[Music] previously on you can beat video games cesil Harvey was having a rough couple of days he got fired from his job tricked into blowing up a village and just when things seemed to be looking up his ship was attacked by the Leviathan and his friends were devoured by the Beast to make matters worse the kingdom of Baron was now led by a mysterious man in Black named gz using the power of Baron's Air Force the Red Wings goz had acquired three of the world's Elemental crystals and he kidnapped cil's girlfriend Rosa but there is a faint glimmer of hope after trashing gz's fiend of Earth cesil faced his demons and became a paladin at the same time TAA the sage learned the magic of medo the most powerful black magic spell in existence perhaps with this new found power would have a chance against gz but if he gets to the final Crystal first it could be too late so now the race is on can we find the crystal of Earth before gz we'll find out today on UK and beat video games if you're new to the channel we're doing deep Dives on retro video games and giving you the professional strategies that can be used by the Casual Gamer please make sure to subscribe and check out you canbe videogames.com for episode lists news and official you can beat video games merchandise and please join our patreon for access to an exclusive Discord community and a chance to vote on future episodes let's get started all right Final Fantasy 2 part two we have a lot to cover in this episode so we're going to jump right back into the game cile as a paladin has gone back to level one and you can see he has almost no gear so Now's the Time to equip any of that Paladin stuff you may have purchased back in midia and if you don't have all of it like we're missing the armor right now just equip the best item you have if you did manage to pick up some of that Paladin stuff cile will be a serious tank even at level one ta now knows all of the black and white magic spells in the the game including exit and warp but neither of those will work here so we're going to save the game and we'll have to just climb our way out of here this will be a good opportunity for us to level up CLE and here's our first chance to try out his new abilities you may recall that when he was a dark knight he was almost useless against Ghouls and souls but now even at level one he was able to kill a soul in a single attack that's because his Dark Knight weapons were filled with evil darkness which is ineffective against Undead or ghosts but the Paladin specific weapons are all imbued with Holy Light which is quite good against these enemies the zombies are weak against fire but the souls absorb it so if we hit all of the enemies with a big fire attack we'll simply have to pick off the remaining souls and it looks like gained five levels after that first fight let's take a look at his level six status bear in mind that that 22 willpower is not natural it's just because he gets plus three willpower for each piece of Paladin gear that he has equipped but it will make his white magic more powerful just the same these Ghouls and revenants are fairly basic all they do is attack you and they don't do any counterattacks so you're just going to have ceile attack them and have your spellcasters use Fire magic or curing magic against them fire three is probably Overkill but if we want to make sure that these guys go down we can throw that out there but it looks like palum has them taken care of and let's see how many levels we gain this time it looks like cile gained two levels and he learned the ability to Peep Peep keeping doesn't seem like a very Paladin thing to do so maybe we didn't leave all of our Darkness back in that mirror room in any case we're going to head down to the seventh station and continue across the bridge and down the stairs we'll take a left at that stone and head down towards this doorway and it seems that we've been attacked from behind which is the worst possible type of attack it's going to switch our front and back lines so that our spellcasters are in the front line now where they're more vulnerable and our melee attackers are now in the back line where they're unable to deal as much damage we're also surprised so the enemies will get to do one full round of combat before we can act we can use the change command to switch the front and back lines to normal but that does come with a cost it will waste a character's entire turn and it does take a bit of time for the change to go through we'll have ta do it here so he's chosen the change command and we'll wait wait wait and finally the lines have changed now we're going to have cesil attack those Soul enemies even though they're in the backline of the enemy formation because we're going to use Fire magic to clear out the others and that'll do it we were attacked from behind but we still managed to prevail and cile gained two more levels after just three battles cil's already level 10 and has 13 strength 15 agility and 25 willpower very good we'll head through this door and continue our climb down we'll go right past where we met ta earlier and we'll slip out through this door and that's going to bring us to the base station which we just need to make our way to the exit and we can leave this mountain behind but first we have to face two souls and two red bones and we were surprised this time souls and red bones are a bit more complex than zombies and ghouls Souls always start out by using fire magic and if you ever hit a soul with ice magic they're not weak against it but it will stop them from acting so that's something good to know if you ever leave a red bone as The Last Enemy on the battlefield and it gets its turn it will use lightning magic against you so it's good to try to wipe those out all at the same time just like with most of the other enemy formations we're going to use Fire magic on all of the enemies to wipe out the undead and we're going to have cile focus on the soul enemies which will be left after the firing so so one more attack from Cil should do it and let's see if he levels up again oh palum leveled up and porum but not CLE this time let's take a look at the twins porum is our white wizard so willpower is the most important stat here and palum is a black wizard so he's more focused on wisdom both of them are wearing some equipment to increase those values but they will go up naturally on their own and if we can just make it a few more steps yep we have escaped Mount ordeals and now is a great time to save the game and if we head down towards the Chocobo Forest we can make our way back to midia but first we were attacked from behind by this raven whenever we had cesil as a dark knight he could attack and kill Ravens in a single hit using his black sword but now that he's a paladin we'll have to kill them the oldfashioned way we can be a little bit Reckless with our magic here because once we get to the chocoo forest we'll be able to refill it for free by talking to a White Chocobo so we'll just continue heading towards that forest and it's the Raven again well we're just going to speed through this battle you know what to do use your strongest techniques and it looks like cesil gained a level so now he's up to level 11 and let's take a look at his status with 25 willpower he actually has the same amount as porum who's a white wizard so that's very impressive we made it to the Chocobo Forest so now's a great time to use curing magic to heal everybody back to full HP and then we can talk to a white chocoo to get all of our MP restored for free so once everybody has full health we'll talk to this White Chocobo and then we'll talk to a yellow chocoo so we can catch a ride we could head back to midia right now but we could also head up here and go to an area known as the peninsula of power you won't be able to walk past these mountains while riding a chocoo but you can easily walk past them on foot make your way up to this area and here's another Raven we'll just speed through this because we're going to go to an area where we'll be able to fight enemies that are much more powerful than the ones that we would normally be fighting at this level and here's that spot up here just like in the original Final Fantasy the peninsula of power is dangerous so make sure to save the game first and we're just going to walk around in this area and here are some of those enemies we were looking for a panther and three sting Rats the The Sting rats hit hard with their needle technique but it's the panther that you actually need to worry about whenever the panther is the only enemy remaining it will use a technique called Bluster and Bluster can instantly kill one of your characters it's bad news of course Bluster doesn't always work and we just save the game so we can be a little bit more Reckless here the way to get the most out of the peninsula of power is to kill off all of our party members except for ceile so that he'll get all of the experience points and not just 25% of them so we'll Whittle down the enemies and then we'll start turning the attacks against our own team a good blast of lit three will take out any of our party members and now you can see the panther is using that Bluster technique which is definitely something we should worry about if cesil gets killed you're going to want to use a life potion to bring him back and we did not mean to have cesil attack himself that's just kind of how it worked out there and there's the Bluster okay that did our job for us now we can turn our final attack at the Panther and receive 4,460 experience points which is good to gain CLE three more levels after winning any battles on the peninsula of power you're going to want to save the game and I do recommend bringing ta back to life so that he can cast some spells during the next battle but I wouldn't worry about bringing the twins back that's just going to be more work for you to kill them off at the end of each fight so we'll try to make it work with just ceso and ta and because we're saving between each battle if we do get killed it's not that big of a deal we were also lucky enough to find a cure two potion after that last battle but if we were even more lucky the Panthers can drop a cat claw which is a weapon that we can't use right now but we will be very happy to have when we find our next character so be on the lookout for one of those tell's virus spell is a great way to deal with these enemies it costs fewer magic points than tier three Elemental Magic and whenever it hits the enemies not only does it deal a bunch of damage on the front end but it makes them constantly lose hit points after they get hit by it and they lose those hit points rather quickly so you'll notice that that sting rat at the bottom just died because his HP ran out the damage over time of effect that you get from the virus spell is much faster and much better than the poisoning effect that you would get from the Venom spell with only the sting rat left we don't have to worry about getting blustered by the panther enemy so all we need to do now is get rid of ta so that cesil can gain all of the experience points and not just 50% of them sadly T won't be in our party at the end of the game but ceso will be so we want to make sure he gets all of these points and this time he leveled up twice and also learned the spell of cure 2 which is one of the best spells he'll ever learn you can certainly level up quickly here at the peninsula of power and if you want to spend a bit of time here you can build your characters up to such high levels that they will feel Invincible in the next few areas I mostly just wanted to show how it works so I think that's going to be a good enough demonstration and we can bring all of our characters back to life quickly use a tent save the game and then we can start working our way back to midia getting back to midia from here is still quite a hike so the fastest way to get back is to return to the chocoo forest and ride a yellow chocoo back to the Village so so we'll head down here around the mountains and we'll continue to walk south towards the Chocobo Forest we got attacked by enemies again but these are the ones that are normal for our level so they're going to be way easier than what we were just fighting on the peninsula of power and you can see just one tier 2 magic spell is enough to remove all of those guys and we can get on with our lives with those distractions out of the way we'll continue down around the mountains and we just need to head down from here we can try to avoid the forests a bit but we will need to cut through them to get to our ultimate destination and this time we have to face the Raven with three tricks as usual because we're close to the chocoo forest we'll use our most powerful Magics and this time we finally got the comet spell so that one only happens about 25% of the time when you use your twin magic it costs more magic points and it doesn't seem to deal more damage the only real Advantage is that the comet spell can go through wall magic but I don't know why you would ever cast Twin Magic into an enemy wall that's just asking for trouble just like the last time we were here we can use some curing magic to bring everybody back to full health and then we can speak to a white chocoo to restore our magic points after that we just need to talk to a yellow Chocobo about getting a ride back to midia let's get out of here there were a lot of haters back in midia that said I'd never become a paladin I can't wait to see the look on their faces when I come riding into town on the back of a chocobo with the legendary sword in my grasp they are going to be so salty ah myidia you'll never find a more wretched Hive of scum and villainy remember all those fools over at the end let's see what they have to say we still don't want to talk to the dancer she'll turn you into a pig but we can safely talk to the bartender now he won't poison us anymore if you just want to get on with your quest the next thing we need to do is meet with the vill Elder but a lot of people in town have new things to say so we're going to chat with a few of them first another thing we can do here in town is visit the armor shop the last time we were here we didn't have enough money to purchase the Paladin armor but now that Dark Knight CLE is forever lost in the mirror realm we can sell off his old equipment and make a nice profit so we'll get rid of the black sword the black helmet the black armor the the black shield and the black gauntlets we won't need those things anymore with the cash we got from selling all that stuff we can purchase any remaining Paladin gear that we don't have and make sure that you equip it with all of the Paladin items equipped cesil will get a total of plus 12 to his willpower in addition to some very good defensive stats outside the shop we can have a conversation with the white wizard that hid from from us the last time we were here and over on the right side we speak to another white wizard that reminds us to never forget the spirit of the Paladin oddly this white wizard says that she's going to wish for us but what she really means that she's going to pray for us the translation team took a lot of care to remove any references to religion from the game so we have like the Tower of wishes here and and the spell of holy was renamed to the spell of white once you talk to the Elder you'll trigger a cut scene so speak to anyone else you want to First and the Elder will be very surprised that we survived Mount ordeals the Elder feels guilty for sending palum and porum to spy on cesil but I think we can all agree that it was appropriate even cesil agrees when the Elder sees the legend sword it's almost as if he's seen it before he's immediately drawn to an inscription on the blade which matches a Midian Legend one to be born from a dragon whoa wait a minute Elder are you saying this Legend is about me and if it is does that mean that my mother is literally a dragon because if that's true that would be awesome ever since I was a little boy I wanted to be a dinosaur but a dragon is even better as an orphan I've spent a lot of time thinking about who my biological parents might be but I never thought one of them might be a scaly fire breathing monster also when human babies are born from a dragon do they have a live birth or was I hatched from an ache I have just so many questions unfortunately the Elder completely ignores my questions about my dragon mother and instead decides to talk to TA about learning the medo spell you may have noticed that ta has access to the medeor spell now but it costs 99 magic points and no matter how many times you level up TA he'll never have more than 90 ta intends to use the medo to kill G Bez even if it means casting it through some sort of blood Magic Ritual which could be fatal but there is another way to cast the medo a secret trick and we'll use that trick in the next area for now it's time to return to Baron where we can hopefully rescue Rosa technically palum and Pam's mission is complete but they decide to stay on the team anyways this is good news because we're about to head into the belly of the Beast and we're going to need their help Baron may seem far away from aidia but not if you take the serpent Road it had been closed since the hostility began but it's closed here on the midia side and the Elder is able to open it up all we need to do is enter the serpent Road and we'll be instantly teleported to the city of Baron from there we'll just need to find our way into the castle but first let's take a look at this Tower of wishing we haven't had access to this area before up here at the top of the tower the Elder and his two trusted AIDS are praying wishing very hard it's nice to know when we're out there fighting the good fight that there are people back here wishing for us once you're done in the tower of wishing we can head back down into the village the Crystal room sits empty as it has since we took the crystal in the very beginning but that was a different time and we were a different person back then for now we'll head out of the Tower of wishes and over here on on the right will'll find the door to the serpent Road just step on this white sphere and will be transported across the sea to Baron and we're traveling under the ground and under the ocean is this thing safe have any of you used a serpent road before ta palum porum feeling a little bit green and no I think that we're fine we've arrived arrived here in the town of Baron well that was easy as soon as we get to town we hear that Sid has been arrested for speaking out against the king what's going on around here the people seem very unsettled maybe we can find out more by visiting Sid's house and speaking with his daughter but when we do it doesn't seem that she has any answers and maybe he doesn't know that he's been arrested at all should we tell her maybe Rosa's mother can shed some light on what's Happening and as we head towards her house this woman says that a karate man was invited to lead the castle guard it couldn't possibly be young could it well it doesn't seem that Rosa's mother is much help and it doesn't seem that she knows that Rosa's been kidnapped so I just don't think I can tell her right now this kid misses the Dark Knight well if you're looking for him kid you're going to have to climb Mount ordeals and find him in the mirror realm I can't really help you with that The Woman in Red said that the karate man was hanging out at the Inn so we'll investigate that lead next this kid essentially says that having a bunch of cops hanging around the motel is bad for business and and I can believe that especially considering that they've been acting terrible in here this guy wearing a festive purple shirt says that Sid was imprisoned for hiding his latest Airship and is that Yong well whenever you talk to him get ready to battle because it's time for another fight before we can get to Yang we'll need to face two guards and they only have two 200 hit points so by using some sort of tier 2 magic and targeting both of them you should be able to easily clear them out they will use the size spell on you which can shrink you down to mini size but as long as they don't hit CLE with it it should be okay mini size will reduce your melee attack power but you can still cast magic spells with no problem once the guards are gone it's time to actually face your J but he seems to have lost his mind what happened after he went overboard this is another one of those Story battles so you don't want to waste any resources here Yong will do real damage to your party and it could potentially kill you if everyone had very low hit points so try to keep everyone's HP high and just Parry with any characters that aren't going to cast curing magic you yangong will use his kick technique against our party several times which does deal significant damage we're waiting for him to say a chew as soon as you see that message at the top of the screen we can start attacking and a good Bonk should relieve Yong of his Amnesia so we're just waiting for the message probably one more attack before he does it and there it is a chew so we'll be able to attack him and that will end the fight ouch meeting Yong here is very good news because he's about to join our party he has no idea how he escaped from Leviathan he does remember watching ryia get devoured by the Beast and seeing that must have been pretty traumatic because that is the only thing he remembers from the entire incident he doesn't remember what happened to Edward but could that guy even swim and with that yangong officially joins the party once yangong joins the team you'll automatically walk over to the in's owner who is very happy that we murdered those pesky guards and allows us to stay here for free that's pretty nice I guess he also agreed to clean up the m in the privacy of the in's bedroom it's time for some more formal introductions of course ta can't help mentioning that his daughter was killed by gz and palum introduces himself as a genius it's probably good that we have a genius on the team because after talking to the people around town it seems like we're going to have to bust Sid out of prison does it seem like as soon as we heard that Sid was in trouble we forgot all about Rosa what about Rosa well in any case it seems that Yong has the key to the city of Baron around his neck which is a major stroke of luck with that key we'll be able to open up the old Waterway a secret passage into the castle after waking up refreshed from our stay at the end let's take a look at yong's status he's level 20 now and has gained several levels since we saw him last now he has 23 strength which is quite nice he also doesn't have any equipment other than a leather armor so we should hook him up with a pair of claws a helmet and some sort of accessory so we'll give him the thunderclaw the fire claw the leather helmet should be fine and the silver ring so that should be good for the moment let's make our way outside accessing the old Waterway is not the only thing we can do with the key to the city we can also use it to finally get into the weapon and armor shop I'm not sure how this business model works but yeah you definitely need a key to get in here once you're in the store I recommend picking up a pair of Thunder ones one for palum and one for t the Thunder Wand will give you plus three wisdom which will make your black magic more powerful and if you use it as an item in battle it will cast the spell of lit one for free keep in mind that when you use an item like the Thunder Wand in battle the spell that it casts is not boosted by wisdom or willpower so if you were to actually spend magic points the spell that you would cast would be more powerful we'll mostly want to use the Thunder Wand against enemies that are already weak against lightning and it's going to be very effective in those situations if you want to get behind the counter there's a hidden path in the lower right corner and now we're in the armor shop and it's a good time to sell off some junk we're eventually going to have to do a dungeon where you can't use anything made out of metal so you may want to save some leather helmets or ruby rings for that but you probably do have a bunch of junk to sell off here in the actual armor shop the karate ghee is a fantastic piece of armor the karate ghee provides five defense and also gives you plus three strength it's not made out of metal so if you have enough money you may want to pick up five of them for that no metal dungeon later once you finish shopping we can equip the things that we purchased it's probably better to leave the Gaia gear equipped on our spell casters but we can try out the karate gese just for demonstration purposes so we'll give these a whirl we're going to leave the Paladin armor on cile that's probably going to be better for him but for everyone else we'll try out these karate outfits one once you're done buying things in the weapon and armor shop we can sort our items and then we'll head back through the secret passage and make our way out of the store we need to go to that old Waterway so that's where we're going to head to next so once you get out of the store we're going to go down and to the left this is the door we were looking for it's locked but just like the weapon and armor shop we can use our key to the city City to get inside don't miss this hidden chest on the right it contains a th000 gold pieces but once you have it you can head down the stairs into the actual dungeon the first floor in the old Waterway is fairly straightforward if you head down to the bottom you can find some treasure chests but first we've been attacked by two piranhas and two El fish most water-based enemies are weak against lightning but El fish by Merit of being electrical actually absorb lightning so you're better off using a neutral spell here like ice too neither the elect fish nor the Piranhas are weak against ice but neither of them absorb it and since the Piranhas only have 105 hit points they'll easily be cleared by the magic and the elect fish won't be far behind with the experience points from that b battle cile has leveled up again and is now reached level 17 let's take a look at his stats remember that willpower is because he's wearing all of that Paladin gear but he is a very effective healer right now down here we can find a cure 2 an ether one and a life potion so nothing too exciting but all helpful items and then we'll head up across this bridge don't go to the right that's a dead end go all the way to the top and then go to the right and down then we'll cut across here and head up across this bridge to the next floor this floor features a lot of hidden paths and a lot of treasures and apparently a lot of crocodiles crocodiles are weak against ice magic and they have an interesting enemy Behavior whenever a crocodile gets its turn it will make two attacks against your party instead of the usual one all you really need to do to win this fight is have one of your black Wizards cast ice too on both of the monsters but magic can take a while to cast have ceso and yangong both attack the same crocodile and they should be able to clear one quickly before the magic takes effect now that we've iced those Crocs we can get back to exploring floor B3 and there are a lot of hidden paths on this floor they're all highlighted on the map but if you want to get to the exit you should just try to head to the right but if you're looking for treasure you could head down instead here we have a pair of hydras these monsters are weak to both ice and lightning magic so let's try out those Thunder rods we purchased back in town we'll have cesil and yang both attack the front Hydra and and because these guys are weak to lightning Two Shots from the thunder rod should be enough to clear one and there we go if you want to make sure to get them both hitting the two hydras with an ice two or lit two spell will be enough to clear them but those spells take a while to cast so I like using the Thunder rods they're quick down here near this pool of water we can find a life potion and then we'll head over here to the right where we can find another hidden passage before that though we have to face three elect fish and an aqua worm the aqua worm has 638 hit points which is quite a few and even worse it uses a wave attack that will damage the entire party the good news is if we can clear out all of the El fish so that the aqua worm is the only remaining monster it will stop using the wave attack because the aqua worm has a lot of health and the elect fish absorb lightning magic we should Target a lit two spell at the aqua Worm by itself that should deal enough damage to take it out in a single shot once the aqua worm is out of the picture take out the remaining elect fish using ice 2 magic or attacks from ceso and yangong it looks like the twins leveled up this time and porum learned the spell of Berserk which is one we're definitely going to use one great thing about the twins is the amount of magic points they have they may not know as many spells as ta but at least they have 117 MP to cast the ones that they do know we've encountered some more monsters and this time we were surprised by a crocodile and a trio of a Le fish this is why you always need to make sure that you heal your characters between battles we're going to take five hits from these enemies before we get a chance to act against this configuration of enemies we want to use ice magic ice too should do the trick the crocodile is weak against ice and the elect fish are neutral towards it so it should deal good damage to the entire Squad on Pam's turn we're going to use the Cure staff as an item to restore some health to our party for free we took a decent beating because we were surprised here but no one is at critical health so we don't need to use more powerful curing magic at the moment we can wait until we're outside of battle and cast some curing magic then it's always better to cast your Curative magic outside of battle when possible but if your characters are going to die don't be afraid to cast a big cure spell during the battle from here if we head all the way to the right we can start moving towards the exit but if we go straight up we can find the final treasure chest on this floor which contains a life potion we definitely need to do some healing you should usually use cure level one when you're curing outside of battle you're going to get some benefits from willpower which will make that magic more powerful and cure one only costs three magic points to use which makes it more efficient than other more powerful cure Magics if you do need to cast Cure Magic in battle you should use the most powerful Cure Magic that you have and here we have an enemy variety pack an aqua worm a Hydra and a crocodile of the three enemies here the aqua worm is the highest priority Target because it can do that wave attack that damages our entire party unfortunately the aqua worm is in the back line for the enemies so that means our melee attackers would deal half damage when attacking it instead what we want to do is use lit to Magic against the aqua worm because magic doesn't care which Road the enemy is in as you can see it dealt over 1,200 damage and only needed to deal 638 and we can use ICE 2 to take out the crocodile or maybe just a few melee attacks n the ice two is going to get there first and that's going to do it for this battle and it also looks like we found an item we got 10 poison arrows from the Hydra that we defeated nice we'll have porum cure our party couple cure ones out of do it and then we'll be ready to go we're going to head up and to the right near this rock formation we can just go through the wall here but before that we've been attacked from behind by three Fang shells a crocodile and an alligator if you ever wanted an easy way to distinguish an alligator from a crocodile it's actually pretty simple crocodiles are green and alligators are blue they're both weak against ice magic and they both attack twice when they get their turn although crocodiles are the more powerful of the two palum took a real beating from that back attack so we're going to need to heal him we're also going to need to pick off a few of these enemies or it's going to be a problem we can use lit two on all of them and that will hopefully get rid of the three Fang shells we can also use some melee attacks to take them out as well yangong is equipped with the thunderclaw so he should be very good against a Fang shell and you can see he did over 800 damage to the one that he hit and here's that Lit to which should clear out the other two Fang shells very nice and we have ta casting ice magic which should remove the crocodile and the alligator whenever it resolves but now we only have the alligator left and that guy is definitely going down to a shot of ice too it may have been Overkill but at least we survived and cile gained a level before we take another step we should definitely use some healing magic so we'll have porum take care of that a few cure ones should fix up the team and we'll be good to go so we're just going to go through this wall and up to the door we're getting very close to the next save point we just need to make it a little bit farther at the top of this ladder you can find a hidden path on the left that leads to a treasure chest but first we have to face the aqua worm the Hydra and the crocodile again you may notice that there are some different formations that you can encounter on this floor versus the previous one but this particular encounter is the same if you'd like to conserve magic points against these guys you may want to just use your thunder rods against the aqua worms and have your melee Fighters pick off the crocodile and the Hydra once the aqua worm is the only enemy left it won't do the wave attack anymore and will only attack a single party remember when it gets its turned we're so close to a save point right now that we could be a little bit more Reckless with our magic points but if you're running low that's a good way to take on this battle also if you're running out of magic points this Treasure Chest contains an ether one and on the way back we encountered not one but two Aqua worms this time but they're less dangerous when they're not paired with other enemy types because when there's two Aqua worms and no other types of enemies they don't do the wave attack they just do their normal single attack that doesn't mean that we shouldn't take them seriously it just means they're a little bit less threatening than they may appear one big blast of lit to should be enough to take out both of them and it was and for that we get 480 experience points not not bad from here we'll head up through the door but before that we have to face two Hydra and a guard we've seen the hydras before so you know that they're weak against both ice and lightning magic but you may be surprised to find out from the look of the guard that it's actually a mage type enemy and if you use magic against it it will Counterattack with the piggy spell because it's a mage it is a good enemy to use psych against so you can steal some MP but you will have to deal with that piggy Counterattack so we're going to have ta use psych against the guard and we were able to snag 10 magic points for our trouble but cile was transformed into a pig not actually that big of a deal it doesn't hurt his melee ability and maybe if we're lucky the guard would cast Piggy on ceile again which would transform him back all right one big melee attack should finish this guy easily and with that the battle is won this time the twins both leveled up and they both learned useful spells palum learned the virus spell which we know is very powerful and porum learned the exit spell which could be handy to get get us out of a dungeon so we'll be happy to have both of those casting piggy is the most efficient way to remove the status and then we'll have porum use some white magic to heal the party once we're ready to go we'll continue up through this door and that will bring us to floor B1 and through this door we'll find the safe point we're getting dangerously low on Magic points so we are going to use a tent here but there is going to be a free place for us to stay just ahead so if you think you can make it a little bit farther you may want to save the game and not use a tent this time also in this same room you can find a hidden passageway that leads to this Treasure Chest inside we'll find a weapon called the ancient sword a weapon that can inflict curses on any enemy that it hits on fortunately it's not as powerful as the legend sword so we're going to keep the legend sword equipped for the time being sadly the ancient sword is a bit outclassed at this point in the game it can also be equipped by cane but by the time we get him back I'm sure we'll have something better for him to use and that brings us here to Castle Baron once we get to the actual castle there won't be any more random enemy encounters and you'll find a hidden entrance down here in the lower left corner we did use a tent before just to be safe but I mentioned that there was a free place to stay just ahead and that place is up here at the top of the left Tower it's good old cil's room now I have no idea how all five of us fit in this tiny bed it looks cramped when ceil's sleeping there alone maybe we take turns or something but in any case when the day breaks we're all refreshed and ready to go from here we need to make our way to the throne room but when you get to the stairway labeled B on the map be ready to fight as we cross the first floor we hear a familiar voice it's bacon bacon welcomes us back to Baron and it seems It's since we've been gone he's become captain of the guards we're going to need all the help we can get so Bean joins the party or at least it seems like he joins but palum and porum smell a rat or you could say they smell beon at first beon tries to feain innocence but the jig is definitely up palum and porum know for sure that he's a monster so it's time to face the the next boss Bean the boss has three parts and you'll need to clear all three of them to win this fight the left and the right arm only have 350 hit points each while the body has 10 times that many with 3500 unfortunately if you kill the two arms the body will revive them the good news is if you only kill one of the arms the body won't revive the arms until you kill both of them So the plan is to get rid of the left arm that's the more dangerous of the two and leave the right arm in play we're also going to cast the berserk spell on Yong and CLE this will make us unable to control them and they'll only do an attack each round but they'll deal twice as much damage whenever you use magic against the body it will counter by putting up a wall so make sure that the first magic spell you use against the body is a good one I recommend ice three because our berserk characters are attacking random targets they may accidentally remove the right arm in that case the body will revive the two arms and we'll want to get rid of the left arm as soon as possible whenever we do finally kill the body we need to make sure to get rid of any arms that are left right away because they can explode and the explosion will kill the arm but it'll deal heavy damage to a member of our party so that's the basic gist of the strategy anytime the left arm is there make sure to get rid of the left arm but leave the right arm so that the body won't recover them both use ice three to get a jump start on getting rid of the body and then have your berserked melee attackers take it the rest of the way once there are only arms left quickly take out any remaining arms so that they don't explode and you should have no problem winning this battle before we move on let's talk about a way for ta to cast a medo without dying you need to waste most of his MP so that he has two spells next to each other one that he can cast and one that he can't highlight the one that he can't cast then move over onto the one that he can then you're going to press a and towards the one that he can't cast at the same time if you do it right the game will let you cast the more expensive spell and after you do so T will suddenly have a ton of magic points and he'll be able to cast meio Meo takes a very long time to cast but it deals a ton of damage and it cannot be reflected by an enemy's wall so we just need to kind of wait for it to go off here and we can kill bon in a single shot it's really that simple any character that can cast magic outside a battle can take advantage of this glitch but it will never be more exciting than it is with ta so that he can finally cast that meteor spell with Bean out of the way we are not done here in Castle Baron we still have another boss that we need to face in the throne room and after this fight s sadly palum and porum are going to be leaving our party so now is the time to unequip all of their gear so just take all of it off you won't actually need it to fight the next boss we should have no problem even without them wearing any equipment Yong isn't going anywhere but we want to make sure that he has both the Thunder and the ice claw equipped so that we could take advantage of the next boss's dual weaknesses once you're ready make your way up through the doors into the throne room the king awaits the king of Baron was like an adoptive father to cile but lately he's been acting strangely and now we know why it seems that the true king of Baron was killed and replaced with an impostor I guess when you play the game of thrones you win or you die so it's time for us to execute this usurper with his kingly robes discarded we can see the beast's True Form it's the fiend of water Kazo Kazo is an interesting boss because he changes his weakness during the battle when the battle begins the boss is weak against ice magic but as soon as he brings up his Water Shield he'll suddenly become weak against lightning magic instead so to start you should always have palum cast lit to against this guy so as soon as he gathers the water that spell will be cast and it will disrupt the Water Shield if you don't disrupt the Water Shield using lightning magic Kazo will unleash a devastating wave attack and you would definitely like to avoid that from here you want to have porum cast slow and have ta cast ICE 3 as long as ice 3 resolves when Kazo does not have the Water Shield up it's going to deal so much damage that it will be almost enough to kill this boss outright and with the damage that we dealt to it before that should be the finishing blow that takes out Kazo so the very easy way to defeat this boss is with the onew punch of having palum cast lit two followed by ta casting ICE 3 now if things don't work out and the boss goes inside of its shell do not stop your attack with a lot of bosses in this game whenever they take up a defensive position you should stop attacking because they'll have a very powerful Counterattack but kenazo is not like that whenever kenazo goes inside of the shell he will take reduced damage and he'll try to cure himself using a remedy spell but that's only going to restore 400 hit points hit this guy with a big tier three magic attack and a few melee attacks and it shouldn't take too much to finish him off and with that we've defeated the second of the four fiends that's two down two to go once the battle is over we'll finally be reunited with our good friend Sid pauland or at least it looks like Sid palum and porum better sniff this guy and make sure he's not a monster well it seems that Sid has managed to bust himself out of prison so I guess he didn't need rescuing after all when he finds out that gbz kidnapped Rosa he's even more incensed it doesn't seem like Rosa is here but with Sid's help we'll be able to acquire an Airship and that should certainly help us find her now that Sid is an official member of our party we'll take the time to introduce him to the rest of the team Sid may be an engineer but he's actually a very useful melee fighter we'll want to put him in the front row and have him beat down the enemies Sid uses wrenches which is a special weapon type that only he can wield of course whenever he uses one in battle it sure looks a lot like a hammer Sid does have one other ability called Peep Peep Works similar to the peep spell and allows Sid to see enemy weaknesses as well as how many hit points they have left it's not the most exciting ability but hey at least it's free as we exit the room we see palum and porum goofing off for the last time because as we enter this hallway the ghost of Kazo Springs a trap after a cryptic speech and an evil laugh the true nature of the Trap is revealed everything begins to shake and suddenly The Walls Start closing in the doors are locked we're trapped no R2 shut down all the trash compactors on the detention level with little time left it suddenly seems like palum and porum have an idea they look at each other and just know what needs to be done as the room crumbles around us the Twins start saying their goodbyes what do you two have planned can we try to break down the door or something but there's just no time as the room gets smaller and smaller the twins brace themselves against the wall and cast the stone spell the transformation into heavy stone is enough to stop the walls from moving but the twins are lost in the aftermath ta tries in vain to heal the twins but there's nothing that can be done a curse inflicted upon themselves will be very difficult to break we will certainly Miss palum and porum but this is the end for them they will not be joining our party again all we can do now is promise to avenge them as we've promised to avenge so many others already on the plus side now that the walls have stopped moving the doors are unlocked and we can finally leave this hallway maybe the walls would have just stopped moving on their own I guess we'll never know but before we move on let's check in with gz and Kane and see what the bad guys are up to seeing the high-tech look of this place I'm pretty sure this is not Castle Baron so we're going to have to go somewhere else to free Rosa goz and Kan seem to be hatching a plan a hostage exchange the plan is simple they need the crystal of Earth and Cil wants to get Rosa back so they'll simply suggest that they can trade Rosa for the crystal maybe that will work it seems like Kane thinks that this will somehow Garner him favor with Rosa but yeah it's just not working bro back at the castle we've escaped from the trap hallway off screen somehow perhaps the only thing more surprising than a hidden trap hallway built into a pre-existing medieval castle is this giant hanger that Sid had hidden with an Airship inside yeah I guess that's been there all along be honest with us Sid did you build that wall trap I'm not sure anyone else could have done it well even if Sid did build the wall trap he certainly made up for it by providing this Airship which is called the Enterprise guess he's a Star Trek fan and just as the crew had beamed up from Castle Baron another Airship appeared all right everybody attack formation Shield up let's go but wait the White Flag for surrender of course after seeing that cutscene we know that it's Cain that dirty swine when we finally see Kan again he seems surprised that cesil is alive yet 5 minutes ago he was proposing a plan to gz that featured cesil prominently so I'm not not sure what's up with that ceil asks about Rosa and Cain says she's worried I'm going to need more than that Kane I'd like to see proof of life you're going to have to take a picture of her holding this morning's newspaper or something but Kane lets us know the deal if we don't bring him the crystal of Earth they're going to kill Rosa diabolical desperately cile tries to break gz's control over Kane's mind but it's no use he simply says that is all and walks away so I guess we have no choice we'll have to go to the kingdom of teroa and see if they'll give us their Crystal of earth oh I sure hope he brought enough gold pieces before we go jetting off to teroa we have an Airship now so we can go wherever we want and where we want to go at this moment is actually right here at Castle Baron there were a few parts of the castle that we were unable to explore before but now that the impostor king is dead we'll be able to collect these Treasures so land the Airship anywhere you want and make your way into Castle Baron there's no guards preventing us from getting inside now although to be honest with you I'm not exactly sure who who's in charge of the place now this guy says he may have also been under the monster's control yeah that's what they all say buddy over here on the first floor this man says that he hears voices from the basement and that's something that we'll have to investigate soon but before we look into that our first Treasure Trove is right here push the button to the left of the stairs and it will open a door that leads to a secret passageway inside you'll find six treasure chests containing two ether 1es Two Cure 2s and two life potions excellent that's all that's over here but it's far from the last treasure in the castle remember the right tower that we were unable to access before well now it's going to be open before we head over there if we talk to Sid's assistant this one seems to have seen a ghost under normal circumstances that might seem seem crazy but in this game we've killed many ghosts so it's not actually that far-fetched there are almost a dozen Treasures over here in the right tower although most of them are mundane potions the best one is down here in the basement in this pot it contains an Elixir if you head down these stairs we can find that ghost that we heard about randomly in the basement there's just an extra throne for some reason maybe for photo op and press conferences but as you approach it you'll be able to speak to the previous King's ghost he tells us that we need to go to a place called the land of summoned monsters which is not somewhere that we can actually get to right now even with our Airship so we'll have to go there and come back here later when we go back up the stairs we'll be able to grab this Treasure Chest but it only contains a cure one so not very exciting but up here we'll be able to pick up a couple more Treasures there is nothing in the pots in the middle but there is a treasure in a pot up here an ether on the right [Music] side that's all the good treasure to find here in Castle Baron so if you'd like to move on you can but a lot of people have something to say about the mysterious doppelganger King so before we leave will speak to some of the people some of the NPCs don't have anything new to say so we won't be speaking to them but a lot of them do including the Wizards down here in the white magic school the first White wizard that we talk to only wishes that the king May rest in peace and I got bad news for you white wizard the king is doing the total opposite of that he's a Restless ghost haunting the castle basement in Black Magic class we find a few Wizards that need some more training including this guy that attempts to cast the piggy spell but shrinks us down instead yeah that guy is definitely no Hermione Granger that's for sure this guy's embarrassed that he couldn't spot the fake King and this guy's mind is completely blown that Medio exists if we want to be returned to normal we can simply speak to this wizard again and he'll cast the size spell restor ding our normal stature this guy said that all of gz's soldiers were not human but I don't know that that's true and up here on the second floor we'll find a few guards that don't have a whole lot to say that one says the drons will defend the castle while the other one is just wallowing in self-pity over here on the left this guard wants us to avenge the king and yeah I guess we'll add him to the list and this one wants us to take the throne I like that guy King cesil Harvey W I like the sound of that huh we'll walk by the palum and porum statues and up here we can talk to this guard who says never again and the guy on the other side says the same thing so we won't bother talking with him from here we can head over to the left side of the castle and see what's going on in the castle d dungeon and maybe over in the left Tower so we'll head up here and we'll go down the stairs where we met Rosa in the very beginning not really anything to see here and through this door we can find the castle prison now that we've gotten rid of the impostor King this guard hopes that we won't have to use the jail anymore because I guess we also eradicated all crime I'm going to to say that's unlikely and if we pop into this small room we can speak to a few recovering guards this guy didn't even recognize cesil now that he's a paladin and this one's surprised that he's alive there's more talk about cile taking the throne and I guess the previous King was a knight that got promoted so a military leader becoming the new king may be just the natural progression around here I hope it doesn't matter that we got fired there's nothing really to see over here in the left Tower but if you want to get a good night's sleep crammed into a tiny bed with three sweaty dudes then we can do that before we go and once the dawn breaks everyone's refreshed and we can head out of Castle Baron it's about time we tried out that Airship the place we actually need to go to to advance the story is almost directly northwest from here but if you just go to the edge of the continent and go south we can find Ean Castle which contains even more treasure for us to loot there are no Random Encounters here in the ruins of Ean but some of the chests contain monsters so we do need to be prepared to fight Sid comes with very few pieces of equipment so make sure to hook him up with some gear and ta can probably use a better better helmet the Gia Helm would be a good fit we also have three melee attackers right now so we're going to use the change command and then switch our form around so that ta is the only character in the back row and cile Sid and yangong are all in the front row the vast majority of the chests in here are safe but the ones that do contain monsters have some of the better Treasures for us to find something you need to remember if you find a treasure chest filled with monsters you will not be able to run away so you need to be ready to fight that battle on the map the treasures that are listed in red are the ones that are protected by monsters so keep a lookout for chests number 12 16 and 22 everything else you can just grab but there are a lot of hidden passages that you'll need to navigate to find everything we would definitely like to pick up the Slumber sword which we can find in this chest but it's one of the ones that's protected by monsters and this chest is protected by a stalman and four skulls I'm not sure why they're called skulls when there's clearly an entire skeleton there but those guys hit hard and have a decent amount of hit points also if a skull is ever the only remaining enemy it will use lit 2 magic but it's not a very powerful lit 2 magic the stalman has a ton of hit points and lives in the back row so the best way to kill that guy is to have ta hit it with ice three we need to keep TAA alive so that he can cast some of these spells they're going to be crucial in this fight with Ta on offense cesil will have to do some of the healing but with all the Paladin gear he's wearing his cure two spell will be very powerful have yangong and Sid keep chipping away at the skulls in the front rope eventually you can have ta cast fire two on whichever ones are remaining and that should finish the battle remember once there's only one skull enemy left it'll start casting lit too but like I said before it's not as bad as it sounds there it only did 85 damage to Sid so I think this guy was dealing more damage just attacking and here's the Fire 2 that will finish the fight and with that we'll be able to collect our spoils over 2100 experience points and the Slumber sword the legend sword that we were using was decent but the Slumber sword adds 15 points of power and can put enemies that it hits to sleep also if you use it as an item it can cast The Sleep spell for free but you're probably not going to be doing that very much since it deals so much damage just through attacking the Slumber sword is worth the trip to this Castle on its own but there is still more treasure to be found the other chests that are protected by monsters are guarded by extremely fearsome enemies and the rewards are not actually that good at face value the drain spear looks great it adds 80 to your attack and it can drain Health from Monsters giving you that HP back the only problem is it reduces all of your stats by 10 which makes it a questionable weapon to say the least we're going to avoid picking up the drain spere right now we'll come back for it later and we will try it out so that we can see how it works but it's not worth picking up at the moment the other guarded chest contains an Elixir and an Elixir is a useful item that we do want to collect eventually but we have several Elixir right now and we're trying to save them for later in the game so there's no real need to pick up that Elixir right now we'll just remember to get that Elixir when we come back later to get the drain spear so over here in the right tower we're going to avoid chest 16 and when we get down to the basement we're going to avoid chest 22 but we do want to pick up everything else press the button to open the door then walk down and around the stairs grab the two chests on the left side as well as the life potion in the pot on the right over here you want to grab the cabin but don't pick up the other chest that's the one that contains the drain spear instead drop down down into the hole where we'll be able to get 800 gold pieces and then when you walk down you'll be taken to the basement The Elixir that's guarded by monsters is over on the right side so this is the one we're not going to open instead we'll just collect the two chests on the left and if we walk down to the bottom we'll find a convenient exit after that battle with the skulls and the stalman we took a decent amount of damage and used some magic so before we move move on to tooa we're going to stop back at good old castle Baron where we can stay for free in cil's room that's right everybody dog pile on cil's bed I call a pillow ta's an old guy you know he's going to wake up with a jacked up back well in any case once we wake up in the morning refreshed and ready to go we can fly our Airship North where we'll take a slight d detour at the town of mist if you did the Mist skip earlier there won't be too much for you to find here but if you did not do the Mist skip earlier then there are some very useful items that we're going to want to pick up you'd think that after that firebombing this place would be in worse condition but most of the buildings seem to be in good shape over on the right side you can find 100 gold pieces and this guy says the soul of o is sleeping under Castle Baron interesting down at the bottom of the village we can find a hidden path that leads to a pair of potions it's going to be a cure one and a heal so we'll grab those and then we can check out the armor and weapon stores the armor shop is not very impressive only selling The Bard robe yeah not very great but it does protect against silence effects which I guess makes sense the weapon Shop sells the dancing dagger which is something that you may want to purchase but at this point in the game it's not as exciting as it was in the very beginning the real big prizes in this town are found in Ria's house that's where we'll locate The Tiara which is one of the best helmets that a black wizard can wear it adds plus 10 to wisdom so yeah that's awesome and we can also find the change Rod which is a nice weapon that adds plus five to wisdom and when used as an item in battle can cast the spell of piggy for free so that one will be handy and we can immediately equip t with it although he is unable to wear the Tiara he said it was too girly but I mean it adds plus 10 to wisdom ta wear that girly Crown dude it will make you so much more powerful I'd wear a sequin ball gown into battle if it added plus 10 to wisdom I'm not sure what ta is complaining about but once you've picked up everything over here in Ria's old house that's the last thing we need to do here in the village of mist and we can head back to our Airship the next stop on our world tour is a village called Sila and to find it head down to this lake with with the waterfall and then go directly east from there that will bring you to this fox head shaped island and on it we'll find the strange Village of Silvera this little guy doesn't want to be stepped on which I suppose is polite and this talking pig explains the specialty of the Town silver equipment there's nothing in the small house behind the pig it's just empty space and this guy thinks that we might be Giants the frog says that the Silver Mine where they get the ore is not very far from here while this frog wants to know if we've ever eaten ant steak before no I can't say that I have but we do want to find the Silver staff that's behind him there are three Treasures hidden here in the town the Silver staff the silver knife and 5,000 gold pieces and all of them are quite valuable even if you never equip the silver staff and the silver knife they do fetch a good price if you sell them and now it's time to see one of the more interesting dance presentations in the game the Silvera brothers are these guys really brothers I have to say that I'm skeptical they're using the chocoo theme as their dance music so definitely some style points for that but most of the dance is waves and kn odds until this part where they all kind of play dead and then start hopping over each other so yeah that's creative and then there's some spin moves but yeah mostly more waves and more bowels and this one just goes on way too long once they're done twirling around for the last few times they'll say thank you and we can finally move on with our lives are we supposed to tip those guys do they have like a guitar case where we can toss in a couple gold pieces well over here in the weapon store we may want to pick up the silver wrench that's a pretty good weapon for Sid although we are going to be going into an area where we won't be able to use our metal equipment so he won't be able to get a lot of use out of it just yet we can also pick up some silver armor silver armor has excellent defense values although it does count as metal that doesn't mean we don't want to bring it to the next Dungeon Because we will be able to use our metal equipment against the next boss we just won't be able to use it until we get there it's possible that we may encounter some monsters outside of the next dungeon so we'll equip all of our best stuff right now we'll put on the silver wrench and the silver helmet the silver armor and then why not the silver gloves let's just be all decked out in silver we're only buying the silver stuff for Sid cile can also equip it and while the silver equipment does have slightly higher defensive values than his Paladin equipment it doesn't add the extra willpower so we're going to leave cile with the Paladin gear for now the item shop only sells heal potions which is kind of ironic here in a vill village where it seems like all of the residents are suffering from some sort of status abnormality inside the Inn we can meet the cutest girl in town but we're not going to want to stay here 500 gold pieces per night seems outrageous when we can stay at cil's place for free once you've purchased all the equipment you want here in Silvera there's no point in procrastinating any longer it's time to head to teroa so fly north until you see that light green patch of land and then head directly east you'll run right into it there's a small patch of grass where you can land the Airship and we're going to visit the town of teroa first the town of teroa has a lot to see but the shopping leaves something to be desired there's a good reason for this all of the equipment sold here is nonmetal and will be usable in the next dungeon now hopefully we have better gear than this but at the weapon shop we will want to pick up a great bow that's probably the best bow we're going to be able to use right now and cile won't be able to wield swords so he's going to need something else you'll also need to make sure you have a good supply of non-metallic arrows to use and the best arrows in the next dungeon are going to be the white arrows that are unfortunately not sold here but you can buy them in midia so you may need to make a quick pit stop over there if you need to pick up arrows whenever we talk to Captain creepy down here we'll startle him and then he'll tell us to go away I guess we'll come up here and check out the Inn this Inn costs 400 gold pieces per night which is better than the 500 they were charging in Silvera but still way too much considering we can stay for free in cil's bed this woman invites us to swim with her but we were kind of doing that already and this one says that we shouldn't try to swim with our armor on because it will Rust and this is trying to get us to think a little bit more about the metallic items that we're wearing because we'll need to unequip those in the next dungeon up here outside of the water we can find a hidden path that leads to some decent Treasures this woman tells us about the twin harp which is a critical item we'll need to pick up before we leave this area over in the Deep grass we'll be able to find a cure 2 an ether 1 and an ether 2 as well as a th000 gold pieces so lots of good stuff to pick up over there and once you're done we can head back down through the Waterway to get out so we'll head down here past the old man watching the women swim and if we head up into this small building we'll find yet another training room have you seen one training room you've seen them all so we're not going to spend any time in there this old woman asks if we've seen her husband and to be honest I'm a little bit worried about her if we head up into this building we'll find an interesting area called the black chocoo Farm now we've seen yellow choco bow white choco BOS and fat choco BOS but so far we've not seen any black choco BOS but that alls about to change right now they may look purple but yes these are the black chocobos they're cute but they do stink a bit this guy gives us a very useful piece of information there's a chocoo village north of teroa and we'll be able to find black chocobos there we won't be able to walk to the next dungeon and there's no place to land the Airship nearby so the only way to get there is by riding on the back of a black chocoo unlike the yellow chocobos that will immediately abandon you after you Dismount a black chocoo will wait patiently until you ride it again and then it will take you back to the chocobo's Village so that is very convenient we'll have to check out that Yabo's Village soon but before we head up there is that a dead body we better investigate nope it's just a woman's sunbathing but you can see how we made the mistake this guy tells us about that dungeon where we won't be able to use metal equipment so thank you for that clue and if we head into this Cafe we'll find a person selling a pass for a very expensive gentleman man's club we don't have the cash right now so we'll have to come back here later when we're more wealthy if we did purchase a pass we would show it to the bouncer up here and he would open the door that leads to Stairway F there's no good treasure in there and nothing important that we need right now so we definitely don't need to go there at the moment still if you do have the money you may want to save the game outside and check out the show then you can reset and go back to your saved game then you can see the show for free once this old lady shuffles out of the way we can head upstairs and check out the rest of the cafe and when we talk to this guy He suggests that there may be more pay walls ahead great inside this private room a woman seems to be entertaining this man while another old lady watch watches and says members only kid yeah we did not want to get involved in that anyways this guy in the red outfit is telling everybody about that time when he was able to defeat an entire imp can you believe that yeah we are not impressed and that's really all there is to see back here so once you're done talking to the people we can make our way out of the cafe and out of the town of teroa as soon as we can get around all these people all right out of the cafe and we'll just head on out of the town but that's not all there is to see here there's an entire Castle up ahead and if you walk through the town and then back out into the forest and over you'll be able to enter it the guards welcome us and say that we should feel at home huh that's nice these guards are very trusting apparently no one here thinks it's Shady that we came in here just asking about their Earth crystal and they immediately direct us to the clerics in charge teroa is a kingdom that's entirely ruled by women and that includes all of the high-ranking military officials and the castle guards this woman is offended that we thought she was an old maid and this guard suspects that Baron is up to something yeah you think but I guess news travels slowly around these parts because we already sorted that Barren situation out and it's totally under control now in this room we'll meet the Teran top brass the circle of clerics these eight women are in charge of the country and these are the ones that we'll need to ask for the crystal of Earth unfortunately it seems that the dark elf already took it well that's just our luck the dark elf is a throwback to the original Final Fantasy and he's hiding out in a cave over to the Northeast the clerics promise that if we can get the crystal of Earth back from the dark elf they'll let us borrow it assuming that we only use it for a good purpose I can't think of a better purpose than getting Rosa back so I think we're all in agreement we just need to find this dark elf guy and demand that he return the crystal of Earth behind the clerics you can see their empty Crystal room maybe if they had put it somewhere safer the crystal would have never been stolen just throwing that out there believe it or not the Crystal room and the circle of clerics are not the most important things to see here in the castle there's actually an amazing Treasure Trove over here on the right but we won't be able to get to all of it because some of it is blocked by this guard she'll ask us if we have the cleric's permission to go into the dungeon and we'll have to tell her no because we definitely do not of course maybe we can try saying yes but well yeah she definitely saw through that ruse so until we get the clerx permission we'll only be able to get the treasures that are are numbered on the map and we won't be able to get any that have a letter in front of them the ruby rings that we'll find up here could come in handy in the next dungeon but would really like to have those Elemental arrows in the great bow that we could find downstairs but sadly if we want those things for the next dungeon we'll have to purchase them elsewhere for now we'll have to settle for the loot in this Treasury and that will have to be good enough once you've grabbed all the chests you can go back up the stairs and we'll head back out of this side of the castle we haven't been to the left side of the castle and that's even more important than the right side over here we'll be able to reunite with an old friend and we'll be able to pick up a critical item yep that's right it's our good good friend Edward sadly Edward was seriously wounded when he went overboard during the Leviathan attack and now he's in critical condition he's unable to join the party right now and he'll never be able to join the party again but that doesn't mean he can't help out yangong tells Edward to think only of his own health and then he mentions the Leviathan attack back he seems to confirm that Ria was eaten by the monster but so far everyone involved in that Leviathan attack has survived so I'm not going to C midia out just yet when Sid introduces himself to Edward it's like Edward just met a celebrity he's very excited to talk to someone that has an Airship of course you knew sooner or later he would ask about Rosa and we had to tell Edward about the kidnapping plot as soon as we mentioned the dark elf it seems that Edward knows something about this adversary Edward gives us a key item called the twin harp he may not be able to join the party but using the twin harp he'll be able to play music Across long distances this will be critical when we Face the next boss and without the twin harp things will go seriously South when we get there so make sure you meet with Edward before you go with the twin harp in our possession and our inventory filled with loot from the castle treasury it's time to make our way to the chokobo Village so we'll wave goodbye to the castle of teroa for now but we'll certainly be coming back to get to the chocobo's Village we need to head north through the forest we'll probably encounter some monsters here and these are the same ones from the peninsula of power this is certainly not the first time we faced three sting rats and a panther remember that the sting rats will use their needle attack which can do some serious damage and whenever the panther is left by itself it will start to use Bluster which can instantly kill one of your party members ta has access to tier three Elemental Magic which is just as good now as it was back on the peninsula of power so a shot of ice three should take out all of these monsters we'll use melee attacks to try to thin out the sting rats in front and we can see what cesil is doing with the Slumber sword if we're lucky maybe one of these enemies will fall asleep now there's that ice three which will eliminate all of them and we'll be able to pick up over a th000 experience points and continue towards the chocoo village so the village is right up here it's that small patch of trees and here it is unlike the chocoo forests that we've seen before the chocobo's village is larger and laid out in the shape of a chocoo there are three carrots hidden here that we can find and as usual there are yellow and white chocobos the white chocoo can restore our magic points so we'll want to do that but there's also the black Chocobo which we'll want to jump on before we leave we'll find a hidden path over here at the bottom and that will lead to one of the three carrots the other two are almost directly above this hidden path you need to head in through the middle and then follow these trees around on the right head through over here and you'll find one carrot and if you go back out up and over we'll find the other one so that's where the three carrots are hidden if you need to manage your inventory space you can find the big chocoo down here in the lower left at the tip of this foot so here here is where it smells like chocobos and let's give a carrot a try whenever you summon the chuny chocoo you'll be taken to this screen where you can give him items to hold or you can pick up items that he's holding for you before this he wasn't holding anything so we'll give him a couple things just to give it a try remember that your inventory space is limited and we will be finding a decent amount of treasure in the next dungeon once you're ready talk to a black Chocobo and you want to fly over towards this cave you can only land in forested areas so we'll land right near the entrance save the game and head in to Cave Magnus once you get inside it's time to remove all of your metal equipment and equip any of the nonmetallic gear that you brought with you make sure to equip CLE with a great bow and white arrows this is going to be the best weapon for him in this Dungeon Because he won't be able to use any of his normal swords we'll also give him a headband a karate ghee and a ruby ring for Sid we're going to want to use the wooden wrench so hopefully you didn't get rid of that as well as a headband a karate ghee and a ruby ring so then we'll check out Sage ta ta's wand is totally fine but we will need to switch out his silver ring for a ruby one yong's claws are also fine but we'll want to make sure he has a karate ghee and a ruby ring as well now that cesil is wielding a bow we can move him to the back line where he'll be safer and able to take advantage of the Bow's long range once we take a step into the dungeon we'll get a warning about using metal equipment if you are wearing anything made out of metal that character will be paralyzed in battle so you really only have two options for approaching this dungeon you can either bring a special set of equipment so that you can fight the enemies or you can attempt to run away from everything I absolutely recommend bringing a specialized set of equipment but running away can work if you plan to fight the enemies ta's magic and yong's Claws will be particularly valuable and after defeating those enemies CLE gained a level and we found a set of poison arrows spicy over here we'll find a cure 2 potion and if we head down the stairs in the middle we can continue along the path cave bats use a draining attack which can restore their HP but they only have 150 hit points to begin with so most of your attacks are going to kill them in a single shot that makes the Curative property of their vampire attack not extremely relevant you can see Sid hit that one for 324 damage which was more than twice as much as he needed to and cile just to show him up hit the final B for 580 from here we're going to head across this bridge and we'll continue to the left before we head through the next door if you want to pick up a heal potion open this treasure chest on the left side and then we'll pass through door a which will take us to floor B2 this floor has some different enemies and here are a couple of new ones now the ogur doesn't do anything besides attack you but it can hit pretty hard and has 865 hit points the cave Naga is a little bit more interesting it will only attack when it gets its turn but it can counter magic with a slow spell so if you use magic against the cave Naga and don't kill it then it will counter with slow so if you are going to use magic against a cave Naga I recommend using something lethal there's a chest containing an ether up here on the left side so we're going to head towards that but first we have a cave Naga and two pythons we just saw the cave Naga but pythons are very similar to some of the other snake enemies that we faced before if they live long enough they'll eventually cast the entangle spell but they're unlikely to ever live that long with a only 90 hit points so just take out the pythons if you're going to use magic against the cave Naga use a good spell and you should be able to easily win that fight take a look at Sid's status here he's already up to 30 strength and we can see ta's stats are less impressive but at least he knows a ton of spells we'll use a few of those spells right now to heal our characters and and then we'll move on towards the chest but first we got attacked Again by some enemies and it's the same ones we just faced before but from behind if we had to get attacked from behind it could have been a lot worse these enemies are fairly tame pythons have such low HP that Yong can easily kill them from the back row cile doesn't actually care which row he's in he has armor that supports being in the front row and his bow Works in either it is good to change before Sid gets to attack but even in the back row he would probably have been able to take out that Python and finally we can get that ether that we've been trying to grab from here we're going to head up and if we want to move on we can go to the left towards door C but if we want to grab a couple of chests we can head over here to Door B we don't want to leave the Panthers alone so we'll have our attackers focus on them and we'll have ta cast virus on the ogre in the back line virus may or may not deal enough damage to finish the ogre but the damage over time effect should be enough to finish him off so it did 861 damage and there it is HP ran out so that's one one of the nice things about virus if it doesn't deal quite enough damage but it gets close that damage overtime effect is pretty useful here we have three ogres which would be a lot more alarming if we didn't have the chance to strike first if we have cesil yangong and Sid all focus on the ogre in the front and have ta use virus on the ogre in the back we may be able to get rid of two of these guys before they have a chance to attack at all which means essentially we're only going to have to face one ogre that's going to be attacking us even if we didn't have the benefit of striking first we should use the same pattern to defeat these ogres we would just take a few more hits along the way it's important to get rid of these guys as quickly as possible and using a virus spell on that one in the back while fighting ones in the front with the other three characters is a very effect way to deal with them at 1100 each the ogres are also worth a nice amount of experience points and if you're especially lucky you may even find a Zeus Gauntlet that one of them could drop so I recommend fighting the ogres whenever you see them just make sure you're healing your party between fights because the ogres can deal significant damage a few shots of cure one should fix up the party but ta is getting very low on Magic points so it's about time we dipped into our inventory and gave him one of those ethers we've been collecting we have 26 so we should definitely use one now with 50 magic points he's right back in the game and from here we're going to head across to the left towards the door but it looks like we have to face the three ogres again but this time we're the ones that were surprised hey it could be worse at least we didn't get attacked from behind ta could have taken a serious pummeling if that was the case and without his virus spell these guys are going to be a lot harder to defeat just like before we're going to have all of our attackers focus on the ogre in the front cesil could theoretically be focusing on a different ogre but we want to make sure to get rid of these guys as quickly as possible so we want to focus all of our attacks in the same place ta will be able to kill the last ogre using the virus spell and even though he didn't quite get him he should run out of HP yeah right about now with a few more hits this last ogre should have no chance to survive and that's it we did it again we were surprised but hey we made it and cesil even gained a level not bad from here we're going to head into doorway C and then we can enter this room where we'll find a much needed save point we will be more than happy to use a tent here to restore our HPS and MPS and don't forget to save the game just in case something terrible would happen so we'll do that right before we leave hop into the menu save the game and then we will delve deeper into the dungeon from from here we want to go across this wooden bridge and down at the bottom we'll be able to get some more Treasures but first we have to face the two pythons in the cave Naga again we've seen this configuration of enemies before and it's the most common enemy formation that we'll encounter on this floor ceil is using white arrows so he can exploit the holy weakness of the cave Naga and that's a good way to deal with those guys just have Cil use his arrows on the Naga and have everyone else beat up the pythons in the front down here we'll find a room that contains three treasure chests the one on the right contains a life potion the one in the middle contains a valuable cure three potion and on the left we'll find a cure two make sure to pick those up before you continue on we finally met a pair of Mages this floor of cave Magnus is the best place in the game to try to encounter this enemy type and if we're extremely lucky they could drop an item that will grant us a special summon spell so if you really want to find the Mage summon you should try to look for Mages here but we'll come back and do that later H we found a treasure but sadly it was only cure two potion and not the Mage summon we were hoping to find to get deeper into the dungeon we want to head straight right up the middle here and in this chest we'll find a very useful item the charm claw remember that yong's claws don't add any damage but this one will add three points of agility which will make him faster in battle and any enemies that he hits while the charm Claw is equipped could become confused so yes that is a very good weapon don't miss out on that one here we have five enemies that we need to defeat three cave bats and two Vamp girls we know that the cave bats are pretty easy to take out and the vamp girls are a little bit more powerful they have 250 hit points do not try to use draining attacks against the vamp girls those will backfire so definitely do not cast a psych spell against them we're going to have most of our melee Fighters at least the front row ones pick off the cave bats and we'll have ta and ceile focus on the vamp girls the white arrows will make short work of one bamp girl and a fire two spell will be able to clear out the other then yangong and Sid will be able to easily finish the battle unless Cil beats them to the punch and after that battle we picked up even more items a pair of cure two potions so that's not a bad thing to find and we're going to head through this doorway which will take us to floor B4 we've seen these three enemy types before in other battles but never all together we're going to use many of the strategies we used against them previously so we'll have Yong and Sid attack the Panthers in the front row cesil would use his white arrows to get rid of the cave Naga and of course ta is going to cast virus against against the ogre once all the other enemies have been removed we can have everyone attack the ogre but wow that was a great hit of virus there will be no surviving that floor B4 is the final floor before we reach the bus and it's mostly just a series of bridges we've definitely seen this configuration of enemies before so we're just going to speed through this battle remember you're going to have cile attack one of the vamp girls and ta will use fire two on the other one the remaining enemies will be easy to clean up after the vamp girls have been eliminated Sid gained a level there and so we can take a look at his status and see how he's progressing 31 strength with 26 Vitality although for a guy that's an engineer you might expect him to have more wisdom than five I guess being smart doesn't make you wise but in any case we'll have ta cure the party and then we'll continue our descent into cave Magnus so from here we can just go directly through those doors to the bus but if we want to pick up an ether 2 a pretty useful item we'll want to walk over here towards this chest here we have a vamp girl and six cave bats the vamp girl is weak against fire so we should probably have y equip his fireclaw but we're going to have cesil get rid of the vamp girl with a single shot from his bow once the vamp girl's out of the way the bats will get to feed on our party which will deal a decent amount of damage but as soon as ta resolves that spell he's going to be able to clear them all out we'll be able to remove a few more of them with our melee attacks in the meantime but ta is going to do the damage that actually matters here so just keep everyone focused on picking off the bats in the front line and ta's virus should easily clear these bats out that'll do it for this battle and we'll get over a th000 experience points so that's pretty nice we'll head down here and pick up that ether 2 that's a more powerful ether item so if you ever need to use an ether during a battle you can try an ether 2 instead of an ether one you'll get back more points that way don't use your ether 2os or Elixir outside of battle unless you've consumed all of your ether ones first The Ether ones are much better to use from the menu where you can use as many of them as you need from here it's just a short walk to the boss's room but before that it's the two Panthers the ogre and the cave Naga again we're going to approach this battle the same way that we did previously except for this time one of the Panthers became Charmed so we're going to try to avoid attacking that Panther we don't want it to lose its Charmed status it's going to use Bluster against one of the other enemies and in this case it used it against itself but that's still pretty good I think I'd be happy to equip the charm claw just to get the plus three agility but that confusion effect is an excellent bonus and with that both yangong and CLE gained a level which is timely right before the bus let's take a look at their status cile now has 33 strength and he's down to 18 willpower because we changed some of his equipment for this dungeon and yangong is up to 36 strength with 30 Vitality very good we'll use TAA to cure us a few more times just in case we hit another encounter before we can get through the boss's door I think we're going to make it but I'm never 100% sure but I'm 100% sure now because this is it the lair of the dark elf the dark elf says that since we can't use metallic weapons we won't be able to defeat him but I'm game to try once we get into the battle though this one's not going to go somewhere don't use up any resources trying to win here you can just Parry or attack do whatever you want because the dark elf is going to use a vicious combination of spells here and then we're going to go to a cut scene so you'll see fire two lit two and Ice two all in succession yeah that's going to deal some serious damage there's no way we're surviving another attack like that and then the dark elf follows It Up by casting the spell of weak on our entire party which brings any remaining characters down to critical Health it may seem hopeless right now but if you brought the twin harp with you perhaps Edward will be able to help if I could only use my sword just when all hopes seem to be lost we see Edward back at the castle I'm not sure how he sensed that we're in danger but he does and he heroically leaves his bed to try to get to his harp Edward knows that music is the key to winning this fight if he could play his harp it will be replicated on the twin harp that we brought with us to the dungeon Edward struggles to move but he makes it to the harp you'd think that one of his assistants could have just handed it to him as Edward closes his eyes and picks up the harp the music flows out of him as it always has it's the same song he played at night when he saw Anna's spirit and it's the same song that activates the twin harp playing music deep down inside cave m Ness as Edward's magical Melody plays the dark elf's concentration is broken without this Focus he's no longer able to control metallic weight and now will finally be able to equip our metal weapons and armor this will ultimately turn the tide of battle back in our favor don't forget to move cile back to the front line and hook him up with the slumbers sword and while we're at it we can give him back the full Suite of Paladin armor so add on all of those Paladin items and next we'll re-equip Sid Sid of course can use all of those silver items that we purchased so we'll give him the silver wrench the silver helmet the silver armor and the silver gloves Yang and ta don't really need very many changes although we could equip a silver ring for each of them so we'll switch out those ruby rings for the ones of the silver variety and now it's time to challenge the boss but this time we'll be able to win you may have noticed that the dark elf technically has 22,000 hit points which sounds like a lot but you don't actually have to deal him that much damage he just has has a bunch of extra HP to make sure that you're unable to kill him in a single hit no all we need to do is hit this guy for about 2,000 damage and he'll change form to the dark dragon our three Frontline attackers should have no problem defeating the dark elf but we need to make sure that ta survives for the next form just to be extra safe I had him cast The Wall spell so if dark elf starts casting Elemental Magic again it will get reflected back at him but the wall spell will not protect from the weak spell that the dark elf can cast once he changes to dark dragon we're going to have ta cast weak against him so dark dragon has about 3,000 hit points but after we hit him with weakness he'll have fewer than 10 and a single hit will take him out so it's really that easy just get him to turn into the dark dragon cast weakness and quickly finish this boss as the dark elf takes his final breaths we find out why he wanted the crystal in the first place apparently he thought it could Grant him eternal life maybe that's also why he built this entire Crystal room down inside of this cave it seems like Overkill but everyone in the world that has one of these crystals has built a room like this so maybe it is mandatory once you have the crystal it's time to get out of here and the easiest way to do that is by Simply Having T cast the exit spell with a few spins we'll be outside in front of the cave and once we Mount that black chocoo we will be instantly taken back to the chocobo's Village we'd rather just fly back to the castle but at least the bird doesn't leave us high and dry and we can simply talk to another black chocoo to be able to fly back to where we need to be while we're here of course we can cast some white magic and then refill our magic points by talking to a white chocoo assuming that we can catch one this time we're very low on Magic points so we'll need to talk to that chocoo then heal the party and talk to the chocoo again it's not really that big of a deal but if you're ever very very low on Magic points that's one way to navigate that situation we'll talk to the chocoo again to restore our MP and then we'll chat with a black chocoo so that we can fly back to the castle remember you cannot fly over mountains so stay over the wooded areas and you'll be able to easily get to where you need to go once we talk to the clerics here we won't be able to get into our airship without going to the next dungeon so if you need to go to any other areas to pick up items you'll want to use the black Chocobo to fly there as soon as we enter the cleric's chambers we're surrounded by the women but then we hear a familiar voice the voice of Cain somehow Kane and GZ already know that we found the crystal are there some kind of hidden cameras in here that idea might sound crazy but later in the game we're going to fight against a literal floating computer so maybe it's not as farfetched as you may think the clerics agree to let us borrow the crystal of Earth just as they had promised and not only that they also agree to let us take the treasure down in the basement so before we leave the castle we'll definitely want to make sure we head down there so we're going to head down through the first floor and out the door on the right side I do appreciate the little frogs that are swimming around in the moat that's a nice touch inside we're going to take the stairway on the left and this time when the guard asks us if we have permission to enter the underground we can confidently say Yes she'll open up the door and then we can head through a hidden path that leads to this stairway on the right side down here in the basement we'll find a number of treasures that we would have liked to have had before we went into cave Magnus like the great bow in all of these Elemental arrows but better late than ever I always say we'll also find 2,000 gold pieces and a lot of useful consumable items including two heels Two Cure twos two ether ones two ether 2os and two Elixir so yeah these Treasures are absolutely worth picking up once we're finished down here in the basement we can wave goodbye to the castle of teroa because we will not be coming back here so we'll climb up the stair stairs head down through the door and make our way back up into the center Chamber from here we'll head straight downwards and that will take us to the castle Gates and from here we'll be able to exit the castle once and for all we may be finished with the castle but we're not done with the town as soon as we get aboard our Airship we'll immediately be taken to the next dungeon so we'll take this opportunity to visit one of the stores in town and we can sell off a lot of the items that we won't be needing anymore we don't need to save a bunch of nonmetallic items so we can sell a bunch of that junk even if you wanted to go back into cave Magnus with the dark elf no longer lurking in its depths we won't have to worry about the metal restriction so we can use any items that we want we're also going to find a bunch of good new gear in the next dungeon so we want to make sure that we have enough space to hold it all once you're done at the store we can leave the town behind and we'll sort our inventory before we exit because once we get on the Enterprise it will be time for the Tower of zot the Tower of zot does not appear anywhere on the map it must be hidden up in the sky somewhere behind the clouds but once we show Cain that we have the crystal of Earth he'll tell us that we can follow him to find their hidden base keep in mind that this is the only time that we'll get to go to this dungeon once we finish the tower of zot there's no way to come back if you are expecting to be greeted at the door by gz and Cain you're going to be disappointed gbz is glad that we kept our promise but he wants us to climb to the top of the tower and bring him the crystal uh well I guess we have no choice it's time to climb the tower our first fight of the tower is against three centaurs and while these these guys don't have any particular Elemental weaknesses they are vulnerable to attacks that can put them to sleep or Charm them so the Slumber sword or the charm claw could be very handy here the final Centaur is already Charmed so it will probably attack itself but tell us stepped up and hit him with some lit too so we don't even have to wait for that to happen we picked up a free cabin for our troubles so that's nice and ta will be doing most of the curing here although we could have C will do some of it if we need him to from here we're going to continue walking up the left side and up here in the top left corner we'll find a chest that contains the fire armor the fire armor is a good piece of equipment but you do need to understand how it works it will make you resistant to ice based attacks but it's a double-edged sword if you get hit with a Fire based attack wearing the fire armor will make you take more damage so just keep in mind that while the fire armor has good defensive stats it will make cile extremely vulnerable to fire-based attacks here we have a centaur and two Gremlins these enemies are just going to attack you when they get their turn but you should be aware that Gremlins will counter Magic based attacks with charm so you need to be very careful not to use any magic against them unless it's going to be lethal and now the Centaur is Charmed but once again ta takes him out before he can eliminate himself we'll get 1,000 experience points each for our troubles and we'll continue working our way through through this floor if you head down here to the bottom and then up we'll be able to collect this chest but this one is protected by monsters and it's protected by a fire-based monster so make sure to unequip the fire armor before you fight this flame dog the first thing the flame dog does is use a fire based attack and if cesil had been wearing that fire armor he would have taken a ton of damage damage and may have even been killed the flame dog was Charmed so this fire attack is going to go against itself as soon as we attacked the flame dog we broke the confusion but it still needs to take one turn where it attacks itself as you can see the fire has resumed against our party but now the monster is asleep it won't be long now T will finish the fight with an ice two spell that could have done it in a single shot and with that ta gained a level and we found the fire sword let's take a look at ta's Stats and five strength for Vitality I'm not sure this guy is going in the right direction most of the enemies here in the tower of zot are ice based so equipping items like the fire sword and the fire armor is a good idea in general just make sure you don't have those items equipped if we have to fight more flame dog type monsters and this battle is against the Centaur and the two Gremlins again we know what to do here we've seen this one a couple times so we'll just speed through it quickly Sid leveled up there and he's up to 24 strength with 27 Vitality at almost 1,000 hits points Sid is quite a tank now we're only on the second floor here and ta is already running out of magic points it's a good thing we picked up all those items back at the castle we might just need them alternatively we could try to use the psych spell to get some magic points back for ta so we'll keep our eye open for enemies that may have magic points that we can steal just going to speed through this battle again it's the Centaur and the two Gremlins we could try to use our psych magic against the Gremlins but be aware they will counter you using charm spells and that can go aride quite quickly cesil leveled up again he has 27 willpower now and he's not even wearing all the Paladin gear anymore I think it's about time that we used Nether on ta so so we'll dig into our inventory and that will bring him back to 48 MP which should be good for now the third floor looks like a giant maze but the easiest way to get through it is to just follow along the outside don't try to cut through the center here we have three slimes and an ice Liz just like many of the other flan enemies the slimes have 254 defense so you're not going to be able to use melee attacks against them as usual we'll need to utilize magic to defeat these monsters and with their bright red eyes the slimes are vulnerable to fire so one big shot of fire two will be enough to take them all out and we'll be able to collect our experience points as well as 10 ice arrows and continue our walk around the perimeter of this floor there are zero Treasures to find on this floor so don't worry about missing anything just walk all the way around the outside and make your way towards the door that's labeled C here we have three different flan type enemies two slimes a jelly and a cream if you want to clear out all four of these enemies the easiest way to do it would be to hit them with a big blast of Fire 2 magic but if you want to conserve magic points you may want to consider just trying fire one I mean these guys only have 35 50 and 55 hit points fire one spread out across four enemies might be enough to do the damage so it was good enough to remove two of the enemies the cream of course is weak against lightning not against fire and the Slime that's remaining probably only has a few hit points left so we can use lit one to finish the job this should easily clear the remaining two enemies one of them is weak against it and the other one was almost dead anyways and with that we took out the slimes creams and jellies and for our trouble we found a cure one potion thanks and up here we can enter doorway C and that brings us to floor 4 floor 4 features lots of doors and many of them lead to premium Treasures but before we can investigate further we'll need to take out a witch an EP girl and two ice beasts out of the three enemy types the witch is the most obnoxious because she's going to cast slow on one of our party members followed by mute on another she is a very good Target for the psych spell though so this could be a good opportunity for ta to do that anytime you deal damage to an EP girl she'll Counterattack you so keep that in mind you're going to want to take her out in a single shot the ice beasts really aren't that bad much less dangerous than the flame dog that we fought earlier that has a similar look as long as you don't leave only ice beasts left on the battlefield they won't use their dangerous blizzard attack so basically whenever you see ice beasts it's a good idea to get rid of them first we were fortunate to get some magic points by casting that psych spell in the previous battle but we're definitely going to still need to use an ether to get some magic points back on ta 90m p is just not enough even cile has more MP at this point but that's telep forio incredible Cosmic Powers itty bitty magic points that's just how it goes we'll continue to cure the team and then we'll have to spend 20 magic points to take the silence off of CLE so yeah the heal spell is pretty expensive looks like we're already due for another ether so it's a good thing we brought a bunch 54 magic point should be good for now and we can continue our walk across the fourth floor here we have a swordman and a pair of ice beasts we also have the opportunity to strike first but the swordman is so fast that you almost won't notice that we got the strike first benefit we'll want to remove the ice beasts first so we'll be able to freely attack the swordman but when the swordman is the only remaining enemy he'll use magical counterattacks the way around that of course is to have ta use the change Rod as an item which will cast the spell of piggy for free and now you can see it tried to use that absorb spell as a Counterattack but because he was turned into a pig it did didn't work of course being turned into a pig doesn't stop the swordman from attacking your party but as long as it can't use its magical counterattacks it will be a lot easier to defeat as usual we're going to have ta cast some spells to heal the party after the battle make sure to do that you don't want to get caught in a back attack or a surprise attack with low hit points if you hit head over to the right you can move on to the next area but if you want to collect some treasure you should come up here it looks like we're fighting a Marion and three puppets this time the Marion is an enemy that we should keep our eyes open for because this is one that can drop a valuable item called The Silent staff it's a very rare item drop but it is worth finding and that's something that we will talk about again later for now now if you just want to win the battle anytime you clear out all of the puppets the Marion is going to try to summon another one so you can keep fighting puppets over and over and over again if you just want to rack up experience points but if you want the whole Loop to stop you should try to kill the Marion before clearing the final puppet that will keep it from summoning more unfortunately it doesn't look like like we found any items this time but we'll continue to look for those Marion and hopefully we'll eventually find one that drops the staff we'll have ta cure the party once again just like he always does and then over to the left we'll find an excellent weapon the Earth wrench quickly equip that Earth wrench as soon as you get it this is a major upgrade for Sid not only does it have higher attack but if you use it as an item in battle it'll cast the spell of Quake for free Sid doesn't normally get access to any kind of magic so allowing him to cast the spell of Quake for free is quite surprising over here through door e we'll find the poison claw and along with the charm claw this is going to give Yong very good stats the poison claw adds plus three to his strength and it could potentially poison any enemy that it hits in this chest we'll find the fire Shield which is an upgrade for cile although we already have good protection against ice and we're already vulnerable to Fire and adding the fire shield into the mix doesn't change that equation at all we faced Marion and puppets before we'll try to use psych to steal some magic points from the Marion we got 29 out of it so that was actually quite good and it looks like cesil and Sid both gained a level cile learned the magic of heal so that could bail us out of a bad situation he's also up to 25 strength now but Sid is outdoing him in the strength Department with 30 wow he is strong we've seen this combination of enemies before but this time we were surprised and we also just got brand new weapons for yangong and Sid so let's try them out here and see if they can make a difference so yangong will attack this puppet Cil can hit the one in the middle and Sid is who we were definitely looking for let's try using that Earth wrench as an item so we can cast the Quake spell of course when you cast the Quake spell for free by using an item it doesn't get any boosts from his wisdom but Sid didn't have a lot of wisdom to begin with so that's not a huge loss the Marion just got Charmed and poisoned by yong's attack so it's nice to see that that's all working as it's supposed to although the poisoning is going going to be mostly pointless because when a Marion is confused it will use the Fatal spell on itself which is well fatal so yes confusion is an excellent way to deal with that guy and we need a lot of healing this time so I'm just going to speed this up a bit just so much healing and once you're done casting your cures we're going to have head back through the door at the top of the room so that we can collect the treasure on the right side well just cross right over but first we'll have to face two ice beasts and two centaurs cile has the fire sword which will cut through an ice Beast like butter anything that he hits is probably going to die Sid can use his Earth wrench to cast the Quake spell and that's going to deal deal decent damage to all of the remaining enemies for ta let's just have him cast lit two on anything that's remaining and that combined with the Quake spell that we just cast should finish off any remaining enemies if he even gets a chance to which he will not so we'll pick up some more experience and continue our walk to the right we're going to follow this path up to the doorway labeled F and that will bring us to the right side of the fifth floor this time we have a witch and a pair of EP girls and if we split up a few melee attacks on the two EP girls in the front line and have Sid use his Earth wrench as an item we should be able to easily eliminate the EP girls leaving only the witch behind we're intentionally leaving the witch behind because we want ta to have a chance to use his psych magic to steal some magic points although we may get mute cast on us for our troubles so I'm just trying to wait and see if ta will cast psych and there it is and then we'll give the order to kill the witch so Yong should be able to finish the job and yes he did it with quite a bit of Gusto dealing 497 damage when he only needed 300 in this chest we're going to find the wizard robe which is something that we should absolutely Equip to TAA because it's going to add plus five to his willpower ta's been doing most of our healing and adding five to his will is going to bring it up to 24 so that's going to make him a much better healer than he was before maybe we won't have to spend quite so many Magic points healing the party moving forward forward the wizard robe is a truly excellent piece of equipment and it's one that we're going to continue to use for quite some time so make sure not to miss this crucial piece of gear believe it or not that wizard robe was the last piece of treasure hidden here in the tower of zot from here we just have to head to the boss so head down these stairs over to the right side and make your way towards door G before we can go up there we'll have to face three EP girls so we definitely know what to do have Sid use his Quake magic and have everyone else just attack the EP girls in the front we probably won't need ta's magic here so we can just have him parry and it was probably good that he did Parry because he just took a big attack for 70 two damage and if he wasn't parrying it would have probably been worse we're getting close to the next save point so if we can just conserve our magic points long enough we'll be able to use a tent and refill them completely now may be a good time to let cile do some of the healing he has 94 magic points so we should probably put them to use once it appears that everybody's back in good condition we'll be able to close out the menu and continue walking towards door G that door is going to take us up to the fifth floor and although we've been to the fifth floor several times already we haven't been to this part of it here we've been attacked from behind by a witch and two EP girls so we're going to take the full brunt of some of these attacks here although it appears that the EP girls decided to attack some of our melee focused characters that were accidentally in the back line so I guess that sometimes a back attack can work in your favor even attacking from the back line cesil and Sid should be able to deal enough damage to the EP girls so that when Sid uses his Earth wrench they'll both be removed and that's good because if he didn't they would both do a Counterattack and now Yong simply has to take out the final witch and ta gained another level so we can take a look at ta's status he's down to one strength now you can see how he is gaining hit points but in some ways he's getting worse too and this save point is a sight for sore eyes we've come a long way so unless your characters are in perfect condition make sure to use a tent or a cabin and do not forget to save the game we're about to face not just one but two bosses and the first boss is right up here it's the Magus sisters the Magus sisters are one of the most iconic and memorable boss fights in the entire game Sandy Cindy and Mindy they seem to be a bit more intelligent than the normal enemies that you would fight and they will work together in tandem the key to defeating the Magus sisters is getting rid of Cindy the chubby one in the middle Cindy has more hit points than the other two Maga sisters but if you don't kill her first she will revive either of the other two sisters that you kill the Maga sisters use a technique called the Delta attack where Sandy will cast wall on Cindy and then Mindy will cast a spell into the wall which will be reflected onto our party because of the Delta attack our party is unable to protect itself by casting our own wall spell because each spell can only be reflected one time and we can't really use magic against Cindy in the middle and unless we want it to be reflected back onto us our strategy here is fairly straightforward because of the wall we're going to have all of our melee attackers focus on Cindy and we'll have ta cast some powerful Magic on Sandy who is not protected by the wall I like using lit three followed by virus to get rid of Sandy if you kill Sandy too early Cindy will break bring her back to life but if you kill her too late after Cindy has been removed she'll have a chance to cast annoying status Magics like charm wall spells don't last forever and because it's Sandy's responsibility to refresh the wall spell if you kill her at just the right time the wall will go down on Cindy and Mindy may actually cast a spell on Cindy that will hit her for damage if you're not opposed to cheating this is another great place to use the MP underflow glitch so that ta can cast Medio just waste a bunch of magic points by casting cure 4 then try to cast cure three but move the pointer over onto cure 1 and then press right and a at the same time so that the game will let you cast cure three without having enough magic after you cast that spell you'll will suddenly have a ton of magic points and you can cast Medio against the Magus sisters you see the thing about Meo is not only does it deal a ton of damage to all enemies but it also can't be reflected by wall magic so that wall spell that Sandy put up on Cindy is going to do nothing whenever this Meo spell resolves we do have to wait some time for the medo to be cast it's not the fastest spell in the world but it is one of the most decisive spells dealing almost 6,000 damage to each boss plenty enough to kill all of them that's right magga sisters your Delta attack was a failure but before we continue to the top of the tower let's talk about The Silence staff again it may be worth your time to walk around around the bottom floor of the Tower of zot looking for these Marion enemies and just fighting them over and over again until one of them finally drops the silent staff why do you want the silent staff so much well for starters it adds plus 52 to your attack making it the most powerful staff in the game for melee attacks but that's not all it also adds plus 10 10 to willpower and you w't find a staff that adds more than plus 10 to willpower until the final dungon in addition if you use it as an item in battle you'll be able to cast the spell of mute for free and you can see there ta has 29 willpower when equipped with the silent staff and you can see how it works as an item to cast mute for free now I'm not going to assume that everyone has the patience to try to find a silent staff so we're not going to be using one in our official run here but if you don't mind grinding monster encounters getting a silence staff is almost certainly worth it for one final time we'll have ta cure the party he won't bother to cure himself this time because there's really no point once you get up to the sixth floor you'll see gz and Kane waiting for you before you go up the stairs now is the time to unequip all of ta's equipment we're going to be losing him and he's not going to be coming back we absolutely don't want to lose the wizard robe or the change Rod forever so do not forget to unequip those items and it's very weird the way that Cain and GZ were just rigidly standing there like performance artists pretending to be statues do you think they were like that the entire time we were in the tower of course cesil hands over the crystal of Earth way too easily and GZ decides to double cross us but ta's not having any of it he's about ready to burst and it's time for the main event ladies and gentlemen the fight you've all been waiting for ta versus goldz is it some kind of perspective thing where gz is much closer to us than ta is or is gz the size of Godzilla that guy looks huge ta attempts casting all of his best spells lit three virus ice three but they barely damage go Bez at all he doesn't even try to fight back he's just laughing at TA so of course you know what he's going to do ta is going to attempt to cast Meo don't do it ta you have to use the MP underflow glitch first it'll kill you but ta sees red with his last ounce of energy he cast the MEO dealing maximum damage to gz and that does it gz is defeated as gz's body Fades away ta is too weak to even celebrate the victory from the looks of things ta's Medio managed to also hit Kane and he wasn't even in the battle so Props for that old man unfort fortunately for us when ta hit gz with the medio gz was holding the crystal of Earth and we know from our battle with the dark elf that the crystal of Earth can grant its holder immortality we definitely need to remember this whole immortality thing because I have a feeling that could come up in the future goldz strikes CLE down with Force lightning but he won't kill him why why why won't you finish me off goz hesitates before saying I shall see you again and storming off normally goz is merciless and evil but this isn't the first time he spared cil's life why is it that he treats him so differently it seems like we should Chase gobez into the next room but maybe that's what he wants us to do instead we should definitely check on ta but ta is not in good shape and there's no way to cure the wounds that he inflicted upon himself when he cast Meo oh ta at least you can finally rest it's going to be kind of hard with you not around but I know you're in heaven smiling down watching us while we wish for you every day we wish for you until the day we meet again in my heart is where I'll keep you friend off to the side Kane seems to still be alive he took a bit of a beating from the MEO spell but he didn't sustain a direct hit gz's mind control over cane has been broken and now that he's regained Consciousness he suddenly remembers Rosa we don't have time we have to save Rosa gz has Rosa restrained in a trap that would look right at home in one of the Saw movies luckily cesil was able to rescue her just in time in the original Japanese version instead of a large steel ball it's a menacing sidethe blade that almost falls on Rosa but either way she's lucky to be alive almost losing Rosa has made cesil under understand what she really means to him on a day with so Much Death it's nice to finally be able to Save a Life Kane admits that while he was under mind control he did still want to be close to Rosa yeah we knew that Kan but she's just not that into you bro Rosa likes purple-haired Paladin type guys I'm sure there are a lot of women in this world that appreciate a guy with the athletic prowess of cane the way he can get Above the Rim is insane speaking of women that like Kane we still have one more boss to fight here in the tower of zot we're not done in here just yet Rosa and Kane officially join the party but we could certainly see that coming do not take a step downward let's take a look at the two characters we just added to our party Kane has risen to level 27 in our absence and Rosa is now up to level 26 with 33 willpower I might add now Kane comes with a bunch of equipment and it's all pretty good this time so we're going to keep it however Rosa absolutely needs some new gear we're going to equip Rosa with a bow and some Elemental a arrows but if you have the silent staff you should equip that instead for headgear we're going to use the Gia Helm and The Wizard robe all of that is going to give her a nice big boost to willpower now I said not to step downward before because as soon as you take a single step onto those stairs it will be time to face valus the fiend of air after facing the previous two fiends which were hideous monsters you may be surprised to find out that valis is a very human looking woman she seems to have a thing for cane and it turns out that cane is her weakness always choose to use Kane's jump attack during this battle because when valvis transforms into a tornado she will increase her defense making her harder to damage and she'll start start using obnoxious magic techniques like weak which will reduce a character's hit points down to critical levels and you should heal that character right away with items if necessary and she'll also use Ray which will begin a gradual petrification on a character and will also slow them down Kane's jump attack will break the tornado returning the boss to her normal form the other key here is using Rosa correctly Rosa can cast the berserk spell on Yong which will make us unable to control Yong but he'll deal twice as much damage in combat and he will just be constantly attacking because he's very fast right now Rosa can also cast slow on the boss this will make the boss take fewer turns and you can cast slow two times on the boss to make her extra slow casting it more times than that doesn't make a noticeable difference difference Rosa's early turns are way too important so she can't be cast in Curative magic instead we should have cile casting Curative magic or SID can use items if we have characters that have low HP so the recipe for Success against this boss is to have Kane constantly jump Rosa casts berserk on Yong and then casts slow two times on the boss if you do that the rest of the fight should be easy with valis defeated gz only has one elemental fiend left the fiend of fire we'll be meeting him soon but before that it seems that this Tower was equipped with a self-destruct mechanism so how are we going to get out of here this Tower was enormous we'll never get back to the Enterprise in time well it turns out it's a good thing that we have a white wizard in our party about 5 minutes ago if we would have tried to cast the exit spell it would have done nothing but now Rosa is suddenly able to cast it no problem Not only was she able to cast exit she exited us all the way back to cil's room in the castle of Baron that is really impressive Sid says this room is safe but really is anywhere safe gz has all of the crystals now I'm waiting for the apocalypse to begin at any moment but it turns out gz doesn't have all of the crystals if the rumor is true there are more crystals underground the dark crystals for each of the four light crystals there is a Dark Crystal that corresponds to it so gz will have to find four more crystals if he wants to catch them all of course this is all assuming that we trust Cain and I'm not sure that we should still how do we get to the underground dig a hole but Kane has the answer there he has an item called the magma key which he gives to the party he also says that if all of the crystals are united they'll open a passage to the moon so is that what gz wants he wants to go to the Moon I have a sneaking suspicion that if gz makes it to the moon that's going to be bad news but there is good news Sid managed to save our Airship by using a remote control so in the moment when when Rosa cast the exit spell I guess he activated some sort of switch which brought the Enterprise back here good work Sid well I guess there's no point in trying to find the underworld while we're all tired let's all pile into cil's bed and try to get comfortable once everyone is rested and refreshed it's time to leave Castle Baron behind for the moment and we're going to make our way to the ruins of eblan this is of course optional but we left two treasure chests behind the last time we were there but we should be very well equipped to get them now before we go in just to be extra safe we'll save the game it has been a moment since we saved and now we'll enter the ruins remember there are no random monster encounters here but we are going to open some rather dangerous treasure chests so be prepared for a battle the chest that contains the drain spear is on this floor right next to that pit but how do we get it you need to walk up here and you'll be able to find a hidden path that leads to the treasure inside two black cats and a lamia the black cats are like upgraded versions of the panther enemies that we faced before but these cats are not shy about blustering you Bluster can instantly kill one of your party members so you want to get rid of those black cats as soon as humanly possible the lamia is vulnerable to charm attacks so if we hit her with yangong we may be able to turn her to our side but we need to get those black cats out of the way first so that we don't get blustered again we already lost Rosa and there we have confused the lamia but but it doesn't actually matter because Kane landed his jump and finished the battle he also gained a level good work Kane uh the drain spear I'm going to equip it so you can see it in action but this thing is literally a double-edged sword it has very high attack with a plus 88 but it reduces all of your main stats by 10 so in some ways it makes you weaker on the other hand it also will restore some health to your character whenever you attack with it so there's some good things and some bad things about the drain spear overall I think it's kind of bad but it can be good in certain situations your mileage may vary with the drain spear but the one thing I definitely don't like about it is if you attack certain types of monsters Undead ones in particular it could end up damaging Kane instead of having him damaging the monsters so you need to unequip it and equip something else in those situations and I don't really like shuffling my weapons around during battle the chest that contains the Elixir is protected by three mad ogres which are like faster beefier versions of the standard ogre enemies we faced before you want to pick these off one by one just like we did with the other ogres but it's a good idea to have Rosa cast slow magic against them so that they'll get fewer turns in combat we really need to slow these guys down they can hit very hard with an 82 attack after Rosa slows these guys down we may need to have her cast Curative Magic on the party to keep our hit points High yangong eliminated the middle ogre so now all we need to do is have every everyone concentrate their attacks on the last one and we should be able to easily defeat it one more hit from cile a jump from Kane and a strike from Yang should be all that it takes so you can see why we didn't try to collect this Elixir the last time we were here in the ruins we could have maybe beaten those mad ogres but the reward probably wasn't going to be worth it at the time once you've collected the last two chests in Ean Castle we can exit and return to the Enterprise and from here we're going to visit a city that we haven't been to before the village of agart and it's almost directly east from the ruins of eand but you'll need to go a little bit north the city that we're looking for is on this small island we could have visited this Village before but there was really no reason to there's not a whole lot to see here if you don't have the magma key we need to find the entrance to the underworld and as we speak to the citizens of agart you'll get the impression that we may be on the right track like when we talk to this guy who says his ancestors came from the hidden land where there's a sun called the magma could it be related to the magma key H maybe this woman says there are constant earthquakes around these parts and we are a bit banged up after visiting those ruins and for only 50 gold pieces per night we might as well stay at the end here it might be nice to each sleep in our own individual beds although it looks like we all crammed into one anyways maybe that's just how we like to sleep now or maybe for 50 bucks we only get to rent one bed that kind of makes sense over here we'll meet a pair of kids and this one has a cryptic message about Darkness and Light but it does kind of makes sense with what we know about crystals now the kid with the blue hair says that his grandmother is the oldest woman in the village and I think this is her down here in the corner she does have an important clue for us she says that we need to return the key of magma to where it belongs so we are in the right place before we go running off to find a slot for that key if we head down here to this corner we can take in a bit of local culture and observe the dance in the hidden land This Dance uses a music track from a part of the game that we haven't been to yet so it's kind of a preview of what's ahead it also looks like the carpet has instructions for performing the dance kind of knitted into it so maybe she's just a beginner this is a very short Dance All Things Considered that's all there really is to see here in the Inn but there are a few more points of interest here in the village so we'll head outside if we talk to this blue-haired girl she tells us that she's very strong but her great great great grandpa was much much much stronger that math checks out if if you'd like to change your name naming way is hiding out in this small building and if this kid will get out of the way we can check out the armor and weapon stores don't get too excited about the shopping in this place they sell iron stuff here which is garbage so we're not going to be purchasing any of that and if we take a look in the weapon shop well this is not that much better although if you were looking for a place to buy white arrows you can purchase them here you can also buy the boomerang which none of our characters can currently use but eventually we'll find someone that can wield it there aren't very many citizens walking around outside and this old man knows about the ancestors but has no recollection of how they got here we can wander around up here and down these stairs to find the only treasure hidden in this area this kid says that he's short because he has dwarf ancestry but he wishes his parents were ogres hey I get it kid I'm still processing the fact that my mother is a dragon down in the lower left corner we'll find the observatory out in front of it is an Old Woman Who clearly thinks modern people are soft back in her day they didn't need the sun they had night all the time and and they liked it inside the Astro Tower we hear about a scientist named Corey that gets so obsessed with his research that he completely ignores that red-haired woman huh typical Corey and if we head up the stairs we can meet with Professor Corey we better call NASA because it turns out that there's not just one Moon there's actually two and one of them seems to have living creatures on it and it's turning red like the color of rubies well I sure hope that doesn't mean anything doesn't mean anything you just confirm the existence of extraterrestrial life I mean I guess it's not that big of a deal I can't really see any of the space aliens this guy was talking about through the telescope so I guess we'll just have to take his word for it of course the observatory is interesting but it's not the main feature here in the town that would be the ancient well that they've enshrined here in the city [Music] center this guy thinks that the well is bottomless so maybe that's where we need to throw the magma key huh here I was looking for a keyhole this entire time and oh no Kane I think we just lost your very important key there there is no way we're getting that thing back and yeah we won't be getting the magma key back but this earthquake is going to open up the path that we need to get to the underworld it's just going to blow a massive crater open in these nearby mountains I don't think that will have any effect on the local ecosystem could be wrong and just as quickly as it began the earthquake suddenly ends and that's all we need to do here in the village of agart all that's left is to get into our Airship and make our way into the crater we'll of course save the game first just to be safe so let's go Enterprise just position yourself over the crater and press the a button and suddenly you'll be taken down below once you enter the hole you'll lose control of the game so we're just along for the ride right now and it seems that the Red Wings followed us I didn't even know goz was still in control of those airships it looks like they're fighting against some sort of Tanks but who's in control of the tanks but before Sid could fly us out of here the Enterprise became collateral damage I'm not sure if we got hit by the Red Wings or the tanks but it sure looks like we took numerous hits well it was nice knowing you guys but it looks like we're going down cile cesil wake up well it turns out that we did not die that day once everything came back into focus it was clear that Sid managed to land the Enterprise without crashing it but sadly it's now unable to fly it looks like we'll have to continue on foot from here but luckily we landed right next to a large Castle I sure hope the residents are friendly inside we've come to the castle of dwarves these must be the ancestors that the people in agart were talking about the dwarves insist that we meet their King a man named giot and they also seem to be aware of gz already inside we can meet the King's Daughter Luca who seems to have lost her dolls I wonder if that could be foreshadowing we won't be able to explore the entire Castle right now until we meet with the King strategically placed Dwarven guards Will Keep Us constrained in a smaller area you will be able to visit this room that contains the inn and a basic item shop you can also find a th000 gold pieces hidden in this pot the item shop now sells cure 2 potions and cabins so it is upgrade from some of the other item shops we've seen the Inn is extremely expensive so hopefully if you needed to use the Inn you did so back in agar we're about to fight a couple bosses and sadly we won't have Sid with us in the party when we do so before you move on from this room we should unequip all of Sid's equipment we may need it later so take off everything everything that Sid has he's going to be leaving our party very soon once you've stripped Sid of all of his gear we can sort our items and make our way to the Dwarven throne room once you set foot inside a cut scene will play out and will begin talking to the king the king is happy where safe but sadly it turns out that gz already got two of the crystals this is not not good the Dwarven tanks have managed to keep goz out of the castle so for now the crystal here is safe I hope it's somewhere secure but more than likely it's in one of those giant crystal rooms there's got to be one of those around here somewhere Sid says that he needs Mystic silver from the Overworld to fix the Airship but if the Airship can't fly how's he going to get back to the world above I suppose that's Sid's problem and not ours because it's at this point that Sid leaves the party the crystal is hidden safely behind the King's throne but then everything goes silent yangong senses something someone Eaves dropping on us cile says that no one is around but we definitely saw something bouncing around in the dark area behind the throne the king gives the order to open the door a dwarf presses a brick and suddenly a hidden passageway Springs open inside of course is a crystal room the door slamed shut behind us and we're locked inside it's at this point that cesil realizes we're not alone in here the four dolls suddenly come to life and start spinning around you can probably guess from this music that these animated dolls are not the friendly type once the dolls finish their intricate dance and all line up in a row they reveal themselves to be the Cal Brena our next boss you fools they say you've doomed yourselves we're going to get you yeah we'll see about that dolls I sure hope these things are easier to kill than Chucky it looked like there were only four dolls but there are actually six three cow and three Brena the cows are a lot more powerful than the Brena but there's a trick to this battle if you ever eliminate all of one type of doll whenever one of the other dolls gets its turn it will combine into the Cal Brena a much more powerful boss that will have to fight if we're smart we can wipe out the dolls in such a way that they'll never form the full cow Brena and that will make our job much easier one of the keys to doing this is having Rosa cast slow on the dolls have her do it twice we don't want these dolls getting their turn one once we've eliminated all of one type there are several ways to defeat all of the dolls without them combining and I think this is the best way so you're going to have Rosa cast slow on all of them twice yangong will use his kick attacks ceile will attack dolls in the back row so he's only going to attack cows and Kane will jump on different cows so you want to spread that damage out a bit once the Brena are gone we need to win the fight very quickly so just have everyone start attacking including Rosa so she should use her aim ability yangong will use a regular attack as will ceile but Kane is going to continue jumping and he missed oh this is not good okay CES will finish the battle anyways if you're very worried about the dolls combining you can have yangong not use his kick attack and you can just intentionally not kill one of the Brena in the front line but let's look at what happens when they do combine if you want the dolls to combine the easiest way to do that is to just take out the three Brena on the right side they only have 300 hit points each so just get rid of those Brena and then you can wait if you wait long enough the cows will form into the four full Cal Brena there are several reasons why you might want the dolls to combine into the full Cal Brena first of all anytime you do a non-lethal physical attack against one of these dolls it will Counterattack you with a physical attack of its own so only attacking the weaker dolls will prevent a lot of those counters also the full Cal Brena is worth5 ,000 experience points while the six smaller dolls on their own are only worth a total of 6,000 the primary danger of the combined Cal Brena is its glance spell which can confuse one of our party members this is particularly disruptive if it targets one of our spellcasters we're going to have Rosa cast slow on the boss to slow it down and also she's going going to cast berserk on yangong so that we'll deal extra damage we want to make sure that we're dealing lots of damage all at once against this boss because if it ever gets below 100 hit points it will turn back into the six smaller dolls and we'll have to fight them all over again we're going to heal Rosa so that she won't be confused anymore but after we heal her she's still going to take one confus Fusion turn before she goes back to normal so it's possible that we'll finish this battle before she even gets another turn oh she cast hold on one of our party members but it doesn't seem like it worked and we will be able to use her normally when she gets her next turn but she never actually did because we defeated the cow Brena and it looks like ceso and yang both gained a level that time the the dolls may be dead but we are not done defending this Castle as soon as they disappear we hear another voice yep it's gold Bez he was able to Simply teleport inside just like any other Evil Genius gz can't help revealing his entire plot I will tell you why I'm gathering the crystals he says they are the keys to reactivate the tower a bad build that leads to the Moon it is said that the moon possesses Powers Beyond human comprehension um are you hearing yourself gz because you sound like a crazy person oh we've been waiting for this we finally get a chance to fight goldz but sadly it is not going well nothing seems to damage this guy all of our attacks Miss goz just laughs before he uses his ultimate trump card a magic spell called hold gas hold Gas makes the entire party paralyzed unable to act yeah this is not good but that's not all he also calls upon a vicious shadow dragon that is able to kill our party one member at a time the dragon uses a technique called demolish which does not care how many hit points you have left this spell simply kills with Kane Rosa and yangong all defeated only cesil is left are you going to hold back again this time gz but then suddenly that white dragon could it be is that Ria's music I hear just in the nick of time before the shadow dragon could demolish cesil a familiar presence is felt I thought all the callers of mist were killed so it can only mean one thing ryia is back and she looks a little bit different now as soon as ryia appears we'll re gain control of the party but don't worry about Reviving everyone cesil and ryia should be able to win this fight on their own just have cesil continuously attack goz he was missing before but now he'll be dealing good damage with his fire sword and ryia should use her Titan call Magic we saw ryia cast Titan back when we first met her but we've never been able to actually use it in battle before and with one Blast from Titan and a few shots from cil's sword gz goes down with only ryia and cesil Alive they're both going to get a lot of experience points but before we move on let's talk about an even easier way to defeat gold Bez before you actually kill the Cal Brena you may want to cast m on the entire party why would we do that you may ask well you'll see whenever we go to fight gold bz just make sure you actually defeat the Cal Brena dolls after you cast mute you don't want them to combine while your party is unable to cast spells the reason for muting the party is simple it's going to make gz's hold gas spell ineffective also if if you can time up a jump at just the right moment you can have cane be off the screen when the shadow dragon starts demolishing the party so he can survive too so that was the hold gas you can see there are no rings around our party members because we are not paralyzed right now the shadow dragon is going to appear and it is going to start demolishing the party where we're not going to be able to stop it from doing that if we get some good damage rolls we'll be able to take a few cheap shots against G Bez as soon as Ria shows up and if we get some good damage rolls we may be able to defeat gz before he's able to take a single action against our party as soon as the M Dragon comes through gz becomes vulnerable so we can start attacking him now and and we landed our jump with Kane at the perfect moment that is more difficult to do but even if you don't time Kane's jump perfectly getting a few extra hits on gz by muting the party will still make this fight a lot easier it should only take one or two more attacks from here and ryia won't even need to use her Titan magic especially not if we hit him for over a th000 damage with cil's attack that will just kill him outright and that is another way that you can fight goz wow I can hardly believe it we did it we defeated goz sure it was because ryia showed up and surprised him but a win is a win and we will not be fighting him again so that was the definitive battle with the boss ryia explains that all although she was swallowed by the Leviathan she wasn't killed by the Beast it just wanted to bring her to the land of summoned monsters and time flows differently there so it's like she was in the hyperbolic Time Chamber for the last 10 years that's why she looks so much older according to ryia the queen of the monsters said that a greater evil is at work here something worse than gz oh no we forgot about gz's immortality Crystal and it seems that his arm is still alive I'm not sure why everyone just stands there and does nothing chase the arm do something cile but it's too late gz's arm grabs the Crystal and disappears what did you think was going to happen if you see gz's arm start moving you got to jump on that thing well good work team that's like the seventh Crystal that we haven't been able to protect the last one is locked in a place called the sealed cave but the king of the dwarves has an interesting idea we can attack the Tower of babill and try to get all of the other crystals back right now King Godot can provide a distraction and we can sneak right in you know it's so crazy that it just might work as soon as we regain control of the game there's a trick that we can perform and a very easy trick at that all we need to do is have ryia cast The Warp spell and will suddenly appear in a crystal room where we can pick up the eighth and final Crystal the one that they said was hidden in the sealed cave well it's not really in the sealed cave at all it seems to be in the Crystal room behind godot's throne but this Crystal is for real you can see it in your inventory it doesn't really do anything right now but if you use that trick you'll be able to skip the sealed cave lat later on we're not going to use that trick but I did want to make you aware of it it's a huge short cut that you'll be able to perform later regardless of whether or not you warped and picked up the crystal the next thing we need to do is go to the Tower of bab Bill and that is actually walking distance from here we just need to use the exit in the castle basement before we leave the castle remember how a lot of it was blocked off before well those Dwarven guards are gone now and we'll be free to explore the entire Castle over here on the right side we can find the weapon and armor shops we'll definitely need to do some shopping over here we just got a new character so we'll want to get some stuff for ryia although the wizard hat is a great helmet for Rosa to use ryia can wear a wizard hat too although if you have it she should probably wear the Tiara instead I think I let the big Chocobo hold our Tiara so I'll have to get that back from him in the meantime we can use a wizard hat on ryia but it won't be as good as it is on Rosa as an adult ryia can't use white magic anymore so she's not going to get much of a benefit from the plus five to willpower we're also going to pick up a few Rune Rings Rune rings are great for our spellcasters because they add plus three to wisdom and willpower so whether you want to cast white magic or black magic rune Rings will make it more powerful so make sure to equip anything that you purchased you definitely want to use the change rod with ryia that's going to be the best weapon for her right now and speaking of weapons let's take a look at the weapon shop yeah there's not a whole lot here that we want to buy right now although if you want to buy Darkness arrows for Rosa to use those could be good but it would be better to give her a weapon that increased her will hidden behind the weapon and armor shop is this little spot called Cafe howdy and if you talk to the one dwarf here he'll do a little dance for you but that's all that's back here there are no Treasures no secret Clues to learn just one dwarf that does a rather uninspired dance so you might be thinking why would they bother to hide this the reason is over on the right side you may see an area that looks like there should be a hidden path behind it well there isn't in the North American version but if you were playing the original Japanese version the difficult one you would find this hidden room where you can talk to the developers now you may not be able to read Japanese so I bought this bootleg cartridge on eBay that has a translation patch applied so we can see what the people here have to say it's really too bad that this area was removed for the version that we got in North America because it's a fun and interesting way to meet the people that made the game some of them even manifest as battles most of the battles that I've found won't damage your party but they play out more like Story battles where you'll see a message from the person that it's representing the developers room is organized into several sections and over here on the left side you'll find a lot of the rookie programmers with the exception of the ones that appear as battles you won't see battles when you get farther onto the right side so if you want to see a lot of these you need to stay over in this area this guy is apparently weak against everything and Tiny yeah not just flying attacks and holy but all nighters girls with glasses everything so that one's a pretty amusing battle he wants to be left alone so he will run away all right cool I guess if we head into the hallway over here on the right we'll be able to speak with the big guy himself Saka Gucci who's represented as a chocob B nice in this room we'll meet a bunch of programmers these guys certainly seem to be overworked like this guy who's represented by a white wizard he seems to remember an entirely different crew of people so yeah that guy might need a break over on the right side we'll meet someone who claims to be the only woman on the final fantasy team and below her we'll learn that it's ruoko Tanaka's final production I hope you like it in this tiny room we'll find the people responsible for the music Ki ETO up here made the sound effects but the guy we're all looking for is the one represented by naming way in the lower left corner that's now buo uatu when you talk to him he'll compliment your taste in music and then offer to play his clarinet I mean by all means play the clarinet would love to hear it but he doesn't seem to want to and if we head back out and go up the stairs down here at the bottom we can find the upper room where the upper management resides Chief programmer Ken Narita doesn't want us to put put in any more events or find any more bugs and was he really in college when he was making this and finally represented by a black mage we meet tokit on he even offers to join our party but he doesn't actually join before we leave we have to look in the bookcase where we'll find the magazine in this translation it's very clear what kind of magazine it is and it makes me wonder did they just put this in the game as a joke or did the upper management really keep racy magazines around the office I mean this was the late ' 80s and early 9s it would not surprise me if that was the case all right we're back here to the good old North American version where you can't get into the developers room let's get back to exploring the castle up here in the right tower we're going to be able to find a bunch of treasure chests and some of them contain excellent items this guy says that the dwarfen king permits us to take whatever treasure we find so I guess we should just pick up everything over on the left you'll find one pot that contains 500 gold pieces but there's nothing else on that middle floor here at the top though there are four chests and at the bottom you'll find an elixir on the right you'll find an ether 2 on the left you'll find an ether one but don't miss the chest at the top that contains the strength ring the strength ring is an awesome accessory that adds plus two to your defense but that's not why it's good it also adds plus five to your strength so that's going to increase any melee attacker damage especially Young's if we cut across to the other side of the castle we'll be able to meet up with a few more dwarves and then we'll find the left Tower which is also filled with treasure so yeah we'll want to check that out for sure once again the guard here encourages us to take the treasure and once again and there's only one pot on this floor that has anything and it contains 500 gold pieces up here at the top you'll see naming way a very strange place to see him indeed but he's not the main draw up here there are four more chests for us to pick up you just need to work your way around the complex hidden passages here the chest at the bottom contains the black belt which is a great piece of armor that not only adds 10 to your defense but it also adds plus five strength and plus five Vitality that is very good considering it's a piece of armor that any of our characters can equip if we take these stairs we'll find that they connect us back to the inn and while we've been here before we haven't been to this room up here on floor B1 will find this small chamber that contains the Dwarven nursing room it seems like this is more of a hospital Wing than a place for Dwarven mothers to go for privacy and it looks like most of the dwarves that are here are just trying to recover from injuries out in this hallway we can find a chocoo stable and there's no chocobos to ride here but there is a place where we can summon the big Chocobo so if you'd like to do some Inventory management you can use a carrot up here to bring up this big chunker we probably have a few things in our inventory that we don't need right now and we should start saving any of our better weapons because later in the game we're going to get a character in our party that can turn any weapon into a one time use projectile so you might want to stock up on items just for that if you did not have a carrot to use for the big chocoo there are three of them in the pots up here these stairs over on the right will take you back to the weapon and armor shop we don't need to go there right now I just wanted to give you an idea of how this Castle is laid out and the way that we actually need to go is through this hidden pass Mage right here talk to the dwarf that's standing next to it and he'll open the door then just follow it over here to the left and we'll find floor B2 this floor not only leads to the basement exit but it also leads to a special pot that can refill our HP and MP for free and also get rid of any status abnormalities that you have so you know we like a free place to stay and this is the best we're going to find down here in the Underworld don't miss the three cabins over on the right side as we get deeper into the game the tents that we have are going to be not good enough after a while we're going to need to use multiple tents to refill our HP and MPS to the maximum well we'll always be able to use just one cabin to get the same effect so cabins are definitely better but it's not like tents are useless use all of your tents first and then start using Cabins this guy knows the plan the tanks will distract the enemy and then we'll sneak right into the tower and up here is the pot of life so this is that pot I was telling you about that will restore your HP and MP looks like everybody's good now before you go outside make sure to give someone the strength ring I'm going to give it to cesil right now because he's always doing a melee attack but yangong could also be a good choice and here we have our first random monster Encounter of the underworld a pair of armadillos these guys aren't very exciting they don't have any special weaknesses and all they do is attack when they get their their turn so just hit them with your melee attacks and you should have no problem defeating them well it's very clear from that battle that we need to change our formation use the change command so that we have two characters in the front and three in the back and then make sure that cile and Yong are in the front line while Kane ryia and Rosa are all in the back line remember Rosa and ryia are spell Masters so they should be in the back lines for protection and Kane's jump ability means that he can attack from the back line with no penalty this time we have five enemies to fight so let's try out some of Ria's new magic the black Liz is weak against ice and all of the other enemies have no Elemental weaknesses so we're going to use the Shiva call spell Shiva is an ice based call spell so it's going to deal a ton of damage to the black Liz and should still deal heavy damage to all the others yep that was definitely enough to clear them all both cesil and Yong gained a level from that encounter so we can take a look at their status cel's up to level 27 right now with 33 strength and 23 willpower yangong has 44 strength wow Yong is insane that guy's going to hit like a truck that is good progress but we need to continue our walk across the underworld here we have two tortoises and an armadillo we've seen the armadillo before but we're not going to see it for long after yangong attacks it the two tortoises are weak against ice magic and we have Ria casting her Shiva spell again honestly the Shiva spell is over kill but we're in an outdoor area right now where we can easily use tents or cabins to get back our magic points so I just don't see a good reason to be conservative right now although as much as I like to see big numbers appear on top of the enemies when I hit them with magic if we had used something like ice to it may have cast a little bit faster let's take a look at ryia and Rosa's status because they both both leveled up that time Rosa has 47 willpower making her just an incredible healer she's going to be an invaluable Ally moving forward don't take that path over to the right it leads to a dead end you need to follow this path to the magma Fields here we have the two armadillos again but we were attacked from behind honestly Kane can handle being in the front row but Rosa taking 180 damage is not good it's a good thing that we have Yong on the team he only dealt 144 damage because he's in the back line and he deals half damage when he attacks from back there but he Charmed the enemy so that guy is going to attack itself finishing the battle for us nice work young you definitely get credit for that one don't worry about walking across the hot cracks in the ground it won't deal you any damage it looks like we've encountered four dark imps and we get to strike first dark imps are certainly more powerful than your garden variety imps but they still don't do anything special and ryia can kill all of them with a single shot of the virus spell as we approach the tower the dwarves will begin to bombard it with their tanks this is the distraction we need with gz and everyone worried about the attack we should be able to slip right in the front door or of course we can just give up the element of surprise and camp out directly in front of the tower it seems like this would be a bad idea but we need to restore our HP and MP and it doesn't actually change anything so make sure to use that tent save the game and head on in because it's time for the Tower of Babel the name Tower of Babel is of course a thinly veiled Biblical reference to the Tower of Babel and our first battle here is against enemies that are similar to the ones we faced outside neither the tortoise nor the dark imp pose a significant threat so just for fun we could turn this dark imp into a pig it doesn't do anything relevant gameplay-wise turning an enemy into a pig will prevent it from casting magic spells and dark amps don't actually cast any magic so while it is funny to turn it into a pig it may be better to just have ryia Perry but those particular enemies are pretty easy to defeat over on the left side you'll find two chests but they only contain ice Arrow there are a lot of Fire based enemies in this dungeon so if you have Rosa equipped with a bow ice arrows are a good upgrade versus the other arrows she might be using so they're probably worth picking up if you're using a bow at all otherwise you may just want to skip past them if you found something like the silent staff earlier you may not have much use for ice arrows something that you may actually use use is this ether one so we'll grab that and then we'll make our way to the door in the center which is labeled a we've certainly seen this configuration of enemies before so we're just going to speed through it if you want to humiliate the dark imp by turning it into a pig feel free and if you want to use any Elemental based attacks against a tortoise ice based ones are the best Kane just leveled up and if we look at his stats they seem very low but that's because he has the drain spear equipped and it reduces all of his stats by 10 and W The Tortoise and the two dark imps again this is one of the most common battles that we'll see on this floor so get used to facing these enemies down here with those guys out of the way we can get back to our climb and we're just heading for the only door in this area the one in the middle so that will bring us up to the second floor and over here on the left side we can find a useful item the bandana the bandana is great this thing adds plus five to vitality and plus five to strength so it's a great item to equip on Yong we'll be facing some different monsters on this floor and this time we have two flame man and two flame dogs we've seen flame dogs before if flame dogs are ever the only remaining enemy type on the battlefield they'll start using their fire attack which can damage the entire party so we'll want to get rid of them first luckily they're in the front of this formation so they're easier for our melee attackers to hit these guys are all weak against ice so ice two will deal significant damage to all of them and Shiva would probably wipe out all four Shiva does take a lot more magic to cast and it also takes longer for it to result so keep that in mind when you're deciding which spell to use unlike ta Rosa has a ton of magic points to work with and she has such a high willpower score that just a few shots of cure one is all that it takes to heal the entire party I love ta for the variety of spells that he could cast but as far as being a Healer goes no one is better than Rosa the door in the center of the map labeled B will take you up to the third floor but there are a couple of smaller rooms here on the second floor that contain excellent weapons that we'll want to visit first we've seen this fight against two flame man and two flame dogs before so we're just going to speed through it and once we've cleared those enemies out and picked up the 10 fire arrows that they dropped we can cure the party and enter the first of these smaller rooms the one that's closest to us contains the blizzard spear an ice-based weapon that only cane can ED the chest containing the spear is protected by monsters but this is just a random encounter whenever you fight an egg as far as the game is concerned it's not really an egg that's a black lizard in Disguise and if you hit it hard enough it will just die so if you dealt more than 700 damage you won't even see the monster that's in it the alert monster Works in a similar way but this thing has a lot more hit points anytime that you hit it it will counter by summoning a monster unlike the egg the alert is not a monster in Disguise it's more like one of those Marion monsters that can summon another monster to the battlefield whenever you hit an alert it counters by summoning a ston man but it won't summon a second ston man until the original one has been cleared so what you want to do is hit the alert one time the stone man will appear and then you can clear out the alert and then finish the stone man so that it won't have a chance to summon a second one unless you're in rested in fighting multiple ston mans for extra experience points I think the blizzard spear is generally better than the drain spear but the drain spear was actually very good in that last battle so maybe we should give it another chance we can always equip the blizzard spear whenever we see fire enemies and well okay here's some fire enemies so I guess we probably should just equip the blizzard Spear and go with it and suppose with the exception of the Marion and the evil dolls all of the random monsters on this floor are weak against ice and use fire type abilities so now is the time to equip all of your ice stuff we'll find more ice type gear on this floor as well including in the chest right in front of us but let's see how this ice spear works on these enemies it's going to deal a ton of damage we still have cesil using the fire sword which is not great against these enemies but they don't absorb melee attacks so they can't actually gain Health from the fire sword they will take lesser damage from it though so we need to find an ice type weapon for cile right away Yong gained another level and before we open the treasure chest here we should make sure to cure the party it's just going to be another one of those alert type enemies inside but you can't run away from monsters that are protecting a treasure so you never want to open a protected Treasure Chest if your characters have low HP I guess to be completely fair if you opened the chest and all of your characters were about to die the alert enemy will never actually attack your party so you could take a moment to heal everyone in battle before you attack it which causes it to summon the Chimera every time an alert summons a new monster you do get additional experience points for killing that monster so if you want to just keep killing chimeras over and over again you can heal your party after you kill off the Chimera before you trigger the alert again you can also heal the alert so that it never dies these are things you can try but we don't really need to use any of these tricks to gain more experience points we're just going to fight the monsters that come to us and that should get us to pretty decent levels it's time to equip the ice brand which is going to make cile incredible in combat and Rosa just leveled up so you can see that now she has 48 willpower Kane can also use the ice brand but Cil can't use the blizzard spear so we should probably have Cil use the sword and Kane will use his very specific weapon because these black Liz enemies are weak against ice Kane hits hard enough from the back row without jumping by using his ice spear that he can still kill one of these guys in a single hit jumping takes a little bit longer than a basic melee attack so you can save a little bit of time by just having him attack instead of jump when you face those enemies once we have the ice brand and the blizzard spear we've picked up all of the items on floor two and we can head up to floor three where we'll find a cat claw the cat claw is just one of the best weapons in the entire game and we may have been able to find one earlier from those p pther enemies that we fought but if you didn't find one yet or even if you did you may want to equip Yong with two cat claws because look at the change plus five strength and plus five agility not only that if you hit an enemy while wearing the cat claw it may fall asleep the cat claw is so powerful that even later in the game when we get Edge a character that can equip swords that actually add add to your attack I still like to equip him with the cat claw because the benefits are just worth it the best thing about the cat claw is that plus five agility means that Yong will just get a lot more turns in battle so you'll notice that his turn just keeps coming up a lot more frequently than many of the other characters and I think an aim shot from some ice arrows should easily get rid of this black Liz and that will do it for this fight we'll take our 780 experience points and it looks like ryia leveled up this time we also found some Medusa arrows cool there are a couple more treasure chests on this floor but none of them are as exciting as the cat claw so if you wanted to skip the other two you wouldn't be missing very much these enemies are all weak against ice so we'll give them a blast of ice two and we'll have Kane attack the black Liz in the back row using his jump attack the ice two may just take out the tortoises right away yep that's what happened so we probably didn't need to use jump so the Kane could get to the back row and we certainly didn't because these enemies are history over here on the right we're going to be able to pick up a cure two which is an okay item and down at the bottom we'll find a life potion which is slightly less exciting we can very easily cast The Life spell with Rosa right now and we'll only really need to use life potions if she dies if you're using a bow with Rosa the Archer bow is a noticeable Improvement it adds plus 20 to attack and it gives a bonus of plus five to strength so it is certainly better than the great bow she had before here we have a somewhat awkward set of Monsters the three tofu are from the flan family and they're blue so these ones are weak against ice magic you won't be able to effectively damage them using melee attacks on the other hand you have the Chimera which absorbs Elemental Magic so you'll want to use ice magic against all of the enemies but if it hits that Chimera is going to heal it what we need to do is have our melee attackers focus on the Chimera while ryia attempts to cast ICE 2 on all of the enemies hopefully between cesil and Yang's attacks and Kane's jump will be able to kill the Chimera before Ria's ice two goes off and then her ice two will simply clear the tofu and win the battle over in this corner will we'll find a life potion and we should probably have Rosa heal the party again a couple of our characters are down to lower amounts of HP so we'll fix up cile and Rosa herself and looks like we're mostly good to go we'll head back through door d and from here we need to go all the way around to the doorway labeled C on the map that's the only way that we'll be able to move on we've been attacked from behind here and we've seen these enemies before but that last fight against the Chimera and the three tofu was not a good Showcase of what that ice brand we found can do this fight on the other hand will be a great test of its abilities we just need to flip our front and back lines here hopefully before RC gets killed she's just flaing her arms all right there we go Kane's going to jump to take out the enemy in the backline Rosa ice Arrows with aim should be very good against a flame dog and there's the ice brand dealing over 2200 damage that's almost twice as much as was needed to take out that flame dog and you can see our party is much better against fire enemies now we did take a bit of a beating because of that attack from behind situation and Rosa was down to 200 something hit points so you need to make sure that you're healing between battles you never know when attack from behind could happen and it could be pretty bad we made it over here to dorc well we almost did but first we have to face two whole black lizes well these guys are not going to last long against the ice brand and the blizzard Spar yeah yangong didn't even have a chance to attack that time we didn't get a a whole lot out of it but at least we can move on upstairs good news everyone over here on the left side of the fourth floor we'll find a save point where we can use a tent or perhaps a cabin and we'll be able to refill our HP and MP and of course we'll be able to save the game so don't forget to do that if you were to die you would not want to go back to the beginning of this Tower or the last time that we saved so take advantage of this save point and then we'll be able to continue our journey up the tower we'll need to go across this bridge to proceed and up here on floor 4 there's a slightly different set of monsters for us to fight and this time we're facing two chimeras we've seen chimeras before and we know that they're resistant to most types of black magic but what do they actually do well not a whole lot it turns out they'll mostly just fight whenever they get their turn and they don't do any types of counterattacks if a chimera is the only remaining monster it will use its Blaze magic against the party which can hit multiple party members and there's the blaze magic right there that Blaze is pretty powerful so once there's only one Chimera left you want to get rid of it quickly chimeras are worth a good amount of experience points and after that battle Kane leveled up let's take a look at his status I'm sure that his stats are going to be much higher now that he's not using that drain Spear and they absolutely are some of our characters took a bit of a beating in that battle so Rosa can cure us and then we'll be able to continue on over on the right side of this map we'll find several small rooms a couple of which contain treasure the treasures that we'll find are good ones but the treasure chests are protected by monsters again it's just those alert enemies and we've seen these before this time whenever we hit the alert it's going to summon a Naga so there it is a green Naga the Naga has no particular weakness and once we've summoned the Naga we will want to clear out the alert so that it won't be able to summon another one after we clear out the first Naga this Naga only has 900 hit points and it is vulnerable to stop magic stop magic will make it stop taking actions entirely as you can see that Naga is not doing anything right now once those enemies enies are destroyed will be able to collect our reward the ice Shield the ice Shield is slightly better defensively than the fire Shield but that's not why it's exciting it will protect us from Fire based attacks and it has the downside of making us weak against ice based attacks but we're already wearing the fire armor when wearing the fire armor and the ice Shield at the same time we'll get all the resist resistance to both Fire and Ice without the weakness so resistances overrate weaknesses in this game that's how it works in this room we'll be able to pick up the ice armor which is another great item but before we can get to that we'll have to go through this one Chimera chimeras are resistant to most types of black magic but they're not resistant to viruses and here we have two chimeras that we have to to face before we can get to the chest they really don't want us to get there but one Chimera two chimeras it doesn't make much of a difference we'll have our melee attacks focus on the Chimera in the front and we'll have ryia finish off the one in the back with a well-timed virus spell so that should easily get us through this battle and we can finally attempt to open that Treasure Chest believe it or not this this chest contains another one of those alert monsters although this one can summon a flame dog so this is the most dangerous alert we've faced thus far of course when we faced flame dogs before the fire armor that ceso was wearing would have been a vulnerability but now that he's paired it with the ice Shield he won't have a weakness to fire at all in fact cesil is resistant to fire even though he's wearing that fire armor this would be very obvious if the flame dog used its Fire magic against us but our party is just too powerful that flame dog never stood a chance CLE managed to level up here and we were able to pick up that ice armor now if you were only worried about defense you would want to equip both the ice armor and the ice Shield but it makes a lot more sense to equip the ice armor which has higher defense than the fire armor but then pair it with the fire Shield so that you get the benefits of both resistance to Fire and Ice sacrificing a few points of Defense to be resistant to ice magic instead of weak against it is almost certainly worth it and here we have the Chimera with the three tofu again just like we did previous ly we're going to have all of our melee attackers focus on the Chimera and we're going to have ryia cast ice to so that she can clear out the tofu we won't want to use any melee attacks against the tofu enemies because it's just not going to work and the ice two went off a little bit early here so that actually healed the Chimera it's not going to matter though once Kane landed on him he was dead anyways just as we always do we'll cure the party and then we will continue working our way to the upper left corner where we're going to find the doorway labeled e on the map that will bring us up to the next floor so that's where we need to go we're just going to keep heading over here and before we can make it we have to face two tortoise and two black Liz you'd think a giant tortoise monster with the hard spiky shell and alligator teeth would have higher defense but these guys can be easily dealt with using melee attacks and of course ice to should wipe out any enemies that are still remaining whenever Ria manages to cast it you certainly don't have to cast something like Shiva which takes longer and costs more magic points doesn't look like we're even going to need the ice too although we might cast it here oh yeah little bit of overkill for that black Liz that probably only had less than 200 hit points remaining but we got out of the battle and that's all that matters so we'll just keep heading towards the door and there it is this floor is a little bit more straightforward there's not a lot of treasure up here this chest contains 2,000 gold so you might want to grab this one or you may just want to walk by it it's not that critical that you pick it up the door in the middle is locked right now that's why it's red on your map so we can't go into door F at the moment so we're just going to ignore it and walk by floor five has some different enemy configurations but we've definitely seen three black Liz before so we know what to do here just hammer away at them with your melee attackers and because we have so many ice based weapons at this point these guys should easily be defeated gradual petrification against Ria is not going to do a whole lot it might slow her down a smidge but the battle will be over before she ever turns to Stone so we're walking right past the stairs that lead you to Door F because it's locked and we can't get in there and we can see Treasure Chest number 15 over here which contain contains the Cure too so we'll add that to our inventory and then we'll make our way towards door G which will take us up to the next floor we can't access this entire floor right now so we'll just go through door H and continue to floor 7 here on floor 7 we are very close to the top of the tower and we're also very close to the next boss battle so now is a great time to use a tent or a cabin and save the game while we're here we picked up some new armor in this Tower and Kane can actually wear a lot of the same equipment that cesil can so we should probably give him some of our hand me- down items or the ice Shield which is actually better than the one that CLE is using right now with the ice shield and the fire armor he will also have the benefit of protection against ice and fire magics without the weaknesses that he would normally get from those items well here's a new enemy type we haven't seen before a Medusa medusas will use a technique called Ray that inflicts gradual petrification against your party members whenever the Medusa is with other enemies whenever a Medusa is alone it will attempt to fight your party but we didn't give it much of a chance to do that this time Rosa and yangong gained a level and we can take a look at their status at level 29 yangong has 49 strength 44 vitality and 29 agility which is just incredible and Rosa has 49 willpower and along with that she learned the size spell which we won't use very much in combat but we may use to cure the mini status on our our own characters on this floor you may run into an alert enemy that's not protecting a treasure chest and whenever you attack it it will spawn one of three possible enemies a Naga a flame dog or a chimera whichever one it summons if you clear out the Chimera and then attack the alert again it will always summon the same enemy type so if it summons a NGA the first time it's not going to summon a flame dog the second time it'll just keep making more nagas keep that in mind if you're trying to farm them for experience points let's assume for a moment that you did want to use these alert enemies to try to get large amounts of experience points well you want to try to hit the alert to trigger the enemy appearing with an attack that's not going to deal a lot of damage so that you'll be able to hit that alert mult multiple times without killing it this time we summoned aaga and anaga is one of the easiest enemies to kill of the ones that could be summoned by the alert although I think if you want to try to farm levels using this enemy type you want to look for one that summons chimeras because those give you 2300 experience points each and they only have 700 hit points so you get a lot of bang for your buck if you take damage while you're trying to farm these enemies once you've cleared out the Naga you could cure your characters using magic before you hit the alert and summon another enemy the alert itself will never try to attack you and we'll just sit there identifying objects until you finally make it summon something so basically we're just trying to quickly remove the Naga as soon as it appears and then we'll hit the alert to get another one like some kind of weird mechanical pinata it would be nice if our attacks were killing the naga in a single hit we're getting really close hitting it at over 800 damage but we need to be hitting at over 900 to clear it in a single shot and we'll just make one more Naga appear here we'll try to finish off this battle this time and you'll be able to see how many experience points we can gather from just a single battle by using this technique now that you've seen this in action and you have a good understanding of how this enemy type Works later on in the game we're going to meet a more powerful version of the alert and I'll show you a trick where we'll be able to gain so many experience points that our characters will gain multiple levels in just a few minutes so that's going to be a little bit down the road but but keep that in mind for later one last thing that I'll say about these alert enemies for now is that because they don't actually attack you they are very easy to run away from if you simply don't want to deal with them after picking up The Ether 2 from the chest we'll head through the door labeled eye on the map which will bring us up to the eighth floor where it's time for us to face a boss Dr lugay and balnab so make sure everyone is cured up and ready to go before you approach this guy one more shot of cure one from Rosa should do it almost everyone is at full health except for Yang but I think that's going to be close enough as we get closer to the doctor we overhear him having a conversation with someone named rubic Rubicon vanishes before we can learn more about him and the doctor still doesn't know that we're here he not only doesn't know that we're here but he bounces around like a little kid that just got left home alone for the first time he is very excited to be the leader of this Tower right now well we had the element of surprise until ryia had to open her mouth now the doctor knows that we're here and it seems like he was waiting for CES to arrive Kane tells the doctor that he should call for help don't give him any ideas Kane who s are you on here well it looks like we have no choice it's time to face Dr lugay and his beloved child balnab similarly to when we fought the Cal Brena we want to try to evenly distribute the damage to both of these bosses so that we can try to clear them at almost the same time if we fail to do so and kill the doctor first balnab will explode dealing heavy damage to one of our party members and we still need to fight another battle after this so would rather that didn't happen if we kill balnab first then we'll have to fight another boss called balnab Z and that boss is much more powerful Ros do slow spell can help out here when one of the two bosses dies the other one will need to actually get its turn to explode or combine into the Ball naab Z ryia should use her Titan spell which will deal heavy damage to both bosses and beyond that we just want to try to evenly distribute our attacks to the bosses with our melee attackers using Kane to attack Dr lugay with his jump because Dr lug is in the back row and trying to evenly hit the other two you'll likely get rid of lugay first but if you time everything up correctly we'll be able to finish ball NAB off before he can explode but let's take a look at balnab Z if you want to see this boss simply clear out balnab as quickly as you can and wait for Dr lugay to get his turn he'll say I'll operate him directly now and then we'll be able to fight the combined form of the boss ideally you'd like to avoid facing balnab Z this thing hits super hard with 114 attack power and if you don't kill it fast enough it'll do that explode attack which will deal heavy damage to one of your party members so you need to go all out against this guy use Ria's virus spell have r that cast slow on it so that it won't get to the explosion turn quite as quickly and don't worry about healing anyone you just have to go all in against this monster with a good Focus you will be able to defeat balnab Z but I said before that there's a second boss that we need to face here and this time it's going to be doct lugay alone honestly this battle is a lot easier than the previous one assuming that none of your characters are in critical condition you may want to have yangong switched to the thunderclaw keep the catclaw on but this guy counts as a Mech so the thunderclaw will make Yong deal insane amounts of damage to him Dr luga's first move is to transform into the mech and then immediately poison the entire party this will deal damage over time that's why it matters if any of your party or are in critical condition because for the rest of the fight Dr lugay won't deal that much damage with his remaining attacks we can have Rosa cast slow so that Dr lug gets even fewer turns in battle but with Yong using the thunderclaw he could almost win this fight on his own two shots from him and a couple attacks from our other characters should be able to easily win this battle and with that Dr Luke J is defeated ryia gained a level so I guess that's the good news the bad news is Rubicon took all of the crystals so they aren't here for us to get back even worse doct lug has some sort of super cannon and he's going to use it to annihilate the dwarf Castle this is not good we need to stop that super cannon but that's all the time we have left in this episode make sure to join us next time where we'll finally explore the underworld we'll earn the most powerful summon magic in the game and we'll go Toe to Toe with the fourth and final fiend of the elements until then thanks for [Music] watching
