Quote Originally Posted by BadKarm View Post
It's not tough to get, if you just have a friend that you can play with. I have 5 friends with PSPs and the game within walking distance, not to mention many more who want it. The only equipment you can't get in regular game play that you could before is Genji Helm, Gloves and Sheild. You receive the armor and Masamune through other sidequests. And there is even another extra battle where you can get more of the rare items from Midlight's Deep as well.

If your friends don't want to play with you (which would be strange) you can ask to just borrow their game for a bit and play through some rendezvous on your own, or get easy JP/items from meleeing with yourself.

*Shrug* I feel the fact that the new rare items can only be retrieved through multiplay should not take away from the game experience, the translation is better, the cutscenes are fantastic, and there is no reason why you can't enjoy the story (Or beat the final boss) without the Onion set or the genji glove. If you're that much of a stickler to have the game mastered, you should just peruse a friend into buying a copy of their own, they'll love the game, you can get the items later, and the Rendevous are an awesomely challenging experience anyway. So go on, you guys do have friends right? Hell, I'd play with you guys.

Sorry if any of this seems harsh, I'm just sick of hearing the same complaints in every post since the PSP version has come out.
No no I understand the frustration of listening to people whine about this stuff. I had issues with this in TA (co-op is the easist way to obtain the mythril weapon) but everyone I know ditched their GBAs for the DS so we were all screwed and I accept it.

Funny enough, my situation is unique actually. I'm playing through the game right now but I'm borrowing a friends copy of the game as well as his PSP. I'm actually the friend who doesn't own any of the stuff. I'm slightly saddened by the fact I might not be able to collect all the class specific items but its just the completionist in me whining *back hands him to shut up* Oddly enough, I have very few friends who own PSPs and even fewer who are FF fans let alone Tactics. They mostly spend every waking hour playing WoW. Besides that I agree that the new translation alone has made this a wonderful experience for me.