FF9 Perfect Game with Offensive Training B - 34 (Alexandria under attack - Tantarian)
0Welcome,
This is the 34th episode of a let's play of a "non-Excalibur II perfect game with offensive approach of training" type of challenge, intended for the NTSC US PS1 version of the game.
Link of the complete playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaIe3G8M8kUh9tYa0aIU7F18IAwcbZW66
Link of the first episode in the playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GxUT7eGCQY&list=PLaIe3G8M8kUh9tYa0aIU7F18IAwcbZW66&index=2
There may be actions that are done for practical purpose or for no particular purpose in the playthrough; the mandatory actions done in this episode are the following and they can be used as a guide (note that during this playthrough, certain actions can only be done during a short period of time and others can be postponed; note also that there is the possibility I may have missed events like dialogue replacement, sprite change, additional scenes and so on, since those are not generally considered as goals and are not documented at all):
* Refuse to give the coffee beans to Morrid (timecode: 05:23).
* Give the coffee beans to Morrid (timecode: 05:32).
* Watch the ATE "Hallucination" (timecode: 13:34).
* Watch the ATE "Premonition" (timecode: 14:18).
* Win the final round of the cards tournament to obtain a Rebirth Ring (timecode: from 16:30 to 16:54).
* Give the orders to the correct Pluto soldiers to obtain the best reward, which is a copy of Angel Earrings (timecode: from 19:25 to 19:44).
* Defeat all the 9 Mistodons in Alexandria and do it with Beatrix alone in order to avoid gaining EXP points for Steiner (timecode: from 21:38 to 31:40).
* Arrange the equipment of Steiner and Beatrix (before losing the control of Steiner in the field) so that Steiner is carrying the 100th copy of Silver Gloves and the 100th copy of Chain Mail, and so that Plate Mail and Cross Helm will be available for Freya during Tantarian's battle (timecode: from 25:56 to 26:55).
* Talk to the four scholars in the libraries (timecode: from 40:22 to 40:51).
* Talk to the four kitchen staff members (timecode: from 42:25 to 42:39).
* Defeat Tantarian with Freya alone, while she is equipped with Javelin, Cross Helm, Bronze Gloves or Mythril Gloves, Plate Mail and Barette and while her Level Up is not activated (timecode: 47:00 to 58:44).
Extra info/corrections/comments on this episode:
* I stole ten more items (in battles of which the first starts at 01:00 and the last ends at 10:30) in order to reach the number of 69 items stolen (I had stolen 59 items in total so far) and thus make Thievery's damage equal to 793 when Zidane's Speed is equal to 23. The goal of this is doing a certain damage with Thievery so that Tantarian can be directly opened to show its vulnerable form several times in a row (many other damage values, such as 391 and 598 for example, can also do the trick; in order for Tantarian to show its vulnerable from, you need to deal damage so that a remainder equal or higher than 150 is obtained when the computer do a "modulo operation" formula that divides by 200 the number of total damage done when Tantarian is in its book form).
* I noticed when doing the test run on emulator that if you miss checking the Theater Ship mockup before Disc 3 (I already checked it in this playthrough with Zidane, Steiner and Garnet in the previous discs), Morrid will say an additional line of dialogue just before telling you that he will send you the mockup.
* I activated Auto-Life for Steiner before losing his control in the field during Mistodons' attack in order to make him trigger his scripted Trance, while not gaining EXP points during battles for him at the same time (this is not mandatory though, since I did not include the unique events to trigger WITHIN battles in the requirements of the challenge, as stated in the info appearing in the first episode; you can consider this action of triggering the scripted Trance as mandatory per the fact that the requirement to trigger the event is an action that must be made before the battle instead of within the battle, which is ensuring Steiner is not KOed at the beginning of the battle).
* If you do not want to reset against Tantarian in case of usage of Paper Storm before the usage of the first Thievery, equip Vivi with Robe of Lords if possessed so he can survive the boss' attack then try to revive Zidane.
The following is the link of an annex file containing the details on max stats/items/Tetra Master requirements (notably the trainings):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/v75arfocbfl2cxs
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