Any advice on Idols?

ultpaladin · **Joined:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:37 pm **Posts:** 443

First, I wanted to thank all the people that worked so hard on this game. I've played the game for an hour or two and plan to put in a few hours a week whenever I can fit it in my schedule.

Do the play testers have any advice on how to improve the idols? Does it matter if I combine at level 8 or is it better to wait for higher levels? Are there any specific idols that one should try to get?

CRV10 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:23 am **Posts:** 76

@ultpaladin: Like you I've just started playing this game myself & it really is a fun game

I found this walkthrough from Ritchie:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/snes/570945-sil ... faqs/41853

And towards the very bottom is a table of idol fusions. However I'm kind of confused myself which combinations to use seeing as a lot of the second tier idols use two of either Flame, Soil, Star & Sky. If you fuse certain idols it looks like you'll have to sacrifice attaining a final form or two seeing as you need certain combinations to reach a final fusion & looking at the table it seems the only easiest one to get is Yarn = Affection + Victory.

Wildbill · **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2012 5:36 am

ultpaladin wrote:

First, I wanted to thank all the people that worked so hard on this game. I've played the game for an hour or two and plan to put in a few hours a week whenever I can fit it in my schedule.

Do the play testers have any advice on how to improve the idols? Does it matter if I combine at level 8 or is it better to wait for higher levels? Are there any specific idols that one should try to get?

Spoiler! :

Red Soul · **Joined:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:55 pm **Posts:** 844

As I recall Idol levels reset when a fusion is performed, so there's no problem fusing as early as the fusion material idols are ready unless you intend to keep either of them unfused for a long time or are waiting for a different combination.

ultpaladin · **Joined:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:37 pm **Posts:** 443

Thanks for all of the advice, I hadn't realized that the walkthrough on GameFAQs had a short section on this. Definitely appreciate the advice you gave WildBill. This game kind of grows on you and the multi-party system doesn't suffer from the same problems the one in Tecmo Secret of the Stars did.

CRV10 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:23 am **Posts:** 76

@Wildbill's post: Is it possible to have four final form statues in your party? It seems the two easiest to get are Sive (or Shiva) = Soil + Dark & Yarn = Love + Feat. But getting two more seems impossible.

Kali would be one option by combining Rage (Wind & Skye) with Roda (Lake & Fire) but that leaves me with Guye (Star & soul). Hmm... so very perplexing

Wildbill · **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2012 5:29 pm

CRV10 wrote:

@Wildbill's post: Is it possible to have four final form statues in your party? It seems the two easiest to get are Sive (or Shiva) = Soil + Dark & Yarn = Love + Feat. But getting two more seems impossible.

Kali would be one option by combining Rage (Wind & Skye) with Roda (Lake & Fire) but that leaves me with Guye (Star & soul). Hmm... so very perplexing

Spoiler! :

My final Idol lineup was Deli, Yarn, Gale, and Janu. That was the best I could do by combining at every new opportunity. Other paths to Idol greatness remain a mystery to me, too.

BTW, the reason my chart differs from Ritchie's is because Bongo` said we needed to limit our Idol lineup to four characters, not because of menu space limitations so much but because of an immutable routine in the dialogue code. Otherwise, some Idol names would have either jammed into other words or opened up an extra space.

I suppose I should have published my Idol chart in the readme. As I mentioned, I based it on Ritchie's work in his FAQ, which I know some players are trying to follow now. Anyway, that's why "Earth" became "Soil", etc. I altered the chart with our four-letter names, some of which deviated from both Ritchie's and Aishsha's translated Idol names in the FAQ and Silva Saga (I), respectively. My new chart "un-muddled" my random Idol experimentation and helped me keep everything straight.

CRV10 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:23 am **Posts:** 76

Wildbill wrote:

Spoiler! :

Ohohoho!

You sir just made me want to prioritize this quest, once I get to it

And thanks for the explanation regarding the idol names, you guys know best after all

ultpaladin · **Joined:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:37 pm **Posts:** 443

Can you get more than one of any of the idols or is it one and done? I'm debating if I should start combining right away or wait so I can try some of other combinations.

Red Soul · **Joined:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:55 pm **Posts:** 844

ultpaladin wrote:

Can you get more than one of any of the idols or is it one and done? I'm debating if I should start combining right away or wait so I can try some of other combinations.

There are no idol duplicates, if memory serves, so the best policy would probably be train all the idols you
get to their minimal combinable levels and also keep separate saves for the sake of experimentation.

Edit: It has been said before, but its worth remembering - the void idol is useless, so do not waste
idols if the fusion results in that.

Hoping to make your life's design a bit more dynamic!

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