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| Author: Alex Eagleson | |||
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Tethe'alla |
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The Beginning of the End |
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Page 1
Fooji Mountains Page 2
Meltokio Page 3
Tethe'alla Bridge Page 4
Sybak Page 5
Tethe'alla Bridge Revisited Page 6
Fooji Mountains Revisited Page 7
Meltokio Revisited Page 8
Meltokio Sewers Page 9
Sneaking around Meltokio Page 10
Tethe'alla Bridge Dock Page 11
Sybak Revisited |
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Gaoracchia Forest Page 13
Mizuho Page 14
Gaoracchia Forest Revisited Page 15
Ozette Page 16
Altessa's House Page 17
Toize Valley Mine Page 18
Ozette Revisited Page 19
Mizuho Revisited Page 20
Temple of Lightning Page 21
Tethe'alla Base |
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Gaoracchia Forest
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A quick reminder to keep in mind for this forest, when fighting the
flowers you'll probably get uppercut a lot. A quick tap of X while
in the air will have you on your feet when you land. Anyway...
You'll encounter a battle right away. Afterwards head up and change function of the Sorcerer's Ring at the pedestal. The light can be used to melt vines. Take the right path at the fork. Keep heading right, and go stand in the patch of flowers for awhile. Notice it charges your light meter. When it's full, head up. You can see the bottom of a treasure box covered in vines on this path, use your Sorcerer's Ring to burn the vines and access the Phoenix Rod. Now go right. Head down the path a bit and you will notice a large vine-hump on the right side. Dissolve it and get the Witch's Robe. Now dissolve the vines just above you and head to the right. Along the path uncover the treasure box to obtain an Angel Bracelet. Continue down and take the right path. Recharge your light here, and dissolve the vine that blocks your path. Be sure to defeat the enemy beside the vine to get the memory gem. Now head down, and Southwest through the vine. You'll come to another fork head Southeast this time and uncover the chest next to the path. It cannot be opened now, but you can come back later to obtain a powerful weapon. Continue to go down-right along the path ignoring the split to the left until you hit the save point. Now save your game and make a decision: (A decision maybe better made later, because it is possible to return, and this boss is hard! If you're lower than level 35, don't even consider it.) Remember the optional boss Sword Dancer on the Ossa Trail? Well you can choose to fight the sword dancer two right now. You can only fight him if you defeated the first one. If you wish to do so, go back up to the fork and head left this time. Down the trail sits the darkened skull you may remember. Speak to it to and choose the top option to trigger the fight: If you are not fighting him, scroll down to the three asterisk marker (***).
Wow. He hits hard, and your attacks hit anything BUT that. You're pretty much fodder here. For the first time this game I'd recommend an All Divide item. It'll make the battle even longer but it'll negate some of the massive damage this guy can dish out. In terms of actual strategy mine worked pretty well, I didn't use an All Divide, or even that many items, I just focused on using Genis' magic and unison attacks for the most damage I could. I'd recommend a party of Lloyd, Genis', Raine and Zelos. Go into the strategy menu for each character and set them up like this: Genis - Attack Freely, At Once, Don't Pursue Raine - Attack Freely, Heal, Don't Pursue Zelos - Attack Freely, Heal, Skills/Magic Turn off all spells for Genis' except for Spread. Now head into battle, everyone will be fine with what they're doing, Genis' will be casting spread very rapidly and doing good damage with each one. As Lloyd you have two main goals. Build up your unison meter and keep the other three stocked with Tp. Hopefully you have at minimum 10 - 15 Pineapple Gels. Blocking is very important when building your unison meter, you will die from a single wave of attacks, almost guaranteed. Predict them and block them, and hit as quickly as you can. Lloyd will deal very little damage but that's ok, the main power is Genis and unison attacks. I had the following unison attacks set up: Lloyd - Tiger Slash for left and right buttons, Genis - Raging Mist for all, Raine - Photon for all and Zelos - Lightning for all. The lightning and Tiger Slash will finish with a very powerful combo and the Photon and Raging Mist will deal good damage. Each of my unison attacks did an average of 3500-4000 damage. Keep it up and you will beat him. Personally I found him to be rather easy with the above setup, all my characters were at level 38. For defeating him you get a Yasakani Jewel and a heck of a lot of experience points. Now return to the save point and save your game! *** From the save point head down to the next map. A scene will automatically occur. Then afterwards:
If you just beat the Sword Dancer 2, you definitely don't even need to read this, however in the more likely scenario that you did not, he's still a piece of cake anyway. His attacks are slow and fairly weak, and he's hit by your combos far more often than he blocks. Just juggle him a bit while Genis' pounds on him with magic, and one or two unison attacks later, he'll be toast. After the battle, witness a quick event and take the lower exit to the world map. From here Mizuho is really the only place you can go, a mere few steps from the forest. | |||||||
