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XENOGEARS FAQ v0.2
for the Sony PlayStation (American Version)
mantained by Ignacio de Lucas
(de_lucas@yahoo.com)
originally co-written with Kao Megura
Unpublished work Copyright 1998 Ignacio de Lucas
This FAQ is for private and personal use. It can only be reproduced
electronically, and if placed on a web page or site, may be altered
as long as this disclaimer and the above copyright notice appear
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promotional purposes. This includes being incorporated, reprinted,
or otherwise used by magazines, books, guides, etc., in ANY way.
The Japanese version of this FAQ was created by Ignacio de Lucas and
Kao Megura. Currently, this American version is being mantained by
Ignacio de Lucas . All copyrights and trademarks
are acknowledged that are not specifically mentioned in this FAQ.
Xenogears is (c) Square Soft and (c) Sony Entertainment of Japan.
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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
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1. U P D A T E S / I N T R O D U C T I O N
2. D I S C O N E W A L K T H R O U G H
3. D I S C T W O W A L K T H R O U G H
4. S E C R E T S
5. A C T I O N R E P L A Y / G A M E S H A R K C O D E S
6. P L A Y I N G T H E G A M E
- Characters
- Controls
- Main Menu
- Sleeping and Shopping
- Battles
7. L I S T S A N D C H A R T S
- Item List
- Character Equipment List
- Character Weapon List
- Gear Equipment List
- Gear Weapon List
- Skills, Abilities and Gear Options Lists
- Status Effects
- Selling Prices
8. M A P S
- Yggdrasil Map
- Bledavik Waterway Map
9. M I S C E L L A N E O U S
- "Small Two of Pieces" Lyrics
10. L I N K S
11. S P E C I A L T H A N K S
12. A U T H O R ' S N O T E
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1 . U P D A T E S / I N T R O D U C T I O N
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UPDATES ________________________________________________________________
Version 0.2 (November 5, 1998)
Since I (shock!) actually have the game now, I was able to check and
correct quite some things, especially the walkthrough, which has also
been expanded and now covers up to the fight against the Kefeinzel Gun.
This has taken a lot of time and left my eyes bleeding, but it's been
worth it. Now let me die in peace.
Ah, so they went ahead and changed the item names from the demo version,
huh? OK, I revised all lists and set everything straight (phew!).
Added "Selling Prices" to "Charts".
Added "Status Effects" to "Charts".
Added all Gear Skills to "Charts".
Added "Bledavik Waterway Map" to, of all sections, "Maps".
Added "Action Replay / Game Shark Codes" section
Added the location of Fei's savings and the Mermaid Earring, thanks to
Stuart Logan (Sturat@webtv.net). Thanks also to Mike Bridge (z964453@
wheat.farm.niu.edu) for Fei's savings too.
Added the location of a Spider thanks to Strahinja "Strasa" Acimovic
(victor_tzimisce@ hotmail.com) and again Stuart Logan (Sturat@webtv.net)
Added a strategy to beat the "Rock, Scissors, Paper" guy at Lahan thanks
to Strahinja "Strasa" Acimovic (victor_tzimisce@hotmail.com)
Corrected a mistake thanks to Brian Youn (bwa@us.ibm.com): Attack Levels
1, 2 and 3 do not multiply the amount of fuel recovered with a Charger
(as Level Infinite does), but rather, add 20, 40 and 60 to that amount.
Made lots and lots of small corrections, mostly on names from the
Japanese version. Everything should be correct now, but I know it won't.
Version 0.1 (October 15, 1998)
First version of the US FAQ, released before even the game itself. Already
contains almost complete (?) item, Abilities and Skill lists, except for
Gear Skills and some other things.
Also contains the beginning of the walkthrough from the Japanese FAQ,
translated and somewhat modified (added some items that can be obtained
at Lahan). I've almost completelly rewritten the Battle section under
Playing the Game, which was fragmented and incomplete (no Skill
explanation! Ulp!).
All in all, this is much like version 0.7 of the Japanese FAQ, adapted
for the US release, and with a couple of additions.
INTRODUCTION ___________________________________________________________
Long time no see! Well, I stopped working on the Japanese version of the
Walkthrough quite some time ago, since I didn't really feel like finishing
the game again in Japanese with the US release so close. I'm spending all
my free time in playing the game and writing this walkthough, though
unfortunatelly "all my free time" is not that much.
OK, this is how things are now. K.M. ended up getting tired of the game,
and so he won't purchase the US version. So that means that the FAQ will
be mantained exclusively by me from now on. Since I absolutelly love
the game, there's no way I can't get enough of it, so for those of you
that thought I got tired, don't worry, that'll never happen (I hope).
As mentioned above, this FAQ is based on the American version of Xenogears.
It seems that Square has finally redeemed themselves in their (IMO) only
fault (that is, translation quality). I'm happy to see that the quality in
Xenogears' translation is amazing, back up to the times of Ted Woolsey or
so. This couldn't be more in time, also, since in my opinion Xenogears is
the real masterpiece in Square's history (kicking some serious backside of
pretty much everything else).
ALL information in this FAQ applies to the American version of the game
only, ESPECIALLY the Action Replay / Game Shark codes. They will NOT work
in the Japanese version. If you happen to have that version, you should
check GameFaqs for the Japanese version of this FAQ. Note, however, that
its walkthrough is incomplete and discontinued, and that I probably won't
be updating the FAQ itself at least until I finish the US game, but you can
use the walkthrough in this (the US) version to help you. The reason for
this is that I didn't write a walkthough the first time through, and hearing
the news of a US release, I didn't thought it was wise playing it through
again in Japanese.
Well, remember that I'm Spanish, which means English is my second language.
So expect errors. Tons of them ^_^;.
Finally, I won't answer questions by e-mail. Believe me, after two weeks of
spending 1-2 hours a day answering mail, I just had to say "enough". I don't
really mind replying, but it takes way too much time, which I can't afford.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't ask: if I'm able, I'll answer your questions
in the next revision of the FAQ. Also, if you do write me for whatever
reason and are expecting a reply, please allow for one or two weeks before
I do so. As I said, I'm very busy, sorry.
You can contact me at:
BTW, I take advantage of this to make all people who have read any of my
other old FAQs (Final Fantasy Tactics, Bloody Roar, Alundra or Einhander)
note that my e-mail address has changed! Apparently I've been receiving
some mail at that address and I can NOT reply to any of it. Note, however,
that I won't be answering any question related to these games (I don't
play them anymore) nor will I be accepting contributions since I won't
update the FAQs either, so...
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2 . D I S C O N E W A L K T H R O U G H
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Until this walkthrough is finished, remember that you can find David
Johnson's complete walkthrough at:
About the monsters: The information is arranged like this:
Name of monster
How many HP it has, then, experience and money it awards when beaten,
and optionally, items obtained by beating it.
"Character-sized" or "Gear-sized", then a physical description.
Optionally, techniques it uses, sometimes with an explanation.
Most of the info is self-explanatory. The bit about "character-sized"
or "Gear-sized" means whether if it is a character-sized, hand-drawn
enemy or a Gear-sized, polygonal one. You'll understand as you play...
BTW, the HP ratings have been obtained by editing the PSX's memory so they
have 100% accuracy. This is also how I obtained the HP of indestructible or
even untargettable enemies (or allies).
The monster info's format is provisional, since I plan on separating the
monster list from the walkthrough once I finish it. I know it's a bit
bothersome having them intertwined like this, but it's a lot easier for me
to handle. Be patient.
Another thing to note is that some enemies award different amounts of
Experience and G when encountered at different times of the game. This is
especially notable in battles that are fought at certain points of the
story. For example, the first time you encounter a Trooper, its description
is:
Trooper
HP 180, Exp 180, G 250
Gear-sized. One-eyed desert Gear.
But from there on, when you find a Trooper in a random encounter, its stats
will be as follows:
Trooper
HP 180, Exp 250, G 100. Leaves Extra Ar.
Gear-sized. One-eyed desert Gear.
even though it's exactly the same enemy. Since it would be a mess to list
all variants, I'm only listing the stats for the first time you meet a given
kind of enemy.
As a final note, I will try not to describe anything happening in
conversations and sequences, to minimize the risk of spoiling things for
people. I won't tell you to talk to any people but the neccesary ones
either, but this doesn't mean you shouldn't. In fact, one of the many high
points of Xenogears is that about everyone has something to say that is
worth listening to. So improve your social skills! ^_^;
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W A L K T H R O U G H S T A R T
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E P I S O D E 1 : L a h a n V i l l a g e
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L a h a n V i l l a g e
Items in this area: Aquasol x5, Aquasol S, Spider Web, Eyeball,
Power Ring, RPS Badge, 120 G
After the FMV showing the crash of a huge ship into your planet long
ago, and the non-interactive sequence showing a glimpse of the present,
you'll find yourself reconstructing the sequence of events that led
there. In other words, you begin playing a flashback.
Your main character is Fei.
Fei's initial equipment: Martial Wear, Martial Cap, Stamina Ring.
Fei's initial items: None.
Fei's initial money: 100 G.
The control switches to you after Fei finishes his picture. You can
check the nice pictures he's done in this very room. Check Fei's bed
and he'll pick up his savings, 200 G. Thanks to Stuart Logan (Sturat@
webtv.net) and Mike Bridge (z964453@wheat.farm.niu.edu) for this. You can
also sleep here whenever you want to recover all your HP / EP to full).
In the northern room of this very floor you can talk to a maid who
will tell you of your arrival to Lahan town. In the westernmost room
there are two barrels containing one Aquasol each. Also in this room,
you can jump up to grab the Spider Web on the wall. It's a background
item that serves no purpose.
Up the stairs then. Here you can talk to Timothy (Alice's fiancee and
Fei's friend) and Lee (the village chief and sort of Fei's foster father)
among others. When you try to leave, Dan (Alice's brother) will come in
and ask you to talk to him outside.
Talk to Dan outside if you want. I don't think the choice you have to
make here affects the game in any way.
You can also listen to the woman by the cow and tell her that what she
says makes sense (well it does). You'll receive another AquaSol.
Generally speaking, I've found that every single of Xenogears's
inhabitants have something either insightful or funny to say (sometimes
both... whatever they are paying the translator, it's too little).
If you want more Aquasol, talk twice to the old man next to the cow
behind the elder's house. Then talk to him again for yet another
Aquasol.
Throw yourself into the well a few times. Really! You'll get an Eyeball
the first time, an Aquasol S the second and a Power Ring the third.
There are quite some buildings in the town outside. For one, there's
a shop which sells:
Character Items:
Aquasol 20
Rosesol 100
Omegasol 50
Survival Tent 150
BTW, never EVER buy Survival Tents. Get Omegasol instead. The reason for
this is that they have the same cost/effect ratio (since the Tents heal
all three characters, but cost thrice as much), but Tents MUST be used
on all characters AND they can only be used in save spots!
There is also a bar, in which you can talk to the customers (often
resulting in quite funny dialogue ^_^). Talk to the drunk man and
tell him that drink won't make his situation any better, and he'll
give you the Mermaid Tear, which will be useful later. Thanks again
to Stuart Logan (Sturat@webtv.net) for this.
Upstairs, you can find a mother and his daughter, and talk to them.
Another house has a guy playing rock, paper, scissors. If you decide to
challenge him, you'll have to select the option quite quickly (as you
would in a real RPS game). Each time you win, he'll give you 50 G, and
each time you lose, he'll take 50 G from you (fair enough ^_^). However,
should you manage to beat him five times in a row, he'll give you the
"Mythical RPS Hero Badge" (AKA RPS Badge), which will be useful later.
How to beat him? Well, Strahinja "Strasa" Acimovic (victor_tzimisce@
hotmail.com) has just come in to the rescue with a nifty hint that will
help quite a bit (I'm editing it a bit for reasons of context):
There IS a way that you can increase your chances of winning. It is not
COMPLETELY random. The critical key here is that once the man is beaten
he will always change his signs. At that point you want to pick the sign
that will not lose. Allow me to show an example: You throw paper and he
throws rock. He'll lose, which means he WILL change signs. The
remaining options are scissors and paper. Scissors will defeat paper but
paper can't beat scissors. Throw scissors and you will tie at WORST, win
at best. If you tie ---- good luck, that I have found is completely
random. On the other hand this little strategy will increase your
chances greatly.
See Strasa's point? Assuming you won the previous round, your chances are
now 1/2 of winning and 1/2 of tying, and if you tie now, you have 1/3 of
losing, 1/3 of winning and 1/3 of losing. Since if you tie, you'll have
to draw again with the same chances over and over, it could be considered
as 1/2 of winning and 1/2 of losing.
So that's 1/2 of winning straight, and 1/2 * 1/2 of winning if you tie.
That makes 3/4 of winning each time instead of 1/2, which is quite an
improvement! So, to win 5 times in a row, you must win the first game by
pure luck (1/2), then four more by using Strasa's tactic (3/4), so in the
end it is 1/2 * (3/4) ^4 = 81/512 = 15.82% instead of (1/2)^5 = 1/32 =
3.125%, almost five times as much chance as before! Quite an improvement,
huh? Also, since you win more often than you lose, you'll end up gaining
money.
Of course, if you happen to own an Action Replay or Game Shark, you can
still just use my "have won 4 RPS games in a row" code, and just win a
fifth. I'm not sure if you can find and challenge him later in the game,
or obtain the RPS Badge otherwise, so don't overlook this event.
In this very house, you can talk to the woman downstairs and choose
the first option to receive 120 G.
There's the village consultant's house too (it's the typical "tutorial"
place). It would be a good idea to check the explanations on Skills and
so on. Since the translation quality is so high, the explanations are
quite clear, and even interesting.
Lucca from Chrono Trigger will explain the save procedure (and she IS
Lucca ^_^! Answer "no" when she asks you about hearing her explanation!).
You can also ask the village's consultant about general battle commands,
and the guy in front of him about Abilities and Skills. This guy will
give you 80 G if you ask him about Death Blow Skills. Lastly, the woman
will tell you about spinning the view using L1 and R1.
You might want to wander outside the town (but not by its northern
side, which leads to the mountain) to check the world map. Since you'll
have to go out of the town later anyway, enemies you can find there are
explained later.
You can also go to the mountain North of Lahan if you want, but you'll
be going there in a moment anyway, so...
When you're done, go to the house which has a woman at its door and
talk to her. Go through the door and up the stairs to meet Alice.
Once the scene's over, go to the mountain north of the village. This
is the first "dungeon" of sorts.
L a h a n M o u n t a i n
Items in this area: Aquasol x2, Bird Egg, Spider
Enemies in this area:
Hobgob
HP 15, Exp 2, G 0. Leaves Hob-Jerky. Leaves Hob-Steak if defeated
with a fire-elemental attack.
Character-sized. Potato-like thing ^_^;
Uses "Gobble-gobble/HP Absorb". Absorbs HP on an amount equal to one
fifth of a character's maximum HP.
Jackal
HP 14, Exp 3, G 0.
Character-sized. Blue wolf-like creature.
Uses "Jackal Tackle". Physical attack.
Now that we're talking about that, the bit about roasting the Hobgobs to
get Hob-Steaks is extremelly useful, specially when you get Elly later
on (which has fire-elemental Ethers). Hob-Steaks recover 150 HP (but
can't be used in battle) and can be sold for 150 G.
In the first crossroad where the save spot is, take the West path for the
shortest route, or the East for a longer one (including a jump) during
which you can get an Aquasol. Anyway, you'll end up in a platform with a
boy on it. Here, you can go back East and drop to the ledge with a tree,
then jump up to grab a Bird's Egg (choose the first option). However its
owner won't be too pleased about it, and it will follow you to the end of
this section demanding you to return the egg. Each time you answer no
(bottom option), it'll peck you for 1 damage. It'll go away if you enter
Lahan but it'll be back on top of your head if you go back into the
mountain.
Anyway, you'll have to drop back down and repeat your way until the
platform with the boy. He'll tell you to make a running jump across the
ledge. Do so, then cross the bridge. After that you can jump down to get
(you guessed it) another Aquasol. Then climb back up, but before you exit
North, check the tree that's to the West of the sign. Jump up to reach
its branches and a spider will appear. Don't be afraid of it, and just
jump again and grab it. It will be useful later. Thanks to Strahinja
"Strasa" Acimovic (victor_tzimisce@ hotmail.com) and Stuart Logan
(Sturat@webtv.net) for this tip.
C i t a n ' s H o u s e
Items in this area: Aquasol, Midori's Ring
Head to the back door of the house. There will be some flowers there,
leaving a small space between them and the wall of the building. Well,
jump over to that space, then search the flowers from that side to
receive Midori's Ring (it doesn't show up in the item list).
You can also check the top of a rock near that: there is bird food
over it (it doesn't serve any purpose, though). You can even check
them again and the message will be different (this happens a lot in
this game).
After that, check the door in the middle floor of the observatory. A
chicken will pop up ^_^ but if you search where it came from, there's
an Aquasol.
Elsewhere, you can explore the place at your leisure. The top floor's
room has a ladder that leads to a telescope, with which you can check
a bit of the world map.
Inside the room at ground level of the building, you'll meet Citan's
wife, Yui, and daughter, Midori. Talk to Yui, and, if you have it,
Fei'll give her the Bird Egg. Note that Fei won't give Midori her ring,
though! ^_^;
Now head to the building with the Land Crab over it (that insect /
helicopter machine). Enter it after the sequence, and touch the music
box in there. This will trigger some sequences.
After the sequence, it will be at night. If you brought the Bird Egg to
Yui, she'll comment on how it improved the meal, and there'll be a
comment about how Fei has gained some weight (this is actually true,
since he begins at 167.2 and weights 189.2 after the meal if you brought
the egg ^_^;).
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E P I S O D E 2 : F a l l e n S h a d o w s
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L a h a n M o u n t a i n
Head back to Lahan through the mountain. There are no monsters now. Save
at the Memory Cube if you want.
L a h a n T o w n
After another sequence, a Gear battle will ensue. Refer to the
appropriate section for controls, etc...
Battle :
Musha Mk100 x2
HP 150, Exp 90 (each), G 50 (each).
Gear-sized. Somewhat old-looking war Gear.
Really easy. You'd have problems trying to lose against them.
Some dramatic events will follow now. Once the sequences are over,
you'll find yourself in the world map again.
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E P I S O D E 3 : I n t o T h e W o o d s
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W o r l d M a p
Enemies in this area:
Hobgob
Hopper
HP 100, Exp 8, G 0. Leaves Fencing Wear.
Character-sized. Two-legged green creature.
Lil' Kobold
HP 35, Exp 3, G 0. Leaves Fencing Hat.
Character-sized. Kobold (goblin-alike) with a bow.
You can't enter Lahan (rather, there's not much Lahan left to enter to),
but you can go to the mountain instead. Don't, though.
Head for the forest West of where you are, and find an entrance on its
north-easthern border.
B l a c k m o o n F o r e s t
f i r s t s e c t i o n
Items in this area: Aquasol
Enemies in this area:
Hobgob
Jackal
Armor Grub
HP 7, Exp 35, G 0. Leaves Bizfruit.
Character-sized. Armored insect-like creature. All physical attacks
inflict 1 damage (including Skills), so use either Triangle attacks or
the "Guided Shot".
During this dungeon, you will find Hobgobs around. You can "talk" to
them to fight them, but beware that you won't be able to run from these
battles.
Proceed SW until the crossroad. Take the leftmost (easthernmost) path.
Jump to the small rock, then to the big, stepped one. Jump up the steps
to the fallen tree-trunk. Walk over it until you come across another
tree-trunk over which this is leaning. Jump down to its left (SW) side
and grab the (sigh) Aquasol. Go all the way to the SW and climb the rock
with the tree roots on it to reach the Memory Cube. Continue through the
winding ledge to reach another tree-trunk. Fight the Hobgob group
standing before the rock. You have three options now: A) Get rolled over
by the boulder (-5 HP), B) Run Indiana Jones-like all the way through the
tree only to realize there's no more tree and you have to jump down to
almost the start, or C) jump to the ledge you came from as soon as you
see it moving. You guessed it: C) is the right answer. After that, jump
back and continue through where the boulder was.
There'll be an anime scene introducing (yes!! Yes!!) Elly now, after
which you'll fight two enemies.
Battle :
Forest Elf x2
HP 41, Exp 21 (each), G 0 (each). Leaves Zetasol (each).
Character-sized. Blue humanoid.
Again, it'll take less than two rounds. After this, there'll be another
scene, then you'll be in the next part of the forest.
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E P I S O D E 4 : G i r l I n F o r e s t
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B l a c k m o o n F o r e s t
s e c o n d s e c t i o n
Items in this area: Aquasol, Survival Tent, Arcane Rod
Enemies in this area:
Dive Bomber
HP 30, Exp 19, G 0.
Character-sized. Green, raven-like bird (yeah, I know ravens are
black! :P).
Uses "Watches in wait". This basically makes them lose a turn, but they
can't be hit using physical attacks when they're on a tree.
Uses "Flutter". Flaps wings for a three hit combo.
Forest Elf
HP 41, Exp 21, G 0. Leaves Zetasol.
Character-sized. Blue humanoid.
Elly has joined you at this point.
Elly's initial equipment: Magical Rod, Pilot Uniform, Ether Stone,
Anti Eth Stone.
Go south to the crossroad. To the right (West) is an Aquasol. Go back and
take the left (East) path, then continue South to another crossroad. The
left (North) path leads to a fallen tree which tilts under your weight
allowing you to go back to the first section, but it's not too useful, is
it? Take the right (South) path then. Just before the jump, you can turn
to the West and jump down to a platform containing a chest with an Arcane
Rod for Elly. From here, you have no choice but to jump down and continue
NE up to the first crossroad of the section. Like before, go East, then
South, but this time jump across the gap. You'll find a Memory Cube and a
chest containing a Survival Tent. After that, continue through the stone
bridge to trigger a fight.
Battle :
Forest Elf x2, Dive Bomber x2
Just the same as a regular battle, but it is always triggered when
crossing the bridge (or jumping over the gap). Also, you can't run
from this one.
Right after the fight, there will be another scene with some anime,
then Elly will leave the party and she will be attacked by the Rankar
(Star Wars, anyone?). However, if you didn't get the Arcane Rod before,
you can (quite unpolitely) hop to the ledge North of the one you're
standing on to get it (uh, it's for her, so I guess she won't get
mad at you ^_^;). However, this way you won't get to use it until much
later (since Elly's no longer in your party). You can get the Rod even
later if you want to be a gentleman, though. You can also save in the
Memory Cube if you want. Go SW after that to face the Rankar.
Boss:
Rankar Dragon
HP 99999, Exp 348, GP 0. Leaves Scales.
Gear-sized. Tyrannosaur-like.
There's no way you can win this battle on foot (not without an Action
Replay, anyway), so just select "defend" for a while until Citan
arrives in the Land Crab with the Weltall.
Boss:
Rankar Dragon
HP 480, Exp 348, GP 0. Leaves Scales.
Gear-sized. Tyrannosaur-like.
Uses . Causes "Slow".
When inside the Weltall, alternate between Cross attacks to charge
your Attack Level (you have plenty of fuel and the Rankar's evade
rate is quite low), and Triangle, Triangle Skills to use it. Remember
than the single attacks will charge your Attack Level even if they miss.
Cross attacks inflict around 70 damage and T,T Skills around 140.
The Rankar will use an attack which causes "Slow" but there's not
much you can do about it. Anyway, he should be out in about eight
rounds.
After then, there'll be a scene. Elly will leave, and Citan
will join. Finally, you'll leave the Blackmoon Forest.
Citan's initial equipment: Fencing Wear, Glasses, Step Shoes.
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E P I S O D E 5 : D a z i l
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W o r l d M a p
Enemies in grasslands area:
Hobgob
Lil' Kobold
Enemies in desert area:
Sand Shark
HP 111, Exp 121, G 0.
Character-sized. Fish-like green creature.
Sand Man
HP 50, Exp 60, G 75.
Character-sized. Looks like a Tusken Raider in a raincoat ^_^;
You can enter the desert town of Dazil (by its North or its West gate),
or wander off into the deep desert, which will reveal a field screen
with enemies (Sand Sharks and Sand Men) that loops indefinitelly. So
go to Dazil.
D a z i l
Items in this area: None
I'm assuming you're entering the town by its North gate; if that's
not the case, the order of the buildings will be reversed.
In a stall (improvised with wheels ^_^;) you can buy the following:
Character Equipment:
Magical Rod 50
Arcane Rod 100
Leather Whip 60
Martial Wear 50
Fencing Wear 80
Martial Cap 30
Fencing Cap 40
Power Ring 200
Stamina Ring 150
Just opposite of that, there's a building which you must enter. Talk
to the man behind the counter and he'll talk you about his sandbuggy
(you need to do this).
Further into the town, there's another stall in the street surrounded
by people, which sells:
Character Items:
AquaSol 20
RoseSol 100
Physisol 10
Mentsol 20
Survival Tent 150
Get as many Aquasol as you think you'll need. Rosesol aren't that useful
since Abilities play a quite secondary role in XenoGears. Also, it's a
good idea to get some Physisol and Mentsol: they recover status effects.
One of the many buildings in the town contains a Memory Cube. In another
one (the inn, cost 10 G), you will meet Big Joe.
Finally, enter the large building with the cross-like signs (which
you'll get to see quite a bit). You'll be told why you can't get the
parts you need.
Once you've done this, go back to the sandbuggy's owner's house. The
buggy will be outside it and there'll be a scene. Now enter the house
and talk to the owner again. He'll lend it to Citan, who will leave your
party. Now leave Dazil and enter the Western part of the desert.
D e s e r t
Items in this area: None
Enemies in this area:
Sand Shark
Sand Man
You'll spot two Aveh Gears as you enter. Continue straight until you
reach the end of the screen. Another scene will follow. Then, you'll
have to cross two more screens.
After than, Fei will borrow a bike from an Aveh soldier and use it to
cross the desert (boo! I was expecting a mini-game here...) until
he's surrounded by Aveh Gears. Citan will come to the rescue in the
Weltall, at which point he'll as usual leave the honors to you.
Battle:
Trooper x2
HP 180, Exp 180 (each), G 250 (each)
Gear-sized. One-eyed desert Gear.
Easy. Take one down with two Cross attacks, then the other with any Skill
you like.
At this point, Grahf will appear and after some talk, he'll summon a
giant worm-like creature.
Boss:
Wyrm
HP 200, Exp 1044, G 0. Leaves Eyeball.
Gear-sized. Worm-like three-jawed monster.
Uses "Slurp/absorb fuel". Drains 60 fuel.
Uses "Counter Slurp/absorb fuel". Wyrm will drain 60 fuel every time
you use a physical attack against it.
Wyrm will drain your fuel quite fast, so it would be a good idea to
activate Booster (since the amount of fuel you'll lose will be less than
what you save because of attacking faster).
You can only hurt it with Guided Shot or with the second hit of a
string. The former inflicts around 60 damage, so it's your best option.
The T,S (Reppu) Skill causes 80 damage and you'll most likely have learnt
it by now, so it's not bad either but keep in mind that you will lose one
out of each two rounds charging your Attack Level. BTW, use Triangle
attacks to do so: all three kinds of regular attacks will inflict 0
damage and Triangle cost less fuel (which is critical in this battle).
If you don't have that Skill, T,T (Raigeki) inflicts around 40 damage.
After that, you'll be surrounded by Gears again, and this time you'll
have to surrender. You'll find yourself in a Transport afterwards.
Save your game in the Memory Cube. Talk to Citan twice and the second
time choose the second option to keep talking or the first one to go to
sleep.
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E P I S O D E 6 : D e s e r t A t t a c k !
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T r a n s p o r t
m i d d l e f l o o r
Items in this area: Survival Tent, Rosesol
Once the scenes are over, you'll find yourself in the same cell you
were in. The door is open, but the SandCrawler is sinking into the
desert and sand is starting to fill the floor! The sand level rises
continuously, so you better be fast. If it ever covers above your head,
you'll have to restart from the cell again (though you'll keep the items
you got before "drowning"). I'm not sure if doing so affects the game
or not, but I don't think so.
Once you exit the cell from the North, you can head to the East or to
the West. Since I assume you want to get all items, here's what you
have to do: Go to the East, then South into a small room and open the
chest containing a Survival Tent. If you continue to the East, you'll
reach a ladder leading directly to the upper floor (unless you are too
late and sand is already spilling from it), but you don't want to,
because that way you'd miss the items in the lower floor. So go back
to the West and enter the first door to the South after the cell's.
Get the RoseSol and exit the room. Now keep going West until you come
across a ladder going down to the lower floor. If you want, you can
push the switch on the door to shut it and prevent the sand from entering
the room (it won't matter once you go down the ladder, though).
T r a n s p o r t
l o w e r f l o o r
Items in this area: Extra Ar +1, Leather Vest
Enemies in this area:
Aveh Soldier
HP 60, Exp 75, G 35. Leaves Aquasol, Rosesol.
Character-sized. Soldier with brown helmet and aviation glasses on.
Aveh Corporal
HP 60, Exp 75, G 40. Leaves Leather Hat.
Character-sized. Bigger soldier with white helmet and aviation
glasses on his head.
When fighting in the Transport, "Fire from the Engine Room!" will happen
every two turns or so. This causes around 30-40 damage to all, including
enemies.
Head East, then climb the ladder to the North (as time goes on, a hole
will open in the floor below it, but you can still reach the ladder by
jumping from its side). Go all the way to the North, then West to get
an Extra Ar +1 (Gear equipment). Go all the way back to the East and
South, then go up the staircase leading South. Cross the walkway and
get the chest containing a Leather Vest. Note that if you take too
long, some of the planks in the walkway will fall and you'll have to
jump over them. It is still possible to get the Leather Vest: jump as
far as you can and press Circle as you touch the chest in mid-air
(you'll fall through the hole, so go back South, up the stair, West
and North). Anyway, follow the walkway to the East and up the ladder
to the upper floor.
T r a n s p o r t
u p p e r f l o o r
Items in this area: None
Enemies in this area:
Aveh Soldier
Aveh Corporal
Phew! There are no hurries now. Save in the Memory Cube. Go North, West,
then South. As far as I know, there is no way to climb the crates.
T r a n s p o r t
d e c k
Items in this area: None
Go South through the crane. Don't worry about falling off, Fei will
pull himself up again. If you take too long to cross the crane, you'll
have to start from the cell again. If that happens, remember you keep
all the items you got before that, so go East when you exit the cell to
go directly to the upper floor. But remember to reach the ladder before
sand begins to spill from it.
The crane is composed by two bars, between which you have to switch
because they're blocked at different points. Start on the Eastern one,
then switch each time you can while going South.
When you get to the other side of the crane, Fei'll get into the Weltall,
and Bart will attack him in the Brigander.
Boss:
Brigandier
HP 800, Exp 0, GP 0
Gear-sized. Red Gear with whips attached.
Uses "Wild Smile". Causes "Camera Damaged".
Uses "Chain Whip". Physical attack.
As usual, turn on the booster the first round. He will use Wild Smile,
which lowers your Accuracy and Evade. Therefore, don't use any Cross
attacks, as he'll evade them most of the times. Guided Shot causes
around 150 damage. You're probably better off with T,S strings, though;
they will hit most of the times and cause around 250 damage (each 2
rounds, remember). Anyway, not very hard.
After the fight, you'll both sink into a cave below the sand.
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E P I S O D E 7 : S t a l a c t i t e C a v e
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U n d e r g r o u n d C a v e
Items in this area: Gold Nugget, Iron GWhip
Enemies in this area:
Sand Man
Tin Robo
HP 138, Exp 680, G 210. Leaves Extra Ar, Extra Ar +1.
Gear-sized. Blocky, construction type-looking Gear with a crane arm.
Nomad Fix Bot
HP 110, Exp 420, G 200
Gear-sized. Grayish-green repairs Gear with pincers.
Uses "Fill up/restore fuel". Restores about 250 of YOUR Fuel.
Uses "Repair/restore Gear HP". Restores about 90 of YOUR HP.
Medusoid
HP 65, Exp 698, G 0
Gear-sized. Jellyfish-looking creature.
Uses "Charging". Loses a turn, but uses "Flash" the next one.
Uses "Flash". Causes "Camera Damaged".
May Fly
HP 555, Exp 1410, G 690. Leaves Extra Ar +1, Eyeball.
Gear-sized. Strange cross between a huge fly and a Gear. Takes little
or no damage from any attacks except second hits of Gear Skills.
Uses . Causes "Armor Damage".
Bart has joined you at this point. Besides, you get to control your Gears
for the first time.
Bart's initial equipment: Leather Whip, Red Mail, Power Ring, Stamina
Ring.
Weltall's initial equipment: Extra Ar, Extra Ar, Old Circuit.
Engine : G4-1200. Frame: WELT-01800. Armor: MS 3.
Brigandier's initial equpment: Leather GWhip, Extra Ar +1, A/C,
Lens Cover. Engine : G4-1200. Frame: BRIG-01900.
Armor: MS 3.
In this cave, whenever you fight a Nomad Fix Bot, don't destroy it just
yet and it'll very nicely restore your HP and Fuel. It'll randomly attack
you as well, but the damage it inflicts is minimal.
Replace one of Weltall's Extra Ar for the Extra Ar +1 you got in the
Transport. Save, then head straight to the South. Press Cross at the
rock blocking your way to push it. After the scene, head straight South
again to get the Gold Nugget (it will be useful MUCH later on, almost
at the end of the game. Thanks to Tatsushi Nakao for the info). After
that, go West and cross the entrance.
Go SW until the end of the long passageway (as if you had any other
option). In the new section, cross the bridge until the green Gear.
Go West, then North, and jump up the platforms (the one with nothing
on it, the one with the black and red machine, then the one with a
chest) to get an Iron GWhip for the Heimdall. Jump down and go back
South and East, then SW after the green Gear to get to a new section.
Jump up the platforms. Go SW and save at the Memory Cube. Then get off
your Gears and enter the small cave entrance.
After the dialogue, talk to Balthazar (Bal) for more speaking. Then,
you can talk to him again and choose the third option to buy things
from him. After selecting this, the first option is to buy Gear stuff,
and the second is character stuff.
Gear Engine:
G6-1200 1200
Gear Frame:
WELT-02100 400
WELT-02500 800
HEIM-03200 1800
BRIG-02200 500
BRIG-02700 900
Gear Armor:
MS Steel Plate #6 500
Gear Weapons:
None
Gear Parts:
Extra Ar +1 50
Character Items:
AquaSol 20
RoseSol 100
OmegaSol 50
Survival Tent 150
You should upgrade both Gears' Engine, Frame and Armor; though it's going
to cost almost all the money you have, it will be worth it. Especially,
as Bal says, the Engine: it'll double the damage you inflict, not to
mention it allows you to carry more fuel.
As in every other place in which you can buy Gear stuff, you can also
replenish your Gears' HP and Fuel (for a price) here. Generally speaking,
you should always do so, but not before you've upgraded your frames and
engines, since they can hold more HP and fuel. In this case the engine
holds the same amount of fuel, though. Replace all the Extra Ar parts you
have equipped by Extra Ar +1. Also, if you haven't done so already, this
would be a good time to stock up in Omegasol.
After you're done, exit Bal's place and get into your Gears again. You
have to find two sensors now. Actually, you have already come across one
of them; it was the machine near the chest which had an Iron GWhip.
So go back NE, North, then NW, jump up the platforms again and press
Cross at the sensor to deactivate it. You can talk to the green Gear now
and he'll tell you the locations of the sensors again, BTW. Head back to
the section Bal's house was in, and this time go all the way up the
platforms and to the North until you find a way out of the current
section to the NE.
In the following section, you'll be in a stone bridge over the place
with the green Gear and the first sensor, so be sure not to fall off
(actually, I think you can't ^_^;). After this, you'll be in a long
passageway to the North, so you know what you have to do.
After that, go to the North and you'll find a bridge to the West. NOW
you want to be careful. Remember the section that's below you right
now? That's right, it's the very beginning of the entire dungeon!
Go through the bridge, deactivate the sensor, then go back to Bal's
house. Talk to Bal and the gate will open. After the scene, you'll
be outside Bal's house; you can still go back and buy from him, though.
Go South through the huge gate. In the new section, go South, then get
out of your Gears and enter the Gondola to the East. Turn the red switch
on (select the first option when prompted) and go back to your Gears.
Now go to the elevator to the West and activate it. Head to the South,
down the steps then up again, save at the Memory Cube, then take the
elevator down.
In the next room you'll see Calamity flying around. You can walk
through the cave a bit before it attacks you, but there's not much you
can do.
Boss:
Calamity
HP 2500, Exp 0, G 0
Gear-sized. Huge, bulky Gear with twin engines at its back.
Put on Booster as soon as you start. Finger Bullet does 0 damage, so
don't bother. Use Skills instead: Fei's T,S and Bart's T,T (unless you
made Bart fight outside the Brigandier, in which case he could have
learnt T,S, but it's not worth the trouble). His evade rate is almost
nil (he does block sometimes, though), so you can abuse Cross attacks:
they only do around 70 damage, however. Bart's T,T does around 180,
and Fei's T,S around 200.
Calamity's punches do about 140 damage, and throwing arms around 200,
but since you can't heal your HP yet, they're not to be taken lightly.
Bad news is that he has a spread missile attack that hits for 450 damage
or so, but he doesn't do it often. Furthermore, he's quite slow, so with
Booster on, you should be able to get in two actions per character for
each one of his. All in all, it shouldn't be too difficult.
There'll be a sequence then, with Calamity coming back to life and Fei
defeating it with an Infinite Level Skill (no, you don't get it now! :P).
After that, go East and take the round path which leads to the side of
the broken road. Jump on the platform, then onto the road and head South
to exit the cave. The next scene will leave you on the Yggdrasil, Bart's
sand ship.
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E P I S O D E 8 : P i r a t e ' s L a i r
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Y g g d r a s i l
The Yggdrasil is quite big, and you'll be walking through it quite a
lot, so get used to it as soon as possible. Check the map of it in the
Maps section (it's hard to miss, it's the only map I've done ^_^).
The floor you're in is the lowest one, the hangar for Gears. Gears
are stored in stands like the one Weltall is now in. You can approach
these places and talk to the person in them to look at them (first and
second options: look at the Gear's back or front) or ask them for
information about the Gear (third option). Talk to the person to the
South to rename it.
There's also a Gear shop in this floor; it's the building at the East.
It is quite important that you remember this, because it updates its
stuff quite frequently and most of the time it has the most advanced
equipment available where you are. Right now they have:
Gear Engine:
Z9-1500 1800
Gear Frame:
WELT-03000 1400
Gear Armor:
MS 9 1500
Gear Weapons:
Iron GWhip 1600
Snapper GWhip 2000
Gear Parts:
Resp Circuit 2500
Def Circuit 2500
C Circuit 250
MagneticCoat 4000
Lens Cover 2500
Engine Guard 5000
Tank Guard 3000
Ar Repairer 4000
Motion Guard 4000
By now you should have enough money to get all the upgrades. I wouldn't
reccomend getting any of the parts though: none of them are too useful.
Exit the hangar, then go straight North and enter the door to meet Meison
again. Here you can buy items and character equipment, but sadly, he
does not update his stuff.
Character Items:
Aquasol 20
Aquasol S 100
Rosesol 100
Rosesol S 300
Zetasol 100
Physisol 10
Mentsol 20
White Star 500
Brown Star 500
Red Star 500
Blue Star 500
Hard Star 800
Speed Star 1000
Omegasol 50
Survival Tent 150
Character Equipment:
Power Ring 200
Stamina Ring 150
Speed Ring 1200
Guardian Ring 2000
I'd reccomend you get some Zetasol: they're the equivalent of Phoenix
Tails (recover from 0 HP condition). However, since in XG such characters
are recovered with 1 HP at the end of the battle, these items aren't as
important as in FF games. Nevertheless, it's a good idea to keep some
handy for hard boss battles. You should get some Aquasol S too. The rest
of the items are a bit too expensive to justify their purchase for now.
Regarding accesories, I specially like Speed Rings, and they're not that
expensive either. According to Tatsushi Nakao, they also work when you're
on your Gears!
You can explore the Yggdrasil and become familiar with it (again, use the
map). There are some things you can't do yet, though (like changing party
members... it will be quite some time until you can). When you're done,
go to the bridge. You can talk to the crew here, including Franz, a
dolphin guy who can play random sound effects if you ask him. You can
also check the ship's chart, with all the places you've visited.
Afterwards, talk to Sigurd.
B a r t ' s H i d e o u t
Items in this area: Iron Whip
After you arrive at Bart's base, follow Maison and Citan to the dining
hall. There a scene will follow explaining the situation about Bart
and Aveh's current leader, Shakhan, among others. After that, you can
talk to the people in here. In the very dining hall there's a shop which
sells:
Aquasol 20
Aquasol S 100
Rosesol 100
Rosesol S 300
Zetasol 100
Physisol 10
Mentsol 20
White Star 500
Brown Star 500
Red Star 500
Blue Star 500
Hard Star 800
Speed Star 1000
Omegasol 50
Survival Tent 150
There's also a little girl you should talk to, then to her father. I
think you have to do this.
Exit the dining room, then go East to the electronics room. After the
scene, you can explore the base at your leisure (actually, you also could
before). To the north there are the quarters, in which you can rest and
save. The West hallway leads to the World Map. Finally, the door to the
South leads to Bart's room. There's a warning sign about not entering it,
but ignore it ^_^; You can get an Iron whip for Bart, and when you try to
exit, another scene will take place.
After that, take the elevator down and try to enter the Yggdrasil. Bart
will pop out and talk to you. After that, he'll tell you the mechanic
wants to talk to you. So go to the base's Gear hangar then. You need to
take an elevator which is in the same floor as the Yggdrasil's deck (it's
on the opposite side of the elevator which leads to the base). Then, talk
to the mechanic to trigger a scene.
When it is over, go back to the quarters, save and rest there. After the
scene, go down to the Yggdrasil, and a sequence will follow. Then, you'll
have to fight some Gebler Force soldiers.
Boss:
Swordknight
HP 700, Exp 1500, G 300
Gear-sized. Light red Gear with twin metallic whip-blades and a cannon
for right hand.
For this battle, you'll have Bart (in the Brigandier) and two of Bart's
soldiers in some red Gears. Anyhow, it's so easy I won't even comment.
Aegisknight
HP 700, Exp 1500, G 300
Gear-sized. Big light blue Gear with two large shields.
Uses "Pile Driver/Weaken Ar". Causes "Armor Damage".
You have Citan in his brand-new Heimdall for this battle. Again, really
easy.
Wandknight x2
HP 620, Exp 1500 (each), G 200 (each)
Gear-sized. White Gear with a large rifle.
For this battle you'll have both Citan and Bart. Easy too.
Clawknight
HP 600, Exp 1500, G 300
Gear-sized. White Gear with a claw and a razor shield.
Now it is Fei who comes to the rescue. This is really hard... OK, I was
kidding. Piece of cake.
Schpariel
HP 4649, Exp 17890, G 1700. Leaves Beam Coat.
Gear-sized. Huge, weird-looking round Gear.
Uses . Causes "Armor Damage" to two targets (can be the same
one, doubling the armor damage).
You knew this was coming, huh? It's not that hard either, since you have
all three good guys now. Just keep those T,T Skills and he'll be
geography (um...).
After this, there'll be more scenes, then you'll be in the Yggdrasil.
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E P I S O D E 9 : O p e r a t i o n A v e h
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Y g g d r a s i l
At this point, Citan will be able to use the Heimdal.
Heimdal's initial equipment: Extra Ar +3, Old Circuit, Old Circuit.
Engine : Z9-1500. Frame: HEIM-02500. Armor: MS 6.
Talk to Sigurd in the bridge, and choose the first option to leave
Bart's hideout. You'll be controlling the Yggdrasil, so refer to
Section 5 for details on how to control it. In any case, head for Aveh's
capital, Bledavik. You'll have yo get off the Yggdrasil to enter, of
course.
W o r l d M a p
Enemies in desert area:
Neo Tin Robo
HP 438, Exp 1100, G 150. Leaves Extra Ar +1.
Gear-sized. Same description as a Tin Robo. Blocky, construction
type-looking Gear with a crane arm.
Spear Trooper
HP 600, Exp 1050, G 1000
Gear-sized. Yellow Gear with shield and forked spear.
Trooper
Sand Man
Enemies in grassland area:
Hobgob
Lil' Kobold
B l e d a v i k
Bledavik is so large (at last a city-sized city! ^_^) that it has its own
map. However, upon entering the first section, a scene will follow
introducing quite some new key characters. Once it is over, you'll be in
the marketplace section of Bledavik.
Is it just me, or the sign at the entrance says (more or less) "Welcome
To Fiesta de Aveh" (Fiesta is "Party/Celebration" in Spanish)? Anyway,
talk to a woman in blue just after entering: she'll give you the
directions of an hotel.
In a stall near the South gate you can buy Radishes at 10 G each; in
another one deeper in the market you can get Ariberries for the same
price; and finally, in a third stall you can buy Elfananas, again for
10 G. Both Ariberries and Elfananas restore some HP when eaten outside
battle, but since you get them one at a time you probably won't have the
patience to get enough to use them consistently. I don't know if Radishes
are of any use yet, though ^_^;
In another stall you can sell any Fang, Eyeball or Scales you might have
for 150, 300 and 600 G respectivelly. Their selling prices in a regular
shop are 100, 200 and 500 G respectivelly, so it's a better deal and as
far as I know there's no use for any of them other than that, so go
ahead. For more information check "Selling Prices" under "Charts".
Bledavik is quite a big place and at this point you should explore and
enjoy it at your leisure. It's also one of my favorite cities in the
game.
There's a restaurant to the West of the market and a bit to the North
(its door is in the same wall as the hotel's; a sign over it seems to
spell "Marine" or "Mario's"). In it's second floor, you can talk to the
waitress by the aquarium to order some food. There are three options:
Something delicious: Recover full HP/EP, raises weith a bit, costs 300 G.
Something cheap : Recover some HP/EP, raises weith a lot, costs 90 G.
Something fast : Recover some HP/EP, raises weith a bit, costs 210 G.
(additionally, and quite humorously, she'll run like mad if you order
something fast ^_^).
There's also an Ethos facility in the same wall as the restaurant, to the
South. It has the Ethos symbol over it. In there you can buy:
Gear Engine:
G6-1200 1200
Gear Frame:
WELT-02500 800
HEIM-03200 1800
BRIG-02700 900
Gear Armor:
MS 7.5 1000
Gear Weapons:
Iron GWhip 1600
Gear Parts:
Resp Circuit 2500
Def Circuit 2500
C Circuit 250
MagneticCoat 4000
Lens Cover 2500
Engine Guard 5000
Tank Guard 3000
Ar Repairer 4000
Motion Guard 4000
Oddly enough, all this stuff is the same or worse of what you already had
access too, so...
In the south-eastern part of the city there's also a weapon shop
(unmistakably marked "Weapon"). There you'll be able to get:
Character Equipment:
Magical Rod 50
Arcane Rod 100
Iron Whip 120
WhippaSnappa 280
Also in the eastern wall, there's an armor shop.
Character Equipment:
Leather Vest 150
Leather Hat 80
Power Ring 200
Speed Ring 1200
When you're done, go to the hotel the woman in the entrance told you
about. There you will be encountered by a nun sent by Nisan. You can
rest here and even get a discount if you tell the owner you have a
reccomendation. Tell the truth, i.e. that the woman didn't tell her
name. In any case, you should go to the nun's room, and there you'll
learn of the difficulty of accessing the castle where Margie is kept.
So to the streets you go again to find some info. Head North to exit
to Bleidavik's map, then enter Shakhan Square.
S h a k h a n S q u a r e
There's a camel-man (or something) selling toys at a stall. You can get
a Toy Gun for 80 G or a Gear Figure (Minigear) for 120 G. If you buy the
Minigear, you can give it to the eagle-boy near the stall, and in return
he'll tell you about the Gold Nugget in the restaurant's aquarium (which
you'll get a bit later). As far as I know, the Toy Gun has no use,
however (but I bought it anyway).
In another stall you can buy "Bartweiser" ^_^ beer (50 G, makes you gain
weight and makes the camera wobble). After that, that same stall will
sell Durian juice, Nisan Water and Aveh Water items, all for 10 G and
with no use as far as I know (by now your inventory should be full of
background items... I know mine is! ^_^).
There's quite some more fun you can have here, including meeting Fox
Mulder (not really ^_^); learning to breathe fire from the guy who
breathes red fire (hold R2 and press Cross... it's fun!); buying some
cakes (the spiced cakes cost 20 G and will make you gain weight, the iced
ones will make you lose weight for 30 G, both with amusing side effects);
getting a balloon in front of a tent which you can't enter just now...
Anyhow, keep going North and Bart will tell you he must leave the party
so he doesn't get recognized by Shakhan's forces. Do so, then go North
to enter Fatima Castle's section.
T o u r n a m e n t A r e n a
Citan will tell you about entering the tournament to distract the guards
while Bart slips in. So off to the counter you go. You'll be able to
enter a nickname by combining one of four adjectives with one of four
nouns. Choose whatever you like the most, then go back to Bledavik.
B l e d a v i k
Now go to the East wall of the market. Walk either to the northern
stairs and go South, or the southern stairs and go North. You'll find
some people near a grate. Talk to the man nearest to it and he should
tell you about the underground waterways. Once you've done this, go back
to the hotel and enter the nun's room. There you'll put together a course
of action, but you need the key to the waterway. So go back to the old
man near the grate and talk to him. Choose either the second or the third
choice and he'll give the key to you.
Now go back to the hotel once more. Talk to the nun, and Citan and Bart
will leave your party. Now, you could talk to either Citan or Bart and
choose to rest, and it would advance the story, but don't do that just
yet. Instead, go back to Shakhan Square.
Remember the tent you couldn't enter? You can enter it now, and the blue
guys in here will allow you to play a couple of sub-games, called "Merry
Go Pop" and "Whose Balloons", for 10 G each. They will be covered in a
future sub-games section of the FAQ; however, about the best thing you
can get are Physimentsol, so don't worry too much about them. They're
fun, though, and not a bad way of making money. Also, you can enter a
third door for 10 G which leads to a mirror in which you can see yourself
reflected. The reflection will be wider or thinner depending on your
character's current weight.
Once you're done with the mini-games, head back to the hotel and talk
to Citan or Bart and choose to rest. The next morning, Citan will brief
you on the plan. So go to the Fatima Castle section, where the tournament
is being held.
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E P I S O D E 1 0 : T h e T o u r n a m e n t
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T o u r n a m e n t A r e n a
Talk to one of the guards to enter the tournament grounds, then head
northeast and talk to yet another guard. Citan will leave at this point.
Now, if you rotate the camera so that "up" is southeast or southwest,
and approach the castle tower, you can see Shakhan on top of it! In the
west tent there are some participants, including Big Joe (yes, he fights
in this tournament). Enter the east tent and to your surprise, you'll
find Dan here. After talking to him and a mysterious man, the control will
switch over to Bart.
B l e d a v i k
As Bart, exit the hotel and enter the waterway. You can access it from
any of the two wells (there's one to the East and another to the West),
but by all means use the western one (just a little South of the hotel).
It allows for a shorter route and on top of that it allows you to get
most items along the way.
T o u r n a m e n t A r e n a
The scene will switch to the tournament again, and Fei'll face his first
opponent.
Boss:
Gonzalez
HP 400, Exp 500, G 0. Leaves Survival Tent.
Character-sized. Gray fat guy with a mace
Uses "Can't take it anymore!". Physical attack combo for around 60
damage. Gonzalez will use this attack in his turn whenever you use a
Skill in yours.
Beware of this guy. His "Can't take it anymore!" combo can make you kiss
the floor if he uses it three times, which is less than you need to kill
him. However, his regular attack deals about 30 damage, so it's not worth
using regular attacks (which inflict little damage) just because of that.
What I did was to use "Senretsu", he did his special, I used "Senretsu",
he did his special, I used "Inner Healing", he did a regular attack, and
then I did Senretsu two times in a row, because my Agility was superior
to his. Another thing you can try is build up your AP bar and unleash a
powerful combo.
If you lose against this or any of your subsequent opponents, the game
will not be over (this is a tournament, after all). However, once you are
eliminated from the tournament, there will be a lot more guards in
Fatima Castle, making Bart's task harder. Besides, you'll miss part of
the story since you won't fight Dan or Wiseman.
Assuming you beat Gonzalez, the menu screen will automatically appear
now. If you're wondering, this is so you can heal. Do so. Of course, you
can change your equipment, etc... too (but strangely, not save).
Once you exit this menu screen, you will be in control of Bart, which
is swimming through the waterway to reach Fatima Castle. However, control
from now on switches back and forth from Fei to Bart (once he wins or
loses each fight) and from Bart to Fei (this happens at regular intervals
of time) so I will just list all of Fei's opponents and then everything
Bart has to do.
Boss:
Big Joe
HP 912, Exp 1, G 1. Leaves Metal Vest.
Character-sized. Elvis-like green-haired character (like if you didn't
know what Big Joe looks like already).
Uses "Grrrreat!". Dash punch for 1 damage.
Uses "Grrrreat!", "And dynamic!". Double dash punches for 2 damage ^_^
Uses "Joe's fans attack". Sometimes when you attack Big Joe, the crowd
will throw objects at you for about 60 HPs worth of physical damage.
Uses "Joe's fans cheer support". Sometimes when you attack Big Joe, the
crowd will cheer him and heal him 140 HPs.
The only danger in this fight comes from the crowd, and since they won't
attack unless you do, this fight shouldn't be too hard. Just remember to
heal often. Big Joe has quite some HP, however, and when he gets low on
life the crowd will heal him often (but not always). You might also want
to consider building up your AP storage meter (by doing single Triangle
attacks), then bring him down to about 400 HP using Skills, and then
unleash a 28-AP combo to finish him.
By the way, be sure to equip the Metal Vest that Big Joe leaves as soon
as you beat him (once the menu screen pops up).
Boss:
Scud
HP 300 (of a maximum of 350), Exp 500, G 0. Leaves Samson's Hair.
Character-sized. Green-robed hermit-looking character with long orange
hair and a backpack.
Uses "Strange Pill". Has no effect.
Uses "Strange Pill". Lowers Attack.
Uses "Strange Pill". Causes "Poison".
Uses "Strong Pill". Raises Defense.
Uses "Strong Pill". Raises Agility.
Uses "Happy Pill". Recover 200 HP.
This guy's strongest attacks will cause only 10 damage or so. However,
don't underestimate him, for if he manages to use the Attack lowering
"Strange Pill" and the Defense and (especially) Agility raising "Strong
Pill"'s, you'll have quite some trouble defeating him, as he'll heal
faster than you can damage him. To prevent this, hit fast and hit hard
(fortunatelly, he doesn't have that many HP) before he powers up. I'd
advice casting "Iron Valor" the first round though.
If he does lower your attack, use "Iron Valor" again to restore it. You
can also use "Guided Shot", since it, being an Ether attack, won't be
affected.
Boss:
Dan
HP 450, Exp 500, G 5.
Character-sized. Big-headed boy (how else could I describe Dan? ^_^;)
Uses "I'm gonna take you down!". Does nothing.
Uses "This is for all of Lahan!". Physical attack for about 20 HP.
Uses "This is for Timothy!". Physical attack for about 20 HP.
Uses "This is for my sister!". Physical attack for about 20 HP.
Uses "You scum!". Huge energy blast for about 100 HP of Ether damage.
Where did Dan learn to make these kind of fireworks? Well, he has quite a
high Defense rating, so it'll take a while to beat him. Use Iron Valor as
soon as the battle begins; due to Dan's high defense, it will double the
damage you inflict (the reasoning being a little too long to explain
here). Don't ever let your HP drop below 100, because if he uses "You
scum!" (now that's a name for a technique), you're toast. Keep hammering
with "Senretsu" (or whatever you've got) and heal with "Inner Healing" or
Aquasol S.
Boss:
Wiseman
HP 999, Exp 0, G 0.
Character-sized. Ominous-looking man with blue cape and hood, and a
white mask. Wiseman evades all physical attacks and receives minimum
damage from Ether attacks.
As you can imagine, there's no way in which you can beat him. He doesn't
attack you either, and after a while of talking he will leave.
B l e d a v i k W a t e r w a y
Items in this area: Gold Nugget, Survival Tent, Rosesol S, Aquasol S
There is a map of the waterway in the "Maps" section of the FAQ: I'd
reccomend you check it out. BTW, I'm assuming you entered the waterway
via the west well.
You'll have to swim northeastward against the current. You can and should
hold Circle button to swim faster; however, the current will sometimes
rise in strenght and make you go backwards: in most of such cases, you
can release both the Circle button and the control pad, then hold them
again to regain your speed.
In the junction, continue straight to the northeast. Climb the pipe and
jump when you're at the top of it: this will lead you to the famous
restaurant aquarium, in which you can finally get hold of the Gold Nugget
within the chest. After that, press the Cross button to descend.
Keep swimming northeast, then North and this time go southeast at the
junction. Get the Rosesol S and head back to the junction, and take the
North way again. At the next crossroad, you could take the northeast path
to get a Survival Tent, but it's quite a long way and, well, it's just a
survival tent ^_^.
So take the northwest path instead. Then, take the south way in the next
one. Get the Aquasol S and head back North. Keep going North, then
northeast. At the four way junction, you can go South if you want to
climb a pipe that leads to the interior of the fountain in Shakhan
Square. This has no practical usefulness, but it looks fun ^_^.
In any case, head straight North and you'll enter Fatima Castle.
F a t i m a C a s t l e
Items in this area: Cobra Cracka, Iron Mail x4, Aquasol S
Enemies in this area:
Aveh Guard
HP 80, Exp 242, G 45. Leaves Aquasol.
Character-sized. Same description as an Aveh Soldier. Soldier with
brown helmet and aviation glasses on.
Aveh Guard
HP 80, Exp 242, G 45. Leaves Aquasol.
Character-sized. Same description as an Aveh Corporal. Bigger soldier
with white helmet and aviation glasses on his head.
Get out of the pool climbing the ladder to the East. Talk to the old man
for a lenghty conversation, then save in the Memory Cube. You can close
the flood gate using the switch at the other end of the bridge, but I
don't know if that's of any use.
Climb the ladder and you'll be in the middle of the castle's inner
garden. From now on there will be guards patrolling the castle (their
numbers depending on how good did you do with Fei at the tournament).
If you have played Metal Gear Solid, you'll feel at home: they have a
vision cone too, and if they see you, they'll run to your encounter.
They don't activate any alarm though. Besides, they're really easy.
The doors in the West wall lead to the dinning room and the kitcken, but
there's nothing of interest there (except people to talk) so you can skip
them. One cool thing is that whenever you open a door from the castle to
the inner garden, you can take a peek out to see if there are any guards.
You can use this to exit when no guards are looking if you're patient
enough.
The southernmost door of the East wall leads to a room in which you can
get the Cobra Cracka for Bart. It has one point less of Attack power than
the Whippa Snappa you can buy in Bledavik's weapon shop, but it poisons
enemies, so I'd reccomend you equip it.
The middle door of the East wall leads to a room with nothing of interest
(except the amazing level of detail that's usual in Xenogears).
The North door of the East wall leads to the armory. You can pick up the
four armors standing in bars near the entrance: they're Iron Mails. Equip
one right away, and remember to equip the rest on Fei and Citan when you
can. If you talk to the guard, he won't pay attention to you, but when
you head to the door he will notice and pursue you to fight. It's really
easy to exit without fighting him, however (and why is it that every
single guard you fight is in fact two? Instantaneous mithosis?).
Since all three North doors are locked, you only have the South door
remaining. Cross it, and you'll be in the main hall. The South door
leading outside is locked too, so go up the stairs.
The door in the northwest leads to a room with a guy in it, but nothing
of interest. Same goes for it's northeast counterpart. You can't cross
the curtains to the South since they lead to the tournament's arena. Take
the North door then.
You'll be in a balcony surrounding the inner garden. There will be quite
some guards here even if Fei wasn't eliminated in the tournament.The
first door to the East leads to the library, in which you can learn about
Aveh's foundation (more interesting than you might think), and that
winners write the history. The other two doors lead to a room with
nothing worth of remark except the castle's bishop.
The first door to the West leads to a sort of special weapons room with
the recently unearthed weapon Shakhan was talking about with Ramsus. The
other two lead to a room packed with guards, but take the northernmost
one since you'll sneak behing a wall and be able to overhear their
conversation. There's also an Aquasol S in this room.
If you follow either wall to the North, you'll reach a door leading
to the interior of the castle again (it doesn't matter which side you go
through). To the north there is a large dinning, but what you have to do
is climb the stairs to the second floor.
North of the second floor is a bedroom with (you guessed it) nothing of
interest. If you go upstairs and cross the door to the North (you'll have
to fight two guards), you'll be in Shakhan's room. But there's nothing
here, right? Wrong. If you press Cross in front of the green bottle to the
East, a panel will slide revealing a screen which is connected to a camera
system throughout the castle. After picking a location, you can move the
view around with the control pad and even zoom in and out with the Square
and Circle buttons. You can see that Margie's in the East Tower, so there
we go (actually, it's the only place left).
Go downstairs to the second floor and head to the door that's to the
East. You'll be in a room with an elevator that doesn't work and another
door after a corridor to the North. Here you will find Margie at last.
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E P I S O D E 1 1 : M a r g i e ' s R e s c u e
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F a t i m a C a s t l e
Save in the Memory Cube and go back to the room with the corridor.
However, upon crossing it Ramsus and Miang will appear. For this battle,
you'll have Margie helping you.
Boss:
Ramsus
HP 400, Exp 0, G 0.
Character-sized. Blue-clad knight type with sword.
Uses "Mirror Stance/predict atk". Ramsus will adopt a defensive stance.
All physical attacks will miss while he's in that stance. Additionally,
he'll counterattack for about 130 HP of damage if he's attacked.
Miang
HP 999, Exp 0, G 0.
Character-sized. Blue-haired girl dressed in white. Cannot be targeted
by anyone.
Uses "Restore". Restores 40 HP to Ramsus.
Uses "Remove Status". If Ramsus has been affected with Status Effects,
Miang will use this to heal him.
Margie
HP 9999, Exp N/A, G N/A.
Character-sized. Girl with a red cape. Cannot be targeted by anyone.
Uses "Good luck Bart!". Randomly restores 0, 20 or 40 HP to Bart.
Don't count on Margie too much. In any case, Ramsus is not too hard if
you know you mustn't attack him when he's in his Mirror Stance. If you
do, he'll slash the stuffing out of you. Take advantage of the time he's
in that stance to heal. Having the Cobra Cracka helps a lot, because it
will poison Ramsus sometimes, and Miang will waste her turn healing him.
After inflicting 400 points of damage upon Ramsus, Fei will join the fun.
Boss:
Ramsus
HP 800, Exp 0, G 0.
Character-sized. Blue-clad knight type with sword.
Uses "Mirror Stance/predict atk". Ramsus will adopt a defensive stance.
All physical attacks will miss while he's in that stance. Additionally,
he'll counterattack for about 130 HP of damage if he's attacked.
Miang
HP 999, Exp 0, G 0.
Character-sized. Blue-haired girl dressed in white. Cannot be targeted
by anyone.
Uses "Restore". Restores 100 HP to Ramsus.
Margie
HP 9999, Exp N/A, G N/A.
Character-sized. Girl with a red cape. Cannot be targeted by anyone.
Uses "Good luck Bart!". Randomly restores 0 or 20 HP to Bart.
Uses . Randomly restores 0 or 20 HP to Fei.
To make up for Fei's presence, Ramsus has twice as much HP, he can't be
poisoned, Miang now heals 100 HP and Margie no longer heals 40 HP. Still,
I didn't find this battle as hard as some people say. The only thing that
can really be a pain is when Ramsus stays in the Mirror Stance and Miang
keeps healing him... In any case, just use your best Skills and heal via
Fei's "Inner Healing", and he should be defeated.
Once he's down, you'll all escape thanks to Margie. After exiting the
elevator, go East through the hallway. Another sequence will follow, in
which you'll finally escape thanks to Elly.
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E P I S O D E 1 2 : R o a d t o N i s a n
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Y g g d r a s i l
You'll be on the deck of the Yggdrasil now. Enter it, then press Cross
in front of Chu-chu (the pink little one who's in front of the bridge's
door). Bart will tell you to ask Margie to take it from there, so go to
her room (check the map, it's near the Gear hangar). You'll have to input
a name for it ("Chu-Chu" is the default). Then you'll realize it isn't a
stuffed toy at all but a living being.
After that, go to the bridge and talk to Sigurd twice. He'll tell you to
pilot the Yggdrasil to the path to Nisan, which is marked by a single
tree in the desert. It's all the way to the North from Bart's Lair, just
follow the West coastline and you'll reach it. Enter the road to Nisan
while still in the Yggdrasil, and it will sink into the sand and cross
the sea.
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E P I S O D E 1 3 : C i t y o f P e a c e
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N i s a n
Nisan, like Aveh, is quite a big city and has its own map. If you exit
Nisan you'll be in the World Map (obviously).
W o r l d M a p
Enemies in grasslands area:
Hobgob
Lil' Kobold
Enemies in desert area:
Sand Shark
Neo Tin Robo
Not much to do here, but it's my obligation to put the enemies you can
find here, so... ^_^ We now continue with your scheduled programme. :)
N i s a n
Enter the city section from Nisan's map. Even this section is quite big
and it's easier to get lost than in Bledavik. The first house to the West
as you enter is an inn, in which yopu can't rest now, but its owner will
give you some tea which will make you lose weight, in return.
You can enter the house that is northeast just before the stairs. After
some conversation, you can buy the following from their owners:
Character Items:
Aquasol 20
Aquasol S 100
Rosesol 100
Rosesol S 300
Zetasol 100
Physisol 10
Mentsol 20
Omegasol 50
Survival Tent 150
Character Equipment:
Power Ring 200
Stamina Ring 150
Speed Ring 1200
Guardian Ring 2000
Holy Pendant 8000
Life Stone 20000
Ether Doubler 38000
The new Accesories are quite interesting, but they're REALLY expensive
and most likely you won't have much money about now anyway. You can also
find one of Bart's crew in here, which will sell you the following from
the Yggdrasil:
Gear Engine:
Z9-1500 1800
Gear Frame:
WELT-03000 1400
Gear Armor:
MS 9 1500
Gear Weapons:
Iron GWhip 1600
Snapper GWhip 2000
Gear Parts:
Resp Circuit 2500
Def Circuit 2500
C Circuit 250
MagneticCoat 4000
Lens Cover 2500
Engine Guard 5000
Tank Guard 3000
Ar Repairer 4000
Motion Guard 4000
If you go further to the northwest, you'll find the town hall. You can't
enter it but you can overhear a conversation about the state of things.
Anyhow, go downstairs and to the North to meet with Margie. Talk to the
person in front of the gate, then to Magie and head North to the
monastery.
N i s a n M o n a s t e r y
After the scene (wow! Even the sisters have character development!),
you'll have to follow Margie through the monastery. She's in a door to the
East. Follow her upstairs, then talk to her again. More character
development (nice idea the bit about the two angels... and how it goes
entirelly over Bart's head ^_^).
Afterwards, follow Margie to the northmost door (skip the other door for
now) and up the stairs. Here you'll see a beautiful drawing of Sophia
(that has been my Windows 95 wallpaper for the last few months ^_^), and
the usual does of mystery will be thrown at you.
Go back the way you came here, but enter the door you skipped. Talk to
the sisters here if you want, then to Agnes (I think this is optional,
though).
You can exit the monastery now, but note there are some people downstairs
now you might want to talk to.
N i s a n
Back in Nisan's city section, go to the South exit. However, before
reaching it, Maison will call you from a house's door.
Enter that house, and you'll have the chance to know quite a lot more
about Solaris. After asking about the four possible topics, you'll be
given the chance to repeat any of them if you want. After this, you can
talk to Sigurd and Maison if you want (Maison will say he knew about
Sigurd having been in Solaris).
Exit the house, then go to the bridge that's just behind the house you
bought all that stuff from. Talk to Bart there. More scenes (isn't the
translation wonderful? Ahh...), then go to the town hall. Citan, Sigurd
and Bart will elaborate a strategy for liberating Aveh (and quite a risky
one too!).
The next morning, talk to Bart and tell him you're ready. After some
scenes (and a FMV), you'll be back in the Yggdrasil.
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E P I S O D E 1 4 : R e c a p t u r e A v e h
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Y g g d r a s i l
As Citan, talk to Maison to cheer him up a little, then save. Head to
the highest floor of the Yggdrasil and climb the ladder leading outside.
K i s l e v B o r d e r M o u n t a i n
Items in this area: Extra Ar+2, MagneticCoat, Gold Nugget, Rosesol S
Enemies in this area:
Medusoid
May Fly
Nomad Fix Bot
Edelweiss
HP 815, Exp 880, G 0. Leaves Fang.
Gear-sized. Blue and yellow vaguelly reptilian animal with a
flower-like head.
The enemies in this dungeon are just weaklings ("Medusoids? Gimme a
break... I fought them in the FIRST dungeon!").
Go East and climb the ledge. Jump to the southwest ledge then grab the
Extra Ar+2 and equip it. Go back northeast, then jump to the ledge to
the North (your Gear can jump more than it seems). Climb the platform to
the northwest, then jump to the one to the southeast. Follow this one to
the South and get the MagneticCoat from the chest. Equip it instead of
the Old Circuit, if you still have it. Go back all the way to the North,
then jump up the ledge to the northeast and enter the cave.
There must be some problem with the compass, because now it seems like if
you came FROM the northeast! ^_^ In any case, continue to the southwest,
and when you have a platform behind you to the East, jump to it from the
one that's more or less at its level. It's a very thight jump, but it
will save a lot of time, not to mention some jumps (if you can't make it,
you can just go West, North and then East).
In any case, keep going up (Northeast, then north). At the junction, go
East. Climb a ledge and get the Rosesol S. Go back West, keep going
northwest, jump over the crevice and get the Gold Nugget. Keep climbing
North, jump over the crevice to the East, and climb up where the Repair
Bot is. Talk to him and he'll offer the following:
Gear Engine:
Z9-1500 1800
Gear Frame:
WELT-03000 1400
Gear Armor:
MS 9 1500
Gear Weapons:
Iron GWhip 1600
Snapper GWhip 2000
Gear Parts:
Resp Circuit 2500
Def Circuit 2500
C Circuit 250
MagneticCoat 4000
Lens Cover 2500
Engine Guard 5000
Tank Guard 3000
Ar Repairer 4000
Motion Guard 4000
Sounds familiar, huh? Sigh. At least, you can replenish your HP and fuel
here. Don't tell him you don't trust him, or you'll have to fight him!
Save in the Memory Cube, then go through the exit to the North. What's up
with that damn compass!! Now it's like if you just exited FROM the North!
Note also that you seem to be facing the right direction, i.e. North in
this case, though it's where you came from. Strange...
In any case, go East and a sequence will follow. Our girl Elhaym's
squadron will attack you now (Hey guys, didn't you hear your commander?
Take it easy!).
Boss:
Wandknight x2
HP 620, Exp 1500 (each), G 200 (each). They leave Extra Ar+2.
Gear-sized. White Gear with a large rifle.
Uses "Power Beam/Beam Atk". Beam attack.
These guys are just as worthless as before (worse in fact, because you're
on a higher level now).
Boss:
Clawknight
HP 600, Exp 1500, G 300
Gear-sized. White Gear with a claw and a razor shield.
Swordknight
HP 700, Exp 1500, G 300
Gear-sized. Light red Gear with twin metallic whip-blades and a cannon
for right hand.
Aegisknight
HP 700, Exp 1500, G 300. Leaves Extra Ar+2.
Gear-sized. Big light blue Gear with two large shields.
Uses "Pile Driver/Weaken Ar". Causes "Armor Damage".
Even when they're three against one, these guys aren't much of a
challenge: however, they're at least not as pitiful. Take out the
Swordknight first, since it's the one who does the most damage; and the
Aegisknight the last, since it's the toughest and the one that does the
least damage. If the Aegisknight pesters you too much with "Pile Driver",
use "Inner Healing" to recover the lost armor. Actually, the point of
this fight is to weaken you for what's coming next, and that, those guys
do well.
After knowing more of that mysterious incident Elly remembered about in
the Blackmoon Forest, you'll have to fight her.
Boss:
Vierge
HP 2400, Exp 0, G 0
Gear-sized. White and pink female-looking Gear.
Uses "Aerod/Eth Atk". Ether attack for about 300 damage.
Fortunatelly, her regular attacks aren't very powerful. Unfortunatelly,
the Aerods are, and you don't have any way to heal yourself yet. Use
booster and keep hitting her with "Reppu". You'll win eventually.
You'll appear near the Memory Cube again, but this time you can keep
climbing to the summit. Keep going up, and West / East alternativelly
until you reach a very bright spot. Upon walking over it, a scene will
trigger.
F a t i m a C a s t l e
As Bart and Citan, head up the ladder. There'll be another sequence (I
hate to sound so dumb ^_^;, but I don't want to spoil anything
unnecesarily).
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E P I S O D E 1 5 : D e s e r t D e s p a i r
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Y g g d r a s i l
Just save and exit the room.
K i s l e v B o r d e r D e s e r t
Enemies in this area:
Sand Tripper
HP 180, Exp 550, G 110
Gear-sized. Yellow Gear with sort of skies and a machinegun.
Gigafoot
HP 500, Exp 320, G 220. Leaves C Circuit.
Gear-sized. Yellow four-legged Gear with a back-mounted cannon. Stands
on two legs once it is inflicted 60 or more damage.
Trooper
Welcome to the desert attack mini-game! You have to dodge the mines
(-15 HP... Oh! The pain! ^_^), the shoots from the ships (-1 HP each
time... I'll live too) and the enemy Gears, which will attack you on
contact. your mission is basically to go West, then... to go West.
After that, it's boss time against the so much talked about Kefeinzel
Gun.
Boss:
Main Gun
HP 1800, Exp 7000, G 0. Leaves Gold Nugget.
Gear-sized. LARGE cannon (remember you're in a Gear!).
Uses "Readying Kefeinzel Gun!". Does nothing (yet).
Uses "Clear the deck!". Does nothing (still).
Uses "5". Does nothing (but giving you a bad feeling).
Uses "4". Does nothing (but making you nervous).
Uses "3". Does nothing (but making you want to be elsewhere).
Uses "2". Does nothing (but making you wonder how many HP does the darn
cannon have remaining).
Uses "1". Does nothing (but scaring the hell out of you).
Uses "Firing Kefeinzel Gun!". Does about 400 damage (that's all? Boo).
Small Gun x2
HP 590, Exp 0, G 0
Character-sized. Smaller turret-like cannon. It's the only
character-sized enemy that's made of polygons in the entire game.
Sorry about the countdown thing, but if you want to be methodic, you have
to be methodic, and a little humour was in order to make it less boring.
Right. So stop with the tomatoes will ya!!
Anyway, considering that the small cannons do like 1 damage, that I could
have beaten the cannon while it was on "3" or so (I wanted to see what it
did), and that it just deals 400 damage after all that buildup, you'd have
to be really bad to lose this fight.
And that's as far as I've got yet! I fought Dora but forgot to take note
of a couple of things so I'll trace back to a save.
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3 . D I S C T W O W A L K T H R O U G H
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4 . S E C R E T S
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QUICK GEAR RIDE ________________________________________________________
by Jego Herve
While in the world map or any area in which you can go around in your
gears, you can press L2+R2 to get into / out of your gears instantly.
This might not seem like much, but believe me, not having to go to the
menu screen saves a lot of time.
YGGDRASIL'S REVERSE GEAR _______________________________________________
by Ignacio de Lucas
While flying around in the Yggdrasil, you can hold R2, then press the action
button (Circle) to fly backwards. Quite useful for those accurate landings.
THE SANDMAN DESERT _____________________________________________________
by Tatsushi Nakao
Right at the end of the game, there's a desert in an island in the world
map that can be entered: it is the Sandman's Desert. Upon arriving there
some Sandmen will appear and tell you to go home (in English! ^_^;), at
which point you'll be asked if you want to leave or not. Assuming you
don't (second choice), you'll have to fight them, but when you beat them
there'll apparently be just an endless, looping desert. Well, here's what
you have to do. Go four screens to the East, then two to the North, and
you'll find some Sunahami's jumping towards the West. Follow them, and
you'll appear in a screen with sand currents leading to the sand cascade.
Just try to stay in the rocks and move quickly to grab the chests (I've
not had time to get both yet, but the easiest one has one of the best
armors in the game). Once you drop from the upper part of the screen,
you'll have to fight Mimmy, one of the first bosses in the game... but
this time you're outside your Gears! Anyway, it's not hard. From there
on, though, Mimmys will appear as regular enemies in the desert. Also,
the screen you drop to isn't the starting point but the screen East to
that, so if you want to repeat it to get the other chest, you only have
to go three screens East before going North.
IN-GAME MUSIC TEST _____________________________________________________
by Tatsushi Nakao
Apart from the music test in Shevat, which lets you listen only to some
themes, there's another one close to the end of the game. If you go
to Kislev's Battling, which is still operative, you can choose to fight
agains other Gears for Battle Points. The Battling will be explained
in a later version of the FAQ, but you can use David Johnson's walkthough
for details about it.
Anyway, one of the items you can exchange for battle points is a M Disc,
which lets you hear most of the game's music in the jukebox in the same
Battling. I've listed the tunes along with the Action Replay number
corresponding to them.
BTW, you can use my Infinite Battle Points Action Replay code to get
the M Disc easily. Unfortunatelly, it seems that using the AR to get
the disc itself won't work, though. (note: this code will be released
when I get the game).
On another subject, I hope to be able to match the songs with their
"official" names soon, so you won't have to put up with "General Sad
Theme" stuff any longer ^_^;
I've marked some of my faves with ***** (as if anyone would care...).
A Theme
track00: 1E - Elly's theme *****
track01: 27 - Elly's theme (variation, non-looping)
track02: 29 - Soft Yggrasil variant (opening text)
track03: 0F - Chu-Chu's theme
track04: 2B - Maria's theme
track05: 2C - Maria and Siebzehn "heroic" variation *****
track06: 19 - General sad theme
track07: 06 - Forest of the Dark Moon
track08: 42 - Graf's theme
track09: 3E - Id's theme *****
A Battle
track00: 1D - Battle theme
track01: 14 - Boss music 2nd
track02: 0B - Boss music 1st
Dungeons
track00: 12 - Cave (ambience)
track01: 11 - Water flow (ambience)
track02: 18 - Soft wind (ambience)
track03: 24 - Machinery (ambience)
track04: 1A - Distant machinery (lighthouse dungeon) (ambience)
track05: 43 - Sewers (like 06 but without ambience sounds)
track06: 38 - Babel tower
track07: 43 - Sewers (yes, again)
Nature
track00: 09 - Midnight (ambience)
track01: 10 - Mountain (ambience)
track02: 06 - Forest of the Dark Moon (another one that repeats)
track03: 15 - Wind (ambience)
track04: 1B - Soft wind (ambience)
track05: 1C - Rainfall (ambience)
track06: 25 - Distant rumble (ambience)
track07: 17 - Strong wind (ambience)
The World
track00: 28 - Overworld theme
track01: 05 - Lahan town
track02: 07 - Citan's place
track03: 2A - Dajil theme
track04: 16 - Bart's theme
track05: 04 - Alice's theme
track06: 26 - Aveh city
track07: 3B - Yggdrasil theme (Bart's variation)
track08: 47 - Kisleb
track09: 2D - Damuz theme
track10: 45 - Shevat theme *****
track11: 48 - Solaris Comical Theme
track12: 39 - Church organ music
track13: 40 - Flying Yggdrasil theme
Requiem
track00: 0C - Go to sleep
track01: 0D - Go to sleep 2
track02: 0E - Game over
track03: 0A - Dramatic Church theme variation
track04: 13 - Eerie music
track05: 08 - Music box theme
track06: 2E - Fei's theme *****
track07: 2F - Church theme
Emotion
track00: 23 - Sad theme (Billy)
track01: 3F - Heroic theme *****
track02: 3A - General tension music
track03: 3D - Sinister music
track04: 3C - Kislev
Of all the tracks that are really songs, there are missing only the 41
and 44, which correspond, unsurprisingly, to the last two bosses' themes.
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5 . A C T I O N R E P L A Y / G A M E S H A R K C O D E S
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Please don't reprint these codes without attributing them to their proper
authors/creators.
Also, please don't ask me how to use any of these codes. I've put them as
clearly as I've been able (not that much, I know). If you really feel
there's something that could and should be better explained, mail me and
I'll try my best to explain it in the next revision of the FAQ.
These codes were created and tested using a Comms Kit. This device allows
you to enter codes instantly into the game, as opposed to a regular Action
Replay or Game Shark which enters the code from the beginning. If you have
any problems with these codes, try turning off the Action Replay / Game
Shark right after entering the codes, then turning it on just before you
need them (for example, only turn on codes that should be used in a battle
if you are in a battle.
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ITEM SELECT 8006F65A - xxyy
by Ignacio de Lucas
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Most of the times you'll be using this code to just get a Debug Item and
Debug Skill: these items give you almost all items and techniques in the
game! (and even some that aren't in there). BTW, using the Debug Item
generates Debug Skill, so you don't even need that one. The Debug Item
won't give any of the Event Items, though.
The Debug Skill will also put all characters in the "global party", just
as if the "party select" code had been used with 07FF (see below). This
is bad, however: it will cause the game to freeze when shopping, since
it will try to display the faces of all characters on the shopping screen.
So correct it with a Party Select code.
The Debug Item and Debug Skill have the numbers 21 and 22.
xx = Item in first slot, right side.
yy = Item in first slot, left side.
Item numbers will be mapped in a future revision.
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INFINITE MONEY 8006EF58 C9FF
by Ignacio de Lucas 8006EF5A 3B9A
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Someone asked me in the Japanese version why I hadn't made this code. There
are two reasons: I could say that I don't usually use AR codes to make the
game easier, preferring instead the ones that have interesting effects. But
the main reason is that I forgot ^_^;
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FAST LEVEL UP - FEI 8006D8E4 0001
by Ignacio de Lucas 8006D8E6 0000
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I think this one made you gain a level each battle. I haven't made any
more of these (just Fei's) or tested it further because of the above
reason of making the game easier.
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FEI ALWAYS RUNS 8005A0FC 0040
by Ignacio de Lucas
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Useful for lazy players (like me! ^_^;) who don't want to even hold X
to run around. The code doesn't have any side effect either (i.e. the
X button works just fine).
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CHARACTER POSITION IN THE WORLD MAP 800CEB62 xxxx
by Ignacio de Lucas 800CEB6A yyyy
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ALTERNATE CHARACTER POSITION IN THE WORLD MAP 800CC3C6 xxxx
by Ignacio de Lucas 800CC3CE yyyy
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Apparently, the game uses different addresses each time to store your
character's position in the world map. None of those two codes will work
all the time. I'll try to look further into this matter whenever I have a
little more time...
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SAVE ANYWHERE 800B236C 0001
by Ignacio de Lucas
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Inspired by the code of the same name someone made for FF7 (I later made
that same for the US version of FF7). Like it says, the game always
consider you to be on a save point. The most amazing bit about this code
is that it actually works, that is, you can load the saved game and you
will appear where you saved. It will mess up in some places, however:
one of them being the Babel Tower. So I'd reccomend you always keep at
least one "traditional" save game (i.e. don't overwrite it using this
code).
I've also had some problems with this code, specifically being unable
to boot the game with it active. Until I check it some more, I'd reccomend
you turned off the Action Replay as soon as you enter the code, and turned
it on only when saving.
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PARTY SELECT 8006F364 0xyz
by Ignacio de Lucas 8006F366 FFFF
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One of my favorite codes, it allows you to freely configurate the members
of your "global" party, i.e. the members in your current party and those
in the reserve. You can then change party members normally as often as
you want.
Keep in mind that there are only 9 members slots at any time (three in your
current party and six in the reserve) and there are 11 characters, so if you
choose all of them, Citan with Katana and adult Emeralda will not show up.
What's worse, if you choose all characters, the game will slow down to a
halt whenever you enter a shop's menu, as the game will try to display all
characters' faces at once. So in sum, do NOT choose more than 9 characters
Note also that the Debug Skill item will configure your party as having all
characters, so this problem will also arise. Fortunatelly, you can use this
code (party select) to select a 9-character party (or less, if you want).
In other words, you must leave two characters out. During a normal game,
these are obviously regular Citan when he gets a Katana, and young
Emeralda when she grows up. I sort of liked ol' good Citan though (more than
Chu Chu anyway ^_^;).
The way of calculating the number that you have to put instead of the xyz
can be tricky if you don't know hexadecimal / binary. I'll try to make it
simple though.
The "x" controls whether Maria, Citan with Katana and adult Emeralda
are in your global party.
Maria Citan Emeralda
0 No No No
1 Yes No No
2 No Yes No
3 Yes Yes No
4 No No Yes
5 Yes No Yes
6 No Yes Yes
7 Yes Yes Yes
The "y" controls whether Billy, Rico, young Emeralda and Chu Chu are in
your global party.
Billy Rico Emeralda Chu Chu
0 No No No No
1 Yes No No No
2 No Yes No No
3 Yes Yes No No
4 No No Yes No
5 Yes No Yes No
6 No Yes Yes No
7 Yes Yes Yes No
8 No No No Yes
9 Yes No No Yes
A No Yes No Yes
B Yes Yes No Yes
C No No Yes Yes
D Yes No Yes Yes
E No Yes Yes Yes
F Yes Yes Yes Yes
The "z" controls whether Fei, Elly, Citan and Bart are in your global
party.
Fei Elly Citan Bart
0 No No No No
1 Yes No No No
2 No Yes No No
3 Yes Yes No No
4 No No Yes No
5 Yes No Yes No
6 No Yes Yes No
7 Yes Yes Yes No
8 No No No Yes
9 Yes No No Yes
A No Yes No Yes
B Yes Yes No Yes
C No No Yes Yes
D Yes No Yes Yes
E No Yes Yes Yes
F Yes Yes Yes Yes
Some interesting parties are:
07BB : Citan with Katana, adult Emeralda, Maria and Chu-chu (my fave).
077B : Citan with Katana, both Emeraldas, Maria but not Chu-chu.
073F : Both Citans, adult Emeralda, Maria but not Chu-chu.
067F : Both Citans, both Emeraldas, but without Maria nor Chu-chu.
In all of these all of the other party members (Fei, Elly, Bart, Rico and
Billy) are also included. However there's lots of combinations and with
a little thinking you can make your favorite.
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CHARACTER SELECT 3006F368 00xx
by Ignacio de Lucas 3006F369 00yy
3006F36A 00zz
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Actually, the only reason now to use this code, is to change characters
when you still can't change characters (early on the game). You will
therefore always use this code in conjunction with the former one, since
when you can't change characters is when you have only three or less in your
global party, so you wouldn't be able to select anyone anyway. So you'd use
the "Party Select" to put the character you want in your global party, then
the "Character Select" to put it into your current party. Clear enough? I
hope so, because that's about as clearly as I can put it.
Beware when selecting a character that you haven't already obtained
normally, as most of the times they won't be equipped with a Gear, or even
be equipped, as in adult Emeralda's case, with the Yggdra4, which tends to
crash the game. For these, remember to use a "Gear select" code (which, of
course, I kindly provide :) ).
In these, xx is the first character, yy the second, and zz the third. If you
are using a Comms Kit to activate these, remember you can't enter codes
starting with 30 with it; instead, you must use:
8006F368 yyxx
8006F36A 00zz
The character numbers are:
00 - Fei
01 - Elly
02 - Citan
03 - Bart
04 - Billy
05 - Rico
06 - Young Emeralda
07 - Chu-chu
08 - Maria
09 - Katana-wielding Citan
0A - Adult Emeralda
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ENEMIES HAVE INFINITE HP 800CD184 7FFF 800CD2F4 7FFF
by Ignacio de Lucas 800CD464 7FFF 800CD5D4 7FFF
800CD744 7FFF
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Well, I made this code mainly for being able to make the skill lists
without the enemies dying all around, but maybe someone might find
this useful.
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ENEMIES HAVE JUST ONE HP 800CD184 0001 800CD2F4 0001
by Ignacio de Lucas 800CD464 0001 800CD5D4 0001
800CD744 0001
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Silly me, I forgot that the above code could be as well used to put the
enemies down to 1 HP. And THAT would be useful ^_^;
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ENEMY GEARS HAVE INFINITE HP 800CD23C FFFF 800CD3AC FFFF
by Ignacio de Lucas 800CD51C FFFF 800CD68C FFFF
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Same as above.
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ENEMY GEARS HAVE JUST ONE HP 800CD23C 0001 800CD3AC 0001
by Ignacio de Lucas 800CD51C 0001 800CD68C 0001
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Same as above also.
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INFINITE TIME BAR 800D2E06 0000
by Ignacio de Lucas 800D2E08 0000
800D2E0A 0000
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Yer average (but popular nonetheless) "nyah nyah I can attack a thousand
times before you can move" code. The enemies will be able to poke an attack
every now and then, however.
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ALWAYS HAVE 28 AP STORED 800D32A0 001C
by Ignacio de Lucas 800D32A8 001C
800D32B0 001C
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Like it says. Beware that this causes EXTREMELLY weird things to happen when
inside your Gear: namely, you will use your character's Skills instead of
the Gear's! It will use the animations for your Gear's attacks but it looks
really cool! The "beware" part is that it tends to crash the game.
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INFINITE HP / EP
by Ignacio de Lucas
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For each character, there are four codes listed. They are HP, Max HP, EP and
Max EP. One note though: some of these will not work, especially for the
later characters. It seems that they're not always equally distanced, and
I've not bothered to try them all. Most should work, though.
Fei
8006D8EC 03E7
8006D8EE 03E7
8006D8F0 0063
8006D8F2 0063
Elly
8006D990 03E7
8006D992 03E7
8006D994 0063
8006D996 0063
Citan
8006DA14 03E7
8006DA16 03E7
8006DA18 0063
8006DA1A 0063
Bart
8006DAD8 03E7
8006DADA 03E7
8006DADC 0063
8006DADE 0063
Billy
8006DB7C 03E7
8006DB7E 03E7
8006DB80 0063
8006DB82 0063
Rico
8006DC20 03E7
8006DC22 03E7
8006DC24 0063
8006DC26 0063
Young Emeralda
8006DCC4 03E7
8006DCC6 03E7
8006DCC8 0063
8006DCCA 0063
Chu Chu
8006DD68 03E7
8006DD6A 03E7
8006DD6C 0063
8006DD6E 0063
Maria
8006DE0C 03E7
8006DE0E 03E7
8006DE10 0063
8006DE12 0063
Citan with Katana
8006DEB0 03E7
8006DEB2 03E7
8006DEB4 0063
8006DEB6 0063
Grown Emeralda
8006DF54 03E7
8006DF56 03E7
8006DF58 0063
8006DF5A 0063
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INFINITE HP - ALL GEARS 800CCDEC 7FFF
by Ignacio de Lucas 800CCF5C 7FFF
800CD0CC 7FFF
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This only works in battle... then again, it is the only place in which
you'll be needing it.
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INFINITE FUEL - ALL GEARS 800CCDC4 270F 800CCDC6 270F
by Ignacio de Lucas 800CCF34 270F 800CCF36 270F
800CD0A4 270F 800CD0A6 270F
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There are six codes because I put the Max Fuel as well.
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ALWAYS AT ATTACK LEVEL 3 - ALL GEARS 800CCE30 0003
by Ignacio de Lucas 800CCFA0 0003
800CD110 0003
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Guess.
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ALWAYS AT INFINITE ATTACK LEVEL - ALL GEARS 800CCE30 0004
by Ignacio de Lucas 800CCFA0 0004
800CD110 0004
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Beware that if your character doesn't have an Infinity Level attack he/she
won't be able to attack at all :). Of course, that's where the "Have all
abilities" code steps in.
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GEAR SELECT
by Ignacio de Lucas
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You can have any character ride any Gear, but they'll perform the Skills,
Ethers, etc of its legitimate owner.
Fei 8006D940 00xx
Elly 8006D9E4 00xx
Citan 8006DA88 00xx
Bart 8006DB2C 00xx
Billy 8006DBD0 00xx
Rico 8006DC74 00xx
Young Emeralda 8006DD18 00xx
Chu Chu 8006DCBC 00xx
Maria 8006DE60 00xx
Citan with Katana 8006DF24 00xx
Grown Emeralda 8006DFA8 00xx
The Gears are:
01 : Weltall
02 : Vierge
03 : Heimdal
04 : Brigander
05 : Renmazuo
06 : Stier
07 : Chu-chu
08 : Siebzehn
09 : Crescens
0A : El Regurus (crashes)
0B : El Fenrir
0C : El Andvali
0D : El Renmazuo
0E : El Stier
0F : Xenogears
10 : Heimdal
11 : Bart 01 (crashes)
12 : Yggdra (crashes)
Gears marked with (crash) tend to crash the game (surprise). They can still
be used in battle and they won't crash much (well the Yggdra does a bit
^_^;), but they will definitelly crash if their graphic is to be displayed
in the map. I.e. don't enter or exit any location with any of them active
(I'm afraid exiting from a battle counts as well, though).
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HAVE ALL ABILITIES
by Ignacio de Lucas
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Nice, huh? Each one of the five codes for each character gives all abilities
of a certain type for that character. These are: Skills, Ethers, Gear
Skills, Gear Ethers, and Gear Options, in that order. Actually, you might
just as well use the Debug Skill item to get all abilities, but keep in mind
that the Debug Skill doesn't give you all abilities (for example, Fei's
"Hell Fire" Gear option). If you use Debug Skill and don't get all Gear
Skills, use the third code for each character, which is the one which gives
Gear Skills.
These codes will also give you tons of non-existing abilities though,
which can make anything from crash the game to nothing at all. To make
sure one of these exists, just check it in the official lists.
Fei
8006ECF4 FFFF
8006ECF6 FFFF
8006ECF8 FFFF
8006ECFA FFFF
8006ED0E FFFF
Elly
8006ED14 FFFF
8006ED16 FFFF
8006ED18 FFFF
8006ED1A FFFF
8006ED2E FFFF
Citan
8006ED34 FFFF
8006ED36 FFFF
8006ED38 FFFF
8006ED3A FFFF
8006ED4E FFFF
Bart
8006ED54 FFFF
8006ED56 FFFF
8006ED58 FFFF
8006ED5A FFFF
8006ED6E FFFF
Billy
8006ED74 FFFF
8006ED76 FFFF
8006ED78 FFFF
8006ED7A FFFF
8006ED8E FFFF
Rico
8006ED94 FFFF
8006ED96 FFFF
8006ED98 FFFF
8006ED9A FFFF
8006EDAE FFFF
Young Emeralda
8006EDB4 FFFF
8006EDB6 FFFF
8006EDB8 FFFF
8006EDBA FFFF
8006EDCE FFFF
Chu Chu
8006EDD4 FFFF
8006EDD6 FFFF
8006EDD8 FFFF
8006EDDA FFFF
8006EDEE FFFF
Maria
8006EDF4 FFFF
8006EDF6 FFFF
8006EDF8 FFFF
8006EDFA FFFF
8006EE0E FFFF
Citan with Katana
8006EE14 FFFF
8006EE16 FFFF
8006EE18 FFFF
8006EE1A FFFF
8006EE2E FFFF
Grown Emeralda
8006EE34 FFFF
8006EE36 FFFF
8006EE38 FFFF
8006EE3A FFFF
8006EE4E FFFF
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HAVE WON FOUR STRAIGHT RPS GAMES 800C3E7A 0004
by Ignacio de Lucas
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For those of you who just can't beat that darned guy at Rock, Paper,
Scissor in Lahan, here's the right code. This will make the game think
you've won four times in a row, so you just have to win a fifth time and
he'll give you the RPS Badge (remember you have to talk to him after you
win). Evne if you lose, the game still thinks you've won four times, so
just try again. Easy.
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MAX BALLOONS IN WHOSE BALLOONS MINI-GAME 800C3E6C 7FFE
by Ignacio de Lucas 800C3F6C 7FFF
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This is for the Whose Balloons mini-game in Bledavik's Shakhan Square. It
will give you maximum balloons and bingos.
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6 . P L A Y I N G T H E G A M E
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C H A R A C T E R S
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WONG FEIFONG (FEI)
Birthplace: Unknown
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Height: 177cm
Weight: 67kg
Weapon Style: Martial Arts
Gear: Weltall
ELEHAYYM VAN HOUTEN (ELLY)
Birthplace: Solaris
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Height: 164cm
Weight: 46kg
Weapon Style: Rods
Gear: Vierge
CITAN UZUKI
Birthplace: Solaris
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Height: 182cm
Weight: 68kg
Weapon Style: Martial Arts / Katana
Gear: Heimdal
BARTHLOMEI FATIMA (BART)
Birthplace: Aveh (Fatima Castle, Bledavik)
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Height: 183cm
Weight: 72kg
Weapon Style: Whips
Gear: Brigandier
BILLY LEE BLACK
Birthplace: Aquavy Islands
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Height: 168cm
Weight: 59kg
Weapon Style: Guns
Gear: Renmazuo
RICARDO BANDERAS (RICO)
Birthplace: Kislev
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Height: 211cm
Weight: 160kg
Weapon Style: Wrestling
Gear: Stier
MARIA BELTHASAR
Birthplace: Shevat?
Age: ??
Gender: Female
Height: ??cm
Weight: ??kg
Weapon Style: Bare-Hand
Gear: Siebzehn
EMERALDA
Birthplace: ??
Age: ??
Gender: Female
Height: ??cm
Weight: ??kg
Weapon Style: Body Change
Gear: Crescens
CHU-CHU
Birthplace: ??
Age: ??
Gender: Female (judging from equipable armor)
Height: ??cm
Weight: ??kg
Weapon Style: Claws
Gear: None
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C O N T R O L S
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(sigh) They changed the button layout in the US version. It's a mess to
make out at first, especially when I go back to play any other RPG game in
which Triangle goes to the menu screen, as usual. If you played the Japanese
version (or FF7), Square and Triangle are switched as are Cross and Circle.
Of course, the notations in ths FAQ correspond to the US version, don't
worry.
WHILE ON THE WORLD MAP / FIELD / DUNGEON _______________________________
T = Jump
S = Open Main Menu
X = Talk / Accept / Examine / Read / Open chests, doors
O = Dash / Decline / Close Menu
R1 = Rotate right 45 degrees
L1 = Rotate left 45 degrees
L2+R2 = Get into or out of your Gears (only in the World Map)
R2+X = Reverse gear while in the flying Yggdrasil (only in the World Map)
START = Pause the game
SELECT = Open / Close Minimap (only in the World Map)
You can jump while dashing to perform a longer, faster Jump.
While in any of these areas (usually), a compass is displayed at the
bottom right corner of the screen to let you know where you're heading.
'North' is always shown in red.
MENU CONTROLS __________________________________________________________
X = Accept
O = Cancel / Close current window
R1 = Show next character in roster
L1 = Show previous character in roster
BATTLE CONTROLS ________________________________________________________
T = Accept a command / during Attack, perform a Weak attack
S = Accept a command / during Attack, perform a Regular attack
X = Accept a command / during Attack, perform a Strong attack
O = Decline a command / during Attack, end Attack string.
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M A I N M E N U
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Shown on the main screen of the Main Menu is a list of available
commands. To the right are your characters, and information about
them:
Experience Level
Name
Experience Points remaining until Level Up
Current HP / Maximum HP (Hit Points)
Current EP / Maximum EP (Ether Points)
You can have up to three characters in your party at one time. At the
bottom of the menu is a display telling you how much Gold (G) you have,
and the total amount of time you've spent playing the game.
MAIN MENU - STATUS _____________________________________________________
Shown in this menu (top to bottom, left to right):
Current Level (LV)
Amount of EXP earned so far
Amount of EXP remaining until Level Up
Character's Portrait
Character's Name
Current HP / Maximum HP
Current EP / Maximum EP
Characteristic Determines
Weight Affects Agility
Attack Damage inflicted with physical attacks
Accuracy Chance of hitting with physical attacks
Defense Damage received from physical attacks
Evade Chance of being hit by physical attacks
Ether Damage inflicted with Ether attacks
Ether Defense Damage received from Ether attacks
Agility Time between turns
Weapon Weapon equipped
Accessory Accesories equipped
Gear Gear equipped
Skill Menu = This screen shows you all the skills you can learn at the
moment. If you've learned a skill, the Ability Points
(AP) required are shown along with the button command.
(For instance, Fei's Senretsu costs 5 AP and is inputted as
T,T,X).
The numbers and bars tell you how close you are to learning
a new skill. If it's at 100% and you haven't learned it yet,
it means that your level is still too low to get it, but
you'll learn it automatically once you reach the appropriate
level.
Ability Menu = See 'Main Menu: Ability'
Equip Menu = See 'Main Menu: Equip'
MAIN MENU - EQUIP ______________________________________________________
The box in the upper left shows this:
Weapon (currently equipped)
Accessories (currently worn)
Accessories include armor (hats, clothing), and items similar to those
found in FF7 (Stamina Ring, Glasses, etc.)
The box in the upper right shows what unequipped items can be worn.
The box in the lower right shows the same stats from the 'Status'
screen. When you equip an item, the positive (red) or negative (blue)
impact on certain stats is displayed.
MAIN MENU - ITEM _______________________________________________________
The main box shows all the items you've accquired so far. Items that
are highlighted can be used currently; items in dark lettering cannot
be used at the moment. The lower box will give you a description of
the item, as well as tell you what type of item it is.
You can sort items by pressing X over an item once, finding a place,
and pressing X. In the case of highlighting another item, the two will
switch places. To use an item, double-select that item with X and then
choose the applicable character(s).
MAIN MENU - ABILITY ____________________________________________________
The main box shows all learned abilities, and how many Ether Points (EP)
are required to use that ability. The box in the lower left gives a
brief description of that ability, and the box to the lower right tells
you what type of ability it is. Finally, a small box below that shows
you your current / maximum EP count.
MAIN MENU - GEAR _______________________________________________________
This menu isn't available unless you have a Gear and are using it outside
of a battle.
The menu is similar to the Status screen, but with some differences:
FL = Current amount of Gear fuel / Maximum amount of fuel
Characteristic Determines
Weight Affects Agility
Attack Damage inflicted with physical attacks
Defense Damage received from physical attacks
Ether Defense Damage received from Ether attacks
Response Chance of hitting with physical attacks
Agility Time between turns
Ether Amplifier Damage inflicted with Ether attacks
The 'Weapon' and 'Accessory' sections on this screen apply to your Gear,
not you :) As for the other options:
Get ON/OFF = Choose if you want to walk or ride in your Gear.
Gear Option = Devices that can be used by your gear. They cost fuel.
Ability = These are Abilities that you can use while in your Gear
They also cost EP.
Equip = For equipping weapons and accessories on your Gear.
MAIN MENU - FILE _______________________________________________________
When selected, this screen loads up all the files on your Memory Card(s),
including the little animated pictures. Nice.
If you're standing near a Memory Cube or are on the Field, you can choose
to save your game. Otherwise, your only option are to copy an existing
file or delete a file. Note that you can copy and delete non-Xenogears
files as well :)
MAIN MENU - EXIT _______________________________________________________
As opposed to pressing Circle, you can also choose this option to exit the
Main Menu.
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Sleeping in an inn restores all HP and EP, pretty much as always.
Like inns, shops can be found everywhere. Sometimes, you can buy things
from just people standing around instead of people inside buildings.
When the shopping menu pops up, you'll see a list of items for sale and
the amount of gold they cost will be displayed on the right. The window
on the top tells you more about the item. To buy an item, press left or
right while on it to indicate how many of that item you want. Then
press X to buy it. A subtraction table on the right will show you how
much gold you have remaining. When buying an equippable item, portraits
of your characters will be shown, and if that item can be used by that
character, their portrait lights up. Below that are indicators letting
you know how that item affects your Weapon Power (top) and Defense
Power (bottom).
You can also sell items in shops; just choose items you want to get rid
of and the price offered will be shown. Not all items are salable.
You can also buy items for your Gear and maintain or upgrade it. Not
a lot of people can do this for you (Old Man Bal is one of them). On
that menu:
TUNE UP MENU ___________________________________________________________
Here, you can improve your Gear's stats:
Fuel - Restores your lost fuel. Increases fuel and HP to maximum.
Engine - You can purchase a new engine. This affects the Gear's attack
power (first number in the engine's name), as well as the
amount of fuel it can carry (second number multiplied by 100).
Unfortunatelly, more powerful engines use fuel faster when
using Booster.
Frame - You can purchase a new frame. The Frame of your Gear affects
the amount of HP it has. The HP a frame has can be obtained
by multiplying the number in its name by 100.
Armor - You can purchase new armor (for better defense). If there are
two numbers in its name, the first is the Defense value and the
second the Ether Defense value.
BUY MENU _______________________________________________________________
You can buy Weapons or Accessories (Parts) for your Gear.
SELL MENU ______________________________________________________________
You can sell Weapons or Accessories (Parts).
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B A T T L E S
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The battle system in Xenogears is quite similar to that of so many other
Square games (especially FF games), the ATB (Active Time Battle) system.
This system consists of a separate time bar for each character and enemy,
which fill simultaneously as time goes on. When one character's bar is full,
he/she may choose an action to perform, then wait until it fills again.
The system in Xenogears is the "immediate fill" variant, as in Final Fantasy
Tactics. That means that, instead of the bars actually filling up slowly as
real time passes, the game will skip straight to the next character's turn,
and consequently filling up the other characters' bars too according to the
time ellapsed and their speed. Also like in Final Fantasy Tactics, you have
all the time in the world to pick your choices, as the other characters'
bars don't fill up while making selections. To sum it up, there's no
real-time factor, thus making strategy a heavier component of battles.
OK, if you didn't understand, you will once you fight a couple of battles,
if you pay a little attention to the bars. It's a lot simpler than it
sounds.
THE BATTLE SCREEN (Character Battle) __________________________________
Shown on the top are the portraits of your characters and their current
and maximum HP. Below that is shown their Time Bar and amount of
stored Attack Points (AP).
Your character(s) and the enemy or enemies are shown in the middle against
an appropriate background. Depending on the location and progression of
the battle, both enemies and characters may move to different spots on the
screen. When you're selecting a target for commands and attacks, a red
arrow appears that you can direct over an enemy or friend with the
directional key. If you have multiple targets, multiple arrows will show,
with darkened directions indicating that you can press in that direction to
highlight a new target.
When one of your character's time bar it's full, a ring-shaped menu will
appear. This is quite similar to that option of FF5 and FF6 in which you
could arrange the commands in a cross shape, so you could highlight any of
them with one directional press. Only thing is, there are more than four
commands this time, which means there is another ring that can be accessed
by pressing a direction again when you are already highlighting that
direction's command. To select any command, press Cross.
Below that is a tall vertical meter. This is the graphical representation
of your currently usable Attack Points. When you're creating your own
chain of attacks, a small numerical counter is also shown to the right of
that showing current AP / maximum AP usable at the moment. Certain attacks
and combinations require more AP than others (we'll get to all that in a
moment).
BATTLE COMMANDS (Character Battle) ____________________________________
Main Ring: Secondary Ring:
< ABILITY > CALL GEAR
DEFENSE ATTACK ESCAPE COMBO
ITEM ITEM
A T T A C K
- The basis for Xenogears' battle system is combining three different
types of attacks to perform a string during each character's turn. The
attacks are performed by pressing the Triangle, Square and Cross buttons.
The player has (almost) full freedom to combine these three attacks in
any way he/she desires.
- Once you select the "Attack" command, your character will run next to
the nearest enemy and wait for you to input further commands. At this
point, you can:
Press Circle to cancel and go back to the Ring Menu.
Or press any direction in the D-pad to select another target, if
available, as mentioned above.
Or press any of the attack buttons to start attacking the enemy.
The attack buttons are the Triangle button (Weak Attack), the Square
button (Medium Attack) and the Cross button (Strong Attack). Performing
an attack will immediatelly deduce its cost from your remaining AP for
that turn, this cost being 1 AP for the Weak Attack, 2 for the Medium
and 3 for the Strong.
- However, as mentione above, one of the most notable differences between
Xenogears and other RPGs is that you can perform more that one attack
per turn. Assuming you still have enough AP to perform another attack,
you may do so, and keep attacking until you run out of AP or some other
circumstance prevent you from doing so. These circumstances include:
If you perform a Skill (which will be explained later), the string will
finish immediatly.
If you pause after an attack, and the enemy has 0 HP, it will die, thus
ending the string (what, you wanna punch the air?). Note however that
if you enter all attacks in a quick succesion the enemy won't die until
you end the string.
Finally, if you press Circle instead of an attack button, you'll end
the string prematurelly.
In any of these three cases, your turn will be over and any remaining
AP you might still have will be stored in your Combo Bar. The use of
this bar is discussed under the "Combo" command description.
Skills
- Skills are specific button combinations that result in the final attack
in the string, which is always a Cross (strong) attack, resulting a
graphically impressive special attack that will cause much more damage
than the regular Cross attack would have. Needless to say, they should
be performed as often as possible, as they have no drawbacks.
In addition of showing all Skills available to each of your characters
when you select the Skill option in the Status screen, the game also
displays, during battle, which Skills are available to you within a
two button presses range from your current input. Say, with Fei you
do "Triangle, Triangle". Assuming you don't kill the enemy, the game
will pause and display the "Cross" ender (so the complete string, from
the beginning, would be T,T,X) and the "Square, Cross" ender (T,T,S,X),
but not the "Triangle, Triangle, Cross" one (T,T,T,T,X), as it is three
button presses away.
- Skills you haven't yet, but can be learnt (this usually means you have
enough AP to perform them) are usually displayed grayed out in the Skill
list, along with a percentage indicator. This percentage will go up
faster depending on which strings you use during battle. Although it
seems that performing the string that would result in the Skill you want
to learn does raise this percentage, sometimes it seems to get stuck and
other strings are needed. The exact relationship between strings used
and Skill learning is largely unknown at the moment, unfortunatelly.
- In any case, having a 100 in a Skill's indicator doesn't neccesarily
imply the learning of the Skill, since there's also a minimum level
requirement. However, if you have 100 per cent, you'll automatically
learn the Skill when you reach that level.
A B I L I T Y
Pretty similar to other game's Magic, each character can learn different
Abilities as they level up, and use them in battle (and sometimes outside
it, such as in the case of healing ones). These abilities consume Ether
points, that can be replenishing either by sleeping or consuming certain
items (mostly Rosesols). Each character's Ability command receives a
different name: Ether, Chi, Arcane, Controls or Spells. Refer to the
Ability lists for details on individual Abilities.
D E F E N S E
- A defending character does not perform any action this turn, but his/her
Defense Power will be effectivelly doubled until his/her next turn. This
is mostly useful as a way of not doing anything.
I T E M
- Use one of your items during battle. Note that there are quite some
items that can't be used during battle (food, for example). BTW, both
Item commands (the one in the Main Ring and the one in the Secondary
Ring) are identical.
C O M B O
- You can store up to 28 AP points total. You can then use the Combo
option to release the stored APs in the form of a string of Skills,
each one costing as much as the whole string you have to perform normally
to use it (even though you are actually performing only the "Cross"
ender each time). Still, this results in dealing huge amounts of damage
as the Skills are by far the most damaging parts of the strings, and
look like you're trashing your enemy (the Skills will be performed in
Fast Forward).
Skills susceptible to form part of a Combo include all Skills your
character has learned, excluding any 7 AP Skill.
C A L L G E A R
- This command allows your character to get inside his/her corresponding
Gear, assuming that he/she does have one, and that you are in open space
or in a wide enough place. The advantages to this are immediate, as
Gears' Attack and Defense Power are obviously unmatched by humans, not
to mention they have a lot more HP too. Unless you're fighting weak
enemies for your Level, you'll most likely get trashed by Gears if you
go on foot, and converselly you'll trash any character-sized enemy if
you're in your Gears.
- Disadvantages? There are two. The first one reflects the unavailability
of Gear resources, as both their Fuel and HP can only be restored in
certain places (you can use Fuel to heal HP if you're equipped with the
appropriate Gear part, but...). Humans' HP, on the other side, can be
easily restored by quite some items, Ethers, etc...
The secong, and subtler, disadvantage, is that you can't learn Skills
while on a Gear. This will be explained later.
E S C A P E
- Your character will try to run away from battle. If he/she is successful,
everyone will flee. However, if he fails, any other character may try
again during his/her turn.
THE BATTLE SCREEN (Gear Battle) _______________________________________
This screen is similar to the normal battle screen, with the following
differences:
- Shown below the Time Gauge is the Fuel Meter. Fuel is used in lieu
of AP while in a Gear. Without Fuel, you cannot perform commands in
battle.
- The graphical and numerical representation of AP now represents
your amount of Fuel.
- There is a box to the right showing the status of your Gear.
- There's an Attack Level icon available.
BATTLE COMMANDS (Gear Battle) _________________________________________
Main Ring: Secondary Ring:
ETHER MACHINE SPECIAL OPTIONS
CHARGE ATTACK ESCAPE BOOSTER
ITEM ITEM
A T T A C K
- A Gear is noticeably heavier and slower than a human, and therefore its
attacking speed is more limited. This means that a Gear may only be able
to perform either a single attack or a Skill each turn. Furthermore,
Gear Skills are significantly different from character ones. For one,
they don't have to end in a Strong (Cross) attack. Also, the string
which forms a Skill is only two attacks long (the second being the
Skill). Consequently, ALL strings are Skills. However, Gear Skills
can't be performed at any time, like character ones: you need a high
enough Attack Level.
- Every time you attack, but not perform a Skill, you gain a level in
your Attack Level meter. Skills starting with Triangle require and
consume one Attack Level, ones starting with Square cost two, and ones
starting with Cross cost three. This means that you have to attack
three turns and not perform a Skill to be able to do a Cross-starting
Skill. Also, as mentioned above, the amount of Fuel recovered with
Charge is multiplied by one plus your Attack Level.
- Like character Skills, if you press a button and can perform a Skill
off of that button, a diagram showing you the total Fuel Cost as well
as what button can be pressed to perform that Skill is shown. Of course,
you can always press Circle to cancel and just do a normal attack (useful
for building up Attack Level).
- Gear Skills are closely related to character ones, in the sense that
learning one character Skill makes you learn one Gear Skill (at least
until your third 7 AP character Skill). Since you can only learn
character Skills on foot, it comes to happen that you need to be on
foot even to learn Gear Skills!
- In addition to the Skills you can learn normally (T,T, T,S, S,T,
S,S, X,T and X,S), there are three accesories that allow you to use
one additional Skill per level (T,X, S,X and X,X respectively).
These Skills are extremelly useful as not only do they more damage
than a regular Skill, but they also cost much less fuel. Thanks
to David Johnson (johnsonr@compuserve.com) for this info.
Infinite Attack Level
- Of special mention is the Infinite Attack Level. For a start, it
isn't achieved normally (i.e. you don't automatically enter it
when using a single attack from Level 3). Instead, each turn you
SPEND in Level 3, there is a chance of you getting to Level
Infinite. This chance is shown as the Hyper Level in the bunch of
indicators at the right. So if it says Hyper Level 30%, each turn
you spend in Attack Level 3 (not counting the one you reach it)
you have a 30% chance of getting to Attack Level Infinite. And
note that you don't have to attack or do anything else to raise to
Infinite Level: you could as well charge fuel while you wait.
- Now, where does this chance come from? Well, while some Gears seem to
have an initial Hyper Level value higher to 0%, generally speaking it
seems to be solely affected by your current HP level. The least HP you
have, the greater this chance is. Keep in mind, though, that even at
almost 0 HP, this chance doesn't seem to raise above 45% or so. Also,
the Weltall 2 has a Gear option that puts it automatically in Infinite
Level, and the Xenogears is always at 99% Hyper Level. This makes the
Xenogears the most powerful Gear in the game, since it can reach Infinite
Attack Level in four turns every time and let hell break loose.
- Infinite Attack Level wears of after three turns, so you better
make the most of it. What are your options when in Infinite Attack
Level? For a start, you can use Infinite Level Gear Skills, which
deal a huge amount of damage (about twice as much as a Level 3 Skill)
for a mere 10, 20 or 30 fuel. Since these won't wear your attack
level, you can just use them three times in a row (until Infinite
Level wears off). You can also charge, and will get ten times as much
fuel as normal each time. This usually means 300 fuel, but equipping
an A, S, X or Z charger will get you 500, 1000, 2000 or a whopping
5000 fuel back!
- Note also that you can't reach Attack Level Infinite until you have at
least one Infinite Level Skill. I'm pretty sure that these correspond
(as seen above) to the 7 AP Skills of the Gear's pilot.
E T H E R M A C H I N E
- This allows you to use your character's Abilities when inside his/her
Gear. Not all of a character's Abilities are available when inside a
Gear, though. Also, some Abilities function and look different when
you're riding a Gear. For one, all "HP recover" Abilities restore Gear
defense when used inside a Gear (there are quite some enemy attacks
that lower defense: this will be reflected in the Armor Loss percentage
indicator).
- The only exception to this rule is Chu-chu's "Forest Dance S", which
recovers not only characters' HPs, but even Gears', making it
extremely useful as it is the only way to recover a Gear's HP without
using Fuel in the whole game.
C H A R G E
- This is the only way of restoring Fuel during battle. The amount of Fuel
restored is 30 by default, but certain Gear parts, the A, S, X, and Z
Chargers increase that amount to 50, 100, 200 and 500 respectivelly.
Also, the amount of fuel recovered varies depending on which Attack Level
you Gear is in as well. Thanks a lot to Brian Youn (bwa@us.ibm.com) for
pointing out my wrong assumption of that Levels 1, 2 and 3 multiplied the
basic amount recovered as Level Infinite did. Rather, they just add 20,
40 and 60 to this basic amount.
Level Recover Basic A Charger S Charger X Charger Z Charger
0 30 50 100 200 500
1 +20 50 70 120 220 520
2 +40 70 90 140 240 540
3 +60 90 110 160 260 560
Infinite x10 300 500 1000 2000 5000
Finally, equipping the Cleaner will allow you to remove all status
ailments when charging.
I T E M
- It has the same effect that the character command of the same name.
B O O S T E R
- Activating or deactivating the Booster will take you a full turn.
When the Booster is active, your Gear will consume Fuel each turn,
but it's Speed will dramatically improve as well, resulting in almost
twice as many actions performed as before.
S P E C I A L O P T I O N S
- Some Gears receive special devices during the course of the game which
cost Fuel to activate. Most of the times they are awarded as the story
progresses, but there are some Gear parts that allow you to restore your
Gear's HP via one of these commands. These are the Frame HP XX, where
XX is the percentage of the Gear's HP restored. Of special interest is
the fact that, while if they are activated in battle they will restore
the nominal amount of HP, if they are used in the menu screen they will
only heal a fraction of that percentage, costing much less Fuel as well.
This is in order to allow you to fine-tune the amount of HP restored.
E S C A P E
- It has the same effect that the character command of the same name.
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ITEMS THAT CAN BE USED DURING BATTLE ___________________________________
Name Cost Effect
Aquasol 20 Recover 50 HP
Aquasol S 100 Recover 150 HP
Aquasol DX 300 Recover 500 HP
Alphasol 1000 Recover full HP
Panalphasol 10000 Recover full HP (all characters)
Rosesol 100 Recover 10 EP
Rosesol S 300 Recover 20 EP
Rosesol DX 800 Recover 30 EP
Sigmasol 1500 Recover full EP
Zetasol 100 Recover life
Zetasol DX 1000 Recover life and full HP
Physisol 10 Nullify body status effects
Mentsol 20 Nullify mind status effects
Physimentsol 50 Nullify all status effects
White Star 500 Earth defense up / Wind defense down
Brown Star 500 Wind defense up / Earth defense down
Red Star 500 Water defense up / Fire defense down
Blue Star 500 Fire defense up / Water defense down
Hard Star 800 Defense up until end of during battle
Speed Star 1000 Speed up until end of during battle
Tragedienne 10 Causes "Play Dead" status
Comedienne 10 Removes "Play Dead" status
Igissol 2000 Prevent body affecting status effects
Aegissol 2000 Prevent mind affecting status effects
Blue Rose 1500 Nullifies physical Ether support
Red Rose 1500 Nullifies mental Ether support
Black Rose 1500 Nullifies equipment Ether support
ElementAero 1200 Makes your attack wind-elemental
ElementTerra 1200 Makes your attack earth-elemental
ElementPyro 1200 Makes your attack fire-elemental
ElementHydro 1200 Makes your attack water-elemental
Samson'sHair 1000 Strength up until end of during battle.
Usable only when Bart is in the party
ITEMS THAT CAN'T BE USED DURING BATTLE _________________________________
Name Cost Effect
Omegasol 50 Restore all HP/EP (one)
SurvivalTent 150 Restore all HP/EP in save point (all)
STR Drive 10000 Attack +1
VIT Drive 10000 Defense +1
ETH Drive 10000 Ether +1
ETHDEF Drive 10000 Ether Defense +1
HP Drive 20000 Maximum HP +20
EP Drive 20000 Maximum EP +5
Hob-Jerky 10 Recover 50 HP or sell at Battling
Hob-Meat 200 Recover 150 HP or sell at Battling
Hob-Steak 300 Recover 500 HP or sell at Battling
Fang 200 Sell at Bledavik market or Battling
Eyeball 400 Sell at Bledavik market or Battling
Scales 1000 Sell at Bledavik market or Battling
Ivory 3000 Sell at Battling
Gold Nugget 4000 | Give these to the treasure hunter at
Gold Bullion 8000 | Shevat to have him dig a tunnel
Bizfruit 10 Recover 10 EP
Elfanana 10 Recover 50 HP
Ariberry 10 Recover 50 HP
Radish 10 Background item
Durian Juice 10 Background item
Nisan Water 10 Background item
Aveh Water 10 Background item
Toy Gun 80 Background item
Minigear 120 Exchange for Gold Nugget hint in Bledavik
Anoret Seed 10 Lose 2 Kg
Anoret Fruit 100 Lose 4 Kg
Bulimy Seed 10 Gain 2 Kg
Bulimy Fruit 100 Gain 4 Kg
EVENT ITEMS ____________________________________________________________
Name Effect
RPS Badge | If you have all three badges, a man
H&S Badge | in Shevat will give you a Power
Tag Badge | Ring S and a Guard Recover
Mermaid Tear Emeralda can exchange it for an Earring in Shevat in Disc 2
UFO Photo Background item
Master Key
Sewer Keys
Bell Amulet Exchange for Church Doctrine at Kojiin
Book 1 Background item
Book 2 Background item
Book 3 Background item
Spider Chu Chu eats it when it joins you
Bird Egg Yui will cook it
Dog Food Background item
Spider Web Background item
M Disk Use this at Kislev at end of game for a sound test
Chu-chu Doll This is actually Chu-chu before it joins you
Tickets Used in the ceremony at Solaris
Chu-chu Idol If equipped, Strength and Defense +20%, Chu-chu only
Cabin Key
Kislev Map
Merkava Map
Shevat Map
Rock Background item
Dawn Rock | Exchange all three stones
Dusk Rock | for an item in Shevat
Dark Rock |
Army Cardkey Given by Elly to escape Ave
Work Permit Used to move freely in Solaris
Dirty Badge Background item
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HEAD EQUIPMENT _________________________________________________________
Name DF Cost Notes
Martial Cap 1 30 -
Fencing Cap 2 40 -
Leather Hat 6 80 -
Metal Helmet 10 200 -
War Helm 20 600 -
FeatheredCap 28 1200 -
Black Helmet 35 2000 -
Golden Hood 45 3800 -
HEAD EQUIPMENT : WOMEN ONLY ____________________________________________
Name DF Cost Notes
White Beret 8 150 -
Silver Beret 24 800 -
Ruby Helmet 32 1600 -
Starlight 38 2600 -
Vivid Turban 50 4800 -
Blessed Helm 55 10000 -
HEAD EQUIPMENT : MEN ONLY ______________________________________________
Name DF Cost Notes
Iron Helmet 10 200 -
Knight Helm 18 1000 -
Dark Helm 35 1800 Ether Defense +5
King's Helm 40 2800 -
Kaiser Helm 54 5200 -
BODY EQUIPMENT _________________________________________________________
Name DF Cost Notes
Martial Wear 2 50 -
Fencing Wear 4 80 -
Leather Vest 10 150 -
WeddingDress 14 2000 Ether Defense +5
Metal Vest 18 350 -
Metal Jacket 28 550 -
Penguin Coat 40 1000 -
Holy Habit 42 1200 -
War Mail 52 1800 -
Crimson Vest 64 2800 -
BlackLeather 76 4200 -
Golden Vest 90 5800 -
BODY EQUIPMENT : WOMEN ONLY ____________________________________________
Name DF Cost Notes
Pilot Uniform 6 5000 -
Uniform 12 180 -
BellonaTunic 16 300 -
DervishDress 44 1400 -
Fuzzy Frock 50 2000 -
Battle Dress 56 1900 -
Mermaid Mail 58 2200 -
Devil Dress 62 3500 -
Beastly Robe 82 5000 -
Angelic Robe 60 10000 Evade +10, Ether Defense +10
Goddess Robe 80 12000 Evade +10, Ether Attack +10
ExecutorGown 100 7000 -
Blessed Habit 100 15000 -
BODY EQUIPMENT : MEN ONLY ______________________________________________
Name DF Cost Notes
Battle Vest 10 400 -
Red Mail 14 220 -
Iron Mail 20 800 -
Knight Mail 34 1800 -
Dark Armor 60 2400 Ether Defense +10
Rose Tabard 85 5400 -
Slayer Robe 108 8000 -
Manly Mantle 105 10000 Defense up when an ally's HP is zero
Hero Costume 112 10000 Defense down when an ally's HP is zero
Kingly Armor 120 12000 Defense up when an ally's HP is zero
ACCESSORIES ____________________________________________________________
Name Cost Notes
Power Ring 200 Strength +2
Power Ring S 800 Strength +5
Stamina Ring 150 Defense +2
StaminaRingS 600 Defense +5
Glasses 150 Accuracy +2
SuperGoggles 600 Accuracy +5
Step Shoes 150 Evade +2
PremierShoes 600 Evade +5
EtherStone 500 Ether power +2
EtherStoneLg 2000 Ether power +5
AntiEthStone 500 Ether defense +2
AntiEthRockL 2000 Ether defense +5
Speed Ring 1200 Speed +1
Speed Ring S 3000 Speed +2
Gallant Belt 2000 HP max +10% and recovery (?)
Yamato Belt 4000 HP max +25% and recovery (?)
Economether 12000 Halves EP consumption
WizardryRing 20000 Learn new Skills faster
HerculesRing 16000 Obtained Experience 50% up
Trader Card 50000 Raises chance of getting rare items
Holy Pendant 8000 Doubles assisting effects time. Works with Hyper Mode!
Life Stone 20000 HP recover x2
Power Crisis 15000 Strength up when HP is low
GuardianRing 2000 Defense up
Evasion Ring 3000 Evade up
LongDarkCoat 12000 Strength +10, Ether Defense +10
Battle Apron 6000 Strength +5, Defense +5
Body Guard 8000 Prevents body-affecting status effects
Mind Guard 8000 Prevents mind-affecting status effects
Poison Guard 1500 Prevents "Poison"
Sleep Guard 1500 Prevents "Sleep"
Cool Shades 1500 Prevents "Blindness"
Brain Guard 1500 Prevents "Forget"
Speed Shoes 5000 Speed up
Muscle Belt 3000 Defense up
EtherDoubler 38000 Doubles Ether effect and EP costs
Ether Guard 8000 Prevents EP-draining attacks
Wind Ring 5000 Defend against wind attacks
Earth Ring 5000 Defend against earth attacks
Fire Ring 5000 Defend against fire attacks
Water Ring 5000 Defend against water attacks
EtherReversa 10000 Absorb damage from element you have defense against
Ether Veiler 10000 Half damage from element you have defense against?
Ether Maxer 10000 No damage from element you have defense against?
Fei Jr.Doll 60000 Critical hit damage up, Emeralda only
Bart Jr.Doll 60000 Critical hit rate up, Emeralda only
BillyJr.Doll 60000 Raises Accuracy and Evade
Elly Jr.Doll 60000 Ether damage ramdomly +50% or -50%
Emer Jr.Doll 60000 Counterattacks dealing same damage
Combo Star 20000 Learn new Skills faster
Mermaid Ring 10000 Ether +10, Ether Defense +10, Emerada only
Chu-chu Idol 40000 Attack +20%, Defense +20%, Chu-chu only
MomentoChain 100 Ether +6, Ether Defense +6, Rico only
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RODS : ELEHAYMM VAN HOUTEN _____________________________________________
Name AT Cost Notes
Magical Rod 2 50 -
Arcane Rod 4 100 -
Hot Rod 6 250 -
Lunar Rod 8 600 Causes "Sleep"
Marshal Rod 12 1000 -
Thunder Rod 14 2200 Wind-elemental
Stone Rod 14 2200 Earth-elemental
Flare Rod 16 2600 Fire-elemental
Ice Rod 14 2200 Water-elemental
Queen Rod 18 3200 Causes "Ether Down"
Dynamite Rod 20 4500 -
Dark Rod 22 5800 -
Chaos Rod 24 7000 -
Psycho Rod 28 12000 -
Skull Rod 38 2200 -
WHIPS : BARTHOLOMEI FATIMA _____________________________________________
Name AT Cost Notes
Leather Whip 60 -
Iron Whip 4 120 -
WhippaSnappa 6 280 -
Cobra Cracka 5 700 Causes "Poison"
Serpent Sting 7 1200 -
Black Snake 7 2400 Ether capacity down
Silver Blood 8 2800 -
Whip-Lasher 10 3400 -
Desert Worm 12 4800 -
Sonic Wave 14 5600 -
Wonder Whip 16 6200 -
Thor's Thunda 20 7500 -
Death Adder 24 8200 -
GUNS : BILLY LEE BLACK _________________________________________________
Hand guns
Name AT Cost Notes
B&J M10 Gun - 2000 -
B&J M686 Gun - 3500 -
Matchlock - 12000 -
Godfather - 20000 -
Hand gun Ammo
Name AT Cost Notes
B&JM10A Ammo 18 20 For the B&J M10
B&JM10S Ammo 21 40 For the B&J M10
B&JM10X Ammo 24 60 For the B&J M10
B&JM686AAmmo 30 40 For the B&J M686
B&JM686SAmmo 36 60 For the B&J M686
B&JM686XAmmo 42 80 For the B&J M686
MatAero Ammo 48 150 For the Matchlock, Wind-elemental
MatTerraAmmo 48 150 For the Matchlock, Earth-elemental
MatPyro Ammo 48 150 For the Matchlock, Fire-elemental
MatHydroAmmo 48 150 For the Matchlock, Water-elemental
MatLightAmmo 48 150 For the Matchlock, Light-elemental
MatUmbraAmmo 48 150 For the Matchlock, Dark-elemental
Godson Ammo 60 200 For the Godfather
Ether Gun Ammo
Name AT Cost Notes
EthWind Ammo - 1000 Wind-elemental
EthEarthAmmo - 1000 Earth-elemental
EthFire Ammo - 1000 Fire-elemental
EthWaterAmmo - 1000 Water-elemental
EthLightAmmo - 1000 Light-elemental
Big gun Ammo
Name AT Cost Notes
ShotG50 Ammo 30 30 -
ShotG60 Ammo 36 60 -
ShotG70 Ammo 42 90 -
ShotG80 Ammo 48 120 -
KATANA : CITAN UZUKI __________________________________________________
Name AT Cost Notes
SengokuSword 30 8000 -
Yamame Sword 32 12000 -
Yamoto Sword 35 20000 -
Mumyo Sword 40 34464 -
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Name Cost Notes
Extra Ar 25 Armor +2
Extra Ar +1 50 Armor +5
Extra Ar +2 75 Armor +8
Extra Ar +3 100 Armor +10
Extra Ar +4 150 Armor +20
Extra Ar +5 200 Armor +30
Extra Ar +6 250 Armor +50
Extra Ar +7 400 Armor +80
Extra Ar DX 500 Armor +100
Lite Ar+1 150 Armor +15, Response +5
Lite Ar+2 400 Armor +40, Response +5
Lite Ar+3 600 Armor +60, Response +5
Silver Ar 300 Armor +10, Anti-Gel 50%
Silver Ar+1 500 Armor +50, Anti-Gel 50%
Lite Alloy 200 Armor +30
Heavy Alloy 200 Armor +30
Beam Coat 600 Anti-Beam 50%
Mirror Ar 1200 Armor +50, Anti-Beam 50%
Mirror Ar+1 1800 Armor +100, Anti-Beam 50%
Mica 750 Anti-Electricity 30%
Insulated Ar 1500 Armor +10, Anti-Electricity 30%
InsulateAr+1 2250 Armor +50, Anti-Electricity 30%
Molecular Ar 750 Anti-Pressure 10%
Stress Ar 1500 Anti-Pressure 20%
Stress Ar+1 2250 Anti-Pressure 30%
ShockproofAr 700 Anti-Spinner 10%
Seal Ar 1400 Anti-Engraved Seal 50%
Seal Ar+1 2100 Anti-Engraved Seal 75%
Angel Ar 900 Armor +50, Anti-Angel 30%
Angel Ar+1 1800 Armor +100, Anti-Angel 50%
Angel Ar S 2400 Ether Armor +50, Anti-Angel 50%
Ether Ar 1000 Ether Armor +50
Ether Ar+1 2000 Ether Armor +100
Ether Ar+2 3000 Ether Armor +150
Ether Ar+3 4000 Ether Armor +200
Wind Veil Ar 5000 Defense against Earth attacks
EarthVeil Ar 5000 Defense against Wind attacks
Fire Veil Ar 5000 Defense against Water attacks
WaterVeil Ar 5000 Defense against Fire attacks
Cast Ar 4000 Armor +2
Old Circuit 2500 Response +10, Defense up
Simp Circuit 2500 Response +10, Defense up
Resp Circuit 2500 Response +20
Def Circuit 2500 Defense up
A Circuit 125 Agility up (Rough)
B Circuit 125 Agility up (Snowfield)
C Circuit 125 Agility up (Desert)
D Circuit 125 Agility up (Underwater)
E Circuit 125 Ether Armor +10, Ether Engine +4
C Circuit+1 500 Agility up (Desert)
A/C 2500 Agility up (Desert)
Beam Jammer 1000 Anti-Beam 75%
Ground 1250 Anti-Electricity 50%
Stress Mat 1400 Anti-Pressure 25%
AirtightHull 1500 Anti-Gas 20%
Noise Filter 2000 Anti-Sound Wave 100%
AntiAngelSys 2500 Anti-Angel 100%
O2 Cylinder 2500 Agility up (Underwater)
MagneticCoat 4000 Response +25
Ballast 2000 Armor +30
Gold Plate 15000 Anti-Gel 100%
Seal Barrier 3000 Anti-Engraved Seal 100%
Energy Saver 10000 Reduces fuel usage (?)
Power Magic 3000 Ether Engine +8
Veil Doubler 3000 Doubles Elemental Defense (?)
Sword Veil 2000 Can block Ether weapons (?)
Lens Cover 2500 Prevents "Camera Damaged"
Magic Guard 2250 Prevents "E.M. Out of Control" and "E.M. Shutdown"
Engine Guard 5000 Prevents "Power Loss"
Pilot Shield 4000 Prevents "Pilot Confused"
Tank Guard 3000 Prevents "Fuel Leak"
Ar Repairer 2000 Prevents "Armor Damage"
Motion Guard 2000 Prevents "Stop" and "Slow"
Frame HP10 250 Allows to heal HP using fuel (10% during battle)
Frame HP30 750 Allows to heal HP using fuel (30% during battle)
Frame HP50 1250 Allows to heal HP using fuel (50% during battle)
Frame HP70 1750 Allows to heal HP using fuel (70% during battle)
Frame HP90 2500 Allows to heal HP using fuel (90% during battle)
FX Cleaner 5000 Using "Charge" removes status effects
DeathBlower1 10000 Allows to use T,X Gear Skill
DeathBlower2 10000 Allows to use S,X Gear Skill
DeathBlower3 10000 Allows to use X,X Gear Skill
GNRS20 35000 Engine Power +20%
GNRS50 65000 Engine Power +50%
A Charger 2500 "Charge" recovers 50 fuel
S Charger 10000 "Charge" recovers 100 fuel
X Charger 30000 "Charge" recovers 200 fuel
Z Charger 50000 "Charge" recovers 500 fuel
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GEAR RODS : VIERGE AND EL REGURUS ______________________________________
Name AT Cost Notes
Magic RodG 2 200 -
Arcane RodG 4 500 -
IronFistRodG 8 1000 -
SparetheRodG 12 1800 -
Hot RodG 24 4200 -
ThunderRodG 60 8200 Wind-elemental
Stone RodG 60 8200 Earth-elemental
Flare RodG 65 8800 Fire-elemental
Ice RodG 60 8200 Water-elemental
Chrono RodG 75 10000 Causes "Slow"
Smoke RodG 78 12000 Causes "Camera Damaged"
Chaos RodG 80 13200 -
GEAR WHIPS : BRIGANDIER AND EL ANDVALI _________________________________
Name AT Cost Notes
LeatherGWhip 10 1000 -
Iron GWhip 16 1600 -
SnapperGWhip 18 2000 -
SerpentGWhip 35 4500 -
BSnake GWhip 50 6800 -
SBlood GWhip 56 7200 -
Thor GWhip 100 13000 Causes "Power Loss"
Sonic GWhip 120 16800 Causes "Ether Machine Shutdown"
GEAR GUNS : RENMAZUO AND EL RENMAZUO ___________________________________
Hand guns
Name AT Cost Notes
G-M10 Gun - 4000 -
G-M686 Gun - 7800 -
G-Matchlock - 20000 -
G-Godfather - 24000 -
Hand gun Ammo
Name AT Cost Notes
G-M10A Ammo 18 100 For the G-M10 Gun
G-M10S Ammo 30 200 For the G-M10 Gun
G-M10S Ammo 42 300 For the G-M10 Gun
G-M686A Ammo 24 200 For the G-M686 Gun
G-M686S Ammo 36 300 For the G-M686 Gun
G-M686X Ammo 48 400 For the G-M686 Gun
G-MAero Ammo 60 500 For the G-Matchlock, Wind-elemental
G-MTerraAmmo 60 500 For the G-Matchlock, Earth-elemental
G-MPyro Ammo 60 500 For the G-Matchlock, Fire-elemental
G-MHydroAmmo 60 500 For the G-Matchlock, Water-elemental
G-MLuminAmmo 54 500 For the G-Matchlock, cancels elemental defense
G-MUmbraAmmo 54 500 For the G-Matchlock
G-GodsonAmmo 72 1000 For the G-Godfather
Big gun Ammo
Name AT Cost Notes
G-GG040 Ammo 24 100 -
G-GG060 Ammo 36 200 -
G-GG080 Ammo 48 300 -
G-GG0100Ammo 60 400 -
GEAR KATANA : HEIMDAL AND EL FENRIR ____________________________________
Name AT Cost Notes
SengokuSword 90 9000 -
Yamame Sword 110 13000 -
Kijin Sword 120 22000 -
Yamato Sword 160 36000 -
Kishin Sword 200 14000 -
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Name AT Fuel Cost
G4-1200 4 1200 800
G6-1200 6 1200 1200
Z9-1500 9 1500 1800
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Name HP Cost Gear
WELT-01800 1800 150 Weltall
WELT-02100 2100 400 Weltall
WELT-02500 2500 800 Weltall
WELT-03000 3000 1400 Weltall
HEIM-03200 3200 1800 Heimdal
BRIG-01900 1900 250 Brigandier
BRIG-02200 2200 500 Brigandier
BRIG-02700 2700 900 Brigandier
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Name DF EthDF Cost
MS 3 30 0 50
MS 6 60 0 500
MS 7.5 75 0 1000
MS 9 90 0 1500
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F e i F o n g
W o n g
FEI'S SKILLS ___________________________________________________________
Name Motion AP Notes
Raijin T,X 4
Senretsu T,T,X 5
Hagan S,X 5
Hoten T,T,T,X 6
Tenbu T,S,X 6
Ryujin S,T,X 6
Koho X,X 6
Fukei T,T,T,T,X 7 Wind-elemental
Chikei T,T,S,X 7 Earth-elemental
Kakei T,S,T,X 7 Fire-elemental
Suikei S,T,T,X 7 Water-elemental
Kokei S,S,X 7 Light-elemental
Yamikei X,T,X 7 Darkness-elemental
While riding the Weltall:
Name Motion Fuel Cost Level Notes
Raigeki S,S 10+40 1
Reppu S,T 10+50 1
Raigo S,C 10+10 1
Hazan T,S 20+70 2
Ryuten T,T 20+80 2
Juji T,C 20+20 2
Raibu C,S 30+100 3
Ryubu C,T 30+110 3
Shinrai C,C 30+30 3
Kosho X S 10 I
Goten X T 20 I
Kishin C 30 I
While riding the Xenogears:
Name Motion Fuel Cost Level Notes
Raigeki S,S 10+40 1
Reppu S,T 10+50 1
Raigo S,C 10+10 1
Hasan T,S 20+70 2
Ryuten T,T 20+80 2
Jyuji T,C 20+20 2
Raimai C,S 30+100 3
Ryumai C,T 30+110 3
Shinrai C,C 30+30 3
Kosho X S 10 I
Goten X T 20 I
Kishin C 30 I
FEI'S CHI ______________________________________________________________
Name EP At Lvl Effect
Guided Shot 2 1 Non-elemental damage (one)
InnerHealing 2 10 Recover some HP (one)
Iron Valor 4 Attack Power up (self)
CounterForce 4 Fei gains counterattack ability (self)
Yang Power 5 Defense up, Attack down (self)
Yin Power 5 Attack up, Defense down (self)
Radiance 10 Non-elemental damage (one)
Big Bang 20 Non-elemental damage (all)
While riding the Weltall or the Xenogears:
Name EP Effect
Guided Shot 2 Non-elemental damage (one)
InnerHealing 2 Restores armor (self)
Yang Power 5 Gear defense up, attack down (self)
Yin Power 5 Gear attack up, defense down (self)
Radiance 10 Non-elemental damage (one)
Big Bang 20 Non-elemental damage (all)
WELTALL'S OPTIONS ______________________________________________________
None
WELTALL-2'S OPTIONS ____________________________________________________
Name Fuel Effect
System Id 1000 Causes Infinite Attack Level
Thor Wave 600 Non-elemental damage (one)
Flaming Hell 1000 Fire-elemental damage (all)
XENOGEARS' OPTIONS _____________________________________________________
None
E l e h a y m m
V a n H o u t e n
ELLY'S SKILLS __________________________________________________________
Name Motion AP Notes
Screamer T,X 4
Spinedge T,T,X 5
Breakthrough S,X 5
Double Shock T,T,T,X 6
Sky Attack T,S,X 6
Shine Spark S,T,X 6
Sting Kick X,X 6
Thunder Weap T,T,T,T,X 7 Wind-elemental
Land Weap T,T,S,X 7 Earth-elemental
Flare Weap T,S,T,X 7 Fire-elemental
Ice Weap S,T,T,X 7 Water-elemental
While riding the Vierge or the El Regurus:
Name Motion Fuel Cost Level Notes
Double Impact S,S 10+40 1
Hard Smash S,T 10+50 1
Beat Storm S,C 10+10 1
Sonic Drive T,S 20+70 2
Heart Strike T,T 20+80 2
Mega Impact T,C 20+20 2
Flash Drive C,S 30+100 3
High Diva C,T 30+110 3
Blaze Dance C,C 30+30 3
Flash Flail S 10 I
Blue Blast T 20 I
Dark Diva C 30 I
ELLY'S ETHERS __________________________________________________________
Name EP Effect
Anemo Bolt 2 Wind-elemental damage (weak, one)
Terra Lance 2 Earth-elemental damage (weak, one)
Thermo Cube 2 Fire-elemental damage (weak, one)
Aqua Ice 2 Water-elemental damage (weak, one)
Anemo Burn 6 Wind-elemental damage (medium, area)
Terra Storm 6 Earth-elemental damage (medium, area)
ThermoDragon 6 Fire-elemental damage (medium, area)
Aqua Mist 6 Water-elemental damage (medium, area)
Anemo Wave 10 Wind-elemental damage (heavy, all)
Terra Ghost 10 Earth-elemental damage (heavy, all)
Thermo Largo 10 Fire-elemental damage (heavy, all)
Aqua Lord 10 Water-elemental damage (heavy, all)
While riding the Vierge or the El Regurus:
Name EP Effect
Anemo Bolt 2 Wind-elemental damage (weak, one)
Terra Lance 2 Earth-elemental damage (weak, one)
Thermo Cube 2 Fire-elemental damage (weak, one)
Aqua Ice 2 Water-elemental damage (weak, one)
Anemo Burn 6 Wind-elemental damage (medium, area)
Terra Storm 6 Earth-elemental damage (medium, area)
ThermoDragon 6 Fire-elemental damage (medium, area)
Aqua Mist 6 Water-elemental damage (medium, area)
Anemo Wave 10 Wind-elemental damage (heavy, all)
Terra Ghost 10 Earth-elemental damage (heavy, all)
Thermo Largo 10 Fire-elemental damage (heavy, all)
Aqua Lord 10 Water-elemental damage (heavy, all)
VIERGE'S OPTIONS _______________________________________________________
Name Fuel Effect
Aerods 400 Ether attack
EL REGURUS' OPTIONS ____________________________________________________
Name Fuel Effect
Aerods 400 Ether attack
C i t a n
U z u k i
CITAN'S SKILLS _________________________________________________________
Name Motion AP Notes
Ukigumo T,X 4
Mufu T,T,X 5
Jinrai S,X 5
Shinrai T,T,T,X 6
Renken T,S,X 6
Hakai S,T,X 6
Ougi X,X 6
Willow Wind T,T,T,T,X 7 Wind-elemental
Rare Earth T,T,S,X 7 Earth-elemental
Hell Fire T,S,T,X 7 Fire-elemental
Tsunami Ice S,T,T,X 7 Water-elemental
While wielding a Katana
Name Motion AP Notes
Amaoto T,X 4
Entsuki T,T,X 5
Tengumo S,X 5
Himatsu T,T,T,X 6
Yako T,S,X 6
Zanretsu S,T,X 6
Myotsuki X,X 6
En-Wind T,T,T,T,X 7
Go-Earth T,T,S,X 7
Ro-Fire T,S,T,X 7
Ko-Water S,T,T,X 7
While riding the Heimdal:
Name Motion Fuel Cost Level Notes
Kentsui S,S 10+40 1
Reppu S,T 10+50 1
Ryuei S,C 10+10 1
Shinrai T,S 20+70 2
Fujin T,T 20+80 2
Ryuga T,C 20+20 2
Hakai C,S 30+100 3
Kenjin C,T 30+110 3
Tensho C,C 30+30 3
Ochiba S 10 I
Zanretsu T 20 I
Enken C 30 I
While riding the Heimdal or the El Fenrir and wielding a Gear Katana:
Name Motion Fuel Cost Level Notes
Kentsui S,S 10+40 1
Reppu S,T 10+50 1
Ryukage S,C 10+10 1
Shinrai T,S 20+70 2
Fujin T,T 20+80 2
Ryuga T,C 20+20 2
Hakai C,S 30+100 3
Kenjin C,T 30+110 3
Tensho C,C 30+30 3
Ochiba S 10 I
Zanretsu T 20 I
Enken C 30 I
CITAN'S ARCANES ________________________________________________________
Name EP Effect
Sazanami 2 Recover some HP (one)
Renki 2 Next Arcane cast by Citan will affect all party
members (self)
Fuuseii 4 Defense against earth, weak against wind (one)
Chiseii 4 Defense against wind, weak against earth (one)
Kaseii 4 Defense against water, weak against fire (one)
Suiseii 4 Defense against fire, weak against water (one)
Ryokusho 3 Remove body status abnormalities (one)
Reisho 3 Remove mind status abnormalities (one)
Koga 2 Defense up, attack down (one)
Yamiga 2 Attack up, defense down (one)
Senkei 6 Speed up (one)
While riding the Heimdal or the El Fenrir:
Name EP Effect
Sazanami 2 Restore armor (one)
Renki 2 Next Arcane cast by Citan will affect
all party members (self)
Fuuseii 4 Defense against earth, weak against wind (one)
Chiseii 4 Defense against wind, weak against earth (one)
Kaseii 4 Defense against water, weak against fire (one)
Suiseii 4 Defense against fire, weak against water (one)
Koga 2 Defense up, Attack down (one)
Yamiga 2 Attack up, Defense down (one)
HEIMDAL'S OPTIONS ______________________________________________________
None
EL FENRIR'S OPTIONS ____________________________________________________
None
B a r t h l o m e i
F a t i m a
BART'S SKILLS __________________________________________________________
Name Motion AP Notes
Head Hunter T,X 4
Twin Sonic T,T,X 5
Rhythm Shock S,X 5
Dynamic T,T,T,X 6
Astral T,S,X 6
Bracer S,T,X 6
Justice X,X 6
Angel T,T,T,T,X 7 Wind-elemental
Land Break T,T,S,X 7 Earth-elemental
Prominence T,S,T,X 7 Fire-elemental
Tornado S,T,T,X 7 Water-elemental
While riding the Brigander or the El Andvali:
Name Motion Fuel Cost Level Notes
Chain Whip S,S 10+40 1
Beat Serpent S,T 10+50 1
Spark Wave S,C 10+10 1
Blood Snake T,S 20+70 2
Hit Storm T,T 20+80 2
Dead Cannon T,C 20+20 2
Dance Wave C,S 30+100 3
Twin Snake C,T 30+110 3
Sky Drive C,C 30+30 3
Meteor Fall S 10 I
Dead Dance T 20 I
Soul End C 30 I
BART'S ETHERS __________________________________________________________
Name EP Effect
Wild Smile 2 Lowers Accuracy (one)
Heaven Cent 2 Non-elemental damage (one)
White Lure 3 Lures one enemy to attack Bart (one)
Red Cologne 4 Raises Attack Power (self)
Blue Cologne 6 Raises Accuracy and Evade (self)
WhiteCologne 6 Gain counterattack ability (self)
Wind Mode 4 Make weapon wind-elemental (one)
Earth Mode 4 Make weapon earth-elemental (one)
Fire Mode 4 Make weapon fire-elemental (one)
Water Mode 4 Make weapon water-elemental (one)
While riding the Brigandier or the El Andvali:
Name EP Effect
Wild Smile 2 Causes "Camera Malfunction" (one)
Heaven Cent 2 Non-elemental damage (one)
Wind Mode 4 Make weapon wind-elemental (one)
Earth Mode 4 Make weapon earth-elemental (one)
Fire Mode 4 Make weapon fire-elemental (one)
Water Mode 4 Make weapon water-elemental (one)
BRIGANDIER'S OPTIONS ___________________________________________________
Name Fuel Effect
Ygg D.Charge 600 Ether attack (one)
EL ANDVALI'S OPTIONS ___________________________________________________
Name Fuel Effect
Ygg D.Charge 600 Ether attack (one)
R i c a r d o
B a n d e r a s
RICO'S SKILLS __________________________________________________________
Name Motion AP Notes
Rico Rocket T,X 4
Death Drive T,T,X 5
Banderas S,X 5
Dragon Fist T,T,T,X 6
Fire Bomb T,S,X 6
Pile Crasher S,T,X 6
Spin Strike X,X 6
Death Roll T,T,T,T,X 7
Flame Lariat T,T,S,X 7
Hell Splash T,S,T,X 7
While riding the Stier or the El Stier:
Name Motion Fuel Cost Level Notes
Drill War S,S 10+40 1
Bomber Head S,T 10+50 1
Drill Driver S,C 10+10 1
Grand Slam T,S 20+70 2
Twister D T,T 20+80 2
Hammer G T,C 20+20 2
Mega Body C,S 30+100 3
Sky Driver C,T 30+110 3
Scrap C,C 30+30 3
Drill Kaiser S 10 I
Drive Kaiser T 20 I
Iron Kaiser C 30 I
RICO'S SPIRITS _________________________________________________________
Name EP Effect
Steel Fist 2 Attack up (self)
Steel Body 2 Defense up (self)
Steel Spirit 2 Ether defense up (self)
Steel Mettle 4 Non-elemental attack (one)
While riding the Stier or the E . Stier:
Name EP Effect
Steel Mettle 4 Non-elemental attack (one)
STIER'S OPTIONS ________________________________________________________
None
EL STIER'S OPTIONS _____________________________________________________
None
B i l l y
L e e B l a c k
BILLY'S SKILLS _________________________________________________________
Name Motion AP Notes
Adam's Apple T,X 4
Gunholic T,T,X 5
Hell Blast S,X 5
Nut Crack T,T,T,X 6
Sky Walker T,S,X 6
Devil Blast S,T,X 6
Banfrau X,X 6
True Dream T,T,T,T,X 7
Holy Gate T,T,S,X 7
Dear Friend T,S,T,X 7
While riding the Renmazuo or the El Renmazuo:
Name Motion Fuel Cost Level Notes
Double Snap S,S 10+40 1
Hard Snap S,T 10+50 1
Hard Gun S,C 10+10 1
Gun Blaze T,S 20+70 2
Impact Gun T,T 20+80 2
Holy Fist T,C 20+20 2
Blaze Shot C,S 30+100 3
Hard Gatling C,T 30+110 3
Sky Gatling C,C 30+30 3
Thousand S 10 I
Holy Climb T 20 I
Holy Soul C 30 I
BILLY'S ETHERS _________________________________________________________
Name EP Effect
Purity Light 2 Remove all status aiments (one)
HealingLight 2 Recover some HP (one)
Holy Light 4 Recover some HP (all)
Goddess Call 4 Speed up (one)
Goddess Eyes 4 Defense up (one)
Wind Shield 4 Protection against earth (one)
Earth Shield 4 Protection against wind (one)
Fire Shield 4 Protection against water (one)
Water Shield 4 Protection against fire (one)
Goddess Wake 8 Recover life (one)
While riding the Renmazuo or the El Renmazuo:
Name EP Effect
HealingLight 2 Restores armor (one)
Holy Light 4 Restores armor (all)
Wind Shield 4 Protection against earth (one)
Earth Shield 4 Protection against wind (one)
Fire Shield 4 Protection against water (one)
Water Shield 4 Protection against fire (one)
RENMAZUO'S OPTIONS _____________________________________________________
Name Fuel Effect
Jessie Cannon 500 Non-elemental damage (area)
Jessie Buster 1000 Non-elemental damage (area)
EL RENMAZUO'S OPTIONS __________________________________________________
Name Fuel Effect
Jessie Cannon 500 Non-elemental damage (area)
Jessie Buster 1000 Non-elemental damage (area)
E m e r a l d a
EMERALDA'S SKILLS ______________________________________________________
Name Motion AP Notes
Leg Cutter T,X 4
Wave Cutter T,T,X 5
Leg Spin S,X 5
Hammerhead T,T,T,X 6
Grand Arm T,S,X 6
Divider S,T,X 6
Flying Arm X,X 6
Tornado Hand T,T,T,T,X 7
Reycount T,T,S,X 7
Dark Beast T,S,T,X 7
While riding the Crescens:
Name Motion Fuel Cost Level Notes
Arm Bash S,S 10+40 1
Air Bash S,T 10+50 1
Dance Bash S,C 10+10 1
Devil Hand T,S 20+70 2
Devil Hold T,T 20+80 2
Devil Bird T,C 20+20 2
Dead Spin C,S 30+100 3
Dead Drive C,T 30+110 3
Dead Melody C,C 30+30 3
Dark Wave S 10 I
Dark Force T 20 I
Dark World C 30 I
EMERALDA'S ETHERS ______________________________________________________
Name EP Effect
Anemo Darm 3 Wind damage (medium, one)
Terra Feist 3 Earth damage (medium, one)
Thermo Gord 3 Fire damage (medium, one)
Aqua Aroum 3 Water damage (medium, one)
Anemo Omega 6 Wind damage (high, all)
Terra Holz 6 Earth damage (high, all)
Thermo Giest 6 Fire damage (high, all)
Aqua Dhaum 6 Water damage (high, all)
While riding the Crescens:
Name EP Effect
Anemo Darm 3 Wind damage (medium, one)
Terra Feist 3 Earth damage (medium, one)
Thermo Gord 3 Fire damage (medium, one)
Aqua Aroum 3 Water damage (medium, one)
Anemo Omega 6 Wind damage (high, all)
Terra Holz 6 Earth damage (high, all)
Thermo Giest 6 Fire damage (high, all)
Aqua Dhaum 6 Water damage (high, all)
CRESCENS' OPTIONS ______________________________________________________
None
M a r i a
B e l t h a s a r
MARIA'S SKILLS _________________________________________________________
None
While riding the Siebzehn:
Name Motion Fuel Cost Level Notes
Mega Hammer S,S 10+40 1
Dyna Fight S,T 10+50 1
Gravity Fist S,C 10+10 1
Dyna Rush T,S 20+70 2
Head Dive T,T 20+80 2
Gravity Press T,C 20+20 2
Meteor Press C,S 30+100 3
Iron Break C,T 30+110 3
Iron Storm C,C 30+30 3
Fire Drive S 10 I
Magneto T 20 I
Maria Beat C 30 I
MARIA'S CONTROLS _______________________________________________________
Name EP Effect
Robo Beam 2 Beam attack (one)
Robo Missile 4 Missile attack (one)
Robo Punch 5 Physical attack (area)
Robo Kick 8 Physical attack (area)
Graviton Gun 30 Gravity attack (all)
While riding the Siebzehn:
None
SIEBZEHN'S OPTIONS ____________________________________________________
Name Fuel Effect
Missile Pod 400 Ether attack (all)
Grav. Cannon 1000 Ether attack (all)
C h u
C h u
CHU-CHU'S SKILLS _______________________________________________________
None
When in giant mode:
None
CHU-CHU'S SPELLS _______________________________________________________
Name EP Effect
Forest Dance 2 Recover some HP (one)
Culen Prayer 2 Remove body status abnormalities (one)
Myrm Prayer 2 Remove mind status abnormalities (one)
Play Dead 2 Causes "False Death" status (self)
Maiden Kiss 8 Removes "False Death" status (self)
Forest Wind 4 Wind-elemental attack (one)
Earth Gnome 6 Earth-elemental attack (area)
Ancient Myth 10 Non-elemental attack (all)
When in giant mode:
Name EP Effect
Forest Dance S 2 Recover some HP, even Gears (one)
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S T A T U S E F F E C T S
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All status effects are cancelled once a battle is over.
CHARACTER STATUS EFFECTS _______________________________________________
Physical status effects
Stop Time bar stops filling. Character can't perform any
action until this status is removed
Defense Down Defense rating is lowered. Character takes more damage
from physical attacks
Attack Down Attack rating is lowered. Character causes less damage
with physical attacks
Blindness Accuracy and Evade ratings are lowered. Character
misses more often and evades physical attacks less
often.
Slow Time bar fills slower, as if Agility had been lowered
Poison Character's HP decrease steadily
Mental status effects
Confusion Character becomes uncontrollable and attacks randomly
Not too worrying since he/she will only use single
regular attacks or Abilities
Forget Character can't use Abilities
Sleep Time bar stops filling until woken up by an attack
GEAR STATUS EFFECTS ____________________________________________________
Armor Damage Defense rating is lowered until end of battle or until
healed with an Ability (most HP-healing abilities
recover Armor Damage instead when used inside a Gear)
Stop Time bar stops filling
Slow Time bar fills slower, as if Agility had been lowered
Power Loss Attack rating is lowered
Fuel Leak Character's Gear loses fuel at a steady rate
Camera Damaged Both Accuracy and Evade ratings are lowered
Ether Machine Character loses EP at a steady rate
Out Of Control
Ether Machine Character can't use Abilities
Shutdown
Pilot Confused Character becomes uncontrollable and attacks randomly
EQUIVALENCIES __________________________________________________________
As you might have noticed, there's a parallelism between character status
effects and Gear status effects. Their equivalencies are as follows:
Gear status Character status
Armor Damage Defense Down
Stop Stop
Slow Slow
Power Loss Attack Down
Fuel Leak
Camera Damaged Accuracy and Evade Down
Ether Machine Out of Control
Poison
Ether Machine Shutdown Forget
Pilot Confused Confusion
Sleep
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S E L L I N G P R I C E S
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This is a chart showing selling prices in different shops of some rare items
you'll find during the game.
Regular Bledavik Battling Battling
Shop Market (disc 1) (disc 2)
Fang 100 150 ??? 150
Eyeball 200 300 ??? 200
Scales 500 600 ??? 1500
Ivory 1500 No Sale ??? 2000
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8 . M A P S
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Y G G D R A S I L M A P
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Y g g d r a s i l
b a s e m e n t 1
(1)
______ _____ ___
| | |
| (4) |
|______|______ __|
__/ M \__
| |
| |
| (2) |
| |
| |
\ (3) /
\_______/
M : Memory Cube
(1) : Ladder to the deck
(2) : Bridge. Talk to Sigurd to take control of the Yggdrasil.
(3) : Talk to Franz for a random sound test.
(4) : Elevator to Basement 2
Y g g d r a s i l
b a s e m e n t 2
_____________________________
| (6) |
| _ __ |
| | (9) | |
| | | M |
| |_____| |
|_________________________ __|
| | |
| (4) |
|______|_______ |
| |
| |
________| |________
| | | |
| (8) |
| | | |
| | |________|
| | |
| | |
| (7) | |________
| | | |
| (5) |
| | | |
|________| |________|
|__ __|
(13)
(4) : Elevator to Basement 1
(5) : Margie's room. Talk to her to change party members.
(6) : Dining room. Talk to Maison to buy items.
(7) : Sleeping area. Talk to a man here to stay and recover HP/EP.
(8) : Infirmary
(9) : Stair down to Basement 3
(13) : To the Gear hangar
Y g g d r a s i l
b a s e m e n t 3
_____
/ \
/ \
/ \
| (12) |
| |
\ /
\ /
\ /
\ /
| |
________| |
| | |________
| (11) | (9) |
| |
|________| |
| | |
| (10) |
| |____________|
|________|
(9) : Stair up to Basement 2
(10) : Bedroom
(11) : Bedroom
(12) : Engine room
G e a r H a n g a r
(13)
___________________________ __
| | | |
| _______| |_______ |
| _______ _______ |
| ____| | ____ |
| | | | | |
| | | |(14)| |
| |____| | |____| |
| | | |
| ____| |____ |___
| | | | | |
| | |(15) |
| |____| |____| ___|
| | | |
| ____| |____ |
| | | | | |
| | |(16) |
| |____| |____| |
| | | |
___| ____| |____ |
| | | | | |
| | | |
|___ |____| |____| |
| _______| |_______ |
|_________ _________|
| |
|_______________________________|
(13) : To Basement 2
(14) : Gear Shop
(15) : Weltall
(16) : Brigander
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B L E D A V I K W A T E R W A Y S M A P
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To Fatima Castle
| |
| |
/ \
/ \
/ /| |\ \
/ / | | \ \
/ / | | \===\
/ / | | \ \
/ / | | \ \
| | | | | \
| | |(5)| | \
| | |___| | |\ \
| \ / | \ \
| \ / | \ --------------------
| |\ \ / /| | \_______ ________||
| | \ \ / / | | \ \
| | \ \ / / | | \ \
| | \ \ / / \ \ \(4)\
| | \ / \ \ \===\
| | | | \ \
| | | | \ \
|(3)| | | | |
/ / | | | |
/===/ | | |- -|
| \ | |
| \ | |
| |\ \ | |
| | \(2)\ / /
| | \===\ / /
| | \ \ / /
| | \ /
/ / | |
/ / | |
/ / | |
/(1)/ | |
/ / | |
/ < |___|
/ /\ \ East Entrance
/- -/ \ \
/ / \ \
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
|___| |===|
West Entrance
(1) : Pipe to Restaurant (get Gold Nugget)
(2) : Rosesol S
(3) : Aquasol S
(4) : Survival Tent
(5) : Pipe to Fountain
=== : Impassable fence
- - : Broken fence
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9 . M I S C E L L A N E O U S
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If you have finished Xenogears, you'll have had the extreme pleasure of
listening to "Small Two of Pieces", the staff roll theme which is one of the
best songs I've had the joy to listen to (it's an arrange of the Music Box
theme, which I also love). Well, in case you'd like to have its lyrics
handy, Tomo has been so nice as to let me include here the lyrics for this
song, which I got in his page. BTW, I take advantage of this occasion to
advise you to check it out: it has the lyrics for the entire Xenogears album
and the "Creid" arranged album among a lot others, and it's a really nice
page too. It's URL is:
Xenogears Ending Theme
"Small Two of Pieces"
Run through the cold of the night
As passion burns in your heart
Ready to fight, a knife held close by your side
Like a proud wolf alone in the dark
With eyes that watch the world
And my name like a shadow on the face of the moon
Broken mirror, a million shades of light
The old echo fades away
But just you and I
Can find the answer. And then,
We can run to the end of the world
We can run to the end of the world
Cold fire clenched to my heart
In the blue of night
Torn by this pain, I paint your name in sound
And the girl of the dawn
With eyes of blue, and angel wings
The songs of the season are her only crown
Broken mirror, a million shades of light
The old echo fades away
But just you and I
Can find the answer. And then,
We can run to the end of the world
We can run to the end of the world
We met in the mist of morning
And parted deep in the night
Broken sword and shield, and tears that never fall
But run through the heart
Washed away by the darkest water
The world is peaceful and still
Broken mirror, a million shades of light
The old echo fades away
But just you and I
Can find the answer. And then,
We can run to the end of the world
We can run to the end of the world
Run to the end of the world...
And now that we're into soundtracks, I'd reccomend you to check the "Creid"
arranged version of Xenogears' soundtrack. It contains really good arranges
of already awesome musics.
Oh, and the Xenogears Original Soundtrack also includes a track which
wasn't included in the game: "Star of Tears", an awesome arrange of the
overworld theme, with English lyrics (as well, of course, as "Small Two
of Pieces"). The Creid album does include the Japanese versions of both
"Star of Tears" and "Small Two of Pieces", but IMHO they're not as good
as the English versions.
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1 0 . L I N K S
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- Here are some links you might find useful.
Kao Megura's Homepage
Homepage to my good friend K.M., which not only was co-author of this
FAQ, but has also written a whole bunch of them, including the pretty
famous Final Fantasy 7 one. The place I reccomend for getting new
versions of this FAQ.
Game FAQs Archive
The best place for FAQs all around. If you're looking for something,
they surely have it. It also hosts this FAQ.
RPGamer
The best place for RPG information, including FAQs of course (and this
one too).
QueenVera's Xenogears Homepage
A really good page packed with Xenogears information, images and links.
Musical World
of Final Fantasy
Homepage of Tomo, which contains lyrics and translations for a lot of
Square-related albums, among other neat stuff. A must for Square music
fans.
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1 1 . S P E C I A L T H A N K S
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- In alphabetic order (more or less):
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Strahinja "Strasa" Acimovic (victor_tzimisce@ hotmail.com)
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- For the strategy on beating the RPS guy in Lahan and for the location of
the Spider in Lahan Mountain. Thanks!
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Mike Bridge (z964453@wheat.farm.niu.edu)
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- Also for the tip about Fei's savings in his bed, and for the guy that
gives you money at Lahan's village consultant.
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Jego Herve (hjego@hotmail.com)
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- For the L2+R2 tip for getting into / out of the gears quickly
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David Johnson (johnsonr@compuserve.com)
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- For the info on the third Gear Skill in each level. And for his
invaluable walkthough, which unstuck me more times that I can
remember ^_^;
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Stuart Logan (Sturat@webtv.net)
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- For the tip about Fei's savings in his bed, for the location of the
Mermaid Tear and the Spider, and for reminding me that the fighter in
Lahan's village consultant's house gave you money. Thanks!
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Tatsushi Nakao / Uni (uni@dragonfire.net)
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- A whole lot of corrections on item names, my translations of these, and
their effects. Also for info on getting some elusive items like the Bird
Egg, and others. And of course, for being his FF5 FAQ the source of
inspiration for all my work (don't these item lists seem familiar to
you? ^_- ). Thanks!
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Zhou Tai An (kain@pacific.net.sg)
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- For keeping me updated with his awesome translations (did I tell
you already to get them? I did? ^_^;), notes on character and Gear
battle, and general all around assistance :).
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Tomo (tomo1657@aol.com)
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- For the lyrics of "Small Two of Pieces" which I used in this FAQ, and
the lyrics of a lot of other songs I use myself ^_^;
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Brian Youn (bwa@us.ibm.com)
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- For pointing out that Attack Levels 1, 2 and 3 do not multiply the amount
of fuel gained thanks to a Charger, as Level Infinite does.
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Whoever at Square who translated the US version
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- Thanks for saving this AWESOME game from the clutches of the former
Square translator (shiver). Xenogears' best point is its story, which
would have suffered no end. Also, he/she managed to trasnslate every
item with both faithfulness and inventiveness, a true feat given the
space and language constraints. Congratulations!
And of course, a huge Thank You to:
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Kao Megura
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- Where to start? For being the original co-writer of this FAQ (and thus
being the source of a lot of the info in this FAQ), for hosting this
and others FAQs of mine, for being an awesome friend and a great guy...
do I forget something? ^_^; Oh yes, for his hyper-complete FF7 FAQ,
but that's another story...
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Till next revision then!
Unpublished work Copyright 1998 Ignacio de Lucas
