Ar tonelico 2 Visual Guide

Last weekend I spent both days going through Phase I, taking notes.  I was lucky enough to spend all of this weekend doing the same thing!

There were a number of things I missed on my first note-taking playthrough for Phase I, and only fully realized how much that was when I was finished.  After researching some answers, I was able to play through again, confident that this time I had really gotten and understood everything.  Shop events no longer give me trouble, as I’ve figured out their firing sequence, along with the weird criteria behind the split ‘Cynthia’ topic for Luca and Cloche.  I’ve started notating all the skills the monsters use, along with the hit count…no one will probably use this, but there’s no other source I’ve seen provide the info, so it’s a plus.  IPDs are a bit harder…I can cross-check regular monster skills against the Japanese perfect guide to make sure I transcribed them all, but for some reason, the guide doesn’t mention anything about IPD skills.  So that’s entirely manual now.  The major thing giving me a headache is the split paths — so much is dependent on one or the other being in your party, and it’s a pain keeping track of which side has seen what.  Will be very happy when the paths converge in the end of Phase II.

Ten minutes ago, I just finished both routes through Phase I again, with a lot nicer a document.  I also started breaking it out into 12 different text files, with the main walkthrough file referencing the other 11 supplementary ones.  This seems to be working great, and I can’t wait to get started on Phase II.

Now, however, is design time.  fetjuel and I will together to get all this data into a presentable format, and we’ll hopefully have a fully finished Phase I guide in the near future.