VXAce - Legends of an Otherworld [FFX-like, high difficulty]

Never mind. She finally quit.

This game just keeps getting harder. Good job. I've progressed right along. Now I'm in Sysona and right outside the door is one of those sparkly spots which brings me to Shinryu. Who can kill us all on his first try with Shimmering Rain. What?! For now I'll just bypass it and go back to try to kill the Oblerost. But when I come back, then what? By the way, I've touched more of those sparkles and nothing happened. Why this and why now? ;_;

The "Pre-Emptive" ability is an important one for that battle.

Okay. And where do I get that? And, about that robot ... ?

Pre-Emptive can be bought in Sysona for 10,000. Entering from the forest, take the right-hand stairs, go through the doorway to the main room, and speak to the woman at the back. For Shinryu, equip Pre-Emptive to Harley to get the first turn, and cast Aura on someone to survive Shimmering Rain.

Oblerost isn't too bad, but his final move will deal damage equal to everyone's max HP minus 1, so at least one character must be at full health to survive it.

Thanks. I must have missed that merchant.

Hello

I am enjoying your game however I have two questions. How do I get past this guy and with the button puzzle do I need to step on all buttons to equal the number four? Thanks.

I finally defeated Oblerost but have not been able to kill Shinryu. He always gets me in the end. Is this a necessary battle to continue the game? Or a side quest sort of thing? And I'm having a definite brain freeze. At the end of the Oblerost battle I'm supposed to go to Trinity Palace to look for Aisha. Isn't that where Cameron is? No Aisha there. ???

You can't ever get past that guy. I'm cheeky like that. Eventually he'll start walking back and forwards, but he'll still stay within the area where you'd be blocked from getting past him.

In regards to the button puzzle, this is probably the most complicated puzzle in the game - the saving grace being it's optional, you can just go down the ladder (if you complete it, you do get a fairly nice item, though).

Basically, the orbs represent numbers, and the goal is to make the orbs on the left show the same number as the orbs on the right. The buttons in the middle are based off a calculator (IIRC, the same layout as a keyboard's numpad), including the various operations. The one thing to keep in mind is that a button will have an effect as soon as you touch it - if you press the button for 5 and currently have addition selected, 5 is added immediately. Likewise, if the current selected number is 5, and you press the button for subtract, 5 is immediately subtracted. It doesn't wait for you to select both an operation and a number. With that being said, you can often get around this by making use of 0 or 1 as needed.


Shinryu is an optional boss. In general - if you see the screen flash in various colors before a boss battle, you're facing an optional boss. However, this isn't 100% reliable. There's a couple of optional sidequests that involve multiple bosses, and usually only the last one will have the flash. The reverse though is reliable - if you see the flash, it's definitely optional. (There is one case - Matalithe (and by extension, Water Elemental) - where there's a boss you must fight to complete the story, but you can fight it much earlier than when you need to for story purposes. IIRC, if you fight it early, you'll get the flash, but not if you fight it when it becomes plot-relevant.)

Cameron's location is the Saria palace. The Trinity Palace is where you fought Aisha earlier, which the quickest way to get to is indeed via the Saria palace (through the escape hole in the cells) - although it's also possible to get there from the road between Caralint/Yuvia and Nyatta.

You're doing well, by the way. Not too much further to go now! :)

I completely forgot about getting to Trinity Palace that way so thanks for that. Now I'm in the basement of the Haunted House and trying to figure that out. (Hypercube). I'll get back to you if I keep on getting killed.....

Keep a spare save file here. Read this spoiler when you've completed the area.

Thanks ninjamida

I am the type of gamer who likes to discover everything your RPG has to offer.
I am still trying to figure out how to get to the chests in this area in my third screenshot. I have a feeling I cannot come back here later. Now I can't find Alicia. I checked Yuvia and she is not there.

I'm still trying to figure out how to kill the Hypercube.

I don't remember the exact solution, however, I'm pretty sure that if you complete the button puzzle, it lets you grab the treasure from the moving platform puzzle *without* solving it. I do remember that solving it involves making use of the platforms along the bottom of the area that look like they're just there to prevent going out-of-bounds.

In regards to finding Alicia, if you're up to where I think you are, you need to head to Nyatta, not Yuvia. From there, go to the cart cave, but head left along the tracks instead of right. You should be able to figure out the rest from there. :)

Thanks again ninjamida

I should have read the previous post about finding Alicia. The optional bosses are brutal and well worth the effort to defeat.

OK. I give up. What do I do to kill the Hypercube? I can't even scan in to see what it's weak to.

Re Hypecrube,

Elemental / etc:
Immune to Fire, Ice, Lightning, Water; takes normal damage from Light and Dark
Immune to proportional-damage and draining attacks

Statuses:
Immune to instant death, Silence, Sleep, Psycho, and all debuffs
75% resistance to Poison and Darkness - note that the latter is pointless I think, as his regular physical attack has the "never miss" property (although maybe he has other attacks that can miss, I don't remember for sure)
50% resistance to Slow
(Of particular note, he has no resistance to Zombie, Weaken or Meltdown, all of which should be quite helpful against him. He also has no resistance to Regen, which could be useful combined with Zombie.)

Other:
His physical attacks have a 100% chance (the normal, resistance-affected variant of "100%", not the "always unless completely immune" variant) of inflicting Death, Zombie, Poison and Slow

I didn't want to decode and write out his full AI as that's a lot of effort (his is quite complex), but if you think you need it, let me know. As you've probably realised by now, enemy attack patterns in this game go far beyond what the default RMVXA system allows - many enemies' attack choices are outright scripted (and often very complex), rather than just using the basic conditional stuff in the database.

The key to the battle is that you must have Zombie status on your own party to avoid being killed by Deathly Rain. You can do this with the Graveyard Fog item.

OK, thanks. that should help a lot.

Boy, the hits just keep on coming! I finish the Hypercube and move right on to the puffs and Lunarion. What a guy! Hopefully, I can figure this one out but he's really hard.