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Centra Ruins Guide
| Available
When |
Disc Two (Once Balamb Garden is mobile) |
| Difficulty |
Hard |
| Rewards |
Great |
| Unavailable |
Never |
| Enemies |
Bomb,
Armadodo, Red Bat, Forbidden, Buel,
Blobra, Tonberry, Odin (Boss), Tonberry
King (Boss) |
| Draw
Points |
Drain
(Courtyard-Hidden)
Aero (Tower Side)
Pain(Top of Tower-Hidden) |
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Northeast of Edea's Lighthouse there is an oddly
shaped ruin sitting by itself surrounded by towering
mountains and barren land. This ruin is known as
the Centra Ruins, the remnants of a once great civilization.
There are two sidequests you can complete in this
area, and if you chose to do so, they are both explained
below.
Odin Quest
The first quest is the quest for Odin, the last
spirit survivor of Centra. When you enter the Centra
Ruins, you will immediately see a timer set for
20 minutes that starts counting down right away.
I suggest before you enter this place and run headlong
to fight Odin, you take time to ready yourself.
First of all, equip Encounter None if you have Diablos.
If you haven't leart it, I suggest you do. If you
don't have Diablos or sold the Magical Lamp, I guess
you just have to hope you don't run into a lot of
battles. Equip yourselves with the best attacking
magic and weapons you have and proceed in. If you
have Encounter None on, you won't need to worry
about defense, just attack power. Odin doesn't attack
you either, so you just need to pay attention on
dealing out as much damage as you can as fast as
you can. Now I'll explain how to get to Odin himself.
Once you enter, run down the hill and you will see
stairs. Odin will talk to you throughout, read them
if you wish but don't stop for them or anything
of the sort. Climb up the stairs, circle the broken
ruin, and climb another set of stairs. Now you will
come to an open door. Go in and step on the pedestal
that you can get to either by way of the right of
left stairs. You will be transported upward into
a new area. Here, you will see two ladders, climb
the left one first. You will enter a room, inspect
the orb in the back and climb down again. Now inspect
the little altar between the two ladders and it
will start glowing blue. Once you have done that,
a new spiral stairway will appear beside the right
hand ladder. You can get to a draw point by way
of the right ladder, but you can do that later to
save you time. Climb the spiral stairway and you
will come to another area. This one has a ladder
right beside you and another spiral stairway in
front of you. Climb the ladder by you, and inspect
the gargoyle. Take out the ruby eye and clamber
down the ladder again. Now go up the stairway to
the right and you'll see a second gargoyle atop
a short ladder. Put the ruby eye you have into his
socket so that he will have a complete set of eyes.
You will receive a message containing a number.
Write that number down somewhere while you pause
the game and continue on. Take both the eyes out
of this gargoyle that just gave you the numbers,
and go back down the ladder and the stairway to
the past area. Go back up the ladder to the left
and put both eyes back into this first gargoyle.
You will now see a fire with a number of zero's
there. Insert your given number there correctly
and hit X a secret doorway will appear in between
the stairway and the ladder. Enter to fight Odin.
Now, Odin will lecture you for a minute and you
will engage in battle. He does not fight back, as
I said, but will use Zantetsuken to automatically
defeat you if you do not defeat him before your
timer goes to zero. I suggest using Meltdown to
destroy his defenses, casting Triple and Haste on
your party, and then attacking him as fast as possible
with your most powerful magic/attack/summons. Good
luck, you will acquire Odin and his card if you
win. Odin, unlike other GF's, will not allow you
to Junction or summon him at your own will since
that's like giving you a cheat to the game. He will
appear randomly in fights against any enemy except
Bosses. He is quite reliable though. I once had
him come three times in three battles against Malboro's,
very useful.
Tonberry King Quest
After you defeat Odin, exit the Centra Ruins and
heal up. Save, and enter again if you wish to fight
and gain Tonberry King, a new GF. This will be a
lot tougher as you are required to fight many battles
against very, very, very annoying and powerful creatures.
Before you enter the Centra Ruins to fight again,
I suggest you have everyone on your team at least
around level 50 and one person with perfect compatibility
with the GF Diablos so he summons as quickly as
possible when you need him. Have him at high levels
as well so he can do a lot of damage. Other then
that, equip your characters as much as you can defensively
since Tonberry's can hurt you badly. Now, go back
to the area where there's that broken ruin you have
to run around to get to the other stairs. This area
is the best area for Tonberry's, so run around looking
for them here. When you fight them, have one person
constantly summon Diablos. If he does 9999 damage,
it will only take him around three to four rounds
to finish off one Tonberry, so have everyone else
heal and defend. You must fight around 18 - 22 Tonberry's
to summon the Tonberry King, so be prepared for
hours of mind twisting sickening battling with green
turtles holding lamps that refuse to die quickly.
You can go out, heal, save, and come back in and
it won't reset the Tonberry's you've defeated, so
don't worry about that. As you get to around 19
or 20 defeated Tonberry's, I suggest you start saving
after every battle and healing as well because Tonberry
King pops up IMMEDIATELY AFTER YOU DEFEAT THE LAST
TONBERRY! That means no preparing and a battle right
after you fight a normal Tonberry.
Once Tonberry King comes out, here's a few tips
for fighting him. He has a lot of HP, you can't
see it even with Scan, but trust me, his HP is in
the two hundred thousand range. Start off the battle
by healing if you have to, then casting Triple,
Haste, and Protect on all your characters to speed
you up, give you advantages, and lower the high
damages you take. Have one person cure you regularly
while the other two attack the overlarge Tonberry
as fast and as hard as they can. Cast Meltdown on
Tonberry to lower his defenses as well. Sadly, Diablos
has no effect on him, so don't bother. If you win,
you will gain Tonberry as a GF (Hehehe, he shrinks
when you beat him!), and you get a Chef's Knife.
Tonberry is one of the most reeking of suckiness
GF's around, but his shopping abilities gives him
due credit and usefulness! Call Shop, Junk Shop,
Haggle, and Sell High will be unimaginably helpful
since it will allow you to buy amazing things you
can usually never find at the luckiest of times
for cheap and sell your stuff for high when it's
bought cheap. Junk Shop is awesome when you got
items and want to upgrade on the spot without venturing
into towns from your spot. Call Shop is a shop in
itself, and allows you to buy from shops while in
the middle of nowhere! This GF is worth all the
energy wasted to get him, enjoy.
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