The End Is In Sight! VGC Let's Play: Tales Of Symphonia!

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Ugh, Fakers
Taking a ferry from Izoold, we enter the port town Palmacosta. Colette never fails to deliver, and accidentally breaks a potion carried by someone and we are forced to repay them. After we buy them the potion they want, we then find out that were actually impersonating us and stole the book that we need. Really wish we could fight them as an optional boss to teach them a lesson, but that never happens D:

 
Ugh, Scammers..
They give it to an old man at a checkpoint who demands a special statue to take a look at the book. To make things worse, he also demands for 1 Million Gald to get a pass to proceed through the checkpoint. Well, we go on an errand to get the statue and he allows us to read the book. Even though I kept my gald with the New Game+, I still don’t have 1 Million Gald :/

 
Ugh, Chocolat..
Well, we don’t have the pass so we help the Palmacosta Governor to infiltrate the Palmacosta Ranch, where they take people as slaves and turn them into exspheres. However, we learn that the Governor is in cahoots with the Desians and set up a trap to kill us! This dungeon is a bit annoying, especially if you don’t know what you are doing. After you grab 3 keycards to access the teleporter, you have to go through a number of teleporters, which you must go in the right order for at least 5 times in a row. Going through the wrong one will teleport you to a random floor and you will easily be lost. It wasn’t until my 3rd run until I found out how you actually do this properly (my previous runs consists of me randomly picking a set of teleporters and hoping for the best). We still proceed though and are successful in destroying the ranch, as well as their leader, Magnius. He isn’t overly difficult with the same old formula; take out his henchmen and take him out afterwards. He dies and an annoying person named Chocolat refuses to be free and would rather be captured. We should just let her do as she pleases, honestly :p

 
Ugh, No More!
Next, we head to Thoda Geyser to unlock our next seal. This is a water dungeon, which is also rather straightforward dungeon, and we fight the boss, which is really similar to the fire seal’s boss. Exploit the lightning weakness by spamming Spark Wave, and the boss doesn’t stand a chance

Now we head back to Palmacosta to report our good work...!

Recap:
Fakers, Scammers and Chocolat annoy you as you destroy a human ranch and unlock the next seal

Duration: ~ 1 hour

Favourite Song: Full Force

Main Character Used: Raine

Button Binding
B: Photon
Side-B: Sharpness
Down-B: Resurrection
Up-B: Ray
Up-C: First Aid
Down-C: Nurse

 
Unison Attacks Explained:

During battle, you can charge up the Unison Attack Bar when you attack and combos help increase it at a faster pace. When it is filled, you can press the Z button, and if the hit lands, you can proceed with Unison Attack
During this time, you will have a limited time for each character in your party to use an offensive arte once (with exceptions to Summons) while the enemy is vulnerable.

This is the time to use your most expensive TP costing moves, as well as the ones that have the most hits

Not only this, but if you use specific artes of the same level, you can also combine Unison Attacks for a final Compound move. This only activates once!
My personal favourite is Prism Stars: Level 3 T-Arte (Indignation or Cyclone) [Genis] + Level 3 Ray [Raine]. This moves gives a lot of hits and is extremely useful for dealing damage

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