Since this go really is just me messing
around, I'm going to forgo the more long-winded intro.
Before I do jump on in, though, there
are a couple things I should make note of. The first is that since I
am just screwing around this time, a good many of these may very well
cover more than one play session. Not sure how frequent that will
be, but since I've already gone over the story once, and like I said
in my overview
post about these second runs, there are about a bajillion Let's
Plays of this game on YouTube if you want to get more details. I'd
recommend HCBailly's
channel because he's done at least three playthroughs of
different versions of the game.
The other thing is that this is likely
going to be more about my getting things that I either didn't last
time or flip-flopped about at the time. Part of me is saying that a
good many of these things are going to be kind of tedious, grinding
or farming sort of things that will almost certainly take awhile. At
the same time, though, I look back at my last run through this game
here, and I think I just randomly stumbled across the Bomb summon. I
don't recall using it more than just the once to see what it did, but
I did have it, I think. Either way, this is one of those things
where some of this stuff may turn out to be less time consuming and
difficult than I'm thinking, and kind of hoping, right now. So let's
see how all that works out, shall we?
After taking care of some technical
difficulties, I spent a little time playing around with a little
trick that allows for cloning most of the weapons and/or shields the
characters might have equipped during battles. This is the one where
you unequip the weapon or shield to be duplicated during a battle,
then finish the battle, either by running away or killing the
monsters, and then re-equipping said item from the menu screen after
the battle. I'm pretty sure to get it to work, you've gotta select
the open slot in the items menu first during the fight to get it to
work.
This was mainly done on the peninsula
south and east of Baron Castle. The only summoned monster that I
know that can be had there is the Imp, and I was sort of hoping I'd
get lucky and wind up getting it this early in the game, but that
rarely happens. So, after building up to five each of the weapons
and shields Cecil and Kain had and getting a level for Cecil, I
gathered all the free items to be had in the town of Baron at this
point and stayed at the Inn before going to the start of the Mist
Cave and saving.
On my way through the cave, I did a
little more grinding, just so I could get Kain up to level eleven and
have him there long enough to enjoy it before he winds up out of the
party after the fight with Rydia in a bit. I added to my supply of
cloned weapons and shields, too. In my screwing around, I wound up
letting Cecil's HP drop down to the double digits, which is something
I don't think I let happen since the first couple times I played the
game.
Once I got my supplies of everything I
wanted up to ten, I just went ahead with the boss fight at the end of
the cave. That also went pretty much the same as it usually does,
except that this time, I wound up accidentally hitting the dragon in
its cloud form. It's been awhile since that's happened, too.
Otherwise, nothing has happened that I
didn't cover in my last runthrough. The Village of Mist still gets
blown up; Rydia still summons the Titan that brings down the
mountains on the group; all that fun stuff. I'll pick up with the
trip to Kaipo and through the Watery Pass next time. There's no
telling what might happen, but I'm still hoping it'll be interesting.
Either way, see you then, everybody.
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