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The Heraldry Forest isn't that tough during Rena's story thanks to Dias. The only challenge would come from keeping Rena alive through the whole thing (which you don't necessarily have to do, though I prefer to let her have the EXP), and getting a decent amount of Orichalcum from the forced bandit encounters.
Anyways, important note about Dias: spend all of his 200 starting SP here and/or when he joins up with you during the Lacour Arms Tournament, but do not spend any of it on skills that increase stats.
Finally, as shown near the end of the video, you can steal an item called a Treasure Chest from the old man standing next to the inn. Using it will give you 3 random items out of a large pool of items. You can save, use it, and reload as needed to potentially get some very powerful weapons.
The most famous one of the bunch would be the Marvel Sword, but you can also get some other powerful weapons such as: Force Sword/Ignite Sword/Veil Piercer (Claude), Rune Full Moon (Rena/Bowman), Atomic Punch (Precis), Lotus Eater/Scyther (Ashton), Alpha Box/Light Box/X Box (Opera), and Spark Whip/Light Whip/Rose Whip (Ernest), among other things.
I don't really rely much on the Treasure Chest nowadays, but you can always take advantage of it if you're having some early game difficulty.
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Game: Star Ocean: The Second Story
Platform: PSX
Developer: tri-Ace
Publisher: Enix Corporation
Rena's Story
Universe Difficulty
Played on ePSXe 1.9.0 emulator
VIDEO: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.9
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- Internal Y res: 3
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- Gfx card vram: 0 (Autodetect)
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- "Auto-detect FPS/Frame skipping limit" checked
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AUDIO: ePSXe SPU Core 1.9.0
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