Tutorial & Rabanastre - Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age Walkthrough Part 1 - PS4 No Commentary
10Today we're starting our playthrough of FF12 The Zodiac Age. We'll be doing a complete walkthrough with all hunts, cutscenes, bestiary entries, summons, boss fights, optional bosses, trial stages, and rare game monsters.
Tutorial – Nalbina Fortress
Watch the opening cutscenes until you gain control of your character. Follow along with the instructions to learn how to work the camera and move your character. Head over and speak to both the nearby soldiers to learn about speaking and interacting with characters that have the speech bubble above them. Head through the nearby gate to the north afterward to move onto the next area.
In the next area, you’ll encounter your first enemy and be instructed on how the battle system works. Defeat the soldier and move forward to trigger the next fight, our first Boss Battle, The Air Cutter Remora.
Boss Battle: Air Cutter Remora
You can’t lose this fight, so to speed it along have Reks use his Thunder magic. One of the other soldiers will throw potions on you if your health falls too low.
After the battle head across the bridge, defeating any enemies that spawn along the way. Before you head through to the next area you’ll get a brief description of the map overlay and status screen. Head through to trigger a scene.
The enemies in this new area will continuously respawn, but since we won’t be keeping control of this character after the tutorial, it’s pointless to do any real grinding here. Heading north will trigger another small cutscene, from here you can enter the room to the east to grab a Potion. Continue north to find a stairwell, if you follow the path around past the stairs, you’ll find a second Potion. Once you’re done head upstairs to find your first Save Crystal, you’ll get a small explanation here as to how they work. Continue up the stairs.
You’ll trigger a cutscene, and Reks will need to fight the Soldiers solo for the moment. Keep an eye on your health and use the Potions if you need to. Head through the door once the battle is complete. Continue to head to the large hall to the northwest to trigger another scene.
Rabanastre
You’ll now be in control of the main character, Vaan, you’ll also find yourself in the Garamsythe Waterway hunting some rats. Kill three of the rats to trigger another scene, where you’ll head to the surface of Rabanastre.
During the scenes, you’ll be told to head for Migelo’s place. After the map tutorial, you’ll gain control of Vaan again, you’ll find Migelo’s Place in the southeast portion of East End in Rabanastre. Once you get close enough you’ll trigger another scene.
Migelo wants us to head over to the Sandsea Tavern. You’ll find this to the North of this same area. Once you enter the Sandsea Tavern you’ll trigger another scene and have the Hunts and Notice Board mechanics explained to you. You’ll also be forced to accept your first hunt which is for the Rogue Tomato. You’ll also receive a few new items including the Key Items; Clan Primer and Writ of Transit. You’ll now gain access to License Boards, which is where you can choose what ‘class’ you want your character to be, as well as spend LP on new abilities for your characters. You’ll also gain your first accessory, the Orrachea Armlet, you won’t be able to do anything with it until you unlock it on the License Board though. Both the Knight and Shikari are excellent choices for Vaan, to begin with, especially if you don’t have another build in mind.
License Boards
As you find new gear in this game, you won’t be able to immediately equip it. You’ll need to spend your LP on your License Boards to unlock the ability to equip the gear. Certain classes are also limited in what they can equip, for example, mage classes cannot usually equip heavy armor, and archers are the only class to get access to the best bows.
Since the Zodiac Age edition of the game now allows you to change your class at any time, you can feel free to pick whichever class you want to start and then change later if you decide you want to try another.
Once you’re done in the Sandsea Tavern, leave and head south to the Southern Plaza, along the way you can enter Migelo’s Shop and buy some Potions if you need to stock up. From the Southern Plaza, attempt to head east, and you’ll be stopped by a guard. After the scene, you’ll show him the Writ of Transit and be able to enter the Eastgate. Head out of the Eastgate to arrive in the Dalmasca Estersand.
00:00:00 - Final Fantasy 12 The Zodiac Age - Opening Cutscene
00:07:17 - Intro to the Great War
00:09:30 - Reks (Tutorial)
00:13:00 - Combat Tutorial
00:14:00 - Boss Battle: Air Cutter Remora
00:17:00 - The Treaty
00:21:44 - The Kings Fate
00:26:00 - The Sewers
00:28:16 - The Royal Capital Rabanastre
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