2:44 this is a game breaker and I never knew about it. I play the game normally though and I never had an issue with Gilda. I always had Mayor Need in my party and with his perk, I would always get an increased amount of Gilda just by killing enemies anyways.
So I've been playing Dark Cloud 2 almost since its release and even purchased the "rerelease" on the ps4. From what I have tested, the Happy Clown boxes will alternate, but only while you stay within the same dungeon. If you switch to another dungeon, it will not alternate and often reset/randomize (starting the alternating again). ALSO, fun fact, there are dungeon levels where certain items/happy clown chests will spawn more often. For example, in the Sewers where you fin unto your 1st Mimics, there will almost always be a Happy Clown chest as well as a seemingly higher chance of getting Coins. The same can be said for the Pixie Level in the Rainbow Butterfly Woods has a slightly higher chance of getting higher level Synthesis materials, like Gems and Coins. I have noticed though that these chance increases seem to go down after you move on to another Chapter, so grind early. Lastly, there are 2 NPC companions (aka Support Characters) that go above the rest for grinding. Corrine, who you have to recruit via Hide n Seek, will always give an Angel Coin on the Coin Flips. Its a good way to grind ABS in levels that have a high spawn chance of the Coin Flips. The Second is Borneo who is one of the 1st 3 characters you can add as a Support Character. He gives a MUCH Higher chance for enemies to drop items, this allows for higher drop chances for some hard to get items from monsters, coupled with the Thief attribute you can get fairly early in the game, gives you a massive inventory early.
When I was a kid, I sought out only the weapons with the highest stats, but replaying the game recently, I realized some of the "weaker" weapons have higher DPS or shorter windup animations or better stunlock rates, and so the "strongest" weapons are not always the best. Took me many years to realize that.
7) I'm still not sure how the Name-Change Ticket is interpreted as an unintended glitch. Why would it make sense to charge the player 40 Medals to rename a wrench to "Mimic Slayer" or something like that when the fish get a rename for free? There are also weapons only obtainable through the Name-Change Ticket. The game also seems to add "( )" to indicate the origins of the weapon. 19) I believe the Power and Protector Crystals are unique and increase their stats by only 2 24) There are enough Medals available that you can rename something and make a 5-Star Armlet pre-Lin 29) There are actually multiple glitches that can occur with these chests in Ch 3's Starlight Temple. The first is the ability to miss out on chests spawned after "Earth Shaking Demon". I believe you miss out on these by advancing to the next stage too quicky. The next one is missed out on by collecting a chest from the corner of the Weapon Shop platform. This prevents a chest from spawning in later when you enter the floor "looking for the Wind Gem". However, you can actually counter this glitch with another glitch by getting out of bounds in Starlight Canyon and bypassing the Star Barrier to enter Ch 6 early. This spawns in the chest without the need of completing Ch 4 and 5. 50) I spent the last week farming for Happy Clowns in the Underground trying to see if I could get an ABS-Up coin pre-Linda and I have recordings of the Clown offering the best prize in the same box back-to-back. I too believed in the alternating box theory until I started streaming about a year ago. Anyways, loved the video! You should check out doing a NG+ run with the Photo Album and Name-Change Tickets. It's a lot of fun, actually! I will say I was disappointed in a total lack of twerking during the Secret Track segment, lol. Did you ever check out Dragon Quest VIII? It may be difficult to get ahold of any physical copies since the passing of Akira Toriyama and people flock to purchase them. You should also check out the Aquarium more! There's a lot there that needs unpacked, like how every fish can be bred to pass on its colors. Or if you breed a larger fish with a smaller species, you can make giants that are hilarious to race with!
Haha wow lots of valuable info here! First of all, thank you for testing out the alternating box theory; that one was driving me crazy. Secondly, I thought people were getting sick of the twerking segment!! I took it out because I didn't want to upset anyone! Next, I haven't yet played the Dragon Quest series yet but I really should. Out of respect for Akira Toriyama if nothing else (although I'm sure the games are great). Lastly, I'm really curious about the Name-Change Ticket thing. I always assumed it was for cosmetic purposes just like the costumes, and they charge upwards of 60 medals for those. To me, it doesn't seem too far-fetched to throw in a fun little name-change feature to spend extra medals on (totally just my opinion, though)! The fact that you can obtain the best weapons in the game by, like, chapter 2 can't be on purpose... right?? Let me know what you think!
Figuring out the alternating box theory was just a side effect of trying to find out if there are coins available pre-Linda besides the Dark and Indestructible. I've spent about a day or two farming resets though. I think twerking is a lot like that bad medicine flavor, you don't even notice the taste when you're sick and need it. I didn't discover the Dragon Quest series until a couple of years ago. It's never a bad time to pick up a game and pay respects. I wish you could Name-Change by Ch 2! There aren't enough Medals for it. The first one you can afford is after unlocking Spheda in Ch 3. However, you can already have made two of Max's penultimate weapons through the use of the Photo Album in NG+. You can quite easily make insanely broken weapons in Ch 2 with the use of specific photos. These weapons aren't that expensive either. However, inventing them still prevents you from building them up to their ultimate forms. This is where the Name-Change Tickets come in. In a normal playthrough you're spending your Medals on outfits. After purchasing all of them you have enough Medals left over for 2 Name-Changes. However, again in NG+ where your outfits have carried over, you now have free use to do whatever you want with your Medals. For instance, make the ultimate armband to showoff to Lin. @@sketchesbyaidan
I think for the Clown, the items are chosen when you encounter him, then switch between left and right based on the frame you press X. Abusing save states, I'd press X and the better item wouldn't always be in the same hand.
@@sketchesbyaidan You can obtain the best weapons in chapter 2 ONLY if you know the names of the best weapons ! Which doesnt occur when you play the game for the first time. Im a BIG BIG fan of Dark Chronicle, but I'm a casual player and I never attended to have all/the best weapons, so I didnt knew their name or even saw these weapons. And back then, i didnt even knew what was the purpose of this ticket. For me, its like a little "speed-run" aid for your second(+) run (sorry for bad english)
The amount I care about dark cloud 2 has gone from “I’ve never heard of this,” to “Oh my god, I have to play this ASAP, If I don’t play this game soon I’m going to explode,” all courtesy of two videos from Aiden. I have never needed to play a game I’d previously never heard of this much since I found Okami in 2015.
For the clown I remember using state save yeaaaars ago and yes, the good gift switches each time I load the state save I usually used it for the spheda it was such a pain xD
This is some very great content, hope you will do more! Dark Chronicle is my favorite game of all time (and I am really too emotionally attached to it) and I'm really happy when I see people speaking about it! Keep up the good work!
Are you talking about the "Alternate Alias" trophy? It looks like that trophy is just for using a name-change ticket in general. Actually turning one of your weapons into a new one is an exploit for sure haha
@@sketchesbyaidanI've gotta back my favourite plant monster Himarra on this one, it's totally intended. In a programming sense "Supernova" as displayed with the ticket is a different string than Supernova (sans quotation marks). Likewise, if changing the name prompted the game to refresh the weapon data unintentionally then any custom name would have no data and would most likely crash. I'm sure you've had it up to the gills with nitpicks though. I enjoyed the video, so thanks.
I enjoyed dark cloud 2, I didn't even think in my first playthrough to take pictures. I didn't know about the weapon changing from the name tickets, good to know for next time
@sketchesbyaidan also, fun fact, in the Chapter 8 Dungeon, Zelmite Mine, on the level named Hell's Truning Point, the Chests give only Ability Coins. You can play that level over and over, and all you'll get from the Chests are Ability Coins.
i wish i could get this game on pc (legitimately) i remember vividly the day i got it, it was a "gift" from my brother, we went to the capital to do some shopping in a big mall (in my country, spain, the only big mall back in the day was "El corte inglés") and it caught my attention massively from a far (for some reason..) and it was the last copy of the game too, o remember spending like the 2hours that took from us to get back to our city reading the back and looking at the pictures.
Oh one more thing, the tortoise level on chapter two (third floor) can be farmed heavily as sometimes and quite frequently you can get 3-4 coins from chests. Super beneficial early on as you cannot obtain some of the rarest coins without spheda yet
Was hoping to see a fact about the miracle chest that disappears in chapter 3/6. Always have to look up which one not to open in stardew valley each playthrough
I think the clown does two rng checks from my experience trying yo game it with save states. One to choose the gifts and one for which one you get. Since I choose the gift, get the bad one, reload choose the other and get the same one, then reload again and get the one I want
actually the clown in the box number 50 i used and emulator and restarted the that moment before i pick the item and once i reload the save it switched the items in the boxes around
9:00 I checked and it appears that Spheda is called "Sufiida" in Japanese 「スフィーダ」so I find this idea hard to believe unless there's some actual indication.
I agree. I doubt it was actually inspired by the Italian word, "Sfida", but it's a fun connection to make regardless! That's why I think it might've originally been "Sphera", because consonants sometimes change when translating from Katakana to English (especially for "r" sounds).
@@spirittheythemvanished No haha, that's exactly what I mean. I think they tried to call it "Sphera" and since there's no "r" sound in Japanese, when written out in Katakana, it changed to "Spheda"
@@sketchesbyaidan There is an "R" sound in Japanese though. It sometimes gets transliterated to an "L" sound because there is no differentiation between "R" and "L" in Japanese, but there is a "D" sound which is distinct from either option, and that's what they used. "Sphera" would have to be written as "スフィーラ" If they had gone with that writing, we might debate whether it should be called "Sphera" or "Sphela" but the actual spelling unquestionably ends with the "da" syllable instead. There is ambiguity when you transliterate certain Japanese syllables to English consonants, like V, B, and W getting mixed up in various cases, but "D" syllables are pretty much always distinct from "R/L" syllables. But there are lots of possibilities when it comes to transferring terms from one system of writing and speaking into another, so maybe somebody misheard a pronunciation and used "ダ" instead of "ラ" because they were so unfamiliar with the intended root word (whatever it was)
@@sketchesbyaidanThere's totally an R sound in Japanese. Some words most have heard: "Arigato" "Naruto" "Ora Ora". Most likely the commenter meant the "L" sound. Professional debaters could also get hung up on the tongue position being slightly different but who even cares about all that.
I enjoyed both games and I didn't know in the first game you can put attachments on your weapons without having to permanently put them on when your weapon levels up.
2:44 this is a game breaker and I never knew about it.
I play the game normally though and I never had an issue with Gilda. I always had Mayor Need in my party and with his perk, I would always get an increased amount of Gilda just by killing enemies anyways.
So I've been playing Dark Cloud 2 almost since its release and even purchased the "rerelease" on the ps4. From what I have tested, the Happy Clown boxes will alternate, but only while you stay within the same dungeon. If you switch to another dungeon, it will not alternate and often reset/randomize (starting the alternating again).
ALSO, fun fact, there are dungeon levels where certain items/happy clown chests will spawn more often. For example, in the Sewers where you fin unto your 1st Mimics, there will almost always be a Happy Clown chest as well as a seemingly higher chance of getting Coins. The same can be said for the Pixie Level in the Rainbow Butterfly Woods has a slightly higher chance of getting higher level Synthesis materials, like Gems and Coins. I have noticed though that these chance increases seem to go down after you move on to another Chapter, so grind early.
Lastly, there are 2 NPC companions (aka Support Characters) that go above the rest for grinding. Corrine, who you have to recruit via Hide n Seek, will always give an Angel Coin on the Coin Flips. Its a good way to grind ABS in levels that have a high spawn chance of the Coin Flips. The Second is Borneo who is one of the 1st 3 characters you can add as a Support Character. He gives a MUCH Higher chance for enemies to drop items, this allows for higher drop chances for some hard to get items from monsters, coupled with the Thief attribute you can get fairly early in the game, gives you a massive inventory early.
That's great info, thanks! Yeah Corrine is a game changer haha, I've never tried Borneo though! I'll have to try that, seems fun
When I was a kid, I sought out only the weapons with the highest stats, but replaying the game recently, I realized some of the "weaker" weapons have higher DPS or shorter windup animations or better stunlock rates, and so the "strongest" weapons are not always the best. Took me many years to realize that.
Wise words! I used to do the same thing. Now I just pick weapons based on how cool they look lol (Muramasa all the way)
7) I'm still not sure how the Name-Change Ticket is interpreted as an unintended glitch. Why would it make sense to charge the player 40 Medals to rename a wrench to "Mimic Slayer" or something like that when the fish get a rename for free? There are also weapons only obtainable through the Name-Change Ticket. The game also seems to add "( )" to indicate the origins of the weapon.
19) I believe the Power and Protector Crystals are unique and increase their stats by only 2
24) There are enough Medals available that you can rename something and make a 5-Star Armlet pre-Lin
29) There are actually multiple glitches that can occur with these chests in Ch 3's Starlight Temple. The first is the ability to miss out on chests spawned after "Earth Shaking Demon". I believe you miss out on these by advancing to the next stage too quicky. The next one is missed out on by collecting a chest from the corner of the Weapon Shop platform. This prevents a chest from spawning in later when you enter the floor "looking for the Wind Gem". However, you can actually counter this glitch with another glitch by getting out of bounds in Starlight Canyon and bypassing the Star Barrier to enter Ch 6 early. This spawns in the chest without the need of completing Ch 4 and 5.
50) I spent the last week farming for Happy Clowns in the Underground trying to see if I could get an ABS-Up coin pre-Linda and I have recordings of the Clown offering the best prize in the same box back-to-back. I too believed in the alternating box theory until I started streaming about a year ago.
Anyways, loved the video! You should check out doing a NG+ run with the Photo Album and Name-Change Tickets. It's a lot of fun, actually! I will say I was disappointed in a total lack of twerking during the Secret Track segment, lol. Did you ever check out Dragon Quest VIII? It may be difficult to get ahold of any physical copies since the passing of Akira Toriyama and people flock to purchase them. You should also check out the Aquarium more! There's a lot there that needs unpacked, like how every fish can be bred to pass on its colors. Or if you breed a larger fish with a smaller species, you can make giants that are hilarious to race with!
Haha wow lots of valuable info here! First of all, thank you for testing out the alternating box theory; that one was driving me crazy. Secondly, I thought people were getting sick of the twerking segment!! I took it out because I didn't want to upset anyone! Next, I haven't yet played the Dragon Quest series yet but I really should. Out of respect for Akira Toriyama if nothing else (although I'm sure the games are great).
Lastly, I'm really curious about the Name-Change Ticket thing. I always assumed it was for cosmetic purposes just like the costumes, and they charge upwards of 60 medals for those. To me, it doesn't seem too far-fetched to throw in a fun little name-change feature to spend extra medals on (totally just my opinion, though)! The fact that you can obtain the best weapons in the game by, like, chapter 2 can't be on purpose... right?? Let me know what you think!
Figuring out the alternating box theory was just a side effect of trying to find out if there are coins available pre-Linda besides the Dark and Indestructible. I've spent about a day or two farming resets though. I think twerking is a lot like that bad medicine flavor, you don't even notice the taste when you're sick and need it. I didn't discover the Dragon Quest series until a couple of years ago. It's never a bad time to pick up a game and pay respects.
I wish you could Name-Change by Ch 2! There aren't enough Medals for it. The first one you can afford is after unlocking Spheda in Ch 3. However, you can already have made two of Max's penultimate weapons through the use of the Photo Album in NG+. You can quite easily make insanely broken weapons in Ch 2 with the use of specific photos. These weapons aren't that expensive either. However, inventing them still prevents you from building them up to their ultimate forms. This is where the Name-Change Tickets come in. In a normal playthrough you're spending your Medals on outfits. After purchasing all of them you have enough Medals left over for 2 Name-Changes. However, again in NG+ where your outfits have carried over, you now have free use to do whatever you want with your Medals. For instance, make the ultimate armband to showoff to Lin. @@sketchesbyaidan
@@abstract_advocat I'll definitely have to check out this NG+, seems very interesting!
I think for the Clown, the items are chosen when you encounter him, then switch between left and right based on the frame you press X. Abusing save states, I'd press X and the better item wouldn't always be in the same hand.
@@sketchesbyaidan You can obtain the best weapons in chapter 2 ONLY if you know the names of the best weapons ! Which doesnt occur when you play the game for the first time. Im a BIG BIG fan of Dark Chronicle, but I'm a casual player and I never attended to have all/the best weapons, so I didnt knew their name or even saw these weapons. And back then, i didnt even knew what was the purpose of this ticket.
For me, its like a little "speed-run" aid for your second(+) run
(sorry for bad english)
i feel ya man that poverty buff is rough.
nice video, solid edits, good research, surprised you don't have more subs.
The amount I care about dark cloud 2 has gone from “I’ve never heard of this,” to “Oh my god, I have to play this ASAP, If I don’t play this game soon I’m going to explode,” all courtesy of two videos from Aiden. I have never needed to play a game I’d previously never heard of this much since I found Okami in 2015.
I'm glad you're so into it! Also I just looked up Okami; I'd never heard of it before but it looks sick
I knew all of this except that the Black Mages participated in the soundtrack remaster. And now I must go listen to their contribution!
For the clown
I remember using state save yeaaaars ago and yes, the good gift switches each time I load the state save
I usually used it for the spheda it was such a pain xD
This is some very great content, hope you will do more! Dark Chronicle is my favorite game of all time (and I am really too emotionally attached to it) and I'm really happy when I see people speaking about it! Keep up the good work!
Thanks!! I know what you mean about being too attached to it. I heard someone trash talking it once and it took me months to recover emotionally
Love this game, I don’t believe the name change ticket thing is an exploit however, it’s an official trophy on the ps4 port of the game
Are you talking about the "Alternate Alias" trophy? It looks like that trophy is just for using a name-change ticket in general. Actually turning one of your weapons into a new one is an exploit for sure haha
@@sketchesbyaidanI've gotta back my favourite plant monster Himarra on this one, it's totally intended. In a programming sense "Supernova" as displayed with the ticket is a different string than Supernova (sans quotation marks).
Likewise, if changing the name prompted the game to refresh the weapon data unintentionally then any custom name would have no data and would most likely crash.
I'm sure you've had it up to the gills with nitpicks though. I enjoyed the video, so thanks.
Slingshot Steve really took bulk season seriously
Bro had a glow up
i feel like spheda was changed to that to avoid confisuing sphera and Spira (ffx)
WHY DIDN'T THEY PUT THAT SOUNDTRACK IN THE GAME IT'S SO GOOD
I KNOW RIGHT. WE'VE BEEN ROBBED
I really wish I still had my copy... ☹️
You lost your copy of Dark Cloud 2?? That's tragic
@@sketchesbyaidan It was borrowed and never returned.
One of my favorite games of all time
I enjoyed dark cloud 2, I didn't even think in my first playthrough to take pictures. I didn't know about the weapon changing from the name tickets, good to know for next time
Ok, I hate to be that guy, but a correction. The Miracle Chests don't appear with Georama Progression, but with Dungeon Progression.
I just looked it up, it's both actually! But you're right, seems like most chests show up once you make it to a certain level in the dungeon. Thanks!
@sketchesbyaidan also, fun fact, in the Chapter 8 Dungeon, Zelmite Mine, on the level named Hell's Truning Point, the Chests give only Ability Coins. You can play that level over and over, and all you'll get from the Chests are Ability Coins.
@@ytwyvern4240 What?? That's crazy. Man, I could make another 50 facts video just from the comments on this video 😂
Still my fav game to this day
i wish i could get this game on pc (legitimately) i remember vividly the day i got it, it was a "gift" from my brother, we went to the capital to do some shopping in a big mall (in my country, spain, the only big mall back in the day was "El corte inglés") and it caught my attention massively from a far (for some reason..) and it was the last copy of the game too, o remember spending like the 2hours that took from us to get back to our city reading the back and looking at the pictures.
LETS GOOOOOO
Oh one more thing, the tortoise level on chapter two (third floor) can be farmed heavily as sometimes and quite frequently you can get 3-4 coins from chests. Super beneficial early on as you cannot obtain some of the rarest coins without spheda yet
I didn't know this! Very interesting
I mean the ripod with trackwheels and katanas could count as running the enemies over lmao😂
Was hoping to see a fact about the miracle chest that disappears in chapter 3/6.
Always have to look up which one not to open in stardew valley each playthrough
I think the clown does two rng checks from my experience trying yo game it with save states. One to choose the gifts and one for which one you get. Since I choose the gift, get the bad one, reload choose the other and get the same one, then reload again and get the one I want
Nuh uh, power crystals only do 2 attack. 5:38
actually the clown in the box number 50 i used and emulator and restarted the that moment before i pick the item and once i reload the save it switched the items in the boxes around
Heck yeah keep this good stuff coming. Keeping me going fr fr
Gotta stay on that Dark Cloud content!!
Great vid! It's nice to see some fresh Dark Cloud content
Thanks so much! Dark Cloud 2 is really underappreciated so I'm happy to spread the word
9:00 I checked and it appears that Spheda is called "Sufiida" in Japanese 「スフィーダ」so I find this idea hard to believe unless there's some actual indication.
I agree. I doubt it was actually inspired by the Italian word, "Sfida", but it's a fun connection to make regardless! That's why I think it might've originally been "Sphera", because consonants sometimes change when translating from Katakana to English (especially for "r" sounds).
@@sketchesbyaidan is this reply AI generated? There is no R sound in the Japanese.
@@spirittheythemvanished No haha, that's exactly what I mean. I think they tried to call it "Sphera" and since there's no "r" sound in Japanese, when written out in Katakana, it changed to "Spheda"
@@sketchesbyaidan There is an "R" sound in Japanese though. It sometimes gets transliterated to an "L" sound because there is no differentiation between "R" and "L" in Japanese, but there is a "D" sound which is distinct from either option, and that's what they used. "Sphera" would have to be written as "スフィーラ"
If they had gone with that writing, we might debate whether it should be called "Sphera" or "Sphela" but the actual spelling unquestionably ends with the "da" syllable instead.
There is ambiguity when you transliterate certain Japanese syllables to English consonants, like V, B, and W getting mixed up in various cases, but "D" syllables are pretty much always distinct from "R/L" syllables.
But there are lots of possibilities when it comes to transferring terms from one system of writing and speaking into another, so maybe somebody misheard a pronunciation and used "ダ" instead of "ラ" because they were so unfamiliar with the intended root word (whatever it was)
@@sketchesbyaidanThere's totally an R sound in Japanese. Some words most have heard: "Arigato" "Naruto" "Ora Ora".
Most likely the commenter meant the "L" sound. Professional debaters could also get hung up on the tongue position being slightly different but who even cares about all that.
I enjoyed both games and I didn't know in the first game you can put attachments on your weapons without having to permanently put them on when your weapon levels up.
Nice job :)
Ty
Who the hell is Maximonicia?
I think that's the shipping name
GET OFF YOUR LAZY BEHIND.
Forever burned into my head hahaha
neat
I actually would watch a play through.
Very Nice
🤎🧡🩵🤎
You should make a Skyrim video.
何で海外版だとマックスって名前なんやろ。ユリスって問題あるのか？