_______________________________________________________________________________ Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth Remix ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ --Easy experience, end game gears in first chapter, and gold in the millions.-- Small Table of Contents 1.0 Easy Experience 2.0 Easy Devotion and End Game Gears in First Chapter 3.0 Easy Gold in the Millions (not that you'd need that much) ___________ Quick Intro ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Hello there and welcome to this short three part guide. I am Link3895, and I can be found in a lot of places online, if you see a Link3895, 99.99% chance that's me. I'll think of something better for my intro in my DDFF walkthrough. This is a short little guide on three things in Hoshigami, that I'm writing while taking a break from my Dissidia Duodecim walkthrough. As much as I like GameFAQs, it can be a little flimsy what's a "cheat" or not, and depends solely on the person or people that accepts or rejects "cheat" submissions. These would be there under "Secrets" on the "Cheats" tab since they're very FAR from what the game says to do, except they got rejected for apparent spelling/grammar errors and they were "not a cheat". So getting over one million gold in a single battle (and repeatable in other battles) in this game isn't a secret, but getting infinite money in Breath of Fire II in VERY small amounts is, right. Also, since they're now being submitted here in this small guide, they'll be expanded upon and more than just one paragraph each. One final note before moving on, although I did this on the DS version, they should still be possible on the original Playstation version. Unless they changed more than the control interface. ___________________ 1.0 Easy Experience ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ In tactic RPGs, there's always a way to grind easy levels, this game's exp system makes it even easier. Basically, if you attack someone the same level, you'll get exp in the 20s, one level above the attacker and it'll be in the 40s, two or more levels above and it will be a straight 50 (rarely 48 or 49). You don't even need to go to the second floor of the first Tower of Trials to reach level 99. The game tells you that you should level on the enemies of each floor of the Tower, but that's too slow and boring. I find it best to get a character of each deity in on this, or have two or three of the Gote deity, so the easy Devotion and end game gears will go by fast. Best way to go about this is to go through the first floor a couple times so you can easily shrug off what the enemies do, at least on four characters to serve as your front row. Now for the set-up, it's best to use a weapon that uses up very little of the RAP gauge, like a knife or ring. You may also want to have a stock of healing items and/or coins, although coins this early aren't easily used more than once per battle. On any floor of the Tower, you start between two giant candles, put your four higher levels in the row with the candles, and your others in the back row. Most of the time the enemies won't try for the back row. Characters like Leimrey tend to easily get ahead of the rest of the group, so he's good to have in either of the middle spots on the front row. Basically all you'll do is attack your own characters and then use a healing item if they're low on hp. But when attacking you should try to get as low in the red as you can, so you can deal very little damage. You probably won't be doing this all in one trip to the Tower. I mentioned having a couple Gote characters, two is probably best, and make sure they keep attacking and Ema character, it'd be best if you have them wait a little to have the Ema character about 5 or so levels higher. This will be further explained why in the next section. That's really all there is to it, just a couple hits and a heal here and there and your party will easily be hitting the 20s and 30s. _____________________________________________________ 2.0 Easy Devotion and End Game Gears in First Chapter ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Well, now that you've levelled your characters a lot, hopefully into the 30s at least, or you might be taking a look about the Ema and Gote characters during the exp grind. Now the way Devotion is best gained is if you attack backwards in the order shown in the Options Menu. If you go there, go to Game Information, then Elemental spirit, and then Religion. You'll see that the deities are in a circle with arrows going around: > Gote > Amu > Ema Zeneth < Sonova < Kashis < To get best devotion, you need to attack backwards along those arrows, so: < Gote < Amu < Ema Zeneth > Sonova > Kashis > But devotion is also gained like exp, if the attacker is a lower level, they will get far higher devotion than attacking someone the same level. It's been a while since I played Hoshigami, but it's about five or higher that they'll get 50 devotion, the closer they get in level, the smaller it'll start to be. Now the reason it's good to have some Gote characters in that first part of level grinding, is so you can get this part done on them for the Gote gears. The "end game gears" this section will talk about are those deity gears that give such high stats. The Gote morning star and armor specifically give the highest amount of accuracy. So having at least one of each before this part can make this easier. Now then, with a bunch of characters in the 20s or 30s, hopefully one of each deity, hire up some new ones. Since they'll have bad accuracy at level 1 when attacking someone 30 levels higher, the Gote gears come in handy here. So as I explained above about the devotion, have them attack your higher level characters backwards along the diagram, Amu attack Gote, Gote attack Ema, etc. If you don't have the Gote gears yet and they have extremely low chance to hit, attack with coins, or attack with another higher level character and then heal with the low level one. When these new characters reach level 16 or 17, they should reach max devotion level of 16, at which point you'll be able to get the deity gears for that deity. You can get those deity gears before going to the Tower of Winds. _____________________________________________________________ 3.0 Easy Gold in the Millions (not that you'd need that much) ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ With all that grinding, you've probably made a hefty amount of gold already, and if you use attack sessions, you can also get quite a bit of money. But there's a way to get easy money in the millions in specific battles. For this, it's best to have someone about level 50 or higher, that goes before Fazz and can move FAR. Elena is a perfect example, at high levels she can nearly move across entire stages and still be able to attack at least once. It's also good to have this character equipped with some high attack stat deity gears, so you can get the battles done in one move and one hit. You'll come across story battles where the objective is to take out the leader of the enemy forces. Depending on the stages, it can be easily done, or a bit hard. For these battles, all you need to do is send in Fazz and your speedy, far moving, power house. My first example is Savah Canal, you start fairly close to the enemy leader, all you have to do is put the character as close to the leader as you can. When the battle starts, move the character over and take out the leader in a single hit, your reward will be more money than you'll know what to do with. There's another battle shortly after that is set up to give you two choices on how to get to the leader. This is the Mount Tesina battle with Jacqueline high up above everyone else, you can go around the long way, or do the same thing as the Savah Canal battle. You'll need to get right up next to her since other weapons won't reach. I did this with Elena and she was able to get right up next to Jacqueline and attack with a knife, in the first turn of the fight. Again, the reward will be far more money than you'll know what to do with. Now, that doesn't mean these two are the only battles you can do it in, there are plenty others too. But that doesn't mean that every battle where the objective is the enemy leader is one you can do it in. There are two other battles with Jacqueline with a giant lake between you and her, I didn't try on this stage in these two battles. But I'd recommend level 99 Elena with a boomerang or bow if you want to try. Well that's about it. Level 99 and the god gears in the first chapter, and gold in the millions on specific story battles with objectives being the enemy leader. Considering how unorthodox these methods are (when the game says to level on enemies for exp and attack session for money), I'd say they're pretty good secrets, most specifically that gold one. As descriptive as I can be, that was still pretty short.