Shining Force II: Bookcases

What are the people of Parmecia reading?

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So I just started the Shining Force 1 List but I thought I should get this one going to in case anyone wanted to help out. I am trying to collect a listing of all books within Shining force 2. Most start out with "A book..." so instead of writing that everytime I will just put ... before each one like this.

Granseal
A book... Attitude of Soldiers
... Healing Magic
... Sega Guide... Sounds Good
... Little Dinosaurs
... Be good
... The Legend of Max
... Science 101
... Study of Yogurt
... Guide to the Castle
... An Old Goat... Sir Astral?
... Beginner Swordsmanship
... Granseal Kings
... Treasures
... Castle Romance
... Masterpieces
... Making a Rug
... Tricks of the Sword (Thanks Stor)
... Bodybuilding (This one is blocked until the earthquake)

Yeel
... Ecology
... Civilizations
... The Ancient Tower (Underground late in the game)

Hawels House
... Living Alone
... Study of the Tower
... Mountains
... Villages
... Sacred War
... The Ground Seal
... History of Grans
... Diary

Galam
... Soldiers
... History of Galam
... Mythology
... The Art of Selling
... Joy of Fantasy

New Granseal
... Dark Sol
... Hint Book
... Father Carpenter
... Great Voyage
... Agriculture
... Despotism
A magazine ... Hunters Life
... Soap operas
... Buy and Sell

Hassan
Found Keseran's diary Bowie reads it... I spent another day searching for it... I'LL NEVER GIVE UP! I'll find the Caravan, even if I have to travel all over the continent! I need the Achilles sword to defeat the giant Taros in the shrine

Polca
... Viva friendship!
... Volcanon

Bedoe
... Phoenix
... How to fly
... Fight while flying
A magazine... Birdmen today
... Decorate your nest
... Wings and feathers

Creed's Mansion
... Gods vs devils
... Basic rules of possession
... Today's magic
... Study of runes
... Call of evil
... Vampires
... Newt cooking
... Demon kings
... Magical changes
... Evil contact

Ketto
... Travels
... Villages and towns

Pacalon
... Pacalon Kings
... Paladin Honor

Tristan
... Mitula's Code

Moun
... Mystery of Nazca
... A Painting Flies

Roft
... Ancient Travels
... Man-Eating Plants

Elven Village
“Nothing was there” (Thanks Kilieni :) )
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lol book collector :)
I was just thinking would Caed do one for SF2, and yes he did!
Maybe Sf3 after lol
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Caedmonball19 wrote:So I just started the Shining Force 1 List but I thought I should get this one going to in case anyone wanted to help out. I am trying to collect a listing of all books within Shining force 2. Most start out with "A book..." so instead of writing that everytime I will just put ... before each one like this.

Granseal
A book... Attitude of Soldiers
... Healing Magic
... Sega Guide... Sounds Good
... Little Dinosaurs
... Be good
... The Legend of Max
... Science 101
... Study of Yogurt
... Guide to the Castle
... An Old Goat... Sir Astral?
... Beginner Swordsmanship
... Granseal Kings
... Treasures
... Castle Romance
... Masterpieces
... Making a Rug
... Bodybuilding (This one is blocked until the earthquake)
You missed one.

Someone checked out Beginner Swordsmanship while Bowie was off killing Gizmos. By the time he gets out of the castle (and Granseal is all but a ruin), there's a new book on that shelf called Tricks of the Sword. There's also apparently an invisible hole in the wall that Bowie can reach through to get the book.
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Book through a hidden wall? :) does it give you anything ? Lol
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No it's just a book.
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Good catch Stor. I never thought of searching before and after a battle. Do you know of more occurrences of this?
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No, but I do know of a hidden shelf in Granseal castle that is empty.
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Added New Grans and Hassan. Hassanites don't read much :)
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RastaOddeye wrote:No it's just a book.
If Bowie reads it, does he learn the Higins spell or something like that? lol
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No, the Higins glitch is related to the chirrup sandals.
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Oh okay :)
Those sandals are suppose to make enemies go for the person who has them equipped but some reason when i equip them, they still go for my weakest character...
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They don't do that, unless i'm mistaken. The chirrup sandals make the chirrup noise when you move and cause the higins glitch to happen.
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I usually give the Chirrup Sandals to Kiwi.
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I have not given up on this task. Just finished grinding up levels in Creeds mansions' rat hole. I was having a tough time before that with no grinding. I should have done this search on easy :) I have Creed's books I will upload later.
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It's worth noting that the Jap version of the game has some titles in Astral's study that were censored from the Eng version:

"mufufu musume ni dokkiri" ...toiu hon ga aru
chotto mitai kigasuru

(mangled translation):
"shocking the giggling girl" ...one of the titles reads.
I kinda feel like reading it

"harenchi wa ecchi no hajimari" ...toiu hon ga aru
Kenja-sama wa ecchi nano kamo

(mangled translation):
"shamelessness is the start of indecency" ...one of the titles reads.
The master Sage might be a pervert.

Some other titles may also be mis/creatively-translated:

"kyouryuu daizukan"
The big encyclopedia of dinosaurs

"Kenja no susume"
Advice of the sages

"Midorigame to totsuzenheni"
Red-eared terrapins and mutation ----> Kiwi reference, ain't it? :shock:
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Metallicblue wrote: "mufufu musume ni dokkiri" ...toiu hon ga aru
chotto mitai kigasuru

(mangled translation):
"shocking the giggling girl" ...one of the titles reads.
I kinda feel like reading it
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Domingo and a pervy Astral and bolt spells is just too inappropriate a mix.
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Doesn't Astral have a fire spell?

He tries to cast one against Cameela on the bridge but she jumps it :D
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Isn't that like his exorcism spell? He did something similar to King Granseal and it didn't hurt him, did it?
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Metallicblue wrote:Isn't that like his exorcism spell? He did something similar to King Granseal and it didn't hurt him, did it?
Quote after Cameela dodges the spell-
Astral: "Well done. You dodged my fireball."
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