What particular area is a roadblock?
Getting the Really Big Sword will help you block Aumtlich gazes, but you are right in that it is unnecessary in order to beat the game.
You also don't necessarily have to take two Aumtlich hits (cut HP in fourth) in order to get one set of keys in Preservation: Once South Once East, if you've been conserving resources properly.
If it helps my stats at entering this level were:
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HP: 379
ATK: 166
DEF: 142
GR: 2920
Keys: 2/2/0/0
(although these are somewhat optimized and I'm confident the level can be done with worse stats than I had)
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[Last edited by Chaco at 10-04-2008 09:04 PM]