I got Illia’s level two magic before doing anything else. Have I really never used her on the world map? After a mildly tedious request, I got Hi-Heal and the game's version of Esuna. They seem pretty important.
ARMS takes their floating rock house south of the snowfields to the floating clock. Ashley and crew promise to finish this and return to Filgaia together. That together part was of vital importance. Heimdal Gazzo is a straightforward dungeon with the worst security ever. All we have to do is move four rooms, unlocking the doors by traveling through easy mazes. Turning off the lights is not hard, and I’ve beaten Sabrina in Pokémon, so I know my way around teleporting puzzles. In the cockpit is our target, Vinsfeld Rhadamanejdjdjss.
He questions our ideals against his. He’s genuinely upset that Antenora is dead, so I guess her plan worked. After little fluff, a fight breaks out.
Vinsfeld is boringly easy. He can’t muster 1000 damage against us, has no status effect spells, and has no single target massive damaging attack. This was the guy we were supposed to be afraid of?
After the fight, though, he reminds us of several things. Firstly, the monsters. Ashley thought all the mobs invading the planet were from The Demon Summoning. It turns out that was wrong. Most of them are from an unknown source. Vinsfeld surmises there is a greater evil out there somewhere. As the Gazzo shakes, he teleports away.
We now need to find the escape pods. Out the door to our right are those pods. Sadly, we have to split up. For some awful reason, the designers of this ship placed every pod behind a long puzzle. To reach the pods, everyone needs to work together to reach the escape dock. Even worse, one person must stay back to unlock the pods themselves. It doesn’t make any sense from a design sense, but it was fun. Using all of your characters to progress, unlock, and move platforms was a great addition here. It wasn’t too long, either. Just long enough to shine but not overstay the welcome. As everyone reaches their pod, they and Ashley connect with the Emphatite stones. Their hearts connected! Brad talks of heroes, Tim talks of strength, Lillia talks of loneliness, and Kanon knows that we’re actually rising higher into the air rather than sinking. When everyone is in, Vinsfeld reappears! He and Ashley argue and then fight in an even more boring fight than before. He is no threat, and I, while not needing to, transformed for the fun of it. Vinney also reminds Ashley that he has a Nuke. In his dying breath, he activates it.
I’m no nuclear physicist, but I don’t this that’s a nuke. I think that’s a magic seal over Filgaia, from which the end of the world will spew from. Vinsfeld tells us that someday soon, the 'nuke' will strike the planet. He doesn’t know when or where, but it will. In the meantime, we all must live with the sign of our doom over our heads. His final revenge is to unease the world before destroying it.
Ashley knows he can’t reach his escape pod now, as Vinsfeld delayed him too much. His body begins to shine as the camera cuts away. Marivel is talking to Marina about shooting stars and wishes. The shooting stars aren’t meteors but ARMS. Everyone is there except Ashley, and Illia is very upset by this. We then cut to an anime cutscene where a dude moans "yeah" while the remains of the Gazzo float in space. The camera pans over to a disheveled Ashley, floating in a bubble. The screen goes black, and we’re asked to save the game and insert disk 2.
We’re just getting started, aren’t we?
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