Game:

Tales of Graces (2009)

Duration: 11:39

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0:00 Gloandrake
1:12 Duplewyrm
2:44 Forbrawyvern
4:47 Rockagong
7:04 Bryce
8:23 Veigue
9:40 Gentleman
10:49 Results

Music:
Suikoden IV - A Formidable Enemy Appears
Suikoden IV - Battle
Suikoden III - Blade
Sonic Unleashed - Dragon Road (Night)
Arc Rise Fantasia - Before the Mighty One
Tales of Rebirth - Battle Organization
Tales of the World RM - Mid boss battle
Another Eden - Seashell at the Lost Sea

Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQmeMnoDpaH56315vzSGFIFId8J5lHkzq

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Dragons aren't too hard; they walk slow and telegraph everything they do fairly well, with plenty of time to perfect dodge. I try to take each of them on slightly different. They are pretty much the same, except their "specialty" attack. Wind dragon is a twisting charge; water is a dive(exactly the same as Bladehorn Boar); fire has none, but comes with two spells instead of one. Only issue I had was during fire dragon; can't spell cancel dodge Infernal Hail, and getting caught in its ultra-fast Photon Burst spell.


Bryce is simple enough; get all of his 3 weaknesses via gem and weapon, and you'll get CC every time he gets hit. Rather easy to play keep-away. His 10-sec claw swipe can be backstepped to perfect dodge, but is fairly difficult. No need to take the risk of letting him get close enough to proc it.

Veigue is the same as Bryce. only has 2 weaknesses, both which can fit on one gem. This gives Pascal practically infinite CC to play keep-away, which is necessary(for no damage) as he can recover from stagger faster than Pascal can shoot. A difference between him and most bosses is that he needs to stop running to enact his attack, so using Flux Form does not confer an advantage in spacing and avoiding his attack simultaneously; instead he will get hit, then immediately double back toward me, giving me less time to push him away if he guards. Still pretty easy to do if you keep your distance.

Gentleman can be a tough customer. His hat trick nova lightning and falling ice is easy to dodge, and so is his spit. At around 67% HP, he can throw a homing bladerang that is guaranteed to hit, and no way to dodge it(except rng), though Pascal can nullify it by using a summon. At 50% HP and 25% HP, he can conjure a perfect copy of himself, with the same stats and skills(so up to two copies). It just became impossible to do anything once he did that, so I decided to shut him down using a single combo. The pacing for the combo was not hard, but I had to retry dozens upon dozens of times because he nullified(evaded?) the knockback of my attack(esp 3CC tier) then recovered, breaking the combo.

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A revisit to my Pascal run.

While the bosses at this stage can be beaten in 1 good combo, if you know what you're doing(see Just_Samu's Pascal run for examples), I plan on playing in a way that showcases learning the enemy's patterns and avoiding attacks either through normal dodging, or perfect dodging. I will also do my best to not take any damage(discounting perfect dodge 1HP dmg, EVA-procs, Accel-activation invincibility etc), though that might not be possible with the attack variations of some bosses. Battles will also be fast... for my sanity =0b.

No cheats were used to give me an unfair advantage; the ones I'm using are:

1) a code that lets me turn on/off the Grade shop options, specifically 2x and/or 5x Damage for damage control in later fights
2) a code that alters the camera angle to have that Zesty/Bersy/Arise-grounded look
3) a code that lets me use Pascal instead of Asbel-as-Pascal in certain fights.
4) a code that lets me retry a fight. Some optional fights and Zhonecage don't give you that option. Allows me to save time from traversing to the boss multiple times.
5)For Gentleman only, I fought him in the arena instead of completing all quests in the game(which is the requirement to fight him). I did not have a file to fight him from my previous run.

Many later files were carried over from my ps3 run, which were already set up optimally. Any questions or concerns, feel free to drop a comment =03.

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