Chapter 5 Walkthrough
Chapter Walkthroughs>Chapter 5
The Gapra Whitewood
Hope is your leader here, and is accompanied by Lightning.
Paradigm Setup
Slash and Burn (2)
| Hope | - | Ravager |
| Lightning | - | Commando |
War and Peace (2)
| Hope | - | Medic |
| Lightning | - | Commando |
Follow your waypoint past the Save Station, and continue onwards until you reach the elevator, which will trigger a cutscene.
Once again, follow your waypoint past the Save Station, and continue along the path. Preemptive the Frag Leeches when you get the chance. It’s easy to do, and it will speed up your battles considerably. Circle around until you are faced with a Behemoth on your left, and the main path on your right. The Treasure Sphere behind the Behemoth contains 3 Antidotes. If you preemptive the Behemoth, Lightning can Launch him (it's a Commando skill in the Crystarium), and if you use Hopes attacks to juggle him in the air, he’ll die while only having touched the ground once or twice.
Move back to the main path, and run forward to trigger a cutscene. After the scene, run forward to the next elevator.
Proceed past the Save Station, and up the road. After you kill the Behemoth you’ll see a Treasure Sphere guarded by two Vespids. Kill them to obtain Hawkeye, a weapon for Hope. We’d recommend equipping it, as it raises Hope’s magic.
Continue running up the road, until you see a Behemoth and two Thexterons. Defeat/dodge them, and run forward for a cutscene. Once it’s finished, head down the elevator ahead.
Bioweapon Research Site D - Hope as Leader
Run forward for a cutscene. You’ll need to kill all the creatures in each area to lower the containment fences, so you’ll have to fight your way through most of this map.
Proceed towards the waypoint. When you come to the pen containing only Crawlers (red slugs), you can loot a Treasure Sphere on the right side which contains 6 Antidotes. After this you’ll drop down a few steps to another pen, and then into a larger room. Here you have to fight a Feral Behemoth. Stagger him and have Hope juggle the Behemoth in the air after Lightning uses Launch.
Run up the ramp to the left, and then jump up the glowing purple leaves. Here you have to fight a horde of Crawlers. They’re best defeated by casting Fira repeatedly, because it has AoE damage, and letting Lighting clean up what is left with Blitz.
Proceed towards the waypoint to trigger another cutscene, in which (can you guess?) Hope whines some more! (If they allowed you to attack your own party members, this is where the epic montage of Hope getting owned by Snow would go). Eventually, you’ll like Hope as a character, and he’ll probably be your favorite to control, but now is not that moment.
Bioweapon Research Site D - Lightning as Leader
You’re now in control of Lightning. Run down the tree/purple leaves in front of you. Head past the save and hug the right wall. Fight the two Silver Lobos to gain access to a Treasure Sphere containing the accessory Star Pendant. Head back to the main path and jump up the purple leaves ahead.
Run a few steps forward on the walkway to trigger a couple cutscenes, one of which is a flashback of Day 12.
Follow the waypoint forward, and you’ll see a Barbed Specter guarding a Treasure Sphere. Kill it to loot an Edged Carbine, a weapon for Lightning.
Move forward until you’re face to face with another Feral Behemoth. Kill it, and proceed to the Save Station.
As you run into the next room you will see, yet another, Feral Behemoth guarding a Treasure Sphere. Run around the fence to fight him and loot 1500 gil.
Up ahead you will see a small side-room filled with Crawlers and a Feral Behemoth. They guard a Treasure Sphere containing 8 vials of Fragrant Oil.
Back on the main path, you’ll pass a three-way battle between a Behemoth and three Silver Lobos. Run past/fight through them, and then past the purple leaves, and you will find yourself in a large room with a fence coming up behind you. You will see a Barbed Specter next to a Treasure Sphere in the back. The battle will actually contain a Barbed Specter and a Behemoth, even though you don’t see one. Kill them to loot the accessory Watchman’s Amulet.
Now, head back to those leaves and jump into the next area. Follow the walkway to an elevator.
Fight the Silver Lobos, and then trigger a cutscene a few feet ahead. (If only Lightning would spare us and kill him)
Anyway, continue following your waypoint forward (I let Hope die in the first battle with the PSICOM to make myself feel better – it was totally worth the Phoenix Down). Approach the next Save Station, and loot an Ethersol from the Treasure Sphere next to it.
Proceed forward for a battle. Use your Crystarium (boss fight coming!), and then run forward to activate the machine at the end, triggering a cutscene. You are then thrown into a boss battle with Astro Protoflorian.
Defeating Astro Protoflorian
Paradigm Setup
Slash and Burn (2)
| Lightning | - | Commando |
| Hope | - | Ravager |
War and Peace (2)
| Lightning | - | Commando |
| Hope | - | Medic |
Dualcasting
| Lightning | - | Ravager |
| Hope | - | Ravager |
Strategy
The Astro Protoflorian will change his resistances to different magic elements during the battle, so always pay attention to what he is currently weak against. Hit R1 and look under Notes to see the details, but again, they change throughout the battle, so keep checking.
Work him up to a Stagger with Dualcasting, using War and Peace often to heal, and then use Slash and Burn while he’s Staggered, allowing Lightning to Launch him. Do this two or three times and it will be over.
You’ve now gained access to a new store at the Save Station, Creature Comforts, and your Crystarium has expanded.
Maintenance Exit
You’re almost done with this area, hang in there! Follow your waypoint along the road, past the Save Station, and to the coast.
That’s it! Sit back and enjoy the cutscenes as you enter Chapter 6.
Chapter Walkthroughs>Chapter 5
© Copyright 2010 Chad Andrus, David Vandenbroek, and Parker Horn. All rights reserved.