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Star Ocean 2 Cave of Trials Stategy Guide

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By Zero([email protected]).zero.b3.nu--my game page

In my opinion this is one of the best games ever made nextto Chrono Trigger. One of the best parts about this game is thedifficulty it can present, but if you can't pass something because ofit's difficulty it just gets annoying and that is why I made thisstategy guide. The Cave of Trials can be really hard if youaren't at a very high level and even then it's puzzels are sometimeshard to figure.So here it goes...

Table of ContentsI. Intro to the Cave of Trials

II. Cave of Trials

III. Extra tid-bits

-------------------------------------------------------------I. Intro-------------------------------------------------------------

To get to the cave of trials you must almost beat the game.

Once you have gotten far enough to beat the first nine of the tenwise men attack. I was around level 70-80 when I first went at themand they weren't to bad, this was on the regular difficulty. Onceyou have beaten the first nine the last save point in the tower ofFienal is the key. Once you save there two options open up. Theobviousis the cave of trials and the other is a PA with Indalecio'sdaughter, Filia. First you must have met her in the only PA you cando in the Port of Clik, before the tidal wave hits. If you have donethis go to Central City and do a PA. She should be in the main building,with the mayor, on the first floor. She tells you about her fatherand reveals he has a limiter on. The limiter is automaticallyremoved onceyou talk to her. With the limiter off Indalecio is nearlyinvinsable so I recommend not doing this unlessyou are planning on

spending a bit of time leveling up. I had all of my character's ontheir master level(256) and it was still tough to take him out.

To get to the Cave of Trials you must goto the stadium in


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fun city and talk to an old guy towardsthe back of the stadium.He'll ask you if you would like to relive your memories and if yousavedat the last save point then he'll give the option to reallyrelive memories. Say yes to his questions and you'll end up inAlria by a weird looking animal. If you talk to the pinguin likething and say"you silly Vern Vern" you'll get knocked back toreality(Nede). Once you'll leave Arlia you'll see a handy Synard

waiting for you. You can go any dungeon or city you wish a stilldo any PA's left, but the cave of trials is on an island on thesouth-western part of the map. It looks like a pyramid, but it goesdeep into the ground.

-------------------------------------------------------------II. The Cave of Trials-------------------------------------------------------------

If you made it through Fienal's monster with little problemyou should be alright tostart the Cave of Trials. I was still aroundlevel 80 and the monsters were still a bit of a challenge. Once you

beat the cave the monster will be cleared out until you leave the caveand return. But the bosses always remane dead and the doors stayopen so feel free to return to the surface and save or fill up onitems, because you'll need it.

-------- 1st Floor --------- Heraldic RuinsItems--Fruit Nectar, Juicy Beef, Tri-emplem, Link Stock, Wonder Drug,

Blueberry, Nuclear Bomb

Once in just up then turn left at the first chance. Aftergoing down there is a door on the left with a teleport to the ninthlevel. It doesn't work till you've reached that floor, so just go down.The next room to the left has a blue berry, then go down and to the

right. If you pull the lever on the wall the door to the bosseschamber opens, but there is more treasure's to get. Straight ahead andto the bottom is a Tri-emplem and the room on the left has a JuicyBeef and a wonder drug. Go inthe right door then take a right, theroom on top is empty but alittle further to the right is a nuke.Then go back to where you turned from and head up. to get the LinkStock(Increase's links abilities for everyone, it's in your preciousitems directory). To the left and then up is a fruit nectar, they arevery useful. Now just head back to the boss and take a swing. Theboss isn't that hard, but take out the knights first with anythingand just use regular attacks on the witch. After she is defeated youget a nice pair of bunny shoes(the best in the game, give you ultra speedand the bunny races is the only other place they are available).

--------- 2nd Floor ----------- Love AlleyItems--Purity Leaf, Reflex, Link Combo, Resurrection Mist

This levels puzzel is one of the toughest in the whole cave.The message by the stairs is supposed to be a clue for solving it butit's doesn't help much. The object is to point the statues in thedirection of the people they like, hence the Love Alley. Here's thesolution...Yufie points south, Lloyd points east, Cistina points to thesouth, Feria goes east, Luke points north, Milene points to the southand Sharon looks to the west. Once you have them pointing towards whomthey like the sound of a door opening pops up and the boss is now available

for battle.This boss is just a slime guy and he's a baddy on the nextlevel, so if you have problems level up before the next floor. Regularattacks should be just fine. You get a Seraphic Garb for beating it.


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have a level 10 music ability and Rena or Leon usually works best.Then to the left, way up then to the right is another sealed room withthe boss. It's hole is towards the top of the wall. This boss is veryfast but if you have the bunny shoes, your faster. Again regular attackswork just fine. You don't get anything for beating him.

------------ 5th Floor ------------ Lady's Revenge

Items--Wonder Drug, Juicy Beef, Fruit Nectar, Fresh Syrup, Slayer Ring, FairyRing, Seraphic Garb

Right away you can get a fresh syrup and a slayer ring. Just go allthe way up, the room on the right is empty but remember it. You'll nowhave the pleasure of meeting puffy and her little friend. No matter whatyou answer to her questions you'll have to fight her pet. Just run awayfor now because you cannot harm him enough to kill. Even if you do thingsturn out the same. After she leaves go to the right, the top room is emptyalso. Now the room towards the top in the next area has a wonder drug. Thenkeep heading right. Again the room towards the top has a treasure, SeraphicGarb, and heading down a ways after that will lead you to Puffy. She's in a bit

of trouble and if you choose to save her you'll then be able to beat herpet. It's just the clock guys again, shouldn't be too hard now. After youbeat them Puffy will run off and drop the weird slayer. Make sure and equip it,to whom, it doesn't matter. The monster is now in the empty room at thebegining of the level, I told you to remember. One shot from the weird slayerwill kill it and you'll get a jewel that will open the door to the next floor.The door is down and to the right from the room that you saved puffy.

------------ 6th Floor ------------- Burglar's NestItems--Dream Crown, Cure Poison

This is the awesome room that Santa likes to hang out. Santa appearsrandomly, but every time I've played a new game, 4 times, he has been thereon the first trip down. After that he seems to be there on a totallyramdom chance. He is a very expencive dealer, but the goods are worth it.He sells every jewel or metal to make things out of plus a couple of othergoddies. The Santa Boot's he sells goes for 10 million and seems to be acomplete waste of money. They are supposed to give you good item if yourwearing them and stay at an inn, but I have always gotten junk and I don'talways get something.

The Go-Home frog is pretty useful, especially in the cave of trials.it lets you teleport back to the begining of any dungeon. And the best itemhe sells is the tri-emblem, it raises your stats very nicely and has high def.against all magics. They are worth the money.

To get the door open in this floor you need to talk to the thiefstatues. The usually just say that it is a statue of a thief, but thereis one at ramdom that has a switch to open the door. The boss is Funnythieflvl99. He is very fast, but when you start the battle he is not there. Thereare a few other monsters too, but he drops in a few seconds after the start. Itdoesn't really matter how you kill him, but regular attacks are, again, the mosteffective. For beating him you get the funny slayer, which is very useful onthe next level. He is a regular monster on the next floor and comes in biggroups, so the autokill it gives really helps.

------------ 7th Floor ----------- Goddess's AltarItems--Ishidaya Tes, Purity Leaf, Fresh Syrup, Ganze Sea Urchin, Yukiocho

Tea, Peep Non, Cracked Jewel*, Resurrection Mist, Bunny Shoes!,


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Tri-emplem, Weird Slayer

You'll see an alter with a message next to it, it says "Make the offeringon the altar whose portal opens with the jewel's power." The portal is referingto the door just ahead, but the only jewel available is the cracked jewel and

that doesn't work. The cracked jewel is at the end of the hall on the right.Once you get this all you need to do is use someones metalworking skill,preferably with level 10, and it'll turn into the Red Lotus Jewel, which willopen the door.

Your boss for this level is the Mithril Eater. It's the most lazy bossIhave ever seen and is like the monster you get the LEA metal from. You can keepthis guy from attacking at all if you get of your characters, especially Claudeto continually wack the thing. No special attacks though because those rarelycause peeping(stars around the head) which stops him from attacking. You getthe Million Staff from this guy for his defeat. and the bunny shoes are just

behind him.

------------- 8th Floor ------------ Food GodItems--Soda Pop, Wonder Drug, Ganze Sea Urchin, Amoeba Soup, Funny Slayer,

Peep Non, Million Staff, Prime Toro Tuna, Lavender, Seraphic Garb,Fresh Syrup, Slime Jelly

To fight this boss you need to feed the stupid wall 'O food god. It isreally picky and I'm not sure quite how it works, but you need to feed it thebest meal you can make, usually using the master chef specialty and mixing fish,meat or wheat works well. If it likes it give em the worst drink you have andyou'll make him sick and the door magically opens.

This boss is really easy but watch out because they can eat you. And whenyour in them it drains your HP. A big fat Gelatin Steak is you prize for thislevel, fitting eh?!

------------- 9th Floor ------------ Sealed CoffinItems--Valiant Boots, Wonder Drug, Resurrection Mist, Artemis Leaf

To the right of the stairs are two treasure's, one in a sealed room withan invisible door at about the middle of it. To the left and going in almost acircle, you'll run past the bosses door. Inside lies a "sealed coffin,"surprise, surprise. This will not open until you beat the 12th floor's boss.

Here's the bosses strategy anyway. To get him to come about you must havethe Holy Sword and with the coffin open just press X by it and he'll appear.It's just three wizards and if you have someone that can cast spells that hiteveryone it'll keep them in check while the rest just beat them senseless.You'll get the Levantine Sword(the best in the game). Once you have both ofthose sword's the door opens to the 13th floor.

------------- 10th Floor ------------ Decision PointItems--read below

This floor gives you the choice of which way to go and only that path.

The tiles on the floor are used to open the doors to the rooms. If you mess upon which path you want you can just go back up then down the stairs and theyreset. Red and Yellow romes hurt your HP and MP of your entire party while you


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are in them. The green rooms are normal. Here's another map with the color andtreasure's of each room./--------------/---------------/---------------/----------------// / / / // / 4 / 11 / 12-end // 3 / / / /

/ / / / //--------------/---------------/---------------/----------------// / / / // 2 / 5 / / 13 // / / 10 / // / / / //--------------/---------------/---------------/----------------// / / / // / / / // 1 / 6 / 9 / 14 // / / / //--------------/---------------/---------------/----------------/

/ / / / // / / / // start / 7 / 8 / 15 // / / / //--------------/---------------/---------------/----------------/1.green-none2.yellow-Funny Slayer3.red-Bunny Shoes!4.green-none5.green-none6.green-none7.yellow-Fresh Syrup8.red-Rainbow Diamond, Sages Stone, Valkyrie Boots

9.yellow-none10.red-Valkyrie Boots11.green-none12.Boss-Tri-Ace(Ashton's Best Killer Move)13.red-Million Staff, Meteor Swarm(Celine's Best Spell)14.yellow-Purity Leaf15.red-Valiant Boots

The boss is like the guardian's of the fields on Nede. His name is alsoGeo Guardian and he fights almost exactlty the same. Again regular attacks workvery well, he does have quite a bit of HP.

------------- 11th Floor ------------ Dragon's NestItems--none

Anice relaxer for what you've gone through already and what your about to.The Boss is a large dragon. Most special attacks wont hit it and give him timetime prepare an attack. Keep three guys on him and put Rena in a corner readyto heal. You'll get the skill Float for beating him. It is very effectiveagainst regualar enemies, but makes things harder against the last bosses.

To gain access to the nest floor you must use the portal to go to thefirst floor and seperate. The 12th floor is only for couples and the best

couple, of course, is Rena and Claude. Healing will be quite often needed and,for some reason, Claude seems to be nearly invincible with the Seraphic Armoron. It also really helps Rena.


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The portal on the first floor that I told you about at the begining is nowavailable and will drop you to the ninth floor. All you need to do is walkaround the third row from the top of tiles and you should hear about 4 clicksthen it opens.

------------- 12th Floor ----------- Hall of Warriors

Items-Valkyrie Guard, 2 Battle Suits, Bunny Shoes!!

As if the trip down wasn't tough enough, the boss onm this level is in therooms straight up from the entrance and is not easy. It's a Phoenix and guesswhat, they fly. So again special attacks aren't very useful. The best strtegythat I have found is to stick Rena in a corner with the strategy of Heal friendsonly on and control Claude using regualr attacks. Dragon Howl seems to be thebest, and most often working, of the special attacks any of them have and Claudehas it. And if you equip Claude with the valiant guard and only use regular

attacks it should be an easy win. When the bird attacks with his Master attackClaude should block it and the bird will get the reprocusions. For this fightyou get Holy Sword Farewell, which opens the coffin on the ninth. If you wantyou can just keep the two you have and fight him, he's not that hard, or returnto the top and regather your guys. Make sure and save though. And at random,when you return to the phoenix's room he might appear and you'll have to fighthim again, remember, phoenix's live forever...

------------- 13th Floor ----------- Holy Nest of AngelsItems-Valiant Mail, Valiant guard, Angel Armband(behind the boss)

Alright lucky 13!! This is another short level, but for a good reason...

the boss. Just head down the right and left halls and at the end are twolevers. Once they are both pulled the bosses chamber is opened.

Gabrie Celesta

In many books and sites she is referred to as Indalecio Celesta, but Ibelieve that is just because of a bad translation. The best team for this jobis Claude, Rena, Dias and Ashton. Turn off all of Ashton's specials, theyreally mess him up with this fight because they are so slow. Dias has a couplegood one's, but illusion should be the only one you would want on. Claude'sdoesn't really matter if your gong to control him, but if not only have DragonHowl on. Start off by controlling Rena and running her into a corner andturning on the hela friends only strategy again, the rest should be on conservekiller moves.

The best is controlling Claude and just having him constantly hit Gabriewith regular attacks. Some times she'll get stuck between the three and you'lltake off a good chunk before she gets away, but it is very hard to get herstuck. I have heard she has around a million HP. You should wear her down soonenough. When you beat her you get the Silver Trumpet and about a half a millionin experience!! Behind her is the Angel Armband, verrryy useful. Now that sheis beaten you are free to roam and explore. The monsters are gone until youleave so get all you missed. The bosses, including Gabrie, never come back

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-------------------------------------------------------------III. Extra Tid-bits-------------------------------------------------------------1. The Silver Trumpet if used by Claude, can create the songs "Melody of theGods" and "Evil Melody." Melody of the gods make item creation a 100% successwhile it is playing. The evil melody brings out Grabrie's evil sister if youare on a battle field. She has 2.5 million HP and can turn you to stone or

paralyze very easily, but you get some nice stuff. Either an Angel Armband,which if you did the PA to take off the limiter on Indalecio, you will need iton every character. And sometimes you will get a Levatine Sword plus a ton ofexperience.

2. An easy way to make money is to use the identify all skill to make pricescheap and buy a bunch of stuff and then using it to make them expensive andselling them. You get almost twice what you payed for. This works very wellwith the traveling Santa. I believe you don't even need to use identify all withmost of Santa's items. He sells the sage stones for 50000 and buys them back for

65000, a nice profit!

3. Another way to make money is to write a few books and give them a thepublisher in Central City. Go through some thing that is really long and whenyou go back you might have made a good shot of money. This really only helpstowards the begining of reaching Nede because the money isn't that much once youhave reached a certain point.

4. If you've gotten bored with the game, by some strange chance, or just wantsomething different to do you can try messing with the endings. On largefactor's that affect feelings towards each other is seeing the other die inbattle. Set up a party and let one of them die and see who you can get

together. The toughest challenge is getting Claude and Rena hooked up withsomeone else. Books that you can write also have an affect for a bit onaffections.

5. Paintings and Fanzine magazines-They really have no purpose in the game,just fun little extras. When used the paintings just show a large picture ofthat character.

--CREDITS--Not many in this yet, but thanx to those who have e-mailed me about the errorsin this and the info about santa.

Any questions or answers, you can email me at [email protected]

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