--------------------------------------------------------------------- Magus' Tales of Phantasia Guide v0.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______ _ |__ __| | | | | __ _| | ___ ___ | |/ _` | |/ _ Y __| | | (_| | | __|__ \ |_|\__,_|_|\___|___/ / __ \ / _| | | | | |_ | | | | _| | |__| | | _____ _ \____/|_| _ | __ \| | | | (_) | |__) | |__ __ _ _ __ | |_ __ _ ___ _ __ _ | ___/| '_ \ / _` | '_ \| __/ _` / __| |/ _` | | | | | | | (_| | | | | || (_| \__ \ | (_| | |_| |_| |_|\__,_|_| |_|\__\__,_|___/_|\__,_| Copyright Magus (shinra9@yahoo.com) 2000 Legal Stuff This entire FAQ is copyright Magus 2000. 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Walkthrough coming soon. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1)Introduction 2)Controls, Characters 3)Battle System, Menus 4)Skills/Techs 5)Walkthrough 6)Acknowledgements --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1)Introduction --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ever since I was introduced to the wonderful world of emulation, I've been hankering for a translation of this brilliant ROM. Well, if you know of a translation patch, please contact me. This game is probably one of the most innovative RPGs to hit the SNES. Wonderful sound, graphics, and trust me, you'll love the battle system. Have fun with it, even though it may be in Japanese. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2)Controls --------------------------------------------------------------------- For those who don't know the controls (e.g Me, when I started out), here they are: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Select - Nothing Start - When you're on the World Map, this hides and shows the Map/ Compass D-Pad - Move Around A - Talk, Use, Open, Use Airbirds, Use Ring, Search... B - When you've got the Jet Boots, this makes you run Y - Nothing X - Menu L/R - Nothing --------------------------------------------------------------------- In Battle: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Select - Nothing Start - Pause D-Pad - Use Left and Right to move A - Attack (slice) B - Tech Attack X - Menu Y - Select a target (enemy) to attack L/R - Move left or right, and also run Up+A - Stab Up+B - Second Tech --------------------------------------------------------------------- Characters --------------------------------------------------------------------- Cless Alvein --------------------------------------------------------------------- He's the main character of the game. A fighter, one day he's sent out with his friend Chester to hunt some animals so that they can have dinner. However, something goes terribly wrong and he now has to deal with the facts, no matter how strange they are. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Chester Berkright --------------------------------------------------------------------- Cless' best pal, who is an Archer. He set off with Cless to go hunting, and after the horrible turn of events, vows to meet up with Cless again after cleaning up this huge mess. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mint Adnade --------------------------------------------------------------------- Cless rescued this young healer from prison. Looks are decieving, as she is an extremely useful healer. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Arche Klaine --------------------------------------------------------------------- A half-elf mage, who likes using black magic.The typical witch, she's even got her own broomstick. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Klarth M. Lester --------------------------------------------------------------------- A man with lots of knowledge, he also has the power to summon great creatures to help him. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3)Battle System --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Battle System that Tales of Phantasia uses is unique. In this Linear Motion Battle System, you only control one character (Cless), as opposed to the turn-based combat of Final Fantasy. Once you've initated combat, your characters will appear in the middle of a field, with enemies to your left, to your right, or to both your left and right. The battlefield sidescrolls in either direction, reminding all of us of the days of Double Dragon =) Other party members are computer controlled, and they will attack every now and then, and if you move in a direction, they will follow. To attack, the first thing that you have to do is select an enemy to target (with the Y button). A little arrow will appear over that enemy's head, and all attacks that you perform will hit that enemy until it dies. To attack, use the A button. Cless will stab out at the enemy, then run back to his original position, ready to make another move. If you use Up+A, Cless will perform a Slice move, which is faster and more powerful, but the Stab keeps enemies further at bay. To use tech attacks (see Skills/Tech section on how to set these), press the B button for your primary tech, or Up+B for your secondary tech. Some techs are Short Range, some are Long Range, so if you can't perform an attack, it's probably because you're not in the right range. Pressing X will bring up a small Menu with four options; Magic, Tactic, Form and Item. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Magic: After selecting this option, you have to choose a character that you wish to cast the spells with. Whoever's free at the moment, their name will appear in white. Select the character that you wish to use, and then their spell list will pop up. Pick a spell, select a target, then confirm it to cast the spell. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tactic: Pick your character, pick the tactic, then return to the battle. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Form: Here, you can change the formation of your party, meaning that you can switch the positions in which they appear on screen so that they can deal more damage, take less damage, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Item: Use Items in battle. A Circle next to the item means that you can use it, a Cross means no, you can't use it, go away. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally, to run in battle, hold either L or R, until you reach the edge of the screen. A timer will appear, just wait for that to hit 0, without Cless getting hit, and you'll be out of there. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Menus --------------------------------------------------------------------- After pressing X (not in battle), your menu screen will pop up. It will look something like this: --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Skill | Item | Form | Setup | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Equip | Tactic | Status | Save | --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Skill --------------------------------------------------------------------- This menu lets you set the tech attacks that your party members use. The first two slots are for your short range attacks, and the last two are for your longe range attacks (for Cless). For other characters, there should be magic spells, and you are able to cast them in this menu. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Item --------------------------------------------------------------------- This allows you to check up on your items, see what they do, and also use them. Keep in mind that you can only store 15 of the items at a time. Press Y when you've selected an item for a description. There are also four buttons at the top, which arrange your items into a certain order. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Form --------------------------------------------------------------------- This menu allows you to set the formation of your characters in battle. Just select your character that you want to move, and move him/her to the desired position. My tip is to always keep Klarth at the back, Mint and Arche in the Middle, and Chester and Cless up front. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Setup --------------------------------------------------------------------- Customize the game's appearance, speed, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Message Speed- Pick from 1 to 5, 1 is the fastest. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Controls- Allows you to change your controls. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sound- Pick from Mono, Stereo or Quad (which is probably surround sound). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Encounter- Not sure. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Targeting- Auto target your enemies, semi target, or manual targeting. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Voices in battle- On or off. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Voices elsewhere- On or Off. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Equip --------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the menu where you equip your weapon, your armor, shields, relics, etc. The three buttons up the top (from left to right) are Equip, Remove and Optimum. Select Optimum to have your best weapons/ armors equipped. If you have Cless, it will look like this: Object Name | Power Rating -----------|-------------|-------------- Weapon | | -----------|-------------|-------------- Stab | | -----------|-------------|-------------- Slice| | -----------|-------------|-------------- Armor | | -----------|-------------|-------------- Shield | | -----------|-------------|-------------- Arms | | -----------|-------------|-------------- Headgear | | -----------|-------------|-------------- Relic 1 | | -----------|-------------|-------------- Relic 2 | | ---------------------------------------- For everyone else: ---------------------------------------- |Object Name | Power Rating -------------|------------|------------- Weapon | | -------------|------------|------------- Armor | | -------------|------------|------------- Shield | | -------------|------------|------------- Arms | | -------------|------------|------------- Headgear | | -------------|------------|------------- Relic 1 | | -------------|------------|------------- Relic 2 | | When equipping, a GREEN number means that that the weapon is giving you a bonus in that area. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tactic --------------------------------------------------------------------- This menu lets you decide what your computer controlled party gets up to when you're not controlling them in battle. Mint has a totally different screen to everyone else. Mint has: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Which means that she attacks now and then, and heals up your party. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Conserve TP- Whenever somebody's health gets low, she'll heal them. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Value HP-Whenever someone is damaged, she'll heal them. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Nothing- Inactive. Everyone else, bar Cless, has: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Use Spells-They'll cast lots of magic (not really good, they might cast elemental spells on enemies and heal them by accident) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Some Spells-Use a lower amount of spells than if they were in Use Spells mode. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Value TP- Cast some spells, not too many though. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Nothing- Defend (this is good for Klarth, as you don't want him wasting his spells). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Status --------------------------------------------------------------------- Here you see the character's stats, their picture, you can rename them, that's about it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Save --------------------------------------------------------------------- Save? What's that? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 4)Skills/Techs --------------------------------------------------------------------- This will come soon... --------------------------------------------------------------------- 5)Walkthrough --------------------------------------------------------------------- WARNING! In my attempt to make the game more "English" for those that can't read Japanese, I'll give away huge chunks of the storyline... First, watch the cool intro. There's a Fighter, Archer, Mage, and a Healer fighting some evil dude, and then they seal him up with some pendants... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Totus --------------------------------------------------------------------- Items:None! You'll start off as Cless, in the humble little village of Totus. You will be in Cless' father's dojo sort of thing, and they have a nice little conversation. They start talking about Cless' pendant, and how Cless had better take good care of it. Cless and his friend, Chester, are going to go out hunting. Cless says goodbye to his mum, who gets all worried for some reason, and then you take control. Leave the village, and as you are, an old man by the name of Tristan will meet you and have a talk. He's actually the Elder, and he'll just ask you where you're going, and he'll approve. Before going into the South Forest, I suggest levelling up in the fields around here as the enemies are pretty easy, and you can stay at home to regain your HP/TP. Get to about Level 4 with Cless,and by then, you should have learnt his first technique, the Psion Bolt (it sounds like he's saying Maginken when he uses it in battle). Now head to the South Forest. --------------------------------------------------------------------- South Forest --------------------------------------------------------------------- Items:Life Bottle Look! A wild boar! Better go kill it, heh heh heh... if you go east from where you start, then north, you can find yourself a Life Bottle, then return south, and once you hit the bottom, turn east, then north, and you'll be facing a big tree, now you'll have to fight the boar... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Boar (and cubs) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Best tactic, stand from far and use the Psion Bolt until you can't use it anymore. This battle is too easy, if you die, well, you shouldn't really be playing this game, unless your age is below 3 or higher than 40. You'll hear the bell from Totus ringing, and that means one thing: Dinner! Sorry, I mean trouble. Head back to Totus. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Totus Village --------------------------------------------------------------------- Items: Sabre Wow...so much can happen in a matter of minutes. The whole village is burnt down. And everyone is dead. Head over to your house, you'll find Cless' family, also very dead. His mum will speak a few final words though, before dying. She'll say that it's not safe to stay in Totus anymore, and she'll tell you to head north to Euclid to stay with Uncle Orson. She'll also add that it's Cless' pendant that the raiders were after. You'll go over to Chester to comfort him, as his sister, Amy, is dead. Chester will point out that everyone's dead. He's quick. Then you'll leave to head to Euclid. Chester won't come because he wants to stay and "clean up", bury the bodies, etc. Before leaving, go to the top floor of your house and pick up a Sabre. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mountain Pass --------------------------------------------------------------------- Items:Life Bottle, Orange Gummy Head north from Totus, and through the little mountain range. This is a great place to build up your levels, I suggest getting up to Level 4-6. Once you enter, there'll be a merchant and a stone statue. If you want to buy stuff, speak with the merchant, of course. Cless will stand there wondering how that stone statue got there. Push the statue to the side by holding down the A button and pushing, and follow the north path out, you'll gain more EXP and two chests. After you reappear on the World Map, head north toward Euclid. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Euclid --------------------------------------------------------------------- Items:None Cless will mention that he needs to see his Uncle Orson. He lives in the northwest corner of the town. You'll have a nice chat, and then Orson will offer to take you in for the night, accept his offer. In the middle of the night, the soldiers from Euclid Castle come to take you away. Orson will say something about, "They were going to kill me!", and you'll be dragged away. Then the scene switches to Chester in Totus, avoiding soldiers, and then turns back to Cless in the the Euclid Castle. You'll switch to a scene with a guy whose name starts with M, I can't remember it. Cless' pendant will be stolen off him, and then Cless will be thrown in jail. Good night. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Euclid Castle Jail Cells --------------------------------------------------------------------- Items:Long Sword Look at that crack in the wall, twice. A voice will talk to you, and tell you that if you examine the crack again, and use your earring, you can escape. Do it, and you escape. In the next cell is a dead lady with a Long Sword stuck in her heart. Pick it up, then go around busting open doors. You'll come across a girl, Mint, and you free her. She'll ask if you saw her mother around, and Cless says no, as he doesn't have the guts to tell her that her mother is dead. Find the sewer in the southeast corner and escape. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sewer --------------------------------------------------------------------- Items:Cheese, Apple Gummy X2, Wood Shield, 1000G This part is quite straightforward. Don't forget to pick up the Wood Shield and the 1000G, you'll want them. Soon you'll reach the boss/es, which are the Winged Demon and a couple of Slugs. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Winged Demon --------------------------------------------------------------------- Smack the Slugs first, as they are the most annoying, then concentrate attacks on the demon. Make sure Mint heals when needed, it's a simple battle. You'll emerge outside soon, and then Mint will be attacked by a Slug. Cless fends it off and gets injured, and then Mint takes him to a safe place. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Morrison Residence --------------------------------------------------------------------- Items:None Here, you'll wake up in the house of Trinix Morrison. Mint enters the room, and checks up on you to see if you are okay. Morrison explains why the guy with the M was looking after your pendant, and somehow gets into a story about the evil guy in the beginning, Dhaos. The pendant that Cless wears is actually one of the ones that were used to seal him away, as Cless' Dad, Cless' Mum, Mint's Mum and Tornix were the warriors who sealed him away! The reason why M...Ma...Malice! Got it! The reason why Malice wants the pendant is so that he can free Dhaos again...and that's a bad thing, so naturally, you want to get your pendant back. I guess Cless also wants revenge for his whole village being destroyed, and revenge for the death of his whole family. Get up and go outside, and somebody will be shooting arrows...Chester! He's come to help, and the three of you decide to go after Tornix to help him, and to get even. As you're leaving, guess what? Tristan, the elder from Totus, appears, and tells you that he's a friend of Morrison, and has great faith in you, etc. After all this is done, a merchant will be inside the house, all I suggest buying off him are the Rod for Mint, and the Longbow for Chester. Leave, and on the map, head into the cave on your right. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Cave --------------------------------------------------------------------- Just pick up the Rune Bottle here, and speak with Tristan. He'll make you go into the Underground Palace, to look for Morrison.. He'll also teach you a new tech, Psion Kick, but you can't use it until you've mastered Psion Bolt and Dual Kick (meaning use them 100 times each). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Underground Palace --------------------------------------------------------------------- Once you get to the corridoor with all the doors, enter them, open up the sarcophaguses (sacrophagi?), defeat the enemy inside and you'll recieve an item. From left to right, you'll recieve a Protect Ring, Spectacles, Hourglass, Chain Mail, and Rune Bottle. The big door in the middle can't be opened yet, so venture further on. In the next area, there's lots of treasures and enemies to be found. Run around until you find five statues in a row, and pull on the third or fourth statue, return to the room that you just came from and you'll get some treasures. Then continue heading north, until you reach a statue of a Golem. It turns alive. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Golem --------------------------------------------------------------------- This one's quite, quite easy, pound the Golem with your techs and normal attacks, but don't stay close up all of the time as he can deal a fair bit of damage close up. After defeating Golem, pull the Golem in a southwest direction, and keep going southwest until you reach a switch. Place it on the switch, then go into the door that just opened. Defeat the enemies inside the sarcophagus again, then you'll recieve a Lace Ruby. This item helps you to open the big door that didn't open before. Backtrack to the corridoor with all the small side doors, and open the big one. Step onto the big mystical magic sign teleporter thingy, and you'll be taken to the Lava Cave. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lava Cave --------------------------------------------------------------------- EVERYTHING COMING SOON!