Rosa Salgin
You start off in the desert planet of Rosa. Jaster Rogue is the character you watch in the opening sequence, and it’s who you’ll start off with. He’s not happy where he is and vows to leave the planet despite there being restrictions on that.
You’ll gain control of Jaster just as he is surrounded by a bunch of bone enemies. Fortunately a hooded man is surveying the scene and will join the battle with you.
This is where you get acquainted with the controls. As you go through several tutorial type menus will pop up that you should probably glance over. Basically attack and dodge / block (R1) while you’re waiting for your action meter to charge back up. Press L1 to allow your hooded friend to heal you.
After the battle make your way to the east side of the church for Snow Crest x2. Go inside the church and then west for a Heal Potion x3. Return south down the path and Save at the transmitter. You can also teleport here if you wish and you’ll always recover your HP / AP here (unless during battle).
Further along and you’ll get to an intersection – go up on the minimap and then to the southeast corner of this area to find two chests, Heal Potion x 3 and then a chest you can’t open unless you have the Star Key. Return to the other part of the intersection and keep going west until you hit the wall and a Thunder Stone chest.
You’ll get another tutorial about Revelations. Basically you acquire items and to learn new abilities you have to rely on certain groups of items to unlock it. Go to your Revelation Flow chart for Jaster and give him the Thunder Stone so he can learn Flash Sword.
Back along the path, continue until you get to a broken bridge that you’ll have to leap over. Grab the Heal Potion x3 and the CO2 Powder x2 and then Save. Further along and you your masked buddy leaves you – not before giving you the Battle Recorder and Seven Star Sword Desert Seeker. Two Giants come your way once you get the sword though. Be sure to press R1 to defend against their attacks. Other than that you can use Flash Sword to do more damage but you’ll need to do jump attacks to damage these foes.
After the battle Simon and Steve are amazed at Jaster, the Desert Claw.
They join you. A house just a little behind this area can be opened and you can go up a ladder to get a Divine Healing treasure (another treasure is locked by the Sun Key here). Make your way east to another transporter. Go south on the minimap along the west wall and you’ll see a Silver Bangle treasure. Backtrack a little and enter the door that is available to you. This is the shop. You can get some Healing Potions here in the treasure chest.
When you are ready continue until you get to some pipes. Jump up the boxes and onto the pipes. Jump off on the other side and go to the north side of the wall to find another Thunder Stone. Run further east and on the south wall this time is a Max Heal item. East a bit more and you find another transporter.
A bit farther ahead and you have your first boss fight in the residential area, against Mark VIII Salamander. The first part of the battle consists of you breaking the shackles on the feet of the Salamander. You’ll get the Monography Shot so that you can make platforms and jump on the platforms to get onto the Salamander (where his weak spot is). At first you can jump on the ones that are already there and then use your sword.
After this phase you’ll need you shoot the Monography Shot yourself to make the platforms appear. Now he’ll move more so it’s harder to get up there, but use the same strategy. He’s not done yet though, you can to fight him on ground now. Quickly run up to him but to one of his sides to avoid the flame. Use your Flash Sword when he’s done and start attacking him, but beware because he’ll head butt you. Either dodge or try to block it. Continue this process until he’s done.
You’ll learn more about your robot buddies here. A space pirate wants Jaster to join. Before we pursue this, we need to look this place over more. Find a transporter and exchange your points for defeating the boss. You’ll earn about 20,000 points and will go up to rank 96. Go to the church and get the Resurrection x2 just a little west of the church’s entrance, and then the Cold Spray further west. You’ll have to disarm the Cold Spray treasure (it drains your MP). Visit Raul for a bit and then make your way back to that church transporter. Look to the west as you go for a Cumulus Pendant.
Teleport back to the Salgin Residential area. In the very south part is a rigged treasure that exploded and my HP turned to 0. It was Izerium though. Go east and look north to see a Silver Bangle and Dreamflower Ash x3. Go along the north path when you can for a Recharge Drink.
In the very southeast is the Rosa Spaceport. When you enter this large place, go south a little and then east to find an Iron Board x2 treasure. On the other side of the room is a Heal Potion x2. Go out through the east and then head south back outside. You’ll see a Snow Crest treasure. On the south side there are two more treasures, a Tri-Heal x3 and an Earth Key only treasure.
Check the shops if you want but you’re ready to go if you wish. Teleport from a transmitter to the one in the residential part. From here go south and talk to Katahari and give him 200 Zehn. Raul comes to talk to you before you go.
After this you’ll see Jaster making his way to Captain Dorgengoa’s ship. A monster attacks as you get near. Watch the scenes as Jaster is saved. You’ll be on the Dorgenark.