Romancing Saga: Minstrel Song -- Aldora

Please watch this video on BlipTV instead:
http://blip.tv/farelthegecko/romancing-saga-minstrel-song-aldora-4128192

SPOILERS!
Explanation: In Romancing Saga, one of the new characters (since this is a remake of a SNES game) is Darque the Assasin. He is only playable when several requirements are met, alongside it being not your first playthrough. I won't go into details, but either way... Darque's and Aldora's souls are inside Darque's body and Darque suffers from amnesia.

As you'll play through the game you'll raise his/her stats which shall allow you to see cutscenes where either Darque or Aldora recovers more of his/her memories. What matters most is apparently which final cutscene you'll get first... the Darque one you get when his Dexterity reaches 50+, for Aldora the Intelligence needs to reach 40+.

In this video I show:
-The last Aldora cutscene
-The encounter with Death and unlocking purgatory
-A bit of exploration of Purgatory and reaching the chamber where Aldora spend the whole eternity
-The re-recruitment in the city
-Her line during the final battle
-Her VERY special ending part where she's re-united with her love and we see how she really looked

Also pardon me for the low quality... YouTube hates Romancing Saga....

BTW I've discovered that Purgatory stays unlocked for all the next playthroughs too. So hey, guess that's a reason for completing it... Although considering how worthless the dungeon is, maybe not.

UPDATE! 07-07-2011 - EXCUSE ME! I've discovered something! I was told by some people (or make that 1 person on this video) that when you re-visit Purgatory, you can recruit Aldora. I checked and sadly it's all false. I went there, to the bottom with 1 free slot and Aldora showed up, but it was the same scene as in the quest. I never even invited her into the party before in that playthrough (Purgatory is unlocked for all next playthroughs)! I was thinking the whole effort was pointless, but finding the Wizard ring gave me over 700 jewels so it's at least something and when I talked to Aldora later, she came ... oh wait, she never was in my team before, so the proper term would be "invited herself into my team" and to my surprise, her stats were not so small. I've always used to start out each game by inviting everyone possible, so they keep raising their stats in case the party I've build sucked. I guess this is a nice alternative, regardless of the stats being not high. But I guess the characters DO level up regardless of being invited or not ... guess it's just more noticable when you've had them or maybe not. Whatever! She had 333 HP, which is underwhelming compared to the rest of the team, but her Agility was over 40 which exceeds all of my regular teammates and her Wizard class was Level 5 of course, I didn't reach level 5 with noone thus far (had some trouble at start, wanted my main to know all classes). I wonder how much that could save, at least if I were to turn her into a Rosalian Mage it'd be good, but I don't like neither Darque nor Aldora, so I won't likely go with neither of them for my 8th playthrough. Then again, level 5ing all 5 people would be expensive... We'll see... But anyways, for the last Aldora bits... this is a shortcut, guess I wasted my time re-raising that INT at a following playthrough (sigh)

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• PS2
• RPG
• jRPG
• Square
• Enix
• Soft
• Romancing
• SaGa
• Minstrel
• Song
• Playstation2
• Darque
• Aldora

[topkid1988]

1000 floors just to get another character?

Challenge accepted

[FarelTheGecko]

@topkid1988 Look, it's not exactly 1000, you skip over many of them, and it's not to get a character, it's to give him/her level 5 wizard for no jewel cost. But regardless of this big deal, I don't have Aldora in my party usually.

[FarelTheGecko]

@Manga911 BAH! I REPEAT: the purgatory was open for the next playthroughs, so I didnt have to relevel Aldora. Also, since I've killed Pyrix, I didn't have to unlock any ending to get to it. I just had to complete Purgatory and that wasn't that hard, just one afternoon time, nothing more. And now we know how it ends. Really dissapointing and as said, I'm not a fan of him/her so I doubt I'll get any of both into my team, regardless of the upside of that!

[Manga911]

@FarelTheGecko Thanks so much for doing that. Sorry, you pretty much wasted an entire playthrough, seeing as it didn't work. Oh well. Thanks again.

[FarelTheGecko]

@Manga911 Ok I just tested the whole "purgatory Aldora thing" check out the description of the video, I've edited it and added the update at the end, hope that helps you out

[BC3602bloopers]

@FarelTheGecko lol no prob can't w8 to see more vids from you

[FarelTheGecko]

@BC3602bloopers Thanks man, I really apreciate it!

[BC3602bloopers]

@FarelTheGecko well i subscribed even if your not famous at least try for 100

[FarelTheGecko]

@BC3602bloopers I am still around here and im still not too famous, so I dont get a lot of traffic, so you can always count on me replying.

And yes, I do reviews and plan to make a special video about the SaGa series one day. I'll most likely talk about Saga Frontier 2, Unlimited Saga and Romancing Saga MS.

[BC3602bloopers]

@FarelTheGecko lol thx and i didn't even know you would reply since the vid is kind of old