Final Fantasy 8

The Great World Tour for Disc 3

Well, do you know that it's high time for capturing the remaining GFs and it is the best time to level up. The battles upcoming would kill you if your characters are not up to a certain level. Now I will tell you brief about this world tour and it comprises of the following sections:

5.10a Lunar Base Crash Area - about the remaining crew of Lunar Base
5.10b Obel Lake Mystery - allows you to get some great items
5.10c UFO Sighting Incident - Alien Encounter!
5.10d Ultimate Weapon Upgrading - how to get the ultimate weapons
5.10e Cactaur's Island - Getting GF Cactaur
5.10f Centra Ruins Revisited - Getting GF Tonberry
5.10g Deep Sea Research Center - Getting GF Bahamut
5.10h Deep Sea Deposit - Fighting Ultima Weapon
5.10i Shumi Village - Laguna's statue completion

But before I continue.. I would like to mention some critical areas:

1) The Island closest to Hell
2) Island closest to Heaven
3) Choco World Items
4) The fastest way to gain AP.
5) Secret Area to encounter INFINITE Elynoles [Disc 3 only, after Lunar Cry]

1) The Island closest to Hell
This island is located at the most western area of the World Map

 __________________
|                  |  It is located on the western area from Galbadia
|    iiii          |  continent. It is rather a huge island, without
|* i iiiii         |  shores for Balamb Garden to reach it. This is
|    iii           |  typically a great area as it has tons of spells
|                  |  for you to draw [Ultima, Flare, Triple, 
|                  |  Full-Life, Aura, Meteor, Quake] 
|__________________|  Key: *    Island closest to Hell
      Fig 10.0             iii  Galbadia Continent

To draw those spells, use Diablos' Enc-None to walk around the border to get it and within the area.

2) The Island closest to Heaven
This island is situation to the most north-eastern area of the World Map. You will find it surrounded by the huge Grandid Forest along with some islands. It has also no shores.

3) Choco World Items
Ugh... I have been recieving e-mails on where to get rare items such as Friendship and Mog Amulet. These items can only be gotten through the Pocketstation. The Pocketstation also allows you to get rare items such as Dark Matter and Power Generator easily...

4) The fastest way to get AP
You can find another island located at the most south-east area of the world map. You can also encounter in the Kashkabald Desert [rarely]

5) Secret Area to encounter Infinite Elynoles (Disc 3 only)
Refer to Section 5.6 for the map of inner Esthar. Head to [6]. And you will find a spooky Esthar Soldier in that area. Just talk to him and he will say "heheheheh.." and leads to a one-to-one fight against the Elynole! [btw, if you encounter somewhere else it always fight you with its back facing the screen.]. Just defeat it and do not steal from it and you can easily stock up numerous Energy Crystals. After that fight, exit that screen and return, you will find that man again..

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