HCBailly plays Final Fantasy II AGAIN - Part 52 of 65

HCBailly re-recorded this one after accidentally selling a useful piece of armor, so the information for this entry is from both the original upload and the re-upload. Enjoy!

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World Map (by Rick Bruns)

Castle Fynn

Map (by Paco)

Once you get Ultima, if you head out and go to Altair, you'll find out it's been destroyed, as are other nearby towns.

Head to Castle Fynn (which is alright) and you'll see a tornado outside of the city. (You may notice that Gatrea is also destroyed.) Head to the town and ask around, and you'll find out that the Empire created a Cyclone that you won't be able to do anything about quite yet (and you definitely can't enter it, because it'll tear you apart).

Head to the throne room. You'll find out that Layla's alive if you haven't been here recently. Talk to Hilda and you'll be able to Learn the Cyclone term. Ask her about it, and you'll find out the Emperor is behind it...literally. He's literally inside the Cyclone. Ask Hilda about the Wyvern, and you'll learn that Fynn has used the light of the Pendant to summon the Dragoons and the Wyvern.

Ask Gordon about the Cyclone, and you'll find out that the only way to enter it is to fly.

In order to enter the Cyclone, you'll have to get a Wyvern. If you Ask Hilda about the Wyvern, she will tell you to head to the room in the castle with the shiny Mirror and use the Pendant to reflect light from it onto the mirror to summon a Wyvern. The light from the Pendant will be absorbed into the Mirror. Use the Pendant on that mirror, and congratulations, you now have a Wyvern.

Believe it or not, you can equip the Wyvern on Ricard as an item. It can cast Blaze 7 on all the enemies in the battle.

Fynn

Map (by Paco)

Head back into town, and you'll find out that the Whirlwind has attacked Fynn, and all of the townspeople (save for one person) are dead...but Paul is still alive. Ask him about the Cyclone, and he'll tell you to search the bed. Do that and you'll find a fake wall that leads to eight treasure chests. The stuff in these chests is actually pretty useful. One of them is a Blood Sword, and while you can get two in the Famicom version, this is the only one you can get in the remakes.

The Captains are just stronger versions of the Sargeants. While you could meet them earlier, such as patrolling Fynn, on the Dreadnought, at the arena or at Deist Castle (while there were still monsters), you should be able to fight them more easily now compared to the first times you met them.

Any spells that bestows a positive status on your party members such as Haste do not stack; re-casting simply removes the status and re-applies it.

Leave town and enter the Cyclone. The Wyvern will go in, and you'll be inside.

Cyclone

Map (by Paco)

The water does damage you while you walk in it.

If you didn't get the Ripper Knife earlier in the game, you can get it here. It's still pretty powerful, and while the knife is supposed to deal an additional 20 HP of damage per hit to an enemy it strikes regardless of their defense, that effect is bugged in the Famicom version of the game and it does not work.

The VmprLady (Vampire Level) is Rank 6, has 1100 HP and has Temptation 9, Sleep 16, Blizzard 12 and other spells. Get some Mind-elemental protection on (preferably with the appropriate armor or Barrier 3) and take her out as soon as possible. If you can, hit them with Life like you did before.

If you've actually been leveling up on Axes for quite a while, the Poison Axe is probably one of the best weapons in the game for you. Besides being quite powerful, it can actually Poison enemies and works very well on Lightning-based enemies.