Ahoy there, ladies! We're going to use the Falcon to explore the world in 12 parsecs! Buy some falchions in Maranda to exchange for flame shields. Flame shields can be exchanged for ice shields. They're awesome. Dark Gear and Oath Veils are ok. And before we fight things, there are a few other things that need to be done. Now, we could just get several flame shields and trade the Czarina Gown for a Minerva Bustier, head to Kefka's Tower, kill him, and call it a victory for the forces of good, but that's hard and there's a lot of shit to do here.

Palidor has washed up on Cid's island. Cid says the same thing he did when you left. If he's dead, the letter is where you left it. Or where Cid's invisible robot servant Ozmodiar left it, since Cid didn't get out of bed. Palidor's Sonic Dive turns everyone into Kain for one turn, even if they're in places where they wouldn't be able to pogo jump normally.

The auction house in Jidoor is offering a Golem and Zoneseek magicite, along with a scale model airship or maybe just a very small chunk of it that you can't buy and an imp robot that you can't buy.

These melted lizard things are crawlers. They'll use battle and feeler (sets poison) when paired with someone else, dischord and raid when alone. They're weak to ice and step mine when confused.

Reach Frog is the annoyance of the World of Ruin, not because they're powerful, but because Rippler (used after the jump in the second turn and landing in the third) is bugged up the ass. Rippler swaps your statuses with his statuses, which unfortunately results in Shadow losing his doggy, and weird things happening to rage and morph and all that junk Fortunately, you might not encounter them if you try to avoid the damn things, and when you do, they might not live long enough to use the dreaded Rippler. Hint: These bastards live in the grasslands near Narshe, and on the grasslands and forest near Jidoor, Zozo, and Maranda. Of course, you'd be cheating yourself, but if that's what it takes, than that's what it takes.

Cactrot yields ten magic points, but they're hard to hit and share territory with hoovers. They have 3 HP, use Blow Fish every turn, and will use it ten times if you take too long. Drill and chainsaw work, pummel works, and dice work. Everything else will either miss or do one damage.

Sprinter is some kind of bug and uses cyclonic if you confuse him, pearl wind if you didn't, and drainbeak to drain MP, which usually does nothing. They might drop Imp's Armor, which sucks if you're a human but is awesome if you're an imp. Keep this in mind for the colosseum.

Spek Tor is the cat, will use Acid Rain when confused, has 250 HP, has blaster as its rage attack, and doesn't do much else.

Mantoidea can do one-hit kills with pure damage output and can do MindReaper for zero MP unless you drained some MP from it. Huh?

AAH! A reach frog! KILL IT! KILL IT! OK, that was harrowing. I hate those things, and I think that stupid Kermit meme makes me hate them even more. Now that it's dealt with, here's Geckorex. Being a lizard, he's weak to ice. He'll just attack and petriglare and he has a tortoise shield for you to use when Imped.

I ignored Hoover for now. Seriously, don't fight it yet.

Prussian is a bear that hangs out near Thamasa. It does nothing but fight and Bear Hug you to death. His death, anyway. Yawn. His rage is good, though.

GloomShell is weak to ice and is nothing more than a glorified Hermit Crab that uses net and rock to set petrify when injured.

Harpy would have to be distracted with a harp (I wonder if the pun was lost in translations) in King's Quest and make you very upset that you have to rescue Cedric instead of letting him rot and go to hell with all the O RLY owls, but uses grip, aero and occasionally Cyclonic when hit with a spell here.

Tumbleweed use fight and blinder. Blinder does nothing. When alone, they'll use lifeshaver. They're weak to fire, being plants, I guess.

There's a small patch of forest where dinosaurus rexus still walk. This is a Tyrannosaur. Bite does 8 times the damage of battle. Even worse, they have Meteor, which will do around 1500 HP of damage to you. At this point, there's little you can do aside from putting them to sleep, using Golem, and throwing spells at them. Being reptiles and not being Ice Liz, they're weak to ice. If you must have an imp halberd now, here's your source of them.

There are brachiosaurs too. Fuck that. I am not fighting that. No interest in seeing a character take 9999 damage, thank you. You'll see him later and described when there's a realistic possibility of taking one down. Jurassic Park perpetuates the myth that herbivores are pink fluffy dinosaurs and dilophasauruses spit, even if they are aware of the fact that most of the dinosaurs are Cretaceous. If a triceratops could, it would gore everyone you care about.

Visit Duncan instead! You get Bum Rush, which you could get by leveling to 70, but why. It's magical, non-elemental, barrier-piercing, and rather powerful. It's called Illusion Battle Dance in Japan.

Now you truly are Sabin, the strongest man in the world!

Let's get a flame shield with the assistance of trumps. Lose and you lose the falchion, and I recommend restarting instead.

We're going to check out the cave near the Veldt. You'll see Interceptor here. This is a clue as to who's here. Since Gau won't appear yet (you knew that, but some hunters on the Veldt pointed it out for you) and the other one talks about the Brachosaur and calls it a dragon instead of a dinosaur, we need to either get him/her or go straight to Kefka's Tower so we can warp back out with a rearranged party. Or if you missed Sabin, you can just land on the Veldt, fight a battle or two, not attack Gau, and he'll say he's Gau, he's your friend, that you should travel together, and he'll join the party. Uwa-aooh! There's a Rage Ring for a character you don't have yet.

Toe Cutter is a Gilomantis that absorbs ice, can't be instakilled, and will likely survive things you throw at it. Occasionally, they'll counter with the draining DoomSickle.

Allo Ver is a portmanteau of allosaurus and all over. You'll encounter Allosaurs elsewhere. For some reason, they're not amongst the dinosaurus rexus, instead choosing to hang out in a box with MONSTERS! I'd sound like HCBailly if I was talking, but I'm not, so you'll just have to use your imagination. Allo Ver uses fight, Doom, Condemned, Dead End (instakill), and Atomic Ray. Not having fire protection means death by Atomic Ray, but he'll only do that if you let him survive for over a minute. If you had Gau, use the Lich rage. Invulnerability, baby. You want to solo the game as Gau, he's still easy.

Allo Ver is special in that he doesn't appear on the Veldt even though he was supposed to. Maybe someone got his ID number with that thing that appears on the veldt without a rage to speak of. Winning nets you a Tiger Fang.

There's another chest with a Striker. Remember that?

Rhyos is rare. I could have finished the dungeon in half the time if Rhyos chose to show up. They aren't weak to anything, and they have lots of HP. If they survive four turns, they'll use Rage and then three (3) amongst Blizzard, Fire Ball, Giga Volt, Magnitude 8, Aqua Rake. Put him to sleep or something.

The blue SrBehemoth is boring. However, DO NOT under any circumstances use the following attacks: X-Zone, Atom Edge, True Edge, Cleave, or Snare. Otherwise, no behemoth suits for you. And no rage. Just kill the damn thing normally if in doubt. EvilClaw will remove reflect, in case you thought that would help you. Don't use Pearl either, as he'll always counter with meteo. Use fire instead.

The yellow SrBehemoth is undead. He'll use HypnoGas, Doom, Meteo, and fight. For your troubles, you get a behemoth suit for characters you don't have.

Shadow is NOT female. It displays this message because if you let Shadow die on the Floating Continent, Relm will be here instead of where she normally is. In Anthology, it claims Relm is male, proving that your best is an idiot.

This cutscene proves that Relm and Shadow have a sort of connection.

But your arm is missing! Shadow runs off to the Colosseum.

By now, I've noticed that none of my characters levels are multiples of five. Let's hunt Doomgaze now, who is waiting for you at a specific tile on the world map. To get Doomgaze to appear, either don't expect to fight him, preferably with everyone's level at a multiple of five, or go around the world map by aligning the airshiip so that it is not perpendicular to the boundaries of the world map, hit the turbo button, and hit that action button. 45 degrees won't work either. I'd check for other degrees that do and do not cover the map. Try around 5-10 degrees.

Now we've found him. See that? No, not the sky. I know it looks like someone painted it on, but pay attention to something else. L.5 Doom kills anyone whose level is a multiple of five. Also, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES use X-Zone on Doom Gaze. I know he runs away and all, and you want to defeat him to get your reward, but don't. Fortunately, it merely resets him. Again, when in doubt, fight normally. Aside from L5 Doom, all he'll do is Ice 3, Aero, Doom, and occasionally escape. Escaping doesn't restore his HP, so hunt him down again.

Supposedly, he's a long-sealed monster. Someone thinks he looks like a fish. I think he looks a bit like Zalera. Or maybe a bat. Maybe Batman's evil mutated cousin.

Once you've won, he coughs up Bahamut. Bahamut teaches flare, gives you a HP bonus of +50% upon leveling up with it equipped, and uses Sun Flare.

Wager the Striker at the Colosseum and you'll fight Shadow, or Mr. Chupon if you didn't get Shadow or have already done this. It's impossible to lose unless your character picks an especially stupid script, say, always using runic or warping out of the battle, and even if you lose, you still keep the striker and Shadow still joins you. Make a party of 3 and head to the Veldt to pick up Gau as well. Because you can.

Equip the thief knife on Shadow and throw shurikens and ninja stars to attack. You have more than enough of them. Imp Spears can be a wonderful thing to throw, but you have to fight those damn Dinosaurus Rexus for it.