Awakening is a main quest available in Final Fantasy XVI.
Your objective is to chase after the Dominant of Fire and eventually defeat Garuda.
Here’s a walkthrough of Awakening in Final Fantasy 16.
Chase after the Dominant
As soon as the quest begins, chase after the Dominant.
Garuda will show up just to play with Clive.
Continue ahead until you reach the cliff. Garuda then appears and destroys that part of the ledge and the Dominant disappears.
Defeat Garuda
Finally, you’ll have to defeat Garuda in its actual form.
She uses swipe attacks a lot which affects a wide range. You’ll just need to dodge them.
You’ll also learn how to takedown Garuda during the fight.
When her will gauge goes down to 50% or less, you can use the Deadly Embrace ability that you just unlocked.
This will result in her getting pulled down and you have a few seconds at most to do some attacks.
Her will gauge will continue to fall and when she gets staggered, you use all of your abilities to deal maximum damage.
At one point, you can’t get close to her and she’ll spam tornados. Just use charged magic to deal damage at this part.
After the battle, Garuda catches Clive and the latter finally turns into Ifrit.
Ifrit vs Garuda
You will now play as Ifrit and you have a few moves. You can do melee attack, ranged attack, evade and lunge.
Garuda will typically keep a distance throughout the fight and you have to get close to her.
The best move is to probably lunge at her and then combo it with some melee attacks. They deal a lot of damage.
Garuda will also use tornado attacks which you can dodge through.
After the fight is over, she’ll drop some stuff including a Wind Shard material.
More cutscenes
After Clive defeats Garuda in his Ifrit form, Cid turns into Ramuh to stop Clive as he lost control.
Clive goes unconscious after getting struck down by Ramuh’s lightning attack.
Benedikta on the other hand seems to be dead, but this isn’t that clear yet at this part of the story.
In the meantime, we see Odin in battle against Bahamut as the two nations clash.
The quest ends here.
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