-- Rhapsodia -- -- FAQ/Walkthrough -- -- By Ken "Kouli/Ice" Zhao (kenzhao99@yahoo.com) -- -- Version 0.4 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This FAQ/Walkthrough is based on the Japanese version of Rhapsodia that is released on September 22nd, 2005. The game is made and published by Konami. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \September 22nd, 2005/ - Version 0.1, beginning to write the full walkthrough \September 23rd~25th, 2005/ - Version 0.2, continue on the walkthrough \September 26th~28th, 2005/ - Version 0.3, further on the walkthrough \September 29th, 2005/ - Version 0.4, done the walkthrough ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walkthrough-------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upon selecting New Game, the game will ask you to load the Gensou Suikoden IV data or not. For me, I load in a Clear Data that's got 108 Stars. Supposedly, with a data that's got 108 Stars, you will be able to get Hero 4 and Snowe to join later. Whether that data is a Clear Data or not doesn't matter, BTW. Also, lines in some events will also change. Anyway, the game will then have you to adjust various settings. ~Razril, Back Street Winning Condition: Defeat 1 Fusafusa/Tufty Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units View the Basic Rule if you wish. After, move Local Boy(Young Hero 4) and that Aristocrat Boy(Young Snowe) toward 1 Fusafusa. You should be able to kill off one easily. Once you do so, that ends this battle. ~Razril, Back Street Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units View the Rune&Surface Attribute if you wish. This time around, there are lots of enemies here. However, you also got Walter, Kyril, Andarc and Seneca for this battle, along with Hero 4 and Snowe. There are Wind based and Earth based Fusafusa, as well as a Wind Based Wind Element. Keep it in mind that Hero 4 and Seneca are both Wind based, so get them to that Wind Surface. While you are there, take out Wind Element. Clear the enemies to the left first, then toward the ones to the right. This should be pretty easy. If you have Hero 4 and Snowe attack enemies, Walter will make some comments. Once you clear out the enemies, that ends the battle. Few years later...... The game will brifely talk about Caravan and Skill. Rest or Enter Middleport, then the game will talk about Town. ~Middleport Select Rumor and speak with all 3 people. After, get ready and exit out to the World Map. ~Middleport Sea Winning Condition: Defeat Sigurd Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Hervey will join you in this battle. This time, the game will promt you to view Affection Level&Unite Attack. First, break the two boxes that are near Hervey. Upon Seneca's turn, the game will talk about Conversation. So, get near Andarc and you should be able to talk to him with Seneca. Doing so, you will get the Unite Attack, Attendant Attack. If you have them near and have one to talk to the other one, you can raise their Affection Level. Next, send someone to check out the Item Box to the lower left. The rest is just make your way to Sigurd then beat him. You don't have to kill the other enemies, but do it anyway for the exp. Enemies, including Sigurd tend to turn the Surface to Water Attribute, so keep that in mind. Kyril and Hervey should avoid those Water Surface. Sigurd can be pretty heavy with his physical attack, so beware of that. Before you take him out, besure to check that Item Box at upper right. Once you are ready, enter the Pirate Island. ~Nightly Sea Winning Condition: Ally unit gets near the Rune Cannon Losing Condition: Withdrawal of Walter The game will promt you on Support Action. Anyway, you have Kyril, Walter, Andarc, Pec, Brandeau and Edgar. Brandeau and Edgar should just advance and clear the enemies since those two are rather powerful. Either way, this should be easy to get to the Rune Cannon. ~Nightly Sea Winning Condition: Defeat Steel or annihilation of enemy units except Steel Losing Condition: Withdrawal of Kyril or Pec, annihilation of ally units Well, check out Steel. He actually has the Punishment Rune. Anyway, you only can control Andarc, Brandeau and Edgar here. Kyril and Pec will act up BackUp. This can be a pretty hard battle if you go toward Steel, considering the amount of damage the Punishment Rune can do to you, his counterattack and defense. So, forget it. We will finish off every other side enemies then. Keep it in mind that Brandeau and Edgar can mostly support each other if they are near. This can in handy from time to time. Don't get near that Steel, unless you want to get hit by the Punishment Rune(Steel can only use it once, however). If you wanna have an easy time here, you gonna have to use Surface Attribute here. For this case, Fire. If you set up some Fire Surface, you will have an easy time with the side enemies. Keep it in mind that Brandeau should avoid the Fire. As you should have noticed already, Kyril does nothing here. So, you will have to protect him. Soon, a Fishling will show up to the left. Then just move your force around Kyril. As said before, if you can set up lots of Fire Surface here, you should clear this battle with ease. Anyway, enter Razril. ~Razril Once you are ready, head to the Back Street. ~Razril, Back Street Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units You only got Andarc and Kyril, but that should be enough. There is a reason why there are a Thunder Element and Fire Element here. That, of course, have Kyril to stand on the Fire Surface and do the same with the Thunder Surface for that Andarc. There is also an Item Box near Andarc, so don't forget about that. After you finish off most of the enemies, few more will come. Nothing difficult about this, as long as you have Kyril stays on Fire Surface and Andarc stay on the Thunder Surface. There can also be a conversation between them, to raise the Affection Level. So don't miss that. ~Razril Once you are ready, exit out to the World Map. Move to Middleport. ~Middleport Lalacle will reward you with 300 potch. ~Middleport You should check out the Quest Guild. You should just be able to take the silly Jintori Game one. To get to Rita, head to Razril and she is within the Rumor option. ~Razril, Back Street (Rita's Jintori Game) Winning Condition: After 5 turns, Fire Surface Attribute is more than Thunder's Losing Condition: Attacking Rita Just you against Rita. There are 2 Thunder Element and 2 Fire Element. Don't bother with them though, cuz they have 999 HP. At this point, it will depends on the item, Fire Formation Sphere. I spend around 5 of them. Ok, overriding Thunder Surface should be prior to creating new Fire Surface. And with a bit of luck, you should beat Rita. Once you beat her, she will join. Return back to Middleport. ~Middleport Report back to the Quest Guild. There should be 4 more new ones. Forget about them for now. Continue on, head to Underground Shortcut. ~Middleport Underground Shortcut Winning Condition: Ally unit arrives to the destination Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Starting up with lots of enemies around and your destination is the NE corner. As you can see, there are one Item Box to the right and another one at upper left. You can have 4 characters here, so besure to put in Rita if she joined already. To raise some Affection Levels, have a conversation between Kyril and Andarc, as well as between Kyril and Seneca. Lastly, one more between Kyril, Seneca and Andarc. This will let you learn the Unite Attack, The Will Successors' Attack. After you clear some enemies, more will come. Just slowly clear them out and make good use of Surface Attribute. ~Middleport Once you are ready, back to the Underground Shortcut. ~Underground Shortcut, Secret Passage Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Lots of enemies here as well. There are one Item Box to south and another one at north. There is a Fire Element here that will make Fire Surface, so Kyril can make good use of that. Upon opening each Item Box, there will be one more enemy showing up. ~Middleport When you are ready, back to the Underground Shortcut. ~Middleport Once you are ready, exit out to the World Map. Head to Pirate Island. ~Pirate Island Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Withdrawal of Kika or Nalleo Dario will join in this fight. To the left side of the field, there are Kika and Nalleo. Don't worry though, there is a Wind Element near them. Use the Wind Surface to help out Kika and Nalleo. To the north, there is an Item Box. For some raise of Affection Level, have a conversation between Kika and Nalleo, as well as between Kika and Dario. Now, start up to have your characters move up to clear enemies. Try to send one or two to support Kika and Nalleo. After you clear out few, more will come. Clear them off to end the battle. Back on the World Map, move to the Obel Kingdom and enter. ~Obel Kingdom Akaghi, Mizuki and Kika will join. ~Obel Kingdom Once you are ready, exit out to the World Map. Both Flare and Trishtan will join. Anyway, before you move on. You can get 3 more allies. ~Middleport Go to the Quest Guild and there should be few new ones. Take the deliver letter and treasure hunting ones. Then, check Rumor and speak with Pablo. Pablo will then join the party. After, exit out to the World Map. You can get to Deserted Island and Hut Island now. ~Deserted Island Once you are ready, head to the Beach. Winning Condition: Gather 3 Best Gold Ore Losing Condition: Withdrawal of Rene Ok, just few monsters around. Take out that Thunder Element and spread your own Surface Attribtue. For some raise of Affection Level, have a conversation between Rita and Rene. As for Rene, your goal here is to spot 3 Best Gold Ore while using her to dig them out. The 3 locations might be random, but, here is what I got: 1/ The initial right enemy(Speckles Frog), the close NE square from it 2/ From Kyril's default position in this battle, the close NE square 3/ The northern(a bit toward west) enemy(Speckles Frog), near its left Just have Rene to move around and if she's close, you would know which place to dig. Beware that after you clear some enemies, there will be 2 more to come. If you don't want the exp, just get close to the 3 locations I mentioned above and have Rene to dig. If you stick around, there will be more enemies to come. Once you got all 3 Best Gold Ore, that ends the battle. Afterward, Rene joins the party. Now, head to the Hut Island. Maxine will join your party. Don't forget to go back to the Quest Guild and report on the 2 quests you just did. Once you are ready, move on to the Fort El Eal Ruins. ~Fort El Eal Ruins Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Talk about the loads of Kooluk Soldiers here, >_>. Aside from that, there is just one Item Box to the north. For some raise of Affection Level, have a conversation between Mizuki & Akaghi, Seneca & Flare, as well as Seneca & Andarc. Mizuki and Akaghi can also learn a Unite Attack, Ninja Attack. Aside from the large amount of enemies, this isn't a hard battle. Take your time and slowly take them out. Keep it in mind that you just passed through El Eal(that means you are within the Kooluk Empire), but you do have the option to return to the Island Nations. Also, both Mizuki and Akaghi are out of the party for now. If you head to Na Nal Island(in a Water Day?), within the Rurmor option, you can get Eugene to join you. Go back to Pirate Island(in a Fire/Water Day?) and you would be able to get both Sigurd and Hervey. Anyway, to advance, move to Columbal Ruins within the Kooluk Empire. ~Columbal Ruins Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Just enemies around the field, and some Water Surface. Since there are Water Surface, might as well take advantange of that. For the Item Box, get the long range character to get it, or just use magic to hit it. If you got Sigurd and Hervey, have them to have a conversation. They will learn their Unite Attack, Pirate Attack. After, you can Exterminate Monsters at the Columbal Ruins. Do so if you want to get some levels up. ~Port City, Mercet Select the Rumor option and speak with the 3 people. After, you should be able to select and head to the Harbor. Winning Condition: Defeat the merchant Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units You can have up to 6 characters, but divided into 2 groups. Your strongest ones should be at the lower part. Also, get someone like Seneca to get the near Item Box at the lower part. The focus is the lower part. Make your way toward the merchant. While you are at it, spread out Wind Surface. Before you can get to the merchant, there will be more enemies showing up near the merchant. Continue with the Wind Surface and try to attack that merchant. Afterward, you will get a Tsunouma(Horned Horse). Exit out to the World Map. Head back into Fort El Eal Ruins. ~Fort El Eal Ruins Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Ok, most enemies are to the right with few more at north. Character like Seneca could just easily get that near north Item Box. Characters like Hervey and Sigurd, either of them can ride a Tsunouma. The Blue Fishlings here have Water Rune, so besure to take them out first. Soon, both Mizuki and Akaghi will come. One of them can get the other Item Box. Jeremy, Millay, Carrie, Axel, Ameria, Wendel and Gretchen will join the party. Also, Akaghi and Mizuki are now back to the party. ---> Getting Hero 4 & Snowe <--- (Probably need to load Gensou Suikoden IV data that's got 108 Stars) Back to Obel Kingdom. In the Rumor option, you would be able to speak with the Obel King(Lino En Kuldes). After, go to the Deserted Island. ~Deserted Island Once you are ready, head to the Beach. Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Withdrawl of Hero 4, annihilation of ally units Just 4 of you, along with Hero 4, against Water Element and Huge Crab. Also, keep it in mind that you have a new option, Transfer. That will allow you to switch to another ally. Hero 4 is AI controlled in this battle, so besure to send some over to suport him. Try to have Fire based characters then spread Fire Surface around. After you kill the first set of enemies, 4 more will come. 2 of them are the Huge Crabs again. Once you clear this battle, Hero 4 joins the party. Now go to Razril. ~Razril Select Rumor and speak with the 3 people. After, you can go to the Back Street. ~Razril, Back Street Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units About 8 Fusafusa to the left, Water Element to the right, as well as Snowe face another fusafusa. Snowe is AI controlled in this battle, so send one to support him. The rest of your units should focus on the left enemies. Take out that Water Element first if you wish. For some raise of Affection Levels and interesting comments, have conversations between Kyril and Hero 4, as well as Kika and Hero 4. Afterward, Snowe will join the party. Now, back to the Kooluk Empire. Head to Columbal Ruins. ~Columbal Ruins Winning Condition: Defeat Martin Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Few enemies to south and most other ones at the left. Martin is among those to the left. This is not it though. As you clear enemies, more will come. It's better you just march all your units toward Martin. There is also an Item Box at lower left. Besure to get it. To raise some Affection Levels, have a conversation between Millay and Jeremy, Millay and Rita, as well as Millay and Flare. If you got Hero 4, him and Flare can also have a conversation. Next, have Hero 4 to talk with Kika, and you will get their Unite Attack, Twin Swords Attack. If you have Hero 4 to speak with Kyril, you will get their Unite Attack, W Leader Attack. As your units get near Martin, he will likely move towward you. Then just gang up on him with your units. Head into Mercet to get Gary and Emma to join the party. After, head to the Karelron Research Institute. ~Karelron Research Institute Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Lots of the Surface are Thunder attribute, plus lots of enemies here are Water based. You might try to have your allies mostly be Thunder based. Corselia here is fixed to join in, so keep that in mind. To the right, there is an Item Box. If you haven't done it previously, Hero 4 can talk with Snowe to raise some Affection Level. Clear few enemies and more will show up to the right of where you started. Continue to clear more enemies and few more to come at east. After, Corselia joins the party. Winning Condition: Defeat Roge Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Just enemies around you and your goal is only Roge who is at NW. If you want to get the Item Box, it's located at NE corner. You should just get allies with Unite Attack and high offense. To raise some Affection Levels, have conversations between Seneca & Corselia, Rita & Corselia, Millay & Corselia, Andarc & Corselia and Corselia & Kyril. Then with Kyril and Corselia again for their Unite Attack, Ice Crush Attack. Between Hero 4 & Snowe, there is also their Unite Attack, True Friendship Attack. The rest is just make your way to Roge. Don't worry much with the enemies from the south. Roge himself is easy, the only thing to watch out is his sleep spell from his Wind Rune. If you have few strong units, you can take care off the enemies near him with ease. There are also two Fishlings that will always show up at the back, just kill one and ignore the other. Before you move on, head back to Pirate Island(in a Wind/Earth Day?). Dario and Nalleo will join the party. Go to the Quest Guild. Take the quest about some criminal that ate and ran without paying. Head to Mercet. ~Mercet Head to the Harbor. Winning Condition: Attacking Cedric Losing Condition: Cedric arrives to the destination or death of Cedric Nothing hard about it, just tricky. Have Kyril to wait for the ships to come. When they line up, you can just across to the other side easily. Break the 3 boxes then you would definitely arrive to the destination before Cedric does. When you got Kyril to occupy the destination, the other member can get to that Cedric and attack him. After, both Rachel and Cedric will join. Back in Mercet, speak with the people within the Rumor option. After, exit out and you can now go to Terraner Plain. ~Terraner Plain Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Just loads of enemies with a Wind Element. They divide into groups mostly and one group share one element. You can just set an elemental surface from one to another, to clear the groups one by one. Between Flare and Corselia, have a conversation to get their Unite Attack, The Princess Attack. Later on, have a talk between Seneca and Andrac, to raise the Affection Level. After you clear most of them, 4 more will come. The only problems here are just those mercenaries. Afterward, Coupe and Hines join the party. However, Hines isn't a playable character. ~Terraner Plain Exit out to the World Map. If you have the Light Sphere, you will be taken into another battle. If you don't have it, go to the Quest Guild. Take the Friend of Heart one. Now go to buy some Salt if you haven't got that. Go to Obel and speak with someone within the Rumor. You would get the Soap. Now, go to Razril, speak with another person within the Rumor and you would get the Black Pearl. Basically, just talk with people within the Rumor at towns. You would get the Light Sphere in the end. Winning Condition: Obtain the Rose Brooch and annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Few monsters to the right and mostly at north, with an Item Box. If you haven't done it already, have a talk between Nalleo and Dario, they will get their Unite Attack, Pirate Family Attack. Have them talk again to increase their Affection Level. Between Kika and Dario as well, to increase their Affection Level. The same goes to Hervey & Dario, Sigurd & Dario, Hervey & Nalleo, Sigurd & Nalleo. For this battle, Charlemagne will be AI controlled and try to have someone to support him. Most of the enemies to north are Fire, so spread around Water Surface to help yourself out. The Item Box is obviously the Rose Brooch, and ignore the right enemies. Your focus is the enemies to north. Now, have as many Water attribute characters as you can. Spread around Water Surface, might as well using the Flowing Formation spell from the Flowing Sword Rune if you got any of those. After the battle, head back to Middleport. Enter the Inn. Both Reinbach and Charlemagne will join. ~Mercet Now, go to Mercet. Within the Rumor option, speak with Reinhold. Then head to the Terraner Plain. Winning Condition: Defeat Mitsuba Losing Condition: Withdrawal of Kyril Just one on one, should be pretty easy. Just watch out for Kyril's HP. Move frequently and don't let Mitsuba attack you from the back. When you can, attack Mitsuba from the back. I just get to one end of the map, set up Fire Surface and let her to come. Afterward, Mitsuba will join. Go back to Mercet and speak with Reinhold within the Rumor. He will join as well. ~Mercet Within Mercet, head to Rumor option. Speak with the oldman. Then you can go to the Harbor again. Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Just 6 of you, along with Champo, Nalkul and Noah. Those 3 are AI controlled, BTW. If you haven't done it yet, Reinbach and Charlemagne can have a talk. Same with Mitsuba and Reinhold, Andarc and Coupe. Shouldn't be too hard here. Enemies are spread around, you can just make your way to those 3. In fact, Champo, Nalkul and Noah should be able to take care of themselves, for a while. If you want to get around, there are always the ships. Afterward, Champo, Nalkul and Noah will join you. ~Middleport Go to the Quest Guild. Take the one that have you to get some herb and the one that's the second part of the fake knight group. The latter needs you to be at Rank C. So if you are below that, just do some other quests til your Rank goes up to C. Now, go to Fort El Eal Ruins. ~Fort El Eal Ruins Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Withdrawal of Katarina or Keneth, annihilation of ally units Keneth and Katarina are AI controlled, also surrounded by enemies. So, besure to get to them ASAP. After you clear few, there will be more to come at east. Besure to have some units prepare for them. For the 2 enemies to north, I have Hero 4 to use his Punishment Rune's Level 2 Spell(Two Edged Sword) along with Katarina and her Fire Rune. Afterward, Keneth and Katarina will join. Now, with Keneth in the party, head to Razril. ~Razril Check the Rumor and speak with Tal. Tal will join as well. Now to the Kooluk Empire. You should be able to get to Zasta Plain. At Terraner Plain and Zasta Plain, you can encounter enemy named as Kazrah. They can drop the Kazrah Root you need. I got mine from the Zasta Plain. You need 3 of them, BTW. Once you got 3 Kazrah Root, head to Obel Kingdom. ~Obel Kingdom Go to Rumor option and speak with Yu to get him to join. ~Middleport If you have done enough Quests, you will be at Rank B. At Rank B, you can take a quest about some children didn't return. Now, go to Columbal Ruins. ~Columbal Ruins Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units 8 of you, some children and the AI controlled Karl. Make sure you have Kyril to speak with Karl. Shouldn't be too hard of a battle if you use the Water Surface well. After you clear few, few more will come at lower right. Once you talk with Karl, he will join. He will also be controllable by you. Afterward, time to move on. Head to Haruna within the Kooluk Empire. ~Haruna Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Withdrawal of Simeon, annihilation of ally units Just various Kooluk Soldiers, an Item Box to upper left and Simeon is at lower right. Quickily send someone to help out Simeon. If you got anyone riding on a Tsunouma, you should be able to get to Simeon pretty quick. After you clear few, lots of more will time. This battle will take some time. If you can't reach to Simeon quick enough, then attack those guards with long range spells. If you want to support Simeon, have Corselia to use her Water Rune to heal Simeon. For some raise of Affection Level, have a talk between Seneca and Kyril, as well as between Seneca and Flare. After, Simeon joins the party. Exit out and head to Small Village Of The State Border. ~Small Village Of The State Border Frederica will join the party. Winning Condition: Destroy all Rune Cannons Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Few enemies to the right and most other ones are north. There are about five Rune Cannons here, 2 Items Boxes at east and northeast. Don't focus on the soldiers, but rather than the Rune Cannons. Those can hit you from far away. Must get close and destroy them ASAP or this will be a hard battle. Also, don't forget those shields on the field. After few turns, Paula(riding a Red Iwadori), Jewel(riding a White Iwadori- Armor) and Selma will show up and join you. Let Jewel and Paula to take care off the lower two Rune Cannons. For some raise of Affection Level, besure to have a talk between Jewel and Paula. As you clear some soldiers, more and more backups will come. Some are even riding Iwadori. Exit out and head to Haruna. ~Haruna Head to the Street Corner. Pick the first option to pursue after Kate. Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Withdrawal of Kate, annihilation of ally units Enemies spread out at various locations, but most importantly, Kate is at the south part. Send some people to her ASAP. This is sort of similar to the battle with Simeon from before. After, pick the first option and Kate will join. ~Middleport Back to the Quest Guild. Once you have done enough quests your Rank will be at A. Take the five colored pyroxenes one. You need to gather these Fire, Water, Wind, Earth and Thunder Spirit Fragments. One fragment for each element, thus 5 in total. They are randomly dropped by elemental enemies. For Water Element, you can get them at Columbal Ruins. As for Wind Element and Earth Element, you can locate them at Zasta Plain and Terraner Plain. As for the Thunder Element and Fire Element, you can try the Obel Ruins. Within the Obel Ruins, aside from those elements, there are also spirits and they can drop fragments as well. If you don't want to defeat them and wait for them to drop one, have Noa to steal from them instead. Once you got the 5 fragments, head to Haruna. ~Haruna Head to the Bar and Jeane will join if you pick the first option. Time to move on. Head to the Kooluk Empire and go to the Midoh Shoal. ~Midoh Shoal Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units, except Martin Losing Condition: Withdrawal of Kyril or Corselia Most parts of this map is Water Surface, besure to have characters that are Water based. Enemies also tend to change the Surface Attribute a bit, just be sure to change them back to Water. After you clear few, more will come. For some raise of Affection Level, have a talk between Andarc and Kyril. Clear few more and the final few will show up. Just don't touch Martin. After, Kyril against Martin, one on one. Winning Condition: Defeat Martin Losing Condition: Withdrawal of Kyril Depends on how well Kyril's skills are, especially with skills like Move Again, Counterattack. Attack, or move away to heal when you need to. Just beware the Water Surface. There is a little spot from where Kyril starts, it doesn't have Water, so use that as your rest spot. Martin is also Fire, so he gets damage from being on Water Surface. You can always move toward him, attack, then if you got the Move Again skill, you can then head back to the rest spot. If he changes the Surface to Fire, it doesn't matter since that heals you as well. Back on the World Map, head to Gruska. Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Characters spread out on this map. Kyril and Corselia are supported by Busk and Ornella. To the right, there are few Senior Faction soldiers, then your other allies. To the south of your allies, there are more enemies. On the left part of the map, left of Kyril, there is the gate. Beyond that, there are more enemies. Most importantly, Roge. MAKE SURE you have Kyril to speak with Roge IF you want to get Roge to join your party. Continue to clear enemies and break down the gate. Lino En Kuldes will show up along with two Obel soldiers. Soon, more enemies will come after you clear more enemies. If you have Hero 4 here, Lino and him can have a talk to raise Affection. Before you want to tackle all the enemies to the left, you might want to wait for your other allies to catch up with Kyril. Further clear more enemies, then the last few will come. This battle will take some time considering the amount of enemies. Afterward, Ornella, Busk and Lino will join, as well as another Tsunouma-Armor. Kyril also regain all his strength. That means he can use Level 3 spells again. Remember that all powerful "Hien Tenchi Zan"(Flying Swallow Heaven&Earth Slash) of his Swallow Rune, with the young Kyril? Now, he can use that again! Enter Gruska. Once you are ready, to the Palace. ~Gruska Palace Winning Condition: Defeat the EyeFish and destroy the Rune Cannons Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Most enemies here are Water based, thus make your party Thunder and spread around Thunder Surface. Your goal here is that EyeFish at the center, then the two Rune Cannons. There is also an Item Box at north. You can also have Kyril and Andarc to talk, to raise some Affection. Also, have some magic users, especially ones that have runes with area attack spells. If you got ones good with Thunder, that's even better. Just besure to keep changing the Surface to Thunder. Don't get many to take out that EyeFish, just your strong ones. It has a wide area attack, so it's wise to not have that many people or have them closed to one spot. Once you take out the EyeFish, more enemies will come. Grab that Item Box, then use magic to get those Rune Cannons. Once you are ready, enter back to Gruska. Winning Condition: Annihilation of enemy units Losing Condition: Annihilation of ally units Two Item Boxes near you and loads of enemies to the right. For me, I have five attackers at the front and the back 5 are all with good runes: Hero 4 with his Punishment Rune, Jeane with Thunder Rune, Roge with Cyclone Rune, Pablo with Mother Earth Rune and Simeon with Flowing Rune. For some raise of Affections, have talks between Lino and Flare, Roge and Simeon, Roge and Andarc, Millay and Rita, Roge and Jeane, Pablo and Simeon. After you clear few enemies, few more enemies will show up. Continue to clear more then some will show up at your left, so beware of that. With some good offensive spells, this battle can be done rather quickily. Now, do remember this is it. If you move on, you'll enter 3 consecutive battles and end the game in the end. If you want to do other things, do them now. ~Middleport If you go back to the Quest Guild, you can take the letter of challenge one if your rank is S and you have done enough quests. Clear that quest, Mercenary Captain, Red Mercenary, Blue Mercenary and Yellow Mercenary will join your party. Back on the World Map and head to the Senior Faction's Secret Facility. ~Senior Faction's Secret Facility Winning Condition: Defeat Iscus Losing Condition: Withdrawal of Kyril Enemies are spread out and on different heights. Having the Jump skill isn't too bad here. My party is the same ones from the previous battle. There are 2 Item Boxes to the east and west, make sure you get them. The goal here is defeat Iscus which is all the way to north. So you do need to defeat the loads of enemies in between. Further, the 4 Rune Cannons should be your priority. Use characters with long range weapon or just use magic. For some raise of Affection, have a talk between Kyril and Corselia, Flare and Corselia. Also, if you haven't done it yet, Flare and Lino for their Unite Attack, Family Attack. After you clear some enemies, more will come. Do notice that Rune Cannon to the north. It changes the Surface Attribute to various elements, besure to use that advantage or avoid it. To take out that Iscus, don't use magic nor tech. Just plain physical attacks and that will do it. Iscus will transform into a big Fishling. Winning Condition: Defeat Iscus Losing Condition: Withdrawal of Kyril Just Iscus with loads of Fishling enemies. Lots of enemies, including Iscus, are Thunder based, so try to have as many Earth based characters as possible. Then you can spread out as many Earth Surface as possible. Most importantly, spread some Earth Surface around Iscus. For me, I just have Kyril to go up to him after that. Kyril's "Hien Tenchi Zan"(Flying Swallow Heaven&Earth Slash) can do decent damage on it. (FINAL BATTLE) ~Interior Of The Dome Winning Condition: Evil Eye Losing Condition: Withdrawal of Kyril This is it, the final battle of the game. It's just Kyril against the Evil Eye here. Spread around Fire Surface, get yourself on Fire Surface then use your Swallow Rune. "Hien Tenchi Zan"(Flying Swallow Heaven&Earth Slash) is yet again a useful move to use here and try to unleash it behind Evil Eye. That's about it. Once you beat it, you have completed the game. Sit back and enjoy the ending. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At the end of the game, the game will promt you to make a save. Do so and might as well have it at a different slot. Load that Clear Data and you will begin the game from the start. However, you get to keep the Potch/Money, Skills&Skill Levels, Items/Equipment, Affection Levels and Quest Guild's History. Items and Equipment that you equipped also get to be passed on. You also get the Event Skip option by pressing Start. Stuff like Character Levels, Weapon Levels, Skill Points, Equipped Runes and Unite Attacks, they are reset to default. Thus, those don't get passed on. Lastly, Lalacle will join your party in Chapter 4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Me - CJayC - Konami ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document is copyrighted by Ken Zhao/Kouli. All Rights Reserved. It is for private and personal use only. It can not be reprinted, reproduced in parts or in its entirety in any form or shape. Since it is intended to be free, you can not sell it, you can not give it away as prize, bonus or promotion. It can not be used for profitable, commericial or promotional purposes. 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