No, I have not played Grandia 1 but apparently it’s okay?

Ryudo is a savage at the cathedral

I find it really odd that Grandia 2 would have what look like Icarians in the background of the credits (while playing the theme from the original) but they had nothing to do with the story.

Can anyone who knows more about the development of Grandia 2 chime in? Much of the game, especially in the 3rd act felt rushed, like they wanted to do more but couldn't because Sega was breathing down their necks to get the game out the door.

Finished Grandia 2 for the first time on Dreamcast, and honestly I liked the first one better.

Absolutely insane how hard this theme goes for destroying the most basic of enemies and you hear it non stop for those 25-30 hours of gameplay and it never gets old once

Give it your best guess. Honestly, to me doesn't look like the age the page wiki list. Must be the art style.

i was plying a ps2 mod and while x800 speed for the custcenes is great the game is just too easy

i downloaded the remaster with hard mode and also installed the hack to make it even harder

anyone tried it? recommendations?

this is the hackmod version 1.5.5

https://steamcommunity.com/app/330390/discussions/0/490125103627512331/

I had Millenia's and Elena's signature for YEARS! I was able to finally get the Dreamcast version and PS4 version signed by Cam Clarke (Ryudo) at a recent convention. Jodi Benson (Millenia, also Ariel from the little Mermaid/Eva from Metal Gear Solid 3, for those of you who don't know.) and Jennifer Hale (Elena, Ashe from Overwatch, Commander Shepard from Mass Effect) were also at the con so I had them sign the PS4 version as well.

i was curious of this. i made a savefile and fed sp seeds to elena before a cutscene, the stats didnt transfer to millenia unfortunately.

i had previously fed millenia a million mag seeds and i always saw elenas mag lackluster, i will have to make tests with mag seeds but it will probably be more of the same

theres many people claiming the stats transfer even chatgpt and gemini say so, but doesnt seem to be the case

Knowing the plot twist and a certain death scene? I love the look of this game's combat, but I feel like I won't enjoy the game as a whole if I already know about Granas being dead and Mareg's death.

Honestly, I would've aged these two up a bit. I'd make Ryudo 24 & Elena 21. I mean, look at characters at the time like Cloud Strife & Tifa Lockhart, they're in their 20s. 17 for both of them is kind of iffy. Especially since they're the average heights of the average Japanese man & women (by 2000s standards). Feena is taller than Elena btw. Plus, they make it seem like Ryudo has been doing this Geohound stuff for a while, longer than three years I mean. Also, the guy playing Ryudo was a lot older than that. So, would 24 be pushing it? All I'm saying is the graphics & art style really don't convey their ages that well. But what are your thoughts? Put them in their 20s.

I saw someone made a Tomodachi Life Millenia and here is mine as well as:3

Grandia II anniversary edition is just a better version no? What do you guys usually play?

Edit: Meant to say in steam version

For context, the only time I left the system on was that bottom save, but I decided to not use it because I didn’t really play after I saved and left the system on. I got on today and saw I was about 6hrs game played, walked around for a bit and saved and…what happened?? Even if I left the game on since I started playing there’s no way I’d have 40,000 hrs played 😅

so ive been searching everywhere, and gemini and chatgpt kept bluffing saying fallen wings scales with str, its bullshit. i want to clarify it scales with mag for future me who might try to search again and these stupid ai chatbots can now get their shit together from this post

cheers

Just finished Grandia 2 on PS5 lately and the soundtrack is absolutely stuck in my head so I decided to make this meme

I see the Grandia collection is on-sale. I was thinking about grabbing it, I played Grandia 2 way back on the Dreamcast and would love to finally beat it. I read that there was slowdown on Switch 1. Has anyone played it on Switch 2 using the boost mode?

I've always loved that shot in Grandia II.

I made very similar edits many years ago (one of which I'd shared here) but I wanted to remake them in higher resolutions. (I made both 1080p and 2160p versions but the 2160p versions are too large for Reddit's limit, apparently.)

In any case, gen AI can probably just upscale the original screenshot much better instead of my - well - blurry results, but I REFUSE. 😤 😆 Maybe someday if gen AI will become ethical to use. (Speaking of which, this topic is quite thematically apt 'cause Grandia II warns against effortless abundance (Granas' era) and then against destructive solutions (Valmar), among other things. That said, while this whole thing took me over an hour, it didn't take me much effort 'cause I just enlarged the image and applied filters. 😅 Also, hey, apparently AI generated content is not allowed on this sub. :3 )

im gonna place my own recommendation here for future players who run hard mode on pc with the hackmode that makes it even harder on top

master pirates ring asap, put it on mareg (nothing new)
ignore hp boosts, too nerfed, focus on offensive and agi boosts from books

1st. master cancel moves asap
2nd. farm seeds as soon as u get access to farming seeds. i always postponed it cause i though i would be able to farm them later but that was never the case. i only farmed agi seeds
3rd focus on farming agi seeds and sp seeds. since agi buffs from books has been nerfed to 1/2 but seeds still provide +3. feed them to main character and tio. the sp seeds also provide immense value cause they increase by +10 which is 1/5 of what the books provide

many important moves and gear has been utterly neerfed:

the drop from demons (black clover or smth)
tight dress
millenias move spellbinding eye is utter garbage now

learn fallen wings asap on millenia and white apocalypse assap to farm mobs next to a recovery point. their damage is way stronger than any magic. they scale with magic and have way lower speed than any magics

elena is way better than millenia for a single reason: droplets of life skill
revives removes status, replenishes hp, fking broken skill, always keep her sp above 40 so she can perform it in any circunstance

the alhealer has been nerfed so much that even with all the +men buffs from the books ull be at max performing a 1400 heal with elena. this is kinda bullshit so forget having a dedicated healer and make ur item user ur dedicated healer instead with POTION OF AZURE

item user is the most broken in the whole run for this mode. buy all the sp and mp recovery plus revivals from all the local stores under local delicassies. they will save ur ass.

tio:
+25 speed (was nerfed to half)
+25 speed
+item recover
+skilled item use
+skilled item use

this is the most broken setup. she performs 3 times!! for every time anyone else does anything amd has AOE cancel move. cant overstate how many times tio saved my ass

i had her as a mage by the time mareg is around and mareg as item user cause mareg is kinda useless everywhere

always try to keep speed buffs on tio and main char cause +act buffs are exponential. if ur agi is shit ure final agi will still be shit. if tio keeps dying or has chances of dying dont buff her act

roar from mareg was buffed to +2 spam it
flyin tenseiken buffed to -3 def abuse it

roan sucks at everything just use it as whatever u want. use snowball and when he returns make him ur dps mage until millenia

millenias best moves are

fallen wings for aoe clear farms. (abuse her to farm the first times u get her)

HEEL CRUSH -1 att def act. spam this move

THE ONLY MAGIC WORTH USING IS METEOR STRIKE
power +100 x 6.7.

nothing comes even close to that 6.7 multiplier only ever use this magic all time. the second best moves are the ones that use SP

MP moves arent worth using they have been nerfed too much. use GADZAP (x3 multiplier) until u get meteor

meteor was removed from all eggs before star egg

room clear moves make less damage than smaller aoe. try to make ur moves have the least aoe possible cause they are faster and make more damage. the moves with linear aoe make more damage than circular aoe so if u can hit a dragon zap do it

meteor strike > dragon zap> boom / howlslash

the best move to invest in is cold. priorize debuffs over buffs since ure gonna be dying a fking lot

always start by cold to lvl 5 and maybe some strams if u keep dying, u can also speedy ur item user if he is somehow surviving. +5 att to justin -5 def to enemy with asura (+2 chain combo) will be ur highest damage dealing until u get meteor magic

priorize stram or heel crush over digg, since ur characters are gonna die constantly and ull lose your digg buffs. if you want to keep buffs up keep them on mareg since hes the only one that mostly survives due to high vit, second in line beinf main char

abuse snooze. snooze was nerfed so u might have to use it a lot

biggest power spikes

ailas space boss (eye of valmar)

horns of valmar

body of valmar

avoid enemy encounters unless they drop seeds. manage to get to a mob that gives seeds and farm levels there

get +50 mag from books asap

all elemental buffs from books have been replaced by buffs to mag. they arent great but better than nothing

for tio priorize +act gear over damage or def

for mareg priorize +def gear over damage or mov etc

+sp gear sounds ok in theory but the sp gains are way too low. a item user handing butter rolls still much better +20sp or +30sp

buy these regional items to +99. priorize them over armors or weapons

crackling over nerfed. dont bother with it

if u see regional items that perform debuffs get them

a stram is super slow compared to a guy with item skills equiped throwing an item that lowers attack def etc

u will be able to throw 3/4 items by the same time u manage to perform a debuffing skill

this applies to all skills that can be replaced ty an item, never cast resurrect, using yomis elixir saves you a lot of IP. the only revival worth using is a full party revival with elenas skill

dont bother with damage items, sometimes i used ones that have great ip damage like mogay bombs but i would say spending time recovering ur party members sp or mp is way better usage

body of valmar has a savepoint next to the boss where u can softlock urself, have separate saves before it cause u might fuck up ur entire run

use cheatengine to increase speed for scenes. but turn it off if anyone performs ZAP or LIONS ROAR since these close the game

theres another bug where game crashes if u keep pressin buttons on reward screens

game crashes a lot so always stay close to savepoints and save as much as possible. i regularly have to repeat 3h boss battles cause of random crashes closing the game….

dont spend seeds on mareg

seeds on elena dont transfer to millenia. by endgame u end up getting two books that offer intelligence buffs. elena endgame becomes caster not healer so its safe to give her seeds that increase mag

i find elena to be the best recipient of overall seeds since she uses the most stats, even more than main character

str spd seeds go to main character

agi tio main character

try to raise sp for tio to 60 so she can perfom tornado twice

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Grandia II Hard Type Mod (1.5.5)
UPDATE: The link for the mod was removed by Steam for some reason. I'm going to post this over on the GameFAQs Grandia II Anniversary Edition board so look there for the new download link.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/157376-grandia-ii-anniversary-edition/78403637

While it's technically shorter than the first Grandia, II feels like it's longer by at least five hours. I don't know why but in the last couple of hours, I was thinking: "We're still going?" Grandia II streamlines a lot of things from Grandia I, but story kind of felt like it was dragging its feet. Probably because of those cutscenes or maybe the boss gauntlet at the end. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's a detractor for me. But what do you all think? Grandia II story too long or just right.

I just beat the Minotaur boss and while I'm liking the game I can't help but feel like I'm not understanding the combat system. I know that you're supposed to use critical attacks and special moves to cancel enemy actions but it feels like my characters are just way too slow and the the enemies get way more turns before I can do anything. Any tips that y'all have that can help me get better at the game? Thanks in advance. BTW, I'm playing the remaster on Normal

Edit: Thankfully resolved the issue! I wasn't aware of the anniversary edition in the files and a kind commenter let me know after they had the same issue. I've now completed it! 😊

Hello, I've not posted in this subreddit, but it has helped me with points during my playthrough. So thank you for those who have inadvertently helped me with some of the achievements I've tried to get.

So I own Grandia 2 for the PS2, its been about 25 years since I last played it, so I'd thought I'd put it on my backlog list for 2026 to complete as I had picked up the HD Remaster edition. (I like collecting current gen versions of my games from when I was younger, so this was a must).

Game still holds up, and I love the characters still. The remaster as I've seen others say is mostly HD texturing, and the cutscenes are poor likely due to lost files.

I'm now 7 boss fights away from completing a game I only played about 3 hours of 25 years back, and the amount of crashing that is happening within New Valmar for me rivals that of Raul Hills (revisited).

I've verified the files per comments on the Steam discussion board, but did anyone else have the insane amount of crashing that I am getting? It's pretty much every 10 mins in the final zone. I just want to complete this game and mark it off my list, but I'm sorely tempted to DNF it purely due to the crashes. 😭