Walkthrough: Part One - Star Ocean: Till the End of Time Guide - IGN (2024)

Walkthrough: Part One

Before you begin - There are many side events in the game called Private Actions. Although not necessary, some provide you with bonus items and they ultimately decide which ending of the game you see. Read that section for the specifics on how to view these mini-events and what effects they have on the game.

Grantier Resort Hotel
Items:

Shake

Take time to explore the surroundings with Sophia and take part in a whole lot of Private Actions. If you bring up the map screen, you'll notice a series of triangles. These are open doors. Green arrows indicate a store, while blue arrows indicate a place to heal. To go to the main lobby, take any of the transporters found at either end of the hallway. In the main lounge, you can find a Shake by searching the food replicators with the X Button. The transporter on the east side of the lounge takes you back to your hotel room. The transporter on the west side takes you to the private beach.

When you are ready to advance the story, go meet Peppita and the Rossetti's on the northeast side of the lobby. She'll give you a nice autograph on your shirt and the Rosetti Performance Ticket. Then, head to the center of the lobby and Examine a console near a Game Room.

A Battle Trophy is something that proves you have satisfied certain conditions in battle (plus they unlock bonus features). You must initialize the Battle Trophies at this point! If you don't, you won't be able to earn any for the entire game. Select Battle Trophies, then Start Initialization when prompted in the Simulator.

The Battle Simulator is a glorified tutorial. You can go through all of the tutorials, or just read our section on Basics. Use your time in the Simulator to practice and learn the controls. Don't worry if you lose, you'll simply exit the Game Room. You can win up to three times before you will be forced to leave.

The resort is suddenly under attack. At this point, all Transporters will bring you to the Evacuation Terminal. Go to a Transporter. Once through, you'll be greeted with your first real fight. Three groups of Incapacitator VASS will attack you. Sophia will help out in the first battle, then Peppita will add her services in the second and third. You should have no trouble defeating these enemies by simply hitting attack repeatedly.

Evacuation Facility
Items:

None

Head to Room 509 (the room numbers are on the doors) to check in with the Rossetti's. If you need to heal, you can go to Room 502 where a man will heal you with Symbology. Next, go to Room 506 to watch a scene with Sophia. After Sophia falls asleep, you can save the game and explore more, though there isn't much to see. Follow Sophia's example and get some rest by Examining a bed. When you awake, head around the corner to a Tansporter Room. Proceed down the hallway to initiate the next cut scene.

Transport Ship Helre

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After watching the cut scene, you must talk to every person that you can in the Hallway and the Lounge (17 of them). When you have done this, return to the Lounge and the next event will begin.
Escape! - But the way to the pods is blocked. Run up the Corridor. Go to the Bridge to talk to the Captain. Next, head back down to the Corridor and go to the Escape Pod.

Vanguard III

Pesotto Forest
Map Complete: 1/144th Scale Bunny
Items: None

You can heal your wounds at the Spaceship. The only monsters you'll run across here are Noblemen and Young Slimes. They're real easy, so just pound on them.

See that Percentage Marker next to the words Pesotto Forest on your screen? That is how much of the map you have uncovered by exploring. To uncover it all, you have to hug all of the edges (inner and outer) of the trails. Uncover it all for a Bunny Statue that gives your party a movement boost! You won't be able to complete this until a little later, so head to the northeast to get to Whipple Village (the northwestern side has guards blocking a path, so you have no other choice).

Whipple Village
Items: Blueberries, Aquaberries, 600 Fol, Blackberries (x2)
Must have item locations: 600 Fol - Across the road from the general store.

Your Simple Sword has been taken away. To get it back, talk to the Village Chief in the house directly above Niklas and Meena's house, Then return to Niklas and Meena's house.

There is a place to heal your character at the northern end of the village (check your mini map for a blue triangle). On the western side of the village is the Manybloom General Store. It is a good idea to stock up on Blueberries and buy the Ring Mail armor. Come back to these areas to restock and restore your character any time you are getting weak.

Your new quest requires you to go back to the Pod and synthesize a part for Meena. With your sword, head back out. Head back down to the Escape Pod to find it has been tampered with, then back to the village to Niklas and Meena's house. After the events occur, the folks blocking the path to the northwest in Pesotto Forest are gone. It is now possible to 100% explore that map without them blocking you. You get rewarded with a 1/144 Scale Bunny that gives your party +5% Movement Rate.

Go through the previously blocked path on the northwest side of the map to the Ruins of Coffir.

Ruins of Coffir
Map Complete:

You can't explore 100% of this area yet. Later on in the game, you'll get the Ring of Disintegration that enables you to destroy rocks blocking your path. It is still worth it to explore this area. The monsters are still fairly simple, meaning you can level your character up for the first big battle that is in the near future.

While exploring the ruins, pay attention to the walls. You should come across 3 numbers written on the walls. Remember them, as you'll need them later. To find all of the items, you'll need to rotate the camera using the R1 and L1 Buttons.

Your goal on this map, is the far northern edge. From the beginning, go to the north several times, then east, and north to the top of the map. You'll know you are in the right area when you run into Norton's Henchmen. These guys guard the entrance to Norton's Hideout.

Boss Battle:

Norton's Henchmen
Prize: Beat-up Textbook
Tactics: Use a combination of Major and Minor Attacks to take them out. They won't be a problem if you have been fighting monsters instead of avoiding them. If you have not leveled up more than once, you will have difficulties, so go back and fight more enemies. Try getting some practice in with the new Skills you have learned.

Norton's Hideout
Items:

The room south of the entrance hallway contains both items. Keep heading south until you reach a fork in the road. Go to the west here (the east is a locked door) to a room with a Save Point.

Search the computer and you'll be asked for a 3 digit password. Remember those numbers on the wall? If you didn't bother or couldn't find them, the numbers are 2-5-6. Enter them, and the eastern door in the hideout will open. Go east to that door.

Boss Battle

When you are ready to leave Vanguard III, go back towards where your Escape Pod crashed. There is a cliff near the Save Point. Walk towards it and Cliff will call for a ship to pick the two of you up.

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