The end of this game is probably going
to be in three parts mostly because I'm going to be lazy about it.
I also kind of need to start going to
bed at a more reasonable time than I have been lately. For as little
a hindrance as that's been lately, I've gotta change how I'm doing
these things, and I've gotta start someplace, after all.
Getting started with Doom Castle, we're
going in on the B2 level, which is where we found the Aero spell on
the way to Windia. There's the one last piece of equipment we need
to get here before the end of the game. It's the Ageis Shield. It
adds protection against the Stone status effect, which pretty much
makes Ben invincible against most of the status and elemental attacks
in the game. I do believe earth and instant-death attacks are the
only ones that still work on him. Otherwise, he's immune to
everything but physical attacks.
As for the minor enemies in this part
of the game, I do believe the only ones that we haven't seen, or at
least that I haven't mentioned yet are the Shadow, a ninja-type enemy
that we could have run into on Mac's Ship last time, but I didn't
somehow, for all the fights I did do there; and the Cerberus, a dog
enemy that we may have run into in the Alive Forrest, if not the
Volcano and/or Lava Dome, now that I think about it. The only other
monsters of any real note here are the boss monsters we need to take
out to advance to each maze in succession.
Since the very basement is a desert
level, we have to fight the Skullerous Rex, a somewhat stronger
version of the Flamerous Rex from the Bone Dungeon. The challenge of
getting to him has to do with the fact that the floor in the main
part of this level is some fast-paced quicksand or whatever it's
supposed to be. Because the strategy for this guy and the next are
really pretty much the same, I'll just say what that is after the
next one.
The second boss here is the Stone
Golem. Just like the Skullerous Rex is a beefed up version of the
Flamerous Rex, this is a beefed up version of the Ice Golem. The
only real threat from this particular boss is its Corrosive Gas
attack, which is pretty much an instant-death attack. But really,
neither of these two bosses are all that difficult if you just spam
them with the White spell. Easy enough, since both Ben and Phoebe
have it. And there's really no reason to worry about running out,
either, since we can buy seeds now. I think we could buy them in
Windia, for sure, and maybe even in Fireburg, and there's also a guy
on the middle deck of the boat who sells them, too. And since this
is like most of the main series games, we've got a crapload of money
to spend on them if need be.
Really, though, the magic seeds are
about the only expendable we'd really need to buy very many of in
this game. Everything else, we'll wind up finding plenty of along
the way, so there's really no danger of running out of anything, as
I'm sure I've said before. And when I get to the very end of the
game next issue, we'll see that that'll be doubly so. But that'll be
for next time, folks.
Until
then, stay safe, have fun, keep gaming, and DFTBA!
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