Final Fantasy 2 Beginner Club W03
| Week 03 | 2026-01-16T15:00:00Z |
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Vocabulary sheets, transcriptions etc.:
Stopping point
Once you have the bell.
More details
The road to Bafusk
Hilda wants us to stop the empire before they finish building the Dreadnought in Bafusk. In order to get there we need to return to Poft but this time instead of going North towards Salamander, we need to go go East around the mountains.
Bafusk
Imperial soldiers are everywhere in occupied Bafusk, but they don’t suspect you so you can chat with them unlike in Finn. Worth looking into the shops too.
You need a laissez-passer to enter the construction site, but of course you don’t have one. Instead you can talk to the lazy imperial soldier slacking off near a well on the South West part of town. Tell him “のばら” and he’ll reveal that he’s a rebellion sympathizer. Then you can mention the Dreadnought to him and he’ll open the path to an underground passage.
Explore the (small) dungeon until you reach the Dreadnought. After the cutscene, instead of walking back the way you came, take the path to the right in order to open a chest with the laissez-passer and a shortcut to the exit.
Poft
Once outside, you can make your way back to Altea, but first stop by Poft to ask Cid about the Dreadnought and airships. He will tell you that you can destroy it by blowing its engines, and will mention the Sun Flame which is a new keyword you must memorize. You can then make you way back to Altea.
Altea
Talk to Hilda and mention the Sun Flame. She’ll explain that it can be found in the Kashuorn castle, but that it’s no ordinary flame and can’t be carried with a common torch. And indeed, if you were to visit Kashuorn at this point, you would find that there’s not much you can do.
Instead, go talk to the sickly king and mention the Flame. He’ll tell you that in order to break the seal at Kashuorn, you’ll need the Goddess Bell. But he doesn’t know where the bell is… Fortunately you can mention the Goddess Bell to Hilda and she’ll know what to do: it’s hidden in the Snow Cave, near Salamander. She also tells us that Joseph should know what to do.
Time to visit Salamander once again then…
Salamander
Mention the Bell to Joseph and he’ll tell you that you need his snow vehicle to cross the snow field, and that it is hidden on the first level of the Semit Cave, near a blue boulder.
Semit Cave
Find the blue boulder near the entrance and inspect the surrounding walls. You’ll find a pathway that leads you to the snow vehicle.
Snow Cave
You can now cross the large snow field north of Salamander and reach the Snow Cave. It’s a fairly long dungeon and teleport doesn’t work there. Many enemies are weak to fire. The Bell is somewhere at the bottom.
Map
Miscellaneous
永久ステータス治す
You can buy the esuna and basuna spells in Bafusk, so let’s talk about those:
Esuna stands for 永久・ステータス異常・治す (heal permanent status abnormality). If you take the first kana of all three words it spells えスな. Esuna was created for Final Fantasy 2, but from now on it’ll appear in almost every single Final Fantasy game. The name was kept for the international versions, so it was also called Esuna in the French versions of the games I played as a kid, but I had no idea what it really meant until maybe two years ago. I just thought it was a random made-up name.
Basuna is a similar spell that heals temporary status (status that normally heals automatically at the end of a battle). It’s not nearly as useful, and this spell won’t prove as popular: according to the fanwiki its only other appearance is in FF4.
EDIT: As discussed below, basuna may stand for バトル中・ステータス異常・治す (heal in-battle status abnormality).
Note that Basuna may be worth learning and leveling up because it can be used to heal the very annoying “confuse” status that some enemies like to use in the late game.
Both Esuna and Basuna heal additional status effects as you level them up. For instance only a high level Esuna can heal petrification.
Minigames in the snow
You may recall that in FF1 there was a hidden minigame on the boat that you could access by pressing A and B repeatedly (or whatever equivalent on other platforms).
In the original Famicom and the Pixel Remaster versions of FF2 (which I believe covers 100% of this club’s participants) there’s no such thing. However in some ports of the game, such as the PlayStation version, they have included a “match 2” type minigame if you mash both buttons while riding the snowcraft:
You have to reveal the tiles one by one and find the matching images. The game uses the portraits of playable characters so I won’t include screenshots here since it’s mildly spoilery.
Interestingly, if you learn the “toad” spell and train it to level 16, the game changes and you play using the toad version of the character portraits instead:
The rewards you get from winning this version of the game are insanely good since they include some of the strongest weapons and pieces of gear in the entire game.
Participation
- I’m playing along
- I will catch up later
- I’m still playing but I haven’t reached this section yet
- I’m a filthy preplayer but I’m here for the discussion
And I guess the plan is sometime mid/late game to hide her away in the back row so hopefully that makes a difference.
), but I wanted to jump into say that I’m a massive Dragon Quest fan, if nobody beats me to it, I can see myself running a DQ club someday. More game clubs on the forum is more fun. 
I’ve played I, III, IV, V, some of VI, VII, VIII, IX 3 or 4 times (including a solo challenge run) and XI 3 times. I-VIII I’ve only played remakes, playing the originals in JP would be really cool.