Final Fantasy: Lost in Japanese

Well, after thinking things over for a bit, I decided to try to beat Atmos again so that we could keep the half mana hat that we got from the triceratops. After we beat Atmos the first time, the whole tower blew up, so I don’t think there is any way to get the hat again if I don’t get it right now. I don’t want to get another ten hours into the game and think, “Gee, I sure wish I had a half mana hat so that I could beat this boss,” and not be able to get one. If you remember back to Final Fantasy IV, with its incredibly powerful kitchen knife, you’ll know what I mean.

So once again we march up to the top of the tower to take on Atmos. Because we won the first battle by 63 hit points, I was concerned that we might never beat Atmos again, but we were smarter this time through. Atmos stars the fight by chucking around incredibly powerful comets, but he stops attacking once he’s knocked out one party member. At that point, he starts to suck the dead body to him. So this time, once he knocked out someone, I just left them for dead until the character got right in front of Atmos, then I revived and healed them very quickly. Atmos would toss some comets around again, and invariably would quickly kill a different party member. Then I’d wail on Atmos again while he slowly drew this next corpse to him.

Using this strategy, it was actually fairly easy to beat Atmos this time. We ended the fight with three party members alive, and only had two characters near Atmos’ mouth. I’m getting smarter!

With our prized half-mana hat in hand, we make our way through the cut scenes again and end up at the submarine. And it turns out that it was a very good idea to fight the Atmos battle again. After the fight, our party mentions that we can go to some underwater cave because we have the submarine. I completely missed this line the first time through, and had no idea where we should go. Now that I caught this line, I know exactly where to go! Double bonus!

Status: To the Underwater Cave!