Phantasy Star Gen 2 solo run (all characters)

[HienTheBirdie]

The Hugh solo run for Generation 2 was the second solo run I ever did after a Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon one. But that run has some issue with needing healers because of the way dodging worked especially above Hard 1 so that run was my first actual solo run where everybody was sent to the bench or dead, even before Hugh, Nei was by herself since she can killed off easily once he arrived.
I had already did three characters before the Genesis Hugh run and while this is the third of the three, I decided to work on this journal first as it’s the shortest of the three but I needed a clear game save from Gen 1 to do so and I didn’t have it when I did my Hugh run, I did the Rudo solo to get this data.

I used the save Nei github to keep her past the first boss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtBu5NJgR6I
Shuren
With a Rolf’s favourite house kitten now a cat, it’s easy to set up by buying her another Steel Claw and selling all of Rolf’s gears and let him get pounced to death.
With how fast she levels up, she got up REAL fast by herself and I made some elemental claws with the elemental station to do 50% more damage when I can exploit elements. I found this on my first solo run around Uzo island but I will explain that in more depth once I do my Hugh solo run guide for this remake.
Something interesting to note is how her skill bar will always fill even when using techniques and items which I do use to charge it earlier when using items later on.
Another thing is Rolf is now required to enter the tower in Paseo which will be pose some issue for him later on.
Rudo was picked up and I do want him to be a bodyguard just a bit later but first Nei has to explore the factory alone. Even if I didn’t intend for that, you HAVE to hire him sooner or later or the plot won’t continue, this is true for all six benchwarmers in fact.
It’s not too hard with the wind claws against the flying enemies and water for frogs and the floating orbs but alas eventually I had to leave and revive Rolf, I bought two shields to give bulk and hired Rudo to block him, running away from everything.
When I got the key and letter, I allow Rolf to die on the first battle and didn’t heal Rudo who eventually died too, I left him in the house dead for now once I finished the factory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBjZLggtaXM
Nido Tower
This is actually pretty challenging for Nei with her now outdated gears alone particularly to the stronger flying enemies so she retreated sometimes, but she managed to pick up Teim on her own with a special little dialogue where she mentions she will inform Rolf about this later.
It’s not too hard to take Rolf to the bridge with the shields.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFdHmF-dVv0
Biosystem Labs
Amy is hired to sit in the house and maybe make something later via this remake’s exclusive item crafting system.
It’s fairly erratic because of that dungeon’s hodgepodge of enemy tiers thankfully Nei is so high levelled she is tanky enough to survive and her new claws with elements are enough to help her as she read the computer and get the disc.

[HienTheBirdie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIlU-KcTbzE

Roron Dump
I get Hugh who might also make something for Nei, in my first casual run I noticed he’s oddly telegraphed for when you get him compared to Rudo and Amy(and the later characters) as you have to get the information from O Conner that he arrived while the others feel rather random narratively(gameplay it’s easy to predict once you hired Rudo) for when they arrive.
I revived Rudo since I need him for item crafting.
Without much trouble Nei made it to Zema and Kueris to get laser claws, they will last her for the rest of the game and I get Anna and Kain. Anna has the same situation as Amy and Hugh but Kain is a massive boon for crafting, he has a MASSIVE(well just the boys…) pool of crafting partners to make loads of gears and I get ready offscreen to make the gears.

The Silent Claw which won’t be equipped but is valuable for it’s Volt spell against tankier Biomonsters like Neo Catonia and the Dezorian dragons
Thunder crown is a good headgear.

It was quick and I went to the Roron dump get the money to pay up, get the boat and travel to Piata without much trouble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvN6IuvLeYI

Uzo island
Shir is hired and paired with the other girls for another set of gears for Nei, they give her a big boost and are a boon!
Thankfully Shir can level up under practice so I don’t need to get her out to battle for the Visiphone.
I also promptly talk to the two NPC near the control tower to unlock the enhancer later on which will be EXTREMELY useful for a solo run.
Nei is struggling even with those by this point though even with D-wand which expires in three turns in this remake… she’s rather frail and can be massively slowed down if she use her level 3 attack, I sometimes use the silent claw because her output is not great against tanky enemies and she lack offensive technique even if her skill is almost as good as Hugh’s at making her near immortal with a bottomless TP pool and Narester.

Amedas
She has the same issue as she does in the island where she has a very hard time despite being so high levelled and in her best gear, I didn’t spend much time and just used the Covert ocarina so Rolf isn’t caught in a single battle as he’s required together with Nei in this port for Neifirst.
Neifirst is a joke though with Nei especially with Nei being high levelled enough to learn Shifta and Narester, her sister fell in record time.

[HienTheBirdie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkCtG_TLg1g
Control tower
Nei took piano lessons which is chump change for her at this point thanks to funding for only herself with her cheap cheap equipment and near total lack of consumables.
Battles are pretty erratic in this tower with how fast she kills the smaller robots but takes ages to kill the larger ones. The plasma field I made only casts Saage, a tier 1 multi target robot attacking technique which does as much damage as Hugh’s Sagenera. (AKA pretty low chip damage for this point)
I did the dams in order so she can max out before the Green Dam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4mDJiY5ToY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEDcufkLcuY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6sVTRV2xHk
Dams
The red dam enemies are the same as the control tower so it was the same experience. I will say that she demands the Girester equipment less than the other characters since she can cast Narester and her skill refills her TP.
But most of her experience is pretty much the same as in the control tower as she can kill the small robots very fast but does a total of 20 damage to the larger ones with Shifta and thunder charged laser claws. The Vans can’t be elementally exploited so if there’s two of them, I use the crystal gears to cast Gravito which can still fill her skill so if there’s only one wounded robot left, I sometimes use her skill to get her TP back.
She did max out for less than a million XP in the dam so she’s very grind free but that also means I can’t improve her much without new gears.

[HienTheBirdie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=636gPcqtfro

Dezoris
Unfortunately, Rolf has to be alive to enter Dezoris because of what I said in the beginning of this run…
Fortunately, he doesn’t need to be alive for the Mogic Cap to work.
I took Rudo and have him decked up so he won’t die to find the musk cat with Rolf wearing the Magic Cap.
Here it is… the Animal Claw… I sent Rudo home and headed for Aukbar to get the Enhancer as well before testing it out.
My eyes popped a bit when testing it on the apes with Shifta at the 500 damage or 1k from criting alone. It makes Rudo’s skill looks like chump change… almost.
As soon as she sees a giant robot, her output goes down the toilet to be weaker than the wave gun instead.
A moon dew is bought as Rolf needs to talk to Lutz.

Crevice
The crevice was a total nightmare even with the animal claw. She can’t buy anything to equip so some of the enemies can utterly ravage her even with Schutz, this is where the level 3 charge finally bites her as even at level 99 she can’t outrun the birds with it.
Thankfully she didn’t die but I had many close battles.
Rolf wakes up Lutz to trigger the Neigear dungeons and I talk to an esper to trigger the Heal Ring… or so I thought.
I made a mistake to not save in Aukbar but Zosa so I teleported there instead and doing anything in Dezoris cancels the quest until I talk to the esper and given how nightmarish the Crevice is, I opted to skip out on it. The Heal Ring is not very good anyway but I will explain it on the other runs I did get it.

[HienTheBirdie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAQ4_dsBk8A

Ikuto
With Nei maxed out, I decided to visit Ikuto… which is just as hell for her as it was for the two men(Rudo and Hugh) I did before her.
The demons have the speed to outspeed her if she has a level 3 charge attack while her health is actually low enough she can get wiped out very fast by the trio of Crybringer, died to a wizard demon casting Nafoi to do an unlucky 120 damage that can’t be dulled by Schutz and got hit by Volt, which is the first time this spell worked on me when hunting for the Neigears.
I just look up a guide to quickly get the gears and look away.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyodpCtCY3E
The rest of the Nei dungeons
The rest of them aren’t too bad compared to Ikuto and she survived all of them, she does do very poorly against dragons though which can burn a lot of her health while enduring her animal claw so I used the silent claw on them, I don’t know what the hit rate of Volt is in this remake but I can tell it’s lower than 60% after playing as Hugh on the Genesis run so matches sometimes drag.