I know it’s been ages since my last update. I don’t have an excuse – admittedly, I kept forgetting that this liveblog existed. I’m back now, though, so hopefully I can finish this up soon.
I could be playing this game on my new 3DS, but I decide not to. No real point. Besides, I think it’d just be easier to leave the game in my DS. It stays home nowadays, and it’s not like I can liveblog on the go.
Dang, this feels weird. I’ve gotten myself used to the 3DS controls. Guess I’ll have to get used to this.
It looks like I have suspend data for some reason. I don’t know why – it appears to be at the very beginning of the battle. There must have been a reason for this, but I can’t remember what it was and I’m too lazy to check my last entry.
Vivi moves first. I have her use her speed debuff on the closest ice golem. I continue to move my guys forward, trying to have them keep their distance from each other. I haven’t forgotten what those ice golems can do. They do attack, but my team survives. Vivi levels to 46, which is good considering how injured she was.
Saki is the first to die. Cecille heals some people, then levels to 46 as well. Kingston wastes his flash drive on Vivi. Claire attacks two enemies but accidently hits Mavi and kills her instead. Nonetheless, Claire levels and learns a new spell. Nicolai revives Mavi and levels to 46. Unfortunately, Mavi is immediately killed. Alph hits three guys and levels. Claire dies.
Wow. This is kinda why I was failing, guys. Nicolai dies next, followed by Theo. I turn off the game and start over, since I can tell that I'm screwed. This time I won’t go from my quicksave. Instead, I’ll choose different characters. Screw equal leveling, I’m bringing in only my strongest this time. I want to get this crap over with.
Blah blah blah, cocoon, blah blah blah stop Zehaal. Blah blah Kingston losing it. Once I get to the preparation screen, I choose Alph, Leon, Nicolai, Cecille, Lucia, Vanessa, Vivi, and Heath. Hopefully things will go better this time.
I save over my previous battle save, and give this another try. Heath quickly levels to 47. Everyone starts moving forward, and Vivi slows down two ice golems. Hopefully that’ll help. Lucia heals some of the damage the golems caused. Leon moves, and…wait. Holy shit, he can one-hit the golems with one of his skills. Um, heck yes? Thank you, Leon!
After a team effort from Alph, Heath, Vanessa and Vivi, a second ice golem goes down. Bringing in different characters was a pretty smart move, I guess. This looks like it’ll be way easier now.
Kingston flash drives four of my guys, but they all live through it. Leon dies afterward, though, followed by Vivi. I can bring them back, though. Since two ice golems are dead, I save. Then I have Nicolai bring Leon back. Nicolai levels and learns a new spell. Alph levels to 46. Cecille brings Vivi back so that I have everyone again. Heath dies, but that’s not a problem right now. Third ice golem is almost dead. Vivi dies. OK, maybe this is a bit worrisome, but it’s Lucia’s turn. I have her bring back Heath.
Alph finishes the last ice golem, which means that this has just become a whole lot easier. Cecille brings Vivi back, but then Nicolai dies. Then Alph dies, which REALLLY isn’t good. Vanessa goes down next. Guess I need to be careful now. Vivi uses the speed debuff on two monsters. She levels to 47 and learns a new spell. Leon dies. Crap. Lucia’s turn, so she brings Alph back. Heath heals himself with a Vi Tonic. Cecille then brings Vanessa back…and oh crap, Kingston attacks both of them. Thankfully, they live. Vivi Flash Drives two monsters.
Cecille dies. Not good. Alph follows. Still not good. Lucia moves away from the action and heals herself. Vanessa heals herself as well. She levels, which means I could have just as well had her attack. Vanessa is almost dead. Heath dies. Lucia moves away and uses a Holy Wing on Cecille, since she doesn’t have enough MP to use Revive. She then levels, solving the problem. Vivi moves away and revives Alph. Vanessa dies. One monster attacks Cecille, and SHE dies. Oh my god this is not easy. OK, one of the Horn Kings (green Behemoths) is dead. And Alph leveled. And now Vivi is dead, leaving only Alph and Lucia. This is gonna suck. Lucia revives Cecille. Alph uses Magnum on one of the purple Griffins. He has two on his flash drive, so I’m kinda waiting for it to get to 3.
Kingston undoes my damage, and my guys are pretty close to cornered. Lucia heals Cecille and runs the heck away. Cecille heals her MP so she can revive people. Alph then runs over and heals himself with an item so he can live. Kingston attacks the girls, but Lucia heals them. She then levels to 49. Cecille revives Leon, because he’s so damn strong.
Alph’s flash drive is at 3. He uses his attack, but it doesn’t kill anything. He dies. Thankfully, the monsters are pretty wounded. Hopefully I can finish them soon. Lucia manages to kill one monster. That leaves Kingston and the two others. Leon kills one of the remaining ones. He levels to 47. Cecille is close to leveling, so I have her bring Vanessa back. The leveling, of course, heals her.
Lucia uses her level 2 flash drive, which hits Kingston and the one monster. Vanessa uses her level 1 flash drive to finish it off. That’s just Kingston left. I can’t believe I’m so close to winning!
Leon uses his flash drive, Cecille uses hers, and Kingston is left weakened. He’s also blinded, which amusingly makes him miss when he tries to heal himself. Lucia becomes the first of my group to reach level 50. Vanessa finishes Kingston off, and ends the battle while leveling to 49.
That was pretty close, but I’m glad I finished it. My reward is 8500 Rico, and four Vitae. I intermission with Lucia.
Kingston is freaking out because he’s not strong enough. He disappears, apparently because he couldn’t handle the power. This would be a good thing, but then Priel announces that Zehaal is going to hatch.
The screen goes white, and we hear someone growling. It’s obviously Andre’s voice. We then see an angelic pretty-boy who kind of reminds me of Sephiroth. Priel remarks that his roaring is “sexy.” Yeah, you go on thinking that. She then exclaims that he is greater than anything in existence, and will end this world.
Unfortunately for them, that doesn’t work. Apparently, the Planet’s power is interfering. So they go to the core of the Planet to make it so that it can’t work against them anymore. Sounds like they’re going after the Planet’s heart. If that’s destroyed, every living thing in the world will die. Leon isn’t sure how we’ll get to where they are, but apparently there’s a path in the desert. Let’s go!
Lucia’s intermission has her asking me if there’s anything I want to know about her. My options are “Is that your real hair?” “Do you have someone special?” or “Do you have any hobbies?” Her character portrait is blushing, so I pick the middle option. She says yes, of course she does. Have I really not figured it out yet?
Kopin says he talked with Mel’s Kopin about the future. He wishes he could spend more time with her.
Now there’s a path downward, presumably leading to the desert. But I’ll leave that for another time. I save and stop the game.
We’re almost at the end here. Just two more chapters left until the game is over. I’ve been having the urge to work on that old Last Exile liveblog I started before. I’ll probably go to that once I’m done with this one. As always, thanks for reading and keeping up with this. I’ll try and update more often now. I have classes going at the moment, so I won’t always have a lot of time. That said, I’ll try not to leave you hanging again.
