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2) Shinryu. Pretty much the same as with Zenos...we are told that we can't possibly stand up to Shinryu and it's too powerful. We need to have Papalymo kill himself to buy time, and then sic Omega on it in the hopes that Omega will win. And yet we casually give this supposedly mighty monster the beatdown without a second thought, the moment it re-enters the story. So Papalymo's sacrifice was pointless, because obviously we were strong enough to fight the thing in the first place. And there was no need to risk everything on Omega behaving.
For the fight with Zenos, all I can say is that we learned his secret when we fought Fordola, but I can't say how we exploited it. However, for Shinryu we can say 2 things for certain: 1) Omega did significant damage to Shinryu prior to us fighting him, therefore he was already somewhat weakened. 2) After Shinryu is beaten, Estinian specifically says that the eyes are almost completely empty, which means Shinryu was almost to the point of disappearing -anyway-, so therefore we just shoved him over the edge.