Star Ocean: The 2nd Story - Boss Guide for Claude Version 0.1 For U.S. Version Only On PSX ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ By Dan GC Last updated: 07/27/99 03:08 PM PT First Edition: 07/27/99 03:08 PM PT Document Info: 30 K (31, 280 Bytes) Designed for at least IE 3 or NN 3 at 640x480 Resolution and Courier New font enabled 31, 280 characters (letters, numbers, symbols, etc.) Star Ocean: The 2nd Story was/is... Created by: tri-Ace Creator of Most FMVs: Links Produced by: Enix Published by: SCEA (Sony Computer Entertainment America) Released: June 9, 1999 in US If you can help me with anything: basics, more strategies, etc., or if you just have questions, comments, etc., E-mail them to One more thing, don't E-mail with questions that are already in this FAQ, otherwise, I'll discard them or tell you to check the FAQ. _________________ Table of Contents ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Part 1: Updates Part 2: Introduction Part 3: Bosses - Gark - Alen-Tax - Gargoyle x2 - Vermillion - Nightmare - Xine - Flare Lizard x2 - Vissayer x3 - Harphinx x2 - Shin (1st Meeting) - Shin (2nd Meeting) - Shin (3rd Meeting) & Stone Statue x3 - Berle (1st Meeting) - Synard - Archmene x2 |ŻWARNING! EVERY BATTLE FROM NOW ON..._| - Magic Hand, Magic Box x2, Work Box, & Guard Box - Guardian (1st One) - Guardian (2nd One) - Lover & Breakwing x2 - Marsilio (1st Meeting) - Bark - Marsilio (2nd Meeting) - Shigeo - Berle (2nd Meeting) - Ruprecht, Jibril, & Nicolus - Vesper & Decus - Cyril - Indalecio (Limiter On) - Indalecio (Limiter Off) Part 4: Frequently Asked Questions Part 5: My Comments and Stuff Part 6: Special Thanks Part 7: Author Information Copyright Disclaimer: This Document Copyright (c) 1999 Dan GC This FAQ is for personal and/or private usage only. If reproduced, it must be via electronics, and if placed on a Web Page, may be changed only if this Disclaimer and the above Copyright Notice is completely there. This FAQ is not to be used for profitable/promotional purposes: publishers of magazines, guides, books, etc. or being incorporated into magazines, etc. in ANY way without FULL AUTHORIZATION from myself and any cohorts I may have. 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This FAQ can be found at: ________________________________________________________________________ GameFAQs www.gamefaqs.com ________________________________________________________________________ Part 1: Updates ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Version 0.1 7/27/99: First Edition ________________________________________________________________________ Part 2: Introduction ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ This FAQ SHOULD be used in conjunction with my Battle Strategies FAQ because it contains battle strategies against normal enemies and battle tips for each character such as the "Shooting Stars Wall Trap" for Claude or the "Tear Gas ToD" for Chisato. You need to at least read the Battle Tips section of my Battle Strategies FAQ. For this FAQ, I'll just tell you what the Tear Gas ToD is, it's the Tear Gas Touch of Death, in other words, once you pull it off, you can keep doing it and most enemies won't be able to do anything. This is a boss guide for Star Ocean 2 for Claude. The HP of all of the bosses are the ones for Earth Mode (difficulty level). If you are playing SO2 for the first time through without other saved games of SO2, then you are playing Earth Mode. If you are playing on Galaxy Mode, then all enemies have a 50% increase in statistics compared to Earth Mode. The AI is also 50% smarter. So to figure out the stuff, just multiply the Earth Mode stats of enemies by 1.5. If you are playing on Universe Mode, then all enemies have a 100% increase in statistics compared to Earth Mode. The AI is also 100% smarter. So to figure out the stuff, just multiply the Earth Mode stats of enemies by 2. The Descriptions of all bosses are from Ian Kelley's Crawd (Claude when translated into English) Walkthough. ________________________________________________________________________ Part 3: Bosses ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ For all of the boss battles, you should always have Rena in battle. She is the only healer plus she can heal you while you're fighting so you don't have to worry too much about dying. If she dies, you SHOULD revive her ASAP! If you need to use items to heal yourself, then do it. All Time Battles last one minute long and you must have at least one character survive the battle so you can advance in the story. _____________________________ - Gark ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Shingo Forest Recommended Level: N/A Description: 2000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: None Strategy: Claude is too weak to hurt it physically, so you have to use the Phase Gun. Just keep on pushing L1 (or push the Killer Move button for what the 'Phase Gun' is set to) and it'll die. _____________________________ - Alen-Tax ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Salva Mine Recommended Level: 4+ Description: 400 HP Weaknesses: Light Resistance: Dark Strategy: Alen-Tax is a heavy enemy, so you can just keep on attacking him with Claude and he'll eventually die. But if you get hit for some reason, use Rena to heal Claude. _____________________________ - Gargoyle x2 ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Cross Cave (opening Empty Treasure Chest) Recommended Level: 14 Description: 1500 HP Weaknesses: Light Resistance: Dark Strategy: Use Claude and attack one of them and kill it ASAP. If the Gargoyles are on each side of Claude, they'll do their Bite attack simultaneously and Claude won't be able to do anything. If this happens, use Celine to attack them with a spell that is Light elemental such as Ray, then use Rena to heal Claude. After one Gargoyle is defeated, the next one will be a sinch. Use the "Shooting Stars Wall Attack." If you can't pull it off, have Rena or Celine cast a spell to temporarily stun it and have Claude attack it right away after the spell is cast. _____________________________ - Vermillion ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Heraldry Forest Recommended Level: 18 Description: 3000 HP Weaknesses: Fire, Light Resistance: Dark Strategy: Vermillion is also a heavy enemy. So just have Celine cast a spell such as Ray, and just as soon as the spell is done, use Claude and keep on attacking him, he usually won't be able to escape. If he escapes, just have Celine cast another spell. If you want to play it safe, then just have Celine cast a spell and use Claude to do Head Splitter (if you set Head Splitter as one of his Killer Moves). _____________________________ - Nightmare ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Mountain Palace (Ashton must be in party) Recommended Level: 22 Description: 9000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: None Strategy: Nightmare has Bunny Shoes on, it seems. Because of that, she is really fast and since your characters aren't the fastest in the world, you'll have some trouble catching up to her. So, Claude should have Head Splitter and Shooting Stars while Ashton has Leaf Slash and Cross Slash. Once the battle starts, Ashton should use Leaf Slash while Claude should use Head Splitter. This will bring both of them close up to Nightmare. Have Celine cast magic repeatedly to stall Nightmare long enough so you can set up Claude and Ashton to attack Nightmare. Rena can do the same thing as Celine, although Rena should just heal most of the time. You're going to have to stall Nightmare, and to keep Nightmare stuck forever is to get on both sides of her and keep on attacking with Killer Moves. Shooting Stars for Claude and Cross Slash for Ashton. You will then kill Nightmare eventually. _____________________________ - Xine ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Lasgus Mountain (Ashton must be in party) Recommended Level: 26 Description: 20000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: Fire, Wind Strategy: Xine has quite a lot of HP, and his Master Attack is quick. He sometimes casts Light Cross, but he takes a while to charge, so if you can tell he's going to cast a spell, you're give time to attack. (If you only had Opera in your party...you would be able to kill Xine easily just by using normal attacks with Opera.) Anyway, Claude should have Head Splitter and anything else, it doesn't really matter, Claude just needs Head Splitter (if you have Twin Slash, you can have that as well as Head Splitter, but you have to be level 46) while Ashton should have...I don't know. Xine will occasionally do Master Attack, which is a charging attack that takes off more than 1/5 of your total HP, and to stop him, you have to attack him by any means, whether it be magic or physically. If you are lucky and dizzy Xine, he will temporarily be almost on the ground so you have time to attack him. He's pretty hard, so it'll take a while. You will need to use items when you need to such as restoring MP or reviving someone. _____________________________ - Flare Lizard x2 ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Mountain Palace (Opera must be in party) Recommended Level: 24 Description: 5000 HP Weaknesses: Water Resistance: Fire, Lightning Strategy: You should have an accessory equipped that makes you strong against Fire. You can try equipping two of them and you will absorb it (I think, I forgot whether it's two or three Resistance to absorb). Use Head Splitter with Claude in order to reach them quicker and dodge some of their attacks. Since Opera doesn't have much, she should just use Flame Launcher to attack. If one of your characters is Poisoned/Paralyzed/ Stoned, then use Rena to cast Dispel on that character. After one is killed, since Opera's normal attack is quick, just have her and Claude attack the last Flare Lizard. If you are using Claude, Opera will probably attack from the front, so get behind the Flare Lizard and keep on attacking until it dies. You can use normal attacks or Shootings Stars. If you want Opera to just attack, change her Strategy to "Converse Killer Moves!" and she'll just use normal attacks most of the time. _____________________________ - Vissayer x3 ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Sanctuary of Linga (a little before getting Dilwhip, not Clarisage) Recommended Level: 28 Description: 10,000 HP Weaknesses: Light, Lightning Resistance: Mu Strategy: _____________________________ - Harphinx x2 ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Hoffman Ruins Recommended Level: 35 Description: 36,700 HP Weaknesses: Light, Lightning, Dark Resistance: Fire, Wind, Star, Fu, Mu Strategy: _____________________________ - Ghost ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Outside of Hoffman Ruins (Opera must be in party, must see Opera's crash-landing ship scene) Recommended Level: Any Level Description: 8600 HP Weaknesses: Light Resistance: None? Strategy: If Opera was in your current fighting party, she won't be in there and every other character who was in a lower position than her will move up one position. But that doesn't matter, since where you are in the game, this Ghost can barely do any damage, so just keep on attacking with anything and it'll die soon enough. _____________________________ - Shin (1st Meeting) ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Lacour Front Line of Defense Recommended Level: N/A Description: 21,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: Everything Strategy: This is a Time Battle. So set the Strategies for all of the fighters to "Stay Away from the Enemy!" while you control the fastest character to distract Shin. If you are hurt and survive, Rena will heal you (if she's in the battle). _____________________________ - Shin (2nd Meeting) ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Lacour Ship to Continent of El Recommended Level: N/A Description: 21,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: Everything Strategy: Just make sure NOT to waste any items and not to have Reverse Dolls equipped on your characters. Just let Shin kill all of your characters (you can level up your Killer Moves here before you are killed). _____________________________ - Shin (3rd Meeting) & Stone Statue x3 ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Eluria Tower Recommended Level: 45 Descriptions: Shin: 21,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: Everything Stone Statue x3: 2200 HP Weaknesses: Light Resistance: Dark Strategy: At this point in the game, the Stone Statues will do little to no damage to any of your characters, but since they are so easy to kill, kill them first then go on to kill Shin. _____________________________ - Berle (1st Meeting) ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Eluria Tower Recommended Level: N/A Description: 100,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: None Strategy: This is another Time Battle Just set the Strategy of the fighters you aren't controlling to "Stay Away From the Enemy" while you or another character distracts Berle, if you do this, the magic users will be fine. _____________________________ - Synard ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: 'The Home' in North City Recommended Level: 45 Description: 43,000 HP Weaknesses: Lightning Resistance: None Strategy: The Synard has a similar attack to the big lizards. If that starts, you have to attack it as soon as possible, otherwise your characters will die outright. One fighter can attack from the front while the other(s) attack(s) from behind (you should be controlling one of the behind attackers). If you keep this us, the Synard will eventually die. _____________________________ - Archmene x2 ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Cavern of Red Crystal Recommended Level: 49 Description: 40,000 HP Weaknesses: Lightning Resistance: None Strategy: You should have at least two fighters in battle. You go after one of the Archmenes with any fighter you have (you might want to use someone with multiple hitting Killer Moves). The other fighter(s) will do what they will while you just go after one. Keep doing the Killer Move of your choice on the Archmene you're fighting and it'll eventually die so you can help out your partner(s) or vice versa. ________________________________________________________________________ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= ________________________________________________________________________ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ WARNING! EVERY BATTLE FROM NOW ON ASSUMES YOU HAVE AT LEAST FOUR 'BUNNY SHOES' AND CHISATO AT AT LEAST LEVEL 68! PLUS YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE FOUR 'BUNNY SHOES' EQUIPPED ONTO YOUR CURRENT PARTY UNLESS SAID OTHERWISE! If you do not have any Bunny Shoes, before going to any Field (or back to Central City), go to Fun City. Claude must have the Talent Dexterity and you must have the Pickpocket specialty as well as the Bandit's Glove (if you also have the Magician's Hand, that's good too, so equip both). Go into a Private Action (this prevents lowered friend and love levels toward whoever is going to steal) and go into the Bunny Races place. There will be a huge Bunny Mannequin, and steal from him. If successful, you will receive a pair of Bunny Shoes. If you failed, load and try again until you get it. To get the other three, just keep entering in the Bunny Races (if you have enough money) and keep betting on the two bunnies that would give you the Bunny Shoes if they win. You will eventually get a Bunny Shoes. Keep doing that until you have four Bunny Shoes total (including the one you stole). If you don't have enough money, go to the Fighting Arena and keep on fighting in Bullying Battle, at least Rank C. If/When you win, you will get 20,000 Fol for Rank C, 40,000 for Rank B, and 50,000 for Rank A or something like that. You can also level up this way. ________________________________________________________________________ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ________________________________________________________________________ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ _____________________________ - Magic Hand, Magic Box x2, Work Box, & Guard Box ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: The Field of Knowledge Recommended Level: 68+ Descriptions: Magic Hand: 60,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: Earth, Water, Fire, Lighting, Star, Fu Magic Box x2: 30,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: Fire, Lightning, Star Work Box: 30,000 HP Weaknesses: Lightning Resistance: Fire, Star Guard Box: 30,000 HP Weaknesses: Fire Resistance: Lightning, Star Strategy: If you have Chisato in your party, this will be a sinch. The other fighters will be controlled by the AI and what they do will just help you but you need not worry. Control Chisato and just keep doing Tear Gas repeatedly. You should first go after the Magic Hand with Chisato (the front one). The Boxes can't do anything since they just give the Magic Hand orders (while one of them heals the Magic Hand). Eventually, all enemies will die and you'll have won. _____________________________ - Guardian (1st One) ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: The Field of Power Recommended Level: 68+ Description: 130,000 HP Weaknesses: Dark Resistance: Earth, Water, Fire Strategy: Chisato is another must-have in this battle. If you get Guardian against the wall and another fighter is stalling the boss, just keep doing Tear Gas with Chisato. The other fighter is used to stall Guardian long enough while Chistato (controlled by you) keeps on doing Tear Gas, after that, Guardian won't be able to do anything because it is repeatedly being hit by Tear Gas and the other fighter(')(s)(') attacks. Guardian will die eventually. _____________________________ - Guardian (2nd One) ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: The Field of Courage Recommended Level: 68+ Description: 130,000 HP Weaknesses: Dark Resistance: Earth, Water, Fire Strategy: Same as above. _____________________________ - Lover & Breakwing x2 ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: The Field of Love Recommended Level: 68+ Description: Lover: 60,000 HP Weaknesses: Light Resistance: None Strategy: Using Chisato again will help you. Use Chisato to team up with another fighter to kill one Breakwing, then after that is dead, use Chisato's Tear Gas to kill Lover. This is because Lover constantly charges for magic attacks, so she is open and Chisato can attack her. The other Breakwing should be dead by the time you kill Lover. _____________________________ - Marsilio (1st Meeting) ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Fienal (1st Visit) Recommended Level: N/A Description: 150,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: Earth, Fire, Lightning, Dark Strategy: Just don't waste any items in battle and make sure to not equip any Reverse Dolls. You have to let Marsilio kill you. You can also level up your Killer Moves before you are killed by Marsilio. _____________________________ - Bark ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Mihne Cavern Recommended Level: 69 Description: 150,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: None Strategy: Having Chistato in your party will help you out greatly. If you have Ernest, you should put him in the party as well. Set Ernest with the Killer Move Broken Heart (final change) and Chisato with Tear Gas (duh). You can put Claude in battle if you want, but you only need Chisato, Ernest, Rena, and anyone else. Ernest will stall Bark automatically (depending on what Strategy you set; if you set him to "Protect Friends!" he will try to protect Chisato by attacking Bark). This gives you time (controlling Chisato) to set up Bark for the Tear Gas ToD. And that's all. _____________________________ - Marsilio (2nd Meeting) ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Fighting Arena in Fun City Recommended Level: 73 Description: 150,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: Earth, Fire, Lightning, Dark Strategy: Have Chisato in the party again, as well as Rena, another fighter (Ernest with Broken Heart or Ashton with any multi-hitting Killer Moves), and anyone else. Chisato with Tear Gas...the other fighter(s) will attack Marsilio automatically and this gives you time to do the Tear Gas ToD. And it's smooth sailing from there. _____________________________ - Shigeo ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Outside of Fighting Arena in Fun City Recommended Level: 77 Description: 160,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: None Strategy: Same as Above. _____________________________ - Berle (2nd Meeting) ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Outside of Mirage's House in Armlock Recommended Level: 81 Description: 170,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: Everything Strategy: Berle can cast Meta-cancellation, which makes him invulnerable for a certain amount of time. Just wait for the barrier to disappear (the other fighter(s) will keep on attacking, let them, they'll get an early start on Berle once his barrier is gone). Once the barrier is gone, go on to do Chisato's Tear Gas ToD. Berle won't be able to do anything, so he will be killed eventually. _____________________________ - Ruprecht, Jibril, & Nicolus ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Entrance of Fienal Recommended Level: 85 Description: Ruprecht: 105,800 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: None Jibril: 85,200 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: None Nicolus: 45,500 HP Weaknesses: Earth, Fire, Lightning, Dark Resistance: None Strategy: This is a pretty tough battle, but only because there are three guys to fight against...so, Ruprecht teleports at the beginning of the battle and does some kind of multi-hitting attack. You can withstand it, but just barely. So, with Chisato, at the start of the battle, run up or down (depending on her position) so she can get away from the attack as soon as possible and go behind Ruprecht (where he teleports to) and attack him with Tear Gas or anything else before he finishes the attack. Then, whoever your other fighter(s) is/are, they'll be near Ruprecht so they'll attack him, giving you time to do Tear Gas. But be warned, the other fighter(s) will probably be in front of Ruprect and you behind or vice versa, so if the other fighter(s) hit Ruprect into Chisato, she will have to defend herself (even though it does no damage, it's just how it is), so you might waste some MP. To avoid that, run to the side with the other fighter(s) as soon as they start attacking Ruprect and he is stalled enough then keep on doing Tear Gas until he dies. Then, go after Jibril. Keep on doing Tear Gas. The last guy is Nicolus. He is the weakest Sage ever! So you won't have a problem against him. Just keep on attacking him. It's over. _____________________________ - Vesper & Decus ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Fifth Floor of Fienal Recommended Level: 89 Description: Vesper: 160,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: None Decus: 180,000 HP Weaknesses: Water Resistance: Everything Else Strategy: Using Chisato, just go after the Sage the other fighter(s) is/are going after. From then on, just keep doing Tear Gas. After that Sage is killed, go after the next one and keep on doing Tear Gas. See? That wasn't so hard, was it? _____________________________ - Cyril ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: Seventh Floor of Fienal Recommended Level: 93 Description: 300,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: Earth, Water, Wind, Lightning, Star, Fu, Light, Dark, Mu Strategy: Cyril casts a Hurricane, a wind-based spell that does over 2000 damage to almost everyone. To prevent that with a magic user, just have that magic user equip Rune Shoes. If you only have one, then only have Rena in the fighting party. But because of this, Rena will be slow. _____________________________ - Indalecio (Limiter On) ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: The Top of Fienal Recommended Level: 97+ Description: 500,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: None Strategy: This guy is actually pretty hard, but not the hardest ever. You should have Chisato, Claude, Rena, and anyone else in battle. Have Claude with Mirror Slice and Twin Slash, Chisato with Tear Gas and Rising Dragon, and Rena, well, doesn't matter what she has. Indalecio can cast some pretty powerful spells, and many of then can kill you he casts it successfully. Indalecio is invincible while he is casting magic. You can use an attack item while he is casting magic and he will be hit. This gives you time to setup for Indalecio's death. Rena, of course, is the healer, while Claude and Chisato are the fighters. Claude will either do Twin Slash or Mirror Slice, which gives Chisato (you're controlling her, right?) time to set up for the Tear Gas ToD. If you keep on doing Tear Gas while Claude does whatever he does, you probably won't hear/see Indalecio fuse with Filia (which makes him stronger/faster). Indalecio won't be much of a threat because he's trapped against a wall. Restore MP when necessary, then keep on doing what you were doing. Indalecio has a lot of HP, so it'll take a while for him to die. But he will eventually. CONGRATULATIONS, YOU JUST BEAT THE FINAL BOSS! NOW YOU GET TO SEE THE PAIRINGS (OR NO-PAIRINGS) OF CHARACTERS! _____________________________ - Indalecio (Limiter Off) ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Meeting Place: The Top of Fienal Recommended Level: 200+ Description: 1,500,000 HP Weaknesses: None Resistance: None Strategy: Use the above strategy, but be warned, setting him up is even difficulter. His spells will usually do 9999 damage to all enemies unless your level is over 200, but even then, you will barely survive. So, you just have to stop him early on. You will probably use up many of your items, but not all of them. When any character is low on MP or HP, restore it as soon as possible so you can stay in the fight. If you make a few mistakes, you will most likely die soon afterwards. Don't try to mess up and keep Indalecio against the wall at all times and you'll be fine. ________________________________________________________________________ Part 4: Frequently Asked Question ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ None as of yet. ________________________________________________________________________ Part 5: My Comments and Stuff ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ First of all, I'd like to say this: if you have any corrections for me, such as the Weaknesses and Resistance, and Boss names, then e-mail me at and correct me. This is because most of the stuff is from the Japanese version, and I tried to put all of the US names and stuff replacing the Japanese stuff. ________________________________________________________________________ Part 6: Special Thanks ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Ian Kelley (ikelley@sas.upenn.edu): Allowing me to use the boss information (HP/Descriptions) from both of his excellent SO2 Walkthroughs; tip from his wallkthroughs to stop Gabriel (Indalecio) from casting magic Duhh... (fxmacleod@aol.com): Told me the strategies to beating Nightmare and Xine since I didn't get Ashton but he did tri-Ace: Creating this game Enix: Producing this game Links: Making most of the FMVs in the game SCEA: Publishing the game My Most-Previous FAQ: Got most of the layout from either of them ________________________________________________________________________ Part 7: Author Information ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Name: Dan GC E-mail: LB Dan GC@aol.com Web page: None Under Construction ICQ: None "You're funny. But keep it up and you'll just piss me off." ~ Xenogears' Fei Don't plagiarize! It's bad! And always give credit where it is due! ________________________________________________________________________ This Document Copyright (c) 1999 Dan GC ________________________________________________________________________ END