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| Various information about the game
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Recurring name 'Cid' in all Final Fantasy worlds, is here
the name of the King of Lindblum. The name 'Gaia', which in the film designated the earth's soul, the source of
all life, or also the 'lifestream' in FFVII, here is the name of FFIX's world.
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A few important tips about the game:
 Before leaving Lindblum on disc one, make sure you buy
lots of potions as you will have to face some tough fights ahead, especially in Gizamaluke caverns, without any
healer in your party! There are two bosses, and Zidane will even have to fight one of them on his own. Also,
to save up on precious MP's, make the most of Vivi's stocking ability: if you let him use a few rounds to build
up on his magic power, he will end up releasing a much more powerful spell for the same amount of MP as a normal
spell. Even if he is knocked out during the fight, his built up power remains until the end of the battle, so you
can just revive him and still benefit from his stronger spells.
To get character Quina, go to the Qu's marshes,
just north of
Lindblum as soon as you leave the town. You will also learn many useful things from the mog who lives there.
If you are ever lost in the game, you can go back to any such marshes in the world and the mog will tell you
where you are meant to go next. You can also catch frogs in all the marshes, which is worth doing for two reasons:
you get a great gift every eleven frogs caught or so, and the more frogs she caught, the more powerful Quina's
'frog' blue magic spell will be. You will have to swallow a marsh lizard to get that spell in the first place.
Further right off the first Qu's marshes, after a bridge,
you will find a chocobo forest (noticeable by their round shape), where you can
play a mini game and learn how to get a chocobo.
There is a
secret boss hidden in Alexandria's library!
You can find it after Eiko falls to the summoning, when your party enters the castle. Turn left into the library, go to the
further range of bookshelves and press X when you get the ! and someone will ask you if you want to fight or
not. If you say yes twice, a book will fly off the shelf and attack you. It is very powerful so it is strongly
advised to save before attacking it (remember the saving point upstairs where Eiko wrote her letter earlier on),
not to mention there will be no healers in your party at that point in
the game. Each time you hit it, it opens at a random page, usually empty. But after a while, it will open at
the right page and reveal a creature. However, I tried to come back later to defeat it as my team was then too weak,
but then you cannot enter the castle anymore after this scene.
Make all
your characters learn the auto-regenerate ability as soon as you get an item that
allows you to.
It is almost essential that all your party members know it towards the end of the game as you cannot often afford
to waste rounds on healing everyone all the time anymore, not to mention there are places where magic cannot be
used, that Garnet often fails spells when she is not focused, and that it is best to keep MPs for summoning. The
first item I found with the auto-regen ability was the accessory given by Beate to Garnet if she successfully
gives all her orders during Bahamut's attack of Alexandria (so it's worth retrying if you failed first).
Feeling
lazy? You can fly on auto-pilot. Just click on the point of the world map you wish to go to, and the flying
ship will go there automatically.
Sometimes
on the world map you will encounter friendly monsters. They will not attack you,
but request some gems of you. The music will be different from the usual battle song and they will not harm you.
It is a good idea to give them what they ask, as they will repay the favour generously...
Need cash?
Fight the fairly easy monster in Treno weapon shop and gain 15000 gils. Then you may
proceed to the auction and get one or two valuable items, including a gem containing Odin's summon.
In the last
castle, the world of memories, make sure to steal from all the four guardians,
Kuja's little pet monster, and Kuja
himself, as you will thus get very powerful weapons and accessories, allowing you to learn important abilities.
In general, it is a good idea to steal from every bosses throughout the whole game.
If you
find you cannot revive your fallen characters during the last boss's battle,
it is simply because one of his attack not only causes great physical damage on your entire party but also
casts 'zombie' (as well as poison, stone, stop, blindless and fury!)
spell on them. And any healing items used on the undead will harm them, while 'life' will instantly kill them, so
make sure to buy lots of medecine against all abnormal status, especially zombie and fury as there is no
ability that can protect characters from these two status, before going to the last bosses's castle. Heal any character
touched by 'zombie' straight away if they are on auto-regen or they will quickly die. If they do, heal them
first before reviving them or you will not be able to. A character touched by 'zombie' will change colour and
turn red-brown. You will know they were successfully healed when their colour returns to normal. |
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