Xenogears Walkthrough Version 2.4



May 5, 2000 
For the Sony PlayStation (U.S. Version)
Written by Scott Lee
(SLTxAzN895@hotmail.com)
E-mail me with anything you can tell me about the game 
that isn't included in this walkthrough, I will add you to 
the credit.  However, please read the guide first, I will 
always welcome inputs from everyone, but due to the fact 
that the heavy load of email I get each day, please don't 
send me something that is already been stated here.

Unpublished work Copyright 1999-2000 Scott Lee


Version History

Version 2.4 The code for the detector in the Solaris factory 
has just been decoded, thanks to "Alex Belosic" 
<arcanus11@hotmail.com> for sending it in.


Version 2.3 Added new info, most are from a friend who 
wish to be known as "The One", he wish to remain nameless, 
at least for now.  

Version 2.2 I got my disk 2 back from a friend, haven't 
played Xenogears in so long that I'm having trouble with 
all the buttons.  I just added some new info here, not 
much info, I doubt you will notice the changes.

Version 2.1 finally, I'm about to finish, I still need a 
few more things here and there.  Overall, the guide is a 
success for me.

Version 2.0 added a lot of things this time, but there 
still needs a little more correction here and there.  But 
this is almost completely finished, it still need quite a 
few gear skills/deathblows and stuff.  But I'm pretty 
closed to finishing the entire document.

Version 1.1 I've added monster's stats to the walkthrough, 
they aren't 100% correct, but they are close enough to the 
word perfect, so it should be good enough for everyone.

Version 1.0 added character's guide.

Version 0.6 corrections, and typos.

Version 0.5 added more info on the game.  A lot of info, 
this is a .5 added.

Version 0.1 Finally got started after beating the game a 
few times and writing the FAQ on Boss Strategy, it's still 
not published yet.



Introduction:

Hi,

This is my second time writing a walkthrough (even though 
during this FAQ I already finished 2 other ones), so if 
you got any problems or questions, e-mail me, I will help 
anyway I can.  Xenogears is a semi-difficult game, but 
people can get stuck on something and take years just to 
get past one little part.  Don't be shy, I can help, I 
already beat the game, level up to max, got a lot of 
drives, have almost all the items, still missing the Life 
Stone, darn…  and I am also missing the Long Dark Coat, 
forgot to take on Big Joe!  But hey, I am still considered 
to good at this game.

Any contribution is always welcomed, so if you got 
something good and want to share it with the rest of us, 
please do so.  But please no hate mails, mail bombs, etc, 
I don't need those, and thank god I haven't gotten any of 
those yet so far.  I'm purely writing for fun, some 
information here are my opinion, please repect that, I'm 
sure you have a different view point than me, let's just 
leave it at that.

Also E-mail me with any of your comments (both positive or 
negative, again, as long as it is helpful input towards me 
or my work), or if you got something I didn't include 
here, I will add you to the credit for it, it doesn't 
matter how small it is.  But again, please, no hate mail, 
no mail bombs, you can take those to America Online or 
something where people would open those mail.  Here is my 
email if you do wish to contact me for any reason, 
SLTxAzN895@Hotmail.com.

There might be some difference in the game if you have to 
imported JP version, from I've found out, the two versions 
have very little or none differences.  So if you got the 
import version, and get stuck, ask for help, the story 
line and game play are still basically the same, and I 
believe the odds are that I can help out.  

One thing to note here is this FAQS is written by me, 
Scott, aka CrazeD.  If you want to use some information 
that is included here, just ask, I will let you.  But 
don't take this guide, change the name and claim it yours, 
don't, that is just wrong, you are a disgrace to your 
family if you do this.  Taking other people's hard work 
and saying it's yours.  I know even if you do, you 
probably won't get caught, even if you do get caught, and 
the odds of me sueing you is slim, but for the little 
voice in your head, don't do it.

This FAQS/Walkthrough was never intended to be in any 
magazines, books, or walkthroughs that cost money.  It is 
purely for players who want to get through the game, or 
need some hints from another player.  This shouldn't be 
sold to anyone, I don't care how much, but if anyone do 
pay for this, I better get the money!  Since I'm the one 
who spent their time and effort into this guide, and I 
give thanks to those who also helped out here, I couldn't 
have done it without them.



Index

Part one: Character Guide, Deathblow, Gear Skills, Ether
Part two: Walkthrough
Part three: FAQs
Part four: Credit

New sections that will eventually come: Items and Gear 
Battle.  

Sorry, but these sections will be delayed for quite 
sometime, since I'm extremely busy with my schoolwork for 
quite a while.



This FAQ/Walkthrough can be viewed with Microsoft Words or 
Word Pad, I'm sure there are probably other word 
processers that can view this, but I only tried out on 
those two.

There are some bad news, the team that brough us Xenogears 
is no longer with Square Soft, they have moved on to 
Namco, so the next Xenogears would not be around for at 
least a while.  The odds of Xenogears 2 (the sequal or the 
prequel) coming out on PSX are also very slim, but expect 
it to be on PSX 2.  If Square Soft appoint a new team to 
work on Xenogears, it will still take a while, Square Soft 
is fully planned for quite sometime, we can expect games 
like Secret of Mana, FF9, FF10, Crono Cross (U.S.), etc to 
be out way before the release of Xenogears 2.


The team for Xenogears with Namco is also considering the 
sequal to this great RPG, however, Square Soft have the 
full copyright of the Xenogears name.  There are rumors 
around saying they will make the new game but with a 
different name, something Robot Gods, or Gods of Gears.  
None have been confirmed yet, but I think 



Part one: Character Guide, Deathblows, Gear Skills, Ether

Fei Fong Wong
Birthplace: Possibly Shevat?
Height: 5'11
Age: 17
Weight: 147 lb
Style: Martial Arts/Kung Foo
Gear: Weltell, Weltell 2, Xenogears
Gender: Male
Interest: Painting, Elly, Alice?

Rating 
Character
Attack: A
Defense: A
Speed: B
Deathblows: A+
HP: B
Ether: C
Ether Defense: B
Spell: C
EP: C
Overall: B

Fei always has good attack, he starts out strong and later 
on he has the best set of 7ap deathblows, his Yamikei do 
up to 4500 damage, even though it requires level 80, but 
his Kokei only require level 70 and it do as much as 3000 
damage.  Fei is not the best character in the game but he 
is very well rounded, his spells are not so great but as a 
fighter, he doesn't really need all those spells.  Fei is 
forced upon you for most of the game, so its best to level 
him up as much as you can so you can get his Yamikei 
deathblow which requiring level 80, and his last spell Big 
Bang (require level 72).  When you can get drives from Big 
Joe, remember to boost his attack as much as possible, he 
doesn't have a good Ether ability so forget about his Chi 
spells, and focus mainly on his regular attacks.  Besides, 
his deathblows deal far more damage than his magic ever 
will do.

Gear: Weltell, Weltell 2, Xenogears
Attack: A
Defense: A
Speed: B
Skills: A
HP: A
Spell: C
Ether Defense: B
Overall: A

Weltell is Fei's first gear, it isn't the best but its 
very well rounded and if you fully upgrades it every 
chance you get, it should be one of your best gears.  
Weltell 2 is the best gear in the game compare to the 
other gears you can have access to then, System Id is just 
unstoppable.  Just forget about all the attacks and 
skills, level infinity moves can cause around 6000 damage 
at level 60, 3 turns of that can kill off just about 
anything, when fighting against bosses 2 System Id should 
kill off any of them.  Then there is the super powerful 
Xenogears, (it has to be the best, the game is named after 
it) 99 percent of level infinity, 4 turns and start to 
raise hell.  And think Xenogears with Holy Pendent, 10 
turns and 6 of them are level infinity.  Xenogears is best 
in the game, no other gear can compare with it, heck 
nothing can even get close to it.  However, you can get it 
only almost when the game ends, the game will be too easy 
if you get it too early.

Deathblows

T=triangle, weak attack
X=cross, medium attack
S=square, strong attack

Name        AP       Buttons    Elemental  
Raijin      4 ap     tx
Senretsu    5 ap     ttx
Hagan       5 ap     sx
Hoten       6 ap     ttx
Tenbu       6 ap     tsx
Ryujin      6 ap     stx     
Koho        6 ap     xx 
Fukei       7 ap     ttttx      Wind 
Chikei      7 ap     ttsx       Earth 
Kakei       7 ap     tstx       Fire
Suikei      7 ap     sttx       Water 
Kokei       7 ap     ssx        Light
Yamikei     7 ap     xtx        Darkness 

Gear Skills
*Deathblower Gear Part Required

Name       Button   Fuel       Level
Raigeki      tt     10+10      1
Reppu        ts     10+20      1
Raigo*       tx     10+30      1
Hasan        st     20+10      2
Ryuten       ss     20+20      2
Jyuju*       sx     20+30      2
Raimai       xt     30+10      3
Ryumai       xs     30+20      3
Shinrai*     xx     30+30      3
Kosho X      t      10         Infinity
Goten X      s      20         Infinity
Kishin       x      30         Infinity

Special Gear Option

Weltell 2
System Id    1000   Fuel  Level infinity
Thor Wave    600    Fuel  Super Powered up Guided Shot
Flaming Hell 1000   Fuel  Fire based attack  

Spells
Fei                                         
(Chi)            Ep    Affect
Guided Shot      2     Single Ball of Chi
Inner Healing    2     Single Restores HP
Iron Valor       3     Single (Self)Attack up
Counter Force    4     Single (Self)CounterAttacks
Yang Power       5     Single (Self)  Def down, atk down
Yin Power        5     Single (Self)  Atk up, def down
Radiance         10    Single Strong Chi attack        
Big Bang         20    All Strongest Chi attack, casts 
stop


Elhaym(Elly) Van Houten
Birthplace: Solaris
Height: 5'6
Age: 18
Weight: 101 lb
Style: Rods
Gear: Veirge
Gender: Female
Interest: Fei (love), they did it(!) right before she 
turned to evil. Lol, a little too much for little kids, 
don't think you.

Character
Attack: D
Defense: B
Speed: D
Deathblows: C
HP: D
Ether: A
Ether Defense: B
Spell: C
EP: B
Overall: C

Elly is a magic user, but in Xenogears, magic isn't that 
useful other than healing and power boosting, so her 
specially is just about worthless as her attack.  Elly's 
attack is awful, her rods miss a lot, she is slow, her 
deathblows causes half of damage as other characters, and 
her defense is just pitiful (some enemy causes 1 damage to 
Fei, and can do up to 80 damage to Elly).  She leaves you 
party later on at almost the end of the game, and she is 
the only one who don't get a omnigear.  And the most sad 
part about Elly is that her strong point is her Ether 
attacks, but almost all her spell does lesser damage then 
her deathblows.  Overall she is quite useless, and I would 
just recommend after Disk one, you don't use her ever 
again.

Gear: Vierge
Attack: C
Defense: B
Speed: A
Skills: B
HP: D
Spell: C
Ether Defense: B
Overall: B

Elly is a complete disappointment as a character, but her 
gear is much better.  Vierge got a good decent attack, and 
it also packs a cool move call Aerods, for a small price 
of 400 fuels, it damages all the enemy for a good 500 plus 
damage.  And its very useful in Bibel Tower against 
Dominia and Kelvena, 2 Aerods can knock off Kelvena, and 
another skill or two can finish off Dominia.  One thing 
bad about Elly is when your gears are at their best, she 
leaves your party to go join evil, and another thing is 
she don't get a Omnigear like everyone else.  That is the 
only thing you can find wrong with Vierge, overall Vierge 
is a good gear, but it has a bad owner, Elly is just 
pretty much bad all around.  Elly gets an Omnigear, she 
uses it during a scene, but you never get to control her 
Omnigear other in Battling in Kislev.  And because she 
leaves you later on, you shouldn't waste too much money to 
upgrading her gear other the times when you use her to 
fight.

Deathblows
Elly

Screamer             4 ap      tx      
Cyclone Kick         5 ap      ttx
Breakthrough         5 ap      sx
Double Shock         6 ap      tttx
Sky Attack           6 ap      tsx
Bright Spark         6 ap      stx
Stink Kick           6 ap      xx
Anemo Zap            7 ap      ttttx      Wind Elemental
Terra Charge         7 ap      tstx       Earth Elemental
Thermo Thump         7 ap      ttsxx      Fire Elemental
Aqua Frost           7 ap      sttx       Water Elemental

Gear Skills
Elly

Double Impact          tt         1
Hard Smash             ts         1
Beat Storm*            tx         1
Sonic Drive            st         2
Heart Strike           ss         2
Mega Impact*           sx         2
Flash Drive            xt         3
High Diva              xs         3
Blaze Dance*           xx         3
Flash Flail            t          infinity
Blue Blast             s          infinity
Dark Diva              x          infinity


Gear Option

Areods     400 fuel    Ether attacks all enemy


Ether
Name               EP        Affect

Anemo Bolt         2         Single      Wind attack
Terrace Lance      2         Single      Earth attack
Thermo Cube        2         Single      Fire attack
Aqua Ice           2         Single      Water attack
Anemo Burn         6         Area        Wind attack
Terra Storm        6         Area        Earth attack
Thermo Dragon      6         Area        Fire attack
Aqua Mist          6         Area        Water attack
Anemo Wave         10        All         Wind attack
Terra Ghost        10        All         Earth attack
Thermo Largo       10        All         Fire attack
Aqua Lord          10        All         Water attack

Citan Uzuki

Birthplace: Solaris
Height: 6'1
Age: 29
Weight: 150 lb
Style: Martial Arts/Swords
Gear: Heimdal, Fenrir 
Gender: Male
Interest: Tinkering with junks, reading and exploring.

Character
Attack: A
Defense: C
Speed: A
Deathblows: B
HP: A
Ether: B
Ether Defense: B
Spell: B
EP: B
Overall: A

Citan without any question is the best character in the 
game when he gets his katana, he is already one of the 
best character in the game when he fights bare handed, 
once the sword comes in the game, his attack power goes 
up, almost doubling the damage he deals.  His Crystal 
Water is one of the game's best deathblows, and it looks 
really good, like an air combo in Marvel vs Capcom.  His 
speed is faster than everyone including most enemies, he 
get almost get in two hits for Bart, and Bart has above 
average speed.  Another thing to include here is his 
defense, his defense isn't very good, and defense is a big 
important aspect of the game, he suffers almost triple the 
damage Fei suffers.  His spells are okay, not very useful 
other than his Senkei, it doubles a character's speed, but 
when you can use this spells, you would probably already 
have Speed Shoes which doubles your speed already.  But 
overall Citan is the best character in the game, and the 
best thing about him is he learns his deathblows fast, and 
all you really need to do is level him up.  


Gear: Hemidal, Fenrir
Attack: B
Defense: C
Speed: A
Skills: B
HP: B
Spell: C
Ether Defense: C
Overall: B

Citan's gear is pretty average, not that great, but its 
alright.  Hemidal is just an average gear, it seems pretty 
fast, but has bad defense, but I care about the speed 
more.  Fenrir on the other hand has better defense but I 
still considered it has bad defense.  Hemidal's attack is 
not very good, his skills can do only 75% damage of 
Weltell's.  But Citan is forced upon you most of the first 
disk so fully upgrade Hemidal and make the best of it.  
When the second disk begins, Citan gets his Omnigear 
Fenrir, which comes with better defense, a sword, and of 
course level infinity.  I would consider Fenrir one of the 
best gear next to Weltell 2, Xenogears and Siebzehn, but I 
would rather use Fenrir than Siebzehn because of the 
speed.  Citan's spells are only average when in character, 
so his gear spells are pretty much usless, but since 
Xenogears is a game that doesn't really require magic, so 
Fenrir is still considered as a good gear.  Fenrir's only 
major problem is defense, but with a good piece of gear 
armor, you won't have to worry about it than.

Deathblows (hand)

Ukigumo            4ap         tx
Mufu               5ap         ttx
Jinrai             5ap         sx
Shinrai            6ap         tttx
Renken             6ap         tsx
Hakai              6ap         stx
Ougi               6ap         xx
Willow Wind        7ap         ttttx        wind elemental
Rare Earth         7ap         ttsx         earth 
elemental
Hell Fire          7ap         tstx         fire elemental
Tsunami Ice        7ap         sttx         water 
elemental

Deathblow (sword)

Amaoto               4ap        tx
Engetsu              5ap        ttx
Amagumo              5ap        sx
Himatsu              6ap        tttx
Yako                 6ap        tsx
Zanretsu             6ap        stx
Myogetsu             6ap        xx
Festive Wind         7ap        tttx        wind elemental
Rumble Earth         7ap        ttsx        earth 
elemental
Haze of Fire         7ap        tstx        fire elemental
Crystal Water        7ap        sttx        water 
elemental

Gear Skills

Kentsui          tt             1
Reppu            ts             1
Ryuei*           tx             1
Shinari          st             2
Fujin            ss             2
Ryuga*           sx             2
Hakai            xt             3
Kenjin           xs             3
Tensho*          xx             3
Ochiba           t              infinity
Zanretsu         s              infinity
Enken            x              infinity


Gear Option

none

Arcane

Name            EP      Affect
Sazanami        2       Single      Restore HP
Renki           2       Self        Next Ether affect all
Koga            2       Self        Def up, attack down
Yamiga          2       Self        Attack up, def down
Ryokusho        3       Single      Heal physical status
Reisho          3       Single      Heal mental status
Fuuseii         4       Single      Block Earth attack
Chiseii         4       Single      Block Wind attack
Kaseii          4       Single      Block Water attack
Suiseii         4       Single      Block Fire attack
Senkei          6       Single      Haste


Barthlomei Fatima  (Bart)
Birthplace: Aveh
Height: 6'1
Age: 18
Weight: 158 lb
Style: Whips
Gear: Brigandier, Andvari
Gender: Male
Interest: His Bart Missle, Yggdrasil, and Margie

Character
Attack: B
Defense: B
Speed: B
Deathblows: B
HP: B
Ether: B
Ether Defense: B
Spell: B
EP: B
Overall: B

Bart is an average character, his attack is pretty good, 
so is his defense and just about everything else.  Bart is 
my favorite character because he is kind of crazy and he 
doesn't really think.  For some reason my favorite 
character is always a prince or a king, (my favorite 
character in FF3 U.S. is Edgar, and in FF2 (US) is the 
Ninja guy, Shadow or something, no that's FF3 (US), I 
forget his name, its really old so shut up.  Hold on it's 
Edge, but Edge is in Rival Schools, I am just confused, 
someone email me with his name, I am too lazy to play FF2 
again, I don't know where my SNES is at anyway).  Bart has 
some good spells, but none of the spells in Xenogears 
really matter.  His cologne spells are all useful, but 
since he isn't that fast so there is no point of actually 
using them, unless you have to make him super strong for 
some battle that last a long time.  His deathblows are 
average, all of his 7ap deathblows are elemental, just 
like Citan, but his Tornado doesn't deal as much damage as 
Crystal Water deathblow.  Also another thing to note here 
is that Bart misses (or get blocked) a lot of his square 
and cross hits, so try to stay away from them.  His gear 
is good, but later on everyone gets better gears and his 
don't really stand out anymore. Bart gets a head start 
because he is the first one to get his Omnigear, Andvari 
is your best gear early on, and Bart gets it during the 
first disk.  Since Bart is pretty good character, go level 
him up and he should able to stand out to be your third 
best character, or at least during the first disk.


Gear: Brigandier, Andvari
Attack: B
Defense: B
Speed: B
Skills: B
HP: B
Spell: C
Ether Defense: B
Overall: B

Bart is the lucky one with the gear, his gear gets to use 
a weapon early on, and that is very important when 
fighting against some bosses.  Like Calamity, Weltell can 
only do around 60 damage, but Brigandier deals over 100.  
Bart's gear's skills are pretty good too, and his level 
infinity looks cool, especially his Meteor Falls, and he 
is the only one that can do level infinity attacks on disk 
one other than Maria.  (The other people can do it, but 
you need to wait like 30 or so turns, sometimes even more, 
I have wait 56 turns for Vierge to do Dark Diva one time, 
since I never seen it).  His gear Andvari is good, having 
already a good attack as a normal gear, and that means 
Bart's Omnigear can do tons of damage.  The gear's defense 
is pretty good too, so that way you can save fuel on using 
Frame HPs.  But later on your other character's gear come 
into the game like Xenogears and El Steir, everyone 
catches on with Andvari, then Bart doesn't seem so special 
anymore.  But I still use Andvari as much as possible, its 
my second most used gear next to Xenogears (Xenogears has 
to be the best gear, the game is named after it).

Deathblow

Head Hunter        4ap         tx
Twin Sonic         5ap         ttx
Rhythm Shock       5ap         sx
Dynamic            6ap         tttx
Astral             6ap         tsx
Bracer             6ap         stx
Justice            6ap         xx
Angel              7ap         tttx        Wind elemental
Land Break         7ap         ttsx        Earth elemental
Prominence         7ap         tstx        Fire elemental
Tornado            7ap         sttx        Water elemental

Gear Skills

Name              Button       Level
Chain Whip          tt         1
Beat Serpent        ts         1
Spark Wave*         tx         1
Blood Snake         st         2
Hit Storm           ss         2
Dead Cannon*        sx         2
Dance Wave          xt         3 
Twin Snake          xs         3
Sky Drive*          xx         3
Meteor Fall         t          infinity
Dead Dance          s          infinity
Soul End            x          infinity

Gear Option

Ygg D. Charge   600 fuel   Missile ether attack all enemy

Ether
 
Name              EP      Affect
Wild Smile        2       Single    Accuracy and evade 
down
Heaven Cent       2       Single    Ether attack
White Lure        3       Single    Enemy attack caster 
Red Cologne       4       Single    Attack up
Blue Cologne      6       Single    Accuracy and evade up
White Cologne     6       Single    Counter attack
Wind Mode         4       Single    Add wind to attack
Earth Mode        4       Single    Add earth to attack
Fire Mode         4       Single    Add fire to attack
Water Mode        4       Single    Add water to attack


Billy Lee Black
Birthplace: Aquavy Islands
Height: 5'7
Age: 16
Weight: 130 lb
Style: Guns
Gear: Renmazuo 
Gender: Male
Interest: Helping out unfortunate kids without a place to 
live and without any parents.  He created Kid's Town, a 
place for orphan kids.

Character
Attack: B
Defense: B
Speed: B
Deathblows: A
HP: C
Ether: B
Ether Defense: B
Spell: A
EP: B
Overall: B

Billy is probably the second best when in character in 
Xenogears next to Citan, I would considered him to be 
fourth because I like Fei and Bart better than him, also 
since the game forces you to use Fei most of the time.  
Billy's attack is good, and since there are only four 
different guns he can use and all of them either come with 
Billy when he joins you or you can find it somewhere 
during the game, and that saves you money.  But then his 
bullets for the guns are quite expensive, every single 
time you upgrade his gun, and you have to pay big time for 
new more powerful bullets.  Also once 7ap deathblows are 
available to you, you will waste a lot of bullets trying 
to learn Billy's 7ap deathblows.  His ether gun is 
unlimited but they are expensive and if you fight against 
enemies like the Elements then he is pretty useless, 
instead of dealing damage, he heals them.  Billy's 
deathblows are awesome, they look totally cool, his Dear 
Friend deathblow make the game seem like a shooting game 
almost like Area 51.  And all of his 7ap deathblows will 
always deal damage, and they can do around 1500 with the 
God-father gun and some good ammo.  The best thing about 
Billy is he almost never miss his hits, all of his attack 
connects, they don't even get blocked, and that can make a 
big difference in the game, but if he fights against 
enemies with good defense, his hit do only 1 damage.  
Billy has regular speed, not fast but not slow.  Then 
comes magic, Billy has the best magic in the game, his 
spells are all healing and effects, but they are so good.  
His Holy Light heals everyone for a whooping 500, and 
Goddess Wake is the only reviving spell, Chu-Chu got one 
too, but Chu-Chu won't get a chance to use it.  And when 
you fight someone outside your gear like Id in Etho's Dig 
Site, I don't think anyone can win without using Billy.  
But since his ammo are limited so try to use his ether gun 
more often so you can conserve bullets and money.

Gear: Renmazuo, El Renmazuo
Attack: B
Defense: B
Speed: B
Skills: A
HP: B
Spell: B
Ether Defense: B
Overall: B

Billy's gear Renmazuo is a good gear, but uses bullets 
that cost big bucks, so I don't use him a lot.  Billy 
joins your party late, and you really don't get a chance 
to use his gear much, since Weltell is forced upon you all 
the time, and you would rather take Siebzehn, Vierge or 
Andvari.  The second disk Billy get his Omnigear, and 
upgraded Renmazuo, it looks better than before but is 
still not that good in battle compare to your other super 
power gears.  Renmazuo is pretty much like its owner, even 
thought its good, it don't get used a lot.  Renmazuo is 
actually one of the best gear in the game next to 
Xenogears, but since it don't look as cool as the other 
gear, it don't get as much attention as them, and like 
it's owner, it never miss any attacks.  Renmazuo's level 
infinity can hit up to 9000, while Fenrir's can only do 
around 7000-8000 damage.  Renmazuo is truly underrated, 
but it doesn't really matter that much, I never used Billy 
in the second disk and I still beat the game, oh well.

Deathblows

Adams Apple        4ap         tx
Gunholic           5ap         ttx
Hell Blast         5ap         sx
Nut Crack          6ap         tttx
Sky Walker         6ap         tsx
Devil Blast        6ap         stx
Banfrau            6ap         xx
True Dream         7ap         tttx
Holy Gate          7ap         ttsx 
Dear Friend        7ap         tstx  

Gear Skills

Name                 Button      Level
Double Snap          tt          1
Hard Snap            ts          1
Hard Gun*            tx          1
Gun Blaze            st          2
Impact Gun           ss          2
Holy Fist*           sx          2
Blaze Shot           xt          3
Hard Gatling         xs          3
Sky Gatling*         xx          3  
Thousand             t           infinity
Holy Climb           s           infinity
Holy Soul            x           infinity

Gear Option

Jessie Cannon      500 fuel      Non elemental attack
Jessie Blasta      1000 fuel     Non elemental attack

Holy

Name            EP   Target  Effect
Purity Light    2    single  Restore Status
Healing Light   2    single  Restore HP
Holy Light      2    all     Restore HP
Goddess Call    2    single  Haste
Goddess Eyes    2    single  Defense Up
Wind Shield     4    single  Block Wind Elemental
Earth Shield    4    single  Block Earth Elemental
Fire Shield     4    single  Block Fire Elemental
Water Shield    4    single  Block Water Elemental
Goddess Wake    8    single  Revive a character



Rico (Richardo) Banderas
Birthplace: Kislev
Height: 7'0
Age: 30
Weight: 330 lb
Style: Wrestling
Gear: Steir 
Gender: Male
Interest: Battle in Kislev, being Battling Champion, and 
his Bapitism Ceremony

Character
Attack: A
Defense: A
Speed: F
Deathblows: B
HP: A
Ether: C
Ether Defense: B
Spell: B
EP: C
Overall: B

Rico is a fighter, he is considered to be stupid, slow and 
strong.  But in this game the only thing is true about 
that is his speed, he is quiet possible the slowest 
character in the game, Citan can get in 3-4 attack for his 
one.  Rico has awesome attack power, super defense, and a 
quiet good set of spells.  His deathblows are also quiet 
good, and he is the only one who gets an elemental attack 
before the 7ap deathblows.  And one bad thing about Rico 
is that his 7ap deathblow are either elemental or it can't 
hit gear sized enemy, (Duneman Isle's dragon!!!, he is 
useless against the most important fights in the game) and 
that's why I don't use him in character that much, another 
bad thing about Rico is he misses a lot, he almost never 
connect his cross attack.  He gets a decent set of spells, 
even though he shouldn't use any of them since he is so 
slow, by the time he actually cast all the spells, the 
fight is already over.  Rico is good, but because he is so 
slow, he is practically useless in character size.

Gear: Stier, El Stier
Attack: A
Defense: A
Speed: D
Skills: B
HP: A
Spell: C
Ether Defense: B
Overall: B

Stier is much like its owner, very slow.  Even with speed 
shoes Stier is still slow, and because I think Stier looks 
kind of ugly so I never use it in disk one at all.  Rico 
gets his Omnigear, an upgraded Stier later on in disk two, 
since it looks a lot more cooler, and I just start using 
it.  El Stier is still slow but it has good HP, defense, 
and really good attack.  It might be one of the most 
powerful gear in the game, I equip 3 GR50 on El Steir and 
I got an output of 2000.  Just think of that with Big 
Joe's Omenga 1000 out put engine that is some attack power 
3000, and Yggdrasil 4 super gear only has the output of 
1000.  El Steir's only weakness is his speed, if it has 
Fenrir's speed, El Steir will be better than Xenogears, 
another bad thing about Rico's gear is it tends to miss a 
lot, it gets better when its in Omnigear, but Steir don't 
always connect his hits.  The skills of Stier looks cool, 
but El Steir's hyper mode only has 10% when it is at full 
HP, so it takes very long for it to get level infinity.  
But El Steir doesn't need level infinity, just his regular 
level 1 combos hit for well over 4000 against enemies with 
good defense.  And always remember to equip speed shoes on 
Rico, it doubles his speed, he needs it more than anyone 
else in the game!

Deathblows

Rico Rocket        tx
Death Drive        ttx
Banderas           sx
Dragon Fist        tttx
Fire Bomb          tsx
Pile Crusher       stx 
Spin Strike        xx
Death Roll         tttx
Flame Lariat       ttsx        fire elemental
Hell Splash        tstx        earth elemental

Gear Skills

Drill War          tt
Bomber Head        ts
Drill Driver*      tx
Grand Slam         st
Twister            ss
Hammer G*          sx 
Mega Body          xt
Sky Driver         xs
Scrap*             xx
Drill Kaiser       t  
Driver Kaiser      s 
Iron Kaiser        x 

Ether

Name          EP  Target  Effect
Steel Fist    2   self    attack up
Steel Body    2   self    defense up
Steel Spirit  2   self    ether defense up
Steel Mettle  4   single  spirit attack


Maria Balthasar

Birthplace: Solaris
Height: 4'8
Age: 9
Weight: 90 lb
Style: Hitting opponents with her toys.
Gear: Siebzehn
Gender: Female
Interest: Her gear Siebzehn, the only thing her father 
left her.

Character
Attack: F
Defense: D
Speed: D
Deathblows: F
HP: C
Ether: B
Ether Defense: C
Spell: B
EP: B
Overall: D

Maria is a useless character, she can't do anything right 
without her gear.  Her attacks are really bad, and I mean 
at level 80 she can only do around 100 damage to one 
enemy, and if she don't miss any of her hits or gets 
blocked by the enemy.  She can't fight, her spells are not 
that good, she is slow, she got terrible defense, she 
don't have deathblows, and now we can just face the fact 
that she is absolutely useless in every single way when in 
character.  She does however possess a good gear, 
Siebzehn.  The only time you should use her is when the 
game forces you to, you should never ever use her for fun 
or something, since she can get your party killed.

Gear:  Siebzehn
Attack: A
Defense: A
Speed: C
Skills: A
HP: A
Spell: C
Ether Defense: A
Overall: A

Siezehn is one of the most powerful gear in the game, it's 
attack, defense, HP, Ether defense are among the best in 
the game.  Siebzehn is however not really fast, it has 
below average speed, but its power makes up for its speed.  
The only thing to say about Siebzehn is that use every 
chance you get, level up, upgrade, do everything you can 
to power Siebzehn up, it is the best gear in the game 
until you can get Xenogears.  And remember to equip some 
speed equipment for Maria, that way it also speeds up 
Siebzehn.  Siebzehn's gear option isn't that special, try 
to stick with it's level 1 skill, since Siebzehn's level 1 
skill deals much more damage than the 1000 fuel gear 
option.  Speed Shoes are put to good use here, Siebzehn 
benefits a lot from it.

Deathblows

None


Gear Skills

Mega Hammer         tt
Dyna Flight         ts
Gravity Fist*       tx
Dyna Rush           st
Head Dive           ss
Gravity Press*      sx 
Meteor Press        xt
Iron Break          xs
Iron Storm*         xx
Fire Drive          t
Magneto             s
Maria Beat          x


Gear Option

Missile Pod     400 Fuels   Non-elemental damage
Gravity Cannon  1000 Fuels  Non-elemental damage

Controls

Name           EP    Target    Effect
Robo Beam      2     single    Non-elemental damage
Robo Missile   4     single    Non-elemental damage
Robo Punch     5     area      Non-elemental damage
Robo Kick      8     area      Non-elemental damage
Graviton Gun   30    all       Non-elemental damage

Emeralda

Birthplace: Zeboim
Height: 4'4 and 5'5
Age: 4000 plus
Weight: 70 lb and 110 lb
Style: Body attack
Gear: Crescens
Gender: Female
Interest: Kim, Fei's ancestor, Kim created Emeralda

Character
Attack: B
Defense: C
Speed: A
Deathblows: A
HP: D
Ether: A
Ether Defense: B
Spell: A
EP: A
Overall: B

Emeralda is a good character, she has great speed, her 
attacks are good, and she has an awesome set of spells.  
One thing to note here is her low HP, and her below 
average defense.  Her low HP and defense makes her easy to 
kill by enemies, and so level her up or use the drives on 
her.  That way she is more powerful and has better 
defense, and hopefully not get killed that easily.  Her 
attack looks cool, she uses her body part to fight, she 
can change her hair in a mace, or her foot into a blade 
(it reminded me of Darkstalkers 3, Morrigan fights the 
same way).  Her speed is also good, she is possible to be 
the fastest character in the game next to Citan.  Her 
spells are what Elly's supposed to be, they all look cool 
and actually deals damage, unlike Elly's.  Her deathblows 
is another good thing about her, her Dark Beast deathblow 
is the only darkness elemental attack other then Fei's 
Yamikei, but Yamikei requires level 80, and you can learn 
Emeralda's Dark Beast as soon as you can use her.  
Emeralda is a good character but it is not wise to use her 
unless her HP is rather high from level ups or drives, she 
gets killed too fast by powerful enemies.  

Gear: Crescens
Attack: B
Defense: C
Speed: A
Skills: B
HP: D
Spell: A
Ether Defense: B
Overall: B

Crescens has the same problem like her owner, low HP and 
her.  Crescens' highest possible HP is only 20800, when 
Rico and Maria's gear can go up to as many as 38000.  The 
low HP waste fuel to heal every time and her low defense 
make it even more fatal. Crescens has a good set of 
spells, but since Xenogears doesn't really need magic like 
Final Fantasy 7, it doesn't really make much of a 
difference.  But Crescens is still a good gear, use it 
sometimes, it might surprise you how good it really is.  
Crescens' attack is also quite good, so if you are using 
all fast moving gears, you should able to finish off all 
your opponents before they have their turn.

Deathblows
  
Leg Cutter         tx
Wave Cutter        ttx
Leg Spin           sx 
Hammerhead         tttx
Grand Arm          tsx 
Divider            stx
Flying Arm         xx
Tornado Arm        ttttx        wind elemental
Recount            ttsx
Dark Beast         tstx         darkness elemental

Gear Skills

Arm Bash             tx
Air Bash             ts
Dance Bash*          tx
Devil Hand           st
Devil Hold           ss 
Devil Bird*          sx
Dead Spin            xt
Dead Drive           xs
Dead Melody*         xx 
Dark Wave            t
Dark Force           s
Dark Wave            x

Ether

Name             EP    Target     Effect
Anemo Dharm      3     single     wind attack
Terra Feist      3     single     earth attack
Thermo Gord      3     single     fire attack
Aqua Aroum       3     single     water attack
Anemo Omega      6     all        wind attack
Terra Holtz      6     all        earth attack
Thermo Giest     6     all        fire attack
Aqua Dham        6     all        water attack



Chu-Chu

Birthplace: Unknown, possible Shevat
Height: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Style: Animal style fighting, various from scratching, 
head butting, and a foot in the face
Gear: Enlarged Self
Gender: Female
Interest: Fei, she has crush on him, and other Chu-Chus. 
She also likes to eat spiders.

Character
Attack: F
Defense: C
Speed: D
Deathblows: F
HP: D
Ether: B
Ether Defense: C
Spell: B
EP: B
Overall: F (I'm not kidding)

Chu-Chu is a cute character, never ever use her unless the 
game forces you to, she is slow, she got no deathblows, 
her HP is low, her defense is lower than everyone else, 
and she just not good to use in any situation.  She does 
have a healing spell that cures gears, but it can only 
heal around 1000 when Frame HP 10 and 800 fuel can heal 
3000.  She proves to be worthless, her attack is weaker 
than Maria, and she don't have a gear.  People told me 
that she can be very powerful when you upgrade with 
drives, I use some drives on her, didn't see any big 
difference at all, so I recommend that you don't waste 
expensive drives on her.  Now I borrowed a friend's 
GameShark, and gotten her to max stats with drives, she is 
still pretty crappy compare to my other characters.  The 
only time you should use her is to check out her spells, 
just for the heck of it.  Her spells looks quite good, but 
other than that, she is pretty useless.

Gear

See above for Chu-Chu's character

Chu-Chu's gear is her enlarged self, and all her stats are 
the equivalent to her normal self.  Which means the higher 
the HP she has as character, the higher her gear HP will 
be.  That also goes for everything else.  So meaning she 
is also useless in gear as in character.  However, Chu-Chu 
can have a very high stats as a gear, but because she 
doesn't have any gear skills, she is quite uesless in 
attacks.  Her healing spell is decent, but you never will 
really need that.

Deathblows

none

Gear Skills

none

Ether

Name            EP    Target   Effect
Forest Dance    2     single   Restore HP
Culen Prayer    2     single   Restore Physical Status
Myrm Prayer     2     single   Restore Mental Status
Play Dead       2     single   Enemy don't attack Chu-Chu
Forest Wind     4     single   Wind Attack
Earth Gnome     6     area     Earth Attack
Maiden Kiss     8     single   Life
Ancient Myth    10    all      Non-elemental attack





Part Two: Walkthrough

Note-Major spoilers included in the walkthrough, if you wish 
to discover the story on your own, try not to read the 
walkthrough until you are stuck on a certain part.  Also, be 
sure to read only the part you got stuck on, other wise, the 
good story of Xenogears will be spoiled completely.


Legends:

Treasures
Monsters stats
Monster name, exp, item

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                  Lahan Village
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Treasure:
Aquasol (x5), 
400Gs, 
Power Ring, 
Eyeball, 
Aquasol S, 
Mermaid Tear, 
RPS Badge

Monsters:
Lil' Kobold, 3, Fencing Cap
Hobgob, 2, Hob-Jerky
Hopper, 8, Fencing Wear

The game starts off with Fei painting, you can get a 
close-up on the painting but there isn't much of anything 
else.  First go to Fei's bed for his saved up money, 
200Gs, then go around and you will see a maid in the other 
room, talk to her for a scene about how you got here in 
Lahan.  The two barrows in the small room contains a 
Aquasol each, so be sure to get them, now rotate your 
camera to see a spider web, just jump up and get it, and 
it will be useful later on.  Then walk down and meet up 
with everyone, you could talk to Timothy for a scene, 
after speaking to everyone, go to the door and meet Dan.  
This scene will further explain Fei's relationship with 
Alice, Timothy and Dan, after the long scene, you can now 
walk out the door and explore the town.  Talk to Dan for 
another funny scene, it doesn't make a difference which 
choice you make so just make any.  Time to collect some 
items before going any further, start by talking to the 
old man behind the door in the field twice for 2 Aquasols.  
Next go talk to the women in sitting near the cow for 
another Aquasol.  Then go to each house and explore, one 
house has a guy standing in the corner, he will play you a 
rock-paper-scissors game, everytime you win you get 50Gs, 
and of course everytime you lose you lose 50Gs.  If you 
manage to beat him 5 times in a row (not that hard), you 
get a RPS Badge, which is useful later on.  Downstairs in 
this house has an old lady, talk to the old lady answer 
the question to your best knowledge and you will get some 
more money, and then just exit that house, don't go to 
Alice's house yet, instead go to the bar further down.  In 
the bar there is a man in blue standing near the steps, 
talk to him and answer drinking won't solve any problems, 
and he will give you a Mermaid Tears, very useful later 
on, a must get, and this is your only chance.  Then go the 
house with the save point, you could talk to Lucca from 
Chrono Trigger for tips on the Save Point, but it cost 
money, so don't unless you really don't know, talk to the 
man teaching about battling and he will give you some 
money when he's done.  When you get outside go to the 
center and there is a well, jump in three times to get a 
Power Ring, Aquasol S, and an Eyeball.  Then go to Alice's 
house, (she loves Fei instead of Timothy, so sad…), talk 
to Alice upstairs, then just exit and go to the mountains.  
I would however encourage you to go to the world map and 
fight a little bit, get use to the battle system, try to 
get to level 3 before entering the mountains, also see if 
you could pick a couple of Fencing Wear and Fencing Cap 
from battle.  Also get the Mermaid Tear and RPS Badge 
before leaving, and this is your only chance.  RPS Badge 
might prove hard to get, don't think about leaving, save, 
and try again, the count resets every time you leave that 
house.  Try to look for a pattern in that guy's choices, 
you will get the hang of it eventually and get the hard 
earned badge.

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                 Lahan Mountains
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Treasure:
Aquasol (2), 
Bird Egg, 
Spider

Jackal, 3
Hob-job, 2, Hob Jerky

The mountain has a save point and two different path, take 
the one going straight, and get the Aquasol, then just 
fight a little on the way, maybe you can get your first 
deathblow by now.  Whenever your HP gets too low, use 
Inner Healing or go back into town to heal up, save up 
every item.  Follow the path back to the save point and 
there is a little dome with a tree on top, and there is a 
light color path next to it, walk up that path (a bit hard 
to see, just stumble around to find it if you haven't 
already).  Once you are on the dome, jump up and find a 
bird nest, you could get the Bird Egg.  However the Mama 
Bird will keep attacking you until you give it back, and 
the egg will add 20 pounds to your body weight if you 
choose to keep it, so it's really up to you.  The heavier 
you are, the higher your attack will be, but your speed 
will decrease, and vice versa, so just keep your regular 
body weight.  Jump across the gorge and cross the bridge, 
and one of the tree there will have a spider when you jump 
next to it, take it by pressing X.  The spider is useful 
later on the game when Chu-Chu joins you.  There is 
another Aquasol down the bridge, get it and exit the 
mountains to the Doctor's house.  The mountain will 
hopefully bring you some more money and items, the Hob-Gob 
will drop Hob Jerky sometimes when they are killed, use 
those instead of Aquasols, but rely more on Inner Healing 
since it's free.

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                   Doctor's House
##################################################

Treasure:
Aquasol, 
Midori's Ring, 
120 G.

Monsters: none

First go into the house and talk to Yui, she is by the 
tables near the kitchen, and she will tell you that Citan 
is still outside tinkering with the gear.  Exit the house 
through the side door, and when you get outside, there is 
a row of flowers, jump inside the flowers next to the 
house, and press X next to the flowers, and you get 
Midori's Ring.  It become very, very useful later on, you 
can get one of the game best items with that.  Now you can 
go up the stairs, in the middle there are two doors; one 
door lead to a bedroom, the one across from it holds an 
Aquasol and a chicken.  Now keep walking up and go into 
Citan's bedroom, walk up the stairs inside the room and 
you will get on top next to a Telescope, carefully jump to 
the chimney pipe and get 120Gs.  I didn't want the money, 
I am not sinking that low, taking money from a friend, you 
can take it if you want to, it doesn't really have any 
major impacts on the game other the money.  Go to the back 
yard and Citan will appear, go inside the little shack and 
see a scene, after the scene Yui will cook and if you got 
the Bird Egg, Yui will cook it and you will gain weight.  
Get the bird egg if you want to gain 20 pounds, that will 
increase your attack, but you will lose some speed.  After 
your comments on Yui's good cooking, you will get the 
camera equipments, now just go back to Lahan village.

Head back toward Lahan, you will have to walk through the 
mountain again.

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                  Lahan Town
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Treasure: none

Monster: none

The mountain is dark, but there aren't any enemies, so you 
don't have to worry about anything.  When you get past the 
bridge, you will lose control of Fei, Citan will come 
catching up to you, a loud noise flys over your heads as 
some gears passes by.  Citan said he heard something 
heading for Lahan and tell you to go back fast, he will 
leave you and head for the village, just follow him, save 
at the save point near the mountain entrance.

When you get to Lahan, you will see that the village is 
burning in fire.  You will get into some scenes, and meet 
up with Alice and Timothy.  They will tell you that Dan is 
missing, but there isn't anything you can do.  Just watch 
the scene.  You and Citan will split up and look for 
survivors, Dan will turn up eventually, and he is here to 
save Alice's Wedding Dress.  Fei sees a empty black gear, 
he decide to get into the gear and try to fight off the 
enemies.

After the long scenes you will get into your first gear 
battle, Weltell is strong compared to the other gears, 
just hammer away and you will win.  And some sad scenes 
follow; I am not going to spiol it for you, you just have 
to see for yourself, but this is really a sad scene.  And 
this is your first Anime scene, so enjoy it.  Dan looks 
really funny in the scene, he got such a big head for a 
little boy.

Fei will wake up the next day, and Dan is really mad about 
what happened and wants to kill Fei.  Fei have to leave 
just to keep peace, Citan tell him to head for Blackmoon 
Forest, and said that he will follow later when the town 
people are settled down.  Blackmoon forest is right next 
to the burned down Lahan, it is the only forest around, 
the entrance to the forest is to the north west side of 
the forest.

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                 Blackmoon Forest
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Treasure:
Survival Tent, 
Arcane Rod, 
Aquasol (2)

Monster:
Forest Elf, 21, Zetasol
Armor Grub, 35, Bizfruit
Hobgob, 2, Hob-Jerky, Hob-Steak
Jackal, 3

Just go through and get into some fights, try to get your 
Raijin deathblow right here, none of the fights here are 
too tough, just use Inner Healing when your HP get too 
low.  Keep going and there will be a big round rock, press 
X and jump back, if you get in the way you will lose HP, 
after it passes go through for a scene and a friend.  Elly 
appears for the first time, she is fairly weak now but she 
is actually quite useful here for some good money flow.  
Whenever you see a Hog-gob, fight it and kill it with 
Elly's fire ether attack, that leaves behind Hob-Steak, it 
cures for 500, and sells for 150Gs, you should rack up 
around 8-10 of them here.  Keep going and pick up the 
Survival Tent and Aquasol, and when you see a white color 
rock used for a bridge, unequip all of Elly's things, her 
Pilot Uniform will sell for 2500Gs.  Now go into battle 
against two DiveBomber and two Forest Elves, don't worry 
if Elly gets killed, she will leave you after this battle.  
The fight isn't too tough, just use Fei's best deathblow 
and knock out the Forest Elf first, use Inner Healing if 
your HP goes low.  After the battle Elly will yell at you 
and leave, and she gets attack by a Dragon or dino like 
thing.  That thing is gear size, but Fei will try to take 
the Dragon on with his fists.

Fei to the rescue, but first get the Arcane Rod, then head 
SouthWest for fight Ranker.  During this time, you won't 
fight any enemies.  You can't win this fight, so just 
attack a few times, and Citan will come to your rescue 
with Weltell.  Weltell should make slime of Ranker in no 
time, take this time and check out your Weltell, mess 
around with the buttons and effects to find out more about 
gear usage and gear battles.

Boss#1: Ranker
HP: 800
Exp: 348
Specialty: Tail Whip
Treasure: Scales

The first boss is a T. Rex like dragon, just do 30 fuel 
and your best level one attack, you should win, no big 
deal.  The Ranker has 800 HP, use booster to speed things 
up a little bit.  This boss is easy, use anything you 
want, check around and just win whenever you want.

And then after a long talk by a campfire between Elly and 
Citan, Elly leaves you and Citan joins, read the scenes to 
know more about Elly's past and why is she here.  Citan is 
so much more useful than Elly, since Elly is one of your 
worst characters! And Citan is your best.

*NOTE---Level up Citan, this is probably your only chance 
for a long time, level up in the desert before going in 
Dazil.  The fights aren't too hard, both Citan and Fei 
have a healing spell that can provide a lot of experience 
and money.  Try to get some deathblows for both of these 
fighters.

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                     Dazil
##################################################

Treasures: none

Monster: 
Sand Shark, 121
Sand Man, 60

The town is small compared to what is facing you ahead, 
just shop if you want, don't waste any money, just sell of 
the things that you won't need like Hob-Steak and Elly's 
equipment.  You should able to get around 8000-9000Gs by 
now, if you got any lesser, just remember to fight and 
level up later on in the desert before going for the Sand 
Cruiser, this way both Fei and Citan will level up.  First 
go to the South end of the city and go into the Gear shop, 
after the scenes with the mechanics, exit and there will 
be another scene as Citan talks to Fei.  After that scene, 
go back north and you will see a Jeep like car, go inside 
to the house next to it and talk to the guy behind the 
desk inside.  Citan will than leave you and you won't wait 
for him, so you have to go look for him.  In the Inn here 
you will meet Big Joe, he will be everywhere you go from 
now on, (he is really weird, and he has to be a stalker 
cause he follows you everywhere.  I am just kidding, Big 
Joe later has the best gear shop you can find, so who 
cares if he follows you around).  Big Joe will get into an 
argument, Fei watches on, but nothing really happens, so 
just leave afterwards.  Go towards the desert when you get 
to the world map and enter the desert to the south west of 
the town.

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                    Desert
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Treasure: none

Monster: see above for Dazil

The endless desert, first you will see two Gear after you 
entered a new screen, just follow them off the screen.  
Fight in here, the enemies are easy, and try leveling up 
to around 14 or 15.  Then there will be big flying thing, 
(Shevat) at the next screen and you can just follow that, 
and it will get kind of dark.  Keep going to the next 
screen has two similar looking gear from screen one, 
follow those two.  Then Fei gets rough, as he steals a 
dirt bike and gets busted by two sand trooper gears.  
Again Citan go the rescue, Weltell should scrap these two 
gears fast, however, try to get full fuel by charging 
before he finish off the two Gears, don't worry about HP, 
but don't use your EP though, it will be important in the 
next fight.  This is only a battle that will try to weaken 
you, the real boss battle is still up ahead.

Grahf, the guy with the cool looking gear comes out, he 
will be your biggest enemy in Disk one, but he won't fight 
you just yet, so he summons a worm monster to fight you.  
Trust me, Grahf will kick your butt even if he don't use 
his gear, you don't want to take him now.  Grahf is one of 
the game strongest enemies, since he is the only one who 
can deal 29997 damage to one gear in one attack.  You will 
personally get to know that attack on the second disk.  
The worm monster comes out of the ground and just wiggle 
around, Grahf will order it to attack, he sees this as a 
test to see your true skills.

Boss#2: Wyrm
HP: 200
Exp: 1044
Specialty: Slurp, drain fuel
Treasure: Eyeball

This is can get tricky, since you just got your Weltell 
and didn't really get a chance to upgrade it at all, this 
battle can take a long time for you to win.  But here is a 
easy way out, just hit Wyrm with your 10 fuel attack and 
your best level one skill.  When you run out of fuel, 
which you eventually will, just do a couple of Guided 
Shot, and you win, or you can just do Guided Shot from the 
start and win faster, you just need enough EP, its totally 
up to you how you want to do it.  Wyrm is a very tough 
customer, it is very fast, it's defense is beyond belief, 
most 10, 20, 30 fuel attacks will deal 0-5 damage, so just 
use 10 fuel to conserve fuel.  Level 1 skills don't deal 
high damage either, however, it is the only thing you can 
use as of now, so stick with it if you don't have enough 
EP.

The worm monster is a piece of cake if you saved your EP, 
after a couple of Guided Shot, it will be probably ready 
to die, if you run out of EP, just hit him with your 10 
fuel and level one attack.  After the battle, Weltell gets 
really weak due to low fuel and Aveh Soldiers arrest both 
Fei and Citan, along with Weltell.  That isn't fair, my 
Weltell can make scrap out of those two sand troopers, but 
this is how the story goes so jusst stick with it.


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                 Transport Ship
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Treasure:
Extra AR +1, 
Leather Vest, 
Survival Tent, 
Rosesol

Monster:
Aveh Soldier, 75, Rosesol
Aveh Corporal, 75, Leather Hat


Fei wakes up in a prison cell, now just talk to Citan, he 
doesn't really have anything interesting to say, so just 
choose to rest.  When you get into some rest, you will see 
a priate, Bart, get to know him since he will be your next 
character.  Bart will attack the Aveh ship trying to take 
Weltell, after the long scenes you will be free from your 
room as the priate ship fires on the Transport.  The cell 
door will be opened, it's time to make your escape.  Sand 
will slowly rise, when it's over head, you will die.  Head 
out and go down to get the treasures, don't worry about 
the sand kills you, you just start again from the room, 
some how you keep the treasures you already got, so be 
sure to get the treasures at least.  Keep going and you 
will be in an engine room, get the two treasure and watch 
out, sometimes during battle the floor will blow up hurt 
both you and your enemy, that attack will hurt you more 
than it will the enemies, so watch out.  Don't waste too 
much time in this room, the battles can hurt your party 
bad, mostly the blowing up during battle part, it always 
go in favorite of the enemies.  After getting the 
treasures, just keep going and you will be in a room with 
a lot of boxes, save and go outside, run from battles if 
you want to, use Citan's healing spell to keep your HP up 
when it gets low.  When you get oustdie, there will be a 
big crane, so just walk through the crane and you will get 
to your Weltell, if you fall down too much time, you will 
have to start all over again from the cell room.  As you 
get into Weltell and flys off, a boss battle will arrive.

Boss #3: Brigandier
HP: 800
Exp: 0
Specialty: Chain Whip, Wild Smile "cause camera damage"
Treasure: none

Bart is a hot head, and he gets mad at you for some 
reason, so he attacks you.  He isn't that hard, just turn 
on your booster, use 30 fuel attacks and your best level 
one skill.  You'll win, just don't do anything stupid, 
stick with the 30 fuel and level one skill, and don't do 
Guided Shot, it don't cause any damage. After the battle, 
the both of you will both sink underground.  This is a 
easy battle, when the battle ends, you will finally get to 
keep your gears and use them as you please.


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                Underground Cave
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Treasure:
Gold Nugget, 
IronG Whip

Monster:
Medusoid, 689
Tin Robo, 680, Extra Ar+1
May Fly, 1410, Extra Ar+1
Nomad Fix Bot, 420 (he heals you, so don't kill him early)

A brief scene with Citan talking to Yggdrasil's first mate 
Siguard, they seem to know each other, they will talk a 
little and the scene will switch to Bart and Fei in a 
underground cave.

Say hi to your new friend, he promises not to kill you, 
yet.  Bart is an average character, but use him anyway, 
you really can't choose from anthing else yet anyway.  
Bart got the best gear in the game until Siezbehn, but he 
gets his Omnigear just a half hour or so after that, so 
stick with him for disk 1.

Save and jump down from that platform, walk around and 
fight a few times, I would recommend you to level up to at 
least level 19 before you get anywhere.  Most battles here 
are quite easy, if this is your first time playing this 
game, take this chance to fully understand the usage of 
the gears and gear skills.  Walk around the place, you 
will find an exit, but a giant rock is in the way.  Go 
near it, Bart will comment on the exit, he will tell you 
want to do.  Anyway, you start by pushing the big rock out 
of the way, get the treasure other the other side and keep 
going.  After the long path, there will be a water fall 
and a Gear, talk to the gear for information (not that 
important unless this is your first time playing).  Go 
west for IronG Whip, and you should see a red light, 
ignore it for now but remember where it is, now head back 
to the gear and go south, after jumping on the rocks, you 
should see a little cave.  Get out of your gears and go 
into that cave and you will meet Old Man Bal, talk to him 
and after the long scenes about the cave, the Omnigears, 
etc.  Afterwards you should buy new gear stuff from him, 
get a new engine, new frame, but not new Armor, there is 
no need for that.  Sell the extra thing you got from 
battles like your Extra Ar, and Bart's old whip, you 
should able to have around 12000Gs at least now after 
upgrading.  If not, go out and battle some more, when your 
Gear HP falls too low, go back to Old Man Bal and repair, 
try to get Bart's deathblows here by letting him walking 
around on foot and Fei in gear.  Now it's time to shut off 
the two sensors, one of the sensors is the place where you 
get the IronG Whip, go back and press X next to it.  The 
other sensor is quite far away, first go back to Bal's 
Cave, go along the east side and there is another exit, 
follow it to a long path, keep going and you will be at 
the second sensor, shut it off and return to Old Man Bal's 
cave.  After more scene you will able to go through the 
sand door, you should be around level 24, if not, level up 
a little, try to get some money in this dungeon before you 
leave.  This dungeon gives you the most money until you 
get your water ship Yggdrasil.  I would say Calamity is 
one of the harder bosses in Disk one, so get your level as 
high as possible, and it would be good to take Bart on 
foot and Fei in gear, get Bart's other deathblow, that 
lets him use his T S combo.  People say that leveling up 
doesn't affect your gear, that isn't true, the higher your 
level is, the better your evade and speed, you also get 
more confidence when fighting, so level up, enemies here 
gives out good experience.  After you are ready, refuel at 
Old Man Bal's cave and go past the sand barrier, you are 
going to fight Calamity soon, but remember to save before 
going down the second elevator.  You will see Calamity 
putting up an air show before he actually attacks you, in 
any case, enjoy the battle.

Boss#4: Calamity
HP: 2500
Exp: 0
Specialty: Rockets, 500 damage 
Treasure: none

One of the harder bosses in Disk One, Calamity has a 
whooping 2500 HP, his Rockets attack do around 500 damage 
to one of your gear, and you can't heal yourself yet.  
First upgrade everything especially on Brigandier, and let 
Bart out of his gear and fight enough for him to get his 
triangle square gear skill, and try to level up a bit 
more.  Then go fight Calamity, don't battle on the way, 
keep your full strength, just run away or go around on 
foot and then run away, keep your gear perfectly healthy, 
you are going to need it (one time I won with Weltell with 
16 HP left and Brigandier dead).  First cast Wild Smile on 
Calamity as soon as the battle starts, that way his 
regular hit can't hit you, remember Wild Smile wears off 
after a few turns, so do it again every 4-5 turns to make 
sure it stays in effect.  Then hit Calamity with your 10 
fuels attacks and T S skills, and hope that he doesn't do 
his rocket attack that much.  Don't forget to turn on 
booster.  When you run out of fuel, just charge a few 
turns and go back to attacking, booster will automatically 
turn off when you are out of fuel.  Also, your fuel charge 
amount changes when you are at a higher level, if you are 
at level 0, you charge 30 fuel, if you are at level 1, you 
charge 20 more fuel, which is 50, the higher the level, 
more the fuel.  This is a tough battle, so it might take a 
few tries before you succeed.  When you do beat Calamity, 
Bart and Fei will have a scene, then Calamity will get up 
again and attack Bart (god, you have to fight him again 
with him at full strength!!!  Just kidding).  Anyway Bart 
will get hit and Fei do his level infinity Kishin to save 
him(you don't get Kishin until end of Disk one at least), 
Kishin is Fei best attack so enjoy it and dream about 
getting it.   (too bad, you don't get it right now, sad…  
You must really want it, hey you can get it when you level 
up to level 70 and 7ap attacks, it is going to take around 
40 or so hours, but you will get it, eventually.)  

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                   Yggdrasil
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Treasure: none

Monster: none

After the long fight without any kind of reward, not even 
any money, you will be at the Yggdrasil, try to get use to 
the rooms in the ship, you will be in here for a lot of 
times.  Check the gear shop, but don't buy anything, don't 
refuel, when you are done wondering around, just go to the 
room in the hallway and choose to rest.  

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                   Bart's Hideout
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Treasure: Iron Whip

Monster:
See above for Dazil and Desert

This is just a place for you to rest, just go through the 
scenes with Bart and Maison and then just go to sleep in 
the other room.  But when you have a chance to wonder 
around by yourself, go to Bart's room, it's the one with 
white paper on the door telling you not to enter (enter 
and die), get the Iron Whip inside.  You could also go 
outside to level up a little, but it's not worth the time.  
The scenes with Bart contains some information that is 
quite helpful if you want to understand more about Bart 
and Bart's past.

During that night, you will wake up due to an attack by 
the Gebler forces, just save and exit the room.  First 
Bart will get into a battle with two Sword Knight, Bart 
has two red gears helping him, just use your best attack, 
don't bother with booster, the Sword Knight are easy, they 
should go down fast.  Don't worry about how the Red Gears 
are doing, this is the only battle they will be in.

The next battle is with Citan, he gets a green and white 
gear named Hemidal from the gear hanger, just attack and 
take out the Aegis Knight.  Use the same way like above 
with Bart, 30 fuel and level one should finish this Knight 
off in a few turns, don't bother with booster to conserve 
fuel. 

After a little more scenes, another battle takes place, 
Citan and Bart will have to fight two Wand Knights.  These 
two knights are harder compare with the other ones, their 
beam attack will do some serious damage to your gears, but 
since they have low HP, they shouldn't be much of a 
problem.  Just don't waste a lot of fuel for this fight, 
there is more up ahead, but turn on booster to speed up 
the fight, remember HP is more important since you can't 
heal your gears yet.

Then Fei gets mad at the Claw Knight for attacking 2 
little kids, so he fights him with Weltell.  This is an 
easy battle, and two level one Reppu should take him out.  
Fei now joins the battle along with Bart and Citan.  The 
last gear of the Gebler forces will arrive and a battle 
starts.

Boss #5: Schpariel
HP: 4649
Exp: 17890
Specialty: Pile Driver, "armor damage"
Treasure: Beam Coat

He is easy, but you have already wasted some of your HP 
and fuel on earlier fights with his knights, you might 
have to waste some time killing him.  But don't worry, 
Citan's new gear do huge amount of damage to Schpariel, 
just use whatever skill you got right now and you'll win 
after a few rounds, remember to turn on booster to speed 
things up.  The Beam Coat he left behind is quite useful, 
so equip it once you have won.  Don't worry much about 
Pile Driver too much, just use Inner Healing to heal your 
armor when they drop under 50%.  Follow the basic 30 fuel, 
best level 1 skill to get a easy battle and a few level 
ups.

Once the battle is over, Bart will ask Fei and Citan to go 
on a raid on Bledavik to save Bart's cousin Margie.  Once 
the scene is over, you will now control the Yggdrasil, 
head for Bledavik, it's to the south of you.  If you got 
some time to burn, you can go around in your gears to 
battle, so you can get some easy experience and money.

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                    Bledavik
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Treasure: H&S Badge

Monster: 
See above for Dazil (desert)
See above for Lahan (green land)

This is a fun town, whenever you walk around near the 
merchants; they will try to sell you stuff, buy it if you 
want, you could also sell your Eyeballs, Scales, and Fangs 
here, they offer the best price for now.  Now your money 
should be over 25000Gs, however I recommend you not to 
waste a lot of money, you are going to need it later.  The 
task here is to rescue Margie, so walk around and get some 
information.  There is an old lady near the town gate, she 
will talk to you when you enter, and you could then sleep 
in the Inn for 120Gs per person, but don't since there is 
no need.  Go to the Inn and talk to the owner if you want 
to rest, and answer she didn't tell her name to rest 
there.  There is a sister who is also here to rescue 
Margie, talk to her to get some instruction on where to go 
and what to do.  First go around, remember not to buy any 
equipments here, you get better ones very shortly, you 
should see a boy asking you for help to find his hiding 
friend, say yes to get in the game for a prize.  On your 
information collecting's way, go to the well in the corner 
of the town, and you will see a old man, he will tell you 
some information about the little hiding boy, now you can 
go find the boy.  

The kid is first hiding near the Inn, go past the market 
part and you will see a little path between two shops, go 
up and he should be hiding right there behind some walls.  
The second place he is hiding is near the north gate, 
rotate the camera to see him.  The third place he is 
hiding is at south of the Inn, near some barrows, by now 
you should get the key from him if you already talk to the 
old man near the water gate.  The fourth place he is 
hiding is near the restaurant; he is hiding next to the 
door, remember to rotate your camera angel to get a better 
view.  The last time he will be hiding near the north 
gate, go west and there should be a little crack at the 
end of the wall, just walk in and press X to talk to him.  
Note that you won't able to see him at all, talk to him 
and he will give up and hand you the H&S Badge. 

You can get some cheap things here by hangling with the 
merchants, whenever you walk by a merchant, and the 
merchant will try to sell you something.  You can stand 
there and after a few seconds, the merchant will lower his 
price, but after a few price decreases, the merchant will 
tell you to leave, they have to make a living after all.  
After you are done fooling around here, go to South 
Bledavik to the south.

The south Bledavik has some fun thing to do, the game tent 
isn't open yet so just walk around you could buy different 
cakes to increase or decrease your weight, you could also 
buy beer, learn fire breathing and find a fortune teller.  
None of them affect the outcome of the game, but play 
around if you want to.  But just go buy the mini gear and 
give it to the kid next to the shop, he will then tell you 
about the gold nugget in the restaurant, you don't have to 
buy the gear, but you just need to know where the gold 
nugget is located.  Then you should go further south and 
leave Bart behind for now.  Once you and Citan are in 
there, Citan will say something and tell you that you 
should just join the tournament, pick whatever name you 
want, it won't make any difference.  Now go back to South 
Bledavik to pick up Bart, then head for the Inn, the 
sister will let you rest and get ready for rescuing 
Margie.

You have to get the Key from the hiding boy and enter the 
tournament before the sister lets you rest.


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           Operation Rescue Margie/Palace
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Treasure:
Iron Mails (x4), 
Metal Vest, 
Wedding Dress, 
Cobra Cracka, 
Hob-Jerky (x2),
Hob_Meat, 
Gold Nugget, 
Survival Tent, 
Rosesol S, 
Aquasol S (x2)

Monster:
Aveh Guard, 242, Aquasol
Aveh Guard 2, 242, Aquasol

First Fei and Citan will leave for the tournament, just go 
there and the scene will switch back to Bart, take Bart to 
where the well is (the old man that told you about the 
key).  Now have him jump in and the scene will switch back 
to Fei for his first battle.

Boss#6: Gondalez
HP: 400
Exp: 500
Specialty: Can't take it anymore, counter attack on 
deathblow for 80 damage
Treasure: Survival Tent

He is easy, you can waste turns to help Bart, but it 
doesn't really matter.  Just hit him with your triangle 
attack, then cancel it, waits until your 28ap bar fills up 
and let him have it.  During this fight don't do any 
deathblows unless you are sure that one is going to kill 
him, every time you attack with a deathblow, he counter 
attacks for 80 or so damage.  That's his special attack, 
"I can't take it anymore", he only use it when hit by a 
deathblow, so just charge your AP bar to full and kill him 
off with one hit.

After the fight, the scene will switch back to Bart, just 
go against the current and you should get by at least half 
way before Fei have to fight again.

The second fight is against Big Joe, this is actually 
quite fun and this is very easy to waste time.  

*Note, the longer the fights lasts, the lesser guards will 
be at the castle.  So defend and waste time, overall, it 
makes little to no differences.

Boss#7: Big Joe
HP: 912 
Exp: 1
Specialty: Big Joe's Fan Support, heal for 160, Big Joe's 
Fans Attack, people throw things at you for 100 up damage.
Treasure: Metal Vest

Big Joe have some rather sad attacks, he can only deal 2 
damage at most, but however, he does have 800 HP and the 
crowd heals him quite often.  Also the crowd will 
sometimes hit you for 100 damage by throwing cans and 
bottles at you.  Just remember not to attack often, just 
charge your AP to full, and then just defend.  Big Joe 
can't hurt you with his attacks, and the crowd won't 
attack unless you attack Big Joe.  You could waste at 
least 50 turns before killing Big Joe.  Keep in mind that 
Big Joe has 800 HP, so a 28ap combo is not going to finish 
him, just use your best deathblow 2 times than you attack 
with your charged combos.  Remember to equip the Metal 
Vest that Big Joe leaves behind after the fight on Fei, 
unless you already got the Iron Mails with Bart.


Bart should able to get to the floodgate at least before 
your next fight, pick up the treasures on the way, if you 
got the hint on the gold nugget, you can get that, too.  


Fei will then fight against Scud, Scud will use pills to 
power himself up, or weaken you.  Don't worry much about 
it, poison can make your battle hard, but just charge your 
AP, and use your best combo, don't stall or anything, you 
will be wasting your EP for healing, and also waste items 
to cure the poison.

Boss#8: Scud
HP: 350
Exp: 500
Specialty: Pills having different effect, from poison, 
agility, attack up, recover 200 HP, etc.
Treasure: Samson's Hair

Just charge your AP and then attack.  He is easy, but 
remember to heal yourself if you are poisoned, and cure 
when you are below 100 HP.  A 20 or so AP bar is enough to 
knock Scud down, don't wasting too much time on this 
fight.


Bart then should cross the floodgate and into the castle 
by now, don't forget to save before going in. 

The castle has a lot of guards around, I recommend you to 
learn some of Bart's deathblows in here, the guards are 
easy since they have only 90 or so HP, and they can barely 
deal any damage to Bart anyway.  I recommend you to go to 
every single room, some are useless but they have people 
you can talk to, and some contains treasure, especially 
the room in the second floor balcony with the Cobra 
Cracka.  On the first floor, they is a room with a guy 
writing, don't talk to him, but instead go near the door 
and there will be four armor, press X to get the four Iron 
Mails, equip them and leave.  The one of the room on the 
second floor has a Cobra Cracka, this is a must get, so 
look around if you haven't gotten it yet.  Another room 
that look like a kitchen has some Hob-jerky and Hob-meat, 
they are hanging from the ceiling, don't forget them, you 
get them by jumping up.  That is about all you can do 
here, keep going until you are in a big room with a big 
bed, look around and you'll find the camera, look in the 
east tower and find Margie with her back turned.  Leave 
and head east, you will find Margie there after passing 
some stairs.  There is another room with a Rosesol, it's 
somewhere in the first or second floor, it's not that 
important and I just forgot where it is.  Sorry about 
that.

Scene Switch is happening during Bart running around in 
the castle, the time is quite random, so I can't really 
say anything about it.

Fei will then get into two meaningless fights, one is with 
Dan, just defend at all times, Inner Healing when HP get 
below 100.  Dan will use attacks named after the people of 
Lahan, he will do attacks like, "this is for my sister", 
then "this is for all of Lahan", after awhile, he will use 
his best attack, "You Scum", that will deal around 90 
damage.  After all that, he will leave and give you 
Alice's Wedding Dress, amazingly men can equip the Wedding 
Dress (it is best not to think what will they look like in 
a Wedding Dress, it's really sick).

Boss #9: Dan
HP: 450
Exp: 500
Specialty: You Scum, fireball attack for 90 damage.
Treasure: Wedding Dress

When you fight Dan at the tournament, never ever hit him.  
All you have to do is defense, and maybe Inner Healing 
sometimes.  After a few rounds, Dan will do his You Scum 
(Ryu Fireball) attack, it deals around 90 or so damage.  
Just heal and in 1 or 2 rounds, Dan will say something and 
then he will give you Alice's Wedding Dress and leave.  
Remember to equip the Iron Mails after the battle.

The next fight is against Wiseman.

Boss#10: Wiseman
HP: 9999
Exp: 0
Specialty: none
Treasure: none

You can't win this battle, don't even try, you will always 
miss, the only way to get a hit on Wiseman is to charge 
your ap to around 20, then do your combo, hopefully one of 
them will connect.  And here is a nice fun tip for you, 
Wiseman is really Fei's dad, how can a son beat up his old 
man.

Wiseman just stands there while Fei tries again and again 
to hit him (it's rather sad when you think about it).  
After around 5 turns, Wiseman will say some things and he 
will leave.  Fei is now the Champion, and he gets booed 
and cheered by the angry crowd, at least the crowd didn't 
throw anything at him this time.

The Scene then switches to Bart for the final time, and 
won't switch back to Fei anymore after the battle with 
Wiseman.

Bart will meet up with Margie, they are about the leave 
the room and Margie will pick up her stuff animal or doll. 
When you get outside, Ramsus and Miang will come out and 
fight against Bart and Margie.  

Boss#11: Ramsus & Miang
HP: 400
Exp: 0
Specialty: Mirror Stance, Heal 40, Remove status
Treasure: none

Ramsus and Miang, you will see their faces again and again 
and again.  I counted, you have to fight Ramsus total of 7 
times, and Miang 5 times, they gets stronger every single 
time.  This is the first time, Ramsus' regular attack do 
around 50 or so damage to Bart, and Miang just stand there 
and heal him.  And the bad thing is you can't attack 
Miang.  Remember to equip Bart's Cobra Cracka, it poisons 
Ramsus, and Miang will have to waste her turn removing 
that.  After awhile, Ramsus will do Mirror Stance, and if 
he is in the stance and you attack him, he will counter 
attack for 170 plus damage, so don't attack him.  And if 
he is in the stance attack him with your Heaven Cent, but 
Miang keeps healing him, you just have to wait until 
Ramsus attack you again.  You can just charge you're AP 
and kill Ramsus in one shot when he gets out the stance, 
don't charge when he in the stance, he still counters.  
When Ramsus is in the stance, all hits from you will miss 
other than ether attacks, so just defend when Ramsus is in 
his stance.

Cobra Cracka is great since Miang will have to waste her 
turns removing the poison rather then healing.  Margie is 
similar, she can heal up to 40, but mostly she misses her 
heal or heals only 20, meaning don't rely on Margie to 
heal, use a Aquasol when you need it.  Just charge your AP 
bar and a 20 plus bar can knock off Ramsus.  

Boss#12: Ramsus & Miang
HP: 800
Exp: 0
Specialty: Mirror Stance, Heal 100, Remove Status
Treasure: none

Same thing all over again, except this time Fei is there 
fighting along side Bart, Ramsus have now 800 HP instead 
of his 400, Miang can heal for 100 now, but overall, this 
is much easier since now it is 2 against 1.  Charge your 
AP bar like last fight, around 40 AP should kill off 
Ramsus.  The party will then flee and meet Elly on the 
way, Elly helps everyone escape and you will be back in 
the Yggdrasil.  Cobra Crack is still useful here, since 
the posion will force Miang to waste her turns again.

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                    Nisan
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Treasure: 
Ether Veiler

Monster:
See above for Lahan grassland

The way to the bridge is blocked by the stuff animal 
Margie brought along, go talk to Margie and she will tell 
you that the stuff animal is really Chu-Chu, a living 
breathing animal.  Chu-Chu will then enter the room and 
tell Fei that she loves him, if you got the Spider in 
Lahan Mountain, you can trade her for a Ether Veiler.  
Then go to the bridge, Siguard will tell you where to go, 
follow his instructions and you will be at Nisan.  Enter 
Nisan and take Margie to the church and Margie will then 
show you some art stuff upstairs of Sophia, Sophia is the 
founder of the Nisan sect.  Fei will than have a brief 
scene of the looks of Sophia, and how she looks just like 
Elly.  After the scenes, you can follow Margie around for 
different scenes, after the long scenes go back to the 
town and Maison will tell you to go to the inside one of 
the house.  Do so and Siguard will tell Bart it is time to 
strike and retake Aveh, everyone will listen and form a 
strategy.  Afterwards save the game then tell Siguard you 
are ready.  Before you leave, check your money, you should 
have around 28000Gs by now.  If not sell off your extra 
things like the Gold Nuggets and Elly's Pilot Uniform, go 
to the store and buy a Life Stone and a Holy Pendent, if 
you have enough money left over buy a Magnetic Coat for 
your gear if you want.  The Holy Pendent is only found 
here in Nisan, but however it won't be here later when you 
get your flying Yggdrasil, so you can either get it now, 
or you can't get it at all later on, that also go for 
Ether Doubler.  If you are short on money, just go outside 
and fight for some money in your gears.

The Holy Pendent is a good piece of equipment, later Billy 
will come with one, and unless you buy another here, you 
can only get one in the entire game.  The Life Stone 
however, can be retained later on in Battling in Kislev, 
but the heavy price of 50,000 BP isn't cheap, and it will 
take you a long time to get it.  Ether Doubler is found on 
Disk 2 in treasure chest, and that is the only one unless 
you buy more here.

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                Kislev Mountains
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Treasure: 
Magnetic Coat, 
Gold Nugget, 
Extra Ar+2, 
Rosesol S

Monster:
Edelweiss, 880, Fang
Medusoid, 689
May Fly, 1410, Extra Ar+1
Nomad Repair Bot, 420

Fei will then be all by himself now, keep going up, ignore 
the red gears, stop by to get the treasure on the way, the 
Magnetic Coat is a must get, cause later it can't be found 
anywhere.  Get all the treasures here, since this is your 
only chance to stay here.  The cave is to the Northwest, 
go inside the cave and just climb up, eventually you will 
be at a Fix Bot, refuel, shop and upgrade, save to get 
ready for a serious of fights.  A new gear engine, new 
gear frame is pretty useful if you can afford them, I hope 
you do, otherwise your futures will be tough.  I would 
recommend you to level up to level 30, since the fights 
are easy and the enemies can't really deal any damage to 
you, most enemies give out around 1500 experience per 
fight, so fight and level up before you go on.  Before you 
exit the cave, equip a Beam Coat to make your life easier 
in next few fights.

First you fight two Wand Knights, these gun people are 
taking you on again, they are very easy but they are only 
here to waste your fuel and HP for upcoming battles.  
Forget about booster, just use two 10 fuel and two level 
one attacks to finish these to off, their Beam Attack can 
deal around 300 damage, but you got a Beam Coat to reduce 
half of the damage.

Next you take on a Sword Knight, Claw Knight, and an Aegis 
Knight, they are also easy but they are making your next 
battle very tough.  Turn on booster and kill off the Sword 
Knight first, it is the purple one, it deals the most 
damage, one 30 fuel and a level one attack should finish 
him, if not, add in another 30 fuel attack.  Then take out 
the Claw Knight with the same method, save the Aegis 
Knight for last since it don't attack that much, all it do 
is reduce your armor.

After you kill off the Gebler forces, you will fight a 
crazy Elly, she is using drives and she is serious about 
killing Fei.  Vierge has some powerful attacks, but since 
it don't use booster and has below average defense, the 
battle shouldn't be too hard.  Turn on booster and use 
your 30 fuel and level skills to finish off Vierge, the 
battle pauses from time to time for scenes about Elly's 
past.  

Boss#13: Vierge (Elly)
HP: 2400
Exp: 11406
Specialty: Aerods, Ether attack
Treasure: none

You have fight Elly this time, because Elly is nuts on 
drives.  Her Areods do 400 damage, but don't worry, hang 
in there and you will win, just do your 30 fuel attack and 
level one skill, you probably took a beating from the 
previous battles, but don't worry, Elly is weak and the 
fight stops from time to time for scenes.  The scenes will 
be more clear to you later on, near the end of disk one.  
Booster is a must, this will be Weltell's last fight, you 
will able to heal Weltell after this fight.

After you win, you will then be back in the cave where the 
Fix Bot is at, refuel and climb up until you reach a 
bright yellow spot, walk up to it and press X, the scene 
will shift to Bart and Citan.  There will be a scene now 
on Bart and Siguard.

Bart and Siguard will try to retake Aveh Castle, but 
Shahken is ready for them, so they were ambushed by the 
guards there.  But Maison rescued them using the Land 
Crab, and they returned to Yggdrasil, eventually.

Then Yggdrasil is attacked by the Gebler forces lead by 
Ramsus, and Ramsus is beating the hell out of the Sand 
Cruiser.  Ramsus seems to know Citan and Siguard, you will 
know about them and their past later on.

The scene will then eventually come back to Fei, Fei jumps 
down to attack, you get to control him when he lands.  Now 
just keep going straight.  You have to dodge the mines (-
15HP) and cannons from the ships (-1HP).  After crossing 
two screens you will take on the famous Kefeinzel Gun.

Boss#14: Kefeinzel Gun
HP: 1800
Exp: 700
Specialty: Firing Kefeinzel Gun, 400 damage
Treasure: Gold Nugget

Kefeninzel Gun is probably the easiest boss in the game 
(also probably the stupidest, it takes 7 turns to fire, 
and during the turns it does some funny things, like clear 
the dock, readying Kefeinzel Gun, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and 
finally fire).   Don't turn on booster, just ignore the 
little guns and attack with your 30 fuel and Reppu on the 
big gun.  You should able to finish him before the count 
goes to 0, even if it did fire, don't worry, it only deals 
around 400 damage anyway.  I waited for the Gun to fire, I 
was expecting 1000 plus damage, but I got totally 
disappointed at the cheap yet really famous Cannon.  If 
you don't feel safe enough about taking the 400 damage, 
turn on booster and that should ensure an easy victory.

You have now knocked out the all famous Kefeninzel Gun, 
but there is more, now you have to fight Dora after a lot 
of scenes with Dora coming out of the beaten fleet.

Boss#14: Dora
HP: 3000 
Exp: 13393
Specialty: "I kill you", counter attack, for 300 damage 
with every soldier in his claw.
Treasure: Extra Ar+3

Dora is much harder compared to Kefeninzel Gun, and those 
of you who are low on fuel and HP will have a lot of 
trouble with him.  Dora have a head gear, and when it is 
on, the two red gears can't deal any damage to it, just 
keep attack with your 10 fuel first, after about 8 hits, 
the head gear will blow and the red gears can now deal 
damage.  Fei should turn on booster now and keep attack 
Dora, also Dora's attack is quite weak if you have Beam 
Coat equipped.  Don't attack Dora when it has soldiers in 
it's claws, it can counter for big damage and you can't 
heal your gears yet.  The two red gears will help you 
abosrb some damage and deal some decent damage, just 
remember to use their 30 fuel attack, rather than 20 or 10 
fuels.

After Dora goes down, Grahf will come and give him power, 
you will see Grahf's speech about do you want the power 
for almost every human boss you fight from now on, it gets 
really annoying.  Dora will then kill the two red gears 
and Fei goes nuts again like he did in Lahan, destroying 
everything near him.  A bright flash blinds the screen and 
the scene switches.

The scene is now at Bart, Yggdrasil is under attack by 
Ramsus, Bart surface the ship and is confronted by a red 
gear.  Ramsus gets really mad at the red gear for some 
reasons and attacks it, but he failed pitifully, got 
killed in a single hit.  The red gear then turn to Bart, 
(the red gear is really Weltell, the pilot is Fei) Bart is 
facing the impossible task of taking her on. 

Boss#15: Id (red Weltell)
HP: 99999
Exp: 0
Specialty: "Kishin X", 19998 damage 
Treasure: none

You can't win this fight no matter what, because the red 
gear can kill you with its looks alone.  It has unlimted 
HP, it got Kishin X dealing 19998 damage to Bart, and it 
is really Xenogears (the strongest gear in the game, since 
the game name is Xenogears) in red.  You will get it at 
the end of the game in white color.  Don't bother trying, 
by the third turn, he will kill you.

You will have a chance to save after Id destroys the ship 
and as Citan flees to safety.  It's funny when Id says 
dropping a warship on me is cheating, take it back, and 
she throws Yggdrasil at Bart.  Everything seems lost now, 
let's continue on with the story.

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              Nortune D Block, Kislev
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Treasures: Dog Food

Fei will wake up in prison, talk about luck, one little 
snooze and he's in the slammer.  He just recover but he 
still have to go through some tough fights ahead, you will 
first be taken to the champ's room, after some talk with 
the champ Rico you will be taken outside for your fights.  
Rico is pretty cool, he is rude and strong, and he got 
some pretty rude things to say later (everything I look 
for in a game in is bad language).  

Remember that how you fight will actually have some impact 
in the future, the better you do the more freedom and 
privilege will be given to you, it's just a real life 
prison.  So fight well, you get a good treasure later if 
you win all the fights that you can.  Don't forget to save 
before you go mindlessly into battle with these people.  
They aren't weak, since they can seriously hurt you if 
they want to!

Your future rank depends on how times you win, each battle 
counts so get ready and start off on Leonardo.


Boss#16: Leonardo
HP: 500
Exp: 300
Specialty: none
Treasure: none

Your first fight is against Leonardo, he is quite easy, 
his 500 HP should go down in 4 turns with your Hoten.  Use 
your Inner Healing if your HP gets low, I doubt you will 
have to use Inner Healing this battle.

Boss#17: Heinrich
HP: 500
Exp: 300
Specialty: Power Bomb, 50 damage throw
Treasure: none

The second fight is against Heinrich, he is just like 
Leonardo, except he deal 25 damage instead of 20.  Don't 
waste too much time or effort on him, your Hoten should do 
well over 170 damage to him, so finish him off and get 
ready for the next fight.  Heal whenever you feel you need 
to, Heinrich's Power Bomb is quite rare, his regular 
attack shouldn't be a problem at all, so just finish him 
off fast.


Boss#18: Vargas
HP: 500
Exp: 300
Specialty: counter attack
Treasure: none

The third fight is with Vargas, he is easy as the Vargas 
in FF3 (one hit from Sabin killed Vargas in that game).  
So this fight is another easy one, first thing to remember 
that everytime you attack Vargas, he will counter attack 
depending on how you attacked him.  For example you use 
Raijin, he will counter for two hits, one weak and one 
strong.  If you hit him with a Hoten, then he will counter 
for four hits, three weak, and one strong.  So just attack 
once with your triangle and then cancel, charge your AP 
bar and let Vargas have it, he should die with a 20 AP 
combo, so don't waste to much time charging.  And before 
you do the combo, use Inner Healing until you have full 
HP, use all the EP you want right now, this is your only 
chance.  The next fight will take away all your EP, so 
don't bother saving them up.

Boss#19: Surzan
HP: 800
Exp: 500
Specialty: Sickle, lose half HP, or lose all EP
Treasure: Metal Jacket

The fourth fight is against Surzan, she will drain all of 
your EP at the start of the game, and then she will keep 
cutting your HP in half, or she attacks with her 2 damage 
slice.  Just keep your HP above 3, if it ever get that low 
use your Aquasol, don't worry about the next battle, but 
you should win this fight, if you don't you don't get the 
Metal Jacket and you lose the best rank you could get, 
rank s.  Surzan's attack is better in theory than in real 
life, since Fei should have at least 200 HP going into the 
fight, which means it will take Surzan a total of 9 turns 
to kill Fei adding the turn she needs to drain Fei's EP.  
That should leave you more than enough time to kill her.

Boss#20: Rico
HP: 9999
Exp: 0
Specialty: Steel Body, defense up, Steel Fist, attack up
Treasure: none

You can't win this fight, Rico will do Steel Fist and 
Steel Body and unleash a 1200 damage combo on you.  The 
bad thing is when Rico joins you, he deals lesser damage, 
I wonder why?

Fei will wake up again later in pain back at the D-block, 
just rest and save.  

Don't worry much, just walk around when you wake up the 
next day, talk to people, when you finish go to the bar at 
the end of the town.  When you get there, you will be 
greeted by Hammar, just talk to him, you don't get to make 
any choice about what you going to do, so after the long 
scenes, leave the bar, and head toward the exit.  A guard 
will stop you and tell you about the battling committee, 
go back to the bar and you will meet them.  After some 
more long boring scenes, go back to where you waked up, 
and Hammar will catch up with you.  Hammar will then talk 
about the new doctor, and guess who the new doctor is?  
It's Citan.   

After the talk, Citan will offer to remove your collar, 
the game forces you to keep it on, it doesn't matter what 
choice you make.  Hammar will then tell you more about the 
battling committee, and how to get rid of the collar, 
enter the battles. (There really isn't not much choice 
here, so just pick whatever.)  

Anyway, you can go up the roof and you will see a dog, 
talk to the dog, then talk to the guy further down, he 
will sell you some Dog Food, which you can give to the 
dog.  However, you can keep the Dog Food and not feed the 
dog if you want to.  This doesn't seem to have impact on 
the game.

Get some rest and you will be off to battles for the first 
time.  

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         Nortune C Block, Battling Committee
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The battling arena is right next to the D Block, get in 
and Rohoe will greet you and tell you about the battling 
and your gear.  Hammar is also there to sell gear stuff, 
but you can't buy anything from him yet.  You will tell 
her that you don't have a gear, but she will provide you 
with Weltell.

The first battle is against Ganador, you can't win this 
battle.  About a few seconds into the battle, Vargas will 
blow Weltell by overheating it, and you will black out.

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                   D Block
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You will wake up back in D Block, Citan will tell you what 
happen to your gear, and let you rest.  Fei goes back to 
sleep, and nothing happens.

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                   C Block
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Fei will wake up, you will enter the battles again, this 
time buy some new thing from Hammar, and equip the Extra 
Ar+3 you got from Dora, this won't really affect you do in 
battling, but it won't hurt you.  You could also practice 
in practice mode to help you get better, but I serious 
doubt that you will lost against any of the fights here, 
until you fight Rico much later on.


Tin Robo

He is quiet slow, his combo has long slow recoveries, take 
advantage of that, wait until he do a combo and rush in to 
knock him off his feet.  The prize money changes depending 
you will you did in the battle, if you win perfect, you 
get more money, if you win barely, you get lesser money.  
Don't worry if you lost the fight, you just have to fight 
that battle over again until you wins.

After you win against Tin Robo, go on ahead to the next 
fight.


Titan

He is just like Tin Robo, just beat him with your Ether 
Bullets.  Ether Bullets cause a lot of damage, and cpu 
almost never blocks them, just run around shot them, don't 
over heat yourself.  If you over heat yourself, you will 
start to lose HP, so just walk around to cool down.

This is the last battle for today, go back to D Block and 
rest.  You win then see a scene with Vargas and Leonardo, 
and guess who did it?  This is a pretty cool scene, 
however you will have to fight the monster later on.  I 
would say they deserve it for overheating your Weltell.

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                    D Block
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Rico will come see about the recent murders that has been 
going on in the sewer, he will tell you about it and you 
and Citan will join him to investigate.  Buy some 
equipment from Hammar, and remember to upgrade Rico's gear 
equipment from Hammar in C Block.  Equip a Speed Ring on 
Rico, he is quiet slow and hopefully that will make a 
difference in the battles ahead.

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                Underground Sewer
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Treasure:  
Cool Shades, 
Knight Helm, 
Bell Amulet, 
Ether Veiler, 
Sewer Map, 
Rosesol S, 
Aquasol S, 
Aquasol

Monsters:
Armor Wasp, 77, eyeball
Acid Frog, 120/150, Mentsol
Hob-gob, 90, Hob-jerky, hob-meat
Rotten Sod, 650, Zetasol
Moffet, 416, Aquasol, Aquasol S.
Batrat, 150, Aquasol, Fang


The creatures here is the sewer is the perfect place for 
leveling up, the boss here is very difficult, and you 
can't use your gears.  (If you are like me, who don't 
spend time leveling up until the end of the game, you 
should try to get some decent level up in here, or at 
least some new deathblows before moving ahead).  The boss 
in this dungeon is very hard, possible to be one of the 
hardest boss in the game.  Your Citan never really got a 
chance to level up, Rico just joined you, Fei is really 
your only good fighter right now.  But here are some 
important things, Citan is better than Fei right now, even 
though he is at lower level, his HP is a lot more higher 
than Fei, almost 100 more.  Don't worry much about Rico, 
this is the only place where you have to use him, just 
level him up a little, don't worry about the deathblow 
either, Rico's Firebomb heals the boss.  Citan learns a 
lot more faster than Fei, it only take a few fights for 
him to learn his deathblows, and since he is very fast, he 
will probably finish learning everything he right now in 
this dungeon.  Fei on the other hand is just you hardest 
hitter, equip him with Rico's Power Ring S to boost him 
attack even more, (Fei will be doing most of the damage 
right now.)

This dungeon is not that hard, there are a lot of items, 
so look around and explore a little, you get a map early 
and you will know where you are going.  Fight in this 
dungeon, don't run away unless you are dieing, use Citan 
and Fei to heal, you need everyone to contribute to win 
against the boss.  Even the slow, near blind Rico who 
always miss, you should notice how Rico misses all his X 
attack, and 60% of his S attacks, he is almost pitiful in 
character.  I never liked Rico, he is very slow, and he 
misses a lot, I rather use Bart or Elly, they even look 
better than Rico.  Rico is still important, he gets better 
later on, but I still don't use him that much.  

Anyway, you can just walk around the place, the sewer has 
three different separate maps, get to know the ways around 
the place.  The running pipes will deal you 3 damage if 
you run into the water, so jump over the pipe, the rotor 
will deal 5 damage to you so try to avoid getting hit in 
the sewer.  Redrum will appear here and there during every 
murder spot you see, but you can't fight him yet.  And 
whenever you see a piece of the floor and has mushy color, 
walk there for a scene, Rico will tell you something about 
the murder, none of it is really important.  When you are 
going through the sewer pick up the map first, its near 
Redrum where he is hiding after you first come down.  
There are treasures here and there, don't worry if you 
didn't get any of them.  None of the treasures are really 
important.  Rico will tell you about the sewer once you 
get in, and you will later see a green frog guy, he will 
tell you about the place and give you some hints.  He 
gives you the hint about the broken rat sweeper, follow 
the hint to the broken machine and check it, you will find 
the key.  Then go to the door to the north, Redrum is 
inside but you can't fight him yet.  After you get in, get 
the Bell Amulet, and the Ether Veiler further up the 
pipes.  Equip the Ether Veiler if you want.  Then Citan 
will have the idea of getting the monster to come to you, 
as he explains about how murders always come back to the 
scene of the crime.  Then you have to find a pipe with 
slime all over it, but there isn't a murder near that 
place.  It is to the north-east of the place, go there and 
ring the bell next to the pipe.  Redrum comes out and 
fight you.  Remember to heal before going to the pipe, 
Redrum isn't some pushover and you will need all the HP 
you can get.

Boss#21: Redrum (Murder backward)
HP: 4242
Exp: 52425
Specialty: Murder, kill one character and drain max HP, 
Blood Rain, fire attack on all, heal Redrum for 100 HP, 
Gel, confuse and poison two of your character.
Treasure: none

Redrum is possible to be the hardest boss in Disk one, his 
Murder attack kills one of your character and drain all of 
his max HP, his fire attack do around 30-100 damage to all 
of your character and heal him for 100.  And for Rico your 
best deathblow is probably Fire Bomb, but it heals him, so 
you can only do your weaker deathblows on him.  Before 
this fight, level up to 33 at least, higher the better, 
and equip your best things on Fei, Fei will be doing most 
of the damage in this fight.  When the fight start, cast 
Citan's Renki, then next turn cast Suiikei, that way it 
protects you against Redrum's Bloody Rain, then just 
charge your ap, and unleash it all, hopefully you can kill 
Redrum before Murder and Bloody Rain heals him.  And also 
remember to buy a lot Zetosol back in D Block from Hammar, 
and revive who ever gets murdered.  Don't charge your ap 
for Rico he is too slow to charge, just have him attack 
with his best deathblow, other than Fire Bomb.  Have Citan 
cast Renki and use that to heal faster, but if you think 
you can do without it and just use both Citan and Fei to 
heal, go right ahead, but just remember to revive anyone 
who dies.  This is a hard fight, it might take you a few 
tries, so don't forget to save ahead of time.

After the long hard battle, Rico will then leave your 
team.  So before the battle begins, and check his gear 
equipments.  There is only one more chance in the future 
before another boss battle.  Don't take Rico's Frame HP50, 
he is going to need it, if you could, give Rico a Beam 
Coat, but if you only got one than keep it on your Weltell 
instead.  

Rico is hurt from battle, but he ignores Fei and leaves 
the sewer.  Citan gave Redrum some kind of burial and then 
he and Fei both leave the sewer.   

Go outside and rest.  Get ready to battle against Rico 
soon in the Battle Arena.

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                      C Block
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After you wake up, head for the Battle Arena.  

Hatamoto

Hatamoto will be your next battle, and he isn't too hard.  
Just run around shoot your Ether Bullets until he dies.  
If he do his combo, block and counter against him.  

Firewheel

Firewheel is similar to Hatamoto, it got just a better 
speed.  Just run up do a combo, cancel and do the combo 
again.  Or you can just use your Ether Bullets to finish 
him off, none of these fights are hard.  

Silver Star

Sliver Star is the third and last battle you will have to 
fight, he is very defensive so use your Ether Bullets to 
take him out, even if he blocks he still takes a bit of 
damage.  If you know how to do it, use the combo cancel 
combo cancel repeat to win.

After you finish with the battles, go back to D Block to 
rest up for tomorrow.

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                     D Block
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You just rest and wait for the battle against Rico 
tomorrow.  You are almost done here in the slammer here.  
Just catch some shut eyes for now.

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                     C Block
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After you wakes up, head for C Block and battle the champ.

Stier (Rico)

Stier is the hardest gear to beat, he didn't give me that 
much trouble, but he can really kill.  Stier is very 
strong, have a beyond evil combo and can easily kill you.  
I just run up do 2 hits from my combo, cancel and do the 
combo again.  Stier blocked most of my hits, but he ended 
up getting cheesed.  I would suggest to those who find the 
battle hard to practice a bit, or learn how to do the 
combo cancel repeat to win.

If you win (which you must if you plan to beating the 
game), you will see long boring scenes with a lot of 
people.  Your collar will be removed, now you can roam 
around freely in Kislev.  Kasier Sigmund wants to see you, 
but first you will get your own champ room.  Rico is no 
where to be found, so Fei gets his room.  

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                     A Block
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Treasure: Insulated AR, Power Magic, Knight Mail, Momento 
Ring

A Block is the pink building in the middle of the town 
map.  Now you can wonder around the whole city, go the B 
Block if you want, there isn't much there.  When you leave 
the Inn, a lady will tell you that Hammar is waiting for 
you at the Wild Cats Bar.  Go to B Block, right next the 
Bar is Big Joe, he will tell you to give him 5000Gs to see 
something.  (it's a giant rip off!!!) Give him the money 
and he will run away.  Come back later after getting Elly, 
Big Joe will give you the M Disk for the 5000Gs you have 
paid in advance.

Anyways, go to A Block, the guards will let you in.  Rico 
is right behind you after you go in.  First go to the 
right hand side.  There is a guy with his puppy, and a 
door next to him.  Go inside the door and you will see a 
lot of chicken running around, the door down the hall 
contains the Insulated Ar.  Go all the way down in that 
room, rotate the camera angel and you will see another 
treasure box.  Go back near the door and there is a switch 
next to a guy, the switch operates the crane.  Turn on the 
switch and move the crane right and left, avoid contact 
until the wall blocking your treasure box.  Use the crane 
as a stepping stone and get your Power Magic that's 
blocked away by the boxes.  If you mess up the crane, just 
exit the room and enter again.  The guy will reset the 
crane only after you have left the room.

After all that exploring, go back and enter the elevator, 
it will take you up to Kaiser Sigmund.  The Kaiser's room 
is to the left and when you get in, the scene will switch 
to Rico.  Rico fall down the vent, he have to run away.  
He went in to the Kaiser's bedroom, and there will be some 
scene about Rico's past as he enters.  You will regain 
control after the scenes, go to the mirror and check for a 
Momento Ring.  And when you try to exit Fei and Citan will 
enter the room. The three of you will then exit the room, 
but Rico gets taken away by guards.  During the 
conversation you will know that Rico is really the 
Kaiser's son or have similar DNA which happens around once 
in every pair of 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 people, 
in another word, yes, Rico is the Kaiser's son.  

Someone emailed me about a mini game in the Kaiser's room, 
involving the piano or the pipe thing, or something about 
the clock, I haven't check it yet, if you are near that 
part of the game, check it out to find out what it might 
be about.  You are suppose to get prizes from playing the 
mini game, I have no idea on what you can get or anything 
about it for that matter.

Fei will then leave A Block, go to B Block and you will 
meet Hammar, he will tell you about Weltell and Rico.  
Then go back to D Block, two battlers and an amazon will 
talk to you about rescuing Rico.  One of them will give 
2000Gs when he leaves your room.  Hammar will tell you 
about the supply train and how to get back your Weltell.  
You will try to escape later that night.

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                 Gear Dock Raid
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Treasure: 
Mini Gear,
Evasion Ring, 
Aquasol S, 
Aquasol, 
Frame HP30, 
Key, 
Survial Tent, 
100Gs

Monsters:
Swordman, 140, Rosesol, Aquasol
Mechanic, 333
Hob-Gob, see above
Batrat, see above

Fei and Citan will get some rest, save and exit the 
building.  Go up the stairs near where you go down the 
sewer, head back toward the Inn and go up the watchtower.  
Wait for the train to arrive and jump as you see the 
train.  If you mess up, then you have to start all over 
again from when you first woke up back in the Inn.

The train gets detaches soon after Fei and Citan gets on.  
Jump forward to get to the next part of the train.  That 
part get detached too, jump forward again to safety.  The 
train finally arrives at the Gear Dock, the party jumps 
off and get into the Dock.  This might seem too good to be 
true, any one who jumped off a running train will have to 
suffer some kind of injury, but both Citan and Fei don't 
even have a scratch.

When you get into the dungeon you are really actually near 
the end, except the door is locked and you have to look 
for the key.  

This room has two doors and an air duct, but both doors 
are locked so use the air duct.  Climb up and wonder 
around.  Go up and follow the passage, ignore the first 
intersection, but at the second one, head south and go 
into that air duct.  

The room is similar to the first room you where in, but 
there is a long gap between the boxes.  Jump over the gap 
and go inside that air duct.  You will be back in the 
passage again, and some intersection leads to holes on the 
ground where you can see below.  One of the holes let you 
see Weltell getting transferred to another dock, the other 
holes doesn't show you much of anything.  

Follow the passage and you will be at a door, when you try 
to enter a scene will trigger with some guards.  After the 
scene the guards will leave and you can enter the room.  
The guard left the key in the cabinet.  You should know 
what to do, get the key and Citan will tell you to get the 
Frame HP30 that is also in the cabinet.  Now you can heal 
your gears using that gear part.  

*Note, Frame HP30 is possibly the best Frame HP you can 
get.  Frame HP 90 and Frame HP70 is just a waste of fuel, 
Frame HP50 is okay, but Frame HP30 is more than enough.  
Frame HP10 is useless, it only heal for a few hundred 
right now for you, so it's useless.  Also when you still 
got Rico back in the sewer, you can check out his gear and 
take off the Frame HP50 he got equipped for his Stier, but 
I suggest you leave it on him and if you got a extra Beam 
Coat, put it on his gear, too.

Go on ahead to the next room, this room will have two 
chairs.  Check between the chairs for a Mini Gear, and you 
now have to fight 4 Sword Guards for the Mini Gear.  They 
are just regular enemies, and a few deathblows can finish 
them off.  You don't have to fight them, but the fight 
reward you with the Evasion Ring so be sure to fight here.  
Before the fight, one guard will come back to get his Mini 
Gear, and he will say a bunch of funny words about his 
Mini Gear.  It's really funny so don't forget to read it.  
That part is quite long, but it is one of the funniest 
things I've ever heard.

The next room has a bunch of panels, check them, and one 
of them will give you 100Gs.  Keep going once you got the 
money.

And now you should be in a hallway, the two rooms down the 
hall are the two you already visited.  Save if you want, 
you get another chance later.  Go down the stairs and pick 
up the Survival Tent next to the stairs at the end.  Go 
down and you will be in a roomful of gears.  Go to the 
middle part where a few gears are just standing, push the 
panel next to it to get Weltell.  There are three 
different panels, sometimes it takes awhile for Weltell to 
appear.  Get in Weltell and go to the green bot in the 
corner, refuel and upgrade if you want to, but I suggest 
you do.  Save and go to the other side of the panels, step 
into any of the elevator type things and you will transfer 
out of there.  Don't forget to equip a Beam Coat, you will 
need it.  Also equip your Frame HP30 for future battles, 
keep this Frame HP on Weltell.

The scene switch to Rico, he is battling against a gear 
sized Rankar R, with his bare fist.  Weltell come to his 
rescue.  

Boss#22: Rankar Dragon R
HP: 800
Exp: 946
Specialty: Tail Sweep, Slow
Treasure: Scale

Just use 30 fuel and level one attack, you win after 2 
turns, but remember not to use booster, you just waste 
fuel and time.  The Rankar is just like before, he dies 
and the Gelbers attacks Kislev.

Fei will get into some easy battles with some old friends.

Aegis Knight R will be your first battle, and he is easy 
as before.  He got the same old moves, the same weird 
looking gear, and you should scrap him in a few turns.

The second battle is against Sword Knight R, kill him fast 
because he deals a lot of damage and you don't want to use 
your Frame HP just yet.  Turn on booster to speed things 
up, 30 fuel and level attack should kill him in a few 
turns.

Then you fight Claw Knight R, and he is just like before, 
again.  This time he got a new attack that deals around 
300 damage, but you should again scrap him before he can 
abuse it.  He leaves behind a Beam Coat, equip it later 
when you have the chance, unless you already have it for 
both Weltell and Stier.

Now Rico joins the battle against two Wand Knight R, their 
Beam attack deals some good damage.  It would be a hard 
fight alone, but Rico is also in the battle, now you find 
out even though Rico is rather sad in character, however 
his gear is really strong.  His 30 fuel attacks deals 3 
times more damage than Fei. 

Anyway, after 4 long easy pointless battles, you now fight 
Elly again.  Correction here, since there is now 5 long 
pointless battles.

She just stands there and talks with you.  Long scenes 
during this no hitting friendly battle.

After the battle with Elly you will be given a chance to 
save.  Do so and equip the Beam Coat unless you already 
have one equipped for both Weltell and Stier.

Get ready to take on Dominia, like Ramsus you will see her 
a lot from now on.  Even though she got a women's name, 
she acts a bit like a man, she also looks like a man.

Boss#23: Hecht (Dominia)
HP: 7500
Exp: 48106
Specialty: Areods, counter on attack, Super Areods, 2000 
damage beam attack
Treasure: HP Drive

This can be hard, but remember to equip Rico and Weltell 
with your Beam Coats, and just turn on booster and use 
your best level one skill, and if she throws out a Super 
Areods, just ignore it and stay with Dominia, Super Areods 
only do around 2000 damage anyway.  This is should only 
take around 12 turns, if longer, you are going to run out 
of fuel.  You won't even need to heal unless you took a 
beating from the battles before.  Weltell is weak against 
Hecht, but Stier deals some really high damages to it.  
Rico's level 1 skill can deal around 1500 damage.  Hecht 
should be toasted in a few turns with boosters on.

*Note, always use the Drives when you get it.  There is no 
point in saving them up, and you can always buy them later 
from Big Joe if you want to keep it for fun.  Don't use 
any Drives on Elly, since she later leaves you.  (Yep, she 
leaves everyone and she shots Fei, but she will come back 
later, but the game ends at the same time.)

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                 Secret Weapon Factory
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Treasures:
 M-Disc (make sure you get this, or else you have to win 
it at the very end and it's very time consuming), 
02 Cylinder, 
Extra Ar+3,
Ground, 
Gold Nugget


Monster:

Grassland
Pecking Duck, 200
Rhino, 550, Eyeball
Rain Frog, 80/150, Aquasol, Aquasol S


Forest
Forest Elf, 180
Dwarf, 450


Factory
HarkebusMk10, 400/550
NeoMushaMk10, 360
Hatamoto MK3, 640/800, Mica
Mechanic, see above at Gear Dock Raid
Shinboi, 960




Everyone will be in B Block after the long scenes are 
over.  Hammar will be there and tell you some useless 
info.  

When you leave B Block Rico will join you, he beat up some 
guards and now you leave B Block together.  

When you are at the city map, you will see that some parts 
of the town are blocked by guards, and you will see Big 
Joe near B Block entrance.  Talk to him and he will tell 
you that he is sorry to take your money and give you the 
hint about where to get a secret item.  Go back into B 
Block, head where he took your money (near the Wild Cat 
Bar).  In that ally where he told you to look, go all the 
way off screen and press X, you will get the M Disk.  Get 
it now, or it won't be there.  This is the only way to get 
it, if you don't get it now, you have to battle for it 
later.  And I tell you the battles are hard and long, 
(took me almost 1 hour to get enough BPs to get the M 
Disk) so for 5000Gs it's well worth it. 

Now you can listen to the M Disk in the Wild Cat Bar.  The 
juke box is near the counter.  

First head toward the forest, and get out of your gears to 
get past the forest part.  The enemies in the forest part 
can actually wipe out your entire party unless you run 
away or you are at high levels.  The enemies in there 
deals a lot of damage but leaves very little experience 
and Gs.  Don't fight in the forest unless you have to, 
fight on the grassland instead, the fights are easy since 
you can use your gears.

When you first enter the factory, you will see Hammar.  He 
will let you buy stuff and change your party.  Take Rico 
along since he has a much stronger gear than Elly or 
Citan.  Purchase anything you want, but don't waste too 
much money.  

Then keep on going, in pick up the treasure on the way.  
The Gold Nugget is kind of hidden since you can't rotate 
your camera angle, it's in one of those pipe like things 
where the enemy gear can pop out.  There will be some 
enemies on the way, and once awhile you will encounter an 
enemy gear with 4 mechanics.  Kill off the gear and let 
the mechanics hit you.  Every once awhile they will heal 
your gear, you can just charge fuel while waiting.  If you 
get hit by them that no big deal, since they only deal 1 
damage only.  Save on the way if you want to.

The enemies aren't too hard, so don't waste too much time 
on them.  Keep going and than you will be at a sliding 
thing that takes you to another room.  The sliding thing 
on the other end is going the wrong direction so you have 
to get off the slide and punch some switches.  There is a 
treasure chest with an Extra Ar+3 at the back wall, you 
will have to get out off your gears to access it.  There 
are two switches, one of them drop a treasure down, I 
think the treasure is random (the first time I got a Mica, 
next time I got a Extra Ar+2, then I got a Gold Nugget, so 
I don't know what you going to get).  The other switch 
changes the direction of the slide.  Get on the slide and 
it will take you to another room.  Get the O2 Cylinder 
near the opposite wall and head for the boss fight.  Save 
if you want in the next room, but the boss isn't really 
that hard. 

The Goliath is open, right before you get in the boss 
comes out and you fight him.  

Boss#24: Fis-6
HP: 6800
Exp: 67284
Specialty: Shift Up, increase Fis-6's abilities
Treasure: Ground

This fight isn't that hard, just turn on booster, use 30 
fuel and level one skill to kill him, the fight shouldn't 
take too long, and don't forget to upgrade your gear when 
you see Hammar when the dungeon starts.  Fis-6 use Shift 
Up after taking certain amount of damage, just ignore the 
ability, and keep hitting him, he dies fast.  After awhile 
there will be mechanics out to repair Fis-6, ignore them 
and keep hitting Fis-6 since the mechanics won't heal that 
much, or you can take out the mechanics with a 10 fuel 
attacks each then focus on Fis-6, it's totally up to you.  
The fight is very easy for you if you turn on your booster 
early and bring Rico along.

After the fight you will all board the Goliath, it's a 
pretty big air plane. 

There will be some scenes with all your party members and 
you have to talk to everyone than talk to Citan to fly the 
plane.  As the plane lift off, you see Grahf.  A fight 
breaks out with Fei, Elly, Rico against Grahf without his 
gear.  

Your three ultra strong gears can't take Grahf without his 
gear.  Grahf is pretty strong, but he is destined to lose 
since he doesn't hit Elly, just turn on booster and hit 
him with 30 fuel attacks.  No matter how the battle ends, 
Goliath will just fly away, a funny scene where Hammar has 
to fire a machine gun at Grahf but Hammar is too scared.  
Some more boring scenes follows after that, just watch 
them if you want to.

Boom, Goliath gets blow up by Bart and his Bart Missiles 
(corny name).  Everyone except Fei and Elly is rescued!

Then the scene switch back to Fei and Elly are on a raft 
of some kind.  You will first control Elly and take her 
across the pit and near the little door.  Fei will pop out 
and a lot more scenes follows.

Fei will have some funny scenes where he tries to catch a 
fish.  Elly just sits there looking over Fei like a 
girlfriend (you should already know that they like each 
other by now).  There will be a very sweet scene where 
Elly shares some rations with Fei (so cute, so sweet, yet 
the ration tastes so bitter, this is funny.  I know that 
I'm a bit immature about this, but I can't help laughing 
myself crazy).

The scene will switch to Bart and the Yggdrasil, Bart just 
found out that the Goliath is actually controlled by Fei 
and Citan.  (He gets beat up by Rico for that, lol!!!)  He 
is mad at himself, after a few scenes, you will be able to 
control Bart, look around for Citan in the Gear Dock Shop.  
Citan will forgive Bart and tell Bart to say sorry to 
Rico.  Rico is at his gear at the other side of the room.  
Just go there and an automatic scene will trigger.  Rico 
is amazed that Bart can actually tune his gear, Rico 
thinks he and Fei is the only one, but now there is Bart.  
And then the scene will switch back to Fei and Elly.  They 
meet up w