Ar tonelico 2 Visual Guide

Phase IV really is the phase of secret scenes.  My first non-guide playthrough months ago, I thought I was thoroughly exploring things…but only now do I see exactly how much I missed.  And the missable scenes in Ar tonelico 2 aren’t just throw-away scenes, or even just character development; these missable scenes are what put the pieces of the story together and fill in backstory, and make things make sense.  Phase IV so far has been when most of them happen, and it’s staggering how many you can miss.

My playthrough with Luca I got all the scenes (that I could find), and when I went back through with Cloche, just to see how many were actually not mandatory, I found I could easily skip 6-7 entire story-based scenes.  And a lot of times, the game doesn’t even really give you hints that there could a be scene anywhere you might be missing.

These missable scenes also come up in ways you wouldn’t expect.  In one instance at the end of Infelsphere level 4, you actually miss out on a reasonable snippet of a scene just based on which bed you slept in to enter the Infelsphere.  And while some of these are pretty inconsequential, others shed a lot of light on things.

I’m aiming to finish Cloche’s Phase IV runthrough tonight, which will leave me with two playthroughs of Phase V left until the majority of the data-gathering aspect of the guide is done.  Then comes the actual part of the process where I can show you all some actual work being done, in getting the guide itself put together.