I hate invisible mazes.
This is why I eventually quit playing
Breath of Fire when I tried
to do the Text Play of it a couple years back now. There was a maze
where the walls would vanish from time to time but still be barriers,
and I kept getting blocked. Now this game wants me to do one as
well.
I know it's
possible to get through these things. In both cases I know I'd done
it before, simply because I'd come closer to finishing these games
than this. Of course, at the time, time and patience were things I
seemed to have in greater abundance than I seem to now. It's almost
like I'm starting to take more and more after my dad the older I get,
and that's kind of a scary thought.
At any rate, I
suppose I should talk about what's going on in the game right now.
All the men in the town of Ranqs have gone to work on a mountain
tunnel to the village of Odel. Even the town's priest is there for
some reason. They managed to finish the tunnel, but as luck would
have it, something came in and put an invisible maze in the tunnel,
and now nobody knows how to get through or if they can get back to
Ranqs even if they do.
So loath as I am to
do it, I had to look at a strategy guide to get through. I had one
that I'd downloaded last time I needed a little help, but somehow
that file got corrupted, so I got a new one, from GameFAQs this time.
The route through the invisible maze is not so hard once I found out
what it was: up one step, right two, up one, right two, up 4, left 3,
down 1, left 2, down 1, left 2, up 2, left 1, up 1, right 2, up 1.
The worst part here
is that after I got through that, I still got lost on the way to
Odel, in spite of having a piece of paper right in front of me,
telling me how to get there. I went southeast instead of southwest
and found Lyden first, which meant a trip to the west to fix that.
Along the way, I
got most of the party killed, but that's because I'm a moron when it
comes to keeping everybody healed in situations like this. Since I
had managed to keep Lufia alive and had a decent supply of Smoke
Balls, I did manage to get away from the battles I came to after
that.
There's a cave
entrance that leads into Professor Shaia's base and connects at least
two of his labs with Odel Castle. God only knows if this is what I
was supposed to find, but I've at least made it to Odel now. Given
the luck I've had so far, this seems like a good place to stop after
reviving my party, so that's what I'll do here, I think. I'll see
you next time, in Odel
Lake.
Stay safe, have
fun, keep gaming, and DFTBA!
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