Talk: Festival of the Hunt

Points given by monsters

I've just gone through the Festival on the PSP port and I'm sure I got 26 points from a Fang and 20 from a different one. I also got 9 and 13 from Mus. I guess points are variable and determined both by the monster you kill and damage you're dealt during battle, and probably battle duration (and maybe other factors too), since I got 26 from a Fang that didn't get to attack and 20 from one which did attack me (and the same with the Mu). 91.117.98.38 15:29, June 28, 2011 (UTC)

That's interesting. So maybe the points table should be removed, if it always varies.Keltainentoukokuu 16:40, June 28, 2011 (UTC)

I updated this section using information provided by the E2PG Guide from GameFAQs. The ranges are confirmed in the Ultimania aside from the max value for the Zaghnol fight. As for the odds :

Common mobs :

Min. : 86/256

Med. : 85/256

Max. : 85/256

Zaghnol :

50 to 55 : 6/256 (each)

56 to 99 : 5/256 (each)

Aladore384 (talk) 02:22, October 9, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, that was very useful.Keltainentoukokuu (talk) 02:31, October 9, 2012 (UTC)

Freya Killing Zaghnol

I was told that Zidane needs to be KO'd in order for Freya to deal the final blow, otherwise Zaghnol just keep on living. This was true of my game, dunno if it's a different versions thing. Just thought it might be worth adding if it's true. 82.3.207.165 15:03, September 25, 2011 (UTC)

I seem to be running into this problem too... Freya keeps doing tons of damage but the damn thing wont die. Im going to try letting Zidane just die and see how that goes. Jihiro 04:13, October 8, 2011 (UTC)

Yes, Freya can't deal the final blow with Zidane still alive.--Aladore384 (talk) 02:58, October 9, 2012 (UTC)

I'm going through this fight right now and I've just done more than enough damage to kill the Zaghnol (according to its enemy page, he should be at -363 HP right now), with Zidane, and the beast is still alive. Maybe the Festival's Zaghnol has loads of HP to make it harder to kill. 77.225.133.185 17:59, March 4, 2012 (UTC)

It does indeed. The one at the festival has 1574 HP. JBed 18:04, March 4, 2012 (UTC)

Belna

Where it says in the trivia that Belna is never mentioned again, its wrong: in a letter from Moodon to Mogami (in Gizmaluke's Grotto) it says "Last year's winner, Belna, only got 70 points!" 82.18.129.0 22:21, March 23, 2014 (UTC)

Outcomes

Based on what I read people on the internet said, I thought this was the case:

Although the player can only control Zidane, and briefly Freya, it is possible to control who wins the festival.

• For Vivi to win, Freya must be defeated by Zaghnol and Zidane must be defeated (either by Zaghnol or another enemy following the fight).
• For a guaranteed Freya win, Zidane can be defeated any time prior to Zaghnol battle. To obtain Zaghnol's steals and guarantee a Freya win, Zidane must be KOd and Freya must fell the Zaghnol. In some versions of the game Zidane must be KO'd for Freya to slay Zaghnol, otherwise it will not fall regardless of how much HP it should have left.
• If Zidane or Freya is in the lead, one can encounter the Zaghnol and let the time run down. Whoever was in the lead prior to the battle will win.
• For a guaranteed Zidane win, Freya must be defeated by Zaghnol and Zidane must defeat Zaghnol.
• If Zidane puts the final blow to Zaghnol with Freya still alive, Freya's points will no longer increase and if Zidane takes the lead from Zaghnol's points or in any following battles, Zidane will win.
• If the player wishes to avoid the Zaghnol, they need to ensure their score does not fall far behind the high score, and then pass the high score in the last minute.

However, I'm not so sure. Does Freya retire if you defeat Zaghnol while she is KOd? Someone should get a point deficit where defeating the Zaghnol wouldn't overtake Freya's points, and then KO her and defeat Zaghnol. I wonder if she can still win. Someone said they got the Vivi outcome by KOing Freya, killing Zaghnol, then KOing self. I'm not certain that happens.

If KOing Freya then dying in a later battle does in fact make Vivi win, then it might actually just be dying after defeating Zaghnol that would cause Vivi to win (and have nothing to do with whether Freya was KOd or not).

Also it seems Freya can't gain points during the Zaghnol battle, but I can't confirm. I've never seen a timeout where Zidane was in the lead when the battle begun so I can't guarantee you can get a Zidane win that way. JBed (talk) 01:57, April 13, 2018 (UTC)

If a competitor KOs I think they just get disqualified from the contest. Since no NPCs can win, if both Zidane and Freya are DQd it'd make sense for Vivi to then win.

Just from my own playthroughs, it never appeared to me to matter who deals the finishing blow on the Zaghnol. I thought it just gives the points to Zidane no matter what. Maybe I confuse it from what Freya says when they fight the Zaghnol, I thought that she says something to the effect that Zidane can have this kill if they win.Keltainentoukokuu (talk) 13:13, April 13, 2018 (UTC)

So apparently there are "some versions of the game" where Freya can't kill Zaghnol unless Zidane is dead. So if Zidane is picking up the points from a Freya kill, perhaps that is because Zidane is alive? Freya can definitely get points (from what I read from people on the internets), her final point value will be her points before the battle + 50-99 I believe.

I'll have to DL a save file. JBed (talk) 18:46, April 13, 2018 (UTC)

Okay. Killing Freya knocks her out the competition. With Freya on 94 pts, Vivi takes the lead with 85. With 108 points, Vivi takes the lead with 98 pts. With 99 pts, Vivi ended on 90. I'm using save states so I might be screwing with RNG, but with only these values to go in it seems to be FREYAPOINTS-[FREYAPOINTS/10] calculation. Once, with Freya on 95 pts, I killed Vivi and got 92 pts from Zagh so I took the lead.

So yeah, one character being dead when time runs out during the Zaghnol fight retires that character.

More tests to come. JBed (talk) 20:28, April 13, 2018 (UTC)

Freya will not gain points when you are on the screen with the Zaghnol when the Zaghnol is there. So if you are winning at this point, you are guaranteed to win without even fighting the Zaghnol.

Okay, I think I got all the mechanics down. Except what happens in draws. I thought it just wouldn't be possible (like either when the CPU or Zidane roll points, if the new total will be the same as the high-score it will just re-roll), but I believe I equalled Lani's points early on and she remained leader. So I assume whoever got that total first wins. There are two ways one can draw: Zidane kills an enemy and equals Freya's score and then the game ends (easiest way to test this would be to try to get the points from Fang in the Business District to reach equal, then go to the Zaghnol room and wait to time out), OR to KO Freya and kill Zagh-- Vivi's calculated new score could theoretically be the same as Zidane's new score [if it decides that in this "draw" that it just says Zidane is in the lead, then we'd never see Vivi's score, but we know what it would be because of the calculation]. JBed (talk) 22:08, April 13, 2018 (UTC)

Good research. Freya not gaining points when idling in the Zaghnol screen is something I hadn't heard of before. Allowing drawing and then having the player lose seems like a bad idea, but how likely would that happening be.Keltainentoukokuu (talk) 23:07, April 13, 2018 (UTC)