I can honestly say I never did any farming. Cooking items I found wasn't too time consuming, given the right stuff. I think cooking for me was a life saver in certain jams. But I also did a fishing strategy early. Since in order for you to beat the game, you have to fish on the snow island for bronze, silver, and gold pond smelt and give it to the statues and then go get the key, I worked to get a either a beginner's or intermediate pole after getting the cheap pole from Joe. Throughout the game I would cook basic fish dishes early on for health/rp recovery to set myself up to create better recipes later. I can't quite remember is the lantern festival a one level buffer or a 5 level buffer? If you don't mind me asking what level are you at Oblitegator I'm venturing it's mid-high 20's.

Hey I came back after a long hiatus. After some testing I went through a few different options. The first method I did involved kitchen recipes. Now since I started this file, and it was already beaten. I can't say for certain, but I believe these to be basic kitchen recipes. It involves bamboo rice and mushroom rice with a cooking skill of 12 & 21. Since you can cook dishes 20 levels over you should be able to make enough bamboo rice to offset the mushroom rice when you make it. But for this experiment let's go with Bamboo Rice. Mushrooms can be a bit tougher to come by, however if you do happen to revitalize spring island by placing rune spirits there or doing the same with summer and fall bamboo shoots and mushrooms will grow naturally along with weeds and different colored grasses to give to Violet if you're doing her as a friend for the end boss. However it's more likely to get bamboo shoots grow over mushrooms If grinding you can sell both for a profit. 290 gold for bamboo rice against buying rice at the general store for 200 gold is 90 gold profit, and mushroom rice is 330 gold for a 130 gold profit. Both items give you 20+ strength and 10+ water defense. This does stack so you can end up with say +20 water defense or +40 strength. The effect goes for 60 seconds. Now for hp and rp recovery bamboo rice gives you 120 hp and 130 rp. Mushroom rice gives you 160 hp and 150 rp. So for instance let's say you spent 1000 gold for 5 rice you have 5 bamboo rice dishes for a potential 600 hp recovery and 650 rp recovery over 5 minutes. If you are using 45 rp every two combos you can do 14 combos with bamboo rice. With mushroom rice at five dishes is 750 rp recovery giving you an additional 2 combos at 16. If you can conceivably make 10 dishes double the combos from 14 to 28 and 16 to 32 respectively.

However, I think it may be more feasible for you if you're doing strawberry milk to switch to Orange Juice. For one, it's one less ingredient and it's a lot earlier to get in the game and easier to get. I'm assuming you're growing strawberries and either making or buying milk which seems to be more time consuming then going to the general store, buying 10 oranges for 1000 gold and making 10 orange juices. The orange juice also sells for 260 gold vs the 200 you pay netting a 60 gold profit. which I agree is the only reason I could see making strawberry milk which nets 285 gold profit on selling. Other than that they have the same effects of +12 auto rp recovery and +10 water defense.

As for Oblitegator, I recommend bringing three monsters from your barn or to capture three blood panthers/tortoises or a combination of both in water shrine as shield fodder. It doesn't help that the arena is small, but enemy boss A.I. tends to go after monsters more than you. I managed to get very lucky in my run. He took a lot time doing push-ups and working out throughout most of the battle as I ran around and took pot-shots at him. He's really more of a challenge when he gets into rage mode at half health. The window of opportunity has to be a frame or so during his push-ups. He's faster and charges more frequently.

My advice during this is run around him. Think like Ali. You gotta float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. Or in this case run around in circles and attack his back side. The best way to do that is when he does his combo move where he punches, kicks, send that spike move at you and rolls toward you. If you can get around him you can unleash on him. If a monster is still alive, the best scenario is he goes after it with the combo and you've got free range to go to town. But honestly, the best way to go about the battle is run around and take 1-2 shots at him, wash, rinse, repeat.

As for the festival, I can never seem to get a consistent set of wishes. The problem is that aren't available every time and the game probably uses a random generator to choose what wishes are available the morning of the festival. So you have to save the night before, wait about all day and hope that it gives you One of the 8 possible things you might want like wishing to use magic better for higher magic skills, food, weapons, Golem abilities, etc. or you have to reset and try again. I've reset like 5 times once to get a decent 24 hour run once. At some point you gotta decide yep this is a real time any% category.

Anyways if you have anymore questions let me know. Shoot me your email or something though as I haven't visited here for 6 months. I have more notes than I know what to do with as I've tried routing a sub-20 run for so long and with all the late game crap. The last 1/4 of the game with the wind shrine and masked man which takes probably like 6--8 hours depending how much the game hates you is maddening. OHKO'S, constant backtracking, and with how under-levelled you are...yeah Tides of Destiny got less and less fun each time lol.

I haven't visited lately, but I have managed to go from my initial 28 hour and 21 minute run to 21 hours, 51 minutes, and 55 seconds. I'm still trying to try for something optimal as with my notes I did some re-routing too. I will say I'd like to add some notes of my own. I can't edit any of your notes though. I do have some alternate people you can get to 6 FP pretty easily as well to compare strategies.

Much like Maerwen, you can give Electra cheap cloth, yarn etc. that you'll have a bunch of and since they usually both frequent the mansion both are easy to find. Elena is also pretty easy to do...granted if she's awake. Scrap Metal, iron, etc. are easy to obtain since you see her on multiple occasions for Orb upgrades and various main story quests. If you get Elena to 6 FP she'll give you axe and hammer recipes as well as the sky hammer. For both the Hammer and the Katana sets, you can pull off 3 dash attacks in a row. As far as I know, no other types of weapons can be done more than one time. I would also suggest Mikoto as you can obtain a cheap fishing pole fairly early on, catch a bunch of fish and fry them.

I'll try and get something for a guide together. I've been testing Anwonwu's barrier skips to try and do as few trapdoor fights as possible.

I have a few notes, but I cannot seem to find a way to make this game speed run friendly. There is so much I've yet to figure out. The grinding is the biggest hurdle. Not to mention the story requests. But I'd be glad to share with you everything I know just from play testing and working on different strategies.

Well if the title doesn't say it all, I guess a long winded paragraph will. I love speed runs and I've been watching games done quick and various games getting beaten quickly since 2012. Since then it's been something I've sucked days if not hours into watching and donating to various people and gamers alike through youtube and twitch. I would love to get into running games quickly myself, but I lack the know how to do so. Anyways that's my little bit about me. I really enjoy the site and look forward to new runs and new games.

Hello, I'm new and interested in speed running games that would seem to be improbable in terms of length. A standard grind could turn this game from 20-30 hours. My question is essentially if there is anyone I talk to on this forum about Tides of Destiny? I don't see any posts and there aren't any defined rules So I was hoping this could be noticed by a moderator or something.

Essentially I have the basis for what could become a speed run guide. But in terms of rules I wasn't sure if it would be viable. Basically I looking to discuss this topic in terms of validity or if there could be a special category involved. If anyone reads this please reply in kind. Thanks very much