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Get Sage as soon as possible. Sage gives access to both White and Black Magics. You lose Raise, but gain Ultima.

Don't rely solely on Soul Shield or Block. Soul Shield gives some invincibility frames, so use that to get away.  Block is good with multi-hit attacks, but it still chips at your Break Gauge.

Tonberries can absolutely destroy you. Chef's Knife as a high chance of killing you, no matter how much health you have.

But Chef's Knife can be blocked with Soul Shield.

If you're stunned or staggered, they'll usually use Deathwish to close the gap and get close enough to use Chef's Knife.

Magic, most notably Firaga, is good at dealing damage, also stunlocking them.

Don't try and purely Soul Shield or Block Everybody's Grudge. Block, then dodge.

Cubes automatically activate when you get close to them, so if you die before actively interacting with them, you'll respawn at those same Cubes.

While Cubes restore your HP and MP, you lose whatever Instant Ability you had on your. Also, enemies respawn when you touch the Cubes. With exceptions being ones spawned from Dark Vents. And any objects you interact with to progress the dungeon, either destroying a wall or unlocking a door, won’t reset.

Speaking of Dark Vents, defeating enemies they spawn lower its Break Gauge. But also, destroying the Dark Vent will instantly destroy any enemies they spawn.

Most bosses have 2 phases, separated by a Soul Burst cutscene. If you drop a boss' HP to "0", or where the line in its HP bar is, they'll instantly be staggered. But if you manage to lower the boss' Break Gauge and stagger them, you'll instantly end the current phase. The latter is actually how to defeat Tiamat's second phase.

The 4 Fiends more of less maintain their weaknesses from FF1. With the exceptions of Lich and Tiamat.

Tiamat has no weaknesses (at least from what I experienced) but you can lower her Break Gauge by destroying her heads. Best option is Thundaga. 

For her second phase, she uses Wind Blast and Tri-Disaster. The former can be Soul Shielded, but the other has to be avoided, as it's a multi-hit ability. Merely wait until just before she fires to avoid either ability. And trust me, Tri-Disaster can and will absolutely destroy you.

Marilith is weak to Water. Just be cautious and aware of her. If you’re not attacking and she’s targetting you, be always dodging and/or blocking.

Lich is weak to Holy and Wind (I only used Holy), so use Dia or Paladin's Radiant Aura/Holy Fang for Holy or Aeroga for Wind. You can also have your allies fight the Lich's minions while you focus on the Lich himself.

You can also just use Soul Burst to finish a minion off to get MP or Soul Shield Lich’s attacks.

During his second phase, he'll occasionally use Putrid Ground, which leaves him idle for several seconds, so just spam magic/Dia/Aero.

Kraken is weak to LIghtning. Just keep moving and you should be fine. You can also stun it with Thundaga.

Where you have to go in the Fifth Kalpa to get the fabled Uber Pixie. Fair warning, bring a Demon with high strength and another with high magic. And no, that doesn’t include artificial growth, such as using Mitamas or Incense. I think it has to be at least 25. However, once you get Uber Pixie, her stats are all high enough to open any door the requires a Demon with a high enough stat.

Now in HD.

I meant to work on this sooner, but I’ve been both distracted and exhausted. But better late than never, I suppose. Today, we’ll be taking a look at... Archie Sonic Online!

Archie Sonic Online is an online webseries that functions similarly to Sonic the Comic Online, both being online continuations of Sonic the Hedgehog comics. However, Archie Sonic Online, rather than continuing where the official Archie Sonic the Hedgehog comics ended, with being set in an entirely new continuity, Archie Sonic Online continues the story from the original continuity.

Technically, Archie Sonic Online was started on September 2015 where it was known as Sonic Mobius and aimed to adapt the the “Lost Hedgehog Tales”, a series of ideas written by Archie Sonic writer, Ian Flynn, but wasn’t able to use for various reasons. The project itself would be set after Issue 247, disregarding the crossover event with Archie Mega Man. However, the project would officially be known as Archie Sonic Online on February 1st, 2016 and abandoned adapting the “Lost Hedgehog Tales” and instead decided to continue the original story.

As stated before, the online comic series takes place right after the last main issue before the reboot. For a refresher, Princess Sally has been turned into Mecha Sally and used to fight against Sonic and the Freedom Fighters. Eggman launches an attack on New Mobotropolis while Sonic and the others deal with Mecha Sally, only to receive help from Silver, who once again returned from the future to track down the traitor that would lead to the destruction of the future; that traitor being Sally (albeit not of her own free will). He manages to short Mecha Sally out, allowing Sonic, Tails, and Amy to focus on the Death Egg Mk. 2.

At the same time, the Tails Doll is attacking New Mobotropolis, leading the newly formed Team Freedom (comprised of Rotor, Cream, Heavy and Bomb, and Big) to fight the creature, which had also taken out the city’s defenses.

It’s also worth noting that these issues are worked on by different people. And due to it being a non-profit project that’s still in its early states, new issues are very few and far between. Not to mention the art styles can largely vary from issue to issue.

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This comic series is still in its early issues, so as stated before, updates are largely infrequent and there can be some odd, albeit minor quirks within some of the panels. And some of the dialogue can be read somewhat awkwardly at times. 

However, despite the minor issues, the passion is still there, trying to continue where the original Archie Sonic comics left off and finish the plotlines that were left unresolved when the official comics got rebooted.

I also want to mention that Archie Sonic Online does more than the mainline Sonic the Hedgehog series, but also Sonic Universe. They also did a very short-live Mobius Legends series, which are simply one-shot stories that have no affect on continuity or the larger story. In fact, the image above with Princess Elise and Blaze are from the Mobius Legends series.

Not to mention they’re also adapting the rewriting the Endangered Species arc. In the original comic, the story ended with Thrash the (Tasmanian) Devil throwing the Echidnas within Albion, both the citizens and Dark Egg Legionnaires into a Warp Ring to an unknown location, thus leaving Knuckles and a small handful of Echidnas left on Mobius.

All-in-all, I say to check it out, especially if you were a fan of the original Archie Sonic series. And while writing this post, I learned they also have the entire Archie Sonic series uploaded to their website. Not just the mainline Sonic and Sonic Universe series, but also the Knuckles the Echidna series, and even the Sonic Boom and Sonic X series.

If you want to read it, the website can be found here.

Oh, boy. This one is something special. And in case this name seems familiar, trust me, we’ll go into that later. This may be one of the oldest games I’ve ever taken a look at. Today, we’re taking a look at... E.V.O.: The Theory of Evolution!