Friday, April 11, 2008

Orbonne Monastery: Isilud, stop, it hurts!

Well, you should know how I feel about the re-translation of the names by now. I feel that "Nightblade" is even less relevant than "Knightblade", but whatever.

This was a hard battle before and it didn't get any easier now. I had to restart the first time because I chose to put Ramza in as a ninja, and I'm sorry if you like ninjas, but that was a weaksauce move. Then I figured dragoons was the way to go for Ramza, and we just barely made it out alive. I really like, and by like I mean hate, Isilud's fantastic Jump/Concentrate ability. You shouldn't be able to jump that high in a library vault!!!

I decided to soldier through and kill as many of the other knights and archers before attacking Isilud to end the battle. Such a decision is usually foolhardy, but my own dragoon and archer managed to pick off a few enemy soldiers before Ramza charged in and cut Isilud down to critical. Whew! I think the thing that helped the most was Isilud not being able to attack on his first move (the first move of the battle), because he was able to attack first on my previous attempt and just slaughtered both Ramza and a healer in no time. Clever AI.

One more battle to go! What a marathon this is going to be. I'm sure Agrias, Mustadio and the rest are going to be asking for overtime.

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