Shining Soul - Strategy Guide (Page 02)

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     Congratulations! You've beaten your very first Shining Soul dungeon! But are you
a bad enough dude to go to the next one?	

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           ~~DUNGEON 2 - DEATH-SHADOW DUNGEON~~
Eight levels
Now it's beginning to get a bit challeging

Guide coming next release, I so SO promise that!

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  BOSS 2  /       GIANT WARRIOR GOD (KYOSHIN-SENSHI) (aka Colossus?)
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HP: ~950 (and 200 HP for it's 'second form')

     This guy looks a LOT more impressive than the first boss....strangely, though,
he's also a LOT easier...at least, at first.
     First off, when I refer to this guy's eyes, I'm referring to his "right eye"
or "left eye" based on YOUR right and left, ie, what you see as right and left on the
screen.
     Essentially, the boss has two attacks, both of which he can do on the right or
left side of the screen. His primary attack is to fire a laser beam from one eye, which
will go as close as it can to you, and leave a short trail of fire behind (which can 
also hurt you). He also occasionally sticks an arm in each side and waves it around, 
you don't have to worry as much about this.
     His 'weak point' is the little point between his two eyes. Since it nevers moves,
you should use any attacks that hit more than once (Knight's Spear charge, Archer's
Bow charge) to really damage it.
     The trick is this: If you're standing right in front of the eye on the OTHER side,
his other eye can't hit you (although you have to go a bit further to the right then
you have to go to the left). Then you can just move to the other side.
     As for the arms: If you stick close enough to the boss, they shouldn't be able
to harm you at all. Also keep in mind that an arm always attacks before an eye does..
..that may help you a little bit.
     HEAL WHENEVER YOU ARE HIT AND CAN AFFORD TO USE A HEAL ITEM.
     Once you've damaged the boss enough, he'll start to explode! Good jo-

     ...whooops. Seems the core or something popped free, and now it's rolling around
and lookin' to kill!
     THIS is the difficult part of the battle, and why you needed to heal. The core's
movement is so erratic, and you're moving in such a small space, that it's pretty
much inevitable that you'll be hit at least once. You don't have any time to take
a break during this battle. Just keep trying to hit the core. It will occasionally
stop and launch itself at you, so watch out!
     Once you've beaten it, the core will also blow up, and you'll earn a good, healthy
240 EXP and a treasure chest. Step into the blue glowy thingy to warp back to town!


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*   V. Items, Weapons, Armor, oh my!  *
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     Not sure how I'll format this part, but here goes..
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|ONE USE ITEMS
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Cake (?)
LOOKS LIKE: A cake. Hot damn!
USE: Heals 10 HP. Rare, I think.

Herb (or Medical Herb)
LOOKS LIKE: A green flame-like plant
USE: Heals 30 HP

Healing Raindrop (Cloud of Heal?)
LOOKS LIKE: A blue drop of water
USE: Heals 100 HP

Healing Water
LOOKS LIKE: A jar full of blue water
USE: Heals 300 HP

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Goddess' Tear Drop
LOOKS LIKE: Small green ball
USE: Restores 100 SP

Light of Hope
LOOKS LIKE: Big green ball :P
USE: Restores 300 SP

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Angel Wing (or Angel Feather)
LOOKS LIKE: A minature white wing
USE: Returns you to town (it's a round trip ticket, too)

Antidote
LOOKS LIKE: A jar of orange liquid
USE: Cures poison

Scroll of Identify
LOOKS LIKE: A little bitty scroll
USE: Use on an item with a question mark to identify that item

Soul Return
LOOKS LIKE: A brown bag with a little flame on it
USE: Apparently ressurects dead allies in multiplayer..thanks, jonnyram!

Bread of Life
LOOKS LIKE: A loaf of bread
USE: Raises VIT by 1 point permanently

Fairy Dust
LOOKS LIKE: A drop of honey. Or an onion, in my opinion.
USE: Raises INT by 1 point permanently

Power Potion
LOOKS LIKE: Potion, color unknown :P
USE: Raises STR by 1 point permanently

Wine of X (with X as a stat)
LOOKS LIKE: ....?
USE: Raises stat by 1 permanently...more info when I find one myself.

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|UNEQUIPPABLE ITEMS
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Jogurt Doll
LOOKS LIKE: Jogurt. A hamster with a helmet. God.
USE: Revives you when you die? Or just looks cool...?

Mythril
LOOKS LIKE: A grey rock that sells for 1250 GP
USE: Give three of them to the birdman to have him forge something for you

Orihalacon
LOOKS LIKE: Green crystal?
USE: Equals 3 Mythril, so you only need one to forge with

Dark Matter
LOOKS LIKE: Black-ish Mythril..?
USE: Uh, makes cursed items? Maybe?

Rose
LOOKS LIKE: ......
USE: Look pretty, Mommy! (ie, none)

Umbrella
LOOKS LIKE: Weather obstruction device
USE: Uh, none?

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|SOUL MAX EQUIPMENT
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I'll do this next time, I think... -_-;

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*   VI. Enemies, Nasties, and Baddies *
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     I'm questiong whether I should even have a section like this, since the enemies
aren't all that elaborate. I might use it just as a random section to list their HP,
but not until I have more time to spend on less important parts of the guide.

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*      VII. Credits/Contributing      *
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The three people who made this FAQ useful! These people rock!

*Kelvin Koh (yamikarasu31@hotmail.com)
   His translations and information helped make a lot of this
FAQ worthwhile and helpful. Very generous.

*Elemental Magician
   Also gave time to translate and add to my meager information.
So awesome. ^^

*Critical Mass (Critical_Mass@battle.zzn.com, ICQ: 49024465, AIM: Lord Bagu)
   Gave me a huge load of gameplay info I did not know...thank
you. Contributed a lot of item information.

Specific thankupos:

*jonnyram, for the info on the Soul Return.

*Rally Vincent, who explained Hiragana and Katakana to me.
 I keep forgetting..

*takusama, for incidentally telling people useful things,
 and for finding a Jogurt Doll. Hero! Prophet!

*Vypr, for muddling through this and that and finding some new things
 in the process.

*Sega. Now make another Panzer Dragoon shooter, damn you

*CJayC, just because

Contributing:

Found something not listed in this FAQ? Send it on in to the email address
listed at the top of this FAQ, please!

END OF FAQ....FOR NOW.