Stellar Blade - How To Get The Fantastic Bait
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Stellar Blade has various quests and activities that you can tackle. And, yes, there's also a fishing minigame. However, it's a lot more involved than you can imagine, as it has its own arc and various rewards. Here's how to complete Fish of Legends and Where Is the Fantastic Bait in Stellar Blade.
Stellar Blade Fantastic Bait and Fish of Legends guide
Both Where Is the Fantastic Bait and Fish of Legends are part of the later portion of the entire fishing minigame arc. To reach this point, you need to complete several tasks.
Preliminary fishing missions in Stellar Blade
Here are the steps before getting the Stellar Blade Where Is the Fantastic Bait quest:
- Head to the Great Desert and meet Clyde at the Oasis. Pick up the fishing rod and learn the basics of the minigame.
- From this point onward, you should receive bulletin board fishing-related tasks. Completing one leads to the next. These are:
- Wife's Water Tank: Catch a Porcupine Fish - We recommend using the Small Shrimp bait and fishing at the Oasis in the Great Desert.
- An Unforgettable Fish Dish: Catch a Channel Catfish - We suggest using a Wriggling Insect bait and fishing at the small pond in the tunnel that leads from Xion to the Wasteland.
- Fish Research: Catch Halibut - This one comes from the small pond in the area by the clock tower in Eidos 7.
- You'll want to buy Fishing Data from Clyde to improve your chances of catching rarer/larger fish.
- Fish Slice bait seems to work well if you want to obtain a Halibut in the pond.
- Completing these three tasks leads to A Gift for a Fishing Maniac. Go to the Wasteland Solar Tower and follow the path north to reach a lake inside a cavern. Use the passcode 0508 to obtain the Best Fishing Data upgrade.
Where Is the Fantastic Bait: Mission start
Eventually, the Where Is the Fantastic Bait mission should pop up on the bulletin board in Xion. It entails the following tasks:
- Catch 20 different fish and visit Clyde.
- Gain information about the Fantastic Bait from Clyde.
- Visit Roxanne, the info dealer in Xion.
- Purchase information about the Fantastic Bait from Roxanne.
Tips for fishing spots and catching 20 fish
The step that will likely take up most of your time is, obviously, catching 20 different kinds of fish. Try to check the codex in your menu to count how many you still need.
Here are some tips:
- As you catch more fish, you gain Fishing Points. Use these points when talking to Clyde to buy various bait types.
- If you cannot catch new kinds of fish in an area, consider switching the bait or going to a different fishing point.
These are some of the fishing spots that we visited in our campaign:
- Xion - The pond in the tunnel that leads to the Wasteland.
- Wasteland - The cave that's north of the Solar Tower.
- Eidos 7 - The pond near the clock tower.
- Great Desert - The Oasis where Clyde is chilling.
There might be others, but these places were enough to get us to 20 unique types of fish. Once we had what we needed, we spoke with Clyde and chose the "About the Fantastic Bait" dialogue option.
Buying information from Roxanne
The next step if you want to complete Where Is the Fantastic Bait in Stellar Blade is to return to Xion. Check Roxanne's shop and purchase Information: Fantastic Bait for a measly 300 gold.
Fantastic Bait map location
The clue points to the "water near the Great Canyon in the Wasteland." This actually refers to the facility in the southeastern corner of the zone.
The underwater cavern with the Fantastic Bait
Head to the facility, dive underwater, and go through the tunnel. You can't continue diving due to the air bubbles that continue to lift you up. Instead, look for another opening. It should lead you further down, whereupon you'll spot a container. Open it and input the code: 0-0-0-B-B-B.
Return to the Xion bulletin board to turn in the quest. You'll receive 6,000 gold for your efforts... but you're not done yet.
The Fish of Legends: Whale Shark
The Stellar Blade Fish of Legends quest should appear on the bulletin board. It mentions a Whale Shark, and it seems Clyde has an idea as to its whereabouts. Return to Clyde at the Oasis and talk to him "about the Fantastic Fishing Point."
Clyde responds, "Sometimes the thing you'd do anything to have is already yours."
This implies that the Fantastic Fishing Point is the Oasis itself. With this knowledge in mind, bring out your fishing road and choose the Fantastic Bait. Complete the fishing game normally, though this one might be a bit of a challenge. If you successfully haul in your catch, you'll realize that it's actually a Whale Shark!
Now that you're done, you can return to the Xion bulletin board. Turn in the quest to receive 7,000 gold and the Legendary Fish Badge.
That's it: that's everything you need to know about Fish of Legends and Where Is the Fantastic Bait in Stellar Blade. It's been quite a doozy, but at least you're done with this minigame's arc.
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