BREATH OF FIRE 2 WALKTHROUGH
Version:       1.00
Created On:    Thursday, March 1 2001    
Last Revised:  3/8/01
Created By:    PB8J@hotmail.com

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version 1.00  Last Revised:  Thursday March 8, 2001


I n t r o d u c t i o n

LV:
The levels I list are just guidelines.  You should never enter an area if the 
hero (Ryu)'s levels are under 2 or 3 of what the recommended is.  If your Ryu 
is higher than the recommended level, good job.  Don't feel bad, I myself go 
through the game at higher levels but this is just for people who want to get 
thru the game as quickly as possible but not die every five minutes at the 
same time.

Items:
There will be times where you won't be able to get certain items in places 
such as HomeTown until advancing further in the game.  For instance, you 
can't enter the church, which has a Herb in one of the dressers in until 
after going through Mt.Fubi and some other places.  I've taken the 
responsibility of putting up these places again when it's a good time to go 
back to that place and get the item(s) so you won't forget.

Any item followed by a "*" means it's a special item.  Special items are 
under the "spcl" menu in the Item's list and cannot be used.  Sometimes 
they'll disappear from the menu after you use them (i.e. Gold fly for one of 
the ingredients you must give to Jean for him to prepare his special cuisine)

The # of items basically means how many treasure chests and miscellaneous 
items (i.e. items you search thru drawers and cabinets) combined are there in 
the area.  It also includes chests that contain money.

Ok, that's all there is that you really need to know to follow this thing.

W a l k t h r u

1.  "Gate"       Items:  3  Group:  Ryu  LV1
TreePole - Search the dresser in your room
Herb     - Search the dresser on the second floor of the middle house in town
Herb     - Search the medicine cabinet on the first floor of the north town

The game begins in a black and white scheme with Ganer calling out your name 
and telling you to come to him.  Do so, but first note one of the reoccurring 
themes of Breath of Fire 2--the drawers.  Like in Final Fantasy 3 by 
searching urns and barrels, in Breath of Fire 2 searching drawers and 
medicine cabinets have items for you to obtain.  So search the drawer in 
Ryu's room for a TreePole and then go down the stairs to meet with Ganer.  
He'll ask you if you'll go find Yua, say Yes and exit the church.  From the 
church, keep heading up until finding a bush and then clear it.  Continue up 
to enter a new area called BushLand.

2.  "BushLnd"    Items:  0  Group:  Ryu  LV1
No Items

Stay on the middle path and enter the opening.  Now everything should be in 
color.  Continue up a bit and you'll find Yua but suddenly a monster comes 
and fights you.  Keep attacking it until Ryu's health is low, then out of 
nowhere Ganer comes and kills it off.  He'll then ask you a question, it 
doesn't matter what you say but I tend to tell him not true.  Then Yua and 
Ganer will leave and the game will ask you if you'd like to close your eyes--
it doesn't matter what you say except that if you say yes, the music will be 
silent for some reason.  Anyway, once you decide, exit BushLand and head back 
to Gate.  The villagers will be asking you who you are and where you came 
from, it seems something strange has just happened that you don't know about 
(yet).  After talking to everyone, enter the church and talk to Father Hulk.  
He'll assume you're an orphan and give you a bed to sleep on.  While you 
sleep a little puppy-like character will wake you up and ask you if you're 
going to stay at the church.  It doesn't matter what you say because you will 
have to go with him for the game to progress further.  Bow will then join 
you.  Exit the church and exit Gate.  Now you'll be outside, head west and 
the rain will begin to pour down.  Continue west and enter the little cave.

3.  "ShowCave 1F"Items:  0  Group:  Ryu, Bow  LV1
No Items

Bow will light the candle so you can see.  Follow the path and you'll 
discover a weird looking tail, follow it and you'll discover it's a very very 
big monster.  It'll whack Bow out of the way so Ryu will have to fight it on 
his own.  Don't worry, you are supposed to die in this fight as you can tell 
there is no way a little kid could match up with a monster like Barubary.  
Once you pass out he'll talk to you about God and then the game will have 
finished with the introduction.  Now is when the real game really begins!

4.  "HomeTown"   Items:  2  Group:  Ryu, Bow  LV1
LifePl   - Search the medicine cabinet in the ranger elder's house
Antdt    - Search the dresser on the second floor of the Inn

Ten years later, you'll find out Bow and Ryu are full-fledged workers and the 
Elder will offer you a job.  The job is to find a pet pig called Suzy.  But 
the only reason why Bow wants to do this job is because he has the hots for 
the owner, Mina :)  Exit the guild/house and you'll be able to explore 
HomeTown--sort of.  You see the northern part is blocked off by some people 
standing in the way but don't worry, you'll be able to get there later in the 
game.  For now, exit HomeTown and do the RPG routine of walking around the 
town and building up levels and money.  Try getting Ryu to at least LV4 and 
then use your money to buy some of the equipment in town.  You may notice 
some grass and fishing spots that appear on the map.  The grass spot is 
useful because if you enter it (by pushing the A button), you'll enter a 
little hunting range where you can hunt down animals for roast and meats.  
You can then sell the roasts for 200Z a pop which is far more faster than 
fighting the baddies around town!  Once you're fully prepared, enter the 
circus just south of HomeTown if you like or head east and then south to 
reach Mt.Fubi.

5.  "Circus"     Items:  0   Group:  Ryu, Bow  LV4
No Items

There's really no objective here..this is simply for fun and you can feed a 
turtle and make it go super fast.  Don't waste your 30Z if you're actually 
serious about the game though.
      
6.  "Mt.Fubi"    Items:  2   Group:  Ryu, Bow  LV5
SaladBwl  - Inside the cave blocked by a rock, continue south to find a chest
FireRock  - Inside the cave blocked by a rock, continue south to find a chest

As you head north you'll hear some hissing sounds, for now just ignore them 
and enter the little opening.  You'll now see a little water spring inside 
where you can cure yourself of all ailments and your HP fully.  Use this to 
your advantage and build up levels, if you can get up to LV6 you'll be 
comfortable from here on out.  Once you're done, continue north and when you 
exit the mini cave you'll hear some more voices.  Now you're getting hotter, 
continue just a little bit and you'll finally discover the source of all that 
noise.  You'll now fight your real first boss fight and this time you can't 
die.

Palo Peach Puti Boss Fight
Have Ryu attack always.  Have Bow first cast Def-Up on Ryu and then Cure1 
whenever his health is in danger.  They'll then begin to attack each other 
and now it's easy for you to finish all three of them off but keep in mind 
that the middle one has the most HP.

OK, once you're through with that battle it might be a good idea to go back 
to that water spring and make sure Bow has full AP so he can cure Ryu if 
needed because you still have a little ways to go.  Once you decided, 
continue from where you were and head west and then north to find a little 
cave opening blocked by a small boulder.  Move it aside and it'll fall down 
collapsing the other cave opening where that spring was, meaning you will 
never be able to enter that part again.  Doesn't matter anyway, now you can 
continue into the new opening so do so.  This part is pretty straight 
forward, when you come to a fork in the road that obviously means that one of 
the paths will be a dead end but have a chest.  Once you're at the southern 
end you'll find a spacious wide gap in which you must fall into.  Now you'll 
find yourself in a new little room but with a man inside called Azusa.  He 
doesn't play a part in the game yet so don't worry about what he says for 
now.  Continue and then finally exit Mt.Fubi.  When you get to the map head a 
little ways to the west to come across some ruins

7.  "Ruins"      Items:  1  Group:  Ryu, Bow  LV6
Suzy*     - Niro will give Suzy back to you after you save him

Once you enter you'll hear someone cry help.  Go inside the half broken 
building and you'll find a man surrounded by a herd of cockroaches.  You'll 
have to battle them out so be prepared for what could be a laughable fight...

Pestx6 Boss Fight
How easy is this?  Just have Ryu fight and he'll knock off each pest in one 
blow.  Have Bow cast Cure1 if needed.

Now you'll fight the real boss of it all!  A huge roach.

Roach Boss Fight
This insect fight is almost as easy as the other, have Ryu always attack and 
Bow should attack unless Ryu absolutely needs a Cure1 lift.

Now Niro will thank you and ask you to eat with him, but the problem is that 
what he wants to eat is no less the object of your journey!  Ryu and Bow will 
save Suzy from the burning fire (Illusion of Gaia anyone?) and Bow will put 
Suzy in his bag (heh).  Bow will then ask Ryu to hurry up and get back to 
HomeTown.  OK, now you'll have to go all the way back thru Mt.Fubi but 
remember that now there is a new little shortcut so you don't have to go thru 
any of the cave openings.  Once you're at HomeTown enter the Guild and find 
the Elder.  Bow and Ryu will hand Suzy over and Mina will be happy...but not 
happy enough to give Bow that kiss he wanted.  Anyhow, exit the Guild and Bow 
will ask Ryu if he wishes to rest.  Say Yes (saying no will not allow the 
game to progress further) and you'll sleep.  While Ryu is sleeping Bow will 
open the door and a man named Kilgore will enter.  Kilgore wants Bow to take 
back a treasure someone stole from him.  Bow agrees to the job and decides 
not to wake Ryu in spite of Ryu's much more powerful status :)
Anyhow, Ryu awakens but it's still night time in HomeTown.  Exit the house 
and head a little north and a woman will bump into you, continue north 
(remember this is the part of town you couldn't go to before hand) and talk 
to Kilgore and then he'll explain that he didn't mean for Bow to get into 
trouble.  Anyhow, after all of this go back to your room and you'll find Bow 
(note that for Bow to appear in your room you must have talked to Kilgore).  
Talk to him and he'll ask you if you think he stole anything, just say No 
because you're his friend after all, and he'll begin to explain everything.  
After explaining a soldier will knock on the door and then Bow will hide in 
the trash can.  The soldier will come inside and tell you that you can't hide 
Bow (but you have).  When the soldier leaves Bow will technically at this 
point no longer be in your party but he'll still follow you as a trash can.  
Exit HomeTown and use the south exit.  When the gate keeper asks you what are 
you holding, it doesn't matter what you say even if you say Bow he'll let you 
pass.  This is because the gate keeper believes Bow is innocent.  Now, before 
exiting HomeTown make sure Ryu is equipped with the best possible equipment 
from town as you'll now be fighting battles without Bow.  Head back to Ruins 
as Bow told you to.  Niro will welcome you and Bow will ask if he can stay 
with Niro.  Niro only agrees if Bow will help him out with the repairs.  Now 
Bow will stay at the Ruins and now your goal is to find out where this female 
thief went to, as the only way you'll ever be able to clear Bow's name is to 
find her.  From the Ruins head north-west past the bridges to the next town 
called Coursair.

8.  "Coursair"   Items:  4  Group:  Ryu  LV7
Smoke     - Search the dresser on the second floor of the Pub
Bum'sCL   - Search the dresser on the second floor of the Inn
Herb      - Search the other dresser on the second floor of the Inn
Herb      - Search the dresser on the second floor of the church

Talk with everybody and you'll understand that Coursair is the home of the 
one and only coliseum.  Head inside the Pub and talk to one of the tenders.  
Say yes when he asks you to kill some time until evening.  Once it's night 
time, talk to the muscular guy in the red clothing and he'll tell you that 
all the tickets are sold out at the coliseum.  No problem, now he gives you a 
clue that only Baba is the opponent at the coliseum.  Now you'll have to find 
Baba, he lives in the TagWoods which is a little north of town.  But before 
even thinking about heading out there make sure you equip Ryu with the best 
possible equipment in town (if you equipped yourself well in HomeTown then 
the only thing you need to buy is a BronzeHT and RangerCL) and raise Ryu to 
LV8 or at least LV7 (the best place to gain EXP for now is at TagWoods).  
Make sure you bring at least five herbs as well.

9.  "TagWoods"   Items:  7  Group:  Ryu  LV8
Herb      - From the starting point, head west to find a chest
100C      - From the starting point, head north just a bit to find a chest
Herb      - From the starting point, head north and then east to find a chest
Gold      - After the 1st tree-house ride, head south a bit to find a chest
Smoke     - After the 2nd tree-house ride, go west just a bit to find a chest
100C      - After the 2nd tree-house ride, go all the way south for a chest
BabaAxe*  - After defeating Baba he'll reward you with his axe

This place is pretty confusing at first but I suggest you familiarize 
yourself with it.  Try gaining EXP and finding all the chests, but at the 
same time, try remembering the fastest way to reach Baba and then head back 
to town and rest at the Inn so you're fully beefed up.  Anyhow if you are too 
lazy to do that I'll tell you how to get to him.  From the start of the 
woods, head up until you are blocked by some trees.  Then head left to find a 
little tree house in which you can get up to by climbing the ladder.  Then 
enter the house and you'll be taken by a bucket and ride north a bit.  Now 
head right and enter the next bucket and ride further east.  From the final 
tree house, head south and then west to find Baba.  Before talking to him 
make sure you have full HP.  He'll be angry at you for wanting to enter the 
fight in his name so he'll fight you out.

Baba Boss Fight
Attack him until Ryu has 15 HP or less.  Then have Ryu use a herb or Cure1 on 
himself.  The good thing about this fight is that Ryu will more than likely 
counter attack Baba whenever he attacks so you'll eventually kill him off 
even faster than you'd think.

After whooping Baba he'll give you his axe and his permission to enter the 
coliseum in his name.  He'll also tell you he won't ever fight again (aaah).  
Anyway, you have other things to worry about like getting out of here on your 
own!  Once you're out of TagWoods you should know by now where your next stop 
is--the Coliseum (located inside the town of Coursair).  Once you're in 
Coursair though you'll have to talk to that muscular guy in red clothing 
again.  Remember how to do it?  You have to go to the Pub and kill some time 
until it's night so you can talk to him.  He'll then realize that you're Baba 
(technically you're not but just go along with what he's saying) and be 
disappointed that a scrawny looking kid like you could have such a reputation 
of being so powerful.  Anyway, for kicks the game decided to automatically 
rename you Baba!  Go ahead and check the status screen out :)  Anyway, once 
you've finished fooling around go to the coliseum and this time there 
shouldn't be anyone blocking your way inside.  Make sure you have a good 
amount of herbs with you as well.

10. "Coliseum"   Items:  1  Group:  Baba (Ryu)  LV9
1000C     - In the left-side door there is a chest; see below for more info
*note*    - The middle chest in the left room (Katt's room) cannot be opened

Go to the right room like the soldiers tell you to and talk to the 
receptionist woman.  She'll tell you that you need to be interviewed.  Enter 
the door and talk to the muscular half naked guy.  He'll fight you (I guess 
this is what they meant by interviewing, heh).  This battle is so easy I 
won't even bother explaining any extensive strategy in order to beat him.  
Simply put auto fight on and you'll win easily.  Now exit this room and the 
receptionist will tell you that you passed.  Good, now go into the right room 
to find the manager, her name is Augus.  Augus will want to stage this fight 
with you and the female opponent.  She'll decide to throw out some poisonous 
darts at her and all you have to do is not get hit by them.  This sounds 
kinda cruel but don't worry, you will not be following those plans.  Anyway, 
she mentions some sort of reward in your locker room, in which lies a chest 
with a whopping 1000C.  Now go to your locker room and open the chest, but 
don't talk to the soldier!  Now go to the Bank in Coursair and deposit all of 
your money including that 1000C you just picked up.  You'll find out why 
later.  Now go back to the coliseum and now talk to the soldier and then try 
opening the door.  Rand (that muscular guy in red clothing) will come and 
talk with you.  Baba will explain everything to him and he'll ask you for all 
your money.  Say yes and he'll decide to buy two antidotes to save both of 
you.  This is why you should put your money in the bank, and don't worry, 
even if you have 0 money he'll still do this for you :)  Rand will go talk to 
the female opponent and she'll refuse to believe him, anyway now you find out 
that the only way you'll protect her is by fighting her.  Enter the next two 
doorways and be prepared to fight Katt.

Katt Boss Fight
This is the toughest fight you've faced so far so make sure you give it all 
you've got.  Use herbs and Cure1 whenever your HP drops under 20 or so.  She 
has a lot of HP so be prepared to spend a couple of minutes duking it out.

Now during all this talking hold up so that you move Katt out of the way!  
This is very important because you must save Katt if you want her to join 
your party (but don't worry, she still joins you later on in the game even if 
you don't save her).  Once it's all said and done Katt will apologize to Baba 
and join him.  Now that Katt's in your group you might as well treat her 
first class and buy her some equipment from the armory because her equipment 
is very weak when she joins you.  Now that you're prepared, go back to the 
coliseum once again.  This time, go to the manager's room and you'll find 
Rand with Augus.  Augus will turn into a demon and challenge all three of 
you.

Augus Boss Fight
Not only do you have Katt but now you have Rand too!  Have Ryu and Katt 
always attack and have Rand use Cure1 whenever someone needs it.  Careful, if 
Augus saves his strength and attacks he'll deal quite a lot of damage.  Try 
taking him out as quickly as possible and don't worry if Katt dies as Augus 
will probably be almost dead by that time.

Once the fight's over go to the Inn and regain your strength.  Your next stop 
is the Ruins.  Once you arrive Bow will greet Ryu and everyone.  Finally, 
Rand and Katt will realize that your real name is Ryu.  Bow will ask you that 
Rand stays since he doesn't think Katt would do a good job with the repairs.  
So now only Katt is with you, talk to Rand and he'll talk about a Magic 
School.  The Magic School is located in one of the building in HomeTown so 
that's your next stop.

11. "HomeTown"   Items:  1  Group:  Ryu, Katt  LV9
Herb      - Now you can enter the church,on the 2nd floor, search the dresser

As you head up you'll hear an explosion and witness some fine wizardy craft 
by a woman with wings.  The three men wanted to take her to their boss but 
she scared them off.  Katt will ask you if she can learn some magic, if you 
say No she'll continue to ask you again so just say Yes and go inside the 
school.

12. "M.School"   Items:  0  Group:  Ryu, Katt  LV9
No Items

Talk with everyone and you'll learn about someone named Nina and the Joker 
Group.  Go up to the 2nd floor and enter the room to the right.  You'll 
eavesdrop into what Nina and Yoji are talking about.  Then suddenly a hood 
will come and ransom Nina into coming with them because they now have taken 
Nina's little sister, Mina hostage.  Remember, Mina is the girl that Bow has 
the hots for so you also know her!  Katt will tell Ryu to go rescue both of 
them.  Next stop:  Mt.Rocko.  Mt. Rocko can be found south and then west of 
Coursairit looks like a mountain-like cave.  Make sure you have a good 
supply of Herbs and Antdts beforehand.

13. "Mt.Rocko"   Items:  4  Group:  Ryu, Katt  LV9
LuckCndy  - After going down the stairs, head south a bit to find a chest
SilverDR  - After going down the stairs, head all the way east for a chest
100C      - After going down the stairs, enter the opening for a chest
1000C     - On your way out, go back to the 1st room, head south for a chest

Once inside, talk to the Hood and you'll have to fight him.  Do so and it 
should be an easy battle.  I suggest you go into the middle-north room of the 
1st floor and fight the monsters in there until Katt is at least at LV8.  
Anyway, most of this floor doesn't seem to have monsters and only Hoods.  The 
Hoods will give you clues about their family.  You don't have to memorize 
what they say because I'll tell you what they're hinting at later.  Anyway 
head into the north-eastern opening and talk to the hood in front of the 
barred gate.  He'll ask you what the boss's nephew's name is.  The game will 
now give you six choices, only one is right and the answer is Pain.  If you 
give him the right name you won't fight the hood, but if you give him the 
wrong name you'll fight him and then you'll have to push the switch yourself 
to open the gate.  That's the only difference so it doesn't essentially 
matter in the long run what you say :P.  Anyway, after answering, the gate 
should be opened and you should continue.  The next guard will ask you if the 
switch for the next gate is in the hole.  You'll have to check and see, but 
before you do make sure everyone is at full HP.  You'll find out that it was 
a trap and you'll fight both the Hood and a poisonous spider.  Ryu or Katt 
will also take about 10 points of damage depending on who is in front.

Hood P.Spider Boss Fight
Take out the Hood first since he has the lowest amount of HP and will become 
an annoyance if you allow him to stay alive.  The P.Spider is fairly easy if 
you have Ryu always attack it.  Have Katt use herbs on herself and antidotes 
to ensure that everyone is stable during the fight.

You might want to go back to an Inn and regain your strength after this fight 
and then come back.  Anyway, continue by going down the stairs.  The rest of 
this is straightforward.  Once you get to the Hood standing by, talk to him 
and you'll have to kill him.  Now you'll find out that Joker want to make 
Nina his slave.  Go ahead and Katt will tell you she'll take care of this.  
Now you'll have to fight four hoods.  This fight's fairly easy.  After the 
fight Joker will turn into a Demon and you'll have to fight him, but this 
time you have Nina on your side.

Joker Boss Fight
Have Ryu and Katt attack it while Nina should use Cold magic.  The other 
three magic spells won't do as much damage so don't bother using them.  If 
anyone's HP is low have Katt use herbs since she's the fastest.  This fight 
is so easy you should be ashamed of yourself if you lose!

Once you defeat Joker, Nina will thank you and join your party.  Good, now 
you'll have to exit Mt.Rocko and head to Windia.  Windia is located west of 
TagWoods but you'll have to go thru the DeadAmze first.  On your way though, 
it's a good idea to go to Coursair and equip Nina with some good equipment.

14. "DeadAmze"   Items:  0  Group:  Ryu, Katt, Nina  LV10
No Items

Talk to the soldier behind the gate.  He'll let you all pass.  Now you'll be 
in some sort of maze that's fairly simple.  Just keep heading west and then 
south to find a set of stairs going up.  Once you're out of the maze you'll 
be inside the castle, the Queen appears to ignore Nina as her daughter and 
order you all to leave.  She does seem to recognize Mina as her daughter 
though so she'll stay at the castle.

15. "Windia"     Items:  2  Group:  Ryu, Katt, Nina  LV10
TreeST    - Search the dresser on the second floor of the Inn
100C      - Search the other dresser on the second floor of the Inn

You'll now be in the village of Windia.  Katt will be surprised and tell Nina 
she likes her black wings (er..if you ask me they look purple).  Anyway, 
continue south and some sort of monkey will start a magic show.  He'll 
pressure Ryu into doing the trick in which he will make Ryu disappeaer.  Nina 
and Katt will pester him until Ryu comes back and then Ryu'll come out of the 
ground (always wondered how they did that).  Sten will be surprised you 
forgave him for his nuisance and he'll happily ask if he can serve you.  This 
means that Sten will join the party :P  Anyway, now you have four people in 
your group for the very first time.  The people in town will talk about the 
thief that you're looking for and that she went somewhere west.  Your next 
goal is to go to a town called Capitan but before you do you'll notice the 
monsters are very very strong around Windia.  I suggest you build everyone to 
at least a base of LV.10 before even attempting to go to Capitan.  You can 
also gain a lot of money to buy all that expensive equipment at the Windia 
armory as well.  I suggest you make sure everyone has the best possible 
equipment before the trip and a good supply of herbs and especially antdts 
since the Deathpedes can poison all four of your characters in one round.

16. "Circus" (2) Items:  0  Group:  Ryu, Katt, Nina, Sten  LV11
No Items

If you're feeling up to it, go ahead and enter the circus near Windia.  
Nothing here except some useless information.  It looks just like the circus 
near HomeTown.  Not worth your time or money if you ask me.



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