose in Customization but it's usually the last skill maxed out
because of it's high SP requirement. It also increases your Dexterity somewhat
I recommend trying to
get a level 3 in Metal Casting.
Herbal Medicine - Increase to level 10 for more effectiveness of berries.
Kitchen Knife - In the lower 30's it's good to have more attack power,
Increase to level 10.
Effort - Increase to level 6 gradually when you can to lower your experience
requirement.
Spirit Force - Its good to have a level 6 spirit force to increase your chance
of blocking out attacks.
Skill Level Suggested at Mid Levels
Functionality - 10
Craft - 5
Metal Casting - 3
Perservance - 10
Herbal Medicine - 10
Kitchen Knife - 10
Effort - 6
Strong Blow - 10
Spirit Force - 6
------- Higher Levels (61-100)
Tool Knowledge - Tool Knowledge will increase your selling prices for items so
you can get more fol back in the end. It will also allow you to identify items
more. Increase this to a level 10
Courage - This will allow you to build up for pickpocketing. Maximize this
before you get your Synard so you can get your bunny shoes.
Poker Face - This will allow you to build up for pickpocketing. It also
increases your guts allowing you to stun enemies more.
Maximize this as soon as you can as well.
Below the Belt - Increase this to a level 10 as soon as you can as well. It
will allow you to get more hits in on the enemy and stun them a lot more often
Feint - When your fighting a lot of attacks miss because the enemy blocks them
Increasing this will prevent that. Get it to at least 5 or higher
Mental Training - Mental Training will increase your attack power allowing you
to do more damage saving you more time in battle.
Get this one to a level 10 as well.
Gale - This will increase your speed during battle, it's essential when your
wearing bunny shoes because your attacks will be slow without it. Bunny shoes
only increase your movement speed, but it doesn't speed up how fast you swing
your sword. Get this one to at least 5 or higher.
Craft - Go ahead and Max out Craft, your going to need it for item creation.
Metal Casting - I know it's a pain in the ass, but it's necessary for creating
the Eternal Sphere.
Effort - This will help you out a lot, you'll gain levels much quicker if the
experience
required is lowered more.
Spirit Force - Trust me, maxing this out helps a lot.
Skill Level Suggested at High Levels
Tool Knowledge - 10
Courage - 10
Poker Face - 10
Below the Belt - 10
Feint - 5
Mental Training - 10
Gale - 5
Functionality - 10
Craft - 10
Metal Casting - 10
Perservance - 10
Herbal Medicine - 10
Kitchen Knife - 10
Effort - 10
Strong Blow - 10
Spirit Force - 10
------- Anything above 100, Cave of Trial Levels (101-255)
What I mean by Cave of Trial Levels is any level higher than 100, because your
usually that high after you enter the Cave of Trials.
But during a Claude solo it will become apparent you will reach level 100
before you even enter Fienal if not before then.
I was at level 90 and I hadn't even gotten the LEA Metal yet.
After you reach level 100 your really don't need any guide on distributing
skills. Basically just max everything out, firstly starting with the combat
skills because they will help you out a lot.
------------------ Killer Moves Suggested ------------------
Basically your going to use only two killer moves throughout the whole game.
It's is very necessary to have these two moves especially since you don't have
Rena with you. And only one will take you a little while to get.
------- Energy Sword ------
You will acquire Energy Sword at level 20 with Claude.
Quickly equip this move as soon as you can and start building it up, it will
provide a lot of health at later levels. It only costs about 11 MP per use and
it will save your arse time and time again during battles.
Since you don't have Rena to cast her healing magic you will need something
other than items to keep Claude alive in battle.
Energy Sword will power up at 200 uses.
------- Ripper Blast ------
The god of all killer moves. The move explains itself, I really don't have to
say anything good about it. If you use it long range it will attack all
enemies within the perimeter of range. Increased usage will unleash several
hits on all opponents at long range and explode in their face.
This is Claude's best move and I love it sooooo freaking much, 'TEAR INTO
PIECES!!' Ripper Blast will power up at 270 uses
----------------------------- Disc 1 Walkthrough -----------------------------
Okay. This is the main part of the walkthrough, I won't discuss all the events
that happen in the game because it will create spoilers as well more typing
for me. I will mostly focus on how to get rid of characters so you don't have
to recruit them and I will also go into depth on how to defeat bosses with
Claude only.
------------------ Welcome to Expel ------------------
I will start the walkthrough right after Rena gets captured by Alen Tax.
Basically all you have to do is run north from Arlia and enter the mining town
of Salva Drift. Go all the way towards the mansion at the top and use your gun
to blast down the door. Enter the room on the left and pick up the hair pin.
Touch the switch and open the door towards the back. Run all the way through
the caves fighting enemies and stuff like you'd normally do during a normal
game. Find Rena and battle Alen Tax. Unlucky us, the game forces us to
battle with Rena in the party. To feel good about yourself, you can get Rena
killed or just beat the crap out of Alen and switch her arse out later.
After these events it will follow another longerific story.
------------------ Cross Castle ------------------
Lovely, now your ready to start your adventure. Don't forget to grab the
Portrait B inside of Alen's room in Salva, sells for a pretty penny. Maybe
after you sell it you can stock up on Blueberries and Blackberries, cause your
going to need them. Head to Cross Castle from Salva Drift which is pretty
obvious because it's that large Castle coming into view from the sunset. Go to
sleep at the Inn, wake up and go to the castle to get an audience with the
King. Run out and find this new girl battling someone. Go with Celine to the
Cross Cave. No matter how many times you tell Celine No I don't want to go
with you, you'll have to say yes in the end. Go to the Skill Guild in the
Town and buy some skills.
------------------ Cross Cave ------------------
Lots of good items in here for the beginning. If you haven't done so already,
throw Celine in the back of your party so she doesn't appear in battle. Also
steal the earrings off of her by unequiping them, they sell pretty good as
well. Cross Cave is pretty straight forward, run east from Cross to find it,
it's that largerific Cave sticking out there next to that gooberish sign in
the middle of the road. I recommend using Shooting Star acquired at level 7
until you can get Burst Knuckle. Beat the snizzle out of the enemies here,
run towards the back and use the codes to unlock the room with five chests.
The one in the back contains gargoyles. If you haven't saved on the save
point, do so before opening the one on the back of the star. Gargoyles can be
pretty tough for Claude only, watch their pattern of attack. They usually run
up to you and do a multiple red acid spit attack with their tongue.
Run around until you catch them doing that in a spot away from you and get
behind them and attack. Rinse and repeat this process making sure you don't
get caught between two of them. Once one is down, taking out the other should
pose no problem. When leaving the cave, tell Celine that you don't want her
to come with you. After that, you've successfully denied Celine rights to
your party.
------------------ Port town of Clik ------------------
Well we could start off by heading to Clik, but I recommend running to Port
Herlie first. Go all the way past Mars and into port Herlie. Head all the
way north in the town and find Zand's Mansion. Inside Zand's Mansion you can
acquire a stronger sword called the Flame Sword in a chest throughout the
mansion. There's a bunch of other good items in there as well that will help
you out a lot earlier in the game. Don't forget to hit the Skill guild on
your way out, it's south of Zand's Mansion and next to the bar.
Now head towards Clik. Go to the skill guild towards the west part of town
and get your skills. Talk to the guy that's supposed to take you to El. From
there walk away and get your pocket picked by Ketil. Talk to the girl and boy
near the harbor. Find Ketil near the warehouse towards the front of Clik.
Bring Ketil to the boy and girl. Walk away and run around in a frenzy due to
an earthquake. Talk to the captain to get your Passport back and go up the
stairs and talk to Ketil. Leave Clik for good, and never come back.
------------------ Mars and the Heraldry Forest ------------------
Enter Mars and quickly head up towards the council meeting room to get a
longerific scene with Celine and Dias. After the scenes are over I suggest
stocking up at that tool store right south of you. When your done, run back
into the meeting room and talk to the guy so you can rest. When your in the
forest, throw Celine in the back of your party, equip the Mud Boots manually
and save the game. From there you'll have to head through the not so
difficult maze and battle bandits that should be rather easy to beat. I hope
you bought a lot of Blueberries, or at least you have the tech called energy
sword because you're about to face Varmillion. Varmillion is really tough,
at this level, and since you threw Celine out, it's going to be tougher. My
only suggestion is to use long range Shooting Star a lot and try to get
behind him. He's going to get a lot of hits in, but if your high in level
it's not going to matter. My favorite seen comes up next:
Dias: "Did you slay this one?"
Claude: "Yes, but with Celine's help."
Me: "You idiot, I didn't use Celine."
Lol, I always hated how contradicting those scenes were. After all of this
more long scenes come and after Rena comes back try to leave the village.
Celine will bring you back for more longerific scenage.
After you exit Mars, you'll probably have to throw Rena in the back of your
party again.
------------------ Herlie and getting to Lacour------------------
Pretty straight forward, run to Herile and buy a boat to Lacour. You'll end
up in Port town Hilton. Don't forget to hit the Skill Guild on your way out.
------------------ Continent of Lacour ------------------
Okay, the continent of Lacour has lots of enemies you should be careful of. I
recommend when you face an unbeatable enemy that you run. I will list the
enemies that you shouldn't battle. Mostly, don't ever go towards the Lacour
Frontline. You'll face a fierce enemy called Salamanders (I like to call them
Flare Lizards) and they are not fun to fight. Also, if you don't have
Paralysis Check already, don't fight certain enemies inside of the Sanctuary
of Linga. Those enemies are the flying birds, the pigs, and the giant head
with teeth. You can fight the jumping bunnies and the jellies, those aren't
hard to fight. In the common field of Lacour and Sanctuary of Linga, you face
an enemy that has a wolf girl and a pack of wolves. I would suggest running
from this enemy until you are a higher level. The wolf girl will cast black
saber before you can reach her which will likely kill you. Save often, and
train a little bit before participating in the Lacour Tournament of Arms.
------------------ Linga ------------------
Just go ahead and get here, and get the Precis scene out of the way. That girl
is annoying. Precis: "OHHH TAAAY" Me: "SHUT UP!! CRETIN!!!" Just visit the
skill guild and see if you missed any skills. Then I recommend scouring the
university, maybe you might learn something. Lol, probably not, but you might
find some useful items in there. Other than that, you can visit Bowman's
pharmacy to stock up on items as you try to increase your level and gain SP.
Don't do a private action here, unless you want to feel really bad about
Denying Precis a recruitment slot, even though I never felt bad.
------------------ Lacour Tournament of Arms ------------------
During a regular game, it would normally recommend a level 25 Claude before
entering, but that wouldn't be too hard to achieve with a solo Claude,
especially since you're the only one getting experience. And the fights won't
seem as scary because you've been fighting alone for along while. And since
you get Energy Sword at level 20 you should have it already so equip it if you
haven't already done so.
Run into Lacour, and head for the castle. Enter the tournament and find some
shop near the east part of town to host your weapon. Go to the Inn and sleep.
First fight is simple, just a normal enemy you've faced before. Second fight,
okay your getting a bit tougher, it's the monkey guy, beat the crap out of him
and get ready for the third. Hmm, this is as tough as it gets, see not that
tough. Just shooting star him to death and run around screaming death wails if
your hurt and use energy sword. Dias is up next, just sit there and let him
pulverize you, unless you still want to resist like me and put up a fight.
After you lose, make sure you pick up your second place prize at your weapons
shop and go to the east part of town to visit Grandpa Gamgee. Gamgee's got the
Sharp Edge for you to use, one of the best swords up until this part of the
game. Don't sell it now it or ruin it through customization. Keep it till you
can make the Eternal Sphere.
------------------ Sanctuary of Linga ------------------
Go to Linga again. Try to enter Keith's house again and go to Bowman's
Pharmacy. Talk to Bowman and head for the Sanctuary of Linga. Pretty much the
whole deal here is just to search for a rare herb. Not that hard really, you
should hit level 38 around here and get Ripper Blast. Then all of your battles
will be easy. You can also face the demons of the netherworld in here if your
up for the task, but it's rather hard to find and it's hard to explain. Let's
just say the walls are hidden and it's near the chest where you acquire
Ashton's Twin Edge. The location of the Rare Herb is random, so I can't
Really say where it's going to be at.
Once you get the Herb, find Bowman again and talk to Keith. After you end up
in Bowman's house at Night, find Bowman in the back and talk to him. Make sure
you Deny him, although I soooo wanted to recruit him. I love his Poison Pills.
Tell him he needs to look after Nineh and he'll leave you alone.
------------------ Hoffman Ruins ------------------
Go to Lacour. Register at the desk. Run towards the right part of the castle
and head down the stairs to find Leon. Get Caught by the guard. Head for
Hilton with Leon. Make sure you throw the kid into the back of your party.
And go to Hilton and ride the boat towards Hoffman Ruins. Hoffman Ruins will
Be incredible hard if you don't have Paralysis Check. Head for the gigantic
ruins in front of you and run up the stairs. Head through the door that Leon
had trouble opening and head right to the save point. Save here, and go down.
Fighting the Flare Lizards and the big heads with teeth will cause you
Paralysis in this dungeon. There is a Paralysis Check in a chest throughout
The Hoffman ruins, so happy hunting for it. You won't have to pull switches to
find it, so don't go blowing the place up. Your main mission is to find the
Material known as Energy Stone so head towards the right and south all the way
until you find a save point that heads upwards.
I can't stress enough why it's important you at least be between levels 50-60
before fighting these thunder beasts. I also recommend wearing a Reverse doll
and Emerald ring or Talisman. Reverse Doll is a must because it will cut the
attacks of thunderstorm in half. These beasts will be really freaking tough,
unless you pull a smart one like I did.
It costs MP for them to be able to keep up that thunder attack, so go to the
left top corner of the battle field and hide behind the wooden posts that
sticking up from the ground. Nice hiding spot huh? Sit there and use energy
sword every time you get hit until they run out of MP, then you can rip them
to shreds. If your still getting injured by their stupid biting attack go back
behind the wooden posts and heal yourself. They won't be able to attack you
there because they can only attack from the side, just like you. And without
any MP, they can be pretty stupified.
After they are dead, run out of the cave and save the game. After defeating
those beasts, everything should be pretty easy, make sure you put your
Paralysis check back on again because the enemies will get your arse into a
game over if you don't. Leave that forsaken place and head back to Lacour.
------------------ Lacour Frontline ------------------
After some more lovely scenes in Lacour Castle, you actually get a chance to
get rid of the bratty Leon. Even though I love Leon as a character, his
fighting skills suck, even extinction isn't that great. Your better off with
fighting characters in higher levels anyway, because they deal out more damage
Now, exit Lacour and head for the Lacour Frontline that's near the port of
Hilton.
Make sure you equip Paralysis Check when running around here because the
Salamanders will take you out quickly if you don't. Enter the front line and
save the game. First off run to the commander's room next to the hospital that
has Dias Flac wandering about. Run off and find Dias back towards the entrance
Run back to where the Lacour Hope is resting to talk to Rena. Then go save the
game. Run towards the back hall again and talk to everyone including the
people in the medical facility, and all the generals. Exit the back room and
enter again to get attacked by monsters. This will be tough, you're fighting
Shin.
First off, this is not a battle for you to win, it's a battle for you to make
A Time Out. You won't be able to do any damage to him. I suggest running up
and down avoiding his spinning razor attack, and every time you see Spoiling
across the screen, run in the opposite direction. Foehn is the only attack
you can't run from, after he performs it, just do an energy sword right there
and keep running from him. Eventually you'll see a message that says, "Out
of Time" Lucky you.
After this, your fighting in Lacour Frontline is pretty much over with. Run
into the Medical Facility and talk to everyone. Then rest up, when you wake
up, talk to everyone again and try to leave only to get attacked by monsters
again. Let Leon handle the rest right? ;) Too bad Precis isn't in your
group, you won't be getting Thunder Punch, tsk tsk, too bad. Everything from
this point on will be pretty much automatic storyline. Eventually you'll end
up on a boat towards the continent of El. Prepare for another Shin battle
here.
First up, you got little Gargoyles trying to bite at your ankles. Make sure
Rena gets killed off by them, so she doesn't advance in level. Stupid game
automatically puts her in your party. Just play these Gargoyles the same way
you dealt with them in Cross Cave, but this time you have an Ace up you sleeve
Long Range Ripper Blast them to death, because essentially Ripper Blast does
double damage to flying enemies if you haven't noticed already. After you make
short work of them, your best friend will come, Shin's back for more.
This is a simple Shin battle. Basically just stand there and get owned. That's
that, do nothing and let Claude lose, or try putting up a fight like me and go
down hard.
------------------ The Continent of El------------------
My favorite scene of all time comes up pretty soon. Leon will get bitch
slapped, lol I love it. After exiting the shoreline, make sure you take Leon
out of your party by switching him towards the back.
Run towards that gigantarific looking building and meet up with your love.
After some long scenes, make sure you leave Leon with the village elder. That
way you won't recruit him. Poor kid must love you by now. After learning about
Eluria Tower, enter the weapons shop and grab the weapons out of the
barrel-o's. There's lots of stuff to collect-o. Don't forget to talk to the
guy that sell's tool-o's. Buy something. When you leave, you'll acquire the
ID Card that allows you to get into Eluria Tower.
------------------ Eluria Tower ------------------
You can reach Eluria Tower without having to face any monsters on El
Continent. Besides the monsters inside of Eluria provide you with more
experience than you could ever imagine. Your first step is too acquire the
Trickster. Trickster is essential because when your on Energy Nede you can
pick up Mithril's needed to Customize the Eternal Sphere. When you first
enter Eluria Tower run up the left stair case and head left through a hidden
doorway to acquire the trickster in a treasure chest. Place the trickster on
Rena so it doesn't waste an accessory slot on Claude.
Also, when your running about, don't bother talking to the lifeless Statues, I
already know the password, it's APOCA. Head through the middle and up the
transportation beam me up Scotty. Run to the left and get beamed up again. Now
head to the right and get beamed up again. Talk to the statue and give him the
password APOCA. Beam back down from where you came, and head all the way left
to get beamed up. Touch the pillars to the south and unlock them with the card
key.
Lovely scenage coming up right about now. There's also a place where you can
pickpocket some of the strongest armor you can get if you can snatch it from
one of Ronixis' crew. It's called a Battle Suit and it provides 500 AC. BTW,
Ronixis is my hero, he was the man in Star Ocean 1, not as good as Ratix
though. KU-HA-ZAN! *cough* cough* sorry getting off track there. After the
scenage, run to the other pillar that was locked before and get beamed up.
Save the game.
After you head up you'll be facing Shin, so now's your chance to get some last
minute training in. I tell you, Shin was one of the hardest monsters to fight,
rather than the thunder beasts in the Hoffman Ruins. You'd think Shin would be
easy, trust me, he is when you have more party members. I suggest first taking
out the little gargoyles with a single ripper blast to the face. Try saving
your MP, until you get him in a corner, then constantly wail on him by mashing
the ripper blast button. If he casts Foehn and your low of health, immediately
use energy sword. You'll have to produce some blackberries for this fight,
because the constant MP usage and Spoiling combined will wear you down. You'll
beat him, if your lucky.
When you beat him, do the smart thing and run back to save the game. It's not
that far away, and it's sure a hella worth it. Especially when your chances
are riding on you being able to escape Berle's grasp.
After saving, head up towards the beam up pad and basically run towards the
back. Go through the middle and then to the right door. Hit the beam up pad
and learn about what planet you're from. Your going to hear me say it a
thousand times, so you better listen now. Decus is the best villain boss ever
in existence, he should of led the god's ten wise men, and he should be able
to join your party so you can Spicule people to death. God I love him.
Guess your fighting Berle first, lucky you. Well I guess I should say,
unlucky. This is another "Time-Out Battle" You won't be able to do any damage
to him, so don't try. I suggest running around in circles trying to avoid him.
Note: He runs slower up and down than left and right, so take that to your
advantage. If you see him casting Meta-Guard, that's your cue to do an energy
sword if you're hurt.
Save the game, and switch out the Star Ocean: The Second Story Disc 1 with
Disc 2.
---------------------------- Disc 2 Walkthrough -----------------------------
If you gotten this far. Congratulations, pat yourself on the back, so far
you've done what most Star Ocean 2 players would never be able to accomplish.
Now allow me to guide you through the rest of the game and onto your final
victory.
------------------ Welcome to Nede ------------------
Yep, you guessed it. You're now on the planet called Energy Nede. Don't freak
out too much. If you have trickster it'll be easy for you to pick up mithril's
now. The wild enemies shouldn't pose you to much trouble. Seriously, you just
took down Shin, bare handed.
------------------ Central City ------------------
After the longerfic scenes with that stupid Narl. Exit the large building by
running down all the stairs. Make sure you head right and straight down
instead of left so you don't run into the crazy Chisato. If you haven't
already, go in to the tool shop and by a pair of bandit's gloves you penny
pincher. Stock up on some tools as well, and head to the other shops to pick
up stuff like Steaks and the Ignite Sword. If you have customize already up,
you can give it a mithril and get the Sawed. It's not as powerful as the
Windsley sword, or no where near the power of the Eternal Sphere, but it's
good for now. You also might want to reconsider, especially since your saving
mithril's for your Eternal Sphere. You can also somehow create the Force
Sword with an Orihalcum, it's not as powerful, but it saves you the mithril.
Leave Central City and go to the only other town on that island.
------------------ North City ------------------
North City has some pretty interesting stuff in it. Towards the back you'll
find a Library that you could do the secret file quest with. To the right of
that is the Town Synard lab with Artis as it's professor and mayor of the
city. Talk to the receptionist and go in the back and talk to him. You'll go
through a series of events that envitably ends up fighting a Synard. This one
shouldn't be two bad. Especially since it's a flying type monster, Ripper
Blast will do double damage to it. Some of his attacks like the breathing blue
flame breath can get rather annoying, but if you time it right, you can
totally whack him good after he is done launching that attack. You should be
able to make short work of him.
After this you'll be transported somewhere else to get another Synard.
------------------ Cave of Red Crystal ------------------
You'll be transported straight into Noel's house. Lovely, he tries to be a
jerk about it. Too bad you have to take his arse with you, I'd much less leave
him behind. Throw him in the back of your party with Rena. Okay now's the
time to re-equip your paralysis check and stone check if you don't already
have them on. Cave of Red Crystal is full of monsters that will cause those
status affects.
You can train before you enter that black cave with the red crystal's sticking
out from it, or you can just do like I did and go in their full force.
Basically head up and left through the next part. Head right into a hole. Head
down the stairs and to the right. You should see a Synard in the next room.
Continue down the path that leads you into the next room. Follow the path down
and up to the left side as you get to the save point. This would be a lovely
time to save.
God.. your in for a treat up ahead. Fighting the spider ladies are very
dangerous especially if your alone. Two of them ganging up on you is no
laughing matter. But I have a simple solution that will make your life
easier. First of all, never get caught between both of them. Try getting to
the side of one of them and ripper blasting them. If your starting to get
low on heath, see that giant pillar in the middle of the battle field? Use
that thing to your advantage, if you circle around it, sometimes the spider
girls will get caught
on the edge and won't be able to attack you. That's a good sign to use Energy
Sword. There will be lots of times when they teleport around the battle field,
use that to your advantage and attack them when they are separated. When one
of them is down, the other should go pretty fast if you keep healed up around
the pillar.
After you win, tell Noel to stay with his stupid animals and fly out of their.
------------------ Things to do on your Synard ------------------
Now that you've got your Synard, you should be very happy, because your
freedom just increased ten fold. And since you can't run into enemies on it,
it can be a shelter as well. First up, you should head for Fun City. Make
sure you have the bandits gloves equipped, Level 10 pickpocketing, and the
Dexterity Talent. Save the game and enter fun city to buy some tickets. Go
all the way towards the back where the bunny races are being held. Pick
pocket the stuffed bunny, if you fail, reload and try again. Eventually
you'll get the bunny shoes. When you do, immediately equip them on Claude
and never take them off, I don't care how much something else is higher in
armor, nothing compares to the bunny shoes.
Other than that, there's not much else to do other than the battle tournament.
If you've already gotten the eternal sphere it's pretty much just pointless
except for the SP and exp received battling. Cooking Master is also
interesting, but if you suck at cooking there's no point.
You've got, Giveaway, Armlock, Field of Power, Field of Love, Field of
Intelligence, Field of Courage, North City, Central City, La Aqua, and the
well hidden Fake Gallery located on an island near Field of Power.
Go back and talk to Narl to learn your next mission.
------------------ Field of Courage ------------------
Field of Courage is located between Central City and Armlock. Save before you
go in, monsters also have the ability to paralyze and petrify by the way. Save
your self time by equipping the check accessories. Your basic mission when you
enter is to run up and left through the cave to find the statue and make your
way back to the entrance. Pretty simple. Now head right to the elevator. Save
the game and put the statue on the pedestal.
Now your going to fight the guardian, which can be pretty tough at first.
It's not, it's rather simple, just by attacking it head on you can flip
around it lots of times and get behind him. Long range is good, but you have
to watch out for the missiles. Soon you'll blow his arms off and he'll try
an electric attack, which it's not fun to get hit by, you can dodge it
easily too. Once you blow his body to shreds, you'll face the head. You
can't damage the head until it's antenna raises above it's helmet. Then you
can full blasted it, watch out for the shooting lasers though. With Bunny
Shoes, they should be fairly easy to dodge. Extermination is what you have
to worry about, it can blow up in your face and give you peeps. Not a fun
experience when your low on health. Luckily it can't move from that place
and you can run away from it to use your Energy Sword. Pulverize him and
leave the place.
------------------ Field of Power ------------------
Field of Power is that large mountain thingy over there by giveaway. It's safe
from status causing monsters so you don't have to worry about equipping the
check accessories. Try a Reverse Doll, and a talisman to raise your AC
(defense). Doesn't matter which path you take, but your main mission is to
head up. Every time you see a monkey standing next to a switch. Go to your
skills menu, and press square on the skill that says "Flip" that way you
don't flip around the monkey, enabling him to hit the switch a roo.
If you find that place where you can make an echo, do yourself a favor and
don't say nothing. Unless your curious and you like to run in fear.
Eventually you'll head to the top and you'll find a save point. Save the game
and proceed across the bridge to the next guardian. It's the same guardian as
the one in the field of courage, so use the same strategy and leave that
forsaken place.
------------------ Field of Intelligence ------------------
This one will be more confusing than hard. Field of Intel is near Giveaway but
on the other side. When you first enter touch the mirror on the left and every
time you step on a yellow square you'll be transported to another room where
you light up a spinning ball. Light up all six balls to open the panel in
the middle. Go back to the entrance, go outside and save. Re enter and
touch the middle mirror.
Your going to fight the defense system, concentrate on that big thing in the
middle first. If you luckily, you'll be able to get behind him and start
ripper blasting him. But be careful to watch out for it's beam attack, that
will surely wipe you out if you get hit by it. Watch his movements carefully
and get the heck out of there if he looks like he's going to do it. Eventually
the hand will die and the other little balls around the room should be simple.
Leave that place and head for that big floating island to the last field.
------------------ Field of Love ------------------
Continue down the path on the field of love until you see a split. Head the
right path first and touch the ball. Then go back to the left side and head up
to the save point. Save the game and face the enemy known as Lover. I usually
saw other people getting captured by lover, but jeez, I've never seen Rena get
captured, that was great.
Oh god this is simple, first make sort work of those annoying thunder beasts
with long ranged ripper blast. Then pretty much Lover is on her own and she
can't cast spells when you're wailing on her, she'll eventually just die, and
you've taken down all four fields. Congrats, the worst is yet to come.
------------------ Fienal First Attempt ------------------
After finishing all four fields go back to Narl and speak with him. After a
long drawn out spoilerific conversation, you'll fight two sets of monsters
that should easily be disposed of. Next Marsilio will try you on for size,
just run up to him and let him pull a Cruelty Rushes on you so you can die
and move on to the next scenage. Don't worry, it's not a game over. You
have to die.
------------------ Heraldry Weapons Lab ------------------
Fly to Armlock and find the Ninjay Narl in the back where the Sealed Portal is
at. Save the game. Go through a bunch of rooms towards the left until you find
Narl. Run back to where the portal is and talk to Rena. Run back to that same
room and finish talking to Narl. Now go through Armlock next to the bar and
find Mirage's house.
Go to Mihne Cavern
------------------ Mihne Cavern ------------------
Mihne Cavern can be sort of dangerous. Mainly because the monsters will try to
cast Star Flare on you. But if you have the Eternal Sphere equipped, Star
based attacks should heal you. Also watch out for the green jellies called
Evilwater, they will paralyze and stone you, so either equip your 'Check'
Accessories or run from them.
You might want to train as hard as you can before fighting Barke. Because all
the monsters will disappear after Barke is dead and you won't have a good
place to train before entering Fienal.
Barke is straight towards the north from the entrance. You'll find a save
point and enter.
When I fought him I just sat there and mashed the Ripper Blast button till he
died. You might have some trouble if you don't have good battle skills so you
might want to recover after he uses an attack called 'Lost Patience.'
After acquiring the LEA metal, exit and go back to Mirage in Armlock for more
Scenage.
You'll get the N.F.I.D. card so you can enter Fun city for free. I dunno if
this card has a meaning but I like to call it the "NoFuckingIDea what to name
it, so we called it N.F.I.D."
------------------ Fun City ------------------
Okay now head to Fun City and flash your NoFuckingIDea, well you probably wont
be able to Flash it because the guy will show you around. After awhile you'll
get your Sacred Tear and Fallen Hope along with the Void Matter. Unfortunately
Mirage will have to leave, because she has to write an essay. BTW, why the
freak would someone be writing an essay during the intimate destruction of the
Universe. Mirage is sooo cool.
If you don't have the Eternal Sphere, by like accident you missed it, the
Sacred Tear is actually better than the Windsley sword. Although it might
not look it, it cuts your MP usage in half and raises a lot more stats for a
mere sacrifice of 100 attack. Phooey, too bad.
Now time to fight Marsilio. Lovely. I was level 97 and I had no problem making
short work of him. Cruelly Rushes should be fairly easy to dodge with bunny
shoes just wait for him to get near you then run away and long range ripper
blast him. You might have a little trouble with Initial Slay, but stay on your
guard and keep your health up with Energy Sword. If I'm right, you shouldn't
be taking much damage from his hits, especially if you have a lot of good
combat skills.
After winning, Run out and save the game. Also, put on your Stone Check,
because the next boss is deadly.
Shigeo is up next and he has a fair amount of attacks up his sleeve, with this
shiny ball of light that he charges up. He also runs around the battle field
at a fast speed that only bunny shoes can keep up. Also the attack that
petrifies you is called Infringement. I found that out annoyingly after
getting stoned
After fighting Shigeo the second time, I learned the trick to beating him.
Basically when you hear the sound of Shigeo forming that giant ball of energy,
quickly mash Ripper Blast where ever your standing to get a great blow in on
him. Since he does it a lot, you'll have plenty of opportunities to attack.
Soon, he'll be lying on the floor, dead.
Now you should exit Fun City and save the game. Pretty much do what ever you
need to get done in other cities before running off to Armlock
------------------ Arm Lock ------------------
Berle's going to be a pain in the arse. But there is a simple way to pin him
to the ground. First of all he will cast Metaguard an impentratable shield
that allows him to take no damage. But if you wait for him to get within
striking distance and as soon as he swings run. Run until it says Long Range,
and wait again, then when he strikes again, run and run long range until you
can press the Ripper Blast button. Then he will be caught in a trap, because
his Guard will be dropped. Then you can get several normal hits on him, but
likely you will get a bit hurt, so run back and use energy sword. Rinse and
Repeat until dead.
Prepare for the final showdown and head to L'Aqua
------------------ Fienal Showdown ------------------
After lot of scenes you will be transported to Fienal via Herush. Save the
game before entering and prepare for a tough fight. So far when I played them
I didn't experience a lot of damage being given to me.
Ruprecht - He will hit you with that stupid magnet weapon and use mind
Absorber to take your mp
Jibril - will cause some kind of wave disturbance and produce a thundercloud,
and healing
Nicolus - He's the one you got to worry about, he can caste healing and also
he can slow Claude down, which is not what you want, it will be the death of
you if you get slowed.
Take down Nicolus first, because he's got the lowest HP and he proposes the
biggest threat. Jibril should be next on you list, because that thundercloud
and healing thing is going to be a pain in the arse, then Ruprecht should go
down really easily after you can focus all your attention on him.
All in all, I'm very surprised how easy this fight went for me, I only died
once, cause I got slowed by Nicolus. But when I had a party of four I
remembered how tough this fight could be, as well as the Vesper and Decus one
coming up.
Up ahead you basically have to go up five elevators till you reach a save
point. There's a few enemies you should beware of. First it's the green
lizards that cause paralysis and petrification. Use the Check accessories
when fighting them, or run. Also, run from the slugs that eat you, if you
don't you'll just get owned. There's a few good treasure chests but most
just suck. When you reach the save point, I suggest you train using Practice
skill until you get to level 120. Because fighting Decus and Vesper solo is
no joke. It's hard as balls. I had to fight them 15 times or so, but when I
got to level 120 I took them down with ease.
First off, while your training, I suggest you constantly use Mirror Slice
instead of Ripper Blast and try to get it up to at least a proficiency of 300.
You have to wear the Stone Check or Vesper's Mind Blast will petrify you. Also
I suggest you wear the Pyre Tear or Fairy Tear if you have them. Vesper's Mind
Absorber will take your MP.
These are the basics
Vesper's attacks all need MP to use
Mind Blast - Burninates you
Mind Absorber - Take's your MP and raises his
Blood Sucker - Take's your HP and raises his
Tractor Beam - lift you in the air and bring you down
Decus's attacks all need MP to use except for Spicule
Spicule - Burninates you bad
Explode - Zomg
Eruption - You can't run
Fairy Heal - I never knew he had this till now
Basically it's your choice who you want to target first, but it will be really
hard until one of them goes down. Spicule really won't do as much damage to
you as if they were all wailing on you with random crap. Decus will run out
of MP and will only be able to use normal attacks and Spicule if you fight
long enough. Vesper won't, because heal will steal your MP through Mind
Absorber. But you have a counter measure called Pyre Tear or Fairy Tear that
allows you to regenerate MP after getting hit with magic. During this battle,
you're going to have to use items, Mirror Slice, and Energy Sword to it's
maximum potential. As well as a lot of luck.
Here's a couple of hints. If you see Mind Blast pop up at the bottom of the
screen, or a familiar Vesper voice, get the fuck out of the line of fire. Try
getting them together and mirror slicing them at the same time. It keeps them
from casting Heraldry.
If you're lucky, you might defeat them, if not, I suggest you give it a couple
of tries and then train more. The higher level you are, the less damage you
will take.
Run up a few more levels until you reach another save point. Save the game
here and make sure you still have Mirror Slice on. As much as I love Ripper
Blast, it's not effective fighting the ten wise men when your alone. When
fighting Cyril, it can be very easy to kick his ass if you constantly use
Mirror Slice on him. But he will get a wind of destruction in there so I
suggest you heal with Energy Sword. And watch out for word of death, on hit
from that and it's KO baby. Cyril's a pansy, and he should go down ten times
faster than Decus or Vesper.
At the nine floor you'll find a save point. Up ahead is the biggest problem in
the game. It took me at least 20 times to finally take Indalecio down solo.
It's really ridiculously hard and you will need a lot of luck.
First of all I recommend turning on practice and training up to level 140
making sure your saving the game along the way. Also while your at it, get
Dragon Howl up to 500 proficiency or more. Dragon howl is going to be your
best buddy when facing Indalecio. After you get to 142 you should be able to
max out every skill on your list, because I remember I was 141 when I finally
was able to beat him. First of all, I recommend having either Berserk Ring
or Reverse Doll in one accessory slot, and Pyre tear or Fairy tear in the
other. Berserk Ring will double your attack, and Reverse Doll will reduce
your damage to Magic. The tear accessories will make sure you always have
MP ready. Equip Crestier Guard as a shield so you'll deflect his Divine
wave. Now take off Practice and save the game and head up three sets of
stars to fight Indy (Indalecio).
First form of Indy is really simple to defeat. First of all he will use Divine
wave that purple thing to drain your health. When ever you reach 6000 or below
you should use energy sword. If you can get in there with Dragon Howl, you'll
stun him and keep wailing on him.
Attacks -
Star Flare - If you have Eternal Sphere equipped this will heal you. It
produces bombs from the heavens that rain down upon you.
Noah - Same thing that happened to Clik, large rushing waves will come down to
own you.
Divine Wave - This shit hurts, but you need to get through it to reach Indy
After you lower his health enough he will call upon the "Time of Truth" and an
angel will come down.
Divine Wave - Hurts twice as much now
Explode - Worse than Decus', it can kick your arse
Earthquake - You can avoid taking damage if your in the air. Only way to do
that is to be performing a Head Splitter, Sword Bomber, Twin Slash, or the
final slash of Mirror Slice.
Southern Cross - Just like Celines, except worse.
Fairy Heal - Heals about 8000 of his health back, not much if you ask me.
Angel Feather - Will raise his stats so he can pwn you more
Star Flare - Powerful than the first
Noah - Powerful than the first
Divine Comedy - His signature move.. If your below 5000 health your dead. I
call it his signature move because he casts it so quickly immediately after
spells.
His second form will likely kill you off, unless you get lucky. I've tried all
the killer
moves, including trying to jump down on him with Head Splitter. The problem is
that he moves too fast and he can cast spells while moving. And there isn't
much time between spells, especially when you have to heal yourself with
Energy Sword. I recommend finding an opening when he does Fairy Heal or
Angel Feather. Dragon Howl is the only thing that works here, because
Claude can launch it extremely quick and keep it going. If you keep mashing
it, you'll likely keep him in one place until he is no more. That's how I
defeated him. I've also tried waiting till all of his MP was drained, it's
just too hard because he'll find away to double cast really fast or get
you with a Divine Wave.
------------------------------- Cave of Trials -------------------------------
First of all the Cave of Trials is located on Expel, and only can be accessed
after saving the game right before you get to Indalecio. Head to Fun City and
go to the battle tournament. Run across to the other side of the stands where
you can see a old man and woman. Talk to the old man and relive your past
memories. You'll be on Expel. To go back talk to that pig behind you. Now
exit Arlia and take your Synard past the laguss mountains an into a desert
island with a pyramid. That's the Cave of Trials
I'm willing to share some tips on doing the Cave of Trials Solo with Rena and
Claude. I believe it is almost impossible to complete the COT (Cave of Trials)
with only Claude, because on levels such as number 8, you are required to use
Master Chef Super Speciality Skill. So I recommend you put Rena in your party
if you want to beat the COT.
There are some spots on the COT that will freeze your game after a battle, I
have found a few of them and it's frustrating indeed. It's a problem with the
games programing that usually freezes to a black screen after a battle, but I
think it only happens in certain areas. Those areas I will name the COT Plague
area, and I recommend that you don't linger around these areas.
There are many enemies that will cause Stone and Paralysis. Mainly on Level 8
and 9. But I recommend you always have a stone check on when fighting Bird
enemies and archers, they cause stone, a lot!
On each level, there's a certain level requirement you have to be in order to
run from enemies quickly and effectly. So if you are planning on running from
every enemy on a level, I recommend you put Rena in the back, especially if
she's a low level, she will slow you down even if she gets killed. I will put
the average level you must be on each floor to run from enemies.
I also recommed before entering COT that you stock up on Blueberries,
Blackberries, Resurrection Bottles, Cure Stones, Cure Paralysis, and every
Food item
------------------ Leveling up Rena ------------------
You're going to have to level up Rena if you want to make it through COT. It
shouldn't be too hard. Just put her into battle and try keeping her alive.
If she dies, just resurrection bottle her. You are also going to have to
distrubute Skills properly. Since you are going to need Master Chef to get
through Level 8
I recommend Leveling this First
1. Perservance
Master Chef
2. Cooking: Kitchen Knife, Recipe, Good Eye
3. Compounding: Biology, Herbal Medicine, and Mental Science
Identify All
4. Identify: Mineralogy, Tool Knowledge, Herbal Medicine
5. Metalwork: Craft, Esthetic Sense, Mineralogy
Battle Skills
6. Body Control
7. Spirit Force
8. Parry
Then the rest is up to you.
------------------ Level One ------------------
Average Level to Escape: Level 120
This level is very basic, but it's one of the first to have COT Plague. The
monsters are some of those spell casters, soldiers, and those shield guys that
have meta guard as well as birds that cause stone. But this floor is really
simple. Basically just run Up, then head left, Then down and down again. This
room right here is the one with COT plague so don't stick around. Run Down and
Right. You should find a switch. Flick it on and fight the boss monster. This
fight should be pretty simple, basically you just have to use Ripper blast
long range to take out the Knights quickly, then stop the women sucubus lady
from casting any spells, even if she does get one off, it doesn't do much
damage. This fight should be as easy as picking up chicks from a drunk party
compared to Indalecio. If you're scared, you can run back and save, but I
would just keep going down.
------------------ Level Two ------------------
Average Level to Escape : Level 130
The monsters on this level shouldn't be that bad, it's just slimes that shoot
stuff at you, just stay focused and tear into pieces. Basically the goal of
this level is to Face each person to who they are in love with. Here's the
list:
Milene: South
Cristina: South
Feria: East
Sharon: West
Lloyd: East
Yufie: South
Luke: North
The door back at the beginning should open up after you move the last one.
From there, this level will be easy to pass through, with only getting into
one battle or so. The boss will be kinda hard at first, it's a thing with
teeth and shoots it's teeth at you at long range, but it's a common enemy on
the floor below. It shouldn't be too hard to beat, and If you want to save
now, it would be wise, just for safety measures. So head back up and save
after beating it.
------------------ Level Three ------------------
Average Level to Escape: Level 140
I wouldn't recommend having Rena in your party, because some of the monsters
on this level are really strong until you get to a higer level. Those
thunder glowing beasts I would run from instantly on first sight of them,
because they could be trouble some if you get caught stunned. Those other
ones with the teeth are pretty simple tho, as long as you keep ripper
blasting them
This level can be pretty confusing at first, but the basic goal is to go to
every room without going to the same room again twice. And come back right
were you started at.
Okay here's the floor plan.
Up, Up, Left, Down, Down, Down, Right, Right, Right, Up, Up, Up, Left, Down,
Down, Left.
Then you should be back where you started, and the boss door should open up.
This boss can be a little tough, but Basically if you keep focusing on ripper
blasting them, you can get them stunned for a long time. Dream Peace is a move
that will freeze you in your tracks, enabling them time to hit you, but if you
leveled up, you shouldn't have too much trouble with damage, so just get out
of it, and use Energy Sword, or have Rena heal you. After the boss is
finished, you should get magical drops.. Save these, they help sometimes.
If you found this boss easy, you can head down without worry of dying
because they are the common enemy next level.
------------------ Level Four ------------------
Average Level to Escape: Level 145
The enemies on this level are those Bunnies you found all the time in the
Sanctuary of Linga and that hourglass monster you found as the boss before.
They are pretty easy to beat. There is a Seraphric Garb on this level, so
search the chests for it. You can also unlock a door to the Music God with a
switch to the right. The door is in the center of the main room. Play
something nice and she'll give you Illusive Shaman. The room with the switch
has a hidden path in the wall.
The way to the left is the way down. It also has a hidden path in the wall up
at the top, and you'll face the boss. It's one of those spider things. This
boss can be pretty quick. If it starts attacking Rena, just provoke it with
Select and Tear away shards of his armor with your iron clad attack of Ripper
Blast. He should be smokin in no time. I'd also recommend saving, because the
enemies below here are no joke.
------------------ Level Five ------------------
Average Level to Escape: Level 150
The monsters on this level can be hard. First of all, if you see a Flare
Lizard, automatically run unless you think you can defeat it. Other enemies
like Apes and Big Guys can be easy. But if you see a whole group of mages, I
suggest you run because when they all start casting it's not good until you
have tri-Emblems
Basically just go up until you find Puffy. Here just Answer some stupid
questions and face Puffy's pet. Just run, no damage can be done to it. From
here Puffy runs off. Follow her. Go right. You'll find a way to go down, but
just keep going right till you meet down inside a room where Puffy is being
attacked by hourglass monster. Help her and Defeat it. She'll drop a Weird
Slayer. Equip Rena with this. Now go back to the starting room. Head right
through a doorway and the monster you faced before should be there.
Immediately control Rena with Circle and strike the beast once to kill it
with the Weird Slayer. You should pick up the key.
Grab all the chests in here. There's a Seraphic Garb in here as well. Go down
that path before that I told you not to go down, then head right past a door,
then down, and right to another door. Open the Door and continue down the
stairs.
Don't bother saving since the next floor might have Santa on it. Go down
------------------ Level Six ------------------
Average Level to Escape: Level 150 or Level 40
The monsters on this level are usually burglars. The common ones are the brown
ones that take one hit to kill. They pose no threat. The metal ones are
unbeatable until you get the Funny Slayer. Just don't worry about them, Run
from them and Go to the next big room. In here Santa might be walking down
between the statues. If he is, run up to him and buy some stuff.
First of all, the main foremost thing you need is two tri-Emblems for Claude.
If you have enough Fol you can get two for Rena. Now buy as many Go Home Frogs
as you can. Also note, that the prices are really expensive. Heres some tips
on how to make santa cough up tri-Emblems without coughing up your Fol
First of all tri-Emblems cost 5,000,000 fol. If you use Identify All skill you
can lower the price to 4,100,000 fol. But make sure you first Raise the price
with Identify All and sell all your stuff that you don't need. Then Lower the
price to buy tri-Emblems You can get Identify All by leveling up Tool
Knowledge, Mineralogy, Herbal Medicine, Craft and Esthetic Sense on Rena. All
of Claude's skills should be maxed already.
From there, if you have any Cinderella Glasses, you can use one to cut the
price even more. We are talking around 2,500,000 fol per tri-emblem.. WOW,
half price.
Go-Home Frogs allow you to escape automatically to the beginning of a dungeon,
so get about 20. Don't use one yet. This boss should have a Teleporter to
escape with.
To Activate the boss room, talk to the metal statue at the bottom right
corner. Then head left.
This boss is fairly easy. It's just a Blue Funny Thief. Just keep wailing on
him and eventually he will parish. Giving you a funny slayer. Now equiping
Claude or Rena with the Funny Slayer, you can now instantly kill Blue and
Metal Funny Theives and Get a lot of Exp!!!! Good training here.
Escape with the Teleporter, and save. If Santa wasn't there, he might be there
when you come back.
------------------ Level Seven ------------------
Average Level to Escape: Level 160
Lots of monsters on this floor. Nothing worth running from, except those eat
you monsters. Blue Funny theifs roam around and they are easy to kill with the
slayer.
Basically Head up until you see an Alter, From there make a right. And go all
the way right till you can go down. Then Go up through a hidden passage way to
get a Cracked Gem. Do metal working on the Cracked Gem with Claude and get a
Red Lotus Gem. Head back to the alter room and place the gem on it. The door
should open. The boss is the same monster from the Mihne Cavern.
He's so simple it's laughable. Bascially just keep ripper blasting him, you
don't have to worry about trying to find long range, because Claude will stay
long range. You might even be able to wail on him so much that he doesn't get
an attack off. If he does, it'll be lost patience, and you can quickly recover
with Rena, or Energy Sword if she dies. After you make quick work of him.
Don't forget to get those extra pair of bunny shoes to the left. Then head
down.
------------------ Level Eight ------------------
Average Level to Escape: Level 170
The food God, I hate this level. Basically you need Master Chef to make a lot
of good stuff. Bascially try combining Grain and Meat. Or Fish and Grain.
See what you can come up with. Get a lot of dishes prepared. Then maybe a
spoiled milk on the side. Head up and feed the food god. I fed it a Meat Fried
Rice. Then it tells you is that all you eat, you don't eat very good do you?
Then I gave it a spoiled milk, you can give it any thing nasty like mandrake
And Puffy will fall out. Opening the door. If you want to save now before
fighting the boss, I wouldn't tell you otherwise. The boss is no joke.
There's a Million Staff on this level. Believe it or not, you can sell this
For 10 million if you have trouble getting tri-Emblems. If you have Celine,
you can give it to her, but there's more than one Million Staff in COT so
don't be afraid to sell it.
The boss is a eat you up monster, but it runs really fast. I recommend
controlling Rena and trying to make him eat her. Then Ripper blast him to
death. If he coughs her up, I recommend you revive her instantly, cause if he
eats you it's game over. If Rena is alive and he eats claude. Quickly take
control of Rena and run around the battle field till he coughs Claude back up.
Let him eat Rena, Ripper blast, revive, rinse and repeat until dead.
------------------ Level Nine ------------------
Average Level to Escape: Level 180
This level is the level of hate. Some of the monsters on this level cause
stone. So I recommend you wear stone check. There isn't a boss tho, yet. Just
keep heading to the left, Up, then to the right. Down. And to the Right, and
up into a room where you see a sealed coffin. Hence the name of the room. If
you haven't saved in a while. Use Go-Home Frog and get out now, since the next
level does have some COT Plague as well as it's really really hard.
------------------ Level Ten ------------------
Average Level to Escape: Level 190
I really really hate this level. First of all, it's hard to fight the monsters
because they keep firing missles, but if you have the Valiant Guard from level
13, you can deflect them. This first room that you are in has COT Plague. So I
recommend just touching the tiles in the patter you want to go to get to the
end and getting the heck out of there. Watch out tho. Flashing rooms cause
you to have damage over time, so don't stay in one area, make sure you keep
checking your damage and healing when necessary. When you make it to the
end, you'll be at one of the coolest bosses.
Like the Guardian from Nede, it's just like one of those. And there's nothing
more effective against him than good ole fashioned Ripper Blast. Tear him a
new soul, and if he fires a missle at you, you should probably heal yourself
or use Rena. He will usually be stunned the whole match. But if he explodes
and turns into a small form.. wait for him to start using extermination
before attacking. He should pose no trouble at all. If you want to save
after this, I recommend you don't and continue.
------------------ Level Eleven ------------------
Average Level to Escape: Level 200
Don't run from the Monsters on this Level. Just keep fighting. They are
usually bosses from other levels, and they give good exp, as well as they are
too hard to run from and could be dangerous. You might face Shin like
creatures, but since they are air based, ripper blast should have no trouble
making them meet their maker. The boss, lucky for you is a Synard. Good
gosh, this boss is easy as heck. Just spam Ripper blast again. After
winning you should get Float skill. Here, you have the choice of going
back. Which is an okay idea, since you have a unlocked a secret passage
to level Nine on the first floor.
After saving, just head up. Left. Down.. Then go through the left door.
You'll be in a room with red tile. Behind that red tile is light. Step around
that light till you hear four clicks. After the fourth click you'll land on
floor 9. Easy, you can use this trick any time now.
------------------ Level Twelve ------------------
Average Level to Escape: Level 210
The room to the boss is straight ahead of you, and I say he's one of the
Easiest bosses again. With Ripper Blast you should be able to stun and take
down this wicked beast in seconds. No trouble at all. It's just like those
birds from Fienal Tower, the ones with Master Attack and Xene. After
winning, you'll get the Holy Sword Farwell
Battle Suits can be found on this level.
Go back to Level 9, either by running, or using go home frog and the portal
trick. Get to the sealed coffin while wearing the holy sword and the boss
should appear. It's a mage that can easily be beaten if you just keep him from
casting. After winning you get the Levantine. Not bad. The Levantine and the
Holy Sword Farwell will Unlock the door to level 13.
------------------ Level Thirteen ------------------
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------------------------------- Big Thanks -------------------------------
I'd like to thank tri-Ace for making such a wonderful game, it's been a great
enjoyment in my life.
Also I give a big thanks to my friends for telling me that I couldn't do a
Claude Solo or I probably wouldn't of tried it for myself.
Thank you readers for reading my faq, especially if your reading this line
right now. Without you my guide is meaningless.
And I thank Claude for being one of my favorite characters of all time.
