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Grandia Parallel Trippers
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Battle Guide and Menu Guide (Version 1.0)
Copyright 2003 James Gray
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Written By James "EvilLaugh" Gray
(Time taken 6 hours, believe it or not, it has done.)
Date Completed 7th February 2003
Email Infomation Problems and Errors -
[email protected]
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Contents
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1. Intro
a.) Legal Notice And Copyright
b.) FAQ's Reason for existence
c.) The Game
d.) Battle System
2. Battling
a.) Law of AP
b.) Basic Flow of Battle
c.) Queuing
d.) Combination Cards
e.) Glowing
3. The Menu
a.) The Main Menu
b.) Cards
c.) Accessories
d.) Items
e.) Switching and View Character Stats
f.) Database
g.) Pinky Abilities and Config
4. Field Stuff
a.) Healing
b.) Save Point Jumps
c.) Guido's Shoppie
5. Advanced Players
a.) Merging cards
b.) Stats? What do they mean!!!!!
c.)
d.)
e.)
6. Other Things
a.) Hints and things
7. Version Info
8. Credits
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1.) Intro
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1.a) Legal Notice And Copyright
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This may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for
personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site or
otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission. Use
of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any public display
is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright.
All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by
their respective trademark and copyright holders. (Hudson, GameArts,
Esp, Computer Software Will.)
This Document was written with WordPad and Microsoft Works. Credit goes
to the makers of these wonderful Programs
All your future battle ideas belong to us. (Well, you can email me them
if you wanna, ill put them in!^_^.)
Oh and Plagurism, dont even bother, its not healthy for you and likely
to become someones good, good buddy if you do try and pass this work
off as your own.
Any money Gained from this also is mine, i worked hard for it, and its
all my own work. So Show Me the Money (?300 pounds would be wonderful)
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1.b) What's this guide about?
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I'm writing this in order to help some of you guys who are stuck
on the game, the battle and menu system namely.... Now, seriously, it's
a pain because you need to understand Japanese to know how it works.
Either that or guess. So what's it all mean???? Well, this is hopefully
what this guide is going to do for you HOPEFULLY... Do not think ill
let you in on some of my secrets since if I'm going to fight you one
day (And that just might happen) Then I wont let you in on some of the
secrets.... but I just hope this will give you a good enough idea on
how the battle system works, as well as what does what and why all the
people keep flashing when they go here and there and other things....
ON WITH THE GUIDE ANYWAY! Oh and any questions that need answering,
email them me and ill plonk them in this guide
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1.c) What's the game about?
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Honestly, I haven't really a clue; I could have a guess though.
3 kids, (Yuhhi, Mizuki, Shirou,) get sucked through portal to world of
Grandia. Obviously, they want to go back, Nuff said, you run around
like crazy and try and figure out all the mysterious happenings... IE,
why your friend have gone missing and why they seem to turn against you
halfway through the game... ALL WILL BE REVEALED, IF YOU PLAY THE
GAME.... Oh yeah the little mascot thing that helps you? is called
Pinky
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1.d) What's with the funky battle system?
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Right, if you've played Grandia, Grandia 2, or Grandia Xtreme, you know
that the Grandia battle system is somewhat different from your
conventional RPG. Well, if you haven't, god knows why you're playing
this game because honestly, you're going to find it even more difficult
to understand who each of the people are....
Anyways, this is a Modification of the Grandia Battle system, it has
the IP gauge as usual, but there is only a limit to the amount of
attacks that you can do, same as with Pokemon or any other spawn of
monsters that seem to plague our minds. Basically, you have cards,
(Which can be switched by going to the menu and kind of messing round,
ill explain later) Anyway, when you pick a move and chosen which
monster you want to attack, you can move up and down the IP gauge to
where you like. You do the attack then you go back round into the queue
of people to get ready to attack, this can change though depending on
how strong the attack is.
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2.) Battling
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2.a) Law of AP?
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AP is the General amount of points it will take to use a card, It will
deducted the amount it says (The level of a card and its AP is shown
just above the left side of the AP bar. This shows how much AP the card
will use.) AP will only recover on returning steps on the IP Gauge.
Planning is crucial when recovering AP, as it might be the soul reason
for your destruction if you do not have enough AP to cure.
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2.b) Basic Flow of Battle
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1. Battle starts, People and monsters are placed I pretty much Speed
first, So people with highest speed will be at the top end of the bar,
people with crap speed go at the bottom end. Pretty simple.
2. Players (YOU) Character gets to action point of the bar. (The bit at
the very end after 8)
3. Placed with 3 options. Attack, Skip Go, Run
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Attack
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a.)6 Choice of moves, Depending on what you want to do you select that
option, chose target then move to point of the IP bar that you would
like to go to (NOTE: when it comes to attacking, the bars merge for
players and monster, meaning a single queue for attack, yet two queues
for actions. One for players one for monsters, got me there?)
b.) Wait in line till you perform attack
c.) Attack performed
d.) Rejoin Action queue (Where you join depends on Strength of move.
Each Step you take back Recovers some AP (about 6 to begin with, this
may increase depending on Level and such
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Skip Go
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a. Simple, you go back to which part of the bar you want to go to. No
attack queue involved, you just instantly rejoin the action queue
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Run
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a. Chance of running, if you manage to run from the battle you escape,
and get classed as the king of chickens.... if you don't, the character
that performed the run action rejoins the back of the action queue....
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Queuing
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OK, so I highlighted two queues there.
One for waiting to perform actions (single line for players and single
line for monster) and One Ready to perform an Attack (Single Queue for
both players and monsters....)
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2.c) Combinations of attack moves
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When you first see this, you go, "WTH! Combination moves!". Basically
this is when two moves that have been chosen blend together. That means
that if you have a one of your characters next to another characters,
and they can blend together, it means you get an extra attack. Example,
Justin and Yuuhi both use bronze sword and get next to each other,
there attack will allow a third card for to appear which in this case
is the All slash, This also means that you get the two bronze slashes
for both characters to work as well. Pretty handy....
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2.d) IM GLOWING!!!
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Another handy thing. This is like a priority over other monsters moves.
Of you move to 4 on the IP gauge with an attack, you will gain extra
defence over monsters with no priority and you will also (I think in
theory) allow stronger attacks. This can depend though because if a
powerful move is done against you, then you will just be weakened a lot
less from the move.... now, if you also move to 7 on the gauge, it
means you get even more priority over some moves and monster as well as
more defence and about double strength.... The problem is that it's a
bit of a wait up there. And this can also allow monsters with healing
abilities to Spam healing so they can prepare.... its like the SEE YOU
COMING spot up at 7....
Now if you use say healing at 4 or above, this will allow healing for
that player to happen on every step up to the actual heal, that means
you can heal a person and get the person who casted the heal to gain
some HP back as well for every step he takes....
Also, there are moves that allow you to gain automatic priority which
means you don't have to go to 7 to go yellow, or go to 4 to go white...
its just always there, except this will only last for a short time...
Sometimes, you might get poisoned and sometimes you might have some
stats dropped. Not only that you might have monsters that use cards
that cause priority to drop over characters which can be really evil
because then you have to go up high on bar just to attack sometimes....
I'm not sure about this though, but if you glow grey, big trouble....
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3.) The Menu
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People have been known to struggle quite a lot with the menu, So I've
taken the liberty to explain it. I am sure it will help a lot of you
who dont understand Japanese
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3.a) The Main Menu
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To get to your menu, press start.
Remember A is always select, and B is always cancel or go back a menu.
TO SAVE - Press Start, press the left option with A. (This has been a
problem for some people as they didn't know how to save...Now you know
how...)
There are 6 menus to choose from when at the main menu these are
represented by icons. Each of them means the following
@Weapon and Staff - Card Menu
@Ring - Accessories
@Bag - Items
@People - Switch Character and Viewing Characters
@ DB - Database (No, not the other DB monkehs....)
@ Game boy - Config and Pinky Abilities outside of battle
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3.b) Weapon and Staff - Card Menu
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Process of card switching
- Select Character you want to edit the cards for.
- 5 Icons appear
@ Sword - Weapon cards
@ Mace (or Wand) - Magic cards
@ Clipboard - both of the above
@ Man with X - Remove card
@ Trash Can - Ditch card
-Equipping cards-
-Click any of the first 3 options (unless you plan on ditching a card,
which brings up your list of cards, which are vacant, then you can
ditch the cards you want. Careful now)
-Click Either Empty space or a card that you want to replace.
-Press A to bring up vacant card list. (Black letters ones are useable
by that character; red letters means this character is unable to use
this card.
-Highlight card pressing up or down, and Select with A. Done....
-Removing card -
Press 4th option and then Highlight the card you want vacant using the
up and down buttons, then press A and its vacant... and removes itself
of your list....
-Trashing cards -
Select Trash Can and view list of vacant cards. Up and Down highlight
cards. Press A to delete it, Press up or down then to choose how many
you want to get rid of. Then you will be present with an ARE YOU SURE
menu. Select yes by moving to the side and pressing A.
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3.c) Ring - Accessories
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- Select Character you want to change Accessories for
- 3 Icons
@ Man with Ring - Equip Accessories
@ Man with X - Remove
@ Trash Can - Remove Item
-Equipping Accessories-
- Select Equip pressing A
- Select vacant spot or Accessory that needs changing pressing A
- Select item you want looking at stats and stuff. (Some items may
degrade priority or curse you.... Be careful now) Select by pressing A
- Removing Accessories -
Select Man with X and press up or down to Select which item you want to
remove. Press A on whichever one you want to remove and it will unequip
it.
-Trashing Accessories -
Select Trash Can and view list of items and stats. Up and Down
highlight accessories Press A to delete it, Press up or down then to
choose how many you want to get rid of. Then you will be present with
an ARE YOU SURE menu. Select yes by moving to the side and pressing A.
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3.d) Bag - Items
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Press A to bring up list of items. (Don't ask me what they all mean,
figure it out yourself, I hardly used them except the stat increase
ones.)
3 icons appear
@ Bag - Use item
@ Trash Can - Ditch Item
@ Key - Keys to Places Needed and other random things. (Just so you can
view them basically)
-To use an item-
- Press A on the Bag Icon
- Highlight Item you want to use pressing up or down (information
underneath... TRANSLATOR PLEASE"
- Select Item pressing A and then you will have the characters you want
to use the item on, press up or down to Highlight which one you want to
use and press A to use the Item. Simple
-To ditch an item-
Select Trash Can and view list of items. Up and Down used to highlight
items Press A to delete it, Press up or down then to choose how many
you want to get rid of. Then you will be present with an ARE YOU SURE
menu. Select yes by moving to the side and pressing A.
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3.e) People - Switch Character and Viewing Characters
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Press A to open this menu.
3 Icons appear
@ People in a triangle - Change Character (by the looks of it)
@ Man with X - Remove Character from Team (not discard, that would be
stupid)
@Man with Lines - Stats (not moving really fast either...meh)
-To Switch a Character-
- Press A on Icon. Highlight character you wish to change by pressing
Up or Down
- Press A to bring up list of people not in the team.
- Press up or down to highlight which one you wish to change. Press A
-To Remove Character From Team-
- Press A on Icon. Highlight Character you wish to remove from team by
pressing Up or Down
- Press A and he's/she's outta there!
-To View Stats-
- Press A to bring up list of characters, Press Up or Down to highlight
which one you wish to view
-Press A to view Stats.
-You may press left and right in this mode to switch between other
characters as well.
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3.f) DB - Database
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Press A to open this menu
3 Icons Appear
@ Sword Tip - Attacks Found
@ Person - Characters
@ Monster Thing - Enemies Found
-To View Moves, Characters, Enemies-
Press A on Icon. List of Moves/ Characters/ Enemies Appear. If you have
the move it will be shown by its name. Highlight them by pressing Up or
Down Then press A to view it, then if you wish to see the next obtained
move from this menu, press Left or Right. Unattained Information will
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3.g) Config and Pinky Abilities.
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- Press A to open the Menu.
- 2 Icons Appear
@Pinky - Abilities
@Book - Config
-Viewing Pinkies Abilities.-
Press A on the Pinky icon to View. Up, Down Left and Right view each of
the abilities you can perform, check this to see what can be done. If
you wish to perform an ability that you can only do from a Pinkie
podium, press the A button on it. Otherwise, the character will jump
when not standing on one. Sometimes, you will not be able to do the
action until you have the red pepper for Pinky that gives him the
ability. The First two Abilities you will usually begin with are run
and Jump.
-Config.-
Press A on the Book icon. I am not sure about the top thing, so I
suggest you do not touch it. Press A to move to the next part of the
config. The second option removes battle animation though. It is set on
on, press left or right to turn this off or on. Then press A twice to
except the settings..... Honestly, I wouldn't touch this thing.
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4.) Field Stuff
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This explains just roughly what the little triangles do. they are
places where you can jump large portions of the map out instead of
wading through it. you can also heal yourself there and
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4.a) Healing
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The first icon is healing where you recover all HP and AP, just press A
and watch all your health and AP return. AHHHHHHH
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4.b) Warping
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The second icon is the Warp icon, this allows you to go to any other
part of the map using another warp point. Handy. That means you can cut
corners when looking for those elusive cards. to use it press A on it,
and you will see a list of what each place is. Press A on which ever
one you want to go to, and it will show the map and where the warp
point is. then press A again and you will be asked whether you want to
got here or not. The left option is Yes and the right option is no.
highlight the yes option and press A and you will be magically
transported there. Some maps may not show a map but you can still warp
to them.
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4.c) Gudio's item shop
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Every two times you check the warp heal point. Guido will be there to
sell you stuff. I hardly ever used this since you could find everything
you needed lying in chests. but its just your general store. Use only
if you know how to use items and know what they do.
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5.)Advanced Playing
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This is the Advance Bit, Its advanced because there are parts i might
not understand myself properly, all i just grade them as a higher stage
of learning than that of the rest of the part of the game
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5.a)Stars And Mixing
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Stars indicated the power of a move; the maximum for any card is LV 50,
which means that the move is at its full strength.... Now how do you
build up cards? Go to a save point and go to the 3rd option to view
your cards. Looks a lot like gibberish at first, since it is hiragana.
But after a while you will get used to seeing all the words and what
each cards word actually looks like in Hiragana. First to learn will
certainly be revive.... its small. After a while of playing the game
you will begin to understand what they are and stuff. Anyways, use this
function to merge two cards together, Press select to view the card,
press A button to select a card and press B to cancel, when you select
a card you must select another to mix it with.... you can only do this
with Vacant cards, not cards which are being used by another
character....
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5.b)Stats? What do they mean!!!!!
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I'm not sure myself, but here is a guess of what they all mean. the
only reason this is in the advanced bit is because im unsure about it.
I might be right, i might be wrong. But its still worth mentioning
From top to bottom
- Strength
- Defence
- Vitality
- Speed (priority?)
- Agility (Possibly?)
This is a rough guess. Anyone who can read Japanese will know though
^_^
Also, there is some other stuff such as what magic levels people are at.
This is important for when giving people cards because they can only
use ones they have the ability to use. Example. Leen and Feena are the
only people who will use Icarian magic since there the only people who
have the ability too. This is indicated by the fact that they have a
Level higher than 1 for each of those magic's. The same goes for
Weapons. You can check what they can use by looking at their Stats.
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5.c)Tactical Postioning
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When actually Fighting, Be sure that you keep an eye on 3 things
1)Your charcaters HP
2)Your charcaters AP
3)The move the Enermy is about to do
Do not try risky things, play safe, and when it comes to move the
charcater on the IP Gauge for an attack, play them in a postion that
you know will put you in a good postion. Remember, Priority is
Everything, It all depends on who is going to do what damage.
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5.d)Learn a consistant battle plan
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This is Vital, this was the soul reason I actually beat the last boss.
If you find a good way to kill all bosses and enemies with a simple
plan of attack, your pretty much unstopable. If possible, try and
develope at least three of these.
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5.e)Building up
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Firstly try and get all the characters first before even conside
building up. The maximum level is 50. So remember that. Before you have
completed the game, you have to have Yuuhi in your party always, then
after, its ok Use whoever you like. The best team I had was Yuuhi,
Feena and Dorlin. I would of replaced Yuuhi though with Leen though if
I never managed to find her (i never did.-_- if you know tell me....)
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6.) Other Handy Tips
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* Space Saving *
If you want to have two characters do a move together to get a 3rd move,
first look where a monster is on the gauge, if he is at 7 or lower, and
your next character is on 8, Move to space 2, This will allow you to
save the space for the player behind. Therefore the joint move can be
performed, as long as the right cards are used.....
* Having enough AP to Cure *
You will cure a lot in this game, A HELL OF A LOT, it is essential that
you are always within reach of curing yourself other wise any move you
take that doesn't allow you to cure after you receive a hit is either
incredibly risky, or suicide.
*End of the World*
The end of the world card needs to be repeatedly used to actually
effect more than say like 35 HP off characters. It gets stronger the
more you use it, (3 uses of this card = 600hp of all things at least.)
Have fun trying to find this card, it's a pain to find but it's the
soul reason to have Feena/Leen (both) in your party
* I completed the game!!!!! *
Umm, have you really? After you kill the last boss, and see the ending,
you will see the diamond spinning round and some funky hiragana telling
you about it. What's it say? Well, I know what the diamonds do. They
are extra small dungeons with new bosses to fight. Firstly, try going
all the way to the top of the tower in that village you begin in where
you meet Liete (I think its called Legend) try going through the entire
dungeon and going through the door again (you have to try at least once
before you can try and progress through the game.) Hey presto, you can
go through it this time. Collect the items along the way and go through
to the room with a door in the way to proceed. How do you open the door?
You need to go to each diamond in each of the levels before to retrieve
a rock in each of them there are Guardians of these rocks that you must
fight to the death. The bosses are hard. But you should have devised a
plan now on how to kill them if you killed the last-but-not-last boss
from earlier. These rocks open that door by placing them on altars. In
the side rooms. After they're all placed, then you carry on scaling the
tower to the final parts of the tower. Eventually after you kill
another boss and make your way to the final room. You will finally
encounter the finally boss of the game. Oh and I've done it obviously
^_^
* Ummmmm, I killed the Final Final boss, now what? *
Now you get my email address then take me on.
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6.) Version Information
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<Version 1.0>
- First Version is Completed. Battle System, Stats, Menu Guide and
Hints completed
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7.) Credits!
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Love and Peace to everyone on Right Step. I know you all love me
there....
Also Love and Peace to Vast Lands of Grandia for being cool and
allowing me to migrate there for my holidays.
Special thanks to..... Rei for being the first person to read this
guide. and for being the only person to ever offer me ?100, WOW
Indalecio for being down right evil and saying that I never finish my
projects, and also for being a good friend and actually hearing me out
when I have a problem
Vortex (VORTY BABY) for being the best drawer on earth and for drawing
Icarius for me a while back (Fanfic in pipeline), and also for being a
good friend
Insulphus for our mad conversations.
Otakugirl for being helpful and helping me maintain the Grandia
Revolution (even though we hardly speak anymore).
Guardian Leen for helping me maintain my love for Grandia, for hosting
the Grandia music video I made, and for also helping cheer me up when
I've been down ^_^.
Lord Galcian for being a cool Geezer and doing some awesome coding on
VLoG
Gadwin/Conan/ Any other name he uses/ For being a good pain in the ass
when I wasn't to be one
Ancisace for his humour, that gets me through my day.
Angelus for telling me what a pixie stick is
Tio for a) allowing me to phone leen, and b) for chiding me on my
grammar,
Thanks to Game Arts, and Hudson for this awesome game....
Thanks also to Noriyuki Iwadare who ACTUALLY RESPONDED TO MY EMAIL! and
also making awesomese music
Very Special Thanks to hickory Stick for my life as it is, if it wasn't
for him I wouldn't be were i am now, honestly
Very Special thanks to Cicle for being one hell of a laugh and a cool
dude and the Flashest guy on Rightstep
Ultra Omni Special thanks to lt leen (from Rightstep) for being my soul
reason for life. without you, I would be well and truly dead. I love
you so very much ^_^ (uhh, she's my girl for those who wonder...)
I hope this helps you all..... love and peace
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Quotage
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Thou shall not kill, What kind of church man are you anyway - Vash
-------- says:
am i in them more than 8 times?? - Rei
And im spent - Austin Powers
Ahhh Space Jam! this is like my fave Disney film ever! - My sister, who
is 13...
