How to get the Zodiac Spear (in fifteen easy steps!)
- Look up on GameFAQs which arbitrarily-placed treasures to avoid.
- Play Final Fantasy XII for about 30 hours.
- Figure out enough of the medicine-hunting sidequest in the Estersand to get across the river and into Mosphoran Highwaste.
- Kill King Bomb. (This is the easy part!)
- Run through like nine maps’ worth of unkillable monsters who can one-shot you.
- “AAAAAAAHHHHH!!”
- Get Zodiac Spear.
- Run back because there aren’t any save points anywhere, forever.
- “AAAAAAAHHHHH!!”
- “Hey look, a save point!”
- OH GOD IT WAS A MONSTER.
- Reset.
- Repeat steps five through nine.
- Save! (For real this time!)
- “I need how many license points!? Jesus Christ!”
For me, at least, the Zodiac Spear will always remain as a myth; stories of it shall be heard but its visage shall never be seen by mine eyes. Only one as pure as a Galahad and as unwavering as the sun shall ever have the conviction and perseverance to behold it.
I screwed up the medicine quest (I think) on my first play, so I couldn’t get it early. But I’ve avoided all the ‘SCREW U’ treasures so I’ll be able to pick it up eventually. Perhaps when I do a replay I’ll try and get it as early as possible (along with that Nihaldooaldndfujskdaoa item)
My method:
1) Learn about the absolute bullshit FAQ-bait chests.
2) Say “fuck that noise” and open the chests.
3) Get bored and stop playing about ten hours in anyway.
Steps 5 through 9 remind me of the time I hunted down a Mark in the Necrohol of Nabudis about 10, maybe 15 levels before it actually would have been feasible to do so.
FF12 is a decent game, but stuff like this is just stupid.
oh haha, I personally think FF12 is the best of the modern FF-games(after 6), but not without flaws.
Personally I messed up at step 1, as I didn’t use anything but translation guides(played in Japanese).