Welcome to the Grandia Shrine

Recommended Level: 21
Items: 18 Gold Pouches, Slouch Weed, Thor's Fury, Whistle, Healthweed, Water Charm, Run Seed, Resu. Potion, Golden Potion, Mage Seed

Upon arriving on yet another new land area, take this time to level up your magics. Battles will be harder now and magics will boost your stats. Run into the helicopter plants to get hurt (and thus increase your water experience by healing). From the boat, go south a little ways and take the first east path. Take the northern branch. The big flowers you'll see are cannons that will shoot you to various parts of the forest. Take the northeast path when you reach them and follow the path around. Go south at the next break. You'll know if you're in the right area if you see another helicopter plant. Who's up here but Guido! The strange Mogay salesman puts the guys up for a night (for a small fee of course). Use him to rest if you need it in the future. Continue on the path going east at the first break. Examine the action icon to cross the lilly pads. Follow the path around to another water area. Use the second action icon to cross some more pads. One more action icon and head northeast then east. Some little demihuman kid runs away from you. Continue and fall hook, line, and sinker into the hole-in-the-ground trap. After the little introductory sequence of Rapp, go south of the rock and use the save point. Continue ahead and fight the obligatory boss.
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BOSS: TREANT (BODY, ARM, FLOWER)
HP: 2249/1366/1385
STRATEGY: Use Justin's Dragon Cut and other skills and spells that are range or hit all enemies. Keep in mind the creature is weak against fire.
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Now that Rapp has admitted he had the wrong opinion of you, continue on your journey to leave the forest. Look out for animals that will try to sneak up on you. Turn around and they'll run back into the bushes. Go south then east and look out for monsters dropping out of the tall flowers. Go north and at the marker, east and out of the area.

The usual. Check shops, inn and explore. You'll learn that Rapp is the grandson of the village's elder. Go meet him in a off-ground tent, then head toward the Petrified Forest.

Recommended Level: 22 - 23
Items: 28 Gold Pouches, Def Seed, Para Charm, Life Seed, Mana Egg, Magic Seed, Cookies, Rescue Set, 2 Run Seeds, Home Run Hammer, Plug Suit

This is another one of those filler areas. You'll come up in ancient Cafu. Then Justin wil decide to go and destroy Domm Tower ( you know him, no pressure at all ! ) Find the mana egg. Continue until the exit. Pretty easy, not much fights.

When you enter, you get attacked by a weird stong woman. Rapp will get knock out before the fight, so you'll only have Justin and Feena for that fight.
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BOSS: MILDA
HP: 2800
STRATEGY: Wail on this broad with either your skills or combo attacks. She'll go down in a heartbeat if you're strong enough.
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After waking up in the warehouse you get her as a team member whether you like it or not. Come out of the warehouse after saving and go north around the fence and sheds. Enter the building. Take the east door and into the only door in the hallway. Press the action icon by the wall. Three doors later and head up the stairs. Begin on the east path then use the northern branch. Head through a door and downstairs. After two doors, avoid the lasers and enter yet another door. Break the control panel to get rid of those things (and some of the locks). Head back to level 2. This time take the south path but dart into the side door first. Enter the west door, examine the action icon, then back to the main room of level 2. Take the north path, use the stairs and save. Take the south door, go around the other side and out. Turn the switches by the wall off to open some doors with monsters and items in them. Keep them on when you want to proceed. Go upstairs when you're ready and watch the sequence with the being known as Gaia. To leave the tower after the not-so-peaceful event, take a direct south path. Go back to Cafu.

During the evening, Cafu Village will get attacked by the Garlyle Forces. Just beat the soldiers and find Leen destroy a Gaia Battler. You'll probably have there a big surprise. Milda will suggest you to follow her to Laine in order to learn more about Alent and the Icarians.

Items: 10 Gold Pouches, Energy Ring, Cactus Thorns, 2 Resu. Potions, Cactus Armor, Def Seed, Anklet

Only two areas. Head south. In Zil Desert, you can find two secret dongeons. The best is to do them when your final party is done. If you want to have the walkthrough of them, just click here. It was done by Zero_.

A village composed with three races of people. Explore a bit, but I don't suggest you buy stuff, you'll soon reach Laine. Beware, they're some better stuff in Zil Padon than in Laine, and some stuff in Laine is better that in Zil Padon, so use my shops list to choose wisely what you gonna buy.

Recommended Level: 26
Items: 13 Gold Pouches, Move Seed, Blue Potion, 2 Mana Eggs

Just head south and you'll find the exit in no time. You can explore east if you want. In the south-western part of the map, ther's a hole in the rock which leads to the third and final optional dongeon in the game ( just, ... don't go there yet, ok ? Don't go there ! )

Items: 5 Gold Pouches, Restraint Walnut, Power Seed, Crampons, Silence Sword, Life Seed, Explosion Charm

The final leg of your journey to Laine Village is through this two-part mountain range. As usual, keep heading south. When you fight the monsters there, the most intelligent and logic thing to do is to equip fire weapons and use fire spells. Boost a bit here. Now, finally, after all the hard way ... Laine.

Now is the time to buy stuff in the shops. Next, go see Darling, Milda's husband. I knew Laine's women were wierd, but the men ... anyway. You have to see the two other wise men of Laine after. But the third has lost his horn, which contains all his knowledge, meaning you'll have to get it back ( who else would anyway ? )

Items: 13 Gold Pouches, Iron Clog, Salmon, 2 Primeribs, Power Seed, Defense Fruit, Mana Egg, Warp Staff, Wolf Boots

This is a maze, a real one. Entering a door will warp you in an other area or spot on the map. In the first area, you need to go through the door in the extreme southwest of the map, then go to the building to the north of where you reappear in order to reach Area 2. Head north and hang a right until you're going south again. Take the next road to the west until the end and you'll teleport to a new section of the map. Now just head to the east and enter the third area. After a bit, you'll find an other Gaia Battler.
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BOSS: GAIA BATTLER (BODY, R. HAND, L. HAND)
HP: 3567/2528/2573
STRATEGY: Justin's Heaven and Earth Cut (if you have it) works wonders. Just stick to range attacks and others that hit all enemies and you'll be fine.
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Get the Horn of Knowledge from the chest and exit from the maze.

Go see Dorling to give him his Horn. He'll tell you to go at Zil Padon where you'll be able to reach the temple where lies the Medal of Knowledge.

Go at the fountain. Then, go at the Mogay's Elder house, in the middle of the Mogay section of town. You'll meet Guido. When he asks you why you want to go to Alent, answer " I want to protect my world" and you'll be accepted by the Mogays. Return to the fountain and enter the ruins.

Items: 22 Gold Pouches, Pretty Jewel, Thunder Arrow, Resu. Potion, 2 Run Seeds, Warp Shoe, Mage Seed, 2 Power Seeds, Miracle, All-Around Seed, Lightning Charm, Def Seed, Main Gauche, Counter Ring, Mana Egg; ( Other part of the ruins ) 8 ? Gold Pouches, Revival, Mag Fruit, Demon Eye Stone, Power Seed, 2 Speed Seeds

This is a nice place to boost up your levels of weapons and spells a bit. Now first go south to get to a section with a couple of nice treasures. Go back to the entrance. Head west to work your way through the rest of the ruins. The dongeon may seem confusing at first, but once you're at the floating platform, the rest is just straight-foward. When you get to a save point, continue foward and meet the boss.
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BOSS: RUIN GUARD (BODY, AX, BOOMERANG)
HP: 4500/2350/2350
STRATEGY: Use range attacks then ones that hit all enemies. This guy didn't get a single turn!
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When that is done, recover & save and come back to get the Medal of Knowledge. Return again where there's the save point and ... surprise ! Gralyle Forces have decided to explore the ruins. And this time, General Baal has moved his ass from his throne to come. After the scene, head back and jump down the clift. Continue a bit until Mulen appears with only a hundread guards. Meanwhile, Baal will bring back the golems to life. After the fall down (yu never end falling down, and it's not over yet ) you'll be alone. Get all the treasures in the the save point room. Now enter what looks like a temple. The monsters here will hit you about 1 to 10 damages, and won't pay a lot in EXP, so don't mind them. But, this is where I boosted the wind power of Justin until he got Howlslash, since you get groups of enemies. Also, don't mind the strange floating energy polygones, there're here only for pure decoration. After reaching the top, you'll get face to face with Herr Mullen. He'll put you in the exit elevator. You'll have the chance to see the Grandeur take off. Rapp and Guido will take you on a weird flying thing to follow the Grandeur.

This is one of my best parts of the game. When you get on the Grandeur, save your game. Now, if you haven't done earlier, boost your techs ! Use moves such as Lotus Cut and Ice Slash to level up many things at the same time faster. If you don't have Heaven & Earth Cut, well, get it ! Fight a couple of guards, and come back at the recovery point. When you're ready, make your way through the ship until the second save point ( it takes about 5 to 10 minutes ). Save. Enter the control room and prepare to face the three witches. Yes, I'm talking about Mio, Nana and Saki.
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BOSS: NANA, SAKI, MIO HP: 4000/5000/3000 STRATEGY: Use Justin's Heaven and Earth Cut, then have Guido use Mogay Hypo to restores Justin's SP, and do it again. After that use criticals to get rid of the girls. Range attacks might not work since they move around a lot.
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They'll escape, making believe their lost was part of their plan. After Rapp shows you his incredible knowledge of the computers, head to the passage way that can be accessed by the control room. Rapp and Guido will fall down. You continue, going up and down the stairs. Now, time to face Baal. He'll make you fall in a hole ( like he knew your favorit habit ) Get up from that hole and get on the roof and fight Baal !
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BOSS: GENERAL BAAL
HP: 2783
STRATEGY: Ok, just use Midair Cut and he won't even touch you once.
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Take Feena back with you, but lose her again. Baal gets up and uses the power of Gaia this time. He'll kick your ass off the ship. Feena will get off from Baal and jump down the Grandeur ( she, too, just can't get enough of falling ) She'll save Justin using her Icarian Wings. When she wakes up after three days, Guido will decide to go see the Wise Men of Laine.

Go see Darling. After, go talk to Dorling ( the one that's crazy for Liete ) He'll open the path to Rainbow Mountains, the last stop in the way to Alent !

Recommended Level: 31
Items: 9 Gold Pouches, Life Fruit, Life Seed, Trust, 2 Def Seeds, Phantom Silk, Def Fruit

Now is the time to get all your missing spells for Justin. With Feena, you should have all your spells and the first Icarian Power (World End). The Mountains are devided in two areas. The first one, you have to cross ropes. When you reach the second area, the way is really straight-foward. Don't mind about the monsters and you should reach the elevator to Alent. Guido will leave your party. Now step on the Rainbow Elevator, and ... Go! To Alent !

Follow the path and pick up the Mana Egg by the steps. Use the save point and trudge on ahead. You'll fight the first boss of three.
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BOSS: HYDRA (BODY, PEARL HEAD, HOT HEAD, NICE HEAD, AWFUL HEAD)
HP: 3721/2848/2292/1742/2462
STRATEGY: Use attacks that affect all the enemies or ranges. Goes down easy.
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Go back to the save point to recover MP and return. Go east into the elevator. Follow the path then take a north turn. Boss number two.
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BOSS: GREAT SUSANO-O (BODY, AX, IRON BALL)
HP: 3453/2306/1600 STRATEGY: Same as the other one.
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Recover at the save point and continue on the path. Numero tres.
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BOSS: PHANTOM DRAGON
HP: 3976
STRATEGY: Use your strongest single attacks. This one's a wussie.
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Enter the building and wonder in amazement at all the many Liete holograms. Talk to them all and head upstairs. Talk to the real one twice. After the sequence, you get a new party member. When the rocket crashes, use the compass to exit the Savannah.

*** Now you have your final team of the game, so it should be time for you to pass the three secret dongeons of the game. ***

Recommended Level: 32
Items: 8 Gold Pouches, 2 Run Seeds, Blue Potion, Magic Lipstick, Soul of Asura

Now this is the place to boost your magics. One thing smart you have have done from now is boost your water magic in the Castle in Zil Desert ( the second special scenario ) Every should have all water spells. So get all Feena's abilities if you don't yet (except Time Gate, of course) and Liete's moves. A nice trick to boost your magics fast here to get ambushed by King Horn. They'll use "All Together", which call two or three other King Horn. Now use magics on all the 6 or 7 monsters and level up all your magics in 2 to 3 shots ! Also, equip Justin with an Ax, and use his Dragon Cut. He'll gain 3 points of strenght each 3 minutes at least. When I finished this place, Justin had 230 strenght without a weapon ! By the way, to get out of that place, just head west.

Recommended Level: 34
Items: 11 Gold Pouches, Agi Fruit, Run Seed, Pope Hat, Blue Potion

Ok, ready to crush Garlyle forever ? Even if ya have to face 10000 guards ? Alright then, let's kich their asses ...... That would have been cool, right. When you get in, you notice that something real weird is going on. The guards talk to you like you were their friend. Explore the rooms in the J Base, and when you get to the room with the almost dead guard, touch the statue and a secret path should open. Proceed in. You'll see a hole in the ground that leads to a secret Angelou City. Oh Yes, by the way, you'll cross Mullen and Leen on the way. Now hop down the hole and chase the freaking psycho : Baal !

Don't loose time boosting here. This dongeon amounts to a long passageway that's got a few wrecked trains in it. The exit is to the south. The enemies are pretty annoying here, so use your Dragon Cut to exterminate them in one shot. The doorway at the end leads to your second fight with General Baal.
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BOSS: BAAL (BODY, TENTACLE)
HP: 6000/7000
STRATEGY: Use range attacks and ones that affect all enemies. Piece of cake for somebody that thinks he has the power of a god.
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But even if you beat the crap out of him, Baal is still alive. He'll fuse with Gaia and start his new Reign of Terror.

You'll find yourself in a new flying ship quite ressembling the Grandeur. A guard will come in and talk about something like Feena been made a corporal ... So find Mullen and he'll explain the situation. The shipp will land in a secret Field Base in Luzet Mountains. Save there and visit the PX to buy new stuff. When you're ready, enter the tent where Feena is. She'll join you. Enter the big tent and talk to Leen. After the speech, exit the area and Zil Padon and Savanna will both be selectable on the map. Go to Zil Padon, and prepare for Chaos time !!!

When you enter, something is odd ... nobody's there. Then, Gaia will attack the city and destroy it. So now you have to save the survivors from the Gaia Horns. They're really easy, one Dragon Cut, and ciao ! Leen will arrive and order you to come with her. Cross the bridge and save the little bratt and his mother from more Horns. A Gaia Battler will come out from behind, but Leen will destroy it in an instant, but will get knock out by a tancle from Gaia. When you're in the safe place of Zil Padon, go save in Guido's House and exit the Mogay's Part to face a Gaia Battler.
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BOSS: Gaia Battler / Right Hand / Left Hand
HP: 4976 / 2742 / 3109
STRATEGY: Well, it's your third Battler, so I guess you know how to beat him, right ? So Mid Air Cut and Demon Ball on it's main body will kill him in a minute.
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Leen will understand that there's an other way of defeating Gaia. Now you can shop in the Mogay Shop ( a tent ) and go to the Mogay Inn ( next to the shop ) After the cut scene with Mullen and Leen, go to Luzet Mountains.

Now you get the chance to face new and stronger enemies, due to the revival of Gaia. It is the best time to boost you levels a bit. The way is the same as before.

Head for the Control Room and talk to Mullen. You'll assist then at the farwells of Leen. Prtty emoving. When you're free to move, go to the room before the Controle room and go up to the door. You'll have a wonderfull CG with the battle of Leen Vs Gaia.

Talk to both Rapp and Liete. Mullen will come to talk to Feena. This part is all cinematic. When you're free to move, go see Guido. Next, return to the Mogay Inn, but Feena'll left alredy. That means you have to go to the Field Base.

Talk to the guard next to Feena's Corporal Tent and return to the spot when you first landed from the flying ship. You'll see Feena entering the ship with Mullen. Feena will stop Justin from coming. The ship leaves. Well now, Justin'll be rejected by his friends, and his enemies. Exit. The only place to go is the Savanna. A short cinematic scene with the plying bird there.

Go talk to Guido. He's on something that looks like a stage, helping rebuilding Zil Padon. Now prepare for a terrible shock. Justin will have a long conversation with Guido. And then, AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!! Sue !! Yes, Sue !! She's back ! She's there !! ( sorry for those who really like her ) She's real ! ( but how the hell did she get there anyway ? ... mmm .... perhaps she stole a Garlyle flying ship and crossed the End of the World and the Meirmaid Sea with it ) Anymways. The spirits will creat a door to the Spirit Sanctuary. And guess what ? That's where you have to go.

Save. Now you always have two choices in there. One's a dead end and the other one the path to follow. So head right from the beginning. When you arrive to a place with red, blue and red paths, cross them all, one at a time, and a big blue flying path should appear, leading you to the boss.
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BOSS: Mage King / Wand
HP: 3892 / 2346
Strategy : Three Mid Air Cut and he's gone. Easy enough ?
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Step on the teleport. You'll appear in the final room, where Justin has to speak with the spirits. At the end, he'll gain the Spirit Sword ! Yah ! Way to go ! Exit and appear next to J Base, where you'll have the chance to admire Gaia's final transformation. Enter the base and save. Explore the hangar to find a big crack in a wall. Proceed foward.

Enter the tower after getting the items around the area. Get down the stairs until the first door. Continue in the rooms with blocks coming out the floor. Eventually, you'll come in a room with a big ball you get in. The ball will flash into three colors : red, yellow and blue. Red is where you come from, yellow where you have to go, and blue is a treasure chest. When you press X, the ball will keep a color and leed you to its path. The rest of the city is full a teleports, but there's always one way to go. At the save point, there's an other Gaia Battler.
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BOSS: Gaia Battler / Left Hand / Right Hand
HP: 5871 / 4291 / 4237
Strategy: I hope you're used to them by now, so hit its main body with your best techniques.
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Recover again and save and continue foward. You'll cross Mullen and Feena on the way. Save them and fight Mullen.
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BOSS: Mullen
HP: 2946
Strategy : Midair Cut X 2 .... simple enought ?
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After the cinematic scene with Mullen and everybody, there's only one way to go : Gaia, the last dongeon.

The last dongeon. This is it. Check the surrounding for items, though it's useless. Head foward from the save point and fight the first Gaia Boss.
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BOSS: Gaia Trent / Flower / Arm
HP: 4578 / 3167 / 2963
Strategy: Don't loose time fighting the Flower and the Arm. Use Midair Cut of Justin, World End of Feena and Demon Ball of Rapp. Liete sucks and will have time to act only once.
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Climb the rope and save & recover. Now avoid the battles and enter the weird tunnel. Now you'll walk over weird paths. When you get into some kind of sphere, the paths will switch directions. So switch once and exit at the end.
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BOSS: Gaia Armor / Eye
HP: 6785
Strategy: You can either kill the eye or the armor. Midair Cut or Heaven & Cut to kill it fast. I suggest now you return to the last save point to recover. Now work your way in color tunnel. You have to choose one different color each time until you reach a closed path of three colorful patterns. Go foward and hit the three tantacles to open that path. Monsters will appear. That new tunnel will lead to the last save point. This is the point where you have to get prepared for the final fights. Have the spirit sword and energy charm equipped, with lot of SP recover items. Enter the final room. Face Baal for the last time ( though he doesn't look like Baal much )
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BOSS: Baal / Gaia Tentacle / Gaia Tentacle / Gaia Cyst
HP: 7000 / 6000 / 5456 / 4500
Strategy : Destroy Baal the fastest you can before he attacks you with all his parts. He can heal himself with AlHealer. But don't use too much techs. Use Midair Cut of Justin who's supposed to have the Energy Charm equipped so it doesn't take much SP.
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Baal dead, an elevator appears, but before getting on, recover everything. Step on and get into Gaia Core.
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BOSS: Gaia Core / Mega Gaia X 2
HP: 9999 / 4800
Strategy: Kill the Mega Gaia before they create tantacles who have abround 1500 each. The best technique to destroy all the Gaia bodies is Heaven & Earth Cut which can do about 2000 damages. Before defeating the Core at the end, recover your SP and MP.
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When it's done, Evil Gaia will appear.
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BOSS: Evil Gaia
HP: 9999
Strategy : Really easy last boss. It does weak techniques like burn and poizon. Use all your best techs, including Heaven & Earth Cut. He'll die so fast. Oh yeah .
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I don't want to spoil the ending surprises, so I'll end here. Congratulation, you've completed the game and kicked Gaia's ass !

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