Now it will be back to Squall and his teamates, the rest will there too. Now you will have another short event. Guess who is coming, it's Odain, the professor and he will invited Squall and his party into a flying car. Talking during the journey to the huge city.

At the high-polished building, you will have a sequence. Talk to everyone and head south, next you will be asked to head for the Luna's Gate. Now exit the building and turn right. Board the elevator and you will have an FMV of elevator going down, exit from this area.

Now in this huge city, you surely need a map for entering. So how should we go. Elevators are very important, as walking for such long distances can be tiring. The left path leads to the door where you find soldiers guarding it.Head right and board the elevator and followed by an FMV of the elevator moving into the city. Here is the map of city.

Key to the Map of Esthar Capital: [1] It is the main compound of the city, there is a Save Point here [2] Left Elevator Junction. Just go to the elevator and pick your destination. [3] The area with the red pipe of the left. [4] Car street and you will be able to view the picture of the main city. [5] Path above the yellow pipe on the left with the elevator. [6] A busy street with the town folks being dressed in green. [7] A street with yellow pipe on the right and there is a elevator and a Magic Stone is found here. [8] The central gate of Esthar Captial, exit to the Rent-A-Car station. Head here after done with your shopping. Right of it is the Esthar Shopping Mall. [9] The path heading upwards with intersecting the path below. On the sides were the green pipe and the yellow pipe. [10] Right Elevator Junction. Just go to the elevator and pick your choice. [11] Screen with the red pipe on the right of the street. [12] Red pipe on the right and a trace of the green pipe. There is a construction works. [13] The Shopping Mall. Refer below for more details. [14] The horizontal street with the "LEFT SIDE" and "RIGHT SIDE" letterings on the pipe. [15] Red pipe Elevator Junction [16] Here you will find a stop for the elevator and the Save Point. [17] The red pipe on the right with the elevator. [18] Entrance of a building. Can't enter it yet. A guard prevent you from doing so. There is a Magic Stone here. [19] The Rent-A-Car Platform. To rent a car, examine the panel and pay 3,500 gil to rent a car. If you want to walk. Stand on the platform, and choose first option to exit the town. There will be FMV of the elevator platform moving. E stands for the elevator.

Well hopefully you should have no problem, by using my map. Now I suggest that you do some shopping, so head for the shopping mall!

The Shooping Mall
Just simply approaches any of the shops and you will be asked to do shopping or not [left: YES, right: NO] Next you will be shown this screen.

Just simply choose the shop and pick them to shop by pressing the circle button. Here is the shopping list. Visit all shops and you will get a bonous item. Well, you will be quite surprise to find the name Cloud in the Shopping Directory. Anyway Cloud is not a usable character in FF8 as we know.....

Now head for the Tear's Point, which is located at the south-east of the World Map from the city. Make sure you have accquired the stealing ability from the Diablo. If not try to gain some levels. SAVE your game. Well that's all for the time being, watch for the next update. By the way, it is safer to drive a car! [Note that you can't get into any random battles through driving a car.]

Gain the Guardian Force Doomtrain:
Now exit Esthar to the worldmap, and head south-east to a place called Tears' Point (click here for the World Map).

Once at Tears' Point, examine the Magic Stone along the path and keep walking up. You should reach a statue. In front of the statue, examine the Magic Stone and pick up the Solomon Ring.

NOTE: It's best to attempt gaining the Guardian Force Doomtrain at this point in the game (i.e. having just gained Soloman Ring). Set yourself the task of acquiring the following items:

1x Soloman's Ring
6x Remedy+
6x Steel Pipe
6x Malboro Tentacles

Malboro tentacles - A very low encounter rate, so you have to be very patient if you want to meet this fellow. Malboro's a large green plant-monster with huge mouth and very high HP. Its Bad Breath attack will cause all status ailments like Confuse, Berserk, Poison, Darkness and Blind, so have a lot of Remedies in your inventory. Steal the tentacle with Diablo's Mug ability and run (if you're a wimp!). Remember, you need 6 tentacles (who said this was going to be easy?).

You will not find any Malboro's in this area once you have gained the Ragnarok (after the next scene), so if you leave things late you'll have to go to the Island Closest to Hell to battle them. Because of this, it's important to meet them here before you head for the Space Station.

Steel Pipe - Steal, with Mug, from the gorilla-like Wendigos south-east of Deling City. Find them in the triangular region bordered by two railway tracks and a paved road. You need to do this 6 times.

Remedy+ - You must have gained Alexander's menu ability, Medicine Level-Up to turn 60 standard Remedies (used to cure status ailments such as Poison and Berserk), into 6 Remedy+'s (you may need to go to a shop to buy some more standard Remedies).

After obtaining all the items, simply combine the Solomon Ring with the above items to summon and obtain the Guardian Force, Doomtrain. All in all, rather time consuming, but definitely worth it!

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