Koudelka Disc 4 Walkthrough
Disc 4 begins with us in the same location as the previous one ended. In order to get through this gate we need the Empty Bottle from Patrick's Lab and some acid from that Acid Tank way down in the basement dungeon area. So, if you don't already have the Empty Bottle go get that now.
If you remember where the Acid Tank is that's great... otherwise I have a map that can help you (pictured below). There's multiple ways to get here, hopefully you remember at least one way to the area we were at during the start of Disc 2.
Acid Tank Room Map Location
Search the right hand side of the room for a tank of acid (pictured above). Assuming you have the Empty Bottle you will be prompted to get some acid from the tank. Once you have this it's time to return to Patrick's Laboratory all the way on the otherside of the property. When you enter the correct room you'll get a text pop up about James mixing the nitroglycerin and then a long scene where Edward and Koudelka talk.
When the scene with Koudelka and Edward ends you will get a notification about James finishing the nitroglycerin. We're all done here, it's time to head back to the door that we want to blow up!
Bonus Fight: We're getting close to reaching the point of no return and there is one fight we can do that is completely optional. Remember the Gargoyle that chased us out of the church at the end of Disc 2? We can return to this room and challenge the Gargoyle if we want. It's a tough fight and there is no reason to do it unless you are playing on a platform with Achievements or just want bragging rights. If you get the Gargoyle Sword from the unique Timed Items in this game you can defeat the boss easily that way too.... but if I am being honest the sword doesn't really matter, the boss isn't that challenging without it. If you want to challenge the Gargoyle the best way to access him is from the courtyard that Koudelka started in at the beginning of Disc 3.
Once you're ready to advance the story again return to the door we ended Disc 3 at. If you've forgotten where it is, use the map below... I've also marked the Gargoyle's location on the map below just incase you are interested in it.
Approach the door and interact with it for an FMV cutscene of Edward shooting the nitroglycerin and blowing up the door. Neat. Head through the door for another FMV cutscene, when you regain control of Koudelka go one screen up and then climb the stairs on this next screen. At the top of these stairs you'll find a pipe organ.
There are four keys on the pipe organ and we must press them in the correct order. The order being... Secret, Pain, People and Light.
1. Secret
2. Pain
3. People
4. Light
Pressing the keys in the correct order will trigger some obnoxious noise (it is a pipe organ after all) and a set of stairs will appear for us. Go down the stairs with the pipe organ into the previous room. To the left of the stairs that go up to the pipe organ you'll find a raised platform at ground level. You can walk up to this platform which leads you to another set of stairs, this one going down. This set of stairs is the one that opens up after playing the pipe organ.
Going down those stairs will trigger some more scenes, this is basically the point of no return for Koudelka... If there is some stuff you still wish to do in the monastery - go tie up any loose ends now.
**Point of no return**
You will find yourself in Church, Cauldron of Life, Underground - the only thing to do in here is to put Daniel's Arm into the bone/root cauldron thing. Doing this will trigger a scene, during which you will leave the previous part of the game and permanently lose access to it.
This final part of the game is pretty linear and is mostly combat. Our goal is to keep going up the tower fighting the mini boss battles as we go until we find Elaine or reach the save point, whichever one you hit first. There is one permanent save point in the tower which you can use to reload your game and get different endings (if desired). A picture of this save location is below.
Note: You will start getting INT Idol, MND Idol, AGI Idol etc during this part of the game. Use these on your characters as you get them for permanent stat increases.
This is the last permanent save point before the end of the game
A little bit further up the tower from this location you will have a Temporary Save point called Church, 4th Floor. From this point onward, if you want to get the best ending make sure that the Pendant is equipped on someone in your party. You will get a scene when you approach the flower bulb in this room which changes depending on whether or not you have the Pendant equipped... If you didn't find the Pendant, well, you're getting a bad ending.
Tip: You can fight Black Cat enemies around the tower until they drop a Pendant if you didn't already pick it up during Disc 3. I recommend doing this in the same area where you see the save point in the picture above. Just run along the walkway getting into random encounters.
When you are ready to continue the game run along the flower bulb in Church, 4th Floor until you trigger a scene with Elaine. No Pendant = game over pretty much. If you do have the Pendant the scene will end with Elaine chasing you and that will continue into the game. You start out at Church, 5th Floor when the scene is finished and from here you'll want to run up the stairs. Along the way you will have some battles with Elaine...
Elaine 1st Fight: Absorbs Earth and Water damage.
Elaine 2nd Fight: Absorbs Fire and Wind damage.
Continue to the top of the tower after beating Elaine twice and you will have your final fight with her.
Depending on how you've spent your stats up to now and what you can do... this fight can go a few ways. If you're struggling with even hitting her you may want to cast Reflect on everyone so you can reflect the majority of her attacks back. This will let you focus on just defense. If you get a chance you can throw an occasional attack too. Whenever you resurrect someone make sure to cast Reflect on them again.
Using the Reflect strategy will require you to only use items to heal yourself since any spells will be reflected. If you leveled up enough you can beat Elaine like you would any other boss. Just blow her up and keep your characters from dying too. My characters were all around level 50 and the fight was extremely easy.
Assuming you made it this far, you have two possible endings available to you. If you lose this boss fight you will get the bad (but canonical) ending. This is the ending that leads into the next game in the series, Shadow Hearts. Defeating Elaine will get you the good ending.
The third ending happened back when Elaine came out of the flower to attack us. If you never found the Pendant Koudelka lost when the game started... you will be evaporated by the attack and it's an instant game over. If you'd like to watch all endings you can reload your save earlier on Disc 4... Or you can just watch all of them on YouTube... your choice!
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