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Tales of Eternia (2000)

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Before we head out to the final boss, let's take out a few mini-bosses. When you enter Nereid's Labyrinth, you have to take on each floor with only one character, making it a solo essentially. Since only 1 boss is brand new, I decided to imitate Vercsase's video and take on each one with every character. It was actually really difficult considering I didn't have as much experience with everyone except Farah and Reid, but it was a lot of fun and I feel I could confidently play as any of the characters now.

To save time I didn't show the statuses of the characters, but everyone was around level 85-90 if I recall correctly.

**Keele vs. Wind Elementler**: Keele and Meredy are handled interestingly in this game. They all have almost identical skillsets because they learn moves by equipping the different Greater Craymels that we fought earlier. I wanted to show off as many as possible, so I equipped Keele with different Craymels than Meredy. Never showed off Rem though, unfortunately.

Anyway, this fight wouldn't be too bad because of how easy Cyclone is to dodge and how quickly the Harpy dies. The problem is is that the mages have a really difficult time landing hits because of their casting time, even with a Mystic Symbol, which speeds the casting time up. The best way to deal with a boss as a mage is to charge up the Craymels beforehand and summon them in the fight, as they do tons of damage, are unavoidable, and cast fast. In this fight, Gnome is my crutch; it has a chance of poison and if I can inflict that poison the fight will go by smoothly as long as I don't get hit by one of its physical attacks.

**Meredy vs. Fire Elementler**: Despite the fact that Meredy is better than Keele in my opinion, this fight was way harder because it's impossible, as far as I know, for Meredy to dodge Explode. Otherwise with Destiny and her ability to control Quickie independently with the Technical Ring equipped, she's quite more adept than Keele, who only gets to slightly decrease casting time by inputting directions on the dpad. That Quickie gimmick is actually super interesting; let's me interrupt things and protect Meredy while casting.

Also, for those wondering, I didn't use the MAxwell extensions because I felt it wasn't an efficient use of TP, considering this Elementler is resistant to two of the extensions.

**Chat vs Earth Elementler**: Chat is interesting. She has a decent amount of tools up her sleeve but they aren't that great. However her damage output is surprisingly high despite being simple. For any Chat players out there, here are a few tricks you can use that I didn't get a chance to use. If you guard the moment and attack hits, you'll actually do a counter attack. Also, when Chat sits down after Para Ball, she's invincible. Chat actually woulda been really useful on the Fire Elementler because she can dodge Explode with that...

**Max vs Earth Elementer**: Refought the Earth one to show off all the characters. Most people like to put the Canceler on Max so he can cancel his spells(?), but I never got the timing to work, so I traded it for a Jet Boots to increase his garbage run speed. Aqua Spiral charges fast but has a slow start-up, and Dark Laser and Elemental Master are the exact opposite, so it was interesting trying to use the proper move at the right time. For example, if the Elementler does his flurry attack, it's almost a guaranteed Elemental Master.

On a side note, playing as Chat and Max makes me want a remake of Eternia even more. If they had more artes to round out their playstyle they'd be way more than just little side characters.

**Farah vs. Living Armor**: Easy. This guy has no health. Does a lot of damage though. I also finally learned the proper way to use Deadly Force; you can delay the spell by holding the shortcut button (I think... it's been awhile since I did this run actually -_-)

**Reid vs. Hyades**: Also pretty easy, if not just cause of the fact that Reid is a fantastic character, with a good damage output, great run speed, good projectiles, Burning Pheonix, and Quasi Seal.

BGM:
Black Wings - Falcom Sound Team - Ys - The Foliage Ocean in CELCETA

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