Side Quests & Secrets | Final Fantasy X: International | Pt.22

[@C.80]

Got a Ps2, saved on a memory card, got a paper strategy guide and you took the time to set up the equipment to record it all properly for us so we can enjoy what you get to experience... I just have to say this is my favorite series anyone has ever done on a game. Maybe others have gone to a similar level before but it's my first time seeing it. So in my books this is absolute legend status, Kasta. I've been a silent fan since Detroit but I really wanted to express my genuine appreciation for the effort you put into this for all of us. Thank you!

[@patriotsfan122480]

Agree! Even if others have done it (I don’t believe I’ve seen anyone else go to this level of commitment for playing an old console gen game either) the commitment and care she and her team put into it matters. Also setting up a cam to share the guide with viewers is also just next level! She went above and beyond to play these old console games and truly live out the experience those of us who grew up with them had. Definitely put her heart into it, which is one of the reasons I enjoy watching her playthroughs. Also, damn that old guide brings me back 😂 Love the sticky notes! Makes me want to see if I still have my old notebooks with my game notes in them anywhere!

[@YnEoS10]

Definitely the most caring and appreciative play through I’ve seen.

[@rumasai]

I literally discovered Kasta on her announcement that she'd be playing FFX, and it's probably the only full playthrough I've actively followed a streamer through in years. I didn't know her before, but very quickly became a fan.

[@TonberryMishima]

You can get the albhed primers from Home. Load save you have at Home go collect the primer in the room you missed then save your file. After that go back to main save and find a albhed compilation file and load the home save into your main save. It will transfer your primers over to the main save :)

[@ToStrangeToHate]

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[@LordRazzia]

I came to say this as well. If you still have your save file at Home, you can still get the missing primers once you get them in that file.

[@TonberryMishima]

pretty sure she does too since it was like save file 20 billion lol

[@danielclifton3319]

@@LordRazzia Me too :)

[@manuelgutierrez6546]

Guys, vote this up!

[@LC-sc3en]

I love how you talk to all the NPCs multiple times but give the monster catcher the cold shoulder and never small talk with him 😂😂

[@Deadringer311]

**There's a fast way to defeat Dark Valefor!** Yojimbo is the key. He has a move called Zanmoto which is an instant kill for any enemy including Dark Aeons. Here's the path: 1) NEVER dismiss him without paying him to perform at least one move. 2) NEVER let him die. You've only summoned him one time, and you paid him a whopping 50k and dismissed him before he died. This is an excellent start. From now on, start summoning him and always pay him at least 4100 gil per move. (The payment increments are based on powers of 2, so 4096 gil is the affordable value before the subsequent 8192, 16384, and so on). Do this often, but just never let him die. If you're regularly seeing Wakizashi (especially the one that attacks multiple fiends), or if he occasionally attacks without requesting payment, you're on the right track. (He has an ongoing affection value for Yuna, and it increases as long as he uses Wakizashi or Zanmoto. If you see Kozuka or, god forbid, Diagoro, that's an indicator that you need to probably start paying him 8200 per move or whatever you can afford.) Once you're regularly getting Wakizashi (and maybe the occasional Zanmoto), save your game and head to Besaid. Customize a weapon for Yuna with the First Strike ability, challenge Dark Valefor, and Grand Summon Yojimbo. Pay him a bunch of gil, and if he doesn't perform Zanmoto, reset. If he does, you're all set.

[@beefcakeman1525]

Rikku has way more than 5 overdrive combinations btw. That was just an example of 5. She’s truly busted

[@WandererNamedGuy]

Yeah, I remember the chart of everything on the other side of the sphere grid poster from the original manual. Seeing that pretty much made me do steal/mug from every creature for materials

[@khalidatawneh2740]

Ohhh yes, the 200 lightning bolts challenge: perfect for those with cat-like reflexes and a craving for frustration! 😅 Honestly, Spira wouldn’t feel the same without your charm and humor-Blitzball never stood a chance either. Take your time, Maggie; the dark Aeons may not know it yet, but they’re about to face their biggest nightmare… armed with Celestial weapons and a coffee break in between. 🏆💛 Thanks for making Spira’s journey so special for all of us! Can’t wait to see what chaos or victories come next-either way, we're here for the ride!

[@sean437]

One thing I adore about Tidus: after learning he's a dream of the Fayth and saving Yuna entails his own demise, he does not hesitate and never has a second thought about it. Even when Bahamut looks straight at him and spells it out, Titus answers, "I'm grateful." This mission was thrust upon him and he accepts it to save Yuna.

[@brieezy.]

Yes, and that's why it seems selfish to me that she wants to bring him back

[@LC-sc3en]

@@brieezy. it is only selfish if he doesn’t want to be back or she chooses to do something that would undo his sacrifice in order to bring him back. Like trading herself for him or resurrecting sin. But then again selfishness would be character growth and a flaw since she spend the entire game being self in😅😊😅

[@MikeyP109]

Referencing the guide after the main story was pure brilliance. S tier move. It took me two weeks to pick up and do side quests and end-game content. Kudos to you for going back 2 days later.

[@cyberjarl]

36:00 I think you nailed it with your interpretation of Yuna saying "I love you", because in the original, Japanese version, Yuna says "Arigato" (Thank you).

[@Marco_ym]

35:28 This is one of the reasons why I'm still watching this playthrough... In the japanese version of the game YUNA SAYS "THANK YOU" to Tidus, not "I love you"! ... You really have a talent for these things. Nice content and good vibes. ✋🙂

[@ttba_1878]

Your reaction to the lightning bolt challenge made me laugh. Also the chocobo racing. The side quests in this game are no joke.

[@rolandspears4595]

Definitely the chocobo racing is the only one that has beaten me to this day lol

[@brandenlucero]

If you think the mini-games in FFX are hard, then dont' play X-2. It makes X's minigames look like child's play.

[@ApocalypseRick]

I have only beat that chocobo race zero seconds once probably on my second play through when the game released, I hate it so much 😂

[@Seraphima249]

Watching you go through that guidebook was so nostalgic and cool. I'd love more of those when fitting the circumstances haha

[@chaidie7056]

1:35:30 The way I see Zanarkand, Tidus and Jecht is that the Fayths' dream created a physical place, a real place, in the same time and universe as Spira (just far away). In order to protect it, Yu Yevon keeps Sin alive to make sure the people of Spira is never able to get the technological advancement in order to find (and ruin) Zanarkand again. Zanarkand used to be the "Summoner capital", while Bevelle used to be the "machina capital". So when Tidus "travels 1000 years into the future", he actually is only moved physically to a different location. The Dream Zanarkand that Tidus is born into was originally a "copy" based on the Zanarkand back then, but has developed for those 1000 years. So he is a real physical person with real feelings and toughts, but the whole of Zanarkand and the people there are being summoned by the fayth. So when they stop summoning, stop dreaming, both Zanarkand and the people there will disappear.

[@Nina9er]

If you enter the Mushroom Rock Road from Djose you can get to the place where you put the Rusty Sword. The dark Aeon only appears if you go "north" under the rock arch in mushroom rock road, you can still go west to the "command center"

[@GuillermoSmyser]

Your videos inspired me to pick up a play through half way finished. I finished up after a couple days, and now I'm grinding. Getting the celestial weapons. I did the catcher chocobo for 0:00 after only a couple tries. Watching this video in the background while doing it, surely made it happen.

[@SuperTrailerz]

Yay so glad to be back in Spira for the side quests and other content!!

[@abdelcarcamo]

Wakka's attack reel, at max strength, is one of the most powerful attacks in the entire game. It's definitely worth getting.

[@FF-Nation]

Yeah she thought he was a powerhouse before. He's becomes an absolute unit once he gets that overdrive and his celestial weapon.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

I'd rather get Anima before I'm blocked by dark aeons, but yeah, sans that this is probably the next best thing to get as far as raw damage

[@drock1331]

What's great about the attack reels on this playthrough is that it's already listed as a tournament item. I know in the past I had to keep resetting before the reels showed up as a reward.

[@kingofbudokai]

@@drock1331 I can assure you that you didn't. You are misremembering. The other reels can be random at times, but Attack Reels is automatically guaranteed to be the first blitzball tournament prize no matter what.

[@kingofbudokai]

@@callmeshaggy5166 To be fair, in the normal North American release of the game, wakka out-damages Anima by a wide margin (also in that version, the dark aeons do not exist at all, which Is why I consider it the best version inherently, because being locked out of the additional story content of the temples is bullcrap.) In that version, Oblivion only does 1 instance of damage, so Anima can't ever do more than 99,999 with his overdrive. Wakka, on the other hand, can do over a million damage with his at max strength, putting him miles ahead of literally everything else in the game lol. It's only the PAL and the remaster versions that allow for Anima do match Wakka in damage.

[@bigredxennial]

Technically, no Al Bhed primer is missable thanks to the Compilation Spheres. You simply return to an earlier save where you are in Home, get the primer, save again, then return to your main save and use a compilation sphere. Voila.

[@YnEoS10]

I’m glad you’re going through more side content, of course no pressure to get everything, some challenges drove us all crazy trying to complete. Would love to hear you talk more about the story overall. I like that Tidus was able to keep his promise and not let Yuna die, even though it was still a sad ending. 😢

[@CaptainFalchion]

It was so fun seeing you do the expert sphere grid, it did make for an entertaining playthrough! You did great and beat several of the harder bosses on the first try or just a few tries which was impressive! I struggled on a lot of bosses the first time

[@scttydsntknow]

Seeing you go through the guide and enjoy it so much makes me very happy I sent it to you!!! Would love to watch you tackle all the side content for the celestial weapons!

[@coderwilson]

Since you're now asking for recommendations, a few quick things. First, at the monster arena, make sure you are seeing PAGE TWO of most areas, I don't think I've seen you page over (right on the d-pad) a single time. Second, talk to the monster arena guy multiple times, he gives you loot one time per conversation. Third, spend more time doing monster arena before more time going for end game bosses. You should should be having minimal trouble with "Inside Sin" and "Omega dungeon" before thinking about dark aeons, and capturing monsters in these areas will help you level quickly. And finally, spend some time looking at Blitzball players in the guide. There are no spoilers concerning blitzball players, and this will help in a major way to win. Ultimately your choice which blitzers you take, but it will make the process MUCH easier working towards Wakka's unlocks. Hope that helps.

[@Nina9er]

Forthe missable Al Bhed Primers, if you still have an old save file from before Home, you could quickly boot that file up, go in there and grab it and save, then boot your farther along game and go to a compilation sphere (the one that tells you your Al Bhed rank) and you can get it in your current game 😀

[@SuperTrailerz]

Rikkus best mixes are Trio of 9999, Hyper Mighty G (gives all characters auto life in one move) Ultra Null All (5x Cheer, Focus, Aim) Also good is Eccentric and Hot spurs for when you are farming for overdrive and lvling up you characters with the Don Tonberry Method.

[@stevenbrodeur3023]

Sunburst is pretty op too.

[@SuperTrailerz]

@@stevenbrodeur3023 love that mix!! 19998 damage! Really good mid game and for NSG

[@SuperTrailerz]

Yes the Celestial weapons are important, BUT you need CUSTOM armor. You need at least Auto phoniex of two people and you are able to make auto haste on one person. You can buy 4 slotted armor from Wantz in machalina woods near where the family was. Stoneproof would be ideal as well. You will have to steal or bribe for more chochobo wings to get another auto haste armor.

[@SuperTrailerz]

You need 3 more birds from Djose high roads to unlock auto phoniex. Need 4 of every bird, and I think those are your last ones to catch for 99 Mega Phoniex

[@manuelgutierrez6546]

Love, love that you shared the guide with us! This game is so much fun, hope you enjoy all the side content! BTW around 36 min mark where you talk about Yuna's "I love you" possibly meaning "thank you", actually on the Japanese version of the game she says "arigato" = "thank you".

[@guyinreallife6035]

I love the whole premise of the side missions here, the mechanics if you think about it: "Cid, hey, can you take the airship out of this pocket dimension inside sin for a bit so I can pop out and play Blitzball?" "HA! Sure thing kid!"

[@whentheworldwasatwar8717]

Yes!!!!! FFX's Sidequests are some of the most fun things to do!

[@martinj3239]

48:00 The 200 lightning bolts challenge is actually surprising easy, when you know about the trick. There's a specific spot in the Thunder Plains where walking on it will always trigger a lightning bolt, making it super easy to dodge. You just have to walk in a small circle there. Still super tedious, as all of these weapons.

[@ryanfromthecarwash]

You're so intuitive with a lot of this that it's kind of scary. "Her way of saying thank you." Original version, she says thank you not I love you. This is probably a big reason why he doesn't reply, which I've honestly never really noticed until you mentioned it.

[@ManiacTobi]

For subsequent playthroughs, I strongly recommend the PC version of the HD Remaster. You can speed up the game to 2x or 4x among other very useful buffs, which immensely shortens all the running around and fighting that is needed to beat all Dark Aeons (if you don’t want to use Yojimbo to kill them). Because, you still have not the slightest idea how much fighting and upgrading the Grid is required for that - like, just completing the whole Sphere Grid for three characters would not even close to be enough.

[@zerothehero11]

Will say, there is a somewhat cheesy way to One-Shot any enemy in the game, even the dark aeons, that you already have access to. For Dark Bahamut and Especially Dark Valefor who are super bosses that are gating you out of other content i dont think anyone would mind if you just use that method so you can move forward with unlocking all aeons, overdrives, and Celestial Weapons. That said up to you. Loving the playthrough and glad you're doing some post game content!

[@JarrodSwords]

Been wanting to say this from the start, but now that you're done: you can't really mess up the Sphere Grid. You did what you want, which is exactly the point of the Expert/International grid. People even beat the game without using the grid at all in one of the many No Sphere Grid (NSG) challenges. I did it for the first time while watching you play. It's a fun, alternative way of engaging with the combat system.

[@YnEoS10]

1:30:06 “We’ve got Nirvana we’ve gotten the Onion Ring” 😂

[@Nurdjen]

Someone was hungry, I guess.

[@beefcakeman1525]

Load your save closest to home and use those loading spheres that do nothing but sync your albed primers. You can literally load albed primers from any save point on your memory card and you’ll be able to complete the collection. I’ve done full playthrough knowing all albed from the beginning of the game you definitely can complete them you have like 100 saves lol

[@MattBaker-Boise]

While the Al Bhed primers you mentioned ARE missable, there IS a method of redemption! Specifically because you kept making new save games. Go back to a save game you made on Bikanel Island right before you could have collected the tomes, collect them, save that same game again. Then go back to your main save, go to the orb in Rin's travel agencies to synchronize across multiple game saves. Hope this helps!

[@whentheworldwasatwar8717]

Tbh, Id ignore Lulu's 200 lightning strike thing, since u dont need her weapon for anything else post game

[@davidmiles1741]

ALSO VERY IMPORTANT! There is a translation/localization issue regarding which planet's sigil and crest belongs to which character- Because you are playing a Japanese version of the game and using a guide for an American version of the game, there's going to be a difference. For instance- Your guide associates Wakka with "Jupiter" when in the version you're playing he's "Mercury." Therefore, when you were looking for the "Jupiter Crest" you should have been looking for "Mercury" which you already have. So, in your version Lulu = Mars Wakka = Mercury Kimahri = Jupiter Rikku = Venus Auron = Saturn

[@ManiacTobi]

Very helpful comment!

[@rumasai]

This is stupid kinds of important. Excellent catch and correction.

[@lordgrinningsoul6017]

Hey Kas! When you do a replay of this do you think you'd do it on stream possibly? I hope so! And thank you for a beautiful playthrough! 💙

[@deheavon6670]

That's one thing I don't like about the International Version, how it locks you out from Anima with the Dark Aeons if you missed a single destruction sphere.

[@DerekExMachina]

It's interesting that you came to the conclusion that Yuna was thanking Tidus when she confessed her love for him. This is a localization change in the English version of the game. In the Japanese version of the game, Yuna never says "I love you" and instead says "Arigatou" - meaning "thank you" to Tidus. The change was likely done to give more emotional weight to the ending to an English-speaking audience. The phrases "Thank you" and "I love you" have different cultural meanings and contexts in Japanese, hence the change.

[@kwpineda5663]

btw Kasta some crests and sigils names were changed in the HD remaster. Mercury Crest is now found in the locker at Luca instead of the Jupiter crest

[@Nina9er]

For the monster arena, just keep talking to the guy, he only gives one reward at a time. You have quite a few already, you just need to collect them 😀

[@nurinari9143]

Im loving your idea of be reading the guide with us and recording it while you take ideas for play later :D (Btw ... i dont know which route of the sphere grid you made for wakka, but that was an epic route haha). Now i saw you want to take the celestial weapons, its so sad that the weapon of your most important character (wakka) is just the one that take an eternity to have maxed and even blitzball lovers we hate how much we need to play to get the last piece for upgrade the weapon. Avoid 200 lightnings in a row for lulus weapon is also too much pain XD (sorry for 2 different messages, im so excited with this serie of FFX)

[@DEATHxPENALTY]

Talking about Rikku's overdrive there are a lot more options. The guide only lists a couple, but if you look online there are way more options.

[@SamHGabriel]

This was unexpected! I figured we would be jumping right into Spider-Man, I’m here for the extra content

[@cpaul1988]

If you have a save file from home still you can use it to just get the Primer and then load it into your current save

[@CGunner0]

Aww, wish you could have found out the secret codes, you found half of VICTORIOUS in kilika and the other half was in bikanel like the riddle said in the highroad.

[@finagin7900]

Love watching these episodes so thanks for playing it. I know I still have a few to do through and I am working on it but, and this is just my person play style, I got all the celestial weapons when during my first play through when the game came out. After that all the fetch quest and doing better then perfect on the games (and especially that darn lightening dodge thing) I just ended up finding it easier to grind though the arena which will let you make your own weapons that are better then the celestial weapons. Ok, time to move on to your next video.

[@alexcis04]

Im so glad I came across your channel! You gained a fan for life :) Also glad your not done with FFX :)

[@joechialastri7727]

Yes, you read that correctly. It is 200 lightning bolts in a row and it is... not fun to say the least. There are strategies to it that can make it easier but it's still a bit of a slog. And that's being nice about it. As for Chocobo Catcher and finishing with a sub 0.0 time, well, don't say you weren't warned about this one. You don't seem like the kind of person who would throw a controller in anger but this could change that. Happy hunting for these things Maggie. And best of luck. You're gonna need it.

[@honorthegilbert]

Catcher chocobo is the only time I've ever thrown a controller in anger... and put a dent in the wall.

[@solstice5767]

Your heart will heal pretty fast, with the anger that comes with obtaining Caladbolg 😂

[@britlitsch6571]

I always found Caladbolg the second easiest behind the Spirit Lance.

[@DashingDavid]

Caladbolg is easy. It’s the sigil that’s hard.

[@Branderbie]

I think the choco race is still the only annoying mini game after dozens of playthrus. Butterflies are easy once you've beaten it a few times and lightning dodging is super easy if you have no encounters and do it in the right spot, but chocobo still can screw you with rng even if you get good at it.

[@lebowskidee7557]

@@britlitsch6571aurons is the easiest

[@callmeshaggy5166]

Choco racing isn't even a matter of skill. It's raw, pure rng and that's why it sucks.

[@musenji]

35:16 "I love you" vs "arigatou" aside, when Yuna says it, the tortured look on Tidus' face when he turns around says everything you need to know about how he felt about it, and what he wished could have been. Then he gave her the hug she had run to him for, as best as he still could. He said it back, just not with words.

[@UltrosFF6]

FFX has so much post game content. This was also in a time before dlc, so this was just shipped on your copy of the disc. I miss it so much.

[@Masamune_91]

My favorite secret in the game is Animas design. You actually basically figured out the connection to Seymour and his mother on your own... but if you look at the aeon, it's basically a grotesque monster, in pain, being restrained by a woman's arms... so incredible.

[@MathouManson]

"You'll cry,you're gonna cry,you always cry. See? You're crying"

[@TheChessicfayth]

Glad to see you going on!

[@grant_del435]

You prob alr know this but the international version (and the remaster) has a 20+ min epilogue video that leads into 10-2. May wanna check that out before you wrap up the series. Been a really fun watch! Never seen someone play FFX like this 😂

[@Chaosmite]

Tidus is literally Yuna’s dream man

[@thend4427]

Another thing is you never used cure magic from the abilities menu

[@rumasai]

18:00 One thing I feel the need to address as far as Rikku's Mix overdrive goes. You actually found the better version of Mighty G, which is Super Mighty G. In addition to the Protect, Shell, and Haste, it instantly grants all active party members max stacks of Cheer, Focus, and Luck iirc (Worth note, Cheer, Focus, and Luck all stack up to five times.) Lmfao no effing way. My FFXIV character's name is Orion, and someone was out of their mind and read it as Onion, and I've been called Onion in that game ever since. I can't believe I just got to unironically hear the inverse of that happen.

[@DanielWilliams-kv4tf]

Another great video Maggie and it seems every comment on things you’ve supposedly missed and missed out on I’ve seen in the comments section from the very first episode of this play through finally get mentioned👍. Glad you’re now using the guide to go back through the game and it was a great decision to complete the game before doing the side missions, you knew you weren’t making much progress trying to do the side missions before completing the story. Also yes you did miss the chest after defeating Yunalesca earlier and a great job with the camera above the guide too👍. Can’t wait for the next one.

[@richardbrothwood5022]

tip when riding chocobo in races hold all 4 shoulder buttons at same time

[@GreatSaiyaDan]

I love how much you genuinely love this game! It really makes me smile. Youve earned my sub with this series 100%! Cant wait to see what you do next!

[@gmbO48]

1:30:06 I like the idea of Lulu running around with a celestial onion ring.

[@adryanx69]

The man in the monster capture zone is programmed to only give you a reward every time you talk to him. That means that if you have completed two or more zones you have to talk to him, take the reward, close the conversation and talk to him again until he gives you all of them. The three celestial weapons most easy for you to get are: Auron-Kimary-Riku. Don't try to dodge the 200 lightings it's a pain in the ass. Forget about the tidus crest, dark bahamut is the stronguest of the dark aeons and it has 4 million life points. Get that three and grind until that characters can make 9999 damage attacking and have 9999 of live points and at least 90-120 fo every stat. Then you can kill dark valefor and take de destruction sphere on besaid. Once you are in besaid talk with the girl in the store and buy something from her. She will tell you that her dog has found something. Search the dog , interact with him and will give and item to obtain the second overdrive for valefor. Then, return to zanarkand, gho to the temple of yunalesca and and complete the trial for the destruction sphere. Those are the two you are missing for obtaining anima. Once you get anima i recommend you to complete the sphere grid with the characters you get the celestial weapons for, try to kill dark ifrit, dark ixion and dark shiva and end your game there. Why? Because if you want to kill the other dark aeons and the super boss it's not enough to obtain the celestial weapons and explore all of the sphere grid, no no. You need to max ALL OF YOUR STATS(technically not all, once you have 100 or more of luck you don't need accuracy nor evasion ). That mean 99.999 life points and 255 of every stat. You know the grid has empty nodes that you can fill right? You can grind in the monster arena the spheres to do dat. But even of you fill ALL the empty nodes it's not even enough to max you stats. You have to capture 5 specimens of every monster in the game. When you do that you unlock the possibility of buying clear spheres. With a clear sphere you can delete any stat node of the grid. With that you have to delete all the nodes that doesn't give you the max stat possible. +300 for health, +40 for pm and +4 for everything else. Every node that gives you +1, +2 or +3 MUST be deleted and fillet with a +4 until that stat is 255. As you can imagine, this requires an immense amount of grinding. I'm talking about possibly 80-100 hours to do everything I've described. There is a trick to get experience easily but nothing saves you from grinding for the spheres needed to fill the board. Especially the fortune spheres are a horror to get. Plus there are some celestial weapons that are a pain in the ass to get like dodging the 200 lightning bolts or the chocobo run in less than 0 seconds. So leave those things for your second game where you won't make mistakes (understandable in your first game) like not taking the chest after yunalesca. So my advice is to finish this game when I said and do the rest of the content when you play the remaster version of the game. The remaster has the ability to speed the game up to x4 and make the fights complete automatically( it only uses the attack command so it's only good for the grind of capturing enemies and leveling up). That reduces the grinding to a fifth of the time you would require using the ps2 version without such possibilities. I'm sorry if I wrote too much text but I hope it helped you. At the time when I was in high school I wrote a guide for this game so I still have most of the things memorized, also i can give you some tips that are not in your guide( how to make the lightning less unfair or how to get experience "quick" ) and solve a specific question that the guide doesn't make clear,if you want.

[@mysticalos]

THe dark aeons can just be killed with yojimbo + grand summon. if you pool up yuna's limit break first. grand summon makes him more likely to use zenmato. even if his affinity is low. it may take a few tries but save before dark aeon. equip a first strike weapon on anyone in party. grand summon yojimbo. repeat til he one shots dark aeon. it's cheesy but it can eliminate every dark aeon even if you're giga weak.

[@brandenlucero]

A lot of your points are greatly exaggerated. Dodging 200 bolts can easily be done on the Southern side of the Thunder Plains in the International release. The Chocobo race is also isn't that hard. You can acquire that sigil as soon as you defeat Defender X during the main story. Grinding is a part of nearly every RPG. If you don't mind the grind, then maximizing the Sphere Grid becomes trivial. You don't need 255 in all stats anyways because of Dark Ixion. As long as you have a combination of 290 between Luck and Evasion, that's all you need. Agility beyond 170 has dimishing returns. There is no point going to 255 in that stat.

[@adryanx69]

@@mysticalos That is extremely boring and you are robbing her of the opportunity to have a real fight against them. Recommending someone to use Yojimbo in their first game is almost like recommending them to watch the fights on youtube.

[@adryanx69]

@@brandenlucero I didn't say that grind is not part of the experience but maybe she don't feel like spending more than 80 hours doing it. I told her to ignore the chocobo race because doing it in less than 0 seconds is only useful for the tidus sigil and this one is useless because she won't get the crest until she can kill dark bahamut. And no, I didn't say you need 255 of each stat to kill dark ixion. You need them to kill dark bahamut and penance. I also said that once you have more than 100 luck you don't need evasion or aim at all. High luck replaces those two parameters completely and is necessary to be able to max the rest. So you eliminate all the evasión nodes of the grid once you have enough luck.

[@SuperTrailerz]

you dont need BREAK HP limit to beat the dark aeons you can do it with 9,999 HP and Auto Phoniex. The only max stats you need are Strength for the first few if you have auto haste, Auto phoniex armor and use Rikku to mix Hyper Mighty G. But it does help to go around the sphere grid with the Don Tonberry method.

[@gothorn2758]

Anima was basically Seymour Final Aeon, that's why it's so powerful. It's supposed to be used in final battle against Sin, but Seymour gave up his pilgrimage.

[@crafty87mc]

Just finished watching the story playthrough, havin fun watching you go through the guide now. Another Final Fantasy in the bag. Awesome job Kasta! You've got a lot of Lady Yuna in you, always bringing sunshine to the people! 💛 Keep making everyday your "Best Day Ever!" (Also can't wait to watch your SpiderMan 2 playthrough with my nephew)

[@sethhale235]

In case no one else has mentioned it, there is a way to defeat that dark valefor and probably whichever other one you need to go do the destruction spheres for the treasures to then go get Anima. The way is with Yojimbo but you have to be lucky. He does different attacks depending on a few different things, including how much gil you pay him, but his most powerful attack can one shot pretty much anything in the game. That's your easy pass through dark valefor unless you want to do it the hard way. Also, I think I'd almost rather just watch you go through guides than play the games. Your excitement was great.

[@mysticalos]

Yep and there is a trick that i'm confident works, just based on what I've tested and convinced others to do. But even of affinity is very low. grand summon does give a boost to it, but so does paying exactly 7777 gil. also need to equip first strike on someone because otherwise dark aeons always attack first (they have vast speed) and honestly I agree that valefor should be cheesed cause she can't get anima or many other things without regaining access to besaid. the rest can be done legit but she needs into besaid for that missing destruction sphere. other one she missed was in bevelle cause she didn't notice the screen changed to a new puzzle.

[@fishyjja]

the major hurdle in your playthrough is dark valefor, once u redo that temple it will unlock everything else. u can do it without grinding by using yojimbo, just got to get a little lucky with zanmato, u can just save the game before the fight and get his overdrive up, then pay him a bunch of gil and pray to yevon

[@callmeshaggy5166]

Honestly spamming yojimbo might be her play here. Zanmato procs about 32% of the time with 512 gil. If he doesn't do it, just keep paying him 512 gil as long as he's alive. If he's killed, reload and try again. Never took more than a handful of tries. Edit: this was with correct answers when hiring him though, so her chances are going to be lower.

[@just-gaming213]

I'd recomend forgetting about the dark aeons for now and do a more realistic goal of beating the monster arena, you'll need the drops here to help😮level for the aeons... Though valefor ifrit & ixion should be within reach, valefor isn't a superboss, just a tough boss. Then If you really are seirous about doing all the dark aeons and the superbosses you need to grind insane ammounts of AP, there's a trick to it using a weapon skill you can customise to a weapon (overdrive to AP) and I'd recommend looking this up if it's not in the guide doing this or you'll be grinding for months. Theresa also a way to farm 4 blank slot weapons, look this up too as if you lock yourself out of it you'll have a hard time with some of superboss as making your own special weapons for them can be better than celestial weapons.

[@Nurdjen]

Whenever you finish this playthrough, please end it with "...and that as they say is that!". I absolutely love the voice of the English voice actor for Mei'Chen. After all these years, my friends and I are still quoting this line.

[@CharlyZiock]

LOVE THAT YOU READ THE GUIDE!!! ALL THIS KNOWLEDGE WILL BE VERY HELPFUL WITH YOUR UPCOMING FF GAMEPLAYS SPECIALLY FOR ENDGAME!!!! AHHHH YOU’RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO BECOME AN EXPERT FF FAN (INSERT VICTORY FANFARE)

[@mhjmstultiens]

OMG, I miss those phyisical guide books so much! What a great find. :)

[@SebastianThebrave]

Iirc the only dark aeon blocking a destruction sphere is the easiest one (valefor) While I'm sad to see Penance won't be fought, but I get it. Not everyone wants to spend hours ap tricking enemies in the arena and then even more hours farming items to craft the best gear just to see the true endgame (I don't feel bad for spoiling it now since it was shown in the video on the guide)

[@Branderbie]

I've beaten all the uber bosses legit once, but on my playthrus now i just have yojimbo one shot all the super grinds now.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

Dark Shiva & Dark Ixion guard their temples as well

[@lifeasafanpodcast9529]

You missed besaid and zanarkand zanarkand is easy just go back and find all the white blocks

[@lifeasafanpodcast9529]

It'll probably cost a bit of money to get him to do it but it's a gaurentee to beat him without being overpowered Beating dark bahamut to get tidus's sigel you might as well start a new game lol

[@SuperTrailerz]

The monster arena guy has a lot more rewards for you. You need to talk to him multiple times, Exit out of the convo after getting the reward and don't fight the monster then talk to him again.

[@drock1331]

It's also possible that she didn't collect certain regions 100% - she neglected to scroll to the right to see the next page of larger regions. Hope she catches on to that to save her headaches later lol

[@iKuvok]

Time for the second playthrough! Lol j/k but this was one of my favorite episodes tbh, loved seeing your reaction to learning some of those things the game doesnt directly say from the guide

[@yodayun]

I always pronounced it "Final Fantasy ten-two", am I an alien ? See I don't know how you felt about having the guide for the side and end game content but I find it absolutely fine. It's impossible to figure all these things out by yourself.

[@ryanfromthecarwash]

Obligatory explanation of the story just in case you missed it: There is no time travel. Bevelle machina vs Zanarkand summoners. Bevelle won. Tidus's "Dream Zanarkand" and all of its citizens including Tidus is really a giant collective summon of all the people in the wall you saw on Gagazet that is just there to preserve Zanarkand in some way. Sin is pretty much a summon to keep people away from discovering this Dream Zanarkand. The real location is somewhere near Baaj. Jecht just left that area. The whole Tidus is a dream thing is more easily understood by calling him an aeon lol Crests/Sigils tip I know you're ahead of this, but your guide's Mars is Saturn in your version of the game. Guide's Jupiter is Mercury. Guide's Venus is Mars. Guide's Saturn is Jupiter. Guide's Mercury is Venus. Sun and Moon are the same. You CAN power up with just the crests! It gives aeons Break Damage Limit. Valefor is Yuna's, Ifrit is Wakka, Ixion is Kimahri, Shiva is Lulu. Yojimbo is Auron. Blitzball tip - A lot of people use "reset data" to reset prizes til they get one they like. Wakka's sigil requires getting all of his overdrives as prizes first. You do have a slight alternative to reset data, though. Remember that once you see what prize you'll be playing for, it locks in. What you can do is exit after the last match of a League/Tournament. Save outside. Go back to blitz. Don't see your prize? Reload your save. This method takes a few more games, but works if you don't want to reset data. Lightning Dodging tip- No Encounters on. Then KZbin. Lol there is a spot where you can go to a crater that always strikes. Run to the tower next to it, run back in +strike+. Run to the tower. Run back in +strike+. It will help you get in a rhythm.

[@entrydenied]

I'm watching halfway through and don't know if you have noticed but the names of the crest are mixed up in the International version of the game. They changed the names for some reason.

[@runtwer5700]

The love between Tidus and Yuna was definitely romantic, as well as what you mentioned. If it wasn't romantic, they wouldn't have had a makeout session in Macalania. Also, in her "goodbye" sphere that we pick up right before Zanarkand when she says something like "so this is what it feel likes. It's more wonderful than I thought, but it hurts sometimes", she's talking about being in love with him but hurts because she knows she's going to die at the end of her pilgrimage and they'll never be able to be together.

[@CaptainFalchion]

The reason Tidus didn't say I love you back is apparently because the japanese version originally had Yuna say "thank you" instead of I love you. But even in that moment it didn't feel wrong for Tidus not to say it back, but it wasn't because he wasn't capable. He is a dream but he still was his own person. And yes they clearly were in love for sure, its so tragic

[@ApocalypseRick]

For the lightning bolts there is a specific spot you can cheese it you will need no encounters on but it is doable (a lot easier than you would expect)

[@simonjunior3688]

The Omaga ruins, this place is amazing to farm items and get much stronger!! DO NOT FLEE! Because you are gunna find and pickup alot of 4 slot Armour and spheres for the grid that allow you to obtain abilities for all characters across the grid, get as many, luck spheres, fortune spheres, mega pheonix and chocobo feathers as u can to create amazing Armour to take on dark Aeons. For Dark aeons: you need only Tidus Rikku and Wakka. Get their strength, agility and speed to max. Wakka, 60 Luck stat Weapon: World Champion Overdrive: Attack REELS Armour: Auto pheonix, auto Haste, auto protect. And Ribbon (only 1 person needs ribbon) Tidus: Luck 60 Weapon: Catlbrog Overdrive: Blitz ace Armour. Same as Wakka. Stone proof or Ribbon Rikku for her Overdrive. Luck stat 60 Weapon: God hand. Armour, same as wakka and tidus. Stone proof or ribbon. THESE are the best ways to do it.

[@Lorric101]

I know what you mean about wanting to keep Yuna pure. My second playthrough, I didn't let her kill ANYTHING. This made her invulnerable to Tonberries' karma.

[@LC-sc3en]

Big brain

[@goldgrimreaper]

Just literally watched your main story completion and got me all emotional seeing you getting emotional 😂. Congrats on playing my favourite game of all time. Hopefully next time it’s FF12 or even FF13 ( I think you’d really like Lightning )

[@qanondorfkingoftheqerudo8946]

This was WAKKA'S story. It went the way HE wanted it.

[@dyangoh1646]

If you have the crests for the celestial weapons you just need to upgrade the weapons once with them and they break the damage cap for the aeons you possess. Meaning you can get the to do over drives for 99,999 if you level up Yuna a lot. Finding an efficient and not time consuming way to get triple overdrive and overdrive >ap on the weapons can help you get 99 sphere levels quick but that will take time in itself

[@mak99hi]

Fun fact, the damage break, was the first final fantasy to allow damage above 9999

[@wc4201]

Tidus didn’t say anything back because the game is dubbed from the original Japanese… I believe in the original Yuna says Thank You and not I Love You. Auron, Lulu and Rikku have the easiest super weapons. You will also need armor equipped with Ribbon to defeat the dark aeons… imo the best build is auto Phoenix, auto haste, auto protect and ribbon. You can farm Ribbon armor while fighting dark Yojimbo as you fight him 4 times then save/exit and re enter than fight him again… you are looking for dark matter and Ribbon armor. It’s a grind but if you want to fight the dark aeons and penance it’s a must.

[@SpuriousECG]

That's a beautiful strategy guide!

[@iKuvok]

So in terms of the monster arena. I noticed through your play through, I am not sure if you'd noticed there was two pages of monsters for some areas. Also to receive the maximum rewards, you need to capture 10 of every monster per area. Also as someone else did state before, the rewards are given separately each time you speak with the man. So if he has multiple rewards you have to talk, end convo and talk again...its very annoying lol. I actually just did all this a couple months ago

[@titleloanman]

There are some helpful guides on KZbin that will give you some tips to getting the 200 lightning strikes. It’s a good hour of work once you get the technique down. I recommend you show yourself figuring out that tricks and then edit out the grindy hour or two that follows.

[@richardbrothwood5022]

The best final fantasy guides are the official piggy back guides they have more detail in them and alot more info about characters like also there ages

[@Sailor_alan]

I am so excited to see you get into FFX2 and then later FFIX genuinely think Vivi will become your best boy.

[@leighgray8537]

You've a lot of grinding to do, I'd start buy doing a little research to get gear with AP increases on them and stealing a ton when grinding, also look into Rikku - Gillionaire, Omega Ruins - Mimic & catching 10 of everything for monster arena, research weapon and gear mods to sell, this should get you started.

[@christophersimmons8709]

Another fantasticly amazing playthrough Kastaclysm ❤❤😁😁.

[@thend4427]

The God Hand is the easiest to do out of all

[@lebowskidee7557]

Nah Aurons

[@nezuko6208]

You're missing the Destruction Spheres for Besaid and Zanakand

[@Mik_S]

I'm surprised the guide told you the passwords but not how to get them. You already found 2 clues, one on Besaid saying Kilika and Bikinel together and the other on Kilika that appears gibberish even when translated. There is another in the desert that also seems gibberish bit if you took 1 letter at a time from each one it would combine to say "the password is VICTORIOUS". There was one that mentions the thorn next to the gouge in the Calm lands (in the highroad I think) and you have to follow the directions to the password. The reason why you could not find the Jupiter crest is that they are assigned to different characters in different versions of the game, and I think it also depends on the region of version. As the guide is for the HD remaster this will be the reason and you already got the crest in that location. I think it is possible to get those missed primers from Home somewhere in the desert, but you might have to beat Dark Ifrit first. Another option is to find your save before the destruction of Home then get them and save to a new slot. Then you can reload your main save and use a compilation sphere to import those primers. The monster guy only gives you 1 reward each time you talk to him, so if you had completed several areas you have to talk to him again to him to get the next reward.