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Grandia (1997)

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Grandia ReDux is a hack that modifies many things in game. Character stats are greatly changed, skills are buffed/nerfed, equipment changed, new items/spells, and most importantly, the difficulty has been rebalanced to provide a more challenging game overall.

Head here to find patches for both discs:

http://grandiaredux.blogspot.com/

ISOs should be easy enough to find on your own.

So you just went through hell...only to find another boss waiting to kill you.

Evil Gaia has 22666 HP & lower Vit and magic resists than Gaia Core. However, it's incredibly fast, sporting a Wit of 1800.

It too like Gaia Core relies on magic spells to do damage. This time though, they're weaker spells like Burn! and Howl. Sadly though, Evil Gaia has an extreme amount of magic power, causing even those low level spells to do respectable damage, around 70-150 damage to those affected.

It also has access to Blizzle. This spell can die...hard. It's even stronger than than what Gaia Core could dish out with it's multi target magic attacks, hitting your entire party for 150-300 damage. Two of these back to back could spell death for your team.

It can also debuff with Cold and use Poizn or Snooze. If anything, you want Evil Gaia using more of these than the damaging attacks.

Snooze deserves special mention though. There seems to be a bug inherent in Grandia where if a person is asleep, anyone else awake gets a MASSIVE speed boost. Handy indeed.

I'm not sure if Evil Gaia can use Vanish, but with my luck, I bet it can.

Now then, the strategy. You're going into this fight in the condition you left the Gaia Core battle at...but thankfully, you get to keep all buffs still active, including Protect if that is still up on anyone.

First priority is to refill MPs and SPs to use killer moves and vital spells...except for Liete. Her goal is to spam Cold and bring down Evil Gaia's massive Wit to something less nasty first and foremost.

Snooze can be deadly, but that's why I had Feena arm herself with a Talisman before going into the Gaia Core fight. I need at least one person able to act to pass out heals and/or Halvahs.

I do sort of abuse that Snooze bug/glitch/whatever. If Liete can get 3 Colds casted on the boss, then I can basically infichain it to death at my leisure.

Other than that, chip away at it, pray you don't die here basically.

That's it folks. It's been a hell of a ride to play through this hack again. Many many thanks to DLuna for releasing a wonderful hack to turn this game into an actual challenge.

I may have an idea for one last interlude video...maxing out weapon & magic levels for everyone, then doing Baal 3/Gaia Core/Evil Gaia over again. Not sure if I want to go through with it though.

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