Tales of Symphonia spoilers, interesting thing
@connie I'm watching a speedrun of Tales of Symphonia and I thought you might find this interesting, given that you're currently playing it: turns out you can just skip the events around palmacosta and come back later and everything works out--this is done in speedruns because it means you have Sheena on your first visit to the water shrine and you can just go ahead and get Undine instead of backtracking later
This isn't even a glitch or oversight or anything, despite the fact that it means doing level 25+ areas when your party is at level 10-ish; the devs included dialog lines for Sheena in the palmacosta events and everything
because it leaves you hilariously overleveled for the palmacosta events, it also means that the magnius battle takes like twenty seconds (and sure, it's a speedrunner doing it, but that battle is normally really hard and long!)
Tales of Symphonia spoilers, interesting thing
@Felthry I brought this up during the stream playthrough just one session before you joined! It's extremely interesting... It's like a accounted-for sequence break. I've done it once before, but opted not to for the stream to keep it going smooth.
re: Tales of Symphonia spoilers, interesting thing
@connie it also apparently lets you skip the book of regeneration completely, I think, so you don't have to get the statue and everything
the book would be pointless at that point anyway, since you've already been to all the places it'd tell you to go to
