Breath of Fire II - Low Level Game: Intro / Fishing Minigame

[thendcomes]

You don't lose your bait if you reel the lime in without a fish attached. Also, repeatedly pressing A is a BAD method that results in a lot of snapped lines. You need to rhythmically hold a for a half second and let go over and over.

[gutbolt]

If you are using an emulator then just crank up the game speed and set your attack button to turbo. then just walk around holding down the turbofied attack key and you will be going through random battles in 1-2 sec each.

[MoogleBoss]

@gutbolt

What if you don't want to gain any levels?

[gutbolt]

@MoogleBoss It sounded like you were presenting a money making solution. So when i saw you were using an emulator i brought up the speed thing. Its fast money as well. Why dont you wanna gain levels?

[MoogleBoss]

@gutbolt

Players may often choose not to overlevel so that the game remains fun.

In this particular video, I'm playing the lowest level challenge as the title indicates and the only experience that the party gets is from bosses and mandatory battles. Deatheven was beaten by a lv. 12-13 party in the end, I finished it 2 years ago or so and recorded most of it.

[gutbolt]

@MoogleBoss Oh ok ive never heard of doing that before.

[KalebAsmadi]

An easier option for getting the StickRod instead of this tedious process is to take the TreePole you get from the flashback, AND the LifePl (Life Pill) you get from the Elder's room in the Ranger Guild, and sell them. TreePole sells for 50G, and LifePl sells for 250G, which gives you the 300G necessary for the StickRod without a single unforced encounter.

[MoogleBoss]

@KalebAsmadi

The purpose of all this finishing isn't to buy a StickRod. We need thousands of cash here.

[KalebAsmadi]

@MoogleBoss

I realize this, however, using the TreePole to even try getting the cash for the StickRod is stupidly tedious (and you even say so in the video summary!) but selling the TreePole and LifePl from the Elder's office reduces the pain of the first fishing expedition.

Not that you don't need to savestate when you've only got one worm, but using the TreePole at all should be recommended against. The StickRod will make life easy, and you'll pull in cash faster.

[isuraeru7]

way to puss out.

[surethingbaby]

Hello, I'm a big fan of the Mahavishnu Orchestra and video games. The two go together really well. If you ask me, the Mahavishnu Orchestra is the heaviest rock band of all-time even thought they're tagged jazz/rock.

[Malagor01]

Do you find the fishing to be faster than hunting? I know with hunting you get 200 per roast. I can see how fishing might be faster since hunting can get annoying if the prey zig zag a lot.

At the point your at now you're prolly cooking up goldbars though. ;)

[MoogleBoss]

To be honest, I haven't taken the time to compare which is more effective. I was more than comfortable with this method of farming as I'm more used to it. Moreover, the emulator's save state and fast-forward functions make the process extremely fast.

True, GoldBars have long replaced either of the ways you mentioned when it comes to efficiency.

[neilpeart311]

You can spawn a fishing spot almost every time if you walk up and down, all the way to the left of the continent. Those are my findings!

[MoogleBoss]

That's pretty much it.

[LaZodiac]

My god. Your doing a game I HAVEN'T played. Yay! Good luck Boss!

[Animeguy4567]

Can't wait until you fight Barubary. Fighting him with level 12 and 13 characters isn't going to be easy:P

[SwerdMurd]

@Animeguy4567 can't wait til he runs the "Capcom's retarded forest" also known as the Bobo or w/e Forest...endless sleep + autocrit + healing enemies + no runaway chance...that'll be...uh...fun :/ (this dungeon is the reason i hate this game)

[MoogleBoss]

Yeah, this challenge should be fun. Fishing is actually the least tedious way of farming for money, now that I think about it.

I totally forgot to include the song's name in the video description, it's "You Know, You Know" by Mahavishnu Orchestra.

[geofofblades]

i loved the original breath this brings back some memories