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Hello. My username here on gamefaqs.com is KingDraken. I have been a long
time fan of the Crystal Chronicles sub-series and have logged in about 140
hours playing this game. It has definatly held my interest and is most likely
the best fourty dollars I've ever spent.
That being said this guide is aimed at people who have already finished the
game, and want to blast through it fast. Some of the dungeons can be a real
beating and it can be quite boring. On wi-fi many people are still unaware
that holy breaks the white orbs just as well as the books spells. That's why
I created this guide to get the information out there so everyone can find
even more enjoyment. This will also help those who are going back to lower
difficulties since going through dungeons faster means getting those items
you missed faster.
This guide is not intended for first time players even though they too can
benefit from many of the tricks listed here. Always keep in your mind this
is NOT the way the developers intended you to play. Please refer to another
guide if you are just starting out.
6/26/09[version 1.08] Cleaned up the guide usage section. Added more to
charge attack. More spell checking. Fixed some formatting issues. Added a new
trick for gate. Added a new section in the general techs about death abuse.
6/24/09[version 1.05] Few more corrections in spelling and grammar. Added
things about charging to move faster and scratch the square cards. Cleared up
some things about the bosses as well as adding more to death machines. Added
oblivion_soul's tip for lich.
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About Me/Introduction.....................................INTRO
Table of Contents.........................................TABLE
Guide.....................................................GUIDE
How to use............................................HOW2
General techniques....................................GEN
Forest 1..............................................FOR1
Boss (Guardian)...................................BOSS1
Aqueducts 1...........................................AQD1
Boss (Buffasaur)..................................BOSS2
Fire Mountain 3.......................................FM3
Gate..................................................GATE
Boss (Death Machine Type Omega and Type Sigma)....BOSSXI
Tower.................................................TWR
Boss (Larkeicus 2)................................BOSSXII
Boss (Neo Larkeicus)..............................BOSSXIII
River Belle...........................................RVR
Boss (Giant Crab).................................BOSSXIV
Bonus Section- Ring of Fates Bosses.......................ROF
Boss (Hawka Scorpion).................................ROF1
Boss (Baby Behemoth)..................................ROF2
Boss (Zu).............................................ROF3
Boss (Angry Flower and Angry Flower Buds).............ROF4
Boss (Dragon).........................................ROF5
Boss (Lich)...........................................ROF6
Boss (Cu Chaspel).....................................ROF7
Boss (Great Galdes and Crystal Guards)................ROF8
---Basically this guide reads like you're going through the stage.
---The number of players said in the parenthesis is the minimum number of
people needed for the trick.
---The parenthesis next to the ***BOSS*** symbol is the bosses name.
---The first room you are in is always called room 1 and so on.
---When I say enemies can be avoided, this often means they don't need to be
defeated to beat the room, but many times it's convenient to kill some to
make doing the puzzle easier to advance into the next area.
--If you don't see a room mentioned in this guide, it means I do not have a
trick to beating it. If you have one, please contact me about it!
---So use ctrl+f and look for a section to start shaving time.
Money Dropping:
What this is is stacking money up by repetedly dropping one gold at a time.
This will make the money start to pile up in a nice stack allowing you to jump
on on top and reach higher places. Great for non selkies to try some of the
selkie only tricks.
Placing Barrels:
When you pick up a barrel you have the option to just place it by not holding
a drection when you hit the throw/pickup button. This will allow you to take
barrels and other items around with you if your only looking for a little
height.
Haste:
The most useless magic in the game does have a purpose. You can get longer
jumps thanks to this. Haste is cast by using thunder+raise.
Proper Head Standing:
Being picked up and standing on a head is very different. Head standing
allows selkies to double jump while still carrying cargo. All you have to do
is just land on someones head. Useful if wi-fi lag gets to be so tedius you
rather just do the platforming one time, or to reach chests without the use
of a magic pot, brick, ect.
Charge Canceling:
Basically you have to hit your attack button and hold it more a moment
and release. Then you do this again in a sort of rhythm. With practice you
can attack much faster then with regular combos.
Scratch the [] series scratch card:
The easiest and least rare scratch card in the game. They typically fall
out of enemies. Make sure to scratch these whenever possible because with
them, any trick a double jump is needed, now any race can do. Very useful.
Using your charge attack:
Clavats, lilties and selkies can all use their charge attack to move faster.
By just charging the attack, you guy will act as if haste was cast on him
when you move around. This can cut travel time by a second or two overall
in each dungeon but its just something you may want to be aware of since
it can make dodging spell rings a whole lot easier. Further, elementals
(things that look like big headed blobs ussually a color depending on their
attribute) can be taken out with a charge attack just as easily as they can
a spell ring allowing you to kill them while mobile.
Death Abuse:
Ever have problems platforming that one section of gate or you have a wi-fi
partner that just can't seem to stop dying? Well this game allows you to
advance to other areas now regardless if they are standing next to the door
with you or not! This means that say the big one-eye in the tower when your
crossing using the magic switch platform, instead of jumping down with them to
redo the puzzle, have that guy die and do the puzzle yourself. When your both
safetly in the next room, then revive.
---Enemies in room one can be totally avoided. After you beat forest 1 there
is a length of time where you can return to the crystal cores location by
using the door you came out of in area one. You can also show her multiple
cores so you don't have to keep traveling back here every time you find a
fragment. (1 player+)
---Only the three bears in room two need to be killed near the door.
(1 player+)
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***BOSS***(Guardian).....................................................BOSS1
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After knocking his helmet off, get him in his "exhausted" animation (You can
tell because he will be on one knee) and freeze him to get in just a few more
hits. Also, a good way to get hits in on his head is to wait for him to punch
the ground then use the makeshift platform to assault his cranium.
---You can avoid all enemies in rooms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 4 revisited.
(1 player+)
---You can avoid all enemies when you revisit room 2, room 7, and revisiting
rooms 6 and 2. (1 player+)
--- For those that don't know (longshot) you can pick up the wooden boxes in
room 7 to make switch placement easier. (1 player+)
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***BOSS***(Buffasuar)....................................................BOSS2
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No matter what it seems that the first thing the boss is weak to is blizzard.
Cast a blizzard and then cast a fire. He will fall down allowing an even
faster kill.
---You Can avoid all enemies in room 1 and 2 (1 player+)
---Room 3 you can have a selkie jump on your head and up to the switch to
activate it. Or, freeze the ice and jump on each others heads. If your a
selkie just double jump after freezing. (2 players or 1 Selkie)
---Room 4 you only need to kill the initial enemies. (1 player+)
---You can avoid all enemies in rooms 5 and 6. (1 player+)
---Only need to blow up the door with the powder keg in room 1. Can avoid all
enemies in room 2 and 3 as well. (1 player+)
---If your a pacifist all you need to do is grab the powder kegs off the
enemies heads. Gravity works well on bats (Blizzard+Raise). (1 player+)
---You can avoid all enemies in room 5. (1 player+)
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***BOSS***(Lava Spider)..................................................BOSS3
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Casting blizzard as he is about to get up can afford you some extra hits.
Remember to hit him with the water to douse his fire.
---You can avoid all enemies in rooms 1, 2 and 3.(1 player+)
---Cast holy (cure + raise) on both white switches. Don't even bother dropping
down in room 4. (1 player+)
---Room 5 same thing, don't need to kill any enemies, just cast holy
(Cure+raise). (1 player+)
---Room 7 Push the bookshelf over as normal, but instead use it as a bridge to
cast holy (cure+raise). (1 player+)
---Room 8, use holy (Cure+raise). (1 player+)
---You can avoid all enemies till the boss door now. (1 player+)
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***BOSS**(Larkeicus).....................................................BOSS4
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Try and get one of the golems to blow up on him. That stuns him for a bit.
Blizzard will also work for a few moments. Use charge canceling to hit him
multiple times and when he starts actually casting, hold down the charge all
the way to move around and avoid his ring. When he lets it go come back to him
and unleash your move getting in some heavier damage.
--Room 1 there are no enemies and rooms 2, 3, 4, and 3 again you can avoid all
enemies. (1 player+)
---Room 5 and 6 you can avoid all enemies. (1 player+)
---Room 7 if you have a selkie in your party they can stand on your head and
double jump to the other side and throw the boxes up there down for you to
get up as well. (2 players+, one must be selkie)
---Room 9 you can avoid all enemies just grab the crystal off of their head.
(1 player+)
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***BOSS***(Grim Gaze/Veriaulde)..........................................BOSS5
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Gravity can be your friend here (Blizzard+raise). Make sure to charge cancel
instead of stomping for faster damage. Aim for the wings the entire time. You
get the most damage that way and even more when the protectors fall off.
---If you know about where the switch is already, just push the block over and
unfreeze. (1 player+)
---You can avoid all enemies in room 2. (1 player+)
---Take the zip line and kill the enemies at the bottom, you don't have to
kill the two ice bombs or the one-eye. (1 player+)
---In room 4 get the key and place it right underneath the switch on the still
frozen ice. Beat the pole till you hear the sound something worked, and then
unfreeze. The key will place itself. (1 player+)
---Room 6 you dont need to use the zip line to land on that platform, just
take the stairs towards the top of the map for an easier time. (1 player+)
---Room 8 you can avoid all enemies, and if you already know where the switch
is, just push them on there and unfreeze. (1 player+)
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***BOSS***(Scale Toad)...................................................BOSS6
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Just use the normal strategy of waiting for him to get into the water and
freezing the pot on the right to throw in there. His weak spot is his belly.
---You can avoid all enemies in room 1. (1 player+)
---Cast holy (cure+raise) on all white switches in room 2. (1 player+)
---Pull the bookcase over like normal, but use this as a bridge to cast holy
(cure+raise). Selkies can just double jump over to it. (1 player +)
---Lilties, selkies, and yukes can hurt the chimera in room 4 with their
respective smash attacks. In turn you can cast holy(cure+raise) as well.
(1 player+)
---In room 6, if you have more then yourself, you can pull down the switch
while your partner casts holy(cure+raise). (2 players+)
---Also in room 6 if your playing a selkie you can use the treasure chests on
the bottom of this room to jump up and reach the next area without pushing
the bookcase. (1 player+, must have one selkie)
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***BOSS***(Libroarian)...................................................BOSS7
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Cast holy(cure+raise) and use charge canceling on his face to end him.
--- In room 3 when you have pressed all the buttons, use the big rock part of
the trap to jump back up. You do not have to kill any enemies in this room
either. (1 player+)
---You can avoid all enemies in rooms 4, 5, 6, and 7 (1 player+)
---In room 8 you can go up the stairs and remove the crystal to lower the
spikes.[Doesn't really save time as makes the battle more managable].
(1 player+)
---You can avoid all enemies in room 1 and 2. (1 player+)
---You can avoid all enemies in room 5 remember to head down from here first
to have a better route. (1 player+)
---Room 7 you can avoid all enemies. (1 player+)
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***BOSS***(Beserk Gaurdian)..............................................BOSS8
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Almost identicle to the first boss, wail on it using the same methods.
---If you want, in room 1, you can simply step on the switch and cast firaga
to light it by stacking it underneath the candle to avoid clearing the magic
egg. (1 player+)
---In room 2, and have a party of three with two selkies, those two selkies
and be lifted up onto the ledges above and double jump over to the blizzard
switches. Then everyone can start casting blizzard.
(3 players+ and 2 must be selkies)
---If only a party of two and one selkie in room 2, you have to complete a
wing first. Then you can do that for one of the switches while the other
person grabs the egg. You can avoid all enemies in this room as well.
(2 players+, one must be selkie)
---In the right wing, you can pull the first block you see on top of your
own head. Just jump into it when you fall down the hole. Then you can run
this block over the barrier, and proceed to place it in the hole.
(1 player+)
---In both the right and left wings, selkies can double jump them and their
entire party up to the ledge without the pot by first jumping on the
tombstones near the ledges. (1 player+, MUST be selkie)
---You can avoid all enemies in the left wing. (1 player+)
---You can avoid all enemies in room 5 and 6. (1 player+)
---In room 7, if you have two players grab the top left verticle coffin
and proceed to move it towards the verticle hole with the button that
moves the platform. Have someone stand on that button, untill the coffin
is on their head.Now the person under the coffin simply has to move off of
it for the coffin to be pushed right in. Alternativly, you can have someone
dive into the water and cast the highest level clear spell you can by
stacking them on the person in the water. With luck the thing will fall off
their head. You can avoid all enemies in this room. (2 players+)
---You can avoid all enemies in room 8. (1 player+)
---In room 9 with a party of two, you can grab one person and throw them
onto one of the candles. Then unfill the water, and move the coffin down
below next to the other one for an easy jump. With a selkie you can just
double jump overto the other one. With three people it's as simple as just
throwing the two up onto the candles.
(2 players+)
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***BOSS***(Celeb)........................................................BOSS9
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I like to alernate between casting clear and cure on this boss to remove her
spectral status because of her nasty way making you poisoned. When she does
her bum rush, be sure to use charge canceling on the spot behind her head and
not her head.
---In room 2 a selkie can double jump to pull the first switch without using
the pot. (1 player+, selkie only)
---You can avoid all enemies on your return trip to room 1 and rooms 3 and 4.
(1 player+)
---When you revist room 4, with two players on can stand on the switch while
the other jumps up to grab it without the box. (2 players+)
---In room 7 with a party of two selkies you can double jump off of each
others heads to grab the egg. (2 players+, 2 must be selkie)
---In room 7 with 3 players you can ignore the egg by just casting thunder
yourselves on an individual thunder switch. (3 players+)
---In room 8 with 2 players you do not need to kill any enemies, just have
one person do the ussual jumping down the cliff and the other remain on a
switch. (2 players+)
---You can avoid all enemies in room 9, room 3 revisted and room 4 again.
(1 player+)
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***BOSS***(Hecteyes).....................................................BOSSX
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Do not jump on top of this boss when it's weakness is revealed by knocking him
offthe wall when he gets up on there. Instead just keep using your weapon in
the water since it damages faster.
---All the same tricks apply but if you go the ice mountain 2 way you can move
to the area where ice mountain 1 ziplines down. As a selkie you can double
jump up towards the area above and land on the ledge with the two ice flans
and ice elementals. This skips the majority of the dungeon.
(1 player+, one MUST be selkie)
---You can avoid all enemies in rooms 1, 2 and 3. (1 player+)
---In room three with more then one person, the others can wait on the very
last tower and have it carry them up as well. (2 players+)
---In room and you are a selkie carry the barrel over to the final tower,
proceed to raise the towers, and use the barrel to double jump on top of it.
(1 player+, selkie only)
---You can avoid all enemies in rooms 4 and 5. (1 player+)
---In room 5 a selkie with haste can clear the gap and hit the switch across
the way. You can then skip the first part of room 6. You can also have a
partner jump and throw the selkie across if you can't get the timing down.
(1 player+, must be selkie)
---In room 6, if playing with a selkie and a partner, A selkie can avoid
using the pot to obtain the blue key by getting a boost jump from the said
partner. (2 players+ one must be selkie)
---You can avoid all enemies in room 7. (1 player+)
---In room 9, with a party of 3 and one selkie, or a party of two selkies,
go towards the ledge that you ususally have to cross with the dropping
platforms. Use some timing and jump off of each others heads to have that
person land on the platform above. Have the rest of the party purposely
kill themselves so they all move on when the selkie goes through the boss
door. You can avoid all enemies in this room.
(2 players+ two selkies, or 3 players+ one must be selkie)
---You can avoid all enemies when you revist room 7. (1 player+)
---When you revisit room 9 be sure to kill the enemies to get the elevator
to appear. Selkies have this part easy so if you are selkie with party
members do your best to get to the second set of plates. Purposely make one
of these fall down. Then drop a peice of gold on the ground and hop on it.
Thanks to the way items work in this game, everyone standing on the gold or
your head will be lifted up along with the plate.
(1 player+, selkie makes it easier)
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***BOSS***(Death Machine Type Omega and Type Sigma).....................BOSSXI
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The best bet is to kill the silver robot first as the golden one doesn't have
too many nasty attacks. Blizzard the silver robot then jump on top of the
golden one. You can now aim the robot for a few seconds. Shoot his laser by
pressing the attack button and the other robot will go into his prone
animation where you need to hit him a few more times to get him into his
stunned one. When the silver one does die you can hit it again with the laser
and the fallen robot will repel this back onto the golden one knocking it over
as well. Both have weak points on their abdomen.
---You can avoid all enemies in room 2. (1 player+)
---In room 2, selkies can reach the second level without blowing up the block
by double jumping onto the ledge above using the blocks.
(1 player+, selkies only.)
---In room 2, after you freeze the water, place another frozen pot on top of
the lit fire pot. After pushing your block over, you can throw the tower of
pots into the water, making the block sink and the water freeze all at once.
(1 player+)
---You can avoid all enemies in rooms 4 and 5. (1 player+)
---When you revist area 4, the order always goes 3,1,4,2 when you push in
the rods. (1 player+)
---Revisiting room 5 you can avoid the big one eye by moving the platform up
first. You can also avoid all the enemies in this room again. (1 player+)
---You can avoid all enemies in room 6. (1 player+)
---You can avoid all enemies in rooms 8 and 9. (1 player+)
---You can avoid all enemies when you revisit room 8 and rooms 11, 8 again,
10 again, and 11 again. (1 player+)
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***BOSS***(Larkeicus 2)................................................BOSSXII
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Having the golems explode on him again makes him stunned for a few moments.
You can add even more down time to him by freezing him. Casting barrier
(fire+clear) will let you be able to take that area spell easily where the
large circle comes and inflicts curse. Charge canceling is always your friend
and if you think he's going to cast a spell on you, use the haste effect that
clavats lilties and selkies get for charging their focus attacks and move out
of the way and back in when its done.
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***BOSS***(Neo Larkeicus).............................................BOSSXIII
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You can cast blizzard to give yourself a few moments of free attacking time.
The trick is to know where the arms are going to pop up. This boss can be
really random. Sometimes he doesn't stop spawning the arms and other times you
can defeat him before he even summons one. If you get as far as him merging,
and if you manage to break it apart again, he will be stunned for a while.
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***BOSS***(Giant Crab).................................................BOSSXIV
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A quick barrier will render the majority of his attacks useless. There is no
real startegy against him other then beat on him. Cast blizzard for a few
hits.
How to access?
When you get admitance to Library 3, kill all the dark elementals and a portal
will show up. Step into the portal and choose a book. You need to beat a boss
to unlock the next boss book
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***BOSS***(Hawka Scorpion)................................................ROF1
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The first boss will lodge his tail in the ground if you get on his back, wait
for him to charge up, and then dodge his attack. You can hit him a few time
while the tail is in the ground to rack up the damage. You can cast blizzard
on him to keep him there for a while.
The flying bird is easy enough but you can cast gravity(blizzard+raise) to
bring it down to earth. The weakpoint is on his head.
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***BOSS***(Angry Flower and Angry Flower Buds)............................ROF4
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The flower monster can be tackled a few ways. First, get rid of the tenticles
to save yourself the hassel. You can then wait for his mouth to open naturally
or cast gravity (blizzard+raise). Now all you have to do is get on and whack
the crystal that gets explosed. The boss will do a really damaging spin move
every so often, so look closely for the key tells like him winding up.
The boss you fight in the volcano which the game refers to as dragon is weak
to blizzard. Freeze him then run around to his tail and whack on it. If you
manage to do a substantial amount of damage to it, he will get exhausted,
continue to whack on his tail. Two lilties can use their smash attacks(laser)
to keep the boss down infinitly. All they have to do is have one shoot the
laser through his face at the tail, and the other at this tail towards his
face. Selkies have something similiar but all they need to do is bow smash
their tail once, and then run around and do it again.
Like all undead monsters you can cast clear or cure to remove her spectral
status. Her weak point is on her chest, and she sits just too high for
anything but jumping attacks. She has low hp compared to the other ring of
fates bosses and memorizing her pattern is easy thanks to her long casting
times.
!Oblivion_Soul adds:
With a max stat clavat or yuke, after clearing her spectral status, cast
holyga on her(cure+cure+raise+raise) about 3 times to spell her dimise. This
Works well on very hard.
The boss I refer to as doppleganger is weak to blizzard. If you freeze him you
will have a long time to just beat him up. After he gets unfrozen he has an
unnaturally long magic resist (indicated by the blue fire on his head
forever), so your going to need to focus your efforts on damaging the real
one when frozen.
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***BOSS***(Great Galdes and Crystal Guards)...............................ROF8
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Galdes is a pain anyway you look at it. The minions will keep endlessly
respawning almost as soon as you kill them. However, you will need to kill
them in order for their spell damage not to completely overwhelm you. His
weakpoints are the tiny spikes that are loitered around his base. Make sure
you pay attention to things like if your inflicted with gravity. If you
happen to fall down that little ledge on the bottom of the screen with
gravity, you will get hit with multiple spells all at once. After destroying
all the base spikes, his chest will open up showing yet another weak point.
Just jump on the base and start hitting. This battle is much more managable
with an actual party and I find it tough to solo.
Thanks for taking the time and reading through this guide. It is my very first
piece I have ever submitted. Hopefully it wasn't too terrible and actually
helpspeople. Remember please send in anything not included here especially
for a room I don't have tips for!
My AIM name is KingDraken
People who have contributed tips:
Oblivion_Soul
I would like to dedicate this guide to Rachel and her brother Logan because
without them I wouldn't have played this game as much as I have.
I would also like to thank sephirosuy and shadowtaz for the excellent web
resources they have set up.
I thank rhubarbot for documenting the money dropping and charge canceling
techniques.
