Sooo these are the much advertised and talked about ruins that totally and utterly are supposed to own your face in. Let's discuss them shall we?
You unlock the ruins by beating the game, in order to unlock all 9 of the doors in the dungeon you need to beat the game once with each character(total of 3 times since you can't switch Cecil in and out).
Then you go down deep deep deep into the dungeon and every 5 floors or so you come across a trial, all the way until the final floor and the final trial.
Anyway I'm stuck on Kain's so I decided to take a time out to tell you what about it. These are mini-spoilers, but non-game breaking so feel free to stop reading.
The bosses in each of these rooms are basically summon monsters. Lunar Titan, Lunar Ifrit, Lunar Bahamaut, etc. They all have about....100,000hp or so give or take, and they're hit or miss on challenging.
The trials themselves stem from interesting, to difficult, to annoying.
I've only been there with Rydia, Cecil, Kain, Edge, Rosa.
Rydia was the first one, she had to retaim her summoned monsters.
Cecil was next, he had to prove his worth as a Paladin.
Rosa was 3rd having to prove her worth as a White Mage
Edge was 4th having to overcome many traps in a castle as a ninja.
Kain is 5th and is very, very difficult, not to mention it's a drawn out sequence to his boss, and it's increasingly demoralizing everytime you die. However they give his character some development, so no spoilers at all here
The floors inbetween each of the trials are pretty simple, you start off with the same monsters you fight on the moon and as you get deeper the monsters get slightly stronger, but then so do you so the difficulty is off-set by that.
The Lunar bosses themselves range from hard to insane. Cecil's for example is pretty much impossible to beat without Kain. Rosa, Edge, and Rydaia have generic boss fights, where if you stay alive you can win. Kain's....well...Kain is the one I'm stuck on atm, and it's very, very, very hard. My only advise for Cecil & Kain's events are to bring and save lots of Herme's Shoes, that or level to 99.
Da well, back to work!
You unlock the ruins by beating the game, in order to unlock all 9 of the doors in the dungeon you need to beat the game once with each character(total of 3 times since you can't switch Cecil in and out).
Then you go down deep deep deep into the dungeon and every 5 floors or so you come across a trial, all the way until the final floor and the final trial.
Anyway I'm stuck on Kain's so I decided to take a time out to tell you what about it. These are mini-spoilers, but non-game breaking so feel free to stop reading.
The bosses in each of these rooms are basically summon monsters. Lunar Titan, Lunar Ifrit, Lunar Bahamaut, etc. They all have about....100,000hp or so give or take, and they're hit or miss on challenging.
The trials themselves stem from interesting, to difficult, to annoying.
I've only been there with Rydia, Cecil, Kain, Edge, Rosa.
Rydia was the first one, she had to retaim her summoned monsters.
Cecil was next, he had to prove his worth as a Paladin.
Rosa was 3rd having to prove her worth as a White Mage
Edge was 4th having to overcome many traps in a castle as a ninja.
Kain is 5th and is very, very difficult, not to mention it's a drawn out sequence to his boss, and it's increasingly demoralizing everytime you die. However they give his character some development, so no spoilers at all here
The floors inbetween each of the trials are pretty simple, you start off with the same monsters you fight on the moon and as you get deeper the monsters get slightly stronger, but then so do you so the difficulty is off-set by that.
The Lunar bosses themselves range from hard to insane. Cecil's for example is pretty much impossible to beat without Kain. Rosa, Edge, and Rydaia have generic boss fights, where if you stay alive you can win. Kain's....well...Kain is the one I'm stuck on atm, and it's very, very, very hard. My only advise for Cecil & Kain's events are to bring and save lots of Herme's Shoes, that or level to 99.
Da well, back to work!
