Googleshng:
Well, the best advice I can give you is, DON'T USE AI. In fact, that's really good advice in any game. I have never seen an RPG with AI that even came close to being competant. Beyond that, character build a little, wail away, and heal when you need it. I don't recall any bosses in either Grandia being too challenging if you have decent spells.

Googleshng:
That sounds about right yes. As soon as the generic villain rears his head, the recycled feeling of the whole game really starts to set in. It must suck to be doing market research for Square now though. "FF8 sucks! Everything's different!" "FF9 sucks! Everything's the same!" At least with FF10 we get to whine about something tangible. "FF10 sucks! The main character looks HIDEOUS!"

Googleshng:
Hmm... the only answer I can give to "Will there be a sequel to FFT?" is "Sort of." A long time ago, a bunch of people working for Quest made Tactics Ogre. Then they left, wandered over to Square, and made FFT. THEN they left Square, started calling themselves Maxfive, and started working on a game called Hoshigami. We have a good deal of info on it, which you can glance over as soon as the site is fully restored. Basically, it's just like FFT with some new features added, and all the specifically FF stuff (the classes, the monsters, the spells) replaced with original stuff. I'm drooling over it myself.

Googleshng:
YES. Vandal Hearts is worth playing for one very important reason. Most TRPGs start every fight with "Victory Condition: Defeat all enemies. Loss Condition: Death of [Main character]." Occassionally they throw in goals of killing a boss or protecting an NPC, maybe one timed fight if you're lucky, with all these fights taking place on more or less flat fields full of steadily more threatening monsters. Vandal Hearts however is FULL of very interesting and innovative fights. To name a couple examples, there's a fight where you have to destroy the evil towers causing some villagers to try and kill you while keeping as many of them alive as you can (automatic counter attacks make this tricky), there's the fight where you have to keep moving down the length of a train with a car detaching every 2 turns (effectively killing everyone on it), and a fight where you have to hit 4 switches scattered about to free someone from a James Bond-esque death trap,then finish the fight. On top of that, most fights take place in very interactive environments, with boulders to roll down hills, tricky elevators to elevate your archers, and of course, bricks to push! If only more TRPGs would be that creative. Especially VH2, but that's another rant.

Googleshng:
I don't have that song translation now, but I'm sure someone out there will toss me one upon reading this. You should probably play on normal first, since easy lobotomizes the game, and hard is, well, hard! Now, as for your Lunar 2 questions, well, I'm not QUITE sure what you're asking here, but let me give this a shot. The epilogue is in both versions of Lunar 2 (which are both called Eternal Blue for the record, the PSX remake just adds the word Complete). In addition to the little subquests to gather all the movies, bromides, and ability to play music, in both versions, the epilogue contains the actual end of the game... and then the Outtakes!

Hello there slimy one!
Did your computer bite the dust or something? Becouse I never saw a column for yesterday. Did your cat eat it or something?
Mary-Alice Davies

Vyse from SOA is a member of the Blue Rogues. Rogue is french for red, so Vyse is a "Blue Red?"
-Sibhod

Who first thought of the idea behind hit points, magic points, and experience points?

BL Alien

Hello...did you know that you are a search engine? Thank you for your time, and may the farts be with you.

DarK TaloN

Am I the only person who thinks that NO system is worth buying unless it has at least three games that are worth buying? And isn't that all a matter of opinion anyways?

The Last Laugh: