Fighting the final boss of Ar Tonelico: Melody Of Elemia, and showing off two of the true endings for Shurelia and Aurica. (Misha also has a true ending, but you need to take a different route at the start of chapter 2, meaning it requires a whole second playthrough).
While it looks like Shadow Mir's torso is randomly recovering health, she actually has three separate health bars that rotate depending on what attack she plans on using, while the head is also it's own health bar. Also be very careful about using skills, as some of her attacks can party-wipe your team.
I didn't really bother recording the rest of the game as I was playing it in my own time. However, there was a massive difficulty spike for the final boss, which forced me to go out of my way to collect the Lv.4 "ultimate" weapons in order to even stand a chance. So I sort of just recorded this as proof of completion. Maybe one day I'll do a full commentary playthrough. But as is, the localization was kind of subpar, and I might wait and see if it gets another in-depth, fan-translated patch like Metafalica did. Otherwise, you just miss way too much if you're not able to understand the spoken Japanese.
It's also worth noting that I'm aware Ayatane is a way better fit for this boss, as Jack's weapon deals fire damage (which is resisted). However, I couldn't find Ayatane's last weapon blueprint, and most complete, written guides for this game are now gone.
I guess this sort of counts as a PCSX2 test as well. In which case, I'm running the game on PCSX2 version 1.6.0, and all settings are default except for "Round Sprite", which is set to "half" to fix in-game cutscenes. Resolution is bumped to 1080p. Avoid widescreen hacks, as they break the pre-rendered background assets. Anime-style cutscenes will also always be in English for some reason (of which there's only like two), regardless of your language choice, unless you patch the game.
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Game Information:
Title: Ar Tonelico: Melody Of Elemia
Developers/Publishers: Gust Co., Nippon Ichi Software, Banpresto, BANDAI NAMCO, Koei Tecmo, NIS America, 505 Games, and Koei Tecmo Games.
Platform: Playstation 2
Rating: Teen
Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Region: NTSC
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