Lost Odyssey Speedrunning FAQs!

Lost Odyssey Speedrun FAQs! -- http://www.twitch.tv/potatohandle

Q: What are your best times?
A: Disc 1: 1:41:xx
Disc 2: 1:16:59
Disc 3: 1:49:35 - http://www.twitch.tv/potatohandle/c/1937809
Disc 4: 2:20:05
Full Game run: 7:25:46 - Part 1: http://www.twitch.tv/potatohandle/c/2222674 | Part 2: http://www.twitch.tv/potatohandle/c/2222681

Q: What console is this on?
A: Lost Odyssey is an Xbox 360 exclusive title.

Q: Why do you use Gamble so often?
A: Gamble is an amazing spell that you can get pretty early in the game. It's cheap, easy to learn, ignores all defense, and has the same damage range regardless of the magic stat of the caster. In other words, Seth and Kaim for example, who are usually useless casters, can still deal decent damage with gamble.

Despite Gamble's "random" damage, it's very often the most reliable way of dealing damage to high-defense or back row enemies.

Q: Why are you on 1 health and not dying when you take damage?
A: I'm using the "Persistence Glitch". Persistence is an ability which allows you to live on 1hp when hit with a killing blow. It's only meant to work once. However by changing equipment in battle you can "renew" the persistence status so each character can take another hit. Using this glitch saves about 30 minutes of prep time on disc 4.

Q: Do you need to grind levels or fight random encounters?
A: Only a little bit on disc 1 to level Jansen a bit to make sure Prism does enough damage for Army 1. We don't get the turn-tail boots (Which guarantee escape from battles) until that point in the game anyways.