©1999 - 2000 Jonathan Bouldin The JP guide to Suikoden II Questions? Get in touch at jook@ignmail.com, or ICQ me: 12503119 Canāt reach me with either method? As a last resort, try tabworkshop@usa.net Contents: FORWORD \/ MAIN CHARCTERS \/ BATTLE SYSTEMS \/ WALKTHOUGH - The Mercenary Base - Your New Destiny - In Need of a Leader - New Places, New Faces - New Places, New Faces (part 2) - Return to Muse - The Toran Republic - More new Places, and More new Problems - ĪTis Neclord Again - Four Major Battles and a Very Good Time - The Final Mission \/ CHARACTER LIST \/ ARMOR LIST \/ YOUR CASTLE \/ SUGGESTION BOX LETTERS \/ THE OLD BOOKS \/ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS \/ THANK YOUāS ~Vertion Numbers~ 0.1. Iāve written the forward, cast list, and just started the walkthrough. Iām actually half way dreading writing this thing; Iāve made one hell of a project for myself. 0.2. Wrote even more in the walkthrough and its going nicely! Although I may not have the chance to over the next little while as to Iām going on vacation, and right after I get back friends are coming over. My calendar is full for the next 2 weeks. 0.3. Iāve started on a Castle FAQ, which is about your Suikoden 2 castle, of course. Iām not going to put it on here just yet, however. Itās still not quite done. I also fixed a few problems in the walkthrough itself. 0.4. Very small walkthrough update this time, but I made a few corrections to it and added two lists. An armor list and a character list. Iād like to thank both of the people who let me use these, Feral and Odin135 (check the Thank You section for more information). 0.5. This is a pretty big update, if I do say so myself. I covered the whole Greenhill section of the game, and also the Unicorn Quest you have to go on to get Hix and Tengaar. Oh, and if youāve noticed that I havenāt been writing the interactive questions down, itās because most of them at this time are just unimportant, so Iāve been saving time by not writing them down. If itās an important one, Iāll put it down for sure, though. Ok, I just wanted to clear that up. 0.6. A added the castle FAQ to this, and submitted it on another document as well! Yay! 0.7. A rather large update this week. Lots of walkthrough updates, updated the Your Castle section with a few corrections and new info. Started a Suggestion Box Letters section, which is coming along alright, but itās going to take a long time to finish, so if you happen to want to send me some of the suggestion box letters Iād be happy to toss them up here. I also added the Suggestion Box letters section to the Castle FAQ since the Suggestion Box is, as a matter of fact, in your castle! 0.8. I almost forgot to add my new version number! Another really big walkthrough update and also more letters, etc. Nothing too special, really. Iām planning on putting the content of the Old Books up here sometime soon, so that should be pretty cool. Anyone agree? Of course, I thought so! I canāt believe Iām actually getting close to being DONE with the walkthrough!!! I mean, I know I still have a ways to go, of course, but Iām getting closer all the time! I simply canāt get over it! Oh, and this is also a happy time because of the big 200k anniversary! This FAQ is now a whopping 200k!! Woo hoo!!! 0.9. Well, another update hits the web. I started the Old Book section by putting three old books on this FAQ. I have two more to add, but Iām a bit tired of writing for now. I havenāt found all the old books, so if you want to send me one, I have a spot in my wonderful Thank Youās section just for you. I evidently wonāt be finished with this guide by version 1.0, but thatās alright. Maybe Iāll be done by the time I reach 2.0. Yes, I DO expect to get to 2.0, Iām not sure that I will or anything, but I rather expect I will sometime in the future, probably thanks to the suggestion box letters ?. Anyway, enjoy the new update, and donāt wonder off too far till the next one. 1.0. Well, here we are at the big 1.0, the whole number, the big tomalley. Youād think that after the huge gap between this update and the last one, this would be a huge update. Unfortunately, itās not. Actually, all I have for you is a couple more old books and letters. Iāve been sick for quite a while now, so I finally sort of feel like writing again. Even so, Iām forcing myself to write even this much (you may not guess, but writing the old books out is a real pain). Over the past couple weeks Iāve been playing a lot of Golden Eye, actually. I borrowed it from a friend. Iāve gotten him several new cheats, only one of which is actually cool (well, I sort of like Enemy Rockets·), and all of the sudden he wants it back. Of all the nerve! I spent a couple hours trying to get the Invincibility cheat, then decided it was sort of stupid to get it on someone elseās game, so I gave up on it. I did, however, get the next best thing· Invisibility! Beating the Archives on 00 agent in 1:20 seconds is really tons easier then I thought it would be. I wouldnāt have even tried, but I accidentally went to the level on that difficulty. The very first time I tried I beat it and got a time of about 1:55, so I decided I could do it and kept trying. And eventually I beat it with 1:20 exactly, which is satisfactory to me. I made a very, very weak attempt at the unlimited ammo cheat. I ended up getting blown away by the drown gun right outside the elevator· really quite sad. I mean, I practically didnāt even start the level! Needless to say I havenāt tried since. Anyway, Iāve been blabbering on enough, and itās about a totally different game! So, Iāll just leave you with this thought: Iām hoping to write more in the walkthrough this week, but please donāt be mad if I donāt, since I might be a bit busy. Also, Iād like to give a shout out to Tutsy for the e card. Thanks, it was a lovely change from the normal array of game questions that I usually get. ;-) Again, thanks. 1.1. Are you glad that I finally updated this dang thing?? Anyway, weāve got lots more walkthroughness, tons of new letters. And I even added a battle system explanation thing. Why an explanation on battle systems, you ask? Well, it came to me while I was playing a major battle, that some people might not fully understand everything about all the battles systems. Major battleās are the most complicated, normal six person party battles are the easiest. Of course, the other reason that I made it is I have to come up with lots of crazy and nigh useless ideas so this FAQ can get bigger and bigger. Yes, my evil plan has been revealed! Anyway, enjoy the update, and Iād like to say sorry for not updating in so long. Sorry! And another sorry for not replying to all my e-mail. If you sent me a question and I didnāt answer, you sent it when my inbox was down (it goes down a lot!). Anyway, I shall leave you now with this 1.1 update. Have a wonderful day, guys and gals. 1.2. Ahhhhhh, yes... can you say, ćfinished the walkthroughä, boys and girls? I knew you could!! FINALLY!!! After like, 5 months, Iām done with the walk through!!!! Iām ever so fulfilled. 1.3. I took some time to fix all the errors and stuff in the guide. Other then that, nothingās really new· _-_-_-_-_-_-_-FORWORD-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ If anyone remembers Suikoden, the first game, they probably remember the sheer size of everything. The cast, the game itself, the soundtrack, the list goes on. Well, there are just as many, and more of those things in the sequel, properly named Suikoden 2. This is a walkthrough of the USA version of the game. Oh, also, this guide is one big spoiler. If thereās something to be spoiled, this will spoil it. Keep that in mind! _-_-_-_-_-_-_-CHARACTERS-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ It would be stupid to list all 108 people, really. Instead, look at the end of this guide for a list, and the methods to get them all. Yes, itās better that way. Iāll just cover the main characters here. The Hero: You get to name this guy at the start of the game. He uses a strange weapon thatās best described as two big sticks with handles· He joined a Youth Group called The Unicorns. Ever so fear-inspiring· Jowy: Another Member of The Unicorns, also a good friend of the Hero. He uses a staff, like the Hero from Suikoden. Flik: Presumed dead after being hit by an arrow and staying the Emperorās castle to fight off some guards. Somehow, he pulled through, and here he is. He is now a part of The City-State, and is a leader of a mercenary group southeast to Muse and leads them with a big sword. Victor: Also presumed dead after staying behind to help Flik in the Scarlet Moon Emperorās castle. He is still helping Flik out as the other leader of the mercenary group. He also uses a sword to take out baddies. Nanami: The Heroās sister. She is also his only family member. She and Hero guy were orphaned and then adopted by a nice old man. He then gave them lesions in hurting bad guys. He died a year before the game starts. And now Nanami and the Hero are on there own. Luca Blight: I mean young man who is starting a war between Highland the Jowston City-State. No one knows why· Genkaku: This is the man that adopted you. Heās more then just an old guy, though. The game will answer why. Shu: A very rich trader from Radat. A little ways into the game he joins you as a Military Strategist. He studied under Mathiu. And he also knows Apple, another character from Suikoden who is a lead character in this game, too. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-BATTLE SYSTEMS-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Why did I write this, you ask? Simple. The battle systems in the game very, so I decided to put together some suggestions, tips, and other little things to help you with battles. Major battles especially because of all the options that are involved. -Normal Battles- Normal battles consist of 2 to 12 people/monsters (1 to 6 people in your party and 1 to 6 baddies) and happen at random. This is the basic battling style that youāll be using throughout a huge majority of the game. As far as working with this style, youāll have no trouble. The instruction manual explains it pretty fully! -One on One Battles- A favorite of most Suikoden players, the one on one battles are between two people and use a different engine then the normal and major battle engines. Itās sort of like playing Rock, Paper, Scissors; except the options are vastly expanded from a mere three menu commands. What ever your opponent does, you have to counter-act it by choosing ĪAttackā, ĪDefenseā or ĪWild Attackā. The guy youāre fighting has the same options, but you can predict his actions by what he says before each turn. See the walkthrough for lists of commands and what to do with the commands. -Major Battles- And so, this brings me to the last, and second most commonly used battle system, the major battle system. Apple explains how to work your units close to the start of the game, but what she doesnāt explain in that you can do more then simply go out in a major battle and hope everything works out for your overly weak units. Actually, characters that you can recruit also lead units. And other characters that you recruit can be put into these units giving you certain attributes. A good example of this is how I half the heroās unit set up in my own game. I have Chaco, who gives me the ĪFlyā ability and lets me cover a lot of ground. And I also have a character with strong defense, AND who gives me the ĪCalvaryā ability. ĪCalvaryā gives the heroās unit a horse and lets him move faster. With this combo, the heroās unit can cover tons of ground in a turn, and has higher defense then he normally would. Easy, yeah? If it doesnāt seem easy, itās because of my sloppy technique of explaining things! _-_-_-_-_-_-_-WALKTHROUGH-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Ok, the first part of the game isnāt too tough, but this IS a walkthrough so Iāll stick by my word. The scene opens on a camp. Your pal, Jowy will walk in to your tent and say some stuff, after which, youāll be given a choice. The first of many. Heāll ask if youāre going to sleep. ćLetās go outside·ä (go walk around outside) ćIām going to sleep.ä (go to sleep and progress with the story) If you want to walk around, go ahead. Get a feel for the controls. You wonāt really gain anything from in, though. You can talk to people, many of which will just tell you to go to bed. Taking the path from the bottom right of the camp will take you to another path. At the end of it youāll see a strange man who will run away. Not necessary, but so scary! Whenever you go to bed, youāll be woken up by some noise outside. And then youāll here someone yell ćSurprise attack!!!ä Jowy joins you here. Go on out side to see whatās up. The camp boss man will run up and fill you in and tell you to escape. You can do two things, run up to the exit at the top of the camp to a cliff. Or you can do what he says and try to escape out the lower right passage. If you take the upper passage, you can get on with the game faster. Rowd comes and talks a little and you find out heās in on the whole thing. Youāll then be attacked a couple times. Just use your unite attack to make quick work of them. Rowd will run off, and you and Jowy will think of something to do. You decide to jump the heck off the cliff. If you take the lower right passage, however, Jowy will make an observation. Before you run off one of the screens, Jowy will stop you. You can ask him why. ćWhat is it, Jowy?ä (ask him why he stopped you) ćLetās run away.ä (try to talk him into running away) Either way heāll say the same thing. Run all the way back to camp and youāll see Rowd talking to Luca Blight. Saying that everything is as planned and mean things like that. Then you can say yet another thing. ćLetās get out of here, Jowy.ä (run out the exit at the top of town) ćLetās talk to the captain, Jowyä (go talk to the captain) If you talk to him, youāll get in a fight, then run. If you decide to run, youāll just run. Itās up to you. At the cliff, Rowd will come and youāll have to fight off some baddies. Do your Unite attack for an easy win (take advantage of this attack. You wonāt have it forever·). Then Rowd will run off to get more people to kill you. Well, all three of the paths you can take end up here (that is, whether to run out the north exit, talk to the captain, run from the captain etc.). The only way out is to jump for it. ćLook at that current! Weāll never make it!ä (be told the facts, itās the only way) ćI guess thereās no other way.ä (agree with Jowy) After some more talking, Jowy will strike and \ type line in a rock as a point to come back to if you both live but get separated. Then heāll ask for a promise. You can say: ćI promise.ä (promise him and strike a / type line in the rock, making an X) ćForget it· Weāll make it together.ä (heāll strike the / line in the rock and finish the X and say thatās his prayer that you make it together) It doesnāt matter what you do. Choose one and jump. The opening credits will role, then youāll wake up on a beach. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-THE MERCANARY BASE-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Some guyāll find you on the beach. Heāll ask for youāre name. These questions arenāt very important, so I wonāt put them down. It really doesnāt matter what you say. Heāll tell you his name, Viktor, and then heāll take you prisoner. Flik will walk up and mention Jowy, then youāll head to the fort to be put in jail. Pohl will then make his appearance. For the next few days, youāll have to do work for these people. The first job is to push some crates up against the wall. Pretty simple. Just walk against one till it moves. And do this with all of them. As for the last crate, it has no where to go. Just push it up to the right or left wall and thatāll do fine. Pick up the rope on your way out. When you exit the room, Pohl you go and judge your work. If you did everything right (its hard not to), heāll say you did a good job. ćOf course!ä (let him know you have a working spirit) ćIām pretty tired.ä (heāll say heās not surprised and will still be impressed) Then youāll reach day two, as well as job number two. This will be the longest job, but its not hard. From where you are, just go left and up to the black smith and get three Flint Stones. Next, go down and left some more and talk to the large loud woman there and take two pairs of Boots. Now go up stairs and tall the way right. Youāll see a guy in green behind a counter. This is the item shop. But heāll say heās out of Flour, which is what you need. Go tell Pohl about it. Heāll tell you to go to Ryube for him. No problem. But he says to take someone with you. So go upstairs and talk to the woman with the red dress. Sheāll help you out. Go talk to Pohl at the front door, straight down from where you are, and heāll let you out. Gengen (one of the people who is with you) ill ask to be called Captain Gengen. You can play along with this or not. ć···ä (heāll tell you to speak up and be strong) ćYes, Captain Gengen.ä (he wont mind baby sitting you) Gengen is a cool guy, so be nice! Do what Pohl says and follow the road up and right. This is Ryube. The item shop is between the BlackSmith and the Armor shop at the lower right side of town. Grab some flour. You may want to save at the inn before going back. There really isnāt anything else to do, so just leave and head back to the fort after youāve saved. Talk to Pohl again. This will trigger day three. This job isnāt very hard. All you have to do is clean oil up off the floor with a rag. There are two oil spots in you line of site. But there are more all over the place. There are altogether three on this floor and Pohl cleans one of them up. Just go left and youāll come across the other two. When youāre done with them, go up the stairs. Go across the room to the stairs and there will be other spot here. Then go up these stairs. This is the top floor. Go in the middle door and clean the spot there, then leave and to left and clean the spot there. Go down and talk to Pohl again and heāll say youāve got talent. ćOf course!ä (let him know youāve got spirit) ćItās my talent·ä (heāll think youāve got spirit anyway. evidently you were joking) It doesnāt matter what you say. Heāll think youāre cool no matter what. Jowy will sneak in and yell for you a while later. You can answer him or not. ćIm here Jowy!!!ä (heāll run to the prison) ć···..ä (heāll yell for you again) If you stay silent four times heāll find you anyway, so just answer. Now heāll join you and youāll both make a brake for it. You donāt get very far, though. Flik, Viktor, and a bunch of solders are waiting on the next floor. Jowy is ready to give up for the moment. But you can disagree. ćLets bust through!ä (This is pretty funny. You try to run through only to get smacked in the head by Flik) ć··. I understand.ä (give up quietly) Either way, youāll both be put in front of Flik and Viktor for questioning. Viktor will ask what happened, that is, how you both wound up washed up by the river. ćThe truth is·ä (fill him in and get thrown back in prison) ćI cant say.ä (try to keep your Highland pride and get thrown back in the prison) That night, Jowy will ask to see what you have with you in your inventory. ćAre you going to try to escape?ä (heāll say yes) ćWhy?ä (heāll say its cause heās going to escape) Heāll pick the lock with a spoon, and youāll get out. On the second floor, youāll see two guards. Jowy, being the James Bond fan he is, will light that oily rag with the flint and throw it, catching the floor on fire. This will give you a chance to run. Go up the stairs right below you. Now go down and out the door and youāll be on the deck. Jowyāll use the rope and you both will climb down. Youāll get out just fine and Jowy will say that he wants to go back to Kyaro, your hometown. ćLets go back to Kyaro Town.ä (agree with him) ćIts too dangerous to go back.ä (disagree, leaving poor Jowy speechless) When you leave the fortress, go back to Ryube and walk to the right a little ways. Youāll see some traveling performers putting on a show. When you start watching, Eilie will pick you from the crowd to help them out with the next trick. Theyāll put a fruit on your head and Eilie will throw a few knives at you. And theyāll say not to move. When youāre up, about to have the thing thrown, a menu will pop up. ćDonāt move.ä (donāt move, donāt get stabbed) ćMove a hair to the left.ä (move, get stabbed) ćMove a hair to the rightä (move, get stabbed) Youāll have to decide this a few times before the event ends. Or can just move once and get stabbed, bringing it to a quick end. It doesnāt matter, for the most part. Rina has good medicine. After the show, youāll learn that all of them are going to Kyaro, too. And they suggest that you all go together. ćOf course.ä (agree) ćItās my pleasure to travel with such a beautiful lady.ä (hit on Rina and agree at the same time) ćNo way!ä (Jowy will back you up and you wont go with them) You canāt get to Kyaro without them, so bring them along. If you refuse them just talk to them again to take them. Buy new armor for yourself and for Jowy, and buy some Medicine. Of course, save at the inn, and leave town. North Sparrow Pass is straight up from Ryube. Take a right at the fork in the road. Youāll come to North Sparrow Pass in no time. The guards here donāt want to give in, though. So Rina ćtalksä some sense into the captain· anyway. Head on up. -North Swallow Pass- Ok, first of all, follow the path up and youāll reach a fork. Take a left to see a treasure chest and a small pool of water. Take the treasure, but donāt leave this area. The pool of water refills you HP and MP, so build your levels to five (or six if you have the time). And also, the Cut Rabbits in this area drop the Double-Beat Rune, which is a really great one. Be sure to get one of these while youāre doing your level building. When everyoneās up to level, go back to the fork in the road and take the right path.Just follow it to another fork. Take the right path to a Escape Talisman (if youāve gotten a billion of these from building levels, skip this treasure). Now go back and continue up. Youāll come to another fork. Take the right path and grab the Brass Armor. Equip it on the Hero and go back to the fork and go left. Go all the way up. When you get to the next screen, donāt take the path leading up. Go all the way right and save at the save point. Heal if you REALLY need it, but donāt just waist medicine. After youāve saved, go up and fight the Mist Shade. ===Beating the Mist Shade=== Well, for a first boss, Iāll just say that itās pretty hard. But if Rina is Level 6, sheāll have a very strong spell to use against it that makes the fight easier. There are two random forms you might fight, a male and a female. The female form uses one attack a turn that hits everyone. The male form uses two attacks a turn on one person at a time. So itās a very balanced fight. Donāt be shy, use your Circus unite attack when possible and when Bolgan is unbalanced, use all the magic you have, and have Bolgan use any attack Scrolls he has equipped. The hero and Jowy should attack, not unite. Other then that, use whomever to heal whenever thatās needed. This isnāt too bad. By the way, they each have about 750 to 800 HP. -After The Mist Shade- Well, if you want, you can run back and save. But it doesnāt matter. Just keep going up till you reach another fork. Go right and grab the Feather Hat and put it on Jowy. Then go back and continue along the path to the exit. Go up on the world map and youāll see Kyaro. Go on in and Eilie, Rina and Bolgan will leave to find other places to perform. Jowy will leave, too, and go home. Save at the Inn, and then go to your house. DO NOT go in your house yet, however. Go up the right side of the fence and youāll see a big tree. Walk up to it and push X. Do this three times and Mukumuku will join your party. Isnāt he cute? Now go into your house. Go through the back door and youāll see Nanami, your sister, for the first time. But, she hardly even notices youāre there. Silly girl. After her calm, peaceful, not-painful-at-all welcome, sheāll join you. On your way out, youāll se some vases on a large box. There are three, a large one, a small one, and a medium one. Take whichever one you want and leave the house. Youāll be attacked by some solders outside, then Rowd will come and try to act cool. Heāll tell you to come along ćCaptain·· Why·..ä (ask him why then get arrested) ćNo!!!!!ä (fight him and his men) It doesnāt matter what you say here. You can go quietly or choose to fight. If you fight him, youāll lose. But I heard from someone that he IS possible. Xuniveur, the person who told me this said that he seems to have about 1200HP and he said he give you about 10025p. But anyway, after youāre done getting arrested, a scene cuts to Jowy and youāll see that heās not doing so well on his side of the crib either. In the end, youāll find that youāre all sharing a jail cell. Together again at last· Anyway, Rowd will come up and tell you the plan· His plan. Then heāll send you all to die painfully. Youāll be led down the road, where youāll see Princess Julia. Sheāll ask whatās going on and stuff, and Jowy will say some last words. You can, also, if youād like. ćIām Innocent!ä (try to talk some sense in to her. this, however, will be useless) ć···..ä (let Jowy do the talking) Whatever you say, youāll be taken away. The next scene will be of you and Jowy being beaten, right before youāre hanged. Rowd, being the nice guy he is, asks if you have any last words. ćNo, I donātä (get on with the murder) Youāre a jerk. (I like this one!) After your last words, Rowd will look up at the sun set. When he looks back down, though, heāll see a bunch of dead people and Viktor and Flik will be busting you out!! Yeah!!! After this Rowd will run off and Jowy will say that you should go get Nanami. ćLetās go save Nanami.ä (agree) ćLetās hurry out of here.ä (be told to go save her) To save time, just agree. Nanami is an awesome party member anyway, so why fight it? But, if youād like, you CAN leave her behind and sheāll join up with you again in Muse, which youāll be at later. Youāll leave and see Nanami and Mukumuku running from the guards. Sheāll then see you and join you. Then youāll have to run out of town. Take the exit where you came in to get out and on the way out, Nanami will stop and ask you if you think youāll ever some back. ćWeāll come back someday.ä (reassure Nanami) ćI donāt want to come back.ä (this will also reassure her) Head back to North Swallow Pass. Backtrack through this place. In fact, head all the way back to the Mercenary Fort. Once youāre back, Viktor and Flik will tell you some things. Viktor suggests you go and recruit people. There are three people you can recruit, and theyāre all in Ryube. Before you set off, though, go talk to Leona at the bar and pop Gengen into the party. The more, the merrier, you know. You can go down stairs and talk to Pohl, too. You can rest and save for free with him. You know, he was the guy that told Flik and Viktor to go save you, so be thankful. You also have the chance to sharpen your weapons to level three, if you wish. Of course, you should cause this is a very important part of the game. When youāre done, head to Ryube. -Recruit #1- The first thing you might see when you arrive in Ryube in the strange man in blue laying on the ground (those are kickinā sideburns!!!). Walk up to him and push X and a menu will come up asking what you want to say to him. ćAre you Ok?ä (ask him if heās Ok) ćWhats wrong, you bum?ä (ask him if heās ok, just in a mean way) ć·Lets leave him.ä (take a guess!) After you ask him this, heāll just say, ćMy Stomach·ä Then another menu will come up. ćDoes it hurt?ä (ask him if it hurts in a nice way) ć??????ä (give him a puzzled look) Heāll then say heās starved. To recruit him, youāll have to buy him some food. ćOk· Sure·ä (agree to buy him some food) ćNo way.ä (donāt buy him any) To recruit him, and proceed in the game, youāll have to buy him his food. Itāll be 3000p, so be sure to have some cash handy. If you donāt buy it for him, heāll have to wash dishes and you wont recruit him. So, for the last time, buy his lunch and be done with it! Heāll join you afterward. -Recruit #2- Now, walk on over to the top right corner of town to see a girl with a very large hat on, pacing back and forth. Talk to her to see whatās goinā on. Sheāll ask what you want. ćNo. Nothing.ä (tell her youāre just watching her pace back and forth) ćWhatās wrong.ä (see whatās happening) Sheāll tell you her pet ran into the woods and asks if youāll help her find it. ćSure I will.ä (say yes) ćSorry. Iām busy.ä (be called ćmeanä) Agree to help her and sheāll join the party and youāll appear in the forest. This is a very easy place to get through. At the fork, turn right and follow the path to her pet. However, her pet attacks the party· ===Beating Bonaparte=== This isnāt too hard. Just attack, mostly, and have the Hero and Nanami do there unite attack. Youāll have to heal, too, though. Cause even though this is a small little guy, it has a strong attack! -After Bonaparte- Sheāll ask if heās cute. Just say whatever to her. Sheāll then join you! Recruit #3 A lot of people miss this guy. Go back to the fork in the path and go right. On the path you'll see a small bird on the ground. Walk up to it and put it in its nest. Now go up into the next screen and keep going up. Turn at the first left and get the Leather Cape and the Gauntlet from the chests. Equip them on a couple people, then walk around and fight things for a few minutes. I think the time he appears at is random. Eventually, go back to the birdās nest and there will be a guy and a dog standing there. Talk to him and heāll ask if you put the bird back in the nest. ćThatās right.ä (say yes) ćNot me.ä (say no) Say yes and heāll tell you about himself. Then heāll ask what youāre up to. ćWeāre looking for companions to join us.ä (tell him what youāre doing) ćI canāt say·ä (brush him off) If you say no, heāll walk off and you wont recruit him. If you say yes, you WILL recruit him and everything will be fine. Be SURE to recruit him· Oh, and then heāll ask if he should go with you. If you say no, heāll just go back to the fort and if you say yes, heāll join your party right there. By the way, if you donāt feel like walking around in the forest waiting for him, know this: You come back here later. And heāll be here for sure on your next visit to the forest. -After All the Recruiting- Go save at the Inn at Ryube since you just got four new helpers, and head back to the world map. Donāt go back to the fort right now (unless you want to change party members or something), just follow the road up. At the fork take a left and follow this up to a town called Toto. When you get to this village, a small girl will run up saying ćUncle Jowy!!ä This, of course, is the girl that found him on the beach. During the chat, youāll bust in and say: ćWho is this kid?ä (act like a moron and ask who she is) ćA friend of Jowyās?ä (ask who she is without being a moron) After this, Jowy will tell you the untold story of being washed up on the river. Pilika will ask if youāre a friend of Jowyās. ćThatās right.ä (say yes) ćYes. Im his best friend.ä (say yes and tell her you two have known each other for a while) ćNo way.ä (lie to the poor girl) No matter what you say, sheāll ask for your name. ćHero.ä (say your name in a calm way) ćUmmmmm·.ä (get all nervous) Somehow, she knows you name even if you say ćUmmmm·ä Which is kinda strange. Sheāll then lead you both up into her house and introduce you to her parents. After a heart-warming conversation with them, Pilika will ask you both into her room. Then sheāll explain that its almost her dadās birthday and she wants to get him a present. She saw a gift in Muse she thinks heāll like, but she cant go there alone. So you and Jowy have to get it for her. Jowy says you will right away, but you can act like a moron again and say ćYeah right.ä (agree with Jowy to go to Muse) ćIts kinda far.ä (act stupid and go anyway) When youāre done, leave the village through the top left exit and follow the road on the world map. Youāll see a small house on the way. This is a Inn, and a very cheap one. Go ahead and stay just cause you can. After which, continue left to the huge city of Muse. Once youāre there, go up and take the second right. Follow this path to a shop with a small circle above it and go in. This isnāt the item shop, but youāll want to go here. Remember the Double-Beat Rune you got by fighting the rabbits? Well, you can actually put them to use. Go in and talk to the shopkeeper. If you got one Rune, put it on the Hero. If you got more then one, be sure to put on the Hero and the rest on whoever. But if you have an extra, the best choices are Nanami or Rikimaru, if you happen to have him in your party (I normally put mine on Nanami). Also, you can buy some Runes. He has a couple nice ones in the ĪRare Findsā section. If you have 15000p, pick up the Fury Rune. None of these are really needed at this point though, so donāt stress it. Even if you have 15000p, you might even want to save it for something else. Leave and go to the item shop at the bottom left of town. The guy in here says that he does have the Wooden Amulet, but itāll cost 500p. ćWeāll pay, of courseä (gladly pay for it with your money) ćNo way.ä (get Jowy to pay for it) If you pay for it, youāll lose 500p, but you say ĪNo wayä Jowy will sell an old ring of his and get 2000p for it. Not only will you get the Amulet for this, but youāll also get 1500p! Pretty nice, pretty nice. Now just save if you want, and head back to Toto Village for a surprise· When you get back, youāll see that the village has been burned down, and Pilika is the only survivor. Shortly after your arrival, A Suikoden character makes her appearance. You may remember Apple from the first Suikoden. But you may not cause she wasnāt a main person at all. But in this game, sheās one of the important ones. Anyway, she walks up and asks who you are. ćWhat Happened here?ä (inquire why the place is in ruins) ćWho are you?ä (inquire who she is and why sheās here) Pick one and get on with it. Anyway, Sheāll explain everything (Im not going to say what she explains, it would spoil some things) and requests you take her to see Viktor and Flik. Youāll appear on the world map, but before you go to the fort, go back in the village and recruit Hanna. NOW head to the fort to see Viktor. After Apple tells them whats going on in the world, the scene changes to you, Jowy and Pilika. After some more talking, heāll go on about how he doesnāt know who to trust anymore. ćYou can trust me.ä (reassure him) ćI donāt know eitherä (let him know youāre in the same boat he is) After you answer, youāll be told Viktor wants you. Head up the big room on the top floor and heāll give you an assignment. That is, go recruit a man living in the forest so he can fix the Fire Spears and you can defend the fort. ćOf course.ä (say youāll do it) ćWe canāt do it.ä (try to say no and be asked again) You can turn them down a billion times if you want and itāll keep going in the same triangle of people asking you the same thing over and over again. After you say youāll do it, go to Ryube again and go to the forest. Take a left at the fork and follow the long path to his house. Itās not much of a maze, so you shouldnāt get lost. If you do, take my advice and stop playing this game right now cause you wont get anywhere. Maybe you should try something rated EC or lower· Ok, just kidding. Anyway, if you decided to leave the forest when you put the bird back in his nest and never talked to Kinnison, heāll be there now for you to recruit. Once you get to Tsaiās house, no one will be there. But after waiting for about 15 seconds, heāll walk in. Of course, he wonāt be happy about you being in his house when he wasnāt there, but thatās beside the point. Anyway, heāll ask what you want. ćWeāve come because we need you.ä (tell him whatās up) ćNothing in particular.ä (have him tell you to leave) After youāve told him about Luca Blight, heāll join you and let you keep the 2000p Flik gave you. Pop Tsai in your convoy and head back to town. When you get there though youāll see the place in flames with Luca himself killing people left and right. Itās not a happy scene. Youāll watch a couple people die, then Jowy will act all pissed off. After which, you can comment on it. ćWe canāt just sit here and watch.ä (say you should go kill Blight right now and be stopped by Tsai) ćWe have no choice·ä (act logical and stay out of his way) Be glad you donāt fight him now. Actually, youāll get your chance later in the game and, IMO, heās harder then the last boss. But, thatās LATER. Lets focus on NOW. Go back to the fort, rest up and save, then go see Viktor. Flik will be there as well, and theyāll both thank you. Then theyāll tell you to get ready to leave for Muse City. ćI understandä (leave for Muse) ćI want to fight by your sideä (persist on staying) If you say you want to fight, youāll progress in the story faster and save yourself a pointless trip to Toto Village. If you say you want to leave, just head for Muse. When you leave the fort, Jowy will say that you should go back. If you keep going anyway, before you leave Toto Village, Jowy will bounce in again and say that you should go back and do what you can. ćLetās go back·. Jowy.ä (agree to go back and fight for your right to party) ćWe should run away.ä (disagree and be asked again) You canāt disagree. So go back to the fort and go see Viktor and Flik again. Once you say you want to fight, Flik will test you in a Dual Battle. A one-on-one fight between you and him. However, you have a huge advantage over him, that is, you can tell what heās going to do by what he says. One thing you should remember about these fights though, when the enemy is defending, DO NOT use the Wild Attack option. Heāll counter attack. Remember that. ^^^Dual Battle vs. Flik^^^ This isnāt THAT hard. You donāt have to damage him too much to win. Attack Phrases: ćThis is just a waste of timeä ćThatās how to attack. Got it?ä ćNice try. Iāll go next.ä Defend Phrases: ćCāmon take a swing at meä ćOkay, itās your turn. Letās see what youāve got.ä ćThatās how to attack. Try it yourself.ä ćIn combat, caution is the best weapon.ä ćWant to try that again?ä Wild Attack Phrases: ćThe next oneās going to hurt!ä ćHere goes! Hope you can handle this!!!ä -After the Fight- Keep in mind that he says more things then that. But those are pretty common phrases. After you win, heāll let you tag along. Youāll get to name your company. HOWEVER, this name will go far beyond a companyās name. This will be the name of *slight spoiler* your army when you become the leader of the Your Name Here Army, and at the end of the game your new country will be named whatever name you choose here. Be careful! *end of spoiler* Jowy will suggest a few, then youāll get to put in the final name. After the big name is put in, Pohl will warn that the Highland Army is in the sights. Rest and save with Pohl real fast, then go outside. After a briefing of the battle plan, youāll be asked if youāre ready. If you say no, you can go save or do something else. Whatever. When you say you ARE ready, the story will progress and the fort will be attacked. This is your first major battle, that is, where you lead your company instead of just six people. Youāll see when the fight starts. |||MAJOR BATTLE: GUARD THE FORT||| This is a very easy major battle that very well may be impossible to lose. Apple will tell you how to do everything during these first few Major Battles, so donāt worry about not knowing what to do. Since you only lead one unit, and the computer controls the others, all you really have to do is either stay out of their way or try your luck with attacking or you can use your Fire Spears. But try not to hit any allies with these! This wont last very long and, to tell you the truth, these Major Battles in Suikoden 2 or easier then the ones in Suikoden, IMHO. -After the Major Battle- Well everyone will cheer and stuff, however, the peace will be killed by a second attack on the fort right after the first one. Youāll be given another choice here, go rest and save quick or just go ahead and get this other fight over with. During this next fight, Apple will again tell you how to do everything. Just keep ĪWaitingā and Lucaās army will pop up behind you. Youāre now surrounded and you love this on auto. After you lose, Viktor and Flik will run off and tell you to, also. Of course, youāll be heading to Muse. But first, Jowy says you should go get Pilika. ćIāll go with you.ä (just go with him) ćIm getting out of here.ä (try to leave by yourself) If you say youāll leave on your own, you wonāt be able to get out the front gate cause of a group of solders that never stop coming. This is the gameās little way of telling you that you have to go give Jowy a hand. Run back inside the fort and head to the top floor and into the big room where youāll see Pohl, Luca and Pilika. Jowy will be next to the door. Luca will kill Pohl (Grrrrrrrrr·) and then try to take Pilika down. Yes, heās mean. But you should be kinda mad at him since he killed Pohl and all. A menu will pop up. You can choose ćSave her,ä or ćDonāt save her.ä If you wait too long, Jowy will try and save her, but fail. If you choose to cave her, youāll help Jowy out. Even if you choose to be a wimp, itāll turn out the same way. Viktor rushes in and says that he threw the spears in the boiler and the place is about to blow up. When you get outside, youāll notice that Pilika canāt talk. ćDonāt worry. Sheās just in shock.ä (reassure everyone) ćLuca couldnāt have··..ä (do the exact opposite of reassuring everyone) Well, head for Muse again. At this point in the game, the computer seems to choose a random party for you. Itās annoying, but youāll have these people in your party for quite a while. You can buy new armor and stuff pretty soon though. So donāt worry. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-YOUR NEW DESTINY-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ In Toto, Pilika will run off into a cave at the top right corner of town. Follow her and youāll read some writing on the wall. After which, youāll just disappear into another part of the cave. Leknaat will appear in front of you. Youāll remember her from the first Suikoden if you played it. Sheāll say a few things, then youāll go all the way up to see what happens next. A very long flashback type thing will take place. Youāll discover you were a scary looking kid. Youāll just see scenes from the game that youāve already done. Its cute and long. After this, Leknaat will say some more things. She doesnāt seem as friendly as she did in Suikoden· Anyway, the Bright Shield Rune beckons you. You want its power, right? ćSince we need ĪPowerā··..ä (agree to receive the Rune) ćI donāt need ĪPower.āä (try to get out of it but just be asked over and over again) Jowy will take the right cave, and leaves you with the left. Go in and take your Rune. I must say, I cool as the your Rune is, I like the Black Sword Rune sooo much more!! But, oh well. Take what you can get and head to Muse. The mean guard wont let you in. So go to the White Deer Inn. Youāll see an interesting little cut scene, then youāll hit the hay. In the morning, youāll go down stairs. There are two people sitting at the tables, one is an Item shop and the other is a Rune master, just so you know. When you go the Bright Shield Rune on the Hero, his Double-Beat Rune was removed. Have it put on Rikimaru if you happened to get him. If not, just put it on someone else. The Item shop has 2 Belt of Strengthās in the Rare Finds section that you may want. Oh, and buy a freakinā lot of Medicine. When you try to leave, Alex will run in all mad and stuff. Heāll say he has an Entry Pass to Muse, and says heāll let you use it if you help him look for the treasure in the ruins. Youāll be at a dead end till you do, so go ahead and agree. Be sure to save. This isnāt that easy, but not really hard either· but save. Go out of the Inn and around to the right and all the way up to a couple big doors and enter. -The Ruins- Go up to see a door and a small panel next to the door. Check out the panel to open the door and keep going. This place is a big, monster filled maze. The monsters are pretty tough, also. So you may want to make sure you have an Escape Talisman or three just incase you have to get out in a hurry. The Talismans also come in handy after youāve beaten the ruins so you wonāt wave to walk all the way back out. In any case, go up and left to get the two treasures, then go back to the main path and keep going up a bit. Then go right and up. Now go up and make a U turn to the right where there arenāt any bushes and go down. Thereās a chest here with an Angry Blow scroll in it. Go back up and left, and up again to a bridge. When youāre across, Go up and take the Gauntlet from the chest then go all the way down, then left, then all the way up into the next screen. Go left across the bridge and up when you reach the end of the path. Push the statue onto the little square button and go through the door. Take the Shoulder Pads and then take the round plate on the pillar. Now go back across the bridge and put the plate in that hole in the wall to open the door next to it. In this next room, youāll see a statue of a two headed snake. This is what youāll have to fight in a little while. Anyway, go left across that there bridge, and go up when you see an opening leading up. Take the triangle plate in the pillar. If you want, you can go out of this room and keep going left to get a Fire Lizard Rune. Itās not a very cool Rune though. When youāre done, go back across the bridge and take the path going up, then go right. Go up the stairs here and put the plate in the wall. This drains the ruins of water. For some reason, it also seems to release tons of new, much harder enemies for you to enjoy. Backtrack out of this room. When you get back to the intersection, go strait across the bridge and follow this path to a save point and save. You donāt want to do all that stuff again, do you? Of course not. Now go back to the intersection and go up. Just go strait and get the Chain Mail at the end of the path, then go back the way you can and get into the moat. In the moat is where youāll start fighting the new, tougher baddies. Go down into the next screen then take a left. You see a square plate, which is good. Take it and backtrack out of the moat. Go all the way down to where you saw that two-headed snake statue go through the opening on the bottom right wall. Follow this path to a door. Put the plate in the opening and get the very nice things in the chests. Youāll see that the plate disappears when the door opens. Its being put back into you inventory for use later on. Now go out, back to the main area and up. Go across the bridge back to the save point and save, then put the plate in the door and go through it. Youāll see another panel by a door in this room. After some talking, the door opens and thatās your queue to head on through. Youāll then have to fight the two-headed dragon. ===Beating Double Head=== Ok, first off, Jowy should be on about level 14 or 15 (having the other party members on that level is also nice). If he is heāll have a super strong Rune attack that will help you a bunch. Use this in the first round, as well as the Family unite attack with the hero and Ninami. When Nanami is unbalanced you may want to have her heal with Medicine or something. Otherwise just have her attack. After Jow has used the super strong Piercing One attack, have him use Flash Judgment every turn after. The Double Head only uses attacks that hit everyone and they donāt hurt too badly, but over a couple turns youāll start to need healing. When this happens, use the heroās Rune. Great Blessing will heal everyone just fine. He also has and attack called Shining Light that you can use to put the hurt on Double Head. Have everyone else just attack or use any Rune they might have and this is won. BTW, double boy can only attack once per turn, making this even easier. This is just too easy· -After Double Head- Go strait to see the treasure. As it turns out, itās a Healing Herb. Cute, huh? Well, thereās nothing left to do here except save if you want. When youāre ready, use an Escape Talisman to get out. If you donāt have one youāll have to walk it. Once youāre out, though, Alexāll toss the herb on the ground in shame. Go back to the Inn to see that Hilda is really out of it. In fact, sheās on the floor half-dead. No one knows why, but that doesnāt matter. Youāll take her to a bed and Jowy will run off to find a doctor. After a little while of talking, youāll get control over the hero back. So, what you need to do is go back to the place where Alex threw the healing herb down and get it. Then take the healing herb to Hilda for a quick recovery. Nice, isnāt it? Alex will hand over the entry permit and Hilda will drop the price for staying at the Inn to a cool 0.00p per night. You might as well stay and save since it HAS been a while, then head to Muse. -Muse- This place is big. But, before you can discover all its bigness, youāll have to get in. This is a pretty funny scene· Nanami will give herself the part of Hilda, Jowy the part of Pete, and you the part of Alex. Jowy doesnāt feel too great about it, though. ćNanami··.ä (sheāll just tell you to do it and you wont have a choice) ćItāll be fine. Come on already.ä (donāt get Jowyās approval) ćLets go, Peteä (again, Jowy wont be happy) Anyway, youāll get arrested no matter how good or bad your acting is. In the prison cell, Nanami and Jowy will be mad at each other. Theyāll then ask who was the better actor. Jowy was better.ä (make Nanami mad) ćNanami was betterä (hurt Jowyās feelings) ćYou both stunk.ä (tell the truth) At night, after the gals are asleep, you and Jowy will still be up. The first question doesnāt matter, since heāll say the same thing either way. In fact, all the questions are like that. But anyway, Heāll then ask if you think youāll ever go back to Kyaro. ćDonāt worry, Weāll go back·.ä (reassure him) ć···..ä (just wonder like he is) Then heāll go on some more. He talks a lot· Heāll be mad at himself for not being able to protect Pilika when Luca was about to chop them both to bits. ćItāll be Ok··..ä (reassure him again) ć·.···.ä (again, say nothing and just look at the moon) The next morning, Youāll see Viktor and Flik at the door. They bail you out and tell you to go to the Leonaās new Tavern. When youāre in town, from where you are go up and take the first right. Then go down till you reach a dead-end and go up the stairs. Someone named Elza will come and ask you a favor. Except her offer. Sheāll give you two packages. Now keep going up and a dude named Clive will come into the scene and ask you if youāve seen her. ćNope. Never saw her.ä (be convincing) ćI· Er·.ä (somehow, heāll believe you) Anyway, now go to the Tavern. You passed it on the way to see Clive and Elza. Go inside and chat with Leona at the bar, and then youāll appear outside again. Now its time to head to city hall to the north. Itās not hard to find at all. Keep going up even when you get inside, and youāll see Viktor. Heāll join you and you wont have any choice but to go into the door above you. Inside, youāll meet the Mayor of Muse, Annabelle. Along with her annoying jerk of an assistant, Jess. I donāt like him at all, but hey, thatās my problem. Anyway, Annabelle is very smart, and it turns out she knows a lot about the three of you. Genkaku comes up during the conversation and Annabelle mentions that she wasnāt able to atone the crimes against him; or something like that. ćAtone him for your crimes?ä (ask what she means) ć···..ä (sorta ask what she means) Either way, she wonāt tell you now. She leaves you in the care of Jess (I hate Jess) and goes off somewhere. Head up into the room above you to the right and Jess will be in there talking to someone. Heāll see you and ask you to sneak into the Highland Armyās camp to find out how much food they have. Thatās right, heās gonna risk the lives of you two cause heās stupid and cant think of a better way. Anyway, itās up to you. ćSorry, but no way.ä (refuse) ćAlright. Weāll do itä (agree) If you refuse three times heāll stop asking, but you canāt really do anything if you donāt say yes. But before you agree, you might want to do the following stuff· -Pre-Spy Preparations- Say no three times so that you can walk around the room and search the top book shelve. Youāll get a ć? Bookä which isnāt necessary, but since youāre going for everything, you might as well get it. After you get it, leave City Hall and go down a little ways. Youāll see Tuta in front of a box down the road. Talk to him and heāll ask about the fort and say he heard it was burned down. ćIām fine.ä (well, he can already see that youāre alright, cant he?) ćIt was horrible.ä (tell him your story) Well, either way heāll invite you to see Dr. Huan. The H. man will tell Tuta to help out Viktor. Really though, you just got yourself a new party member in your soon-to-be army. After words, go back into the house and talk to Huan again and heāll give you the Recipe #3. Another not necessary, but nice item for your soon-to-be army. No go strait down till Elza steps out again. Sheāll give you the Sound Set #1. Yet another item that will serve no usefulness till your soon-to-be army is up and running. That wont be too long off, actually, isnāt that cool? Anyway, the Clive comes and things get dramatic. Elze almost shoots you and Clive, being the mid-evil FBI kinda guy he is, dodges the bullet and runs after Elza right out of Muse. You canāt follow them either. Now you can also go to the Rune Masterās shop and buy a Fire Rune. Put it on Nanami since sheās probably the only one with a Double-Beat Rune. Sheās be attacking four times every turn by doing this. In fact, if youāre VERY lucky, you can get up to attacking EAGHT TIMES in one turn!!! Quite useful. But you donāt HAVE to do this. Thereās also an appraiser in town that you may want to visit. He can turn those ć?ä items into real things that you can use later in the game, or sell now and get a good bit of cash for them. Now, youāre finally ready to try your luck at being a spy and sneaking into the Highland camp. Be sure to save, then go see Jess again. Heāll give you the uniforms and complement you on your bravery/stupidity. Now go back to the Tavern and talk to Leona and make yourself a party (finally!!). Be sure to make a strong party. The woods you have to go through to get to the camp arenāt too cool. Now that you can exit Muse at will, you can recruit Anita from the Tavern! Sheās the blond girl sitting at the first table alone. If sheās there, go to the shop and buy an Antitoxin. Then go talk to her a few times. She might ask for an Antitoxin, if she does, give her one. She might ask if a female swordsman really THAT rare, if she does, say sheās beautiful. And she also might ask you to refill her glass of wine. If she asks this, go talk to Leona to get some wine and bring it to Anita. Youāll have to run out of Muse a few times every time you do something new for her. But after you do all three things, sheāll join you. Sheās a very good fighter, put her in your team to test her out. After you do this, exit Muse, take the road leading up and keep going strait at the fork. Youāll come to the checkpoint. After being cleared, the guard lets you through and shows you the way into the woods. Check your inventory and make sure you have a lot of Medicine! -The Woods/Highland Armyās Camp- The first screen is simple. Just go right and up. There are two treasures in this whole place, a Belt of Strength and a Circlet. Both arenāt very good, so if you pass them up, no one will hate you. I never get them! If you want them, though, from the entrance of the second screen, just go right until you see a path going up. Pass this and hold right. This will lead to another path going up. The Belt of Strength is here. Keep going right to see an exit to the lower right hand corner. Follow that path till you reach the Circlet. When you exit this screen, just go up and youāll find the way. The rest of the woods are very simple. When you reach the end, the hero the Jowy will change into their uniforms and go into the camp. Head to the top-right hand side of the camp. This is the ration tent. When you get there, a guard will see you. Be sure to play along! Anyway, after youāre done in the tent, you start walking away, only to see the meany Rowd. He spots you and, of course, letās everyone in the base know that youāre here. Youāll run to the left a bit, but before you get going, go back to the ration tent. On the outside behind a box thereās a treasure chest with a ćFire Sealingä Rune. As it turns out, thereās nowhere for you to run except inside the big tent in the middle of camp. This is a tent for Royal Family, but Jillia plays along and lets you hide in the tent. After Rowd leaves, she even gives you some good olā Highland tea. What does this remind you of? That time in Venice? Never mind. Thatās an old coffee ad incase youāre wondering. Anyway, she recalls seeing you in Kyaru, when you were about to be killed by Rowd. She asks if youāll ever forgive Highland. ćI will·.. Someday I know I will.ä (lie to her and yourself) ć···..ä (just say nothing) Jowy will ask what Highland is trying to do to the State and sheāll mention Luca Blight, and ask if you know him. ćI know him.ä (lie again. I mean, you really donāt) ć·.. Heās a fiendish monster.ä (get scolded by Jowy, but get support from Jillia) Sheāll talk, and talk, and talk, and before you know it, the tea will be cold! This is the time to leave. ćYouāre right.ä (agree and head out) ćThe tea was delicious.ä (agree and head out, but add a complement first) Youāll appear outside the tent. Follow the left wall down to the exit and Rowd will stop you again. Youāll stop and listen to him for some reason, and guard jump out to attack you. Kill them, then Jowy will tell you to run. ćI canāt do that.ä (disagree and get pushed away) ćOkay, see ya.ä (agree and run off to the others) When youāre with the other people again, there will be no sign of Jowy. Soldersāll attack you again, so kill them. After the fight, Nanami will ask what happened. ćFirst we have to get out of here.ä (leave. you might as well do this) ć···.ä (get attacked again) Unless you want to fight some more, pick the first option. Youāll be outside the woods now. Just head back to Muse. When you get there, go to City Hall to find out you canāt see Jess or Annabelle at the moment. Now go back to the Tavern to see Viktor and Flik there, waiting. Viktor will join you and say to go back to City Hall. Save and rest since you can, and the head to City Hall. When you get to City Hall, head to Annabelleās office. Viktor will use a nice little trick to get you in, and youāll go inside. Youāll soon find out that Jess didnāt even tell Annabelle about his little plan, which wasnāt nice. Heāll then ask you how much provisions Highland had. ćAbout two weeks worth···..ä (tell him and because youāre nice) ć···.ä (let Nanami fill them in) Now then, Annabelle will say sheās sorry for putting you in such danger, even though the only involvement she had in it was hiring a looser like Jess. Jess will make some more rather mean comments and youāll go back to the bar, mad and dissatisfied. Nanami is still worried about Jowy, but talks herself into believing heāll be Ok. ćItās Jowy. Heāll be fine.ä (Ressure her, of course) ćI donāt know··.ä (tear down the situation even more then it already is) Either way, sheāll go wait for him by the front gate. Go and stay with her. Sheāll keep asking you to go back in about three different times. You can do so, or stay and wait. If you go in, youāll actually just keep waiting at the Inn. ćWelcome home.ä (make him feel loved) ćIām tired from waiting.ä (heāll say heās sorry for making you worry) If you stay and wait with Nanami, Pilika will soon come out, too. And after a while, Jowy will trudge up with open arms. ćWelcome home.ä (make him feel loved) ćIām tired from waiting.ä (heāll say heās sorry for making you worry) Anyway, youāll go back to the bar and go to bed. And a week will pass by very, very fast. Nanami will tell you two that thereās something going on up on Jowston Hill. The entrance to Jowston Hill is way up at the top left corner of town. Head up there and at the top of the hill youāll meet up with Viktor again. Heāll let you tag along with him so you can get in on the Hilltop Conference action. But the person guarding the door wont let him in because he doesnāt have proof of his identity! So, Flik comes along and gets you guys in. What an ego crusher· Inside the place, just follow the path to the room where itāll take place. Another guy I hate in this game, Gorudo, pushes Nanami out of his way. Unfortunately, youāll be having further dealings with him later. I wonāt go into that anymore, though. You take your seats after a Knight saves Gorudoās rep, and the meeting starts. During which, I feel I must point out that Gorudo makes more bad mouth comments to the Mayor of Greenhill. And the Mayor of Greenhill is a woman. He must be sexist, if you ask me. Anyway, before you know it, Blight and his army are heading for Muse. After the meeting, just go back to the bar and youāll find Annabelle and Apple. Annebelle asks you to slow Blight down for two days so that the other State solders can arrive. Hey, no problem! Its only two days against the Highland Army, right? Anyway, youāll end up agreeing! Annabelle will say for you to go to her room after the fight, and sheāll tell you about Genkakuās past. The next day, save. Youāre about to fight a major battle. When youāve saved, talk to Viktor and lets get this started. |||MAJOR BATTLE: SLOW DOWN THE HIGHLAND ARMY||| Youāll see what youāre up against now. Not too pretty, for sure. Like Apple says, if you beat Solon Jheeās unit, theyāll run. You wonāt even have a chance to attack him and some Knights that are on your side show up. Another thing, donāt attack Gilbertās unit. Try to protect it, rather. Gilbert wills rather quickly and switches sides to join your cause. Heās one of the 108 stars, so if he dies now, heās gone for good. Donāt let that happen. Now, all you really have to do is either attack weaker units, or stay out of the way all together. Either method will do fine. After a while of fighting, Camus will show up and tell your Knight friends that they have orders to withdraw. Nice. Real nice. Reluctantly, they back off leaving you to handle everything. So, now you get to fight some more. Keep it up, donāt die! Soon, theyāll run off to rest up so they can kill you later, and you go back to the bar so you can rest a bit, also. -After the Major Battle- Before you do anything, go save, because itās the right thing to do. Then run up stairs and talk to Nanami ö sheās in one of the rooms. Sheāll ask if she can tell you something. ćSure.ä (let her tell you something) ćIām kind of tired.ä (snuff her off and go to bed) If you let her tell you something, sheāll just say ćforget itā and youāll go to bed. But in the next room, you see Jowy talking to someone. Who? Well, Kage. You might remember him from Suikoden 1. After Jowy says something about taking the right path, youāll know something up. And youāre right, too, the game is about to take a drastic turn. But anyway, the next morning, the three of you go up to City Hall to talk to Annabelle about Genkaku. But, when you get there youāll find her way to busy to tell you anything, and she tells you to come back in the evening. So, go back to the Inn. When you arrive, though, Jowy just runs off again and doesnāt say why. Talk to Nanami and say youāre worried about him, then go up to City Hall again. On the right side of the entrance youāll find Jowy and Kage talking again, but this time you catch him in the act and can ask him whatās up. ćWhat are you doing?ä (take a guess) ćWho was the person?ä (this isnāt a hard one, either) Either way, heāll give a stupid answer and tell you to run far away. ćWhat are you going to do?ä (try to dig deeper into what his plans are) ćYeah····..ä (act like you know heās up to something) If you ask him what heās going to do, he just says he wants you to take care of Pilika, should anything happen to him. That night, Viktor pays a visit to Annabelle and they have some wine. A nice though, really, since she wont be able to drink wine for much longer. Anyway, after that, itās your turn to go see her about Genkaku, finally. So head on up, but the guard will say something about your friend going to see her· Yeah, none other then Jowy. He goes into her room, and after a few words and little bit of fighting, he stabs her and runs off. He DOES get a new picture in his text boxes here, though. So itās not all bad. Then you run in and see whatās up. Heāll run off no matter what, and Annabelle will die there. On top of your best friend betraying you and Muse already losing the war because the mayor of it just died, to make matters worse Jess runs in and since youāre the only ones in the room, accuses you of killing her. Yeah, nice guy. After that, youāll find yourself running from yet another city. Go back and see Leona and sheāll tell you that the army is meeting up again in South Window. Pilika joins the convoy, and then you run out of town. That night, Nanami brings up the option of running away and living on your own in the mountains. It doesnāt matter what you say, sheāll agree either way, actually. You wake up the next morning, and you happen to be right next to Coronet, just a little farther south and youāre there. When you get there and try to book a boat in the bottom left corner of town, you find that Luca has ordered no one to leave the city on a boat. Sucks. Anyway, now that you know this, go to the Inn. Doesnāt the innkeeper look like Sanchez from Suikoden 1? Anyway, it just so happens that the three traveling performers are passing through. You know, Rina, Eilie, and Bolgan. Eilie doesnāt like the looks of Nanami being there, since Eilie wants you for herself. Anyway, you can say you donāt know her, which is fun. Or you can say, ćItās been a while.ä Either way, you all sit down for a drink. Then, its up to you to find out away to get a boat. Well, first go save since itās been a while. -Getting to South Window- I thought that last subheading was getting to long, so I decided to give this its own subheading. Hope you donāt mind! At the southeast corner of town, youāll find Sheena, a Suikoden 1 character. Heāll run out of the hut, and yell some stuff through the door. Strange, huh? Go in the hut and youāll find Tai ho and his bro, Yam Koo, also from Suikoden 1. Be persistent while talking to them, and heāll challenge you to a game. Itās a game of chance, so luck is all you have. Just keep trying, and be sure you saved before you try this! It can drain your cash! Anyway, once youāve won, go back and get your friends from the bar, then go back to Tai hoās place and hop on the boat. Heāll take you across with no problems. Save when you get here, then leave town and head south for long ways till you reach South Window. -South Window- Now that youāre finally here, youāll see Viktor near the entrance. After a bit of talking, youāll all head to the bar. The bar is actually at the Inn, so go there to find Flik and Viktor waiting. There will be even more talking, then you, Viktor, Flik and Nanami will head to City Hall. Once youāre there, youāll meet the mayor of South Window. After some more talking, Granmeyer, the mayor, will ask Viktor to go see whatās going on in North Window, since young girls have been disappearing in surrounding areas. Now, you loyal Suikoden players will probably know whatās going on. Neclord, the vampire is there in North Window. But how? He died in Suikoden 1? Well, youāll understand later. Go back to the tavern now. After a bunch more talking, youāre given a party of five people, and now youāre off to North Window. Itās actually more to the northwest, really, at the top left corner of the island. Once you get there, youāll see, for the first time, Viktorās hometown. Itās a ghost town, however. The aftermath of the vampire Neclord still remains. Viktor tells the story of what happened, but then, Neclord, the big meany, walks up. And let me tell you, time has NOT served him well - he is UGLY!!!! But thatās besides the point, the real bad thing is that heās very alive and doing just fine. He then attacks, but donāt bother with him. You canāt win at the moment, just let yourself die. After your dead, heāll run off and your new mission will be to go fetch the Star Dragon sword. If you have enough medicine, use some now. If you used any Rune power during and fights, go back to South Window and rest. Other wise, just heal up and leave North Window. Go down then left at the fork, and youāre there. -The Cave of the Wind- Save outside, then go on in. First, go all the way up into the next room. Then keep following the path right, and into the next room. Take the next path up and right into the next room, then follow the path through here. Thereās only one path to take again, so follow it into the next room and youāll be in a room with the path you came in on, another path leading up, with is right behind you, and another path strait ahead. First go strait and get the Fish Badge from the chest, then go back and take the path leading up. Go strait through the next room and go through the door at the other side. Then go up and take a left at the first path to get a Fire Wall Scroll, now go back and continue up. No go up and right, and in the next room youāll be faced with a few fear inspiring ćpuzzles.ä First, youāll see a few rocks blocking your path, go up to the top one and push X to push it out of the way and keep going. Next, youāll see a tunnel thatās blowing wind making it so if you walk across, youāll get blown into a hole. Give up? Ok, take the rock thatās next to the hole, and push it in front of the hole. This is the basic idea that should make the rest of the rooms easy. Just remember to always stay BEHIND the rocks, and youāll be just fine. The last room has four rocks and four of the wind gust things, once youāre past the last room, go strait across to find an old man and three treasure chests. Take them all, and if you need to get out of the cave, talk to the old guy. If not, go back and down just a little to another path, right below the path with the old guy on it. Take the door at the end. Now then, exit this next room through the door at the top, and in the next room go left and down through the other door. In the next room, go down at the fork, then at the next fork go down again and youāll reach three other paths. Take the bottom left path to get a Half Helmet, and take the bottom right path for a Stone of Defense. Now exit this big room by taking the top left path and following it to a door. Once youāre through, go up a little to meet Kahn, a vampire hunter dude. After a bit of friction, heāll join you to help you take out Neclord. So, with that, keep going up. Itās just one path the rest of the way, so youāll be fine. Youāll soon reach the Star Dragon sword, but Viktor really screws up and makes the sword very mad. At that time, the sword attacks you· ===Beating the Star Dragon Sword=== First off, the hero and Nanami should use their unite attack, and when Nanami is unbalanced, have the hero attack regularly or attack or heal with his Rune. Viktor should attack or heal, but mostly attack. Have Kahn use his nifty Rune, and have Eilie attack or heal as needed. The sword attacks twice per round and really has some rough attacks, so watch your power. And he has 2500 HP, so this is a balanced fight, if you ask me, but it still might take a short while to beat him. -After the Star Dragon Sword- Heāll join you to kill Neclord, and youāll walk out of the cave through a door behind the sword. The first thing to do now it to run back to South Window and take a nap at the Inn. And while youāre there, if you havenāt already, buy new armor as needed, and also restock on items. After this, go back to North Window and go in the castle. Thereās actually only one real direct rout through here, but there are two or three little side areas, and another thing, there ARE enemies in here, but the encounter rate is extremely low. You could run through this whole place and not get in a fight, probably. When you first get it, go in the door right above you and get the Fire Rune in the bottom left corner. Then exit the room and go left, up, and through the door. Then go up and left through the door here. Ignore the door on the upper wall and head strait through the door in front of you. The next few screens will just be a strait path, but when you come to a room full of statues, youāll be in another dreaded puzzle room. First, push the statue thatās out of place on the square above the brown square, then push the west-most statue up to open a secret door. Go in the room to get the Darkness Rune, and exit the secret room and push the out of place statue onto the discolored floor panel and continue on. Its another single path trek now and soon youāll be in a room full of candles. Light the bottom row of candles by pushing the X button. The only candle you donāt light is the next to the last one. Go in the secret room to find a Blue Ribbon. Now leave and light the unlit candle on the top row to continue. Keep going up till you reach a bridge. This will let you know youāre almost there. Just keep going and be sure to get the two treasure chests in one of the rooms on the way, since one of them is a Chain Mail. Equip it to the hero, unless someone else really needs it, then keep going. Youāll cross another bridge, then be in the room right before Neclordās. Heal up now, if you need to, make sure everyone is equipped with good armor, and go on in. Once inside, Neclord will actually want to make a deal. The Star Dragon Sword for Daisy - Daisy evidently an old girlfriend of Viktorās, or something of that nature. But Viktor is too smart for that, he sees through the N manās plan and beheads the Daisy impersonator. With his plan destroyed, Neclord runs off, but leaves a huge monster of his that youāll get to kill. ===Beating Abomination=== Now, the problem here is a combination of a few things. 1. This guy has 4500 HP. 2. He has a number of attacks and they all hurt rather badly. 3. He attacks twice a turn, so thatās two painful attacks every turn. However, you have your tricks too, right? Sure! First, have the hero and Nanami use the unite attack, and have the hero heal with his Rune when Nanamiās unbalanced. Now have Viktor attack with Scrolls or his sword. Have Kahn use his strongest Rune spell, Charm Arrow, then have him use the scrolls he has in his inventory. Have Eilie heal and attack with everything sheās got. When worse comes to worse, have the hero use his strongest Rune spell to heal everyone. Doing this, and being on level 24 or 25 should be enough to win without too much of a struggle. But keep in mind that this is easily the hardest boss youāve fought, so donāt do anything foolish. -After Abomination- Youāll automatically leave the castle and Kahn will leave the crew to follow Neclord. When you start heading back to South Window, Flik, along with Leona, Apple, and the others will walk up to greet you with the news that Highland has overthrown South Window. And even worse, Mayor Grenmeyerās head was hung on the South Window gate. War, what is it good for? Anyway, Freed is pretty crushed by the news, and since he has no where to go, he decides to stay with you guys. Youāll go back inside the castle, congratulations, by the way, itās your new home! After a little bit of chatting, Apple tells you about a guy named Shu who lives in Radat. Heās a strategist, and according to Apple, a very, very good one. A good place to start would be to have him join your cause. For the first time in too long, youāll be able to make your own party again. Make up one of real quick. The only real hard thing you have to do is walk across the map, and thatās not hard. So make a party, save, and leave. Radat is on the other side of the island. I mean, the OTHER side, all the way east. So start walking. Youāll come to it eventually. If youāre still injured from the fight with Abomination, which you should be, stop in Kuskus on the way and stay at the Inn. Once youāre in Radat run strait through town till you reach a wall with a break in it. This is the front gate at Shuās house. Oh, did I mention heās rich? Yes, he got rich off trading. Heās a cool guy, if you ask me. Anyway, you get to speak with him, but he just sends you away saying that he uses his smarts to ćpredict shifts in the worldās economy.ä You wonāt leave till you get him to join you, though, so lets think for a second· Well, go to the tavern and talk to everyone there. Then, when youāre leaving, Shu walks in. Apple literally begs him to join you, but again he lets you suffer in all your humiliation. Well, with that, leave the tavern and go down a bit to find a man in a trench coat named Richmond, the privet eye. Heāll tell you he can help you, and after paying a small fee, he tells you to go to the Inn to wait. So, go ahead and wait at the Inn. After a while, heāll tell you about Shu meeting someone at the port to the east. So, you sleep at the Inn, and the next day (thereās that cool music again) you wake up and head to the port. Just follow the same path you went to get to Shuās house, just go farther. After waiting for a bit, Shu shows up, and again tries to give you the cold shoulder. But Apple wears him down enough to where he makes a deal with you. If you can find a coin he throws in the water by morning, heāll join you. But hey, thatās a strong current. Youāll have to get the dam doors shut before you can do any searching. Talk to the dude with the headband, and he'll give you the brush-off. Then, Amada will walk up to say hi, and then HEāLL make you a deal. If the hero can beat him in a one on one battle, heāll close the gate. Man, lots of gamblers around here, huh? ^^^Dual Battle vs. Amada^^^ Attack Phrases Ok, first a little test· YOWCH!!!!! Nice one! My handās all numb! Ouch! I felt that one! Ouch!!! I definitely felt that one!!! Ouch! Pretty good! Ok, itās my turn next! Thinking the same thing, eh. Cāmon, letās go. Wild Attack Phrases That wonāt get us anywhere! Lets try this one on fer size!!!!! Argh!!! Iāll get ya next time!!!!! Iām just about ready to take the gloves off. Ok, here we go! Ok, itās my turn next! That was fun!!!!! Lets go again!!!! Ok, boy, here we go! Defend Phrases Ha ha, ok, first show me what youāve got, boy. Dammit!!!! I might lose this one!!!! Cāmon, now itās your turn. Damn! Dammit!!!! Gotta think!!!!! -After the Dual- A dealās a deal. He opens the gate so you guys can crawl around in the 20-degree water all night! Later that night, you three are still looking. Nanami has nothing but bad things to say, and finding the thing isnāt looking up at all. However, just before you give up, the hero sees the coin and grabs it. And Shu appears on the stairs and joins the army. Of course, heās wondering how the coin got in the water, since all he threw in was a rock. Heāll never know, but you get to see Richmond standing on the bridge flipping a coin. Of course, he threw it in. Well, you might want to save after all that, then head back to the castle. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-IN NEED OF A LEADER-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Once youāre home again, go to the main hall where Viktor, Flik, and a few others are waiting. Shu shows up right away and already has a plan. After laying down his employment rules, he explains the plan. Which is, basically, to sneak behind Solon Jheeās unite and attack it from behind, then to get the South Window troops to join you, then youāll have a good chance of winning. Shu assigns you, the hero boy, to be the one who attacks Solon Jhee. The next morning, save and then pay another visit to the Main Hall again, where everyone is waiting for you. Well, get started with the battle. |||Major Battle: Defend the Castle||| The computer will do most everything until you arrive behind Jhee, then youāll have some say in the fight. You arrive right after the fight starts, so head up to the J-man as soon as you can. Once youāve attacked Jhee once, everyone will see what youāve done and switch sides and join you. Try and stay away from battle after that, or at least keep the heroās unit away. The other units you command donāt matter a great deal. Soon enough, Solon will call a full retreat· wimp. -After the Major Battle- Youāll arrive back at your HQ to find all your new recruits cheering for you. Then youāll head back to the Main Hall, and Flik will inform you that youāre officially Īthe hero.ā Youāre all of the sudden famous. Well, of course, this new army needs a leader. Of course, Shu has his eye on you for the new leader. He explains all that youāve accomplished, and really, by the time heās done, youāll probably end up thinking youāre the one for the job, too. Obviously, you canāt proceed in the game until you accept, so I wonāt put the your responses in here. Nanami wants you to think about it more, so you take here advice and Viktor tells you to meet up with him in the bar of the castle so he can tell you about ćsomething Annebelle didnāt have time to tell you.ä That night in your room, You and Nanami talk about this leader concept a little more, then you head to the bar. Save at the save crystal outside your room. Then head to the bar. If for some reason you donāt know where it is, from your room go up through the big door at the top of the room, then go down the stairs. Youāll now be in the main room of the castle, the nucleus. Head through the door at the bottom of this room and then youāre almost there. Just go through the door to the right and youāre at the bar. Viktor will be there, so have a chat with him. He'll ask if you still want to sit through the story. ćI still want to here it.ä (persist in hearing it) ćForget about it.ä (have Nanami persist for you) If you refuse, youāll get out of hearing it, but thereās nothing else to do, so of course youāll end up hearing the story. Itās pretty interesting anyway, so if you refused, talk to him again to get the story. It goes a little something like this· *spoiler* ćOkay· Now this happened a long time ago. It has nothing to do with you. Hero, youāre an individual named Hero, youāre not just ĪGenkakuās son.ā Okay? Donāt you ever forget that.ä ćJust before this war started, fighting between Highland and the State was pretty much limited to just minor border skirmishes. It was just about 30 years ago? Highland and the State fought a great war against each other. There are lots of different stories about what happened, but it seems that the State started the war. Annebelleās father, Mayor Derall of Muse, let the State, and the famous general, Han Cunningham let the Highland army. Derall was an amateur when it came to war and before long he had lost have of Muse and the Matilda Domain. Thatās when a hero appeared·. Your adopted father Genkaku. Genkaku got command of a unit and raided Highlandās supply tent. This slowed Highland long enough for the State to recover.ä ćThe war went back and forth. Genkaku and Han were from the same village and it looks like they were good friends. Sometimes they would drink together leisurely right in the middle of both camps. By doing so, they both realized what a stupid and pointless war it was. And so, Genkaku and Han worked together to make a peace treaty. Citizens of both countries were overjoyed. All except for one man·. The mayor of Muse city.ä ćThere was one border city, your hometown of Kyaro, that Derall refused to give over to Highland. So negotiations broke down and the war began anew. Thatās when the kind of Highland, Agares Blight, made a suggestion. The war should be decided by a Īdual between both champions.ā Darell agreed to the idea, as did Han and Genkaku who wished only for the war to finally come to an end.ä ćThe time came for the dual to begin. King Agares gave his sword to Han and Mayor Darell gave his sword to Genkaku. This singled that each champion was fighting as a representative of their own country. But something happened. Genkaku never once even raised his sword. Darell ordered him over and over to fight over and over, but he refused. Time passed, and people got angry that the contest was spoiled, they blamed Genkaku. With no other choice, Han knocked away Genkakuās blade and put his sword on Genkakuās neck to declare victory. Thatās how your town of Kyaro came to be Highland territory.ä ćGenkaku was called Ītraitorā and ordered into exile by Lord Derall. He left without ever revealing his true reason for not fighting. Many years passed, Darell had left his job as mayor, and finally it was learned why Genkaku didnāt fight. Darell had secretly coated the sword he gave Genkaku with poison. Genkaku was ruined if he won or lost. If he lost, fine. If he was, Darell was planning to expel him for his Īevil crime.ā Genkaku detected the poison and couldnāt bring himself to swing his sword. And so· Genkakuās name was finally cleared, but he would never again return to the City-State. As for what happened after that·. well, you know better then I do.ä *end of spoiler* And thereās the story! Itās a long one, huh? Well, Nanami will be asleep when Viktorās done with the story, and the next morning sheāll wake you again. Save, then head to the Main Hall. Chat with Shu to be asked the question again, that is, do you want to lead the Army. Obviously, you have to join the army. If you refuse over and over again, the people standing around you will eventually all try and talk you into it, then it will just repeat. So, go ahead and agree, you have no choice, anyway. After you accept, Huan, the doctor you met in Muse will arrive and join the army. Nice, huh? I canāt blame him, of course. If my hometown had just been destroyed Iād go ahead and join to get some revenge, too. Well, enough about me, after he joins, youāll be asked to name the castle whatever you want. So, name it something good, because youāll be stuck with it for the rest of the game! I named mine Evermore Castle, after the Secret of Evermore. Hey, itās all I could think of, shut up! Then Leknaat will appear! Good olā Leknaat! Players of Suikoden 1 will understand the story behind her a bit better. Anyway, you may also remember Luc from Suikoden 1, well, Leknaat leaves him with you at your castle, so now you have one of the best magic Rune users in the game! Sure, he dies easily, but itās a small price to pay for his power. After all this is done, youāll wake up the next morning with Nanami screaming in your ear. You seemingly cant do anything, but leave the castle, and right before you go onto the world map, Fitcher, you may remember him from Muse, will run up and ask you if heās in North Window. ćNope, Youāre way off.ä (tell him heās wrong and heāll leave) ćThatās right.ä (heāll ask you a few more questions) Donāt say heās way off, just say that heās in North Window and everything will be fine. Heāll then ask about the great hero who defeated the Highland Army. ćHeās unbelievably cool.ä (put in good word for ćthe hero.ä) ćEh, heās nothing special.ä (just let him decide for himself, I supose) ćThe hero is me.ä (heāll say youāre joking and go off to talk to the ćrealä leader) It doesnāt matter what you say, of course. Once he runs off, head to the Main Hall to see him talking to Shu. He then, of course, finds out who you really are and grovels for forgiveness. See? Being leader isnāt so bad, is it? Heāll ask you to come to Two Rivers City to forge an alliance. Of course you want to, right? I mean, it Two Rivers City! Youāve never been there! And besides what else can you do? Nothing! So, say youāll go and letās get on with it, shall we? However, you need a captain to get your boat to Two Rivers. Before we go get one, however, weāre going to do a bit of recruiting! Yay! Now then, go to the bar and make a party of some sort and head over to South Window. When you enter, youāll see a shadowy figure to the left. This is Clive, you may remember him from Muse. He wonāt join you just yet, but soon. Go to the Inn/Bar and recruit Zamza, if you didnāt earlier in the game, you can now. Then go upstairs in the Inn and talk to Alex and Hilda. You went treasure hunting with Alex, if you remember. And Hilda, of course, is his wife that owned the White Deer Inn. Wellāp, three recruits so far! Not bad! Now leave the Inn and go right until the armor shop comes into view, then go all the way up to a house. A stupid inventor, that is sadly one of the 108 Stars, lives here. First, he asks for a Sacrificial Jizo. Bolgan has one equipped, unless youāve already used it. If not, give it to him, if you used it, run to Kuskus and check out the item storeās Rare Finds section. Go back to South Window and give it to him, and heāll ask for a Wooden Shield. Thankfully, they sell them at the armor store just a little ways away. Go pick one up and bring it back to Adlei, the inventor. From here, go to the Rune Masterās shop and buy a Wind Rune (5000p! Ouch!). Now take them to Adlei and give them to him. Be sure to pick ćThrow Wind Crystalä when the option appears, or youāll have to get him another Sacrificial Jizo. After you hit him in the head with it, he turns into a rather nice guy! In fact, he builds you an elevator in your castle! Sweetness! Well, now that youāre at your castle, go to the bar and make a party of all female characters and go to Kuskus. Just left of the entrance, there is an old woman down some stairs. Sheāll tell you about some meanies who beat women up for fun. Leave town, then go back in and go to the west side of town, across the big yellow bridge. The fellows are over there and start making remarks, etc. Then you get hit in the back of the head and knocked out. But Oulan, the person you came here to recruit, saves you. Tell her what she wants and ask her to join. Weāre actually not done. The most frustrating recruit in a large portion of the game is next. Go to the docks on the east side of Kuskus and talk to Tai Ho. He and his brother will be your boat captain if you win his freaking game again! But this time, if you lose, you OWE him money, so if you get into the minus numbers (i.e. -1000p), just start the game over. You could blow a lot of money on this, but it MUST be done! It MUST I say! So just keep trying and youāll eventually get lucky and win. A good method is to go and fight till you have about 5000p, then save at the Kuskus Inn. Then whenever Tai Ho cleans you out, just push Start, Select, R1, R2, L1 and L2 to reset the game and start at the Inn with all your cash, ready to play again. After youāve won, go back to your castle and go to the bar. Put Freed in your party, then leave the castle again and go to Radat, the town you got Shu in. Stallion, another Suikoden 1 character is in this town and if youāve successfully ran from 50 battles, heāll join. However, unless youāre insanely under-level and have ran from most of the battles youāve fought to this point, he probably wonāt join yet. Anyway, go down to see Richmond outside the Appraiserās store. Talk to him and ask him to join, heāll play a coin flip game. After youāve lost once, go to the bar and talk to the man directly left of the door inside. Heāll give you a new coin to use when playing the coin game. Go down to Richmond again and heāll see that heās been beaten, and will join. Now go directly right from where you are behind the large wall to find a woman hanging up laundry. This is actually Freedās wife, and after a long bit of talking, sheāll ask if she can join so she doesnāt have to be away from Freed. Of course itās alright with you, so after she joins, go back to the bridge where you had to search for the coin. Its time to visit your pal Amada! Amada wants to join, of course, but he still wants to decide it with another one-on-one battle. ^^^Dual Battle vs. Amada^^^ Attack Phrases Ok, first a little test· YOWCH!!!!! Nice one! My handās all numb! Ouch! I felt that one! Ouch!!! I definitely felt that one!!! Ouch! Pretty good! Ok, itās my turn next! Thinking the same thing, eh. Cāmon, letās go. Wild Attack Phrases That wonāt get us anywhere! Lets try this one on fer size!!!!! Argh!!! Iāll get ya next time!!!!! Iām just about ready to take the gloves off. Ok, here we go! Ok, itās my turn next! That was fun!!!!! Lets go again!!!! Ok, boy, here we go! Defend Phrases Ha ha, ok, first show me what youāve got, boy. Dammit!!!! I might lose this one!!!! Cāmon, now itās your turn. Damn! Dammit!!!! Gotta think!!!!! -After the Dual- Victory should come rather easily, and heāll join the army. Youāre actually still not done! One more person to recruit! Go across the rest of the bridge and youāll be back on the continent the game started on. The one with the old fort that Luca burnt down. From the bridge, go northeast, or up and left, until you reach the fort. Go on inside to meet Templeton, the mapmaker. Heās another Suikoden 1 character, back and ready to give you a map. Heāll run off after you talk to him at the fort, and heāll go to Toto Village, Pilikaās hometown, now in ruins. Head up to Toto to talk to him again and heāll join you for the sake of the difficulties all this town destroying is causing him and his mapmaking. Heāll then join the army AND give you a Suiko Map, a very usful item! Now go all the way back to the castle. Your recruiting is done for the time being, but youāll be getting Clive soon. Once youāre back at the castle, go see Shu in the main hall again. Since Amada will be in your party, he becomes your captain. Then Shu asks you to choose your remaining party members. Put Luc in, and kick Anita out. Fill her space with whomever youād like, and you donāt have to bring Oulan, but I did, sheās useful. Now that you have your party, go down to your docks (from your room go through the big door, down the stairs and into the next room, then through the door just right of the big stairs you just came off of) and on the left side of it, youāll see Amada preparing your boat. After he says his words, leave the castle and go to South Window to recruit Clive, replace who ever youād like, heās a good companion to have along.. While youāre here, go to the Rune Masterās shop and attach your Blue Gate Rune to Lucās head, and the Darkness Rune to whomever will accept it. Now stroll to Kuskus and go to the Blacksmiths. Sharpen your weapon, Nanamiās weapon, and whoever else is in your party, to level 6. But not Lucās weapon, he wonāt be attacking with his normal weapon too often. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-NEW PLACES, NEW FACES-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Now go back to the castle, get on your boat, and go to Lakewest. Its up and left from your castle, youāll se it on the map. Once youāre at Lakewest, Go to the house at the top left corner of town and inside youāll find Taki. Talk to her four times, then sheāll join you. Good start! Now leave Lakewest and follow the road directly west to Two Rivers City. As soon as you walk in, youāll be pick pocketed and all your potch will be taken, you wont get it back any time soon, either, so youāll have to deal with it! Go to the top of town and show your letter to the guards at the door to find out that the stupid thief you stole your cash also got the letter. -Catching Choco- Well, I myself hate this guy! Too bad he ends up joining your army· But anyway, this is a deceiving title, because you donāt actually catch him and get your money back. All you do is get chase him around for a bit, then get caught up in government business, then you chase him some more, etc. Iāll shut up now, lets just get on with it! Thereās a passage leading up to Chocoās village on the left side of town. You donāt walk on the world map at all, its just right above you. In fact, youāll see him run up to his village by it, so follow him! Once youāre there, the chase will began, so keep following him till he flyās away with your letter, and your money. Well, head back to Two River to find Fitcher about to get a· rather severe punishment for running off you find your castle and lying about you coming to their village. You can either stop the punishment, or stand back and watch him get lashed. Either way, you get to see Makai and chat a bit, then he send you to an Inn to get some rest. At the Inn, in your room, you find Choco waiting. After asking a couple more questions that go nowhere, he flyās off again. Go back downstairs to see Fitcher run up and tell you that Makai and Ridley are fighting about a reason unknown. Go to City Hall and head to Makaiās room to see whatās up. -Trouble in the Message Center- Well, city hall actually! When you arrive in Makaiās room youāll see him and an enragedRidley! Despite all efforts to calm Ridley, he storms out breaking the age-old alliance between Two Rivers and Kobold Village. To get to Kobold Village, go to the Wingerās Village and then through an exit at the top left corner of town and youāll be there. You wonāt be able to get through, though. So youāll have to think of another way· Well, start heading back and Fitcher, being the ćfeebä he is, gets pick pocketed by Choco! Of course, itās time to play the chasing game again! Youāll corner him again, but again, heāll escape, yet again, through a secret passage!! Follow him, but NOT far! The enemies in here are very tough and before you go too far into the sewers, I recommend you build your levels to 30, no less. Why? First, thereās a very hard boss in here that youāll need to be on level 30 for, and second, you need money. Youāll be killing two birds with one stone by building up here. Also, aside from leveling up and getting cash, the enemies here drop nice things (Land Sharks drop Guard Rings and Recipe #21ās, Sirens drop Banshee Runes and Mangoshs, etc.), I know it will take a long time, but do it because itās really for the best. Once youāre FINALLY at level 30, go rest, save, stock up on Medicine, and make any Rune adjustments youād like, but leave the Blue Gate Rune on Luc and buy a Water Rune and put it on the Hero... Now, head to the sewers! -Two River Sewers- Once you enter the main part of the sewers, youāll see a treasure on the other side of the water. If you didnāt get it while you were leveling up, go down and across the bridge and get it. Then go down and follow the path to another bridge, then go up for a Resurrection Rune, then turn around and take the bridge across to the other side. Donāt go crazy on using your Runes in during battles in here, attack regularly as much as you can. Anyway, go across the bridge, then left and down off the screen. Keep following the path off the screen again, and· Well· Just keep following it! Itās just one long path! Youāll find a Healing Wind Scroll on the way, then youāll reach a fork in the road. Take the path leading up and get the Fire Emblem and the Stone of Defense, and go back to the fork and take the other path. Just keep moving along and youāll come to a save point! Heal, save, and go through the door ahead of you. Youāll then be in a dark hall. Keep walking up and youāll be attacked by the Pest Rat. ===Beating the Pest Rat=== This boss is quite hard indeed, but he should be very bearable as long as you have a high level. It has 5200 HP, attacks twice a turn and all his attacks hurt! But, you have the Hero armed with his normal Rune AND a Water Rune, so youāll be able to take on anything coming your way. Further more, you have tons of Medicine (donāt you?), so the odds are totally in your favor. First, have the Hero use his Water Rune and use the Protect Mist spell. Also, unite attack with Nanami, or heal, whichever is needed. Then have him attack or heal while Nanami is unbalanced. Have Oulan open the fight by using her Rune, the attack or heal with Medicine. Have Luc drain his Blue Gate Rune. Use everything except Empty World ö you shouldnāt need to take such drastic measures. Have Clive use Scrolls and attack or heal. With that strategy, you should be fine! -After the Pest Rat- Go back and save, of course, then continue to the exit of the sewers. Youāll be right in Kobold Village! Ridley runs up to say hi, then after getting very mad, heāll tell you what happened. You see, it seems someone was hanging around the village the night before, and one of Ridleyās men saw him. The strange guy got away, but he dropped a secret peace treaty between Two River and Highland. Normally, this would be alright, but Ridley doesnāt like the fact that the treaty also signs the Kobolds over to Highland. Thatās why all this is going on. He then says he can no longer trust humans. ćI understand.ä (be a good hearted young man and let it be) ćThatās what the enemy wants!!!!!ä (I like this one as to you get to sound like a real leader who knows what heās doing!) Ridley throws you out again, and youāre at another brick wall as of what to do. Head back to the town of Two River to see Makai and the towns people chatting with Kiba and Klaus, Kiba being a famous Highland General and Klaus being his military strategy genius son. After the people are done talking, Kiba and everyone leaves, and Fitcher asks Makai whatās going on. Then Choco appears again and yells out some more human hating stuff, and runs off. Go to the Inn and go upstairs to see a guy in one of the rooms. Talk to him and tell him to go to your castle and that it wonāt cost him anything and heāll join the army as the castle Armor shop. Now rest at the Inn and save, then go to Makaiās place to talk about this Ītreaty.ā When youāre there, Makai basically says that heās going to join up with Highland, destroy your army, the Kobolds and the Wingers. In any case, heās not planning on joining forces with you. He tells you to stay at the New Leaf Inn before you head out, because Highland is at large. Once outside, Choco will dash up and tell you his grandmother wants to mean you, and then Fitcher will spring upon you the fact that he sent a letter to Shu sending for reinforcements! Surprise!! Well, itās time to meat granny, so go to the Wingerās village again. Choco will show you the way to his house, and granny will talk for a while, telling you her thoughts on everything thatās been going on, and will give you a history of the wingers.When youāre ready to go, youāll see Choco yet again, and heāll just tell you that he still doesnāt like you and he wonāt give you your wallet! Nice guy, for real. Go back to the Inn to rest and save, and in the morning Kiba arrives. The only difference is that he has his army with him· As soon as theyāve talked, the battle begins and people start dying left and right! From here, run over to Kobold Village and try to get Ridley to join again. At first, he still wonāt, but then he comes to his senses and helps in the fight. Not only that, but the Wingers drop in (hee hee, I made a pun) and start helping out. Furthermore, your army arrives and this leaves Highland surrounded. Then they retreat and you have won the battle! YES!!! On the Highlandās side, you see Solon Jhee saying his last words in his defense before Luca Blight cuts his head off, and Jowy steps up for a try. He makes a very strange offer to Luca, and a seemingly impossible one, but as we shall see, heās all but able to get any sort of job done· Anyway, the next morning, youāll be informed that Shu is there to see you. Go to the assembly hall to talk to him, and when youāre done there, go to Kobold village. At the Item shop, buy a Fried Taco or two, then just start heading back to your castle. On the way out Choco will ask to join, so recruit him even if you donāt want to, which you probably wonāt! In Lakewest, have the Hero eat all the Fried Tacos. If you see steam coming off him, heās Ītoasty.ā In a house at the upper part of the village, thereās a guy who builds baths. Talk to him while youāre toasty and heāll join you! When youāre finally home again, go save at the crystal right outside the main hall, then go into the main hall to speak with Shu. Heāll bring up a new problem, but says he wont tell you till tomorrow. Well, you wake up the next day in your new room! Finally! You actually may want to explore your castle before talking to Shu again, itās been improved by a long shot. Also, go outside and over to the rightmost side of the castle. Go up and through the big door (the one you used when you entered the castle to fight Neclord). Now, go around the water supply and through the door. In the next room, youāll see your new bath! Take one if youād like! After youāre done, go through the door on the right side of the room. Go through the door just to the right. Youāll be in a big empty room. Go down and through one of the doors at the bottom of the room to see a guy named Hai Ho talking to one of your men. Heāll insist on joining your army! Join him and heāll turn the balcony and the big empty room into a totally nifty restaurant!!! YEAH!!! Now, go back and save again and go talk to Shu, heāll tell you about Greenhill City, and how forming an alliance with them would be a huge help. He then tells you his plan to send you, and four other young people into the school as students so you could form one. He tells Flik to go along, and then you have three people to choose from, cause Nanamiās coming along. Iām taking Luc, Choco (you should take him too. He allows you to recruit someone on the way) and Gengen! Now that youāre leaving, head to the boat docks! _-_-_-_-_-_-_-NEW PLACES, NEW FACES (PART 2)-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Go to Lakewest, you have to go through here to get to Greenhill. Before you leave Lakewest though, go to the Inn and speak with Hix and Tengaar in the corner. Both of these people were in Suikoden 1, by the way, and happen to notice Flik! After a bit of chatting, they run off. Bid farewell to them for now and continue on to Greenhill, which is past Kobold village to the west, then north and west. Youāll see it, believe me. Head on in to see Fitcher at the entrance. He tells you a few things, then tells you to come up with some fake names. You can temporarily name yourself anything! So, after coming up with a new name, you get to name Nanami, too. It, of course, doesnāt matter what you name anyone. So, do what you feel and head up to the front gate. Thanks to Flikās really great and smooth speaking skills, you get through unhurt. You might as well save at the Inn, and rest if you need to. Go, run up the center path and youāll soon see a solder and a young girl in a fight. Well, Flik saves her, and she gets an instant crush on him, but of course, we all know that Flik still loves his old friend Odessa, who died four years earlier. Because of this, he wonāt let himself get with anyone else. A sad tale indeed· Anyway, After this whole thing is over, go up and into the big building and talk to Emilia behind the desk. After enrolling you, sheāll run off. Run after her and talk to her again, and sheāll pretty much give you a big run down of the locations of everything. Then Shin will walk by, heās rather important. Now go talk to Emilia again and tell her sheās pretty, but only once. Now go outside to se Nina talking to her friends about Flik! Whew, sheās totally lost it· Now she drags him off. To where? No one knows. Now go rest in your dorm, itās the one on the left side of the school. Sheāll tell you where your rooms are, but for some reason she tells you in a very confusing way. Here are easier directions: Ho up the stairs on the left side of the room, then at the top of the stairs make a U turn and youāll be at your rooms. Now, if she makes THAT sound confusing, Iād hate to here her explain anything else. You can keep looking around and exploring if youād like, but there isnāt much reason to. After dinner, youāll go back to your rooms and Nina will walk up, judge Nanami (is it just me or are those fake names not working too well?), and youāll go to bed. In the morning, youāll here that kick ass morning time music again, then go outside the dorm to se Flik. He tells you about Shin, and how heās been following him. He says that he thinks Shin has something to do with Teresa. But before anything else can be said, Nina spots him and heās forced to run off. Youāll see Emilia near the exit of the campus and sheāll tell you a few things you knew already. All the while, hinting for you to go into town. So, do what she says! Go into town and go to the Inn to see some crazy stuff going on involving Teresa, the Inn, the owners of the Inn, and Highland Solders. So, do you give up? Well, it seems the solders have a crazy idea Teresa is hiding at the Inn!! Silly guys. Youāll also see Rowd again· Great· Anyway, Shin walks up and says a few things, and after everyone is gone, he says a few more things to the owners of the Inn, apologizing and the like. Now as he walks off, try to tail him, but by the time you reach the school youāll see that youāve lost him. Go talk to Emilia and ask her about Shin. By doing this you can have a fun little conversation with her. End up telling her that youāre the leader of (insert name here) Army, and sheāll wish you luck and tell you sheāll help you if she can. Actually, what youāve just done is recruited her. She wonāt actually go to your castle and join, however, until this whole ordeal is over with. Go back to the dorms, rest, have dinner, and youāll be back where you started! That is, at your room. Nina will ask about Flikās favorite food, then mention ghosts in the dorms. Now, youād think that after living through something like stealing a castle from a vampire, Nanami would be ok with this. But, she gets totally freaked out! You can entertain this idea, or make her feel better, whichever youād like. -Getting Closer- Well, the next day you go outside the dorms to see nothing interesting or out of the ordinary, which, judging from your stay here so far, is strange. Go into the school and head left to see Nina hiding out in the corner. She tells Nanami about shadows in the dorms at night and completely restarts the whole ghost thing. Then goes on to tell Nanami that Flik told her that he has someone he loves who is always with him. Of course, heās talking about Odessa, but Nina doesnāt know that! Incidentally, Nanami doesnāt either. She then walks off again. Walk back outside to find Flik, he assures Nanami that heās not into kids. Now head to town to find Fitcher about to be beat up by the locals! Flik saves him using a rather entertaining plan of his, then he tells you about the person who took Greenhill, even though he doesnāt know who it is. Now is a good time to save since you havenāt in a while, and tonight something different and interesting will happen. On the way back to the dorms, Nina stops you and Flik just puts it in your hands and then runs off. Nina, of course, takes off after him. Go back to the dorms now and eat dinner, and Nina will, yet again, stop you on the way back to your rooms. You manage to get away, however, and go to bed. That night, youāll be woken up by Nanami, who heard something. Sheāll tell you to go see what it is, then as you walk away sheāll join your party. This is just a big game of hide and seek, really. Just keep chasing the shadowy figure until you chase it into the room on the bottom of the dorm building. When you see the thing is gone, light the unlit light on the wall to open a secret door, and continue on. Once youāre through the little passage, youāll be in the school. Follow the shadowy guy all the way left and youāll find out that the person you were following the whole time was Flik, who was following Shin. Heāll then join your party ö be sure to put him in the front row! Now keep going to find another dead-end. The door is open by examining the statue, of course. Head through the door to enter the forest. Thereās only one treasure to get at this time, and that is the Protection Mist Scroll. The way you get it is when you come to a fork, go right to find it. Thatās all you need to know. Other then that, itās a strait path. Once you reach the end, youāll see a cabin off in the distance. Shin then walks up and is very close to trying to kill you all, then Teresa steps up. She invites you inside, and explains how Highland managed to take Greenhill. Itās pretty cool, really. You see, the solders of Muse were released and they came to Greenhill. Then Highland gave all the weapons and armor they took from the solders back. After this happened, the Highland army appeared and all the solders got prepared to fight them. Even though Highland was right at Greenhillās front door, they never made a move, and the food supply of Greenhill dropped because of all the new solders. Over time, the solders and the citizens were fighting over the remaining bits of food, and then everyone realized the real reason Highland returned the solders and weapons ö to take Greenhill without even fighting. And so, Teresa finishes her story and tells you to leave. Shin seconds that and you have no choice but to head back and pack your bags because. The next day, while listening to that cool morning music, you begin to leave, but donāt quite make it because there is a ceremony being help for the guy who took Greenhill. Of course, you must know that this person is Jowy, but if you didnāt know, the person is Jowy. After becoming very close to being captured, Fitcher gets you out of it and you run. Head up to the secret passage you took last night and run to the cabin. By the way, you can sometimes get a Scale Mail from the solders, and that should help you out since itās very strong armor. One you reach the cabin, youāll see Nina, Shin and Teresa there. Teresa, being the insecure girl she is has decided to give up and turn herself in. She leaves and Nina runs after her. Now you have to run all the way back to the entrance of the school to see her telling Rowd about her giving up. Shin has other plans, then you run up to give him a hand. After a couple fights, Nina runs up and, with the help with a few other people, convince Teresa to try and live. Now you have to run back to that cabin again, where Rowd will appear and Shin will stay behind to stall him while you make a run for it. Now youāre in a new section of the forest. At the first fork, go down to find some Tow Shoes, then backtrack and keep going to another fork. Go up to find a Silver Hat, and continue along and youāll come to a fork going the other way. Make a U turn to find a Chimera Rune, and then keep following the path to find Jowy yet again. Heāll tell you about his secret plan against Highland and tells you to give up on your army and run away. You end up dragging Nanami off screaming. Just run down a bit more to the exit of the forest, then youāll see a cut scene with Jowy and Rowd. Rowd is threatening Jowy about letting people sneak by, but then Culgan and Seed back Jowy up and Rowd lets him off the hook. You now find yourself back on the world map. Before going to Two River, go to the Muse border and recruit Meg and her robot Gadget. Now head to Two River and go into the last house in the Kobold Village here. Gengenās old friend Gobocha is here and he follows you out after you leave. Sneaky kid. Now go to the human section of Two River and recruit Jeane from the Rune shop. Now go rest and save at the Inn, and now head to the other Kobold village. You should see Hix and Tengaar here, if you donāt, I donāt know whatās up. But you should see them right when you walk in. Afterword, be sure to save at the Inn, then head to the elderās house. -Old Associates- Youāll see them outside, then theyāll go inside and by the time you walk in, theyāll be done telling their story. The elder notices you, then Tengaar mentions the Warriorās Village, which youāll remember from Suikoden 1. Once the elder hears that, the scene cuts to you and Hix having a man to man kinda talk. No matter what you say to him, if I remember right, heāll say the same thing. So donāt worry about it. The next morning, you find Hix screaming his head off over Tengaar, whoās pretending to be cursed by a Unicorn. The elder plays along and this motivates Hix to go on the Unicorn Quest. Heāll join you and you have to make someone leave your party to make room for him. If you have Luc, go ahead and send him along, and then head to South Window! Along the way, stop in Lakewest and save at the Inn, then talk to the guy with yellow hair. Heāll challenge you to a game. You might remember how annoying this was with Tai Ho, but you have to do it again. Once you win, heāll join! Now head to South Window, but donāt stop in the main hall of your castle along the way or else youāll progress in the game, and we just donāt want that quite yet, but you can empty that pesky suggestion box if youād like. Also notice that your castle looks a heck of a lot nicer on the world map now, because itās getting bigger all the time. Go right to South Window and at the item shop theyāll sell you the Blue Stone for only 30p. Once you have it, go back to and show it to the elder, and heāll tell you about the Red Flower, which is in the Cave of the Wind, so go to the Cave of the Wind and youāll see the flower right inside. After this, go back and talk to the elder. Now, once he tells you where the Green Bell is, go to the Two River sewers. But on the way, right after you go down the first ladder in the sewers next to the small waterfall, go directly left to find a hidden room where Chacoās brother lives. Be sure you have Chaco in your party and heāll join you. Now continue through the sewers to find the bell. Itās not hard to find. Once you have it, leave the sewers and go back to Kobold Village to talk to the elder again. Heāll tell you that Tengaar has left for the Unicorn Forest. Go save, then enter the forest on the top of down. -The Unicorn Forest- Run strait up for a little bit, and when you reach a fork, go right to find a Necklace. Now go back and take the other path, and go left when you can. Now go down to find another Necklace, now run strait up and follow this path till you reach a path leading up. Take it to find another Necklace! Now go back to the main path you were just on and go right a little bit into the next screen. Follow this path to the next screen, and now youāll come to a fork again. Take the upper path to find yet another freaking Necklace, and then go back and take the other path. Follow this path for a while and youāll come to Tengaar. Sheāll fill you in that this was just a test, thereās no such thing as the Unicorn Quest. It is then a Unicorn steps out of the bushes! Now, did you expect that? I donāt think so!!! Anyway, he Hix ends up standing up to the Unicorn and you all go back to the village. As thanks for your help, Hix and Tengaar join your army. By the way, if I havenāt mentioned this yet, the Kobold on the right side of the elderās house gives you a new recipe. When you leave the house, keep an eye out for a small girl named Yuzu you will now appear in the town. Recruit her and youāll have someone to look over your farm animals when you get some. Of course, she has lost three, and you have to find them for her in the forest. The first one is right up ahead, the second one is right up next to where the first one was. The third one? Well, itās also where the other two were, now you can officially recruit her. Be sure to rest and save now, and head, at last, back home. -Home Again- Well, once youāre back at your castle, save, and also you can compete in a cooking contest for the first time at the restaurant. Head to the main hall and talk to Shu (man, Teresa must be glad to stay put for a while. Sheās been traveling with you through all those side quests and everything!). Once sheās about to walk off and think, Shin walks in with Fitcher, cool guy. The Nina will run up! Yay! Shu will then send you to bed, and for some reason, you wake up in your room. Go to bed to go to a cut scene with Jowy being talked to by Blight. Jowy now sort of has Blightās approval, which is impressive, and then Jowy asks to marry Lucaās sister, Jillia. Silly boy, silly boy indeed. Luca, not being really happy about this, is about to kill Jowy when Jowy mentions an idea. After which, the cut scene ends and you wake up the next morning. Go back to the main hall now to see Shu, and heāll tell you about Matilda, and how he thinks you should form an alliance with them. Make your party and be sure theyāre strong, since youāll be fighting some pretty· *ahem*· tough baddies on this little mission. As far as recruiting goes now, its pretty slim. If youāve been running from a lot of battles (50 to be exact), you can recruit Stallion from Radat. Go pick him up if you think you can. If you DO go to Radat, be sure to buy the pig that the little kid is selling on the side of the road and give it to Yuzu when you get back to the castle! Thatās about it, but youāll be getting several more recruits during this Matilda mission! So, after youāve gotten Stallion, if you did, go to your docks and head to Lakewest (by the way, thereās a baby chick on the beach of Lakewest, so be sure to take it). From there head to Two River, and from Two River go north, then way, way, way northwest at the fork to the Forest Village. Talk to Wakaba in front of one of the houses here and heāll ask if you know of any strong people. ćWhat about me?ä (Youāll get to show off a little and then heāll join you) ćI dunno·ä (Heāll say thanks anyway and continue his search) How Ībout that guy·ä (Heāll run off happily, but if you exit and enter the town again heāll still be in the same spot, and still searching) Once youāve recruited him, heāll mention that his master might have headed to Matilda. Isnāt that nice? Youāre just on your way there! From where youāre standing, keep going up for a while to find a guy selling a sheep for 4000p, buy it and then go to the elderās house. Youāll find Tony in the back room of this house, so invite him to your castle. Heāll say he canāt go, but then the elder will convince him to join you. On your way out, talk to the elder again for some seeds, which youāll need so Tony can grow some food and stuff. Now then, be sure to check out the Rare Finds section of the Armor Shop! Really nice stuff! Now walk across the map to the other side of the Greenhill region. The Checkpoint you want to go is the north-most one. Once youāre there, go into the forest. This is pretty strait forward, you wonāt have any trouble. On the way youāll see a big Indian guy who wonāt join you now, but will soon enough. When you reach a place to turn right, follow that path to find a Guard Ring and continue till you come to another fork. First, take the left path for a Mega Medicine, then the top right path for some Dragon Armor, and then go back to the lower right path. While walking along here, Viki will transport right in front of you! RECRUIT HER!!!! Sheāll teleport you to any town youāve already visited! Outstandingly useful! Recruit her!! Ok, Iām done with my outburst. After youāve recruited her, keep going on to the Matilda Kingdom. Once youāre there, youāll be forced to see the king of Matilda, Gorudo. You might remember him from· awe· who cares about where you last saw him! After he insults you, he tosses you into your room for the day. Go to sleep, and during the night Leknaat will appear in your room and will talk to you about your destiny and such, then the next morning, go upstairs to see everyone running around. Youāll see that Highland is at the border! Wow! Surprise, surprise!! You can either go to battle, or watch. You donāt have your whole army with you, and not much becomes of the battle, so it may be a good idea to just watch. Gorudo orders his knights to let the refugees be killed by Highland, and that does make Miklotov happy. After everyone has died, Miklotov and Camus walk off angrily, you should follow them outside. Miklotov says heās going to Muse to see whatās going on, and after he goes off, Camus asks you to follow him and help him out. You now can explore the town freely for the first time. However, there isnāt here right now, except some good armor and Runes. Rest and save at the Inn, then leave town. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-RETURN TO MUSE-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ From Rockaxe, go southeast and youāll go through a small village called the Highway Village. Youāll be doing more stuff here in a bit, but for now, go through the village and southeast some more to the border. Youāll find Miklotov here, and heāll join you. If you want, you can put him in your convoy so you wonāt have to send any of your other party members away. After he joins, head south from the border down to Muse, and youāll get to see all of Museās people get eaten by a giant demon dog, namely the Beast Rune. After this, go into Muse and head to the top left corner of town, and youāll be attacked and ran off by solders! Now go back to the Highway Village for a new opportunity to recruit two more people. First, go to the Inn to see Futch run by in a hurry, then walk up a bit more to see Humphery standing facing the wall. After a bit of him talking to an Inn employee, walk up and talk to him and youāll see a cut scene with Futch and Kent. By the way, you might remember from Suikoden 1 how after Futchās dragon died, Humphery was supposed to take care of him. And here they are now, isnāt that nice? Anyway, Futch will tell Kent that he once was a Dragon Knight, and how if he ever got another dragon heād take Kent for a ride. Once you can talk to Humphery again, you can say whatever youād like I think. I donāt think what you say matters, but anyway, heāll say talking to you was nice and walk away. Then the Innkeeper will give you a room. So, the next morning, you can thank him if you want, but either way go outside to see Kent talking to some other guy. The other guy will tell him about rumors of a dragon on a mountain to the north, and Kent, wanting a ride on a dragon, decides to go see if he can catch the thing. Oh, by the way, thereās a cow next to the Inn for sale that you can buy! Ok, back to the story, go inform Humphery of Kentās running off and Futch will run off to a room. Talk to the Innkeeper again to stay for the night, and the next morning youāll learn that Kent still isnāt back. Humphery and Futch will decide to go save him, and now you should go with them. So, after theyāve joined you (Leave Wakaba in your party), save at the Inn and buy some supplies if youāre short on them. Now leave town and head north for a while till you finally reach the mountain. -Ratukei Mountain- When you arrive, youāll see a bunch of fog and mist, but Futchās dragon scale gets rid of it and now you can continue. Go up for a couple screens to come to a fork, then go left to find a Fur Cape, then go back to the fork and go right. Thereās another small side path here off to the right, which has a Run Lightning Card on it. In the next screen youāll be at another fork, go right for a ways to find a Thunder Amulet, then go back to the fork and go left. After going onto the next screen youāll be at another fork. Go left for a Stone of Power, then go back and head right, into the next screen. Now youāll be in a maze-like area. Go up and all the way right for 2000p, then down and all the way right for the Unicorn Plans 2 (youāll want these). Now go back and up at the first path you come to and go right into the next screen for a Skill Ring, then head back into the last screen and go up and all the way left for the Dragon Plans 2 (youāll also want these). Now go all the way right for a Medicine Rune, and then take that path right below you to the next screen. Now simply follow this path for a bit to a save point, so be sure to save. Then head on up a little more to your boss, Harpy! ===Beating Harpy=== There are a couple rules of this battle. 1. It was 7400HP. 2. Attacks twice every round. 3. Has about four attacks. 4. Will always be hard, no matter how you fight, with what party, or what strategy. Now then, I donāt have that much to say about this battle except it IS one of the hardest in the game and youāll have to use everything you might have handy to win. Its attacks may take as much as 200HP out of you at a time! Good luck! -After Harpy- Kent will wake up and youāll chat with him for a little bit about how stupid he was for coming here alone. Heāll say he heard a dragon, and after tons of talking into, Futch agrees to go see if thereās a dragon up ahead. You might want to save now, since you just beat Harpy, then continue up to the next screen. A little ways up on the next screen, youāll see a dragon egg! Yay!! Anyway, Kent is very excited about it and begs Futch to take it a raise it. Humphery is also a bit pleased. But Futch, finally after all this time, breaks down and tells everyone that he doesnāt want another dragon. He only wanted Black, and Black is gone, heās done with dragons. Humphery will then take his sword and when heās about to break the egg, it hatches, and that makes Futch want to take care of it, and he names it Bright. After this, Humphery wants to repay you. Ask him to fight with you so that heāll join you. Now, rest and save and go back to Rockaxe. Thereās still nothing to do here, so go to the castle to see Camus again. Then Miklotov runs off to see Gorudo. When Gorudo doesnāt let Miklotov take the army to Muse, he throws his Knighthood away by breaking his oath. Camus walks in, and when Gorudo tells him to arrest Miklotov, Camus breaks the oath also and steps down as a knight captain. They both join you, of course, and the other knights in the room all do the same. So now is your queue to run again. Once youāre back at the border, everyone will meet you there, including Shu. And youāll appear right in your castle. Talk to Shu in the Main Hall and heāll pretty much say that you should rest tonight because thereās going to be a battle tomorrow, and then itāll be nighttime. There isnāt much you can do since guards block off most of the doors in the castle, so go see Pilika, whoās waiting in your room, and after this youāll go to bed. Youāll see a cut scene with Jowy and Blight, and theyāll talk a little bit more about his Īidea.ā Youāll also find out that Jowy is getting married at this point. Yay!! In the morning, go meet up with Nanami is front of the Main Hall, then go inside. Shu will tell you that Highland has just taken Radat. Surprise! Viktor will talk Shu into letting you guys go down there and checking it out. So, make yourself a party at the bar and go to Radat. By the way, you can teleport there now by talking to Viki, who is in the same room as Luc, who is guarding the stone plate with all the names of the people youāve recruited so far. You should know where that is by now. Once youāre in Radat, check out the town. It doesnāt take long to see that Kiba and Klaus are the people who took Radat (wow, what a huge accomplishment that was). Now you should get the heck out of there and head back to the castle. Save, then talk to Shu again. Now another Major Battle will take place. |||MAJOR BATTLE: KIBA AND KLAUS||| This will be another incomplete fight, but you shouldnāt just screw around either. Right after the fight starts, Ridley will ask a question about the troop deployment, but Shu wonāt give a good answer. After a few more rounds, Ridley will take his men and leave. Figures, of course, I canāt say I wouldnāt have done the same thing. After this, youāll soon relies you canāt win, and you retreat. -After the Battle- Well, after a bit of talking, Shu tell you to get some rest. First things first, though. Save! Now go to your room and Eilie will be there to say a few uplifting things, then sheāll let you go to bed. Youāll then see another cut scene of Jowy, the king, Jillia, and Luca. Jillia will accept to marry Jowy and Jowy will cut himself as proof of his loyalty. He then pours his blood into a glass for the king to drink. The king does so, then dies because Jowy had been drinking an Antitoxin everyday and poisoning his blood just for this event. He then passes out, but services nonetheless. The next morning, go to the Main Hall. Apple will tell you that Kibaās heading for your castle for a frontal attack. Youāll be going to war again in a moment, so if youāve done anything special lately you should save beforehand. Once youāre ready, deploy your troops and get on with it! |||MAJOR BATTLE: LAST FIGHT WITH KIBA AND KLAUS||| The first bit of this battle is pretty much strait forward. Just wait for them to get close to you, and then the other units will ambush them. This is when it starts getting a bit exciting. You'll watch as the enemy ignores the ambush and continues going for your main unit. Of course, this shakes your army up a bit, but they can still fight, so defend yourself as good as you can. Youāll then have a pleasant surprise when Ridley and his troops attack Kiba and Klaus from the back. Now, go ahead and attack them like you really mean it! Youāll have to hang in there for a while longer though, until the forth company will get an order from Luca to get outta there. The 4th retreats and leaves Kiba and Klaus there to die, and they get captured. -After the Major Battle- Youāll be back at the castle and Kiba and Klaus will be taken to you. RECRUIT them, donāt kill them even though you may want to. After you tell them to join you a couple times, they will and youāll have an even better army then you did before. Now, isnāt peace good? The next day, save again and then go outside to the entrance of the town. Youāll see Sheena there and heāll run off to hang out with the Suikoden 1 crew. Now go to the Main Hall. Apple will pretty much tell you that Highland has 75ā000 solders coming to visit your castle, and you command 25ā000. Matilda wonāt change its mind, Tinto is doing weird things that no one knows about, Greenhill was taken by Highland, etc. You have no where else to turn to, and this might just be the end of the line. *gasp* Perhaps not! At this point Sheena walks through the door and invites you to come to Gregminster, the capital of the Toran republic. This town will sound very familiar and refreshing to the ear if you played Suikoden 1. It turns out that the hero from the first Suikoden wasnāt president for very long. He left after a while and now Lepant is the prez. Lepant is, as a matter of fact, Sheenaās dad. So, with that, Freed and Sheena join you. On the way out, Freed asks if you can stop in South Window on the way there, why not? Go to the bar and fill the rest of your party, then head for South Window. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-THE TORAN REPUBLIC-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ In South Window, go to city hall to here Freed say some touching words, then go to Radat. Head to the dam again, and on the far side of it youāll see a path leading down. Go down the path and take the stairs to find a man whoāll give you a lift to Banner. Yay! When youāre in Banner, rest and save before you leave, then head out through that top path. -Banner Pass- Go up and youāll reach a fork, take the top path to find a Mega Medicine and then beack track to the main path and keep going. Youāll reach another fork in the next screen, take the top path for a Full Helmet and continue to the next screen. Youāll now be at the bottom of a cliff. Go up the left ladder for a Stone of Luck, then go back down and head up the right ladder. Now take the left ladder up here, and go down the ladder on the other side of this cliff to find a Magic Ring. Now go back to the platform you got to this one from and take the upper ladder, which leads to a Wing Ornament. Now go back to the first platform with two ladders on it and take the right ladder to find a Poison Rune and head up the next ladder from here, then head into the next screen. Now follow this path for a while till you come to a save point and three paths. The top path goes to a Silver Shield while the bottom takes you to a Silverlet. Save if you want, then take the center path and fight the big worm boss. ===Beating the Worm Thing=== This shouldnāt be much of a fight, really. This thing has 4200HP, but only attacks once a turn and only has about two attacks. Just use a few strong Runes, unite attacks and normal attacks and itāll be done with. Pretty pathetic· But Konami was probably just getting your confidence up before your next boss fight, which isnāt far off. Anyway· -After the Worm Thingy- Continue up and follow this path to the checkpoint. After a bit of trouble, youāre taken to Gregminster! Yeah! You appear in the castle, at the exact place the first Suikoden started. After a little waiting, youāll get to see Lepant. Heāll tell you about the hero you founded Toran and say you remind him of the hero. Then heāll agree to send you some help. Heāll let you choose between two people to lead the help heās sending along. I like Kasumi a lot more then Valeria, but it was the other way around in Suikoden 1. Go figure. But I myself picked Kasumi, if it helps with your choice any. Sheās a better fighter if you ask me, and also lets you get into the secret village of Rokkaku a bit earlier then you normally would. After this, Lepant gives you the Blinking Mirror, which is the coolest item in the game. Teamed up with Vikiās teleport moves, you can get anywhere and back super fast. Youāll appear back at the checkpoint, but talk to Varkas and go back to Gregminster real quick. You can see a bit more of the castle. Go to Krazeās old office to see that they made it into a tribute room to the hero from Suikoden 1. Search the bookshelf in this room for Old Book Vol. 7. You can go see the old heroās house, and go to the Inn. At the Inn on the second floor, talk to Sarah. Sheāll give you the Cyclone Rune. For right now, thatās about all you can do here. So talk to Varkas again and go back across Banner Pass. Two screens past the save point in Banner Pass, walk along the lower tree line to find a secret passage leading to Rokkaku. It wonāt do you much good going there now, though. Once youāre through the Pass, youāll see Apple and Ridley at the exit and theyāll zap you back to the castle. Go to the Main Hall to hear that youāre still outnumbered, but no oneās worrying. Then youāll be zapped to nighttime. Chat with Nanami, then go on to sleep. Youāll then be blessed with another cut scene with Jowy. Youāll hear a little bit of their strategy now, but nothing more. The next morning, go to the Main Hall. Youāll be interrupted with news that Ridley has been ambushed near Radat and needs help. If you want to save, you can have him wait a minute. If not, go ahead and get started. |||MAJOR BATTLE: AMBUSH||| You only need to survive one round until back up arrives. Unless you take some REALLY hard hits, that shouldnāt be too hard. Once the rest of your army is there, send them down to get Ridley out of trouble by taking out the surrounding units. While youāre doing that, though, Luca himself and his company arrives, making the battle a lot tougher. His unit is pretty much impossible to beat, so try to stay away from it· if you can. Well, you might win. But youāll probably end up losing Ridleyās unit. Itās alright tough, heās not a puppy. He can take care of himself. Heās taken in front of Luca and Luca tries to talk him into a little deal. But Ridley refuses· what a nice guy, huh? -After the Major Battle- Shu tells everyone to rest again. You should now save, make a party of your best characters, the ones you plan on using for Luca, that is, and head over to Kuskus and sharpen their weapons. You may also want to go see Hans and buy THE BEST armor for EVERYONE in your fighting party. If you have the patience and the time, you can build your levels to 42 or so, of course, you probably wonāt pull this off. So powerful weapons and armor are your best bet, Iām afraid. You have a few last minute things to do before the big fight. -Recruit #1- Go up to your room (your castle should be at level three now, so your room is actually on the 5th floor) and Tsai should come and see you. Heāll ask if he can speak to you. ćYes.ä (let him say what he wants, you should do this) ćIām busy.ä (heāll simply walk away. You shouldnāt do this) Heāll tell you that he left some tools at his house, so before going to bed, go to the bar and put him in your party and teleport to Ryube. Youāll see that some survivors of the massacre that took place earlier have come back, but the village is still burned to the ground. Head up the path on the top right of the village and follow this path up and take a left at the fork. Now just follow this path all the way up to Tsaiās house. Heāll see his child, Tomo there. Sheāll force you to let her join the army, even though Tsai doesnāt want her to. For some reason, Tsai doesnāt take his tools· Oh well. Now you can go back to your castle, but DONāT go to bed just yet. You have a few people to recruit (since your castle is level 3, and it SHOULD be by now. You can tell that itās level 3 by the huge additions added on to it. The 5th floor, the Dojo, the watchtower, etc. If itās not, level 3, it will be soon, so just skip this section and save it for later), so go put Tsai out of your party, and put Shiro the dog in his place. -Recruit #2- Head to the Forest Path, you know the place that connects the Greenhill region to Matilda. Talk to the big Indian guy there, who not only will join you, but also gives you two Listening Crystals. -Recruit #3- Now go back to your castle and put Kasumi is your party and go to the Kobold Village (the one called Kobold Village on the teleport menu, not the Kobold section of Two River) and go into the forest where you saw the Unicorn and Hix became a warrior. Walk up to the tree and Sigfried, the same Unicorn, will appear, thanks to the Listening Crystal. Tell Kasumi to say ćYesä when Sigfried asked her is she wants him to join, and heāll join. -Recruit #4 & 5- Now go back to the castle and teleport to Banner Path, the place that connects the State to Toran. In the screen after the cliffs, walk along the lower wall to find a secret passage leading to Rokkaku, the town of ninjas. Upon entering, youāll be arrested, but now that your castle is level 3 and Kasumi is with you, she steps out and speaks in your behalf (if you try to come here when the castle is level 2, youāll be arrested and thrown out even if Kasumi is with you). Hanzo will send Mondo and Sasuke to go with you, but Sasuke will run off before he joins. Mondo joins right then and there, however. Go outside the small building youāre in and walk through the town to see Sasuke in front of a house. Talk to him again and Kasumi will talk him into joining you. If you get rid of Kasumi, youāll have to go back to the castle, put her in your party, go back to Rokkaku, and then talk to him. So donāt get rid of Kasumi till you get home. I know that because it happened to me. Very annoying indeed. While youāre here, buy a Gold Bar from the trade center. -Done- All righty then! Head back to the castle! Once youāre back, you can take Kasumi out of your party, but take her Bolt of Wrath Scrolls first. They should be a bit useful. Now put whoever youāre planning to use on Luca in your party, and equip someone with the Bolt of Wrath Scrolls. Now save, save, save!!! Finally, you can go to bed. Youāll see a cut scene with Ridley in the Highland camp, where youāll see him bravely stand up to Luca, cause Ridleyās cool. The next morning, someone will wake you up. Go down to the Main Hall to here Shuās new plan. It pretty much goes like this: Kiba brings Luca into an ambush, the army jumps out and attacks Lucaās unit and destroy it, and kill Luca. Yep, thatās your plan. |||MAJOR BATTLE: LUCA HIMSELF||| Kiba will bring Luca back a little ways, then youāll jump out. This is where you start attacking Luca, I mean, a lot. When you get a sword to appear over Lucaās unit, telling you heās hurting, heāll teleport away, and at the same time hit you with a huge bit of magic. After this, you have to run since all your units are injured. -After the Major Battle- Well, save one more time. You donāt want to do that again, right? Youāll seem to be at a dead end, but when youāre walking through the hall of the castle, that is, the place where Viki is and the Stone Tablet of Promise is, etc. Ridley will walk up to greet you! Some people in your army helped him bust out! Now go to the main hall and Ridley will give Shu a letter from Leon Silverburg. It will tell you that Luca is planning a night raid, and that you should ambush him on his way there. Of course, some people think itās a trap, but itās actually not. Itās all part of Jowyās big plan. So, agree to do it and lets get this show on the road! Now, Shu will tell you to select your party members. Select the people whom you got ready (you know, the ones you got the armor for, sharpened their weapons, etc), and then heāll ask you to make two more parties for two other units. Both of these parties will die, youāre unit is the only one that will have a chance against Luca. I found it quicker to not put any people in units 2 or 3, it wonāt take them as long to die that way and youāll get on to Luca faster. That night, you see Luca sneaking up, he stops for a moment to comment on the castleās torches being lit, and then he and his solders get shot by a huge amount of arrows. Flik (and his party, if you made one for him) will step up, and quickly die because of Lucaās five solders and his super large amount of strength. He then tries to get away and runs into Viktor (if you gave him a party, theyāll also be there). Viktor probably wont last too long, either, even though Lucaās amount of solders have dropped to three. Luca will try and get away once again, and then you will step up to him! You, the great leader of the New Alliance Army! You, the one you defeated Solon Jhee! You, the over all wonderful person!! You must fight this battle for Pohl!!! And all the people who were killed in those village massacres!!! This is the last straw!!!! Luca Blightās life ends here!!!!!!! ===Beating Luca Blight=== Luca has 6500HP, not too much, Harpy had more then that. However, he has NO weaknesses and he attacks THREE times every turn with attacks that HURT and really rather BAD. Sorry for all the caps, but I had to get my point across. You should use some sort of magic protection Rune or item as soon as you can. After that, well, you have to use every single thing to your advantage if you want to win. Donāt hold back on anything and keep very healed and protected. Luca only has about three attacks, but all of them are quite deadly. Use those scrolls you got from Kasumi, too, they should help a bit. Donāt bother being surprised if you lose a few times, by the way· This is the hardest boss in the game. The second hardest, of course, is the final boss, but just so you know, this WILL NOT be an easy fight. Do it for Pohl. -After Luca Blight- Well, youād really think that would be enough for him, wouldnāt you? Well, after watching your characterās levels shoot up, youāll see that Luca is still pretty much alive and well, and he then run off again. However, he wonāt get away. Flik and Viktor join you, it doesnāt matter who you kick out since youāll only be fighting some solders on the way to where Luca is. Before you chase after him, though, HEAL everyone! Ok, now go on ahead. The solders shouldnāt serve any problem. Before you exit the screen, be sure to heal the Hero. Now, when you exit the screen, youāll see Luca again, and heāll spot a small wooden amulet hanging from a tree. While heās distracted by this, heās again shot by tons of arrows from people hiding in the bushes. Youāll run up to him, and heāll attack you one-on-one. This is truly the final battle with Luca Blight. ^^^Dual Battle: Luca Blight^^^ This actually isnāt as hard as youād think. Konami isnāt THAT mean, I suppose. Just donāt screw up unless you want to do all that other stuff again· Attack Phrases: Ha·.. A draw·.. Defend Phrases: Pathetic!!!! Thatās what you call power!!!! You fool!!!!!! Fool!!!! That canāt stop me!!!!!! Wild Attack: You Pig!!!!! You dare wound me!!!!! Sorry I didnāt get more phrases for this guy, but I wanted to fight him again just about as much as you do, so I played it safe. That should be enough, anyway, since heās already very wounded you could kill him in one turn if the situation was right. -After the Fight- Heāll fall over, completely out of strength, then stand and ask you why you want to fight. ćTo end this war.ä (heāll pretty much make fun of you, saying that war and death is apart of life, etc) ć··········..ä (well, the turn outās the same, but he doesnāt seem to make fun of you as much) These last few words before his death really make you see how psycho this guy was. After screaming ćI am he true face of evilä he finally dies for good, and you finally have gotten full revenge for Pohl, your old friend. You then get to see Jowy waiting behind a tree, and you learn that his plan has gone perfectly. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-MORE NEW PLACES, AND MORE NEW PROBLEMS-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ The next morning you arrive back at your castle. After absorbing the fanfare for a minute, you totally pass out. You then see a cut scene of Jowy and Jillia getting married, and Jowy now becomes the king of Highland. An ambitious young man, I must say. Back at your castle, you get out of bed and Nanami comes into your room. Youāve been resting for a week, silly boy. You may want to save, you know, now that youāre done, and then go to the Main Hall and talk to everyone. When you leave, Nanami will say she wants to go to South Window and Kuskus Town now that you have some free time and all the cities around there have been freed. Before you just go around exploring, though, itās time for some more recruiting. -Recruit #1- Go to the bar and make a party, then go get one of your Celadon Urns from Barbara, which you SHOULD have a couple. If not, you can sometimes get one from the Bon Bons around Kyaro or the Flyers around South Window. But theyāre both a bit rare, so hang in there. When you get a Celadon Urn, go to Radat and visit the tavern. Youāll see a guy in here you is actually pretending to be you. Heās actually getting a lot of money and food out of it, too. When he gets found out, he tries to make a run for it, but gets blocked off at the entrance. Then he runs to you and asked for help. The people take you as an imposter, too, and are well on their way to making some sort of an attempt to kill you. They couldnāt, of course, but even so, itās rather insulting. After they throw you out, they walk off, and Hoi joins you, not even knowing youāre the real Hero. When you go back to your castle, it all dawns on him, though. -Recruit #2- Now go to the Appraiserās shop in Radat and heāll join you upon seeing the Celadon Urn. -Recruit #3- Go get an Ancient Text or two and another Celadon Urn. Ancient Texts can be gotten cheap at the trade center in Kobold Village, and of course, the Celadon Urns can be found around South Window by fighting Flyers. Now, go through Banner Pass and stop in Rokkaku and buy all the Soy Sauce they have, and now continue on to Gregminster. When you arrive, speak with Lorelai on the left side of town and sheāll join you, too. -Recruit #4- Now go to the trade center and talk to Gorden. Tell him you want him to join you, and heāll say he will if you make 50000p off him in trading. Sell the Soy Sauce, the Celadon Urn and the Ancient Text(s). This should be enough to pay it off, but if itās not, youāll at least be almost there, so you can finish paying it by selling him a few smaller things. -Recruit #5- Once youāve recruited him, go back to the castle and teleport to South Window. When you enter, Max will run up and pledge to join. Accept his pledge, and of course, heāll join. If you donāt accept, heāll run off in tears. -Recruit #6- Still in South Window, go to the Inn to see a young woman getting yelled at by the Innkeeper. Then he throws her out, and she goes to the right side of city hall. Go over to City Hall and talk to her there and sheāll recognize you from the Inn. Ask her to sing for you, then when sheās done tell her you want to hear her sing some more and sheāll join up with you. -Recruit #7- Youāll see a guy in red in South Window, too. Talk to him and tell him about Alex, then teleport back to the castle. Go to Alexās shop to see Alex and Killy (the guy in red) talking, then Killy punches Alex and says heāll kill him if he doesnāt tell him what he found in the Sindar Ruins. Hilda runs up to see whatās going on, and you, Viktor, Flik and Leona run up to help, too. After Alex tells him what he found, which is basically his wife and son, Killy walks off happy with the answer. Go back to South Window and talk to him and ask him to join you over and over till he does. -Recruit #8 & 9- Go to the castle and get a Sound Set from Barbara, and now go to the forest village. Youāll see a girl and a huge bird. The bird is hurt, and the girl is trying to protect it from the villagers. Then, three other birds will fly up and chase off the attackers, but then theyāll attack you and try to get to the hurt bird to kill it, or something. Fight them off, not hard, and then use a Listening Crystal to recruit the bird. The girl, Ayda, will then join the army, too. -Recruit #10- While in the Forest Village, go into the house right above the Inn on the left side of town and go into the back room. Talk to Connel there, and heāll mention your sound set. Then talk to him again and ask him to join you. -Recruit #11- Go to Two River and head to the Kobold section of town. By now, youāll have enough people to recruit him. -Recruit #12- This person isnāt on of the 108 stars, but is easily one of the best characters in the game. It is none other the Lord McDohl of Suikoden 1. However, if you didnāt get all 108 stars in the first game and uploaded the saved data, he wonāt appear in the game, in which case you might as well skip this part. But if you did get the stars and upload the data, head to Banner village. When you get there, youāll see Ko, the little boy who loves both you and Mcdohl. He even has a costume of your outfit! Cute! Talk to him and heāll tell you about some guy whoās been fishing in the lake for the past few days. The passage to the pond is on the bottom right corner of the village. Go try to talk to McDohl to see that Gremio wonāt be letting you do that. Go back and talk to Ko, and you two will come up with a plan. Go talk to Grem again and heāll take the bait perfectly. Ko will yell for help from over the hill, then Gremio will run off to help him, leaving you wide open to speak with McDohl. However, before you say too much, Gremio will run up to tell you both that he wasnāt faking. Some mountain thieves kidnapped him. Of course, you decide to go help him out with the help of McDohl. If you say ćI·I·ä Gremio and McDohl will leave without you and youāll catch up to them later. If you say ćLets goä theyāll join you right there. Save before you leave, by the way. Now, make your way through Banner Pass and at the save point, youāll see the bandits. At first, they donāt really want to give Ko back to you, then they realize that theyāre talking to 1) the leader of the Liberation Amry which took down the Scarlet Moon Empire. And 2) the leader of the New Republic Army, the person who killed Luca Blight with his bare hands. After this, the bandits tell you that they left the kid in the middle of the forest when a huge monster appeared. McDohl now joins you, if he didnāt before. Heal and save at the save point, and go up the center path to fight the monster. ===Beating the Worm Thingy/Poison Moth=== For the worm thingy, just use unite attacks, but donāt use any Rune power. After a couple rounds, the Poison Moth will bust out of the worm. This is a much harder battle and you should now start using Runes like mad. With 6800HP, it attacks twice per round with SUPER strong attacks. Donāt bother holding back on anything, this includes using McDohlās outstandingly cool Rune. Playing this just goes to show how lucky you were to have him in your party the whole time in the first Suikoden! Be sure to keep healed, that is, HP levels OVER 200! He can quickly wipe the party out if youāre not very careful! This is a pretty hard fight, but nothing that you shouldnāt be able to handle· -After the Fight- Ko has been poisoned, so McDohl and Gremio decide Dr. Luikan would be perfect for the job of curing him. So, continue on to Gregminster and youāll here that Ko will be fine. Lepant begs McDohl to claim the throne of Toran, but he refuses once again. Leave the castle to find Pahn and Cleo and a few others waiting. Then you attend dinner with them. After dinner, go down stairs and talk to Cleo. Sheāll ask you how you feel about war, and so on. The next morning, McDohl and Gremio will join you so you can go to the castle. Varkas will escort you back to Banner, then Grem and McDohl will leave the party. Now you have to go through Banner Pass again to Gregminster and talk to McDohl at his house. He can join you again there. Now, after you have him, try not to put him out of your party since then youāll have to walk all the way through Banner Pass again and then back, etc. -Recruit #13- Now that youāve done the McDohl quest, the item shop in town should sell the Rose Brooch in the Rare Finds sections. Buy it, as well as the other rare finds, good stuff. Now go to Radat and go to the left side of the riverbank to find Simone. Give him the Rose Broach and heāll join you. -The Meeting with Jowy- One youāve recruited all those people (whew·), save, and go to Kuskus and here about a Highland boat pulling up to shore. Go to the docks to see Culgan. Heāll tell you about a peace treaty, and request to be taken to your castle. Take him back to the Main Hall in your castle and heāll tell Shu that Jowy has arranged for a meeting with you for a peace treaty. Culgan then leaves you with the option of whether or not to go to Muse to sign the treaty. Of course, some people think itās a trap, some think itās not. Youāll soon find out that you simply donāt have a choice in the matter. But, donāt worry, it IS a trap, so you donāt have you wonder anymore. Make a party, which will include Chaco and Nanami. The fastest way to Muse is through Coronet, since you canāt teleport there. Sail to Coronet and then hike to Muse. Jowyās waiting at the meeting place at the top of the mountain. Youāll see that Muse is now a ghost town, and it has been ever since the beast Rune ate everyone alive. But anyway, go to the meeting place and inside youāll see Jowy again for the first time in· well, a while. After some small talk, Jowy calls some solders with cross bows behind you and orders you to surrender. If you keep refusing, Jowy will be about to kill you when Viktor rushes in with Pilika, and Jowy doesnāt fire because of Pilika being in the room. If you surrender, the same thing will happen, only sooner. You then make your get away, and with no more thoughts of a peace treaty now have to take Highland down by force. Back at the castle, you meet Shu in the hallway. After some arguing about Pilika, go save and go to the entrance of your town to meet Koyu, a kid who wants you to help him and his siblings out with a small problem around Tinto. The problem is, namely, Neclord. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-ĪTIS NECLORD AGAIN-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Koyu will join you, then Nanami will join you on the way out. No, you canāt refuse! Although a neat little interactive conversation takes place if you try. Once youāve made your party (which you may want to include Wakaba for recruiting reasons), go to Barbara and grab a Window Set if you have one in your vault. If you donāt, you can win one from the Tigers in Banner Pass. I recommend you get one way or another before you leave (for recruiting reasons). Once you have one, or if youāre just going to leave without one, go to Drakemouth village. You may have stumbled upon this area before. In this event, you can teleport there. Otherwise, youāve gotta walk it. If youāre walking, Drakemouth Village is down south from Kobold Village. So teleport to Kobold Village and head down to find it. Once youāre there, go to the top left of the village to find a blocked off gate. Koyu takes care of that, and you get to pass along into the Tinto region. The monsters along the path are sort of tough, by the way. Once youāve come to a fork, take the stairs. When you go up them, youāll be at another fork. Go right first to find a Master Robe, then take the left path. Gimiju is there to tell you that the zombies attacked the banditsā place, so they burned it and everything leading to it. He then tells you to head over to Tinto to see if you can get the governor to do soemthing, since the chances of him listening to some bandits are kinda slim. Now go back down all the stairs and take the strait path this time, and just follow it for a short time till you reach Tigermouth village. Before you do anything, go down and talk to a guy in a redish tan jacket to get some tomato seedlings for Tony, then go down a little more to find a chick for Yuzu. Now follow the lower wall to a house, and go in it. In the first bookshelf in here you can find Old Book Volume 8. Now leave the village to be back on the world map. Tinto happens to be the dot on the map farthest away from where you are. One you get there, run up the ramp, then go right up another ramp and a bit farther right then down the path here and talk to the old guy in here to get the Unicorn Plans #3. Then go to the house just to the right of this house and talk to the guy in there to get the Dragon Plans #3. Now go back up the path and left to find a wooden crate of black stuff. Search it to find a Power Ring. Be sure to stop at the Blacksmith and sharpen your weapons to as high as you can offord. Youāll want to have your weapons to level 13 (McDohlās is 14) before you go through the mine to fight Neclord, so the sooner you get them sharpened the better. At the top of town is a building with a guard in front of it. To the side, Raura will be walking back and forth. Talk to her and tell her Jeane is at your castle and sheāll join your army. Now, go talk to the guard and heāll let you in the house. Gustav is through the first door in the top left of the first room. After he stops yapping, heāll admit he needs help and requests reinforcements. This is another on of those non-refusable options. Heāll call a kid in who looks strangely like Bill Gates, and heāll show you to your room. The next day, you might want to save just to be safe, then head back to the meeting room where Gustav is. Lilly, his little girl, will run in and announce that zombies have come to town. Everyone will join you, now run down to the entrance of town. Neclord will be there telling everyone that heās going to take over the town, and turn everyone into zombies. Those he doesnāt turn into zombies heās going to toss out of the Tinto region, then he leaves. Back in the meeting room, Jess (yeah, THE Jess) walks in and informs Gustav of his success in finding even more solders. Then he asks why youāre here. After getting an answer, he gets in your face and calls you a spy, saying you killed Annabelle etc. Of course, Viktor defends you, but its not until Ridley walks up and gives Jess the what for, then he leaves. You might want to go save again before you start planning the attack. But anyway, after youāve planned for a bit, youāll be sent to bed. After talking to Jess by your room, Nanami goes off to her room. You can go to bed now, if you do, Leknaat will visit during the night, after which, youāll have to go to Nanamiās room. You can also go to her room right after talking to Jess, which will simply skip the Leknaat part. Either way, youāll end up in Nanamiās room. Sheāll ask if you think you should run away, or stay and fight. This time, though, you have a choice. -If you Run- Two random people that were in your party will be at the door and will tell you that theyāll go with you. Now head to Crom (the dot farthest west on the map) to find out that a battle has just now broken out in Tinto and youāre about to get arrested for being a spy, even though youāre not actually a spy. Youāre taken to the village chief, where Koyu then runs in and tells them youāre the leader of an army and stuff. They then let you go and send you to a room. That night, you try to get away again, but the door is blocked. Koyu finds out that his sister was captured by Neclord, and so was Lilly. The next morning, zombies are all over the town. You can get away if you just keep running, and youāll get to see a guy get eaten alive, too. But you can also help the people fight. Once youāre out of town, if you want to keep on the run, head to Tigermouth village and go through town heading toward the mountain pass. In Tigermouth, head toward the east exit and the guard will run off to help stop the zombies breaking into the town. You can either leave now or go help. If you help, Nanami will eventually drag you off. When youāre leaving the town, about 13 zombies will pop up around you. The Bright Shield Rune will then give off a power that kills them all in one big hit. The heroās power is now drained. Heās unbalanced and his HP is 1. You canāt restore his HP, either, so donāt waste any items. Nanami will toss him on her back and will run through the pass fighting zombies along the way. When youāre about to get killed by the third zombie you encounter, a guy named Georg jumps out of nowhere and kills the zombie and takes you too safety. About this time youāll see a cut scene of Jowy (along with Pilika, who can talk again) you is evidently feeling the drain of power being caused by the Bright Shield Rune. The hero will wake up later. Talk to Georg again and heāll basically tell you that you should do what you think is right and not care much about feelings of obligation. Head through the pass to Drakemouth. Along the way, youāll find that the hero in no longer unbalanced all the time, but his HP is still at 1 and it still wonāt go any higher for a long period of time. Once you reach Drakemouth, the hero will completely pass out. This might be the time you see the scene with Jowy, itās either or when you were with Georg. Sorry, Iām not sure. Anyway, youāll wake up in a storehouse in Drakemouth. Nanami will run outside and almost get killed by Flik, then you go outside to find Apple and Shu there, also. Shu will ask you about three time to come back to the army, it sort of doesnāt matter what you say, but if you keep refusing heāll slap you and give you a bit of a scolding, which you fully deserve by the way. Heāll also tell you that Ridley was killed in battle because he was preoccupied with looking for you. When he walks away with Flik and Apple, your two other party members leave you now, also. By the way, if you wanāt to go back, donāt worry about losing one of the 108 stars. Ridleyās son, Boris will show up and take Ridleyās place. Heās the same star Ridley was. You can, however, see a special ending to the game if you leave the village to the south exit, leading to the world map. A picture of a house will appear, I suppose telling you that Nanami and the hero lived a relaxed, fightless life from then on. -If you Stay- The next morning, go to the meeting room to find that Jess has ordered his troops to take on Neclord at his place of occupancy, which is totally stupid. He has 5000 solders, if he loses them, youāve just lost 5000 people and Neclord just gained 5000 zombies. Not good. Now youāre forced to go to battle just because of his moronic move. Go to the top right corner of town to hear that a mine tunnel caved in. Go in the mine and follow the path and down the elevator. Youāll come to a curve that goes right, if you go down there you can find a Cape of Darkness. Keep heading along the time path to find Neclord. A fight will start, and after a couple rounds, it will then stop. Neclord will try to put a curse on you, but the Bright Shield Rune will block it. Now you can escape from the mine. Once youāre outside, youāll see that the town is covered in zombies, then the Rune will kick in and the heroās power is drained. At this point youāll see the cut scene with Jowy and Pilika in Muse. After this, youāll wake up in Crom. Leona is downstairs, so you can make a party again. If you had McDohl with you, though, heās now back in Gregminster. Make a new party and go to the Inn. Wakabaās master will rush out and then run off after the innkeeper runs after him. You can find L.C. Chan behind a building just right of where you are. When youāve found him again, after a funny scene involving L.C. Chanās bad memory, heāll join the army. Now go save at the Inn and head to the entrance of town, where youāll find Kahn, the vampire hunter from earlier in the game. Heāll tell you that he has learned how to take Neclords soul, but he canāt do it alone. There is a person in Tigermouth with that ability. Once youāve done everything you need to here (buying items, equipping characters, etc), head to Tigermouth to meet Sierra, the good vampire who hunts vampires. Once youāre in Tigermouth, youāll see that Sierra has attracted a bit of attention to herself, as to a crowd of people is around her and frankly, they want her to die. So, after she scares off the angry mob with an abrupt lightning attack, she starts talking to Kahn. Now, thanks to the Star Dragon Sword being with you, she joins. She wouldnāt normally. After you give the OK for her to join, out of the blue she starts fighting you. Itās strange, but it must be done. Sheās not hard, so Iāll just tell you this about the fight: Attack and heal and youāll do fine. No special patterns are required to beat her. After the little fight, she says youāre pretty good for a human, and joins up. Unless youāre overly happy with your present party, put her in your party. Otherwise, the convoy is always there. You may want to heal up at the Inn, and maybe save if you want, then head back to Crom. Go to the village leaderās house at the top of town to see a little scene with Sierra introducing herself to Klaus. Silly boy. Anyway, after this, youāll go to your room to sleep. However, if youād like, you can go get some background on Kahn and Sierra by talking to them and asking them why theyāre after Neclord. Theyāre both upstairs, so if you want to do that, you can. Afterwards, though, youāll just have to go to bed since thereās nothing else to do. In the morning, after Nanami wakes you up, head downstairs to find everyone lined up and ready to go. Try to fit Nanami, Sierra and Kahn all in your party, along with the other characters in it. Youāll be taking a very long hike through the Tinto Mine to get to Neclord, so stock up on lots and lots and lots of Medicine. Now leave town and go to the right a little bit to get to the mine. -Tinto Mine- Ok, first of all, use regular attacks on the enemies in here. NO runes, NO scrolls. You have to save them for later. For now, just attack and focus on making it through the mine. Thatās why you got all the Medicine, you know. Anyway, head up, and into the next screen, then exit this next room through the door in the top right corner. Now go up to a fork and take a right to find a Dancing Flames Scroll, now head back and take the left path. Follow this path for a while, there are no other paths to take, so itās hard to get lost. Soon enough, youāll come to another small fork. Go right to find a couple treasures, that is a Full Helmet and a Stone of Magic Defense. Now go back and continue following the path to another fork. Go up to find a Master Garb, then keep going into the next screen. At the first left you come to, take it and go into the next screen. Now go up and around and follow the path all the way up to find a Window Set #5 and a Old Book Vol. 9. Now go back and take the path to the right of you and go right at the fork to the next screen. Go strait across this hall into a new really big room. In here, take the small passage below you to find a Silver Necklace, then go back up and go right a little bit and youāll see a couple slides. Slide down the big one for a Mega Medicine, if you donāt want the MM, take the small slide and youāll come to more slides. This time, the small one leads to the Mega Medicine (the same one from before) and the bigger one takes you farther. Once youāve gone down the big one, go down and left and down the little slide and then down the ramp to get a Double-Strike Rune, then go back up the ramp and around the slide. Youāll see a guy standing here on the way. Heās one of your recruits, but he wonāt join till your castle is level 4, and itās not as of yet. So continue on to the right and go up the ramps. Youāll se a save point here, and Iāll use this save point as a land mark. If you want a Star Earring, go up and down the slide to find one. Youāll just have to slide down a couple more slides then walk around the wall to get back to the Save Point. If you donāt want the Star Earring, just go right. Before taking the little slide, ask yourself, ćdo I want a Wind Hat?ä If you answered Īyes,ā then go all the way right and take the big slide down. Youāll have to walk around the wall to get back to the Save Point. If not, save and take the small slide and go through the door. Follow this path for a bit, and youāll enter a room with a box. Thereās also a broken walk way at the top of the room. Push the box to the walk way to make a little bridge, then go left and follow this path back into the room with the box, but youāll be on the walk way. Thanks to that box, you have no troubles. Follow this path up some more and youāll finally come to a boss. A really big boss. ===Beating the Stone Golem=== This guy is easy even though heās huge and has 7500HP. He only attacks once per round, and one of his attacks is OK, even though its not that good. It hits one or two of your party members for about 200HP. His other attack hits the whole party for a good 130HP. Other then that heās harmless. His defense is awful. Heās very weak to dark magic, like the stuff Sierra uses, and heās also weak to Lightning magic. However, try to use magic (including healing magic) sparingly by using unite attacks and runes that donāt run low on power. Of course, you CAN use magic, just donāt use it all up during the fight. Iāve never found this one to be a problem, so you shouldnāt either· ok? -After the Fight- Just keep going up. Youāre not out of the mine yet, Iām afraid. Follow the path for a good while till you come to a really large room. Go across the bridge, down the elevator, and then head left across another bridge, then up to a ramp. Go down the ramp and then follow the path down to the exit at the south end of the room. Once youāre in the next screen, just keep following the path (ignore the fork, just keep going down) and go up the elevator and youāll be at the exit in no time. When youāre out, go left and fight the zombie, then continue left to fight another zombie. Now go up the big flight of stairs to find the church. This is where Necky boy is. Heal if you must and go inside, heās in the first room on the left. In here youāll see Lily and· I forgot her name· Anyway, theyāre about to meet unsettling fates with Neclord, but you arrive just in the nick of time. Speaking of which, this is my favorite part in the game, where Viktor goes off on Neclord by saying the following: ćIāll make sure you never grin again. Iāll shop you up! Grind you up! Dry you in the sun! Break you into pieces! Bury you in the ground! Piss on you! Then Iāll dig you up! Pull you! Stretch you! Drag you around! And then· and then· in any case, Iāll never forgive you!ä Hehe, I love that· Anyway, at this time a barrier hits Neclord making him very weak, and then youāre party will attack him! Yay! ===Beating Neclord=== This is another fight that I never have a problem with. Simply attack with whatever attacks you have left over from the Stone Golem fight and youāll win. He has a mere 4000HP now, but he can attack twice a turn, which is no big deal. So can nearly every other boss in the game. -After the Fight- Neclord willingly returns the Moon Rune when he finds out heās about to die. However, this does him little good. With the Star Dragon Swordās final words to Necky boy, ćDie, vampireä, Viktor kills Neclord. For good? Probably. Neclord wasnāt immortal this time, so I think heās gone forever. But only time will tell for sure. Leave the church and go down to the bottom of town where youāll see a large crowd of people, including Jess and Houser. If you want all 108 stars, Iām sorry, but you MUST recruit Jess now. Actually, itās not that bad. He says heās sorry for everything and stuff, so itās not all bad. Everyone then goes off and leaves you there. Go to the Inn to rest and save, then go to Crom. Go to the house at the top right corner of the village to find· dang· what was his name? The Window Set guy! Heāll see the Window Set you have and you can either ask 1ā000ā000p for it, 10ā000p, or ask him to join you in exchange. Sorry, you canāt get a million bucks for it, or even 10ā000. Youāll have to settle for him joining you. After he joins, go to the mountain pass that leads to Drakemouth. At the first fork, go down and youāll see Georg there (if you ran when you had a choice, youāll know where I mean). Recruit him, and then continue back to the world map. Either way is fine, but just backtracking is faster. Use your Blinking Mirror to go back to the castle, then teleport to South Window. Go talk to Gensetsu, whoās standing in front of that statue in front of town hall (heās the guy with that huge lump on his head who youāve probably ran into a few times already). Talk to him and ask him to join, and heāll challenge you to a little strength test thingy. Youāll win, of course, and heāll join. Now go back to the castle. NOTE ON RECRUITMENT This concerns a lot of people when theyāre playing Suikoden 2. They donāt think they can get all the characters because they run out of listening Runes and canāt recruit the monster character, who IS a star, living in Tinto mine. And theyāre right. In fact, the only way you can recruit him is if you donāt recruit Sigfreid the Unicorn. But what most players donāt know is that Sigfreid and the monster you get in the Tinto mine are the SAME star. Hence, if you get one, you canāt get the other, but thatās not a bad thing because you donāt need the other because theyāre the same star. Argo, if you want the guy in the Tinto mine, donāt recruit Sigfreid. Itās as simple as that! I hope this little fact calms a lot of worried people out there. -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-TWO MAJOR BATTLES AND A VERY GOOD TIME-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- In the castle, go to the top of the main room (the one with the big rock with the starās namesā on it) and Sheena will join the convoy/party. Head to the main hall to here about Shuās brand new plan! Thereās no rest for you, huh? Anyway, youāll learn that your army is going to make a counter strike and liberate Greenhill. And its about time, isnāt it?Yeah, I think so too. Shu then tells you to run along and get some rest. In your room, Sheena leaves and nighttime arrives really quickly. Go down to the very first floor of the castle and walk around. Youāll see a bunch of cut scenes involving a few people in the army. None are important, but you at least have to watch the one with Gengen in the hallway because we all love Gengen. I mean, who doesnāt? Heās so dang cool! Anyway, once youāve gotten enough of the cut scenes, go back to your room to find an intruder. Sheās an assassin and, incidentally, she wants to kill you. ===Beating Lucia=== This canāt be THAT hard since you only have one person in your party (you), and Konami isnāt an unfair game company like some. Depending on your Runes, this battle can range from really easy to kind of easy. Her HP is 1500, but she wonāt endure for that long. Sheāll only take about 800 ö 1000 HPs of damage before she gives in. -After the Fight- Flick and Viktor will run in and catch her. Then she blabbers on about some stupid things for a minute. You can either take her to prison or let her go. Well, actually you can only take her to prison. Even if you say ćLet her goä theyāll take her to prison (at least I think so). Besides, she just tried to kill you! Why would you let her go? The next day youāll find a couple guards stationed outside your door. No more people will be breaking into to your room now! Now what you must do is save and go to the Main Hall. Once youāve saved and are in the Main Hall, Shu will ask you who you want to go with. The one thatās recruiting Greenhill, and one thatās slowing the other army down, or if youāll just be giving orders from the castle. Of course, Iāll be covering all the options here so you can decide which one you want to do. Or you can do one and reset, and do another, then repeat. But Iāll tell you this now, the one where you stay at the castle is the coolest! -ćIāll Wait Here.ä- At first, youāll just be waiting around at the castle for battle reports to come in. But soo enough youāll be giving so many orders youāll think youāre a waiter (umm· sorry, bad pun). Anyway, in all the orderās, you can either ask for Appleās advice, give a very harsh order that Apple will decide against, or give a calm, leader-like order. Order #1 Houser has ran into solders from Muse. ćDonāt pursue too far, we have to save time.ä (leader-like) ćAdvance! Crush them!!ä (harsh) ćWhat should we do, Apple?ä (ask Apple) Order #2 Kiba has ran into some Highland defense forces. ćBe mindful.ä (leader-like) ćWipe them out· all of them.ä (harsh) ćWhat should we do, Apple?ä (you know this one) After a few more reports (not orders), Apple will say how you should have gone with Houser because you could have learned a lot. ćI suppose youāre right.ä (leader-like) ćThat Experience, I donāt need!ä (harsh, but sheāll agree with you) ć100 lashes for Houser.ä (Apple wonāt let you do this one· But isnāt it funny??) After that one, youāll be called to Greenhill by Shu. -ćIāll go with Viktorās group·.ä- This one involves a major battle, but whatās wrong with that? Everyone loves major battles. Once the battle starts, youāll see Jowy is with them. If you beat his unit, theyāll retreat. And itās not actually very hard to do this because every unit that Jowy has isnāt really super strong, and you outnumber them.Try to use the Fire Spears or the Bombard Ability on Jowyās unit. These are the safest ways to beat him without risking the loss one of your own units. This one is easy, folks. -ćIāll go with General Kiba·.ä- This is another major battle, but this one is harder and more interesting then the one with Viktorās group. It includes two people youāll remember. One of those people is Yuber from the first Suikoden, and the other person is Lucia, the gal who tried to kill you last night. In this battle, youāre outnumbered by about two units, but they donāt have many really strong units. But they have lots of them. However, there are a few things working to your advantage. One of them is Luc. Luc and his magic attack are very important. Itās strong, it always seems to wipe out half of a unit for every time you use it, and it can be used from a few squares away. Another thing is that many of the solders wonāt move until you get right up next to Greenhill. But once you get there, theyāll start using their own magic attacks on YOU, which isnāt always fun. In the end, it all comes down to beating Yuberās unit, but youāll probably end up killing every unit they have before you can. Yuberās unit is very, very strong, so use Lucās magic on it. Or if youāre feeling lucky, attack it and hope you get a critical. This is a long fight, you must be patient. -In Greenhill- Teresa joins your convoy and you decide to take that old forest path that leads to the back of the school to reach Greenhill. Shin also wants to join your party, but he doesnāt have to. You can say ćNopeä and we wonāt join. Then you get to pick the rest of your party. Youāll want to pick your very best and most used characters because thereās a rather tough boss waiting for you inside Greenhill. Georg is a good one to use since heās on level 58, which is about 10 levels higher then you should be right now. And I urge you to take Kahn, or someone else whoās at a high level and can use dark magic. Charm Arrow is a very important spell for this! You may want to run back to the castle real quick and save. Once youāre ready to go into the forest, go for it. You should know the way by now since youāve gone down this path about a billion times already! But there is ONE THING thatās different now. And the different thing is that along the way, youāll be attacked my Lucia again. Is it just me, or is she getting overly annoying? ===Beating Lucia=== This time around, she gets pretty tough. She has three little followers who can pack a punch, and should be killed ASAP. By the time theyāre gone, youāll probably discover that she attacks twice per turn and uses a devastating Fire Rune. Sheāll attack with her whip, then use the rune, or visa versa. Iāve never seen her attack twice in a row with the rune, but she might. She has two rune attacks. Youāve probably seen both of them because youāve probably used them on enemies before. The one where the fire turns into blades and slices youāre party into itty bitty pieces is the one that hurts the most, normally hitting for over 200HP. The other one is where a big beam of fire falls on the party and blows up, hitting four about 190HP. Just hit her with what ever you have. This may be a harder battle, but itās still not hard. -After the Fight- Well, Lucia is very stubborn and unmanageable, so she doesnāt listen to any of Teresaās kind and loving words after the fight. She just runs off moping. Heal up and continue along the path to Greenhill. Once youāre back at the school, go out the front door and you'lā see two people standing across from each other. The guy on the left will let you save, and the girl on the right will heal the party. Very convenient, yeah? After youāve saved and rested, go into town and go down to the enterance. Here youāll see Yuber again, and heāll then let the Bone Dragon out you play with you. ===Beating the Bone Dragon=== This thing attacks only once a turn, but it uses attacks that take 240+ HP out of the whole party, so staying highly healed is up there on the important side. Use Kahnās Charn Arrow. Thisāll hit the dragon for about 1200HP each time you use it. Have everyone else attack with whatever they have. If it works, use it. The Bone Dragon have about 7500HP, so donāt hold back. -After the Fight- Youāll be taken back to the castle very qickly and youāll learn that Matilda has given in to Highland. You then decide to attack Muse. But when Apple asks you what you want to do, say youāll think about it and teleport to Greenhill. Your last nine recruits await you! -Recruit #1- Go to the school in Greenhill and go into the Blacksmith classroom. At the top right corner of the room youāll meet Jude. Talk to him a couple times to learn that heās out of clay, then hike to the forest village. Go up and take a right at the armor shop and go down this path. Youāll see a house. Go up past it on the right side of the house a go along this path to find a short guy with white hair. Heāll give you some clay. Now then, return to Greenhill, talk to Jude, give him the clay, and recruit him. -Recruit #2- Go to the Greenhill Inn and and listen in on Pico fighting with his ex-girlfriend about Annallee. Mention Annallee and tell her where she is and heāll join you. -Recruit #3- Teleport back to the castle and pop Viktor in your party and head to Kuskus. Go to the Blacksmithās place and talk to Tessei in the back. After a rather funny scene, Tessei will join you. Now you FINALLY have a blacksmith in your castle! -Recruit #4- Go back to the castle, then teleport to Tinto. Head to the Armor Shop and talk to Albert, the guy standing next to the desk. Tell him about Annallee and Pico and heāll join you. -Recruit #5- Go to Kuskus and visit the Inn. Talk to Karen here and sheāll tell you that sheāll join you if you can keep up with her dancing. The dance combo is triangle, square, O, X, triangle, X, O, square. You have to do the steps one right after another with no brakes in between. This may sound tough, but itās not. Donāt worry about it. -Recruit #6- Go back to the castle and replace Viktor with whomever you would normally have in your party, then go to the 4th floor of the castle. Go out on the balcony. If you see a statue of the person whoās been most useful in all the battles throughout the game so far (which is normally the hero), then youāre castle is at level 4 and youāre ready to recruit some more. For the next recruit, youāll need to spend some money, but thatās OK. Go to Greenhill and go to the blacksmithās classroom. Talk to the student on the right side of the table to get the Silver Hammer. Now go back to the castle and have Tessei sharpen the heroās weapon to level 14. After you do this, go sail to Coronet. On the docks youāll see Genshu. Talk to him and heāll join you because youāre weapon is really sharp. -Recruit #7- Now go to the Cave of the Wind and go through the cave like you normally would. In the very last room, where you fought the Star Dragon Sword, youāll meet up with Pesmerga. Ask him to join, and heāll gladly do it. -Recruit #8- Go back to the castle and put Simone in your party, then go to Radat, to the place where you found Simone. Vincent De Boule, one of my favorite characters from Suikoden one, will be there and will join your army. -Recruit #9- Go to the Tinto mine and head to the room with all the slides (go in the enterance on the world map. If you go in the mine through Tinto, youāll reach a dead-end). You may remember talking to Mazus in here on your last visit. But now that youāre castle is level 4, heāll join you. CONGRADULATIONS!!!! YOU HAVE ALL 108 PEOPLE!!!!!! Youāre now ready to beat the game! Er· well, you will be after you do all the stuff you have to do before the end of the game! -Back to the Game- Now, doesnāt it feel good to finally be done with all that dang recruiting? I know I felt rather good about it! I mean, now you have the freedom to just finish the game instead of having to watch out for people to recruit. I dunno· Maybe I just get excited too easily. Either way, go to the Main Hall and tell Apple youāre ready to go to Muse. After a quick cut scene, youāll appear in the Greenhill dorm building. After getting talked to by Apple, go outside to see· who? Yes! Lucia yet again! Follow her into the school, then through the secret passage in the back. About three screens up through the woods, youāll find Jowy and Lucia waiting for you. Yet again, Jowy tries to talk you out of being leader of your army. However, this time, he finally realizes that just as he canāt quit being king of Highland, you canāt quit being the leader of your army. And you both realize that things can never be back to the way things were, because ever since you got those runes on your hands, youāve been destined to fight each other. Sad, yeah? Anyway, after all this is over, go back to the dorm to find that preparations are complete. You may want to save, or maybe not. It doesnāt matter a great deal. But whenever youāre ready, get ready for another major battle. |||MAJOR BATTLE: ENTERING MUSE||| The first thing youāll notice on this is that THEY are outnumbered. Youāll also see you have a few new units to play around with. The Highland troops probably wonāt come into this. Theyāll probably stay near the back of the screen the whole time. And to make things even easier, the run off part way through the fight. Go for the units Lucia controls. Once you take out all of them, youāll win. Of course, SOMETHING is going on, but at least you won. If youāre having trouble with Luciaās annoyingly tough unit, try some fire magic· Heck, it worked for me! -After the Battle- Youāll be at Muse! But the place is a ghost town. Nothing to see here· Head for Town Hall to find some of your solders. Something is inside Town Hall, and Viktor, being the cool exploring Indiana Jones type of guy he is, wants to check it out! Head on in to find a really large gold colored wolf· ===Beating the Golden Wolf=== Nothing too it! Just hit it with whatever you have! It attacks twice per turn and uses a little rune, but thatās all. Itās also low on power with a mere 3500HP. This guy is such a waste of time, your levels wonāt even go up after you beat him. -After the Fight- After youāve beaten that one, youāll find that there are more of them scattered over the town. You can fight them if you want, but running is the better option here. If you DO fight them, another one will appear in its place. Sucky, huh? Yep. Anyway, when youāre out of Muse, youāll discover that you were tricked (are you surprised?). Solders are coming at you from the east and north! But if you try and get away by the west and south, more solders will pop up and kill you! What do you do? Escape to the east! Well, youāll be back at the castle after all this with Shu. After theyāre all done talking, go save. Head to the forth floor of the castle to see a scene between Kiba and Shu. Shu will tell Kiba they need a decoy to win this next battle, and Kiba will have to be the decoy. Now that Kiba just volunteered his life for your war, I donāt want to hear any mean talk about him, got it? After the little scene, you may want to run of to the 5th floor and check out your new room in all its freakinā awesome level four castle wonderment!!! After this, go talk to Shu and tell him youāll go through with the fight. This will bring everyone into the Main Hall for a huge battle briefing. Itās really quite uplifting! And at the end of it all you get to yell a hardy uplifting line yourself! Yay! Now Leknaat appears to give your rune more power (Hehehehehehe!! The BIG attack baby baby!!!) if you have the 108 stars. The next morning, you see Kiba and his people off. Now go to the Main Hall to start on the journey to Matilda. A very, very important part of the game. This is where recruiting all those people pays off! Before you give the single to leave, be sure to save. When you leave, youāll appear in a major battle right outside of the Matilda region. |||MAJOR BATTLE: ENTERING MATILDA||| After the enemy appears, youāll see that youāre very outnumbered. Jowy is there, and Yuber, as well as Gorudo, the stupid sexist fat man. Further more, they have you surrounded from to sides. What you want to do is take out as many enemy units as you can before the third turn. First of all, take three or four units to take care of the Matilda troops. Have the rest do a number on the Highlanders. After about two turns, Culganās army will appear behind you. Now youāre totally surrounded. However, all you have to do is survive two or three more turns and youāre all good. Your reinforcements will arrive (two tiny units. Ha!), and this will cause all the baddies to retreat. Personally, I donāt see how two little units could scare them that much, but what the heck. It worked. -After the Major Battle- Youāll find out who those mysterious reinforcements were, then youāll go back to Greenhill to rest up. When itās time to select your party members, make it a point to select people over level 50. Georg, Mazus, etc. should be over level 50, but you donāt necessarily have to take them. Anyway, once you have your party of level 50+ characters, tell Shu to wait a minute and go get your ass to the inn so you can save. Once youāve saved, go back and tell Shu youāre ready to move out. The time has come· *dramatic music* -Invasion of Rockaxe- After the enemy takes the bate of your armies, youāll pop out of the bushes. After you head in, youāll get a message from Kiba saying that he and Leon Silverburg were both mortally wounded. Sad, yes. Anyway, once youāre in the castle, youāll find yourself in a small room. This isnāt the main entrance! You have quite a bit of a walk ahead of you. Itās a good thing your castle isnāt this big, huh? Go up through the door, and follow the hall though the next door. Grab the Stone of Speed from the next chest and head up the ladder. If you want an Escape Talisman, go through the right door, if not, go through the left door and continue on till you reach a room with a door at the top of it, and a ladder leading down. A Stone of Defense and a Crimson Cape is through the door if you want them. Either way, go down the ladder next and through the door here. Just follow this single path till you reach a bridge outside, and cross the bridge. Youāll now be back inside. Go through the door here and follow the path to another small room with a ladder and a door. The door leads to an Earth Shield, which just might be worth getting. Once youāve grabbed it, or if you havenāt, go down the ladder in the little room. Youāll be in yet another little room with a door below you and one to the right of you. The one below leads to some Power Gloves, the one to the right continues on with the level. Follow the path to the right and youāll appear outside again! Go through the big door to the right and youāll now be in the bunker of the castle. The Flame Helmet, a Gold Necklace and some Mega Medicine can be found in here if you look in each of the room. You have to go into them from the top, though. The exit of this room is down the little hall leading off to the left that you saw when you came in. Follow this hall to the next room. Continue following the hall and youāll reach a stairway, but if you go a bit farther down youāll find the Dragon Plans 4 AND the Unicorn Plans 4 in the little room here! You should get these things! Once you have them, go up the stairs and save at the save point. Also heal if youāre a little low on power. Now go down through the door here, and follow this path to another door, and go inside. Walk towards the stairs and everyone in your party will decide to stay and fight off the baddies that are coming up behind you, while you and Nanami go and finish the job. Go through the door at the top of the stairs, and the next thing youāll see is you and Nanami walking through a HUGE hall. The next part of the game is vital for those who want the best ending. Youāll run into Jowy here, and heāll tell you that his army and country is more important then you, therefor, heāll have to kill you himself. However, just when youāre about to have to kill your best friend, Gorudo walks into the hall his some archers. What could he be plotting? Iāll tell you what heās plotting. Kill the two most powerful people in the country and get all the land for himself. However, Nanami, being your big sister, wants to protect you from the arrows, so she uses a special move Genkaku taught her years ago. When the text box for you to say ćNanami!!ä or ćLook out!!ä pops up, or have about half a second to say one of them before the text box closes. Is you donāt say it fast enough, the hero wonāt pull out his weapons and jump to Nanamiās aid. If you say it fast enough, heāll pull out his weapons and jump up to help Nanami. If you want the best ending, keep trying till you say it fast enough. If you donāt, you might as well not have gotten the 108 stars! After you say ćNanami!!ä and get ready to help her, sadly, sheāll get hit with an arrow. But donāt worry, you did it! Now you can get the best ending! You and Jowy, now standing there, shaking it anger, decide to join up for one last time and show fatty whoās boss. I like this boss fight· ===Beating Gorudo=== Hehehehehe!!!! Ho ho ho ho ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! YEAH!!! Now he dies!! This guy is all talk, and besides, with Jowy in your party you have a few huge tricks up your sleeve with his Rune! Fight this one for Nanami. -After the Fight- Well, heāll die finally, and Jowy will take his leave. Hey, itās either that or staying around and being killed by your army! Nanami then passes out, and Shu runs up. He orders for the flag to be burned and then Huan shows up to help out Nanami. Everyone then goes back to the castle. Everyone will be giving you kind words as you all wait outside the doctorās room. Huan then comes out and delivers the news··· Nanami··.. is··. dead. Flik loses it at this point, but Viktor calms him down. If you got the 108 stars and were fast enough when Nanami was shot, Huan will ask to talk to Shu alone in the room. If you didnāt do one or both of these things, nothing else will happen. You have reason for rejoicing if he asks Shu to speak with him alone. :-) Youāll wake up in your room the next morning. Now is a lovely time to save, since you just did the most important part of the game and all. When youāve saved, head to the Main Hall and Shu will tell you that your army should attack Highland and finish them off. Give the order to invade Highland, and walk out of the Main Hall. Then youāll pass out. Go figure! A cut scene will then take place, showing Jowy sacrificing a doll of Julia to the Beast Rune. But his solders donāt know itās a doll, so they think that he actually just gave his wife to the Beast Rune. This gives the solders renewed vigor· or something like that. When walking away, Jowy will then pass out, too. The cut scene ends there and you wake up in your room with a bunch of people around you. After they give you some reassuring words that the war is very close to being over, you go back to sleep, then wake up again in the middle of the night. Go down to Shuās room and youāll see Apple walking in. Sheās a bit depressed to say the least, but before she leaves, Shu tells her to pick one of the cards sitting on the table in his room. She picks fire. Whatever could that mean? Shu doesnāt have anything to say, so you can go back to your room and sleep now. Then next day, save first thing! then head to the Main Hall. Everyone, and I DO mean everyone; will be gathered in there. If you still havenāt saved, tell them to hold on a minute and go do it real quick. When youāre ready, give them the OK to head off. At this point, a few people say some uplifting things, and then you get your chance to yell something uplifting. Donāt you feel good? After the cheering subsides, you and your troops will head off to meet your destiny. The next cut scene will be of you and a few troops walking through some woods. At this point you split up, leaving Viktor and Shu behind to pull off some sort of plan that only they know about. Of course, once you hear Shu say something about his ćlast missionä, you know it canāt be good. Then youāll see a major battle screen, but you wonāt be involved in it. Itās just a couple good units against seven Highland units. Once the Highlanders get close to your units, though, Shu will give the signal and Viktor will light the woods on fire, with all those Highlanders in it. Hmmmm· It makes sense now, doesnāt it? The card with fire on it? Of course it does! Later, Shu will be strolling through the burning forest, waiting for something to fall on him, perhaps, and he runs into Leon. You can sort of tell that they rather hate each other by their conversation here. Right at the end of the conversation, a tree falls· and· well, Shu doges it and is just fine. However, you and a few others waiting at the entrance to the burning forest donāt know that, and assume heās dead. Just when Apple is about to run into the forest in a crazy, whacked out, super fit, Shu and Viktor come marching out without a scratch. Strangely enough, heās rather upset about being alive, but hey, how would Konami look if they had the cool strategist guy die at the end of BOTH Suikodens? Well, worry not, theyāre smarter then that! Youāll appear outside a border. The Highland Border, to be exact. Talk to Hilda on the top left to rest and save, you donāt really need to leave this place. You can do that once you reach LāRenouille. Just be sure to save. Apple can rearrange your units for the upcoming major battle, if you want. Whenever youāre done doing whatever youāre doing, talk to Apple and tell her itās time to move out. |||MAJOR BATTLE: LāRENOUILLE||| Here we are. We have reached the final major battle of the game! This, of course, wonāt be the easiest major battle ever. In fact, itās up there with one of the hardest. But youāre a perfectly good match for Highland! To avoid taking lots of damage, you should make heavy use of Luc and Mazus, the two magic users, to hit the baddies hard from a good ways away. You should also use the Fire Spears to your advantage to hit two or three units at once. As youāll see, the units guarding the city wonāt be moving much. So youāll have all the time you need to position your units right where you need them. But what makes the fight so hard is the strength of the enemy units! Thankfully, Yuber runs off early in the fight, but that still leaves a challenge for you. Be careful during this battle, and take your time! Once you get the heroās unit a couple squares into the city, battle will end. One way of doing this without having to take out all those really strong units is to hurt one of the units bad enough to where itāll run into the city to heal. This will give you a clear passage into the center of the city. -After the Major Battle- After that long battle, youāll appear outside LāRenouille. Now you have to make a party. I recommend making a party of only five people. If you want to use the best party you can, you might want to do the same. Iām taking Georg, Pesmerga, Wakaba, and Clive. Remember, leave that last space blank. Why? Weāre gonna go pick up McDohl! If you donāt have access to McDohl, or donāt want to use him, choose your last character yourself. But donāt go into LāRenouille just yet. Push against the wall behind you and youāll leave the city. Now that youāre back on the world map, head northwest to the very little village of Sajah. Since this village is in Highland territory, unlike most other towns of the game, you donāt get the same love as you do in other villages. Instead, people here really donāt like the great hero of the state who led them to victory over Highland. But thatās just a small set back· go to the item shop and check out the Rare Finds section and buy the Golden Hammer. When you bring it to your castle blacksmith, youāll be able to get your weapons up to level 16! You may also want to buy and equip some Crimson Capes since theyāre sold here. Teleport back to the castle to rest and save, then teleport to Banner and go to Gregminster to get McDohl (unless you donāt have him in the game or donāt want to, etc). Once you get back, youāve gotta do some major weapon sharpening. If, and you probably will, run out of money, teleport back to LāRenouille and fight the monsters on the world map, or even the monsters in that are in LāRenouille itself. Really, it shouldnāt take all that long. After you get your weapons up to 16, get some more cash and go to your Rune shop. Buy a Water rune and put it on McDohl. Also, from fighting the monsters on the world map, you MIGHT have gotten a Mother Earth rune. If so, attach it to someone, and if not, donāt worry about it. Now rest if you need to, but be sure to save, and teleport to LāRenouille for the last time. -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-THE FINAL MISSION-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Once you get there, go right up into the front door. When you walk up a tiny bit, you get attacked by Lucia again· *sigh* ===Beating Lucia=== This is her hardest form, and she actually might be a problem for you. She has about 6000 HP and some powerful attacks. Further more, she attacks three times per round. Ouch!! Sheās actually sort of like another Luca Blight, just easier because youāre about 20 levels higher then you were when you fought Luca. Just hit her. You probably wonāt have to waste too much Rune power on this one. Hmmm· on second though, she isnāt that tough. :-) -After the Fight- Youāll see a cut scene involving Lucia and Teresa, which is of no importance, then you get to continue a long. This place is big! From where you are, go left, and keep going left till you reach the end up the hall. Then go up and youāll fight some solders. After theyāre done with, keep going up till you reach some stairs, then go down the stairs and go through the door. Go down this hall and through another door, and then you get to fight more solders. When you go through the door above the solders, youāll be in a big hall. Go all the way up the hall and youāll run right into the great Han. Really, Han isnāt nice. You then fall into a one of one dual with him. +++Dual Battle: Han+++ This is just another dual... It shouldnāt be that tough, though, since I have all these commands written down. -Defend Phrases- ćYou think you can beat me, boy?ä ćLet me see your power, Genkakuās son!!!ä ćTry that again, boy.ä ćWell struck·. It seems I should be more careful·.ä ćUnf· You like to take risks, eh?ä -Attack Phrases- ćFoolish boy!!!ä ćHo ho ho· you taught him well, Genkaku me friend·ä ćAnd now itās my turn.ä ćYou canāt defend yourself forever.ä ćI canāt let you pass here, son.ä -Wild Attack Phrases- ćNow feel my deadly sword.ä ćYou think my sword has lost its bite!!!ä ćYes, but can you defend against my sword!!!ä ćLetās bury our past here, boy!!ä ćWatch and learn, boy. Hereās how you wield a sword!!!ä ćCan you take this?ä -After the Dual- You should win rather easy. After words, Han has a quick death scene, and youāll continue on. In the next room, go up, then loop around when you get to the top of the stairs and go through the door here, then through another door. Go all the way down this hall and go right and through the door there. Follow this path till you reach a room with two doors in it. When you get there, take the left door. Now follow this path ALL the way up. I mean ALLLLLL the way up, till you reach a room where four solders jump out at you and fight you. After you kill them, go left and follow this hall till you reach a door an a path leading to the left. Take the path leading left and follow it till you reach the outside of the castle. Follow the little sidewalk to another door going back into the castle, and then go right down the hall. Youāll fight more solders, then continue. As far as paths go, it gets pretty simple here. All the door youāll come across are locked except for the ones your supposed to go though. Soon enough, youāll reach a fork. Look in the room to the right of you to find a save point! In the next room down, youāll find an Escape Talisman, just incase youāre in bad shape, I guess. Anyway, when youāve saved, exit this place by taking the path that leads up on the right side of the room. Follow this till you reach a room with a door on the top of the room and a door on the bottom. Take the one on top and then keep going. From here on out its strait all the way. Youāll soon see another save point, but this is a rather special one. It restores your Rune power, HP, heals your status problems, and hey, it even saves the game!! Make use of this lovely little gift and then keep going up to a final battle with Culgan and Seed. ===Beating Culgan and Seed=== These guys are worthy opponents! Seed has 4200HP, while Culgan has 3800HP. They each have very powerful runes, and you really shouldnāt hold back on them at all. Use everything at your disposal. Heck, with that cool save point right behind you, you have nothing to lose! :-) -After the Fight- Why do the bad guys always have to make you feel guilty for killing them right before they die? Oh well, after another death scene, you see a cut scene of Jowy and Pilika. Itās really quite touching· He tells her that heās going to have to say goodbye forever, and she asks him to hold her one more time, and he does, and Jillia walks in to hear abouther new home in Harmonia that sheās going to live in since Highland is about to fall for good. After they say a lot of goodbyes, you get control of the hero back. Before you walk forward any, go back to heal/save at that save point. Once thatās done, go back to the hall you appeared in and walk forward. Youāll see Leon again, and heāll tell you about Lucaās long time plan to unleash the Beast Rune into the world. After he says this, indecently, he unleashes it on your party. Here we go, folks· the last battle· ===Beating the Beast Rune=== After a nifty CG scene, youāll be in battle with this thing. Itās made up of five parts. A right head, 4800HP, a left head, 4800HP, a right paw, 5700HP, a left paw, 4500HP, and a rune, 3300HP. Of course, the thing has its super strong attacks and defense, and frankly, youāre pretty mismatched. Itāll either hit you three times with three attacks, or one time with one BIG attack. Either way, youāre in bad shape. McDohlās Black Shadow attack works Ok, since it hits everything at once. And of course, if you get in a jam, you have the heroās Forgiver Sign attack, which will get you out of trouble if needed. The first thing to attack is the Rune. Once itās gone, use a couple good attacks on the right leg to kill it. It revives other sections, so it should be taken out fast. After which the left leg is the target. Now, pretty much all the big threats are gone. Just use whatever you have left over to win. Itās not too bad from here on out· -After the Fight- Whew· glad thatās over· Your party walks into the throne room, but thereās no sign of Jowy. Only his cape is sitting on the throne. Then, the castle starts to cave in, and you start to run out. However, the people waiting for you outside are starting to get a bit worried. But then you run out with a big grin on your face and a spirit of victory and justice! Well· you run out, anyway. The next day, you wake up in your castle. SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE!!!!!!! If you donāt save now, youāll have o beat that stupid Beast Rune again to see all the endings!! _-_-_-_-_-_-_-ENDINGS-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ People are got the 108 stars, rejoice! Itās about to pay off! -Ending #1- This is one of the basic endings where you donāt have to have all 108 stars to see it. Go to the Main Hall and speak with everyone there. Theyāll tell you that they want you to lead their new country. Say you will, and bam! Youāve got the ending! Youāll then see a few future cut scenes of what happened, teamed up with some great music. Then window will start popping up, describing what every single star did after the war. The credits will role, and after the credits, youāll see a neat little picture! The End. -Ending #2- Another basic ending, but I suppose a bit harder to find. Go to the Main Hall, and theyāll tell you about the new country and everything, but this time, say you wonāt lead the new country. Youāll then be able to leave and go to whatever you want. Teleport to LāRenouille and then leave. Walk southeast down the Tanzen Pass, and follow this path till you come to a fork in the road. When you reach the fork, go left, not strait. Follow this path for a while (you may remember this bit of it, since this was where the game started. That is, this is the campsite where the massacre took place), and youāll reach the spot where you and Jowy carved the X in the rock at the start of the game. Heāll be there waiting for you. After he tells you a few things youāve probably been wondering for a while, such as why he betrayed you and tried to kill you on several different occasions, heāll challenge you to the REAL final battle. A one of one dual. Beat him in the dual, and heāll then die. After words, youāll go back to the castle and become king of your new country. The rest of this ending is just like the last one! -Ending #3- This is the ending everyone wants, and itās a real reward for taking the time to get the 108 stars. In the Main Hall, when everyone is telling you about the new country, say you wonāt lead it and then go to LāRenouille. From here, go to Tanzen Pass, and to the same spot you met Jowy at the last time. The same thing will happen, heāll challenge you to a dual battle, but instead of killing him this time, DONāT attack. EVER!!! After about two duals, heāll get really weak and fall down. Heāll then ask you for your right hand so he can give the rest of his power to your rune. When he asks this, DO NOT give him your hand! Keep refusing!! After you refuse a couple times, heāll start to get healed by your rune. At that point, you two finally make up with each other and head off. -------------------------------HUGE SPOILER!!!!!!------------------------------------- Read this next part at your own risk of ruining the best ending for yourself. After you two start walking away, Shu comes up to you and tells you something very interesting. When Nanami was shot with that arrow, she really didnāt die. She faked it. Why, you ask? She wanted to get away from the hero while the war was going on because ćshe didnāt like to see him hurtä. Frankly, I donāt see how his sister dying was going to make him feel any better then he did, but whatever. It turns out sheās been waiting at Genkakuās house this whole time! After saying a few more words, Shu leaves you so you can go see Nanami again, and Jowy, of course, comes along with you. You then get to see a bunch of really cool cut scenes of the three of them going off and doing stuff! And you even get to see where Jillia and Pilika live. And believe me, itās nice!! -----------------------------END OF HUGE SPOILER-------------------------------------- After you see that, you may expect yourself to go back to the castle and lead your country, but you donāt. And then the boxes with what the people did after the war comes up again, and then the credits, and a special picture at the end. And so, youāve beaten the whole game· ah· its one heck of a thing. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-CHARACTER LIST-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ A huge thanks to Odin135 for this list!! Thanks again! Oh, and sorry if this is a bit hard to read. After I copied and pasted it, it was all scrambled and stuff. I think I got it to where itās pretty much readable. 108 Stars of Destiny When I found out that there was no character list for Suikoden 2 I decided to make one. If any one finds anything wrong or has information about characters that I don't have please E-mail me at Odin135@hotmail.com It may take some time for me to repley be patient. If you have questions about the game include where you are in the game and what you are suppost to do next. If you want to use this on your website E-mail me and ask first. Castle Level 1= 30 members and below Castle Level 2= 31-60 members Castle Level 3= 61-100 members Castle Level 4= 101 members and above Name Location How to get them 1. Hero Start with Start with 2. Ridley Two River City Joins after Two River City beats Kiba 3. Shu Radat City Joins after you find his coin 4. Luc HQ Lekneet brings him to you 5. Humphrey Rakutei Mt. Complete Dragon Quest 6. Hauser Tinto City Joins after you defeat Neclord 7. Kiba HQ Don't kill him after you beat him in battle and he joins 8. Pesmerga Cave of Wind Shows up where you fought the Star Dragon Sword when you have 100 members talk with him and he will join you 9. Sierra Tigermouth Joins when you walk into Tigermouth with Kahn 10. Teresa Greenhill City Rescue from Greenhill City 11. Nina Greenhill City Joins when you return to HQ with Teresa 12. Feather Forest Village Need one of Badeaux's crystals, walk into center of town and fight griffins and he joins 13. Viktor South Window Joins when you enter South Window for the first time 14. Valeria Gregminister Choose her at Gregminister OR 14. Kasumi Gregminister Same as Valeria 15. Fitcher Two River City After you defeat Kiba at Two River City 16. Clive South Window Talk to him when you have a boat 17. Flik HQ Joins after you defend HQ for the first time 18. Tsai Ryube Forest Go to his house in the forest when you need Fire Spears 19. Jess Tinto City Joins after you defeat Neclord 20. Stallion Radat Town After fall of Greenhill, Must beat him in race (run from battle 50 times to win race) 21. Georg Tigermouth Path After beating Neclord talk to him 22. Hanna Toto Village Talk to her after Toto burns down 23. Killey South Window Talk to him in South Window then at Alex's shop then back at South Window After Alex has joined you and after Luca is dead 24. Anita Muse City / Keep talking to her and saying she is Banner Village beatuiful and refilling her glass (you have to leave the town every after time you talk to her 25. Sigfried Kobold Village Need to bring one of Badeaux's crystals and a pure female (Such as Nanami) the place where Hix defeated the Unicorn, must have completed the Unicorn quest first 26. Nanami Kyaro Town Walk into your back yard 27. Rina Coronet Town Talk to her after Tai Ho agrees to take you to Kuskus Town 28. Tai Ho Kuskus Town Win 5000 bits from him and he will join 29. Eilie Coronet Town Joins with Rina 30. Yam Koo Kuskus Town Joins with Tai Ho 31. Bolgan Coronet Town Joins with Rina 32. Hix Kobold Village After defending Two River Talk to him and Tengaar in Lakewest inn and then go to Kobold Village and complete Unicorn Quest 33. Tengaar Kobold Village Joins with Hix 34. Freed Y HQ Joins after South Window falls to highland 35. Yoshino Radat Town Bring Freed Y to her house and then leave the town then come back to her house and she will join (will only be there if shu has already joined) 36. Chaco 2 River(Kobold) After you defeat Kiba at Two River City joins when you try to leave town 37. Klaus HQ Joins with Kiba 38. Gilbert Battle Map 3 Wound him in battle and he joins 39. Tetsu Lakewest Town Buy fried tacos from Two River City(Kobold) and use them on the Hero until he starts smoking then go and talk to him 40. Jeane 2 River(Human) Talk to her in the Rune shop after the fall of Greenhill City 41. Wakaba Forest Village Castle Level 2, Hero must be level 30+ 42. Maximillian South Window After you Luca has been killed he will stop you when you enter the town 43. Genshu Coronet Town Castle Level 4 Hero's weapon level 15+ 44. Camus Rockaxe Castle Joins with Miklotov 45. Miklotov Rockaxe Castle 46. Jude Greenhill City After you have recapture Greenhill bring him clay, a guy in Forest Village has clay 47. Lebrante Radat Town Buy a Ceadon Vase from the Trader in Gregminister and give it to him 48. Lorelai Gregminister Castle level 3 49. Tony Forest Village Castle level 2 in the chief's house 50. Gijimu 51. Rikimaru Ryube Village Pay for his meal (3000 Bits) and he will join 52. Gantetsu South Window After defeating Neclord challenge him the parties' total strength has to be over 400 53. Simione Radat Town Buy a Rose Brouch at Banner Village and give it to him and he will join 54. Connell Forest Village Castle must be level 3, bring him a sound set 55. Hans 2 River(Human) Talk to him on the 2nd floor of the Inn 56. Huan HQ Same as Flik 57. Tuta Muse City Talk to her in front of Huan's house 58. Futch Rakutei Mt Joins with Humphrey 59. Tomo Ryube Forest Bring Tsai to his house when he asks to get get some tools, Tsai must be in party 60. Badeaux Forest Path Castle Level 3 must have hero and shiro in party 61. Mazus Tinto Mines Castle Level 4 he is standing where there are a bunch of slides 62. Mondo Rokkaku Hamlet Castle Level 4 if you got Valeria or just have Kasumi and enter the town (see end of faq for directions to town) 63. Sasuke Rokkaku Hamlet Same as Mondo 64. Leona HQ Same as Flik 65. Adlai South Window After you get HQ give him a sacrifice jizo and a wooden shield and then get a wind crystal and throw it at him 66. Raura Tinto City Joins if you have Jeane 67. Sheena Gregminister Find in HQ(not sure when) and he leads you to Gregminister where he joins 68. Kinnison Ryube Forest Put nest back in tree and walk off and back onto the screen and he will join 69. Shiro Ryube Forest Joins with Kinnison 70. Amada Radat Town Go and talk to him when you need to get to Two River city 71. Emilia Greenhill City Tell her who you and Flik are (the first Choice) 72. Zamza Toto Village Talk to him with Nanmai in party (before Toto burns down) 73. Karen Kuskus Town Castle Level 3, dance with her after Luca has been killed 74. Lo Wen Joins with Gijimu 75. Tenkou Crom Village Bring him a window set and he joins 76. Gadget Greenhill/Muse Joins with Meg Border 77. Annallee South Window After Luca has been killed go to the Inn then talk to her again to the right of the town hall after she sings she joins 78. Viki Greenhill/ Appears out of no where and joins Matilda 79. Koyu 80. Vincent Radat Town Castle Level 4 bring Simione to where he was standing and he will join 81. Meg Greenhill/Muse Castle Level 2, talk to her Border 82. Mukumuku Kyaro Town Talk to the big tree behind the Hero's OR house 3 times Greenhill/Muse Walk back and forth between Greenhill and Border Greenhill/Muse Border with only the Hero and he will show up in a battle and he joins 83. Marlowe 84. Richmond Radat Town Play the coin game with him once then go to the bar and talk to a game there and get another coin and play him again 85. Apple Toto Village When you return to Toto after buying the wooden amulet and she will be there 86. L. C. Chan CromVillage Go to the Inn with Wakaba in your party then talk to him behind the house to the right of the Inn 87. Millie Ryube Village Agree to find Bonepart and when you do she joins 88. Tessai Kuskus Town After you have recaptured Greenhill bring Viktor to the weapon shop and he will join 89. Taki Lakewest Talk to her a bunch of times and she joins 90. Gengen HQ When you have to go get Flour 91. Gabocha 2 River(Kobold) Bring Gengen to see him and he joins 92. Yuzu Kobold Village Agree to help find her sheep, must complete Unicorn Quest first 93. Hai Yo HQ Castle Level 2, On the second floor south balcony (right side) he will be talking to someone and he will join 94. Kahn CromVillage Talk to him in town after Tinto is taken over by Neclord 95. Barbara HQ Same as Flik 96. Sid 2 River(sewers) After the city is saved bring Chaco into the sewers and under the water fall and Sid will join 97. Shin Greenhill City Joins with Nina 98. Oulan Kuskus Town Talk to an old lady who says some thing about a band of people mugging female groups then leave the town and go back in with a mostly female team and cross the bridge in the center of the town 99. Shilo Lakewest Town Castle Level 2, win 5000 bits from him and he joins 100. Alex White Deer Inn Talk to Hilda when you have a castle and they Join 101. Hilda White Deer Inn Joins with Alex 102. Bob 2 River(Kobold) Castle Level 3 and talk to him 103. Ayda Forest Village Joins with Feather 104. Pico Greenhill City Talk to him when you have Annallee 105. Alberto Tinto City Talk to him when you have Pico and Annallee 106. Templton Toto Village Go to the Mercenary Fortress after it has burned down and meet Templton and then go to Toto and he joins 107. Hoi Radat Town After Luca has been killed walk into the bar and stand up for Hoi 108. Gordon Gregminister Make 50,000 Bits from trading and he joins There are some charaters that do not get a star because they join your party until you until you get rid of them and then you have to get them again. 109. Makumaku 2 River City/ Walk back and forth on the road between Greenhill City 2 River city and Greenhill City with only the Main Character and he should appear in a battle with you(you can have other squirles in the party when doing this) 110. Mikimiki Greenhill City/ Same as Makumaku Execpt walk between Forest Village Greenhill City and Forest Village 111. Mekumeku Greenhill City/ Same as Makumaku Execpt walk between Matilda Greenhill City and Matilda 112. Mokumoku Clearing below Same as Makumaku Execpt walk between in the Forest Village the clearing below Forest Village How to get to Rokkaku Hamlet On the way to Gregminister just after the cliff where you climb a bunch of latters go north until you are stopped by trees and then go right until you are in a path with trees above you and below you and then keep trying to go down and through the trees. There is a hidden path somewhere in this section that leads to the town. Abizboah and Rulodia I have hear that there are 4 monsters in total Sigfried, Feather, Rulodia, and Abizboah. I have yet to get them. If anyone knows how you can get them when you have used 2 crystals on the Sigfried and Feather and If they count as stars E-mail me ASAP. And is Rulodia a star. I would like to say thanks to all the people who helped out especially JL and Spencer Pantera. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-EQUIPMENT LIST-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ MAJOR thanks to Feral for letting me use this! Again, thanks man!! Suikoden 2 armor types and equipments listing compiled by Feral (feralnoa@aol.com) version 0.9 Added some rare accessories from the Mountain Climbing mini-game prizes. Version 0.8 January 23, 2000. Rearranged some of the accessories listed after further testing. Version 0.7 January 20, 2000. Started this list. Don't you just hate it when you find something like Windspun Armor, and it looks really great, but no one (well, no one that you brought along, at any rate) can wear it? Me too. Well, this is my solution to that. This list is intended to show which of the many characters in the Playstation game Suikoden 2 can equip which armors and helmets/headgear, as well as whether they can have a shield. Also hopefully it will eventually have a comprehensive listing of the accessories and which characters those can be equipped by. I had noticed that the instructions booklet which came with Suikoden 2 had a list placing each of the armors into one (or more) of four categories. This then gave me the idea that it could be possible to put together a list of which characters can wear each of the armors, without having to write it all out over and over about 70 or so times. If each character could only wear one type of armor, then it would be comparatively simple to use the categories to predict which armors could be worn by each character, as opposed to manually trying out each combination. Same thing for the helmets/headgear, and it would also be simple to determine whether a character can carry a shield as well. The accessories, on the other hand, pose a bit more of a problem, as the instructions booklet did not provide types for them. Note: This is still preliminary, and some of these are still from guesswork. If you find any mistakes, such as characters/equipment being left out or incorrectly listed, please e-mail me with the correction(s), and how you determined it so I can fix the problem. Also, the instructions booklet that came with the game also had some mistakes in it which I have attempted to catch and fix, but some may still have slipped by. http://members.aol.com/feralnoa/Suikoden2/Equip.html webpage(html) version of this list with clickable links in tables and some info on runes as well. List of characters and their armor type, helmet or headgear, shield if they can carry one. Specific unremoveable equipment is in (parentheses). the hero - Light Armor, Headgear Amada - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Anita - Light Armor, Headgear, Shield Ayda - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Badeaux - Heavy Armor, Helmet Bob - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Bolgan - Light Armor, Helmet Camus - Light Armor, Helmet, Shield, (Crimson Cape) Chaco - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Clive - Light Armor, Headgear Eilie - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Flik - Light Armor, Headgear, Shield Freed - Light Armor, Helmet, Shield, (Water Amulet) Futch - Light Armor, Helmet, Shield Gabocha - Light Armor, Headgear Gantetsu - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Gengen - Light Armor, Helmet, Shield Genshu - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Georg - (Silver Armor), Helmet Gijimu - Heavy Armor, Helmet Hai Yo - Light Armor, Headgear Hanna - Light Armor, Helmet, Shield Hauser - Light Armor, Helmet Hix - Light Armor, Headgear, Shield Hoi - Light Armor, Headgear Humphrey - (Knight Armor), Helmet Jowy - Light Armor, Headgear Kahn - Light Armor, Helmet Karen - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Kasumi - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Killey - Light Armor, Headgear Kinnison - Light Armor, Headgear Koyu - Light Armor, Headgear L.C. Chan - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Lo Wen - Light Armor, Headgear Lorelai - Light Armor, Helmet, (Thunder Amulet) Luc - Robe, Headgear, (Speed Ring) Mazus - (Robe of Mist), Headgear McDohl - Light Armor, Headgear Meg - MA Karate Suit, Headgear, (Lucky Ring) Miklotov - Heavy Armor, Helmet, (Fire Emblem) Millie - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Mondo - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Nanami - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Nina - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Oulan - Light Armor, Helmet, (Power Gloves) Pesmerga - (Knight Armor, Horned Helmet, Chaos Shield, Guard Ring, Iron Boots) Rikimaru - Light Armor, Helmet Rina - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Sasuke - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Sheena - Light Armor, Headgear, Shield, (Star Earrings) Shilo - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Shin - Light Armor, Headgear Sid - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Sierra - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Simone - Light Armor, Headgear, (Cape of Darkness, Gold Emblem) Stallion - Light Armor, Headgear, (Winged Boots) Tai Ho - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Tengaar - Robe, Headgear, (Wind Amulet) Tomo - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Tsai - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Tuta - Robe, Headgear Valeria - Light Armor, Headgear, Shield Viki - Robe, Headgear Viktor - Light Armor, Headgear Vincent - Light Armor, Headgear, Shield, (Rose Brooch) Wakaba - MA Karate Suit, Headgear Yoshino - MA Karate Suit, Headgear, (Water Amulet) Zamza - Robe, Headgear Shiro, Gadget, the five squirrels, Feather, Sigfried, Abizboah and his wife and child can't have anything equipped. Types of equipment Helmets/Headgear Bandana (headgear) def + 1 Leather Hat (helm/hdgr) def + 2 Feathered Hat (headgear) def + 3, Spd + 3, resists wind Pointed Hat (headgear) def + 5, protects against balloons Circuret (helm/hdgr) def + 7 Half Helmet (helm/hdgr) def + 10 Head Gear (headgear) def + 14 Silver Hat (headgear) def + 19, restores HP, resists darkness Full Helmet (helmet) def + 20 Wind Hat (headgear) def + 24, Spd + 7, resists wind Flame Helmet (helmet) def + 30, Str +4, resists fire Horned Helmet (helmet) def + 35 Mole Helmet (helm/hdgr) def + 12, Prevents unfriendly Armor (R = Robes, MA = Martial Arts Karate Suit, Lt = Light Armor, Hvy = Heavy Armor) Robe (Lt/MA/R) def + 1 Tunic (Lt/MA) def + 2 Leather Coat (Hvy/Lt/MA) def + 4 Brass Armor (Hvy/Lt) def + 6 Guard Robe (Lt/MA/R) def + 7 Karate Uniform (Lt/MA) def + 10, Tech +5 Leather Armor (Hvy/Lt) def + 14 Chain Mail (Lt) def + 16 Ninja Suit (Lt/MA) def + 17, Spd +15 Half Plate (Hvy) def + 19 Magic Robe (Lt/MA/R) def + 22 Thunder God Garb (MA) def + 25, Hit +10, resists lightning Scale Mail (Lt) def + 28 Dragon Armor (Hvy/Lt) def + 30 Master Robe (MA/R) def + 33, Restores HP Full Plate (Hvy) def + 36 Taikyoku Wear (MA) def + 40, Spd +10 Master Garb (Lt/MA) def + 45, Str + 15, Tech + 15 Robe of Mist (MA/R) def + 47, Repels magic, resists water Earth Armor (Hvy/Lt) def + 49, Anti-bat, resists earth Dream Robe (MA) def + 52, can't be attacked Silver Armor (Lt) def + 55, Restores HP, resists darkness Knight Armor (Hvy) def + 58 Blood Armor (Hvy/Lt) def + 62, Drains HP Windspun Armor (Hvy) def + 65, Spd +15, resists wind Mole Suit (Hvy/Lt/MA/R) def + 29, Resists earth, no target Shields Wooden Shield def + 2 Steel Shield def + 7 Kite Shield def + 12 Mangosh def + 19, Return stab x 1.5 Silver Shield def + 27, Restores HP, resists darkness Chaos Shield def + 34 Earth Shield def + 36, Anti-bat, resists earth Accessories For hands (cannot be worn by Kobolds) Gloves def + 2 Gauntlet def + 4 Power Glove def + 16, Str + 15 Silverlet def + 11 Goldlet def + 18 Footwear (cannot be worn by Wingers or Kobolds) Wooden Shoes def + 1 Leggings def + 2 Boots def + 3 Toe Shoes def + 9 Winged Boots def + 14, Spd +10 Iron Boots def + 15 Necklaces (can only be worn by Kobolds and Wingers) Necklace def + 7 Heavy Necklace def + 11 Silver Necklace def + 17, Restores HP Gold Necklace def + 21, Mag def + 5 Capes (* can be worn by all) Cape def + 1 Leather Cape def + 5 Fur Cape def + 9 Cape of Darkness def + 12 Crimson Cape def + 14 Emblems (cannot be worn by Kobolds or females) Fire Emblem def + 7, Str +15, resists fire Gold Emblem def + 10, Mag def +10 Rings (* can be worn by all) Guard Ring def + 7, Mag def +10 Rings (not yet tested or found a pattern for) Speed Ring def + 10, Spd +15 Skill Ring def + 9, Tech +20 Lucky Ring def + 12, Luck +20 Magic Ring def + 7, Mag +15 Power Ring def + 8, Str +20 other accessories (* can be worn by all) Cheek Guards def + 3 Shoulder Pads def + 5 Belt of Strength def + 6, Str +5 other accessories (can only be worn by feminine characters) Blue Ribbon def + 6, can't be targeted Star Earrings def + 8, Restores HP other accessories (not yet tested or found a pattern for) Water Amulet def + 6, Repels magic, resists water Thunder Amulet def + 9, Hit +15, resists lightning Wind Amulet def + 12, Spd +10, resists wind Sun Badge def + 4, Restores HP Fish Badge def + 6, Repels magic (** I can't seem to figure this out) Wing Ornament def + 19, Spd +12 (can only be worn by Wingers) Rose Brooch def + 13 (can only be worn by Vincent and Simone) Special Accessories (these can be equipped by characters other than the ones listed, but won't have any effect) Rose Bouquet Narcissus ATK Up (Vincent, Simone) Millet Dumplings For Badeaux. Beastmaster ATK Up Dog Whistle For Kobold Attack.... (Gengen, Gabocha) Lubricating Oil If Meg equips, Gadget's ATT Up Secret Writings Ninja ATK Up (Kasumi, Mondo) Invincible Smile Fancy Lad ATK Up (*** see note) Cup of Promise Manly, Bandit ATK Up (Amada, Rikimaru, Gijimu, Koyu, Lo Wen) Leisure Set For Family Attack.... Notes * can be equipped by all characters, Except those who can't have any items at all, of course. ** I thought that it could only be worn by characters younger than 18 years old, but Viki can't wear it and according to Richmond, she's only 16... *** I think this is really supposed to be either the Pretty Boy ATK (Flik, Miklotov, and Camus) or the Cutie Boy ATK (Futch, Luc, and Sasuke) Credits and Thanks to: whoever at Konami made Suikoden2 and the booklet that came with the game, otherwise I wouldn't have anything to write about. Aya Brea for chatting with me via e-mail and asking "Don't you hate powerful stuff like Windspun Armor that no one can wear?" which is what gave me the idea to make this list. The people who post on the Suikoden board at rpgamer for giving me feedback and encouragement (I post on there as Viki) and Pesmerga for just being helpful in general. Anyone else who helped me in any way that I may have forgotten to mention. If you'd like to use this list for something, feel free, but Please give me credit for typing it all up and testing most of the stuff to make sure it's accurate. -_-_-_-_-_-_-Your Castle-_-_-_-_-_-_- In Suikoden, you had a castle in the middle of a lake. It was comfy and it got the job done. In Suikoden 2, you rule over an entire town!! This town is home to more then just shops, an Inn, and a couple mini-games, as in Suikoden. Rather, it houses about six different mini-games and many, many shops, rooms, and people to talk to. This will hopefully make your Suikoden 2 home a little bit less confusing. -Levels- Your town grows every time you recruit someone, but there are certain points in the game where it grows a lot in a quick spurt. ~Level 1~ This is, of course, what it starts on. It stays like this till you have 1. Recruited 30 people 2. Join forces with Two River City ~Level 2~ Once itās level 2, it stays level 2 until you 1. Recruit 61 people 2. Recruit Klaus and Kiba ~Level 3~ The castle starts getting very big and confusing at this point, with the huge amount of rooms and tunnels that, in fact, all join together. If youāre not careful you could find yourself lost in your own castle! But, it gets even bigger as soon as you 1. Recruit 102 people 3. This level is the final level, and last until you beat Suikoden 2 -Shops- Of course, certain people you recruit run shops in the town and castle. With all 108 characters, youāll have everything from an Inn to a Trade Center. ~Item Shop~ Owner: Alex Alex runs the Item shop in town, and stocks whatever item shop youāve visited before stocked. For example, if you went to a town and went to an item shop that sold Mega Medicine, Mega Medicine will be added to Alexās inventory. Outstandingly useful, if you ask me. ~Armor Shop~ Owner: Hans Hans, of course, sells Armor. Like Alex, he stocks whatever armor shops youāve visited so far. ~Rune Master~ Owner: Jeane Once Jeane is recruited, youāll have your own Rune Master to engrave, remove, or sell Runes. She sells, you guessed it, whatever the Rune Masterās shopās sold that youāve visited before! ~Magic Scrolls~ Owner: Raura This special shop is opened after you get Raura to join you. She specializes in Magic Scrolls (i.e. Flame Wall). This is the only shop of its sort in the game giving it special qualities. Not only does she sell Magic Scrolls, but also if you bring a Rune to her, sheāll actually change it into a Scroll! ~Trade Center~ Owner: Gordon Gordon opens a Trade center, which can make you quite rich. You have to know what to trade at what center, of course, to get the best results. The following chart should clear this up a little. As you can see by looking at it, some items are real good investments, while other arenāt as good. Item to Trade Best Place to Buy Best Place to Sell Ancient Text 700p, Kobold Town 35000p, Forest Town Book 3500p, Forest Town 7300p, Rockaxe City Crystal Ball 300p, Crom Village 7000p, Kobold Town Candle 200p, Rokkaku Town 750p, Crom Village Deer Antler 1100p, Forest Town 5500p, Headquarters Flute 200p, Headquarters 700p, Rockaxe City Fur 350p, Headquarters 800p, South Window Gold Bar 17000p, Rokakku Town 40000p, Highway Town Holly Barrie 550p, Forest Town 1100p, Rockaxe City Mayonnaise 400p, South Window 2200p, Highway Town Musk 4500p, Highway Town 8500p, Crom Village Native Costume 800p, Gregminster 2500p, Highway Town Pearl 18000 Rokakku Town 35000p, Rockaxe City Red Pepper 1200p, Crom Village 3200p, Rockaxe City Salt 270p, South Window 700p, Rokakku Town Soy Sauce 300p, Rokakku Town 850p, Gregminster Sugar 150p, Forest Town 550p, Highway Town Wine 650p, Gregminster 1900p, Rockaxe City Wooden Amulet 350p, Kobold Town 850p, Crom Village -Helpful Areas- Aside from shops, your town includes other helpful areas of interest, such as an Inn. ~Blacksmith~ Owner: Tessai This is pretty basic, but sharpening your weapons is pretty darn important. This just go to show you that you shouldnāt forget the basics! ~Inn~ Owner: Hilda Alexās wife, Hilda reopens her old Inn in your headquarters! It is, of course, useful to be able to rest and save before a major battle or something of that nature without having to go to the nearest town and back. ~Appraiser~ Owner: Lebrante This is the only Īhelpful areaā Iām not exactly satisfied with. At 400p per appraisal, itās actually better to go to a town and get it done there. ~Telescope~ An interesting addition, indeed. On top of the castleās watchtower, youāll find a telescope thatās used for sightseeing. Itās useless, actually, but still pretty neat-o. ~Library~ Owner: Emilia Whenever you get Emilia to join you, youāll get a library. Once you do, go get all your ĪOld Booksā from the storeroom and give them to her. Sheāll put them on the shelf and you can read them, intern, getting some sort of history lesson about the game or other information. Itās actually quite interesting. ~Storeroom~ Owner: Barbara This is outstandingly useful, and best of all, you get it at near the start of the game. This is used for storing items that you might not need at the moment, or when you have to make some quick room in your inventory. With the Storeroom, you wonāt have to drop items nearly as much as you WOULD have to. ~Cartographer~ Owner: Templeton Otherwise known as a mapmaker, Templeton has made a map of the whole State area. Not only does he give you one when you recruit him, but he also posts one on the wall of your castle. This huge map simply list towns, locations, buildings, and pictures of every town featured in the game (except Greminster, I think). ~The Bar~ Owner: Leona Now, this may sound a bit useless, but itās actually not. Aside from running the bar, Leona also manages your party members. Of course, this is anything but useless! ~Fast Transportation~ Owner: Viki Viki is a pretty messed up girl, but she can get you around very fast nonetheless. Once you recruit her, youāll be able to teleport to any single city youāve already visited (except Greminster). Something you should know, also. The more you use Viki to get around, the better chance you have of getting accidentally teleported to a secret room in the game! Youāll know if Viki says ćHuh?ä instead of ćShazam!ä then youāre on your way to the secret room. If you DO get to the room, WALK, donāt run, take every treasure you see (its really good stuff) and soon someone will run up the stairs, find you, and throw you out. -Other Interesting Things and Places- Interesting things and places are things like the Suggestion Box, or the Bronze Statue you get sometime in the game. ~Suggestion Box~ This appears outside the Main Hall. People write things and leave them in the box for you to read. Of course, there isnāt always something in there, but the more people you get, the more letters you get as well. ~Troop Placement~ This is quite nifty, but not really necessary for beating the game. Still, you can tinker around with your units (the ones that are used in major battles). The possibilities are simply endless! I suggest you experiment with this a bit, you may find something you like. When you want to mess with your troops, talk to Apple in the Main Hall. ~Boat~ The boat, which rests at the docks, can be used to sail anywhere in the lake, but youāll probably just start using Viki for your main sort of transportation once you have her. ~Window Settings~ Once you have Tenkou, give him the Window Sets that youāve found for new window setting options! Useless, but neat-o!! ~Bronze Statue~ When your castle is finally level 4 a statue will appear on the fourth floor telling you who has been the most useful in the battles of the game to that point. ~Sound Settings~ When youāve recruited Connell, give all your Sound Sets to him and youāll be able to change the gameās menu sound effects. ~Guardian Deity Statue~ Jude, who you recruit during the game, builds this statue. But you also need to collect all the 16 plans scattered over the world. You can build a Dragon, a Bunny, a Unicorn or a Turtle. Or you can mix them up, which can get· sort of interesting. The first time you build a statue, youāll receive some sort of gift. Below is a list of what you can get. Iāve used abbreviations so it wonāt take as long to type (Iām lazy!!!). The abbreviations are as follows: D = Dragon R = Rabbit T = Turtle U = Unicorn 1 = Plan 1 2 = Plan 2 3 = Plan 3 4 = Plan 4 Body Tail Legs Head Item you receive D3 D2 D1 D4 Dragon Incense U3 U2 D1 D4 Rage Rune U3 U2 U1 D4 Skunk Rune U3 U2 T1 D4 Firefly Rune T3 T2 D1 D4 Gold Bar T3 U2 R1 D4 Wall Rune R3 R2 D1 D4 Dragon Incense or Fortune Rune D3 D2 D1 T4 Silver Armor D3 U2 U1 T4 Technique Rune D3 D2 T1 T4 Whirlwind Armor D3 U2 T1 T4 Silence Rune T4 U1 R2 U3 Boulder Set or Toy Boat T4 T1 U2 U3 Mother Earth Rune T4 R1 D2 U3 Dream Robe T4 D1 T2 T3 Prosperity Rune T4 T1 T3 D1 Mother Earth Rune T4 D1 D2 R3 Robe of Mist T4 T1 U2 R3 Dryad Rune T4 T1 R2 R3 Cyclone Rune R4 R1 U2 U3 Phero Rune R4 T1 T2 T3 Fine Bone China R4 R1 T2 T3 Prosperity Rune or Fortune Rune R4 R1 R3 D2 Chaos Shield U4 T1 D3 T2 Landscape Painting U4 T1 R2 D3 Rubber Duck U4 T1 U2 U3 Hunter Rune U4 U1 T2 T3 Thunder Rune U4 U1 T2 T3 Flowing Rune U4 T1 T2 T3 Goddess Statue U4 R1 R2 R3 Fortune Rune ~Ranch~ The ranch is where Yuzu hangs out. Whenever you find a farm animal, catch it and sheāll take care of it for you. Of course, this really increases the food supply of the restaurant in your castle quite a bit. ~Farm~ Right next to the ranch is this farm. Bring Tony seeds to plant and youāll have a garden in no time at all. ~The Band~ When youāve gotten Albert, Pico and Annallee to join, you can talk to them and theyāll play you any background music you want to hear from the game. Oh, by the way, be sure to listen to the neat-o morning music (nicely titled Beautiful Morning)!!! ~Richmond~ Richmond can give you nice hints on where to find new recruits, and how to get them. He also tells you secrets about the people in your army! -Mini Games- ~The Old Whack-A-Mole Game~ Location: The Farm Owner: Tony Tonyās garden has a lot of moles that need to be beaten, and so you can beat them for him! Alright!! There are about four difficulty levels, beat the four of them and youāll get some Mole armor. ~Fishing~ Location: The Docks Owner: Yam Koo Fishing is probably the easiest mini game. Simply keep the power gauge in the big bar going up and down; and youāll have a fish, or a boot. The list goes on. The best fish is Salmon, which can be sold for over 4000p. ~Dancing~ Location: The room behind the stage Owner: Karen This can get kinda tough, for me especially cause my reflexes arenāt that great. This game has five levels of hardness, and stages four and five are random when it comes to the dance! However, levels one two and three have set dance steps to follow. Level 1: Triangle Square Circle X Triangle X Circle Square Level 2: Triangle Square Circle X Triangle X Circle Square Triangle Square Circle X Triangle X Circle Square Level 3: Circle Square Triangle Triangle Square X Circle X Circle Square Triangle Triangle Square X Circle X Circle Square Triangle Triangle Square X Circle X Level 4: Random, but watch out for the use of the L1 and R1 buttons. Level 5: Same as Level four. As you can plainly see, it gets much hardy each dance. You can win some nice stuff from this, though, so good luck! ~The Climbing Game~ Location: Through the door above the restaurant Owner: The owner of this mini game has no name This is pretty interesting, I must say. There are three leagues; they all have their own prizes and prices to play. Itās pretty much just a big board game, really. But even so, there are some really nice prizes to be won! To make it really annoying though, the prizes are chosen at random and depend on if you came in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. The Expert 10000p League: 3rd 2nd 1st Mega Medicine Ninja Suit Turtle Plans 4 Graffiti Silverlet Goldlet Sunglasses Sexy Wink Celadon Urn Mantle Kite Shield Kaikioku Wear Millet Dumpling Gold Bar Dog Whistle The Intermediate 5000p League: 3rd 2nd 1st Medicine Stone of Power Invisible Smile Boots Magic Stone Ninja Suit Failure Urn Boulder Set Silver Shield Lubricating Oil Secret Writings Deer Antler Blur Dragon Urn Leisure Set The Beginner 1000p League: 3rd 2nd 1st Medicine Teriyaki Karate Uniform Wooden Shoes Gauntlet Cup of Promise Hex Doll Blow of Anger Card Sun Patch National Outfit Wide Urn Rose Bouquet And thatās about it! Even though this game can be frustrating, itās also fun, sometimes. ? ~Chinchirorin~ Location: Barracks Owner: Shilo Once you get Shilo, you can have the pleasure of playing this outstandingly annoying and frustrating game any time you want!!! YEAH!!!! ~Cooking~ Location: Restraint Owner: None This is probably the most popular mini game in Suikoden 2. But it would be a waste of my time to write an ingredients list or something, since there are several on the Internet! When you recruit Hai Yo, strange chefs will appear and challenge him all the time. Be sure to visit the restaurant often to see if a new chef is there. -Anything I Might Have Missed- This section is always open for people to send me anything they want me to put up about the castle that I missed. I only have one thing at the moment, and that is this list of things to do in your bath. And Iāve only heard of these things, Iāve never bothered to do any of them yet. So if you want to tell me any more things to do for bath time fun, or want to tell me what some of these combos do, feel free. First you have to get all the flying squirrels. Now you need all the character that show up on the stone tablet, then you have to have access to all towns, finish all the cooking contest then when you have done all of the above go to where your dock is in your castle. Characara will appear near Yam Koo, chase him until his friends appear (Ruladia, and the other one) then they are yours to control. There are several hammers hidden throughout the world. Bring these hammers to Tessai and you can automatically jump one of your weapons to a very nice level. Bring Viktor and Flik into the cypress bath. Bring Viktor and Flik into the jungle bath. With any party, put six Blue Dragon Vases around the bath and two Landscape Paintings. Enter the bath 20 times once your castle reaches level four. Put six Vases and two Flower Paintings Around the bath. If you put 6 hex dolls and 2 Graffitiās in the bath, The Hex dolls' eyes begin to shine, and the Graffitiās eyes begin to bleed. Put six Hex Dolls around the bath. Put six Chinese Dishes all around the bath. Put six Pertain Lamps around the bath. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-SUGGESTION BOX LETTERS-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ This isnāt a necessary section of the game, or the guide, but I found a lot of these letters interesting and funny. These are, by the way, in alphabetical order, but since I donāt have many up yet it just seems like I just typed them up. But I didnāt! Alphabetical all the way! If you have any letters youād like to submit, go for it! Send them to jook@ignmail.com! ARE YOU GOOD? From Captain Gengen Jonathan, are you good? Gengen is trying very hard to be good solder. Me work hard as a bee. Gengen A KNIGHTāS PLEDGE Lord Hero, as a knight in the service of justice and good, I vow to aid you in any way I can. Maximillian A FANTASTIC LETTER I'm strong and I can use magic. I know you must be happy to have me on your side, but I don't like it when you take me out of the party. Got it? Zamza AMAZING TRICK I taught Bonaparte a new trick. I call it "Swallow the Man". I'll show it to you later. Bye- bye. Millie BEST OF THE BEST!!! Iāve been traning. Iām faster then ever. Faster then the wind! Stallion BUSTED AGAIN That thing on Gadget is busted again. Heās making so much noise. Maybe I should tighten his thingamajig. Meg BONAPARTE Bonaparte is so cute. When he saw this box, he wanted to pee on it. But I stopped him. Tee hee hee. Millie COME BY SOMETIME Why don't you come by and see us once in a while. I think Bolgan misses you. Eilie CLEAN UP, BRO This room really needs a good going over. I moved the dresser and it was so dusty back there! Hoi COME ON BY Sir Hero, Hey there. Why don't ya come by. I'll tell ya all about the country I'm from. Amada EXTRA CRYSTALS If youāve got extra crystals, bring them to me. You canāt find the scrolls I make anywhere else. Give them a try. Raura the Scribe ENCERAGE HIM Bolgan has been coming a lot recently and has been studying really hard. If you see him, please tell him how proud you are of him. Emilia FANTASTIC LETTER #3 With me on your side, you have no excuse for losing. Just remember that and weāll have no problems. Zamza GREAT CAPTION Captain Gengen showed me how to use a sword today. Captain Gengen is so strong! Gobocha GREAT CAPTAIN #2 Todat Captain Gengen taught me how to track enemies. You have to sort out the different smells. Gobocha GREAT CAPTIAN #3 Captain Gengen taught me how to swim today. He can stay underwater for 15 minutes! The fisherman was so surprised, he jumped in too! Gobocha HEY! This is the suggestion box, huh. Just wanted to see if youād read this. Hee hee hee. See ya, bro. Nanami HA HA HA HA HA· I know your secret. Sid HE HE HE!! This is a cursed letter. If you donāt pass it on to 5 more people, youāll be cursed. Have a nice day. Cid HOUSE IN RYUBE Lord Hero, Iāve left a bunch of tools at my home in Ryube. I canāt do without them. Tsai HEALTH WARNING Lord Hero, youāve been looking tired lately. Please remember your health comes first. Huan HOW DOES THIS SOUND? I want to write a letter to Flik. How does this sound? ćLord Flik, youāre as lovely as a star in the sky·ä From Nina HEY BRO Hope your working hard. As for me, I'm giving it all I've got. Hoi I WANT ONE! Next I want a cute little pink piglet. Yuzu I DONāT THINK Lord Hero, I donāt think Iām cut out to be a warrior. What do you think? Hix IS IT REALLY OK Is it really okay for me to be in the New Army? I feel so out of place. Karen IāM HAPPY Dāya know what? Taro· Taro loves Yuzu! Yuzu I DONāT GET IT Why aren't people nicer to my little sweetie, Bonaparte? He's very nice... once you get to know him. Millie I REALLY MESSED UP I made a slight teleporting error earlier. I was aiming for the restaurant, but I wound up in the men's bath. Boy were they surprised! Your Viki IāM SO EMBERESSED· I'm so embarrassed to be asking you this, but what kind of women do men like? I need some advice. Teresa I MISS MY FUTON I just can't get used to these 'beds' of yours.... I'd appreciate it if you could do something about it. Mondo LETāS GET TOGETHER· Hero, why donāt ya come visit me at the docks. The salt air smells great and we can do some fishing together. Yam Koo LIBRARY I was so surprised to hear how few of your solders read books. Fortunately more people seem to be getting interested lately. Emilia LIBRARY #2 I hope that even when he war is over, people will continue to come to the library to study and learn.... Emilia LIFE LESSON! To live is to fight!!! Long-Chan Chan MY SECOND GREAT LETTER The castle is too hot. Also there are too many people. Why donāt you ask some of the less important people to leave? Zamza MY DREAM I want to work hard so I can be a great doctor like Cr. Huan someday. Tuta MY SOUL The hammer is the soul of the blacksmith. If I had better hammers, I could sharpen everyone's weapons to a higher level!!! Tessai MY PLANS I'm planning to marry Hix when we get back to our village. You'll be invited too of course. Tengaar MY DEAREST FAMILY Mary, Thomas, are you well? Iām in the )*&^)&*^ Army now. I hope to return in the spring. Love, Gilbert MY THANKS Thanks to the Celadon Urn you gave me, I know have 100 vases and my collection is complete. I thank you. Liberante MU-MU!! MUMUMU? Mu-Mu, Mu!!! MUMUMU..... MU-MU-MU· "Mu-Mu? MUMUMU???" MU-MU-MU... "MU-MUN, MUN? MUMUMUMU...." NEEDS EXERSISE That Marlowe guy is always reading books. I think I'll drag him to the dojo for some exercise. Koyu OKAY, HOW ABOUT THIS? Iām going to try a more mature approach. Howās this sound: ćCiao, Flik. How ARE you? Iām laying in bed in my pajamas·ä From Nina PLEASE DO SOMETHING With all these villages and forts disappearing, itās hard to keep the map updated. Please end this war soon. Templton PLEASE COME Hello!!! Please come to the restaurant! I will make something special for you!!! Hai Yo PICNIC We had a picnic today. It was fun. I ate lots of food. Bolgan PLEASE Please Lord Hero. Please make Hix into a true warrior. Tengaar PLEASE I'm leaving Koyu up to you. He's not smart, but he's lovable just the same. Lo Wen RICHMOND INVESTIGATIONS Remember that all my investigations are handled absolutely discreetly. Loose lips sink ships. Richmond SLOW DOWN From Captain Gengen, Jonathan, donāt work too hard. You might hurt yourself. Come talk to Gengen is you feel sad, okay. Gengen STRIKE WITH YOUR MIND To strike truly with your sword, you must strike truly with your mind. Genshu SORRY Oh, sorry about that last letter. I mixed you up with someone else. Donāt worry, I won't do it again. Your Viki SO NICE Everyone here is nice. Itās a pleasure to wash their cloths. Yoshino SUGGESTION Hey, Lets get some more cute girls to join our army. Sheena STRANGE MORTALS I still do not fully understand you mortals. But I enjoy that wine your friend Viktor sometimes brings me when he is lonely. Sierra THATāS WEIRD I had to take Gadget apart and put him back together. There were a few screws left when I was done though.... I hope it's okay. Meg THEN HOWāS THIS· How's this: "Dearest Flik. I love thee as a bee loves a flower...." Well, that's just a first draft, but you get the idea... From Nina THANK YOU Lord Hero, Iāll never forget how you helped me find the coin that day at the river. Thank you. Apple THANKLESS WORK Considering how much people use my elevator, you would think I could get a 'thank you' once in a while. Don't you agree? Adlai THANKS Thank you for saving Bright. Iāll take good care of him. I promise. Futch TELL ME Tell me if you find any new clues about the Sindar. Don't tell you-know-who! From Lorelai THE BEST The food here is great! The best!!!! Rikimaru THANKS Lord Hero, thank you. Iām so happy that you listened to my singing in South Window. Iāll never forget you. Annallee TODAYāS LESSON Today, sensei taught me the secret art of kicking. It's all in the back... Wakaba TODAYāS LESSON #2 Sensei is still so much stronger than me. I've got a lot to learn still. More training, I guess. Wakaba RATS Lately, the warehouse has been full of rats. Please do something about it·. Barbara WHAT ABOUT IT? Did Apple say anything about me? Tell me if you hear anything, okay? Sheena WINDOW SET I saw a Window Set in Greenhill. I wonder what happened to it... Tenkou YOU STRONG From Captain Gengen, Jonathan, you are very strong now. Not as strong as me, but strong enough. Me proud of you. Gengen Here are three letters that I donāt know the titles for: I'm not as accomplished a phonologies as my father yet, but I hope to be someday. Connell I've gotten used to your lovely castle, but the more I'm here the more I wish I realize I belong in Greenhill. Teresa Wisemail Lord Hero, forgive me. I mistakenly put a letter to my family into this box Gilbert _-_-_-_-_-_-_-THE OLD BOOKS-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ The old books found throughout the game are interesting at the most, they contain information about a number of things you wouldnāt normally find out during the game. There are 8 books in all, but these are all Iāve found. If youāve gotten all the books, Iām open to contributions. If you DO send me one of the books (that is, what the book says), Iāll be sure to put it up. Thank ya. Seeker of Sindar (Personal note about the book: The Sindar are a very strange addition to Suikoden 2. About three of your recruits are people looking for the Sindar treasure, and it makes me wonder if theyāll be mentioned anymore throughout the Suikodens.) Page 1: I spent my life chasing the secrets of the Sindar, but here in these ruins, Page 2: Iāve reached the end of my strength. And so I write some of what Iāve learned. Page 3: The Sindar are a phantom race. They have become known throughout history and yet their true nature is a mystery. Page 4: They came from the north and traveled south, leaving mysterious ruins behind them. Page 5: Legends say the clan leader had a cursed rune inscribed in him forehead. Page 6: It granted eternal life but doomed the clan to a life of wondering. Page 7: They say a secret treasure lies in the heart of the ruins, Page 8: but there are many traps, and most seekers only find death, like myself· Rare Find List (Personal note about the book: One of the more useful books of the game. It contains a list of Rare Finds for a lot of the town throughout the game. However, once you buy the Rare Finds, this book wonāt do you much good.) Page 1: Ryube: Leather Coat, Brass Armor. Toto: Feather Hat. Page 2: Kyaro: Winged Boots. Muse: Sun Badge, Guard Robe, Circuret, Water Crystal, Fury Crystal. Page 3: Coronet: Tunic, Karate Uniform. Kuskus: Sacrificial Jizo. Page 4: South Window: Half Plate, Kite Shield, Water Crystal. Radat: Speed Ring, Sound Set #5, Magic Robe. Page 5: Lakewest: Headgear, Earth Crystal. Two River: Guard Ring, Silver Hat, Wizard Crystal. Page 6: Kobold Village: Gold Emblem, Heavy Necklace. Greenhill: Draining Crystal. Forest Village: Scale Mail. Page 7: Rockaxe: Silverlet, Brass Armor, Thunder God Garb. Highway Village: Rabbit Plans #2, Thunder Armlet. Page 8: Banner Village: Rose Brooch, Rabbit Plans #3, Full Plate. Gregminster: Winged Boots, Mangosh, Mother Earth Crystal, Flowing Crystal. Page 9: Tinto Town: Skill Ring, Wind Hat, Tunic, Kaikyoku Wear. Crom: Magic Ring. Character List (Personal note about the book: This doesnāt actually list every recruit in the game, but actually just a few. And it doesnāt tell you how to recruit them, it just tells you about them and where they can be located.) Page 1: Clive: From the Howling Voice Guild is chasing a ćwoman.ä Be careful of his gun. Page 2: Oulan: Trying to rid Kuskus of a thief who preys on all female parties. Page 3: Zamza: Seen in South Window. A master a magic and fists, he can also be seen in Toto. Page 4: Killy: Hunts for the secrets of the Sindar. Seems to be exploring in South Window. Page 5: Hoi: A thief who goes in and out of Radat. Page 6: Simone Vedricci: Staying in Radat while he studies away from home. Page 7: Pesmerga: Black Knight seens in Toran as well as the Cave of the Winds. Page 8: Jeane: Rune master from Toran. Opened a shop in Two River. Page 9: Meg, Gadget: Apprentice to a machination. Seen traveling from Greenhill to Muse. Page 10: Genshu: Seen at the inn in Coronet. Travels the world to improve his swordsmanship. The Gate Rune War (personal note about the book: If you, for some reason, didnāt play the first Suikoden, this will possibly shed some light on the Toran Republic. If you DID play the first game, you will have lived the book, and then some. So, aside from getting to read about yourself, the book is rather useless.) Page 1: The war in which the Toran Republic defeated the Scarlet Moon Empire is known as the ćGate Rune Warä or the ćLiberation War.ä Page 2: The first leader of the victorious Liberation Army was a woman named Odessa Silverburg. Page 3: She was originally emperial nobility, but her lover was killed by the Empire and Page 4: so she joined the Resistance and formed the Liberation Army. Page 5: The original members were Flik, Humphery and Sanchez, but according to another member, Viktor, Page 6: the later victorys were due to the intervention of McDohl, the son of the 6th emperial general. Page 7: During the war, Odessa was killed and McDohl took over leadership over the Liberation Army. Page 8: McDohl followed the advice of General Mathiu and set up Hora Castle as the new Liberation Army base. Page 9: After many battles, they succeeded in over throwing emperor Barbossa. Page 10: However after helping form a new nation McDohl journeyed off somewhere without seeing the fruits of his long labors. The Grasslands (personal note on the book: Iāve heard rumors that the Grasslands are where the next game may take place. If that turns out to be true, then this will be enlightened a little bit. This book is very short, one of the shortest books you find, and it doesnāt give much info on the actual Grasslands. It just tells you its location (north of Tinto), and who live there, etc. Anyway, this really makes me want Suikoden 3 to hurry up to see if this is where it takes place· Itās ever so mysterious· Page 1: The Grasslands are a grassy plain stretching from the western part of Tinto to the north. Page 2: Many different peoples live there, and are trying to take control of it. Page 3: Tinto plans on more raids in the future, but theyāre hindered by the Grasslanders, Page 4: particularly the Karaya and Chisya clans, as well as the Free Knights of Camaro. Page 5: Recently, border attacks by a group of thieves called the ćKeeper of the Flameä have increased. Page 6: (blank) _-_-_-_-_-_-_-FAQ-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Where the more common questions end up. Q: How do you use the Blinking Mirror? Lepant has already given it to me, but it doesn't show up in my inventory. A: It shows up in the ĪSpecial Itemsā section of your inventory; the same place the Listening Runes are, and the Suiko Map. Q: Who can where the Windspun Armor? A: I hear Miklotov can wear it with no problems. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-THANK YOUāS-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Iād like to thank Feral (FeralNoa@aol.com) for his armor list and information (i.e, pointing out some of my mistakes). And Odin135 (Odin135@hotmail.com) for his huge character list which was very helpful. Jakob for all his tons of info. Tim Saxton for his very nifty recruiting trick for· dang· what were there names? The big octopus guys? ? Elizabeth Hollinger for directions, HP levels, secrets, and her Players Guide published by Prima, which all that stuff is contained in.