The Lunar Dragon[]
Walk down the stairs from Llevi's box and enter the next screen. Lookie now at who appear as random encounters! Maenads appear in twos and threes and there are two types of them, Physical and magical. The physical ones are the most annoying, because they counter every attack with a hard-hitting blow, and use Binding Glare to stun one of you. Magical ones are a bit easier, as they have less HP and don't counter, but they can use Holy, Flare, and Meteor, which is very dangerous indeed. Best to slow them down first, cast protect and shell if you can, and destroy them individually with your most powerful attacks.
Shoot east to an Elixir in a chest, then go south to some stairs. Once you clamber down them, turn east and go to the nearby chest of the blue hue.
| Boss Fight: Lunar Bahamut |
NOOOOO! I thought they were getting easier! Nooooooo... So, uh, yeah - this fight is hard! Watch Lunar Bahamut as he counts down from 5 (cast slow to decelerate him moderately), and he uses Megaflare, just like every other dragon king, to tear the shit out of you. I thought I was strong enough to survive the blast with Shell and Protect up and at levels over 60, but I was wrong. Terribly wrong. That attack blew right through all of my barriers, and took out everyone. Every last person. Dead. How should we go about this... A while back, I gave you guys the wrong information about how to handle this. Don't bother levelling up or anything, that won't do shit. Forget Shell and Protect, as those two spells will serve as useless comforts during the fight. Instead, we're going to cast reflect, either with the spell or the Lunar Curtain item, to rebound magical discharges from the king of dragons. Megaflare is included in the list of attacks that can be reflected - that makes things a bit easier, doesn't it? Well, as it happens, not that much. Unless you have a huge amount of Lunar Curtains up your sleeve, then some people are going to have to go without reflect for the first salvo of flares that are mega. Don't just include white mages who can use reflect in the party though, because Baha's regular attack WILL kill them in one shot. Try to prioritise who needs the reflect the most. Your healer, for one. Kain and Edward won't need it (but who da fuck's using Edward here?), as they can just jump and escape to avoid disintegration; the trick is to execute these evasive actions when Lbahamut reaches '1' on the countdown, BUT DON'T HIT HIM. To punctuate the fact that he's a prick, he counters attacks by taking the counter down by one. BITCH. While you try to revitalise your team again, Bahamut will still be attacking you. Let's see what he does:
It's all the same, all of these battles. Just heal and cast esuna to heal the party with each of his attacks. There's nothing you can do about protect and shell, but if he casts haste you NEED to throw out a Spider's Silk without hesitation. And if you haven't done it yet, switch the configuration around concerning wait times - Flick the switch to "wait" so that you can take as much time as you want to make decisions without Lulu attacking you. Lunar Bahamut will eventually use Megaflare again (and later will start counting from 3 instead of 5), so we need to survive it again. Jump, Escape, whatever. You do what you need to survive. If he uses protect and shell, just ignore it, since it can't be dispelled. If EVER he uses haste, THROW A SPIDER'S SILK ASSSSSAP. You won't be able to survive otherwise. That just leaves the HP (still unsure - sorry!) to get through. Bands are the best shot - especially ones that break the damage limit. That means you'll need a lot of Dry ethers for the battle to keep the MP high. Other attacks are still good, but they pale in effectiveness when the Protect and Shell goes up. That's the strategy. Avoid Megaflare, quickly heal, attack with all your might, and the Vicious Cycle repeats. If you can beat this guy, then my hat's off to you. You get the Ultima Weapon for winning, zenith in the pursuit for developing absurdly powerful weapons that have no real benefit. Might have been nice to use against LBahamut, but I guess it doesn't really matter now... |
If you have killed that bastard dragon or if you haven't, it doesn't matter. Walk south from that cruel chest to some stairs, which lead to B13. There's a Save Point and Interdimensional Lift, and there are no encounters here, so you can walk around without fear of fighting anyone. Walk down the steps to a teleporter, which takes you to the final floor of the True Moon.
Bottommost Depths[]
The final boss is up ahead, so bring along every item you can, level up the team, blah blah blah. You should know what's expected of you here, and I'm not helping out anymore. Just walk up those stairs already. There's a huge tentacled machine here, and before the party can figure out what it is, it attacks. Or maybe we attack it. I don't know care. This battle has five stages to it, and this is stage number one: The Pod (also known as ???). It can't attack - only sits around getting beaten. Hit auto, and the group bash him up normally, until the core of the pod turns from black and blue-green to white. It now uses Drain and Osmose, but they aren't especially powerful spells. Keep slicing him up until he starts shaking and vanishes in a burst of bright light.
Behold! The game's great antagonist! The being who has worked behind the scenes to destroy the planet! The creature we have feared and loathed these long days and nights! ... It's a white, balding dog with man-tits and a tube up its arse. Who designed this game? So this guy is the self-confessed keeper of the crystals, a large white blob of glutinous shite that's performing an experiment on the existence of life. IT is the one who created the crystals, and sent them to the planet to bring about the life of all who inhabit it. Unsatisfied with the amount of progress that the humans have made, he sent the Maenad's over to take back the crystals, and decided to eliminate the planet and its residents for being inferior species who don't deserve to occupy the same universe as him. The True Moon turns out to be his vessel; a giant, intergalactic space ship that can destroy the worlds. To describe it, it's like the Death Star, but much stupider. The creature, known a bit pompously as the Creator, attacks us. Pfft, who is he? Is he God? No.
| Final Boss Fight: Creator, Phase 1 |
The very first thing this guy does is enable auto-reflect. That means no magic for the rest of the battle. Meteor can bypass it, but the Creator just reciprocates with his very own. So it's not a good idea to use that. Second thing he does is switch on the 'Element Drain' function. The rest of the battle will develop like this because of the ability: Using an attack on the Creator will make him 'Copy the reaction' and attacking him again will make him 'Execute the Reaction'. Fancy-shmancy way of saying that it's a counter system. Use Spider's Silk to slow him down, then have your white mage use shell thrice, since the boss only uses magical attacks. The counter abilities he uses are Flare and Holy; powerful magic damage - up to 4000 on one at least, so prepare to make use of a phoenix down or raise/arise spell. It can also counter with Binding Glare, and you know what that does. Wait - do you even know what that does? Have you been unable to act when I say those words because you don't know what it does? Why do I ask myself these pointless questions? Why does Garfield hate Mondays? He doesn't even work! So it has an interesting stratagem, but its HP is low. Since it counters everything, just use bands over and over again until it dies. After each one you should throw out a Dry Ether to its contributors to heal them up for the next phase. I don't think the Creator attacks without being attacked first, so you have plenty of time in which to do so. Therefore, he gets and easy rating. |
After dying, the globule of white gristle that is the Creator changes form. He becomes vaguely human shaped, taking on a feminine sort of mien. He/she/it says that it was born on a Blue Planet long ago, but his people were greedy and power hungry, consuming it to its core. After noticing that their life on this doomed planet could not continue, the race of whatever-they-are took to the stars, piloting an unspecified fleet through the cosmos to another planet worthy of accommodating them. Eventually, they began to die off, since they could not survive properly in their artificial environment. The True Moon is the remains of the space fleet, and the Creator is the sole survivor of the race. It's entire existence is defined by the desire to create a developed species that does not err and make the mistakes of his own race. That's why he made and sent out the crystals - sending them to every place capable of sustaining life and recording the information that they contained later on. Not a bad plot, I suppose. Better than most, actually. Too bad the creator is a shit villain who they just jammed into the story last minute and gave a rushed explanation of. Oop, no time to reflect - here he/she/it comes!
| Final Boss Fight: Creator, Phase Two |
Blobarella doesn't have Element Drain or Auto-Reflect anymore - it traded it in for some more firepower and better Intelligence. It's very fast, so use slow or Spider's Silk before attacking it or casting shell (moreover, protect is superfluous again). It retains the Holy, Flare and Binding Glare abilities, which are generally the same, albeit capable of more damage. Also, it can use them freely now - it doesn't wait to be attacked first. The Creator uses Meteor to begin, which will take off 1200-1500 damage to everyone, and can also cast Megaflare. I didn't see megaflare used, but it's got to be powerful, right? Luckily, if you're like me, you can rally off a few bands right then and there to make a dent in that 50,000 HP total. That's all I have to say. It gets the green paintjob of easiness because it's barely more powerful, though I'm being a little unfair here. |
Creator asks the party through strained breaths a single question: Where was that species supposed to live? And then... it changes. Sigh. Some day I'll fight a good looking Final Boss. Someday.
| Final Boss Fight: The Creator |
What is this?!?! Just once I'd like to fight a good final boss. This is just drek. Like a space-larva with bug eyes, a tongue Gene Simmons would be proud of, some kind of abnormal growth on its underside, and the female form attached to its back. Wherever he is, that bastard Exdeath would be spinning in his grave if he could see the mockery made in his image right now. Cre slowly edges forward, and tries to swallow us. Ew. The show cuts to black, and we get a scene. All over the world, people look up to the skies when they realise that their loved ones are in trouble. The only scene you get are those connecting to the guys and girls in your party, so for me that was Cecil (subjects in the throne room), Rosa (her mother), Kain (Kluya's voice), Rydia (Mist inhabitants), and Edge (the Seneschal). The crystals surround the party, and we get a scene with the people who didn't come along for the Final Battle at the Lunar Whale. They just give some quick thoughts before the action returns to the final five. They all stand up, rejuvenated by their friends prayers (stolen from FFIV again! God!). The crystals regain their light, and the battle begins again. --- The Creator is surrounded in a Cloud of Darkness (FFIII reference mayhap), so we need to cut through it with the holy light of the crystals. Open the item inventory, go to the bottom, and select one of the crystals to use against him. The fugly bastard freaks out, and we can attack him finally. He uses Black Hole to dispel any status buffs we have, so we'll have to put them up again. Cast shell only, then slow the creep down by the usual method. Now for its offensive capabilities: The Creator can use Assimilate - a magical ability that hits everyone for damage ranging from the low depths of 100 to the considerable amounts of 3000, then drains the damage and absorbs it to heal its HP. Regeneration heals it for 9999 HP, Propagation strikes everyone an reduces HP by 800-1400, Disintegration blasts one person and takes off about 4000. When the screen turns purple, the boss uses Mutation to change its weakness (I did't know it even had one...?), which also signals its next attack, the hazardous Detonation. It can do damage up to 2000 to everyone, and inflict Sap, so make sure shell is up and everyone is at full health to endure it. The last of it's abilities are just a miscellaneous assortment of random moves: Diamond Dust (weak), Split (weak), Ga spell (weak, but powerful on one member), and Mini. Yep, mini. The Creator usually operates under a predictable cycle of using these techniques arbitrarily, then using Propagation, then Mutation, and then Detonation. And it repeats itself. Bands are your best bet for victory, since they eliminate nice chunks of HP at a time, and also because the Creator seems to have naturally high defence. This fight is a little hard because of all the HP to consume, but I can't say it gave me trouble. And my team was level 61. It seems to me that the Creator is just a terrible final boss. |
The Creator fades from sight after being destroyed, but tries to warn us before he dies. Something like having a change of heart and pleading with us to escape before it's too late. Or not. I don't care. I just don't. Anyway, we need to escape the failing moon. You have to navigate the whooole path you took to get to the bottommost depths(now clean out of foes) to get clear of this shithole. The Creator attacks on the way - won't you just make up your mind you fuckwit? Attack him a few times and he'll piss off. Run run run run run run run run run until you reach the Maenad laboratory. The pipsqueak Maenad(?) that we ordered to stay behind has actually stayed behind at our behest, what a good little munchkin! But then the Creator pops up again. WILL YOU FUCK OFF! The dumbest thing then happens (and I know, there's been a lot of them). The Maenad's jump in to rescue us and hold their originator at bay. No time to criticise this stupid shit, just keep running. Cre attacks again, a Maenad floats in to heal us, and tells us to 'watch that child'. Run south to another battle, where Maenad No. 3 casts protect on us and states that the child 'is them'. Know what, this is getting annoying - In the next few battles, the once Mysterious Girls help us, and here's what they say:
- That child is our future.
- Creator, how could you?
- You are our father!
Then a last cast of meteor destroys him, and he thanks us as he finally perishes. FINALLY. Perishes.
Ending (Spoilers!)[]
Corrio is looking through his telescope, and watches as the True Moon moves away from the Blue Planet. On the Lunar Whale, nothing special happens. They just fly back to the Blue Planet.
Now for some ending segments:
- Leonora and the Epopts pray to the Earth Crystal in Troia, and the seven accept the sage into their ranks. She asks for one thing before she accepts though, probably regarding Izayoi, who has disguised herself and is standing behind her, but they don't care to elaborate.
- Palom and Porom are in the Crystal Chamber in Mysidia, and the latter tells her brother that the Elder has awoken. He officially hands control of the City of Mages to the twins, and the two head outside to meet a visitor: It's Leonora (Tsukinowa makes an unimportant cameo), and she's given up her role as Epopt (stupid twat) so that she can train to become a Sage.
- Luca and Giott stand before the crystal in the Dwarven Kingdom, when Cid and his grandson Mid burst in. They get to the Falcon, and the assembled group of Cid, Luca, Mid, Calca and Brina outfit it with a device that Luca got as an idea from the Lunar Whale. The goblins ask if they need help, but Luca is skeptical of their performance. Even Zangetsu is here, who has disguised himself as a Goblin to be present again. That's too funny - the Eblan Four are so unused as characters that they have to mooch the spotlight from others.
- The Duke Consort and the Chancellor of Fabul look at the Wind Crystal, and Sheila walks in. They ask where Yang is, and Mrs. Fang Leiden responds that he's out training Ursula in battle. Outside, Yang is forcefully training his daughter in the art of battle, and Gekkou appears because he has no other place to go to.
- Harley and Edward are gazing upon the Fire Crystal, and Edward postulates that the crystals on the Blue Planet are different from any others that the creator has made: they appear to be evolving with the rest of the humankind. The Chancellor (different one) runs in, and talks about some unfamiliar kind of 'material'. Before leaving, Edward glances back to the Fire Crystal and thanks both Anna and Tellah.
- In Eblan, the Seneschal calls for the young prince, but Edge is nowhere to be found. In the courtyard, the Eblan Four reappear, and give a status report on four of the crystal nations. They pledge allegiance to their king and promise to be his shadows forever - Edge really gets the short end of the stick in this game, doesn't he?
- Rydia is with her friends in Mist, where she has taken up the role of carer to the young Maenad, now known as 'Cuore'. The Eidolon King and Queen show up as a gesture of friendship: if Rydia could not visit them, then they desired to see her by visiting the village. Edge is seen spying on the group, and Cuore catches him out, saying that he's late. Turns out Edge was the one that suggested to the King and Queen that they ought to visit her. Wait... how would he be able to suggest that? If Rydia couldn't enter the Feymarch, then how could Edge?
- At Baron, Cecil continues to train Ceodore to become a knight. Battle time (really, now?), just hit auto. Kain interrupts, says that he's now Ceo's squad captain. Rosa says not to be too rough on him, and as the two run off, Rosa and Cecil wonder about how Golbez is doing.
- Golbez is flying on the Lunar Whale, and thinks back to his departure from Earth. Kneeling before the altar at Mt. Ordeals, Golbez has decided to find Fusoya and the other Lunarians. Oh yeah! What happened with that? Where did Zeromus even come from, anyway? And we don't even get to know if Fufu survived the blast! What a gip! I don't know how this scene would have played out if Golbez died on the True Moon. Actually, I don't know if he even could die. You know what this game is capable of.
This shit keeps on rolling, with Luca and Cid still repairing the ship or updating it or whatever the fuck is happening. OMG! There was a 'royal decree' to disarm the ships, and to never again rearm them! No, that's just stupid. I hope someone comes along and starts a war with you fools. See what your pacifist thinking gets you then. Kain walks on board with Ceodore - they're off to reconstruct every nation damaged by the True Moon's approach. The ship is heading to Damcyan, so that Kain and Ceodore can meet with Edward and Cecil to reconstruct Damcyan. As the fleet lifts off, the logo appears, and the credits roll.
Yeaaaah! About time, I say. Fun game, but leaves too much unsaid. Do Rydia and Edge get together? What about Ursula + Ceodore, Palom + Leonora, Harley + Edward? Did Fusoya survive? Are there any pureblooded Lunarians left? What about Zeromus? Why did the Maenads attack their creator? Well, I guess that's not important. What is important is that I finished this game, and I'm no longer bound by the commitment of writing a walkthrough. I'm taking a nice long break after this.
Farewell wiki-goers. Until next we meet.
