BRAVE PROVE FAQ Ver 1.2 by John Cavallaro Deathpoet1@erols.com 5/18/98 Contents --------- 1. Buttons 2. Moves 3. Menus 4. Saving & Warping 5. Shops 6. Items 7. Leveling Up Character, Weapon, & Elementals 8. Elementals 9. Walkthrough 10. Comments ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Buttons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- During Battle L1 or R2 Select Action Item o Attack Triangle Use with other moves to use magic X Use item Square Brings up status menu In Status menu o Selects item L1, L2, R1, R2 Change menu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Moves ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are lots more than are here but here are some examples: tri = triangle button o = o button T = press direction your facing B = press in the opposite direction to where your facing Normal Moves Rotate controller 360 degrees, o Circle slash T, T Run T, T+o Lunge stab T, T+o, o Lunge stab, slash T, T+o, B+o, B+o Lunge stab, slash, turn around slash o, o, o Slash, slash, Stab o, B+o, B+o Slash, slash, Turn around Slash o, o, o, B+o, B+o Slash x 4, turn around Slash o, o, o, T+o, o Slash x 3, lunge stab, slash o, o, o, T+o, B+o, B+o Slash x 3, lunge, slash, turn slash Hold o Slash and hold attack hold o, release Slash, Big slash Hold o, release, B+o, B+o Slash, Big slash, slash, turn slash Hold o, release, T+o, o Slash, Big slash, slash, lunge, slash Magic Moves Rotate controller 360 degrees, tri Summon Element T, T+tri Front attack with element Tri, Tri Elemental Slash B, T+Tri Slash Combo More Variations T, T+o, T+tri T, T+o, B+tri T, T+o, tri, tri o, B+tri o, T+tri o, tri, tri o, o, B+tri o, o, T+tri o, o, tri, tri o, o, o, B+tri o, o, o, T+tri o, o, o, tri, tri Note: Moves are the same for all elements and all Magic Moves cost Pg. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Menus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status Menu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stats Level Hit points Level up The ore you have / The ore you need for a stronger sword Gold Element Selected item Equip Use Elementals Equip Unequip Other Menus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shops Buy Sell Exit Save Points Save Game Warp ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Saving And Warping ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To save the game go to the statue of a lady and hit the o button. The first time it will heal you. Hit o again and a menu will come up. Choose the top choice to save or the bottom to warp. If you select save choose the slot and place to save. If you choose warp you can choose to warp to other statues in the game. You can't warp to every statue in the game. The warp option isn't available until later in the game when you get the Wind Elemental. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Shops ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item Cost Home Town Herb 10 Mushroom 30 Bomb 5 Gold Arrow 5 Armor Def+20 100 Bandana Def+5 150 Gauntlet Def+5 200 Boots Def+30 2500 Armor Def+160 50000 Boat Town Herb 10 Mushroom 30 Bomb 5 Gold Arrow 5 Armor Def+45 1200 Gauntlet Def+15 800 Wind Town Herb 10 Mushroom 30 Turnip 100 Gold Arrow 5 Explosive Arrow 30 Armor Def+75 3000 Necklace Def+20 1500 Boots Def+25 2000 Forest Town Herb 10 Mushroom 30 Turnip 100 Blue Bottle 50 Blue and Gold thing 150 Bomb 5 Explosive Arrow 30 Armor Def+115 5000 Gauntlet Def+35 3000 Bandana Def+40 3500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Items ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item Use Herb restore 20 HP Mushroom restore 60 HP Turnip restore 100 HP Blue Fruit restore all HP Red Fruit max Hp up Blue bottle restore 20 PG Blue and Gold thing restore 60 PG Purple bottle restore all PG Gold Grapes max PG up Harp restore all HP & PG Yellow & Green Fruit max HP and PG up Bombs destroys walls, floors, and more Gold Arrows hit targets from far away Silver Arrows more powerful than gold arrows Explosive Arrows shoots arrows that explodes like bombs Small ore worth one ore Large ore worth ten ore Large colored gems levels up elementals Small Colored gems takes 2 of these to level up elementals Note: Red is fire, Blue is Water, Purple is wind, Green is Earth Action Items Hand uses items Crossbow shoots arrows, throws bombs ??? ??? (found near the beginning of game) Grappling Hook hooks to stakes to pull you across gaps ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Leveling up Character, Weapons, & Elementals ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Character To level up your character you have to kill enemies. Enemies give you a certain amount of exp. When you get enough you go up a level. Now that same enemy will give you less exp. So say at level one an enemy gives you 10 exp. At level 2 he might only give you 8 exp And so on as you go up more. Weapon To level up your weapon you have to find a certain amount of ore. It tells you how much you have and how much you need in your stats. When you reach enough you have to go to a blacksmith and he'll strengthen your sword. Before you can use the blacksmith you have to find him. He is in a cave. Once you find him, he'll be in every town. Elementals To level up your elementas you have to find gems that correspond to their elements. Red is fire, Blue is Water, Purple is wind, Green is Earth. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Elementals ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elementals can do two things for you. First they allow you to use magic and second they give your sword special properties. The moves to use the magic are in the moves part of this faq. If you level up the elemental their magic powers get stonger. They give your sword special properties by giving it the elementals powers. For example if you have the Fire elemental equipped you will do more damage on water enemies. Here's how it goes: Fire is strong on Water Water is strong on Fire Earth is strong on Wind Wind is strong on Earth ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Walkthrough ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- You start in a town I call Hometown. Your name is Ars. First there will be a little sequence after that go up into the caves and make your way to the top floor. Talk to the lady up there then make your way back down to the entrance to the cave were a statue is at. These statues are your save points. Now go up from there. If the door is still blocked you didn't talk to the right person. Now a sequence will take place. When it's done you have to find Shina (the girl that was with you before). She's on the first floor in her room. Remember this room because you'll be back. Another sequence will take place. Now you can leave the town. When you leave the town go left first and explore the caves. In one cave it will look like it's empty but you'll see a path leading up to the wall. Bomb this wall and go in the hole. Get the item from the treasure chest. I don't know what this does but take it anyway. Now explore this area, get a few items, and gain experience. When your done go back to town and save. Next head out of town and go left. Go through this cave and keep going until you reach Shina. Save every chance you get. Keep a look out for cracks in the walls you can bomb them. Also you can destroy bars with bombs. You can find a fire gem, Ring DEF+15% and more. When you meet Shina a sequence will follow then you'll fight the first boss. One important thing to know about fighting bosses is that you can't change items while your fighting them so prepare before hand. Don't attack the boss instead attack the gem behind him. Stay away until he starts breathing fire then attack. When you defeat him you'll get the fire elemental Fueria and a sequence will follow in which you'll meet Preluda. Leave town and go straight down through the fences and keep going down the mountain and through the caves. There is a lot of items around this area so explore it. In the caves you'll find some locked doors. To open the first one just move four rocks onto four switches. To open the second one you have to swing your sword at the torches on the walls to make the flames go out. You'll have to come back to this cave later so remember its location. When you make all the way down the mountain keep going down until you reach the boat town. First save the game then go back up and head left. Keep going as far left as you can go and head up to a cave. Search through the cave and you'll enter a room where all the doors lock you in. To open the bottom door light the urn by placing a bomb near it. To open the other doors kill all the enemies in the room. In one of these rooms you'll find the BLACKSMITH! Now you can upgrade your sword in any town. More items await you in the other caves so explore them then go back to the Boat town. Now take the bottom exit out of town. Now you'll be on the docks. Search for a statue of a woman(not a save point) and a magic circle. Push the statue into the magic circle. Now go up out of the docks and try and go up out of the Boat town. You'll be warped back to home town and a sequence will follow. Then you'll be attacked by Soldiers. After you defeat the soldiers head back to the boat town and to the docks. Now you can go from the docks to the riverbed. Follow the river bed until you reach the Water Palace. In there you'll find a few puzzles which are easily solved. In this palace is the grappling hook. You'll use it here a few times. If you see little holes in the ground run over them quickly because spikes come up. If spikes block your way look use switches, plates or light urns. If bombs or urns are in the distance equip bombs and the crossbow to throw bombs at them. If you can't find a switch or are in a hurry just walk over the spikes it doesn't take that much energy away. At the end of the Water Palace you'll fight the water boss. this is the easiest boss in the game. Just get him against a wall and keep hitting him. Most of the hits will be blocked but a few will hit him. He never gets a chance to attack you. Now you will get the water elemental Siren. Now go back to the cave in the mountains where the doors were locked and search for an area with lava in it. It should be to the left of the cave. Now look for dark spots in the lava and summon the water elemental by pressing the controller in 360 degrees and pressing the triangle button. You have to have the water elemental equipped and enough PG to do to do this. Now continue to the other side of the cave doing this when you see a place to do it. When you get outside keep going until you reach the Wind Town. Save and walk right through the town. Go back in the town and a person comes up to you. Now go back right out of the town. Walk on the air tunnels to warp to other areas. Keep warping to different places until you find an area with three different colored heads. You have to move the heads onto the plates. Move the Blue head left, the brown head up, and the green head right. This will change where some of the warps take you. Now when you reach three heads again you'll have to bomb one of them. Place a bomb near the right green head to change it brown. Now move the Brown head left, the green head up, and the blue head down. Don't miss the small blue gem in the same room. Now the warps will be changed again. Now using the changed warps make your way to the Wind Palace. In the Wind Palace you'll find Gauntlet Def+8% PG+25%, Armor Def+95, a small fire and water gem and more. There are a couple puzzles in this palace. The hardest ones are these two. In a room with three air holes and two rocks were when you go on any of the air holes it just pushes you up a little. Push the rocks on the two top air holes until you here a click then go in the bottom hole and it will push you into another room. The other puzzle is were you have to push rocks on four switches but you can't reach the bottom switches. To solve this go to the room above and go to the lower left corner. Look for a different colored square on the floor. Put a bomb on it. Now jump in the hole it created. Now push the green rocks on the two bottom switches and push up on the brown rock on the right and go around and push the rocks on the left switches. Keep going until you reach the wind boss. To defeat him easily stay in the upper right corner right below were he sways. If your at the wrong angle he will attack you or you can't reach him. But if you get a the right angle you can hit him without him hitting you. When you defeat him you'll get the wind elemental Tenryu. Now that you have the Wind elemental go to the wind village and talk to the village leaders. Then talk with all the villagers and one of them will give you something. Now go right out of the village and where the air tunnels once were are now caves. Go in the caves and go through them until you come out next to a save point. Save (it'll be awhile before you can again) and then head left. Wander around a couple screens until all the elementals come out and talk to you. You'll warp to a Dream Palace. In this place is the only time you have the Dark elemental Preluda. In this palace there are no save points and no bosses. When you come to a room with four urns lit with blue flame slash at the four flames and go in the gate that appears. Kill all the enemies in some rooms to open doors and to make chests appear. In this palace is alot of ore and a small purple gem. When you finally reach outside go left and save. You'll be in the Earth forest. In here you'll have to use the grappling hook to cross gaps and bombs to blow up hollow trees blocking the way. Chop shrubs to remove them also. Keep going and you'll reach the Forest town. In the town go left and talk to a man blocking the left exit and a sequence will follow. When it's over you can go left so... go left. Now your in the second part of the Earth Forest In the second part you'll find a small green and purple gem and Necklace Def-7 STR+50% HP-20% PG-20%. Keep going through the caves and the forest until you come to an exit with a save point next to it. Save because the Earth boss is next. Go out the exit and a sequence will follow then you'll fight the boss. This boss is three statues that randomly come out and attack. The same ones always appear in the same place though. The top statue summons zombies out of the ground, the left statue makes thorns come out of the ground and the boss on the right attacks with projectiles from the sky. To defeat them easily just stand next to them and combo them. When zombies are summoned just use magic to dispose of them quickly. Not to hard. Don't equip the wind elemental for this because it's weak against the zombies they summon. A sequence will then follow. Now the fire elemental will leave your party but the earth elemental Boosun joins you. Now go back and save and come back out to were you fought the boss. Now you have to go through the Earth Forest part three. If you go back to the Forest town and talk to the guy who helped you he'll give you something. In this part you'll find two small purple gems, two small green gems, a small blue gem, Boots DEF+5 STR+40% HP+20%, Armor DEF+130, and Gauntlet DEF+10% STR+30% HP+20%. Keep going and you'll eventually reach the vine tower. In this tower you'll find brown borders that can be destroyed with bombs. Also you'll have to throw bombs at urns that are floors below you or across from you to make doors open or spikes go down. Also be on the look out for cracks in the walls to bomb because this place has alot. In this place you can find Armor DEF+150, Necklace effect DEF+6%, and a small purple and a small green gem. The boss here is Preluda he's pretty easy. Just run around until he lands then attack him and destroy the dark spirits he summons. Equip the Wind elemental for this one. Once you defeat him you'll get the fire elemental back but now he's the light elemental. Go back and save. Warp to Hometown and talk to the sleeping Shina and then warp to where you fought the first boss. A beacon will be there now. Go to it and a sequence will follow. Go to it again and you'll go to the Final Palace. Here you'll have to go in the four doors and go through there levels then fight the old bosses. The old bosses are more powerful this time. Then you can go up and go through a small level and fight the final boss Chaos. The lower left door is the water realm in there you'll find Ring EFFECT DEF+4%. The lower right door is the Wind realm. The upper left is the Earth realm here you'll find two small green gems, Gauntlet DEF+45, and Necklace DEF+16% HP+40% PG-20%. The upper right door leads to the Fire realm. Here you'll find a small green gem. Also when you fight the fire boss you have to attack him unlike when you fought before. When you defeat them all and reach the last save point. Save and prepare for a big battle. You should equip and have 99 turnips for this battle. Make sure you have the light elemental equipped. When you enter you'll first be attacked by a few enemies that get bigger every time you hit them a few times. These aren't hard. Just keep them at the bottom of the screen and combo them. Next you'll be attacked by three heads that stay in place. The left one shoots ice at you that follow you just run out of their way. The bottom one breathes fire at you, just move out of the way and attack. The right one drops lighting at you, don't stand still keep running. When you weaken them enough two of them will attack at once. Also they will sometimes all shoot beams in front of them. To defeat them wait till the bottom one breathes fire then attack the left one. After the left one is gone destroy the right one, then the bottom. Now prepare for a hard battle. Now you'll fight Chaos. She will send two floating lasers at you and shoot a huge beam straight in front of her. Keep your energy full for her because her attacks take off alot of HP. To defeat her run constantly run from the lasers and wait for her to shoot her beam. When the beam is over quickly run in and attack her. Then quickly retreat before she uses the beam again. When you have enough PG use a magic attack. This will take a while but it's the only strategy I've found to work. THE END ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Comments ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- If anyone has any comments, corrections, anymore info or questions just write me. Everyone that helps out will be credited. Don't write about items because I know where alot if them are I just didn't write it down. I'll go back and put it in later. Any story translation help would be much appreciated!!! If you use this faq anywhere give me full credit!!! Deathpoet1@erols.com Deathpoet1's Console Cheats http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Ring/2162/