General Locke's Guide to Final Fantasy II Table of Contents: Introduction Walkthrough Secrets Information About the Moon Thank-yous, etc. Introduction: Welcome to my guide to Final Fantasy II! I'm working on another project right now as well, code named "????" Anyway, since Final Fantasy II is my favorite RPG of all time, I'm finishing it first. WARNING: This walkthrough contains MAJOR spoilers, not just the game, but the story, too! Walkthrough: Walkthrough Table of Contents: Package time (covers Baron through Mist) Escaping to Damcyan (covers Kaipo through Damcyan) Antlion and Hobs (covers the Antlion's nest through Mt. Hobs) Fabul (covers Fabul :-) ) Paladin becoming (Covers Mysidia through the Serpent Road) Return to Baron (covers Baron Town and Baron Castle) Towards Tororia! (covers Tororia through Tower of Zot) Underground (covers Giott Castle through the Tower of Bab-il) Aboveground (covers Baron through the Tower of Bab-Il) Back to the Castle (covers Giott Castle through the Sealed Cave) What's a Big Whale? (covers Mysidia and the Moon) Giant of Bab-Il (guess what this covers?) Moon again! 1. Package Time You start out in the airships, flying towards Mysidia. The group called the Red Wings talk and get to Mysidia. They send some wizards to Baron and their leader, Cecil, gets Mysidia's crystal. You automatically fight some monsters and go back to Baron. The captain of the guards, Baigen, takes Cecil inside. Cecil questions the king's ways and is told to go to Mist and give the people a mysterious package. Kain vouches for Cecil and the king sends him with Cecil. Go to bed and watch the scene. Kain and Cecil leave. When you leave, go buy some junk and head northwest. Take a chocobo if you want, but that's not important. So now you're at the Cave of Mist. Go to the exit and fight the monster. Have Cecil attack or (in the Japanese version) use Dark Wave. Have Kain jump. Do NOT attack when it's mist or it will not only avoid the attack but counter! When you beat it keep going. When you get to Mist, the package opens and… burns the town? Go up to the girl and she tells you that you killed her mom by the way of the summoned monsters. Fight her and watch the scene. The girl is okay but Kain has mysteriously disappeared… 2. Escaping to Damcyan You're in Kaipo now. Go to the inn (automatically) and Cecil fights some soldiers from Baron. These guys are easy! Fight the soldiers (not the leader) with fight or Dark Wave (Japanese). The leader retreats! OK, now you have Rydia on your team. Head to the cave. However, there's an old man blocking the way! Now you must go back to Kaipo. Go to the northeast building and you find Rosa! She's sick and needs sandruby to cure the fever. However, it's in the lair of Antlion. OK, head to the cave now! Now the old man lets you through. He says that he needs to get to Damcyan fast because his daughter ran away with a bard. He comes with you! After a while, you automatically use a tent at the save point. Listen to Tellah ramble on about the monster guarding the exit. Keep going until you leave the cave. Use a tent and save. Keep going until you get to the monster- OCTOMAMM! Defeat him and leave. Right before you get to Damcyan, though, those dang Red Wings blow it up, the dirty fiends! So… go in! You find Tellah's daughter (Anna!). Then the bard comes out. Tellah fights him alone and automatically. This is where Tellah's quote "You spoony bard!" is. Anna tells him to stop. She says that the bard is really Prince Edward of Damcyan. She shielded Edward from the arrows. Now… she dies. (Sympathy here) Tellah goes out alone to fight Golbez alone. Golbez is the one controlling the King of Baron. He is after the elemental crystals of Mysidia, Damcyan, Fabul and Tororia for… a certain reason. (that spoiler is later in the walkthrough) Edward comes with you to go to Antlion's nest via hovercraft. 3. Antlion and Hobs OK, where was I? Oh yes, we were heading to Antlion's nest. So you're there. Fight through. Grab some treasure, it's kinda useful. Keep going until you run into the Antlion. Normally it's tame, but it turned evil (my guess it that Golbez did this). Defeat it! Have Cecil dark wave (if you're in the Japanese version), Edward use medicine (if you're in the Japanese version) or attack and Rydia use Chocobo. If you're in the US version, don't attack with Cecil (he counterattacks either version) and make Edward hide. Go cure Rosa in Kaipo via hovercraft. Edward fights a Water Hag alone. He's easy. Anna's ghost comes in the middle of the fight. Now you have ROSA on your team! Head to Hobs via hovercraft (Or, shall I say, the ship of a thousand uses. ;-) ). Go through, grabbing the treasure. Soon you come across a karate fighter. Watch it attack the idiotic enemies. Now the group and the karate fighter fights the Mombomb. Do not use magic until it explodes. Now have Rydia cast Chocobo, Cecil Dark Wave (it helps), the karate fighter kick, Rosa heal and Edward hide. Once you bonk it on the head, the karate man introduces himself as Yang. Head toward Fabul. 4. Fabul De-equip Rosa and Rydia. Go to the throne room and talk to the king. Say 'yes' when he asks you if you will help protect the castle. You go and do just that. Rosa and Rydia, however, don't fight with you. You fight quite a few battles, but afterwards you retreat to the Crystal Room. Kain comes and fights Cecil alone (!!!). You also get a first look at Golbez here. After Kain knocks Cecil unconscious he takes the crystal and leaves with Golbez. Golbez, before leaving, takes Rosa. Go to the inn and talk about how to stop Golbez. They decide that Cid, the master engineer, can lend them an airship. Now you go to the regular ship. You sail off but run into LEVIATON! He swallows Rydia. Yang jumps after him while Edward and Cecil are knocked off board. Cecil wakes up… alone… 5. Paladin Becoming Hooray! There's a town where you can rest! Uh oh… it's Mysidia… you remember what you did to their wizards and crystal at the beginning of the game? Do NOT talk to ANY wizards until you talk to the elder. Talk to him and he says that you need to become a Paladin. He summons two wizards to go with you. Once you are at Mt. Ordeals, Palom casts Ice to open the gateway. Meanwhile, Golbez summons Milon to make sure Cecil never comes back from Mt. Ordeals. So up you go. After a while, you run into Tellah! He's still very weak, so walk a while. Porom claims to hear a hissing sound, but Palom tells her it's not him. Save at the save point, that's important. After a while, you have to fight Milon and his fellow idiots! Have Palom cast any double elemental spell, Porom cure, Tellah parry and Cecil use Dark Wave or attack Milon. After a while you beat him. Head back and cure yourself at the save point. Go forward again and… you fight Milon again! Have Tellah cast Fire (or Ice, or Bolt), Palom cast Fire 2 (or Ice 2, or Bolt 2), Cecil attack and Porom cure. If you want to in either battle, Palom and Porom can use their "Twin" command for powerful magic. Then have Tellah cast cure spells for the group. After a while you beat him. Go forward and a light calls Cecil his son. Cecil becomes a paladin! Wait… not yet… he still has to defeat his former self. Parry for three turns and you are Cecil the Paladin. Cecil the Dark Knight is dead. Also, Tellah remembers all of his original spells, plus Meteo! Of course, Tellah does not (and never will) have enough MP for Meteo. Go down the mountain and return to Mysidia. You hear the Mysidian legend from the elder. It goes something like this… One to be born From a dragon Hoisting the light And the dark Arises high up In the sky to The still land… Veiling the moon with The light of eternity It brings Another promise To mother earth with A bounty and mercy. The elder opens the serpent road for you to get to Baron. Finally, we're back at Baron! 6. Return to Baron OK, you're back, you're ready to storm into the castle, bonking the king on the head, and getting the airship. Trouble is, the guards won't let you in! Go back to the town and sniff for clues. You find Yang in the inn! However, you fight him. Bonk HIM on the head and he gives you a key and re-joins you! Use the key to open the weapon/armor shop door. Buy junk there and open the watery pass. Go through, getting the junk there, and save at the save point. Do NOT use a tent or cabin there. After a while you get to Baron Castle. Heal yourself in Cecil's bed. Now keep going and Baigen, the captain of the guards and guy at the beginning of the game, joins you! HOORAY! Wait a second… we don't have any more room! Ah… a monster is somewhere near! Baigen is the monster! Bonk him on the head. Have Tellah get a quick Lit 3 in there before he casts Wall on himself. Now hit him with Cecil's regular attack. He is tough. Beat him and heal yourself at Cecil's bed again. Now go to the king's room. He is the second of the four fiends, Kainazzo! He's simple. Have Tellah cast Lit-3, the twins twin him, and Cecil attack. Yang should as well. Also, so I don't have to tell you over and over, ALWAYS CAST BERSERK ON YANG AND CECIL. Now Cid comes in! He joins your group and takes you to the airship! Wait… another traitor? No room… nah. Instead the twins cast Stone on themselves to keep you from getting crushed by the walls. Now you get the airship! Once you set sail, Kain says that they'll trade Rosa for the Crystal of Earth in Tororia. 7. Towards Tororia! Head toward Tororia. It's northwest of Baron. When you land at that SMALL space, go into the castle. Talk to the clerics and you find out the crystal of earth has been stolen by Dark Elf! Oh my! Talk to the sick man in the lower left corner. Hey, it's Edward! So he, too, survived. Now take his twin harp. Leave and go north. The monsters here are tough, so beware. Once you go the farthest north you can go, go to the chocobo forest. You find a BLACK chocobo there! He can only fly to forest. Take him to Dark Elf's cave to the northeast! However, you find that you can't use metal weapons! Big deal, keep them equipped anyway. Once you get to Dark Elf, he kills you. However, Edward plays his Harp and Dark Elf loses his control over metal weapons, his weakness! Beat him. Have Tellah use a tri-elemental spell and Cid, Yang and Cecil attack. Beat him up and leave with the crystal. Take it to the clerics! Now Kain takes you to Rosa- sort of. Go through the Tower of Zot, and GET THOSE TREASURES. When you get almost to the top, three girls attack. Beat the fat one first so nobody can cast Wall and nobody can get revived. Their delta attack doesn't hurt but is extremely ANNOYING, so bonk the little one second. Then go for the tall, easy, can't- believe-she-doesn't-play-basketball one. Now GO GET GOLBEZ! He's in the next room. He mocks you and Tellah attacks him alone. He casts the tri- elemental spells, Virus, then METEO! That kills him, but Golbez survives. The pressure broke his control over Kain. Now you go save Rosa (barely!). Equip Rosa and Kain and LEAVE! NOW! However, you don't think you're getting away that easy, are you? Of course not! Vavilis, the third fiend, attacks you! Have Rosa cure, Yang, Cid and Cecil attack, and Kain jump. When she goes into her spin, have Kain jump immediately. You escape and find yourself in Baron! You have the enterprise with you again, so don't worry. Now all you have to do is find out where to drop Kain's key in. You see, Golbez only gathered half of the crystals. The rest are in the underground. You put the key in a place and the gate to the underground opens. GO SAVE THOSE CRYSTALS! 8. The Underground Drop Kain's key in Agart. It is a small village where you can get sneak peeks at the moon! Put it in the well and there's an explosion. Go down there and you see the Red Wings and some tanks fighting! After that, your ship gets sort of ruined, so just go into the castle. You talk around and go to the king's room. Talk a bit and Yang hears somebody eavesdropping on you! The group tells him it's nothing. The king says that two of the four crystals were taken. There's a crystal behind the king's throne. Go get it! By the way, Cid left to work on the airship. Then you see what Yang heard eavesdropping: Luca's (the king's daughter) dolls! You fight them, for they're with Golbez. You win, but Golbez comes in! Time to fight! Get Kain into the air immediately, it will save him! All of the others get paralyzed and then killed by a shadow dragon- except Cecil. He's just paralyzed. Then a familiar voice uses a mist dragon to kill the shadow dragon! Rydia? ALL RIGHT! Revive the unconscious characters and attack! Kain jumps, Cecil attacks, Rydia calls ???, Rosa cures and Yang attacks. Beat him and you've won the game! Wait, am I wrong? OF COURSE I AM! He does not… perish! Golbez turns into a hand and takes the crystal. Oh no! One crystal left… Talk to the king. He tells you to go to the Tower of Bab-Il. While Golbez is looking for the last crystal, you guys take the others back! That's his plan. It's flawless! Or is it? Go through the Dwarves' base to the Tower of Bab-Il. Get to the top, it takes a while. Beat Dr. Lugae and Balnab up! Hurry to the locked door with your key. Unlock it! Hurry! Yang sacrifices himself to save you. Or… does he? Well, just leave. But you can't, cause when you get to the bottom, Golbez nearly kills you! However, Cid catches you with his airship! The Red Wings chase you, though. Cid closes the hole to the Underground with a bomb… sacrificing himself, too! However, you leave to the overworld. 9. The Overworld Go to Baron, like Cid tells you. Talk to his workers and they attach a hook to the enterprise (your airship)! Now you can carry the hovercraft around! Take it to the Tower of Bab-Il. Go into the cave with the hovercraft! So now you're in the cave. Go through. If you haven't stocked up on items, do so NOW! So after a while, you run into the final of the four fiends Rubicant! A man fights him (he's Edge) and loses. So now Edge joins you! Go to the Tower of Bab-il and Edge digs a hole in. Fight through for a while until you run into two monsters- Edge's parents! Fight them, but they die immediately after a while. It's Rubicants' fault. Then Rubicant comes! Do as he says and fight with all your might! After you beat him, hurry in the door. However, there's a pitfall and you fall to the Underground! Go through. You find an airship! Edge calls it "Falcon." Land at the Dwarf Castle. Talk to the king… 10. The Castle The king gives you Luca's necklace. It can open the Sealed Cave! However, the Falcon can't fly over Magma. Talk to Cid in the infirmary. He fixes the Falcon to fly over Magma. Now go to the Sealed Cave. Be warned, Trap Doors are almost everywhere. Get the last crystal! Leave and you fight an Evil Wall. Watch out, when it gets close enough, it can immediately kill you! Beat it! Now leave. However, you don't REALLY expect us to win right here, do you? Of course not, yes, Kain betrays you AGAIN! Now Golbez has all eight crystals… however, Cid attaches a drill to the hood of the Falcon! You can go to the Overworld! When you do, go to Mysidia… 11. What's a Big Whale? Go to Mysidia. When you do, you go straight to the Tower of Wishes. The mages wish for you and the Big Whale comes out of the sea! FINALLY, WE CAN GO TO THE MOON! Go there NOW! As soon as you do, find the Humingways. One sells junk to you. You can get Cure 2, Ether 1, Ether 2, ELIXIR, a whistle (which calls the big chocobo) and a few others! Spend, spend, SPEND! Now go to the one other cave (besides Bahamut's cave, of course!) and go in. Follow the path and get back to the moon's surface. Now go to the next cave. Go through and go to the moon's surface. Go to the last cave and heal up. There are pots of recovery, one healing HP and status and the other healing MP! Go to center room 1 and a lunarian talks to you. He tells you that Cecil's father is KluYa. He built the Big Whale. He also tells of a Lunarian named Zemus, he's so EVIL that he controls all evil on the planet. FuSoYa joins here. Hurry back to the Big Whale. Now is a good time to go to Bahamut's Cave on the moon. As soon as you're done leveling up (which I advise you to do now), go back to Earth. 12. Giant of Bab-il As soon as you get to the earth, more trouble occurs. Immediately the Giant of Bab-il comes and starts destroying everything around it. We're too late, the giant will annihilate all living on earth… or will it…? It's hit with an explosion. Four dwarf tanks come from the south! In one is King Giott with Luca and some dwarves! In another is Yang (!!!) with a pair of Sylphs and more dwarves! As well, four airships come from the east! In one is Palom, Porom (!!!) and the Elder, along with mages! In another is Cid, his workers and some Baronians! In another is Edward, the clerics and more Baronians! Ah, how nice reunions are… however, that is not the smart thing to do when something is blowing the universe up! They keep the Giant at bay while Cid comes down to the Big Whale! He flies near the Giants' mouth and the fivesome (Cecil, Rosa, Rydia, Edge and FuSoYa) jump in! Go through until you get to… the four fiends?! Beat 'em, they're simple. Now head forward and you get the CPU. Destroy the Lower Orb, the CPU and the Upper Orb, in that order. If you kill both the Upper and Lower Orbs before the CPU, the CPU casts "Globe99," which kills a party member instantly, and revives the orbs! Get out! Once that is done, Golbez comes in. FuSoYa knocks some sense into him. He's no longer evil! He finally realizes that Cecil… is his brother… Anyway, the two of them (Golbez and FuSoYa) go off to settle the mess with Zemus themselves. Then Kain comes in. The group leaves the place. ALL RIGHT, ONLY ONE MORE PLACE LEFT! 13. Moon Again! The group gets back on the big whale. Now you have Cecil, Kain, Rosa, Rydia and Edge. However, Cecil and Edge tell Rydia and Rosa to get off the big whale. They do… or do they? Anyway, then they pilot the Big Whale to the moon! The threesome leaves, but Rosa and Rydia step out! They say they're NOT LEAVING! Oh well, they can come. Go to the Crystal Palace again. Head to the room that you didn't go to before. Finally, we're almost to the final boss! Go through, getting all chests. There's a more detailed ending walkthrough in the part about the core. Good luck, and remember, in the words of KluYa, "Justice isn't the only right in this world…" Secrets Extra call spells: Asura: First, get the necklace from King Giott. Now go to the cave northwest of the one town in the underground. First thing first, cast float on everybody IMMEDIATELY when you go in. Repeat every time you get to a new floor until you get to the town of Summoned Monsters. Make SURE Rosa's at LEAST to Level 34. Now go to the library and head down. Talk to the queen and you fight her. However, she keeps casting Cure 4, Cure 3 and Life 1 on herself! That doesn't matter, just cast wall (which Rosa learns at Level 34.)! Now all her cure spells will go on YOU! Fight her and eventually you beat her. Leviathan: See above, then… Talk to the king. Now you fight Leviathan. Watch out, he immediately casts Big Wave! Every time he changes form, this is the pattern: Form 1: Big Wave Form 2: Ice 2 It repeats over and over. After you defeat him, you get the call spell! Odin: See above, then… Go back to Baron Castle. Talk to the ex-king in the basement (I recommend this as soon as you get Lit 3). You fight Odin. Look out, if you waste too much time, he INSTANTLY KILLS EVERYBODY! Just have Rydia cast Lit 3 over and over, Kain use his Jump move, Cecil attack, Edge attack and Rosa cure. Eventually you'll win. Bahamut: See above, then… I recommend this as soon as you get FuSoYa. Go to Bahamuts' cave on the moon. Go through and fight Bahamut. IMMEDIATELY cast Wall on everybody possible. His own attack will burn him! BE WARNED, IT CAN DO 9999 POINTS OF DAMAGE! Now you have the ULTIMATE call spell! Imp, Mage and Bomb: Go to a place where you can fight these enemies. Fight them until you get the item "Mage," "Imp" or "Bomb." Use the item and Rydia gets the call spell! Sylph: Go to the Sylphian cave in the underground. Get through, treating it like the Cave of Summoned Monsters. Talk to Yang and go to Fabul Castle. Talk to Yang's wife and you get the Frying Pan. Use it to clonk Yang on the head. You get the call spell of Sylph! Talk to Yang's wife and she gives you the Spoon Dagger! Edge can throw it for 9,999 points of damage! Much on Avenger Sword: The Avenger Sword can be used only when you do not have a shield equipped. It auto berserks you to do twice as much damage. I (Mark Romero) think it's in Sylph Cave or Land of Summoned Monsters. Information about the moon: The walkthrough starts here again. Anyway, go through, getting the chests along the way. The best stuff is a full set of Crystal armor and a full set of Dragoon armor. Otherwise, it's also good. Talk to the floating swords. One makes you fight PaleDim. I like to say to myself when I fight this battle, "only the legendary heroes can wield this sword!" If you win, you get the Murasame sword. Also, on Lunar Subterranean B6, there's a hidden path. Take it and talk to another sword. You fight Wyvern. It's like a stronger version of Bahamut. Be at LEAST to level 50 to win. You get the Crystal Sword, the best sword in the game for Cecil! As soon as that's done, go to Lunar Subterranean B7. Save your game ASAP. Now go to the next room. Fight the plague. It is DEATH ITSELF, BEAT IT ASAP! Its first job is to cast "Count" on all the characters at once. Then it does nothing. FIGHT HARD and you'll win Kain's best spear the Spear of White! Go to the next room. Fight the two D. Lunar Dragons. Beat 'em and you get a pair of Ribbon helmets, the best helmets for Rosa and Rydia! Keep going and the REAL Lunar Core starts! Beware, here's a list of some of the monsters you fight: ? Evil Mask ? Breath ? Mind ? Ogopogo ? Many, MANY Behemoths ? A few more Beware. Get all the treasure chests possible. Then get to the core. You see Golbez and FuSoYa fight Zemus. They use some magic and then Meteo to beat him. Then you get the greatest ending of all time… yeah, right! Instead, Zemus turns into Zeromus, which happens to be hatred itself! Unlucky us. Both Golbez and FuSoYa cast Meteo, but it's no use! Golbez tries to use the crystal, but to not advantage. "You, the man of darkness, using it does not have any effect on, me, you fools!" is what he says next. Then he kills both. Then he knocks you out, too! Oh no, now we don't get the great ending I promised you… OF COURSE WE DO! Palom, Porom, Cid, his assistants, Edward, Yang, the clerics and the rest of the gang all wish for you. Then everybody's favorite hero, Cecil, wakes up with 1 HP left. Palom and Porom come, reviving the rest. Yang and Edward come, healing some. Tellah and Cid come, healing two others. Golbez and FuSoYa come, healing our hero. You have the crystal. Have Cecil use it, transforming Zeromus to a huge beast! DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO KILL IT! Have Cecil attack, Kain attack or jump if he's at full HP, Rosa cure, Rydia call Bahamut, and Edge dart everything possible, and if no more can be darted, attack. The end comes! Yes, now we get the ending I promised you. Watch it! Thank-yous, etc. First, I'd like to thank Wizard201 for his great guide on Final Fantasy II. It helped me through the first time. Same with Shadow Fighter's guide. I'd like to thank Square and Nintendo for making the great game. I'd like to thank everybody out there who likes my Final Fantasy III guide. Thank you YOSHiX642 for the real spelling of Ogopogo. Thanks Andy Church for that part of the script (the moon part). Thanks Mark Romero for the info on the Avenger Sword. I have yet to find everything in this game, so expect quite a few updates. And always remember, "Justice isn't the only right in this world…" General Locke Cfetters@willinet.net http://www.willinet.net/~cfetters/index.html