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Suikoden 2 Castle FAQ


            Suikoden 2 Castle FAQ/Walkthrough


YOUR CASTLE
-	Levels
-	Shops
-	Helpful Areas
-	Other Interesting Things and Places
-	Mini Games
-	Anything I Might Have Missed
-	Credits
-	Disclaimer

-_-_-_-_-_-_-Your Castle-_-_-_-_-_-_-
-Levels-
Your town grows every time you recruit someone, but there
are certain points in the game where it grows a lot in a
quick spurt.

~Level 1~
This is, of course, what it starts on. It stays like this
till you have

1.	Recruited 30 people
2.	Join forces with Two River City

~Level 2~
Once it's level 2, it stays level 2 until you

1.	Recruit 61 people
2.	Recruit Klaus and Kiba

~Level 3~
The castle starts getting very big and confusing at this
point, with the huge amount of rooms and tunnels that, in
fact, all join together. If you're not careful you could
find yourself lost in your own castle! But, it gets even
bigger as soon as you

1. Recruit 102 people
3.	This level is the final level, and last until you beat
Suikoden 2

-Shops-
Of course, certain people you recruit run shops in the town
and castle. With all 108 characters, you'll have everything
from an Inn to a Trade Center.

~Item Shop~
Owner: Alex
Alex runs the Item shop in town, and stocks whatever item
shop you've visited before stocked. For example, if you
went to a town and went to an item shop that sold Mega
Medicine, Mega Medicine will be added to Alex's inventory.
Outstandingly useful, if you ask me.

~Armor Shop~
Owner: Hans
Hans, of course, sells Armor. Like Alex, he stocks whatever
armor shops you've visited so far.

~Rune Master~
Owner: Jeane
Once Jeane is recruited, you'll have your own Rune Master 
to engrave, remove, or sell Runes. She sells, you guessed 
it, whatever the Rune Master's shop's sold that you've 
visited before!

~Magic Scrolls~
Owner: Raura
This special shop is opened after you get Raura to join 
you. She specializes in Magic Scrolls (i.e. Flame Wall). 
This is the only shop of its sort in the game giving it 
special qualities. Not only does she sell Magic Scrolls, 
but also if you bring a Rune to her, she'll actually change 
it into a Scroll!  


~Trade Center~
Owner: Gordon 
Gordon opens a Trade center, which can make you quite rich. 
You have to know what to trade at what center, of course,
to get the best results. The following chart should clear 
this up a little. As you can see by looking at it, some 
items are real good investments, while other aren't as 
good. 

Item to Trade   Best Place to Buy       Best Place to Sell

Ancient Text    700p, Kobold Town       35000p, Forest Town                                                             
Book            3500p, Forest Town      7300p, Rockaxe City 
Crystal Ball    300p, Crom Village      7000p, Kobold Town 
Candle          200p, Rokkaku Town      750p, Crom Village
Deer Antler     1100p, Forest Town      5500p, Headquarters
Flute           200p, Headquarters      700p, Rockaxe City
Fur             350p, Headquarters      800p, South Window
Gold Bar       17000p, Rokakku Town    40000p, Highway Town
Holly Barrie    550p, Forest Town       1100p, Rockaxe City
Mayonnaise      400p, South Window      2200p, Highway Town
Musk            4500p, Highway Town     8500p, Crom Village
Native Costume  800p, Gregminster       2500p, Highway Town 
Pearl          18000 Rokakku Town      35000p, Rockaxe City
Red Pepper      1200p, Crom Village     3200p, Rockaxe City
Salt            270p, South Window      700p, Rokakku Town
Soy Sauce       300p, Rokakku Town      850p, Gregminster 
Sugar           150p, Forest Town       550p, Highway Town
Wine            650p, Gregminster       1900p, Rockaxe City
Wooden Amulet   350p, Kobold Town       850p, Crom Village

-Helpful Areas-
Aside from shops, your town includes other helpful areas of 
interest, such as an Inn.

~Inn~
Owner: Hilda
Alex's wife, Hilda reopens her old Inn in your 
headquarters! It is, of course, useful to be able to rest 
and save before a major battle or something of that nature 
without having to go to the nearest town and back.

~Appraiser~
Owner: Lebrante
This is the only 'useful area' I'm not exactly satisfied 
with. At 400p per appraisal, it's actually better to go to 
a town and get it done there.

~Telescope~
An interesting addition, indeed. On top of the castle's
watchtower, you'll find a telescope that's used for 
sightseeing. It's useless, actually, but still pretty 
neat-o.

~Library~
Owner: Emilia
Whenever you get Emilia to join you, you'll get a library. 
Once you do, go get all your 'Old Books' from the storeroom 
and give them to her. She'll put them on the shelf and you 
can read them, intern, getting some sort of history lession 
about the game or other information. It's actually quite 
interesting.

~Storeroom~
Owner: Barbara
This is outstandingly useful, and best of all, you get it 
at near the start of the game. This is used for storing 
items that you might not need at the moment, or when you 
have to make some quick room in your inventory. With the 
Storeroom, you won't have to drop items nearly as much as
you WOULD have to.

~Cartographer~
Owner: Templeton
Otherwise known as a mapmaker, Templeton has made a map of 
the whole State area. Not only does he give you one when 
you recruit him, but he also posts one on the wall of your 
castle. This huge map simply list towns, locations, 
buildings, and pictures of every town featured in the game 
(except Greminster, I think).

~The Bar~
Owner: Leona
Now, this may sound a bit useless, but it's actually not.
Aside from running the bar, Leona also manages your party 
members. Of course, this is anything but useless!

~Fast Transportation~
Owner: Viki
Viki is a pretty messed up girl, but she can get you around
very fast nonetheless. Once you recruit her, you'll be able 
to teleport to any single city you've already visited 
(except Greminster). Something you should know, also. The 
more you use Viki to get around, the better chance you have 
of getting accidentally teleported to a secret room in the 
game! You'll know if Viki says "Huh?" instead of "Shazam!" 
then you're on your way to the secret room. If you DO get 
to the room, WALK, don't run, take every treasure you see 
(its really good stuff) and soon someone will run up the 
stairs, find you, and throw you out.

-Other Interesting Things and Places-
Interesting things and places are things like the 
Suggestion Box, or the Bronze Statue you get sometime in
the game.

~Suggestion Box~
This appears outside the Main Hall. People write things and 
leave them in the box for you to read. Of course, there 
isn't always something in there, but the more people you
get, the more letters you get as well. 

~Troop Placement~
This is quite nifty, but not really necessary for beating 
the game. Still, you can tinker around with your units (the 
ones that are used in major battles). The possibilities are 
simply endless! I suggest you experiment with this a bit, 
you may find something you like. When you want to mess with 
your troops, talk to Apple in the Main Hall.

~Boat~
The boat, which rests at the docks, can be used to sail 
anywhere in the lake, but you'll probably just start using 
Viki for your main sort of transportation once you have
her.

~Window Settings~
Once you have Tenkou, give him the Window Sets that you've 
found for new window setting options! Useless, but neat-o!!

~Bronze Statue~
When your castle is finally level 4 a statue will appear on 
the fourth floor telling you who has been the most useful 
in the battles of the game to that point.

~Sound Settings~
When you've recruited Connell, give all your Sound Sets to 
him and you'll be able to change the game's menu sound 
effects.

~Guardian Deity Statue~
Jude, who you recruit during the game, builds this statue. 
But you also need to collect all the 16 plans scattered 
over the world. You can build a Dragon, a Bunny, a Unicorn
or a Turtle. Or you can mix them up, which can get&#8230; sort of 
interesting. The first time you build a statue, you'll 
receive some sort of gift. Below is a list of what you can 
get. I've used abbreviations so it won't take as long to 
type (I'm lazy!!!). The abbreviations are as follows:
D = Dragon
R = Rabbit
T = Turtle
U = Unicorn
1 = Plan 1
2 = Plan 2
3 = Plan 3
4 = Plan 4
  
Body    Tail    Legs    Head    Item you receive 
D3      D2      D1      D4      Dragon Incense
U3      U2      D1      D4      Rage Rune
U3      U2      U1      D4      Skunk Rune
U3      U2      T1      D4      Firefly Rune
T3      T2      D1      D4      Gold Bar
T3      U2      R1      D4      Wall Rune
R3      R2      D1      D4      Dragon Incense or Fortune     
Rune 
D3      D2      D1      T4      Silver Armor 
D3      U2      U1      T4      Technique Rune
D3      D2      T1      T4      Whirlwind Armor
D3      U2      T1      T4      Silence Rune
T4      U1      R2      U3      Boulder Set or Toy Boat 
T4      T1      U2      U3      Mother Earth Rune
T4      R1      D2      U3      Dream Robe
T4      D1      T2      T3      Prosperity Rune 
T4      T1      T3      D1      Mother Earth Rune
T4      D1      D2      R3      Robe of Mist
T4      T1      U2      R3      Dryad Rune
T4      T1      R2      R3      Cyclone Rune
R4      R1      U2      U3      Phero Rune
R4      T1      T2      T3      Fine Bone China
R4      R1      T2      T3      Prosperity Rune or Fortune 
Rune 
R4      R1      R3      D2      Chaos Shield
U4      T1      D3      T2      Landscape Painting 
U4      T1      R2      D3      Rubber Duck
U4      T1      U2      U3      Hunter Rune
U4      U1      T2      T3      Thunder Rune
U4      U1      T2      T3      Flowing Rune
U4      T1      T2      T3      Goddess Statue
U4      R1      R2      R3      Fortune Rune

~Ranch~
The ranch is where Yuzu hangs out. Whenever you find a farm 
animal, catch it and she'll take care of it for you. Of 
course, this really increases the food supply of the 
restaurant in your castle quite a bit.  

~Farm~
Right next to the ranch is this farm. Bring Tony seeds to 
plant and you'll have a garden in no time at all.

~The Band~
When you've gotten Albert, Pico and Annallee to join, you
can talk to them and they'll play you any background music 
you want to hear from the game. Oh, by the way, be sure to 
listen to the neat-o morning music (nicely titled Beautiful 
Morning)!!!

~Richmond~
Richmond can give you nice hints on where to find new 
recruits, and how to get them. He also tells you secrets 
about the people in your army! 

-Mini Games-
~The Old Whack-A-Mole Game~
Location: The Farm
Owner: Tony

Tony's garden has a lot of moles that need to be beaten, 
and so you can beat them for him! Alright!! There are about 
four difficulty levels, beat the four of them and you'll 
get some Mole armor.

~Fishing~
Location: The Docks
Owner: Yam Koo

Fishing is probably the easiest mini game. Simply keep the 
power gauge in the big bar going up and down; and you'll
have a fish, or a boot. The list goes on. The best fish is 
Salmon, which can be sold for over 4000p. 

~Dancing~
This can get kinda tough, for me especially cause my 
reflexes aren't that great. This game has five levels of 
hardness, and stages four and five are random when it comes 
to the dance! However, levels one two and three have set 
dance steps to follow.

Level 1: 
Triangle       
Square 
Circle
X
Triangle
X
Circle 
Square

Level 2:
Triangle       
Square 
Circle
X
Triangle
X
Circle 
Square
Triangle 
Square 
Circle
X
Triangle
X
Circle
Square

Level 3:
Circle
Square
Triangle
Triangle
Square
X
Circle
X
Circle
Square
Triangle 
Triangle
Square
X
Circle
X
Circle 
Square
Triangle
Triangle
Square
X
Circle
X

Level 4:
Random, but watch out for the use of the L1 and R1 buttons.

Level 5: 
Same as Level four.

As you can plainly see, it gets much hardy each dance. You 
can win some nice stuff from this, though, so good luck!

~The Climbing Game~
This is pretty interesting, I must say. There are three 
leagues; they all have their own prizes and prices to play. 
It's pretty much just a big board game, really. But even 
so, there are some really nice prizes to be won! To make it 
really annoying though, the prizes are chosen at random and 
depend on if you came in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.

The Expert 10000p League:
3rd                    2nd                 1st 
Mega Medicine         Ninja Suit          Turtle Plans 4
Graffiti              Silverlet           Goldlet   
Sunglasses            Sexy Wink           Celadon Urn
Mantle                Kite Shield         Kaikioku Wear
                                          Millet Dumpling  
                                          Gold Bar
                                          Dog Whistle 

The Intermediate 5000p League:
3rd                    2nd                 1st
Medicine              Stone of Power      Invisible Smile
Boots                 Magic Stone         Ninja Suit
Failure Urn           Boulder Set         Silver Shield
                      Lubricating Oil     Secret Writings
                      Deer Antler         Blur Dragon Urn
                                          Leisure Set

The Beginner 1000p League:
3rd                    2nd                 1st
Medicine              Teriyaki            Karate Uniform
Wooden Shoes          Gauntlet            Cup of Promise
Hex Doll              Blow of Anger Card  Sun Patch
                      National Outfit     Wide Urn
                                          Rose Bouquet 

And that's about it! Even though this game can be 
frustrating, it's also fun, sometimes. ?  

~Chinchirorin~
Once you get Shilo, you can have the pleasure of playing 
this outstandingly annoying and frustrating game any time
you want!!! YEAH!!!!

~Cooking~
This is probably the most popular mini game in Suikoden 2. 
But it would be a waste of my time to write an ingredients 
list or something, since there are several on the Internet!
When you recruit Hai Yo, strange chefs will appear and 
challenge him all the time. Be sure to visit the restaurant 
often to see if a new chef is there.

-Anything I Might Have Missed-
This section is always open for people to send me anything 
they want me to put up about the castle that I missed. I 
only have one thing at the moment, and that is this list of 
things to do in your bath. And I've only heard of these 
things, I've never bothered to do any of them yet. So if 
you want to tell me any more things to do for bath time 
fun, or want to tell me what some of these combos do, feel 
free.

Bring Viktor and Flik into the cypress bath.  
     
Bring Viktor and Flik into the jungle bath.
 
With any party, put six Blue Dragon Vases around the bath 
and two Landscape Paintings.

Enter the bath 20 times once your castle reaches level
four.

Put six Vases and two Flower Paintings Around the bath.

Put six Hex Dolls and to Graffiti's around the bath.

Put six Hex Dolls around the bath.

Put six Chinese Dishes all around the bath.

Put six Pertain Lamps around the bath.








