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

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Sylvarant Chapter   | [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]    

Tethe'alla Chapter  | [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

The Linked Chapter | [Chapter 12: Light and Dark, Prison and Freedom]

Dark Temple
We may only have 3 of the 4 summon spirits in Sylvarant, but the Light summon spirit must be the last to get. The Dark Temple is well, dark so we need to do a nice errand in order to get the blue candle to even attempt this temple. I would say this is the 3rd worst dungeon in Symphonia because of how annoying things can be if you don’t know what you are doing. Firstly, there are large blocks that obstruct your path and you need to use the sorcerers ring to push them. Easy right? Not really, as if you push that block, another of the same colour somewhere else will also move. Then, when you switch to move a block of a different colour, all other colours will reset. But this isn’t the tedious part of the dungeon… You have to grab the 5 fragments of the summon spirit and bring them all alllll the way down to the bottom of the dungeon. Getting all 5 takes time and multiple attempts if you mess up the order, but they don’t follow you Dragon Quest style, so it’s hard to guide them along when they randomly float off to a different pathway. The boss is easy though, really big and squishy, no new strats with him


Luna and Aska
In order to get to Luna, we need to get Aska, which we have seen before when Mithos came to save us in the Remote Ranch. This is where the Caravan from wayyy in the beginning of the game comes in, you need to get an exsphere shard, which you get from Dirk, and the flute, which we already have. These, along with Gnome, are used to revive the Linkite tree and to summon Aska, which then flies off to the Tower of Mana with Luna. We already have beaten the Tower of Mana, so climb to the top and get stopped by Kratos. He says bad things will happen but Yuan comes in to keep him occupied.

Luna and Aska duo is pretty tricky since Luna has a ton of spells and disable/photon, which you cannot escape from, and Aska has some annoying moves while being resistant to all elemental types. I still kept Genis in the party, but made him focus on casting Cyclone on Luna, while I was Lloyd and dealt physical damage to keep him busy. After we make the final pact, things go haywire and we are treated with the 2nd anime cutscene where Palmacosta gets completely destroyed. Since we broke all of the mana links, the Great Seed germinated but became twisted and evil D:


Iselia Human Ranch
Lloyd comes up with a great idea to shoot the Tree with Tethe’alla mana so Sheena leaves for the mana cannon while we go to the Iselia Human Ranch to shut off the reactor. Luckily, we rejoin with our old buddy Kratos, and this is the only time in the game where we get to use both Zelos and Kratos, except that Kratos is just better ;) This is another dungeon where we have to split up our party into 2 groups so I go with Lloyd, Kratos, Collet and Raine to take on the boss. The 2nd team just does errands by running around and unlocking switches so good for them.

The boss battle is against Forcystus and his mini robot minions that cast mini sparkwaves as a normal attack. Despite outnumbering him, this battle is actually pretty tough since he can snipe Raine while she is trying to heal. Trying to combo the floating robots is also difficult as they are floating so the infinite combo chain is difficult to preform, and I have to be weary of Forcystus back attacking me. Once one of the robots go down, it’s a lot easier with 2 people focusing on Forcystus. Without Genis, I am unable to lock him with Cyclone (he is resistant to wind anyways) and can’t use Prism Stars during Compound Unison attack, so I use Stardust Rain [Stardust Cross (Colette) + Sword Rain Alpha (Lloyd)] though it misses often :/ Taking him down, we push him into the reactor only for him to come out later to shoot Colette, who takes the bullet in place of Lloyd. We learn that Colette has an angelic disease that is taking over her body and she collapses. Another cutscene with Sheena taking down the Tree with the Mana Canon and we are now on to disk 2!


Recap: We get the final 2 summon spirits (light and dark) and we liberate the final human ranch and kill the last of the 4 cardinals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMalY-VSn0g