Version 1.8

Based on the Japanese release of Wild Arms: 2nd Ignition for the Sony PlayStation

This is my first walkthrough, but I’ve seen too many bad ones to know how to not make this suck. I also know a good bit of Japanese, so I’ll try to translate when I can.

Hydrus (mpgemma@unity.ncsu.edu)

9/23/99 – Started walkthrough

10/22/99 – Started section on monsters. A couple hours later, I found the Kaiju Card Shop. -_-;;

4/24/00 – Got to disc 2. ^^;

5/12/00 – Added section on learning Special Skills after getting emails asking about Tim’s.
Updated instructions for getting High Magic.
Changed “Roadblazer” to “Lord Blazer”

5/13/00 – Finished the game

5/21/00 – Updated Alchemic Plant section, since the password part has been screwing up people. The password in the English version should be “ISK”.
Added Music and Extra File.

5/27/00 – Added info on the Death Rune (Archeim, Ch. 17)
Added info on getting the three Guardian Lord Statues
(Dais, Ch. 19) and getting their three High Runes
(Reviving the Stone Gods, Other Stuff section)
Added info on getting Luceid (Magic Wolf Cave, Ch. 21)

5/28/00 – Added ARMs section, fixed misspellings

Features:
Pinch Attack – The monsters will only attack one of your party members, who must fight them alone. Before the monsters appear, you’ll see a message like “Ashley no Pinchu”. After a few rounds, the rest of your party will join in.

Back Attack – The member(s) who are in the back row will get attacked, instead of your main group. Your back row is anyone in the right three slots on your menu screen.

Encounter Cancel – Before you get into a random fight, an exclamation point will appear above your head. If the balloon is red, you cannot avoid the fight and may even be surprise attacked. If the balloon is white or green, pressing Triangle, Square, or Start will cancel the encounter. Select will bring up the map screen, but will NOT cancel the encounter. Monsters are persistent though, so if you cancel the fight, expect to get another one in a few seconds. After four or five cancels, you’ll usually get a red exclamation point and have to fight. Green usually means that you’ll get first attack, but not always.

Force Points – Unlike last game, you need a certain amount of Force Points to use your special skills, such as ARMs and Magic. However, you don’t lose FP when you use these skills. Also unlike last game, you start each fight with FP equal to your current level, and get more FP as you use the Fight command or get attacked.

Bugs:
If you switch out a confused party member during the fight, the guy who takes his place will look to be confused too, but won’t be.

Learning Special Skills:

Ashley:
Ashley will find wrenches in treasure chests that he can use from the item screen to give himself new ARMs abilities.

Brad:
Brad will find white treasure chests along the way that he has to kick open. He’ll receive an ARM from each chest that he can use immediately.

Riruka:
Riruka can take Crest Graphs that she finds to magic shops throughout Filgaia and get spells inscribed on them. You can have one spell per Crest Graph. If you can figure out how, you can learn how to use High Magic, which are more powerful spells.

Tim:
Tim has 20+ Guardian Lore spells he can learn. Each spell falls into a subcategory corresponding to a type of Guardian Rune you can find. You need to kill monsters in order to learn these spells, and Tim’s status screen tells you how many monsters you need to kill to learn each spell. The trick is that Tim only learns spells in the same category as the rune he currently has equipped. So if you’re using Stoldark, the Water Rune, you’ll only gain points towards water spells. Fight something easy like Balloons near Meria Town and you can learn all his spells in an hour or so. You’ll be able to learn more spells when you get new runes.

Kanon:
Kanon receives new skills randomly as she uses her old ones. For each of her skills, she has a fixed chance of learning a stronger version of that skill. For example, when using a level 1 skill, she may have a 60% chance of learning a level 2 skill. Higher level skills are harder to learn. Your success rate is also determined by Kanon’s Luck. If her luck isn’t Best, you’ll have a hard time learning new skills.

Mariabel:
Mariabel starts out with a skill called Ability Drain. Using this skill on certain monsters will allow Mariabel to learn their special attack.

ARMs: (might not be a complete list):

Music:
“WILDARMS 2ndIgnition ~ Donna Toki de mo Hitori Ja Nai”
“Yozora” (Night Sky)
“Atomic Arms”
“Resistance Line”
“Kiseki” (Miracle)
“Last Ignition”
“Zephyrs’s”

Notes on the walkthrough:
I don’t have the best Japanese skills, so I might have misinterpreted some of the scenes. I did the best I could though, so you’ll at least have some idea of what’s going on. Item names, monster names, technique names… almost all of these are written in katakana, which is the Japanese way to write foreign words. I assumed that all of these words were taken from English, so I gave my best guess of what I thought they’d be. The problem comes with made-up words like “AGAATORAAMU”, in which case I came up with what I thought the best English spelling would be. The official English release mangles the spelling into “Argetlahm” or something similar.

Chapter names are my creation. The game is not split into chapters, but I wanted to divide the story up. Boss hit points are an approximation. They’ll be close enough.

Also note that the official English spelling of Riruka is “Lilka”. Why, I don’t know. It’s clearly written in large English letters “Riruka Eleniak” in the Japanese manual.

To start the game, choose one of the three characters. If you choose Brad first, start with Chapter 2. If you choose Riruka, start with Chapter 3. You will need to complete all three before moving on to Chapter 4, but the order doesn’t matter.