Final Fantasy Frustration
Sep. 15th, 2007 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azuriteOkay, so I'm a stickler for perfection in some things. Namely, my video games. So when I lost my only PS2 memory card, I decided not to try and play all those game hours all over again-- not when I'd worked so hard to get where I'd gotten only to lose it in an instant. So I got the MaxDrive and some save files, which gave me a good start into where I'd already been in FFX and FFX-2, with a bunch of pretty good accessories on the side. A pretty good trade-off, considering I still had a lot more work to do.
So I play (FFX-2, in this case) and play, and I notice, one of the GGs that hasn't carried over from the New Game Plus (which is what the MaxDrive save file was) is The End garment grid, which is one I've always wanted. So I start oversouling all the fiends I can, and lo and behold I get SOOOO CLOSE...! Anyway, I'm trying to get one called the Quadricorn now, a Ruminant-class that's normally pretty easy to find and beat.
My BradyGames guide says it can be found on the Mi'ihen Highroad, Dry Plains (which are... where?), the Moonflow, Mt. Gagazet, and Bevelle "Towers" (aka Via Infinitio, but anyone who's played the game would know that Via Infinitio is NOT a tower; it goes UNDERGROUND, like Via Purifico did in the last game. It's a dungeon, NOT a tower; the "last mission" in IL+M is a tower, but VI is *NOT*) 1-3. So of course I went to Bevelle first, but for some lame reason, Quadricorns there are always paired with Nashorns, another Ruminant-class fiend. And the whole thing with Oversouling in FFX-2 is that if you defeat X monsters of Y class, the next monster of Y class -regardless of whether it's the same type of monster you've been defeating- you encounter will Oversoul.
Example: It takes 12 Ruminants to Oversoul. If you beat 6 Quadricorns and 6 Nashorns, it's the same as defeating 12 of each, 11 of 1 and 1 of the other... you get the idea. And regardless of whether you encounter a Quadricorn or a Nashorn next, it'll oversoul. Problem? If they both show up at the same time, as in Bevelle, it's RANDOM which one will Oversoul. But the both times I did it, it was always the Nashorn who oversouled, so I tried finding some areas where the Quadricorn might be on its own, or at least with some other non-Ruminant-type fiends.
NO FREAKING LUCK. Everywhere it says Quadricorns are supposed to be, I keep running into Balihvaras, another Ruminant-type that has four horns (like the Quadricorn), but it's NOT the Quadricorn, and thus is USELESS to me for completing Shinra's bestiary and getting The End GG! >_
So I play (FFX-2, in this case) and play, and I notice, one of the GGs that hasn't carried over from the New Game Plus (which is what the MaxDrive save file was) is The End garment grid, which is one I've always wanted. So I start oversouling all the fiends I can, and lo and behold I get SOOOO CLOSE...! Anyway, I'm trying to get one called the Quadricorn now, a Ruminant-class that's normally pretty easy to find and beat.
My BradyGames guide says it can be found on the Mi'ihen Highroad, Dry Plains (which are... where?), the Moonflow, Mt. Gagazet, and Bevelle "Towers" (aka Via Infinitio, but anyone who's played the game would know that Via Infinitio is NOT a tower; it goes UNDERGROUND, like Via Purifico did in the last game. It's a dungeon, NOT a tower; the "last mission" in IL+M is a tower, but VI is *NOT*) 1-3. So of course I went to Bevelle first, but for some lame reason, Quadricorns there are always paired with Nashorns, another Ruminant-class fiend. And the whole thing with Oversouling in FFX-2 is that if you defeat X monsters of Y class, the next monster of Y class -regardless of whether it's the same type of monster you've been defeating- you encounter will Oversoul.
Example: It takes 12 Ruminants to Oversoul. If you beat 6 Quadricorns and 6 Nashorns, it's the same as defeating 12 of each, 11 of 1 and 1 of the other... you get the idea. And regardless of whether you encounter a Quadricorn or a Nashorn next, it'll oversoul. Problem? If they both show up at the same time, as in Bevelle, it's RANDOM which one will Oversoul. But the both times I did it, it was always the Nashorn who oversouled, so I tried finding some areas where the Quadricorn might be on its own, or at least with some other non-Ruminant-type fiends.
NO FREAKING LUCK. Everywhere it says Quadricorns are supposed to be, I keep running into Balihvaras, another Ruminant-type that has four horns (like the Quadricorn), but it's NOT the Quadricorn, and thus is USELESS to me for completing Shinra's bestiary and getting The End GG! >_
