Gaming Star Ocean: The Second Story

[Guest angelaanime]

I love The Game Star Ocean!!! the game is the best!!
.....1 problem though...... i can't beat it.
Is the combination of Claude, Rena, Ashton, and Leon not strong??? they are all at level 87!! can't beat the last wise men. I mean his moves take away like 7998!!! and Ashton with the most HP only has 7565!!!!!!!!
Any one has any tips??????
Or if you want i could give them out because i know how to get all 12 charactors.
.Claude.Rena.Celine.Opera.Ernest.Chisato.Ashton.Leon.Noel
.Precis.Dias.Bowman

[color=CC0000][size=1]Is this even a Square or Enix game? o_O -[b]Break[/b][/size][/color];)

[Semjaza]

Yes, it is an Enix game from before the two companies even joined together. People here know so little about Enix, it's a shame.

Unfortunately, I cannot answer your question for help. I don't remember having a problem, but it was so long ago. I'd consult [url]www.gamefaqs.com[/url] if I were you.

In any case, it is an awesome game. The only fault it has is the poor US translation I'd say. I cannot wait for 3 on PS2. Not much longer of a wait :D

[Guest angelaanime]

Yeah i want to get that game to0.
I have some neofriends on neopets who live in Japan. They said it was a pretty good game.

[SephirothNIN]

Your last party will work just fine, as long as you set Rena to healing and Leon to attack with all his MP. Then control either Claude or Ashton. If it's still not working, leveling up always helps, or improving your equipment as well. There is a shop hidden in the snow on a small island north of the field of...power...I think, whichever field was in the snow and had switches you had to protect from big guys in battle. Anywhoo in that shop you can buy rare metals, and also the magical rasp item. Having the magical rasp will let you make better items with blacksmithing and magical rasp. You don't have to buy the rare metals though, all you need is 20 pieces of iron and a decent skill level in alchemy.

Then you need 5 musical instruments and to learn at least one song for each. Oh and you have to learn the super specialty "Orchestra", which needs art and music I think. Anyway, when you choose to use the orchestra, a short song plays, and during this song your chances of ANY item creation shoots to...I dunno, 95%? And if you're fast you can get in a good 5 or 6 creations, depending on if they're all the same thing. Meaning you spend the whole time cooking, or metalworking, if you switch between skills you'll waste critical seconds in the menus. You should use the sacred tear for Claude, since it halves MP use, and the same for Rena's special MP halving weapon. If running out of MP is a big problem, you can always create Fairy rings by using Metalwork on green beryl, that accessory also halves MP.

Hmm....have you pickpocketed from everyone already? Because the guy in the bunny suit in Fun-City (in the bunny-race room) has a pair of bunny shoes. If you haven't tried pickpocketing them from him, save outside fun city and keep trying until you get them! Bunny shoes make whoever wears them insanely fast, and it's one of the only....3 in the game you can get I think.

There's also a way to be invincible for a short period of time. I forget if it's the Lunatic Ring or the Lunatic Earring (both made from metalworking on moonite), but one of them makes you invincible, but in permanent "peep" mode, which basically means you can't do anything. You can make an item that negates peep by metalworking on a sage stone with Claude (a few others can make it as well). But if you put the lunatic (ear)ring and peep non on your character, you'll be invincible in battle. Unfortunately, peep nons tend to break in the middle of battle, I dunno if they have a time limit or what but all of mine have broken, and it takes a while to make another one.

You're at a high enough level where you can't learn any more spells/killer moves from leveling up, but inside the cave of trials is another killer move for ashton, as well as another spell for Leon, but they're in pretty deep and it's insanely difficult in there. I've only managed to get down to level 11 before some random battle of a dozen machine-gun-toting robots killed me. But if you just go to the first level and battle a bit you should level up a lot, and be able to use the SP on good stuff. You should get Leon and Rena a level 10 in motormouth because it'll let them cast their spells much faster. I'd recommend not learning flip at ALL though, because it tends to be more of a pain as you watch Claude or Ashton struggle to run around the enemy, who's moving at the same speed, until they finally die. At level 87 there's no way you could have every skill mastered, so level up some more (with comprehension on so you get more SP) and then spend them on like...kitchen knife (which gives you a 20 x skill level bonus) or biology, which has a 10 x SL bonus I think...

An easy way to level up is to make a "dream bracelet" by having Claude or Celine metalwork on a rainbow diamond. It raises your level by one while wearing it. Now you need to use reverse side until you get a "forged medal" which reduces the exp you need for your next level down to 1. It's easier to get one forged medal and then reproduce it (while orchestra's playing) then to just keep making them. Anyway what you do is...damn I hope I get this right, first you put on the dream bracelet, so that your lv87 character is now lv87, and their "exp to next level" should shoot up extremely high. Now use the forged medal on them and they'll only need 1exp to gain a level. After one battle, remove the dream bracelet and the exp to next level should be at 0, get in another battle and you'll gain another level right away...if you live.

Also you should disable all of the spells you don't want Rena and Leon to use. Just leave Rena with the mass-cure spell, the strongest single cure one, and dispel, and on Leon leave...Daemon's gate and Gremlin Lair. DG is stronger, but GL hits 4x, and there's a way to use a combo spell so that it hits 4x for a lot stronger, but I forget exactly what it combos with. Off the top of my head all I remember comboing is rena's gravity press with celine's thunderstorm, and rena's ray with celine's starlight. When you get a spell to combine (by having them cast at practically the same time) you'll see a different view of the battlefield and both spells should (somehow) play out at once, usually giving more damage. Also at the bottom of the screen you'll see some weird message like "Friend -> ABSB -> Friend" I've had the game since it came out and I just found out a month ago that that friend -- > absb message had to do with combo stuff lol.

[Dragon Fou Lu]

this is my favourite RPG so far.

the fact that you get a choice of what characters you want to take along with you is good enough itself, but the fact that there's 20 different endings, depending on the way your characters are treated and how well they get on with each other.

still, can't really say i'm looking forward to Star Ocean 3 but anyways 2 made me happy enough :)

[Guest angelaanime]

Hey thanks for the info. Rena and Leon already have level 10 motermouth. and Ashton and Claude already have level 10 flip............... Gezz i never thought about usind a dream braclet........... i have a lot of them. it is just that Ashton and Claude both have a link combo on and they both have on the strongest amour that i could find. Hey there is a store over by the Power domain! Thanks!!!!!! Oh and when i fight the last wise man, running out of mp is not the problem...........
he is just really faster than my people..........
Leon's Deamon's gate does a lot of damage to him.
but his deep freeze move takes away more.......weird....
But any way the 3rd Starocean game has some really good graphics and stuff. it is surrposed to come out next month. well that is what [url]www.enix.com[/url] said. its for the ps2. And the timeline for SO3 is almost 400 years from the 2nd one! But i wish it would feature some charactors from SO2. then again i wish i could live that long... and there is a 15 year old charactor (forgot his name) who just so happens to look like Claude!!!............only with dark navy hair.................?!?!