Star Ocean 1 & 2 Remake/Port for PSP AND future SO4

[Fayttt]

As long as you save it somewhere after you get the BT the BTs are saved to your gamertag. So even if you're on your 5th playthrough on Chaos, if you go back to an original save on Earth for example your first playthrough, they will still be there. The same goes for spaceship data, weapons and monsters.
So if you get Gabriel's jewel on one playthrough you can even turn that into a monster jewel on your chaos or universe playthrough. Which is totally what I did.
The only boss I've had real issues with is that boss in the insect warren; fuck him in the Wandering Dungeon too. Thing pisses me off. Other then that, I haven't had much trouble with other bosses (I beat Gabriel at level 113, everything else was a breeze, though Gabriel took me two tries because the first time I just wanted to see what he did that was different) and the Eth queen I had down very very far but ended up messing up and will do later on I'm sure without an issue. Working on getting a super tri-emblum for her atm.
Does anyone know what the second to last monster is in the monster collections? I know (I forget if its 154 or 254, but I'm talking about the very end) the last one is likely the Eth. queen but I haven't bumped into the one before that so was wondering if anyone knew.

edit: nevermind, FML, doing team battle arenas.

[Julian]

Right now I'm starting a game on Earth difficulty to make my "get everything" save, where I'm gonna try to get all the quests and recipes, and get the welch achievement >.>

Yeah it's lame doing it on easy difficulty, but beats repeatedly getting owned by the final bosses because I'm on a higher difficulty, and I really don't want to play galaxy again :/ (Also gonna do all the PA's for all the endings)

Still gonna do the 2 higher difficulties just to beat them though.

[Zeb]

Last one for the monster data is the #1 fighter from team battle colosseum. He also has a weapon data.

[Fayttt]

Yeah..started team battles tonight...guess I'll wrap that up since I want to get the Monster Master achievement along with Ethereal Executioner, lulz.

[Nuriko]

Just beat the game last night and a little confused on the achievements/endings. I got all except Meracle, Faize and Crowe's. I know I can't get Crowe's on first time beating the game and I missed one or two things with Faize's PA's along the way (never got him and lymle to be in the same room). No idea how I missed Meracle, thought I had all her PA's. So my question is, if I didn't get Meracle's, can I still get Crowe's if I redo the last boss fight? Am I better off just replaying to get the endings I missed? Also:

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How the hell is Edge alive? Is that something that's explained in an extra CS based on affection levels that I didn't get? I know that "light" or whatever went after him and saved him, but there wasn't much explanation on it, so wondering if there are additional CS's I missed other than just specific "<name>'s Ending" CS's.

Lastly, is starting all the endgame stuff as simple as going back to my last save? Or is there something else I need to do?

[MisterBob]

Just beat the game last night and a little confused on the achievements/endings. I got all except Meracle, Faize and Crowe's. I know I can't get Crowe's on first time beating the game and I missed one or two things with Faize's PA's along the way (never got him and lymle to be in the same room). No idea how I missed Meracle, thought I had all her PA's. So my question is, if I didn't get Meracle's, can I still get Crowe's if I redo the last boss fight? Am I better off just replaying to get the endings I missed? Also:

Spoiler: show

How the hell is Edge alive? Is that something that's explained in an extra CS based on affection levels that I didn't get? I know that "light" or whatever went after him and saved him, but there wasn't much explanation on it, so wondering if there are additional CS's I missed other than just specific "<name>'s Ending" CS's.

Lastly, is starting all the endgame stuff as simple as going back to my last save? Or is there something else I need to do?

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Remember, Arumat returns the Sol to Faize back on Aeos. Faize summons it to him when he falls, and rescues Edge as well.

To get to endgame stuff, reload your save. In that room, there are two doors. The door on the left has the Undying Dragon, a boss that holds the Dark Ring (needed to open chests with ultimate abilities, and the first bonus dungeon). On the right is a one-time teleporter that will take you out of the dungeon.

[Julian]

Um I'm pretty sure you CAN get all endings on your first play through.

The only ending I got was Arumat's, lolz

[sephir]

I just have to say this, in all action RPG's that I've played over the last while, I've come to the realisation that the AI is always stupid.

I fought Gabriel last night, and my characters kept getting their asses handed to them. What I eventually did was just switch to Edge and solo'd him. Took me about 8 minutes and a few Bigberries, blackberries and lots of running.

For those that want to try this: basically I ran right up against Gabriel so that he would try to spam one of his abilities. Fortunately for me, because I was running so tight up against him, it would almost always miss. While gabriel was in his ability animation I would use Raging Strike > Raging Strike > Raging strike (or as many as I could get without getting hit myself). Gabriel has only one upwards attack (and rarely uses it) so you are pretty much safe when you are in the air. Eventually I wore him down from doing consistant 60k-99k skills.

[Fayttt]

Fuck the AI on this game
It really sucks
Fucking Myuria is like, HI GAIZ WHY DON'T I GO MELEE ARMAROS MANIFEST SINCE YOU TURNED ALL MY NUKES OFF AND I DONT FEEL LIKE HEALING ^_^

[avelle]

Fuck the AI on this game
It really sucks
Fucking Myuria is like, HI GAIZ WHY DON'T I GO MELEE ARMAROS MANIFEST SINCE YOU TURNED ALL MY NUKES OFF AND I DONT FEEL LIKE HEALING ^_^

Can you set her tactic to stay out of trouble like Sarah's default tactic is?

[Julian]

^Yes, my Myuria never melees >.>

[Karshe]

Forgive me if this a noob question, I'm only on the second planet. Is there a way to get Faize to nuke more? As it is right now, Reimi and Lymle spam their MP... it seems like Faize casts Ice Needles once and then melees the entire rest of the fight for pathetic damage and sits on near-full MP. I haven't tweaked any of their fighting styles at all.

[MisterBob]

^Yes, my Myuria never melees >.>

Yep, "Stay Out of Trouble" causes the caster to always be at max casting range whenever possible.

RTFM etc

[Fayttt]

My Myuria and Lymle both are always on Stay out of trouble and I kid you not, they "get into more trouble"
Lymle has an excuse because I have all her spells on still because she doesn't decide to go hit the mob while people are hurt, but Myuria has all spells except heals/buffs off (even debuffs) and she will literally go charge at the boss instead of heal Reimi or Edge who's at like 10/80k health. Pisses me off.

[Julian]

Maybe turn on some offensive spells?

[Fayttt]

That was the original problem though, because as soon as I do that, Myuria likes to be a fucking idiot and cast her spell instead of heal =/

[Klain]

Hey guys, I know your about to die from next hit, BUT THIS ICE NEEDLES WILL SAVE YOU

[Okan]

Spoiler: show

Remember, Arumat returns the Sol to Faize back on Aeos. Faize summons it to him when he falls, and rescues Edge as well.

To get to endgame stuff, reload your save. In that room, there are two doors. The door on the left has the Undying Dragon, a boss that holds the Dark Ring (needed to open chests with ultimate abilities, and the first bonus dungeon). On the right is a one-time teleporter that will take you out of the dungeon.

God dammit! I didn't fight the dragon, just left. Well, at least the puzzles are done and I should be able to just run to it.
Been a bitch too since I've been annoyed that I can't get in to the caves so I did solo arena with Meracle, grinded her up to rank 2 and it will NOT let me fight #1. So frustrating, but I can only guess I need to be higher than level 75.

[Julian]

No, there's an invisible "point" system. Just keep fighting the 2nd rank one and in like 5~8 fights #1 will open up

[Okan]

That's what I mean. #1 is the dragon dude, #2 is Meracle. #3 is that pain in the ass thing. Some of the silliest losses I've had against that too. Out of MP when it's at 2% and then it heals... Ugh. I used the hybrid item pack with the gambleberries. Stacked up Focus and Berserk, used the item that gave 15% to stats and ran down one combo and that alone was enough to pretty much destroy anything as normal hits are like 8k and the comet punch is 99999. I use the Somersault in to the front flip one and as the monster landed, I caught it with Claws of Fury (Well, until later on where it was stunning mobs and I didn't like that**)>Follow it with X Claws>Comet Punch. Easy damage and will seriously get anyone up to rank 10'ish in almost one combo in solo arena. Just watch for blindsides if you can. The item pack has a bomb which is nice as a stun for the run-away casters.

** if you going to do this combo, watch out for the stun during Claws of Fury (Maybe it was just odd luck, but it ONLY ever happened during CoF for me) as it sort of "resets" the mob as soon as the stun wears off and you'll lose the combo and possibly the match. Secondly, always pay attention to the enemy Rush meter as the combo is quite long and I can't count how many times I thought I had it until a 1-2% enemy rush crit me for 40k mid-combo. sucked.