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--Legal Info�

Let�s just start this walkthrough by saying that this FAQ was made by Shnish. 
It can ONLY be posted on Gamespot.com and IGN.com. You may not upload this 
guide to other sites without my permission. You may not use parts of this 
guide 
on any other site without my permission, and you certainly may not claim this 
guide as yours. If you�re caught with my guide on another site, I�ll make sure 
to have it taken down immediately. I�ve put a lot of hard work into this 
guide, 
and I�d like to get credit for it. If you have any problems with this, or 
would 
like to contact me about reposting this guide, email me at 
[email protected]. This is also my first guide, so don�t expect it to be 
perfect. This guide will first cover the main storyline, but it will ONLY 
cover 
as much as I have played. The way I am writing this FAQ is by playing each 
part 
of the game multiple times as I go along, so I haven�t yet beaten it as of the 
start of this article. The game has just come out, so it�s very hard for me to 
have already beaten it without devoting my life to it. That means that I will 
not be able to give information about bosses and enemies (in this current 
version), however I can provide strategies and what you will need before you 
go 
into the fight.


--FAQ�

Q: May I contact you with questions about the game?
A: Certainly. I cannot promise to answer all your questions, but I will help 
out whenever I can.

Q: May I illegally repost this guide on other sites and claim it as mine?
A: Read above

Q: I�ve fought and fought again, and I can�t seem to beat [part of game here]! 
I followed your guide, yet I can�t figure it out, and the enemies are just too 
strong! How do I beat this?
A: It looks like you�re new to RPGs. In an RPG, you level up your character so 
that it can be strong enough to pass an environment. It�s a very simple 
process, can�t beat the enemy? Well go find the highest leveled area (that you 
can fight against) and kill monsters until you�re able to level up and surpass 
that part of the game.

Q: Hey, I got Blue Dragon too! You want to connect online and play with me?
A: Probably not, but you�re welcome to email me at [email protected] if 
you�d like to play together, and I�ll say yes if I�m in a good mood.

Q: What will this guide cover?
A: This guide will cover the storyline of the game (Spoilers won�t be given 
unless it�s hard to continue writing without giving them), gameplay, level 
statistics, best configuration, MY configuration, Level-to-get-a-skill, and 
much more. You can check all of this in the table of contents.

Q: You keep telling me to go left, but that�s not the right way!
A: I�m referring to left on the mini map above. Because you can move around 
the 
camera in the game, left for one person might be right for the person with the 
opposite camera, so all directions will be referred to on the mini map.


--Update Guide�

Version 1.0 (5/29/10)�Guide started-Legal rights added-FAQ added
Version 1.1(6/12/10)-Guide updated, Margins fixed, Added first quest


--Terms You Need to Know--

Shadow- A shadow is a special creature that all the people of Jibral had. 
People can use these shadows to help them perform simple tasks, or to help 
them 
fight as well. When all the people of the town lost their shadows except for 
you, your character finds out that he can share his shadow�s power with other 
people to have them fight alongside him/her.

Skill- An attack or power that your shadows can use. EX: Flare or Heal.

Environmental Skill- A power given to your character throughout the game that 
lets him perform actions such as breaking walls.

Jibral- The main town of the game that is named after King Jibral. After 
people 
of the town started losing their shadows you go off on a quest to investigate 
and soon get dragged into the action!

Door Boss- After playing the game for about half an hour you�ll find out that 
doors have started to appear around Neo Jibral. Each door has a boss in it 
that lets you get great items if you defeat the boss, however, they�re tougher 
than normal enemies. You can also fight these bosses with friends online, 
which is your best bet considering the AI are pretty bad in this game.

Party- The players on your team, with a cap of 3 players (yourself and two AI)

--Introduction�(AAx)

So you just got Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow? Good choice of a game. You start 
out creating your character (male, female, hair, etc.) which is pretty in 
depth, eyebrows, eye shape, mouth; you even select what your voice will be! 
After you finish making your character and naming it, you�ll get a pretty 
detailed cutscene showing a couple of mysterious purple men coming out of some 
sort of chamber lock. These two men, Ganda and Jyun had been �sleeping� for a 
long time. After finding out about their new power and their �plans�, you hear 
them talking about �it�, which you two go to search for. The cut scene ends, 
and the game starts with you playing as a rather powerful, level 30 Jyun.


--Element Ruins Depths�(ABx)

Just as you start this game you might notice that you�re free to attack, and 
you aren�t just running around. Blue Dragon is different from RPGs like Final 
Fantasy in the sense that you aren�t bound to walking around and random 
battles, you run up to creatures to fight them, all in real time. Right now 
you�ll be in the Chamber of Slumber, so travel down through the doors to get 
to 
the Central Passage. You can go left, but Ganda will only tell you that �It� 
is 
not stored in that area. If you continue traveling right you�re encounter your 
first enemy (Round Ideogram). At this point, you can just spam the A button 
and 
you�ll kill it quickly, but soon you�ll have to use a combination of skills, 
rolling, blocking, and physical attacking to kill enemies. Keep going right 
and 
you�ll encounter another enemy (Protector) who will block most of your 
attacks, 
but won�t be able to fight back in the process. One way to beat this enemy is 
by casting Flara Sword on it, which will go through its physical defenses and 
cast a powerful magic attack on it. After beating this enemy, continue heading 
right and leave the Central Passage to go to the Eastern Passage. Another room 
laid out exactly like the previous one will be here, so fight your way through 
it exactly like you did with the previous room. Now you�ll notice a room laid 
out differently, the Inner Passage. There aren�t any enemies in this area; 
however you do need to pull a switch to open the door halfway through this 
room. After clearing this section you�ll see Ganda and Jyun find �It� After a 
strange experience when you go to get �It�, you see your character come out of 
a chamber lock (like Jyun and Ganda did at the beginning of the game), and 
you�re now playing as your character! There�ll be a tightly locked door to 
your 
south, but if you head up passed the chamber lock, you�ll find a teleportation 
device. Head forward and make an immediate left, and you�ll find a save point. 
Keep going forward and you�ll find an elevator out of this underground cave. 
After seeing the short cutscene of this elevator rising, you�ll be on an 
island�

--Neo Jibral Castle Town-- (Introduction) (ACx)
After leaving the small beach area, you�ll encounter a rather large town. Neo 
Jibral Castle Town, named after King Jibral, is the main area you�ll go to in 
the game, coming back there after each quest. Continue walking up and you�ll 
come to a load of dialogue pretty quickly. You�ll hear about a bunch of people 
that seem to have lost their shadows, and you�ll quickly realize how reliant 
the town was on them. Now you�ll have a real cutscene showing your shadow rise 
behind you, looking very realistic too. You�ll get this same realistic cut 
scene showing the people of the town all losing their shadows. At the end of 
this dialogue, you�ll be free to roam the town. One of the many places in this 
town is the Barber�s, which lets you get a new haircut, and later you�ll even 
be able to unlock new haircuts. You�ll hear a scream in the direction of the 
castle, so follow that. The garden is pretty straightforward, you and Shu 
fight 
against a monster; however, you don�t have anything equipped, so it�s 
recommended that you use magic. After Shu tells you about Neo Jibral, walk 
through the garden and go into the castle. You could explore the town square a 
bit first too, however, most areas are locked. Head north and you�ll be in the 
castle.

--Neo Jibral Castle Town (The First Quest) (ADx)

[The Door to the Otherworld]

You�ll unite with Lady Zola and Shu to go back to the underground area that 
brought you to the town. Also go to equip the new weapons and armor that the 
King gives you (Take the Adventurer�s Suit off of Shu and equip it to 
yourself), and you�ll be off on your way back to the beach to take part in 
your 
first quest. First, however, let the guard show you to your room to save. To 
be 
honest, you won�t be using this room very often, but the bed is good for 
healing. You can also go there to change emblems, which later give you bonuses 
such as 100% more chance of gold drops. When you finish going to your room, 
leave the castle and travel back to the beach by going to the central and 
taking the path to the south west. You should now be in the underground cave 
with Shu and Zola. You�ll then find out that you can share your shadow with 
other people, allowing Shu and Zola to fight alongside you with their own 
shadows. At this part of the game I�d leave the shadows as the default ones, 
but later on you�ll need to change them around based on the stats of your 
party 
members. You�ll also notice that you can equip any skill of any type of 
shadow. 
This is because your one shadow is really all those different types of 
shadows� 
meaning you can use a skill type of any shadow type. Dragon is the default 
shadow, and also the neutral one. It has great stats, and its moves are 
alright 
as well. After killing two more Jibral Mice your entire team should level up. 
You might have noticed that your character received nothing from leveling up, 
but your shadow did. The entire premise of the game is that you get YOUR power 
from your equipment, but all of your stats and skills are from your shadow. 
The 
stronger your shadow is, the stronger you will be. In West Side 2 you�ll find 
two treasure chests and a few enemies. Rush through area 3 and hit the switch 
at the end of it. You�ll now be back at the warping device that first brought 
you to the elevator�s area. Move on passed it, and make a right. Go up to 
save, 
and hit the switch so you can go to your first boss battle!

Boss Battle #1: Fanged Boar						
Recommended Level: 3 (Entire Party)
Party Specifications: Main Character (Dragon), Shu (Phoenix), Zola (Minotaur)
Main Character- Jibral Sword, Adventurer�s Suit, Jibral Helmet
Shu- Jibral Sword, Adventurer�s Suit, Keraso White Hat, 
Zola- Claymore, Casual Wear, Keraso White Hat

The Fanged Boar is a pretty simple boss, attack, roll, attack roll. The only 
attack that you�ll have to avoid is his tail attack, where he can damage about 
25% of your health of anybody that�s near him. If he uses his rush attack, 
you�ll have to dodge out of the way pretty quickly, but follow the attack and 
dodge protocol and you should be okay. Also watch out for his forward attack 
where he hits you with his fangs, it�s pretty strong and isn�t too easy to 
predict either. If you�re still having trouble with this boss, ran go back and 
level and by level 4 or 5 you should be able to dominate him pretty easily. If 
he casts tail shot though and it connects, you might have trouble. It�s also 
good to cast flare or grand sword, which will both do about 120 damage to him. 
Don�t forgot to cast heal either, as you can quickly tend to any wounds from 
the fight with it (you should be healing for about 40 hp at this level). Don�t 
rely on the AI ever in boss battles though, as they just stand in front and 
spam attacks, never dodging, and blocking pretty infrequently. After defeating 
the boar, head up to the �Mega Switch� and examine it�

New Skills: Wind, Cure, Crash (Environmental Skill)



--The Mysterious Doors�(AEx)

After taking the east exit and heading back to Neo Jibral Town, you�ll find a 
bunch of doors appearing around the town. Some of the doors will be locked, 
and some will have a barrier over them, but two or three of them you can 
access immediately (such as the door in the direct middle). These bosses are 
rather tough at first, but as you level up you will notice them getting very, 
very easy to defeat. Right now your team is only going to be at level 3 or 4, 
so you will have to embrace a long, tough battle to defeat even the weakest 
door boss. The doors will be blocked by men for a small part of the game, but 
you�ll quickly be able to go inside them. After Shu and Zola leave your party, 
head east to the lab. Talk to the lab tech and he�ll teach you how to save 
(What kind of fool does he think we are!?). He will, however, inform you that 
you can return to this lab by using the blue cube, which will become useful 
later in the game when you won�t have to go all the way through areas to 
return to the lab. You can also customize your party using the cube, but for 
now you�ll only have two people to choose from for your party anyway (You will 
get many, many more people to join you later on in the game). Talk to the man 
on the right and he�ll tell you about the giant cube in the lab.