Loved this game and especially hot&cold. I did notice in my last playthrough that there seems to be a lul in getting chocographs between beak lv15 and 25. Might've been some uber unlucky moments but I didn't get anymore chocographs at a certain point untill I reached beak lv25 even though I still had a couple more to go (this was even before I got mountain ability).
Theres so many different setups I used to play with. At the beginning I grabbed Quina with Limit Glove and put him at 1 hp left to insta kill crap till I got to 2-shotting Grand Dragons for mega exp (just outside that Giza[...] Grotto, up the vine). Then I used a setup with Zidane, Vivi, Freya/Steiner, Quina for a long time (hate Dagger...) with Quina/Freya being the healers. It's especially fun when you get Auto-Reflect on all and just have Vivi -ga3 your party. After I got Eiko I used Zidane, Vivi, Freya, Eiko/Quina. Eventually Steiner gets his Ragnarok (Stock Break) and Freya maxes out Dragon Crest so I only started using Zidane, Steiner, Freya, Eiko/Quina. Quina is a nice support with Mighty Guard, White Wind and Angel Snack (while doing Bad Breath for debuffs) and Eiko is nice if you don't need to heal a lot and just want to spam Holy.
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