Control will switch back to Selphie. Now that you are able to explore the world, there is an extremely useful GF that you can pick up right now. Top Contributors: Mogg18, IGN-GameGuides, Mike_Bettencourt + more. When you regain control, talk to the Chicobo in the centre to receive the Chicobo Card. If you're personally done with Triple Triad and only want the platinum trophy, I would suggest that you only complete the beginning forest because this part of the game simply isn't any fun at all. Show Rinoa around the garden the next day, meet the guard at the garden overview- panel at the entrance. Go up, right and then up two screens to the Arch. Win the Chicobo card back from her son in the artist's house and return to Balamb Garden. Press X by it to summon the Chocobo. Time to fiddle with junctions. Interact with it to open the door on the left and go through. Floor 8 is unbarricaded which is nice. Use the elevator once more to go down to the Master- level, defeat NORG, the boss. The house next door belongs to a Sculptor. Check your GFs, just in case- there ARE monsters here this time, and although they seem weak they can be pretty strong … Note, however, that you do not need to pay to access the room. Return to the Mayor's House for a scene. As usual, he's no trouble whatsoever and will drop a Hero which is nice (unless you manage to nick it off him first). Return to the Roaming Forest (the one near Trabia Garden) and get on a Chocobo. Select Ifrit and four garbage cards and play to lose. Select the "...To go on ahead" option. Interact with the bed and choose to rest to return to the real world. Fight the boss at the village square. Balamb Garden will come to rest in the ocean. This will earn you the trophy of the same name. Finally, go down one screen and talk to Big Bad Rascal again. The most important thing is to mug him for a Spd-J Scroll - do not kill him until you get it. Doomtrain is a special and optional summon that only appears exclusively on Final Fantasy VIII. She will tell you that she wants an Alexander card. Then just attack him, although try to mug a Circlet before he's done for. Winhill and Galbadia Prison; As Laguna: Talk to Ellone, then Kiros in the pub next door. You can draw Confuse from all three and Slow from the officer which is not bad. As you pass the soldier, don't try to go though the door that he's standing in front of. Talk to the new owner until she talks about the scent of flowers. The building on the left serves as both a shop and a hotel. In the Parking Lot you will fight a Grendel, which is significantly more tough than the pantywaist enemies you've been fighting on the other side. Go left one screen and talk to the soldier who stopped you earlier. Talk to the fisherman who will ask to meet you at the Inn. From the hallway, take the left door and talk to the student here to receive Card Key [3]. You will now be able to use his help to leave town (to, I don't know, check out the Ultima draw point in the Shumi Village). At the top of the first flight, you can have a chat with Fujin and Raijin. After the conversation, there is a Curaga Draw Point in front of the dresser. Talk to Cid twice and agree to see what's going on outside. You are looking for a structure sticking out of the ground: Land Balamb Garden and go into the ruins. Back on board Balamb Garden, Selphie will ask to go and see what's become of Trabia Garden. Next head across to the Training Center followed by the Library. Ask about her artist father and she'll tell you about the Chubby Chocobo card and that it's somewhere in Balamb Garden. Try and talk to her and a cat will appear in her place. As you approach the Infirmary, you can choose to help some SeeD members to fight a Granaldo. Exhaust all conversation options. Use the ChocoZiner just to the left of Chocoboy and a fifth Chicobo will appear. Set the error ratio to maximum. There are also random encounters so you may want to enable Enc-None. KO Raijin first because Fujin has a nasty desperation attack that can reduce one of your party member's to 1 HP. There is a Firaga draw point behind the statue. Go left and climb on the train to hijack it. Go right on the next screen until you arrive at the Mayor's House. It OHKOs my team if I don't have Shell or Protect. Leave the headmaster's office and take the lift down to the second floor. There should still be two Chicobos in the area. Junction your bestest magic on one of your characters along with Mag+XX% and fill your boots. Check the house (you can't enter), enter your Garden and fly towards Galbadia garden on a southern island. After the scenes, you will be in two vehicles in the middle of the desert. When you enter the town, your way in will be blocked by a Galbadian soldier but you can get past him with subterfuge. Be sure to search for Twinfinite for more tips and information on the game. Note that challenging Chocoboy to cards has infested you with the Centra Rules so challenge someone back on board Balamb Garden until they stop asking you to mix. You'll have to do some pixel hunting to find just the right place. Leave the room and you'll be accosted by soldiers sent to check out the malfunction. The old man here serves as a Junk Shop, allowing you to remodel your weapons. Otherwise, keep attacking and keep on top of your healing and he should fall without too much trouble. Now, you have to challenge Chocoboy to cards. Approach the console. Exit the room and you'll find a new ladder to climb down. At the bottom go right to find your way blocked. Go left to enter the main building and keep going down until you reach the main hall. Use the ChocoZiner at the point shown to make three Chicobos fall to the ground. Don’t get too excited at the fake Cid in the parking lot. Go right one screen and up the stairs where you can save your game. Therefore, have him learn the following abilities: If Tonberry has mastered Call Shop, you can buy Spr-J and Mag-J from the Timber Pet Shop which will give you a good start in getting to the good stuff. He plays level 6 cards so you may need to be on your toes to beat him. This has two modes that you select with the Square button: the ChocoSonar which is used to find a point of interest and the ChocoZiner which is used to summon one or more Chicobos. You'll find a Shell draw point here, although it's quite likely that you do not need it. Privacy PolicyCookie SettingsDo Not Sell My InformationReport Ad. With Final Fantasy 8 Remastered, the hope is to get the definitive edition for PS4, Xbox One, PC and Switch. Go down the steps where you'll jump to the lower level. On the second floor, run past the classroom door to find Xu. After the scene, talk to Raine and go back to Laguna's room. You can draw Haste, Slow and Regen from Biggs and mug a Regen Ring from him. Rather handily, the game has removed all your other characters' junctions so you can spend a few minutes messing around in menus putting things to rights. Return to the Main Hall and start making your way clockwise around the areas. Talk to Selphie, split up into two groups again. Arrive at the station to witness the Mayor's negotiations. This guide contains all achievement from Final Fantasy VIII - Remastered Disc 2. You may want to save your game here because this bit can bug out. Return to Balamb Garden and sail back to Fisherman's Horizon. Head west from here and enter the left door in the corridor to find a girl who holds the third and final card key. Since she already knows Spr-J, you can finally have all three members of your party junction magic to Spr. There's a gap in the mountains that you can go through. The guards will let you through without any problems. Use the ChocoZiner in the north of the area to have the Chocobo dig up a Shell Stone and Holy Stone. Both cells on floor 12 are inaccessible so continue up the stairs to floor 13. ... Disc 2 - Part 1 Disc 2 - Part 2 Disc 2 - Part 3 Disc 3 - Part 1 Disc 3 - Part 2 Disc 3 - Part 3 Disc 4 Quistis' Limits: Blue Magics Comments. If you talk to it some more, you can get Gysahl Greens for 600G a pop. Run back to the main building and follow Squall and the others to the Front Gate. At this point, the forest is "cleared" and you can move onto the next. Figure out, somehow, that you're supposed to go to the Infirmary, talk to Dr. Kadowaki and ask to talk to the headmaster. Two decades on from its original launch, it's conspicuous in … However, Final Fantasy VIII falls to that great weakness of RPGs: random battles. Start making your way back to the old fisherman. © 2021 GAMESPOT, A RED VENTURES COMPANY. And yes, Squall, you were viewing the past because Ellone isn't a little girl, is she? It looks a little worse for wear. After the chit-chat, talk to Rinoa a couple of times to progress the story. Examine the large rock to the left of the hotel. The principal advantage of fighting Odin at this time is that you can draw Triple from him which is extremely good for junctioning. Kiros Card - FF8 Guide. Final Fantasy VIII is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation console. Go right, up and down the stairs to the right. Prepare your junctions for an upcoming boss battle - you want Water on your Elem-Atk and you should equip Mug as well. Check your junctioning and ensure that you have selected the Mug ability. Throughout this section you are going to want to avoid fights, otherwise your SeeD ranking will suffer. The Chocobo mother can then be directed to dig up some modest treasure. After the scene, you'll meet up with Kiros. Make sure that Enc-None is not one of your active abilities. When you're done, make your way to Trabia Garden. Spr+20%, Spr+40%, Spr Bonus, Recover, Mag-J, 1 Tri-Face to 1 Curse Spike to 10 Pains via ST Mag-RF, 1 Krysta to 10 Holy Stones to 10 Holys via L Mag-RF, 1 Tiamat to 10 Flare Stones to 10 Flares via F Mag-RF, Familiar, Haggle, Sell-High, Initiative, Call Shop, Return to the village and see the Elder's Attendant in the Sculptor's workshop, Talk to the Moomba outside the Elder's house, Follow it to the Sculptor's workshop and witness the conversation between the Moomba and the Attendant, Return to the Elder to learn more about his attendant, Go next door and talk to Artisan who doesn't want to help, Finally, talk to the Elder who doesn't know where to find a craftsman, Spd-J, Str+20%, Spd+20%, Str+40%, Initiative, Spr-J, ST-Def-J, ST-Def-Jx2, ST-Def-Jx4, Spd-J, Spd+20%, Spd+40%, Auto-Haste, Mag-J, ST-Atk-J. Make landfall when you get to a beach (this is the place you may have come to if you ground out AP against Cactuars earlier). Talk to Rinoa to form a new party. Go to the hotel, then back to Zell's house and rest in his room. Not quite. After dismissing your companions, agree to catch a chocobo. If you disable Enc-None, you can encounter Tri-Face enemies in the centre of the Main Hall who give up Curse Spikes which you can refine into Pain Magic. However, since all the junction swapping has doubtless left everyone's HP in the yellow, you can wipe them out with Limit Breaks. Otherwise, take the top exit and go up the stairs to your right. Nearby is a beach that you can land Balamb Garden on. To proceed, examine the console on the right. Walkthrough: Disc 2. Return to Balamb Garden. Stuff will happen and Balamb Garden will start to take off. Talk to her and select the "Play along" option. You should have 1 Adamantine from the most recent boss fight and if you convert two Energy Crystals into Pulse Ammo, you can forge Squall's ultimate weapon, Lionheart. You'll see a couple of guys in shelters. 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