Five battlefields at once? I must have
been nuts going into this!
There's actually quite a bit to cover
in a relatively short time here, so we may as well get started.
To start with, I went through the Focus
Tower to find the Venus Shield, right where Spencer said it would be,
though I needed to blow open a door to get to it. On the other side
of the floor, there's the Blizzard spell, which will come in handy
since we're coming into the fire area. The Old Guy is also there to
tell us that something made Captain Mac rush from his home and then
change the subject to finding Reuben in Fireburg. I remember the bit
about Captain Mac leading to something, but I can't say what,
exactly. Not because I want to avoid spoilers, but because I legit
don't remember. So, it's off to Fireburg to get Reuben and take on
the five battlefields between Aquaria and Fireburg.
The thing is, though, to actually get
where we need to be here, we need to go back out of the tower and
around to the entrance we came through to get to Aquaria to get to
the door that'll take us to Fireburg. This is one of those things
that's kind of a plot hole in this game. We can find Reuben in the
first actual house in this town. He's with his mom, who's worried
about her husband and Reuben's dad, who is trapped in a mine.
Reuben, of course, is the other guy in the room. When we have Ben
talk to him, his line is “So you're Reuben, huh? Have you heard of
the Fire Crystal?” Mighty damned presumptive, I'd say, but he's
right. Reuben says he doesn't have time for that right now because
he's got to get his dad out of that mine.
Reuben goes on to explain that we'll
need something called Mega Grenades to make that happen. Those'll be
the final upgrade to the explosives weapon. There's a guy in town
who knows how to use them, but because he was Papa Reuben's mining
buddy and was there when Papa Reuben got trapped, he panicked and
locked himself in his house. Fortunately, Tristam got there just
before we did, and can help us. But that's like the Fire Crystal.
It'll have to wait a bit. For now, we're going to deal with the
battlefields.
Of the last two we can get to in
Aquaria, there's an east one and a west one. The east one has mostly
Phanquids, with a Sphynx or two thrown in for the hell of it. The
reward is the Exit spell. Far as I can remember, the Exit spell is
more useless in this game than it is in most of the main series
games, but the XP from the monsters is good. The west one was mostly
Freezer Crabs, with a few Gathers thrown in for good measure. The
reward is 744 XP.
There's three in the Fireburg area, for
now, from south to north. All the enemies are new, since this is
completely the opposite of Aquaria. The south battlefield had mostly
Jelly monsters in it. They're orange and white pallet swaps of the
Slimes from Level Forest. The reward there is 900 gold. The middle
one is Jellies and another new monster called Sting Rat. Sting Rats
can cause the poison status. I think Ben's already got defense
against that from armor we got in the Ice Pyramid, but Reuben can
still get hit by it. The reward from this one is something called
the Gemini Crest, which we haven't heard word one about so far, but
there's a place called the Wintry temple where we can use it. The
north field was filled with a tree monster called Plant Man. The
reward is 800-some XP.
That'll be that for now, so we'll deal
with Reuben's dad's friend and the mine next time. Before I go,
though, I'm just going to mention something I should have before.
The Venus Shield protects against some kind of attack, but I'm not
sure what, and if I've not said it before, it makes me regret losing
the instruction manual and the strategy guide for this game, just so
I could know what the symbol on the screen meant. In most of the
other Final Fantasy games I've played, it's the one for Holy
elemental attacks, but far as I can remember, the only enemy that
uses those is the final boss, which doesn't come for another couple
zones yet. I could be wrong about that, though, because it's been
awhile since I've played this game.
But anyway, I should really be going to
bed now, because as I write this, it's 3 AM, and as I've got the
uStream feed from the Friends of Felines Rescue Center up, I can
hear the early morning voulunteers coming in to help feed the cats.
That means I've been up way longer than I should be. So, I'll just
set this up to autopost later and head off to bed. See you soon, and
DFTBA!
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