Sometimes you reserve an hour to finish a game, and sometimes you realize that RPG's need more than that. I should have learned from my last play of Dragon Quest 8 that games these days take more than an hour to complete (from the last save point), and damn, the endings are long. In the finishing of Rogue Galaxy, I have to say there are a lot of things left to do. I beat the game, but my completion of it is way under par. I have an empty log for the Factory mini-game, missing one beast on my battle recorder, the Ghost ship to conquer, several uniforms to find, and yet to begin the insectron breeding game. I guess I just want to see the end. And a fine ending it is.
Before we get to the end, I shall recap since the first time I wrote about Rogue Galaxy. Your team of eight space pirates wander into a warp gate to reach the lost planet of Eden. They find out that Eden has been the only thing holding off the Evil of the galaxy from spewing into their world, and the root of all evil is Mother. She becomes the new villain of focus, outdoing Valkog the war profiteer. The tactic for defeating Mother is explained as the collecting of Dregellum (spiritual essense?) orbs and forging a sword with it. With that all done, and as stories unfold about your starting line-up of eight, we go on to fight Mother.
She turns out to be a being living in a river of rune power, the source of all evil in Rogue Galaxy. The first two bodies are not difficult, just hack away with Illusion Sword, and since you have three guys, you will always have one guy to revive the other two. The Third form comes with a twist, Valkog returns. Yes traveled all the way from Zerard to find you and more rune. His air-ship flies a bit too close to the river of rune, and since the rune has lost it's host, it decides to suck in the next most evil dude... there you have it, a reason to create a half-mecha, half-alien boss to end the game.
Now here's the hard part: each of your characters must destroy a part of the machine. Hopefully you have not neglected your lesser used party members. Their levels should be fine, anything above 58 or so. But the problem might be your equipment. Use the Frog! Get weapons that are above level 47. I think the hardest two are Lilika's and Zegram's bosses. For Lilika, you'll have to attack the boss on the wall while the walking tank is falling apart. For Zegram, you'll have to run around until the evil scientist wacks its arm down to the ground, then quickly use Twin Sword and run up the arm and attack as fast as you can. Now everything is a bit harder, because as you can guess, you'll die if your guy dies. Nobody will be there to revive you.
And lastly Jaster fights Valkog. You know how these last fights are. Ending is pretty good and of course there is a New Game Plus Mode, so I'll have to see if I want to play that.
Completion: Beat the game, 100% of Frog Log, Reached #1 of Hunter Rankings.
Hours Spent: 65 Hrs 16 Mins
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