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Heading up to the forest and as I expected, boss battle.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/6/AAXh4NAAEciQ.jpg
It was nice to see that familiar face again.

The boss battle was easy enough since I had a move to greatly destabilize a stack on hand. The plot beats revealed after the battle were interesting, but raised more questions than they answered. It least the twins are remembering more about their past, and that their mother seems like she's going to be a key person to this if she's even still alive.

Before I proceeded too far, I decided to take a small detour back to the main town. However stuff happened and the twins seemingly got lost inside a desert, only to be saved by this mirage.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/7/AAXh4NAAEciR.jpg
Umm...not what I expected but I'm glad this tonberry is a friendly one.

All that leads me to the coliseum, where you can fight and even capture mirages in certain fights. There's also apparently a multiplayer function as well, but I'm a mainly single player type of person so I haven't looked too deeply into that. I did a few fights while I was there to get the ones at my level cleared before heading back.

Now entering an icy area, I had to cross an ice path to get to the town on the other side. At this point, I want to bring up that the dungeons have obstacles that you need certain mirages for akin to HM moves in pokemon.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/8/AAXh4NAAEciS.jpg
Like this one is an icicle blocking your path. However if you have a mirage with the sizzle field ability with you like the symbol above it indicates it needs, you'll be able to melt a path open.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/9/AAXh4NAAEciT.jpg
So far; it personally feels better than how HM moves in pokemon feel because they're keyed of abilities and not moves, and you have a stock of out of battle mirages with you in addition to the ones in your battle team so you can spare a slot or two for the ability users without needing them outside of that. Out side of that, the only other thing I had to deal with were the typical ice sliding puzzles in places like this.

With all that taken care of and the boss of the area defeated, I move onto the next town.

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LordFarquad1312 posted...

Once you unlock the Coliseum you can fight the summons. You'll probably be really underleveled to win against them but if you get lucky you can just spam capture them and if you do you get the rewards as well as add them to your roster.

Umm...I know I said I wouldn't do this but...I kinda of did it by accident lmao. I apparently wasn't paying attention one of the times when I was picking which fight to do (I have the DLC, so there's a lot of them already) and I must have picked that fight.

At first I tried to fight fair since I didn't know that it was that fight, but I quickly realized that something was off since my attacks were doing single digit damage and they were taking out half of my HP bar in one attack. I started to panic so I decided to try to imprism them to take them out that way. I used it on Shiva first...and I caught her on my first attempt. Ifrit however was much harder to capture, and I eventually was unable to deal any more fire damage to keep trying. So at that point I took advantage of his rather low Max HP and just spammed 1,000 needles until I won.

So now I have a superpowered Shiva that I'm having to keep on the bench in order to have some amount of difficulty still before I get to level 40 lmao.