Final Fantasy VIII Walkthrough – Esthar City
When you wake up some people have arrived and are waiting to take you. Edea will talk to them and you'll be taken inside the city to the presidential palace. Once inside Dr Odine will tell you that to see Ellone you'll have to leave Rinoa with him. You'll be told to meet them at Lunar gate but before you do that have a good explore of the city which has a few useful draw points. Go back to the palace where you'll find out that from here you can go right to exit. Go right but before you leave follow the path North and keep going until you find a shopping centre. From Cloud's items you'll receive a hi-potion for free.
Stock up from the item shop then be sure to visit Karen's bookstore to buy any magazines you don't have as these may enable you to remodel your weapons to something new at the Junk Shop. Once you're all stocked up go south then down the path past the soldier heading south again. You'll arrive at a car rental place where rental is 3500gil, its well worth it trust me. When you leave the city in the car follow the paths out and onto the terrain.
The lunar gate is located on you map so head over there and go inside. A staff member will greet you and just before you're due to follow her Angelo turns up, Squall will calm him down and you'll go inside. The lady will explain the process to you and you'll need to pick someone to accompany you and Rinoa to the lunar base. The procedure will begin and you'll get control of Zell.
Head out of the room and Angelo will bark, follow him outside and you'll see an FMV of a huge mechanical thing floating towards the city, the team will decide to see Dr Odine so pick someone to join you and Edea, junction yourself and head into your car back to the city. Once inside head over to Odine's lab where you'll be shown the course of the Lunatic Pandora, it turns out that there are three interception points, the first in the centre of the city, the second where the two skyways cross and the third north of the shopping mall.
If you want to make the first one follow my instructions carefully, first head out of Odine's lab then continue right until you reach the stairs, climb them and draw some Curaga spells at the draw point, run away from any encounters you fight as there's plenty of time to make up the lost exp then from the stairs follow the path left until you reach the Lunatic Pandora. Two guards will jump out and attack you to delay you, defeat them quickly using physical attacks and if you've been quick enough you'll be able to board.
Once on board stock on some Meteor spells on the right of the stairs then continue into the building, stock on some more Curaga spells then head down in the red lift. You'll be in the mine area where Laguna and company fell a while ago. Once in the mines continue right then you'll see the top of a flight of stairs, go down these and down the ladder where you can stock some confuse spells (down the right tunnel there is a LuvluvG which raises a characters compatibility with all GF's by 20) now return to the elevator and ride to the first lobby with the three elevators and ride in the green one to the left. You'll find yourself in another mine-like passage that has a draw point containing Holy spells to the left, stock up then carry on down the path to a save point. Save your game and head north along the path where you'll find a device, confirm on it and it will throw you out of the Lunatic Pandora. Once outside the team decide to wait and see what happens next and the scene will switch back to Squall.
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