I'd forgotten how long this dungeon is.
Or, at least how long it is if I'm
going to try clearing it out, anyway. Usually when I've done this
part of the game, I've set aside enough time to get most of the stuff
and get out in one shot. Not this time, though, which is kind of a
good thing, I suppose. I guess I always knew there was a second save
point in here, but I never really never knew exactly where it was
until now.
See, there's this moogle near the start
of the dungeon that says you can find him somewhere else in the
dungeon and you get to find him. About two thirds or three quarters
of the way through, there's a minigame that involves mining or some
such thing that allows Zidane to dig up stuff. Most of what I got
this time was Ore. At least, that's what I got out of the central
column, anyway. This was the first time I can remember banging away
on the rock wall on the far side of the room. The moogle's behind
that and pops out after you pound the wall with your pickaxe a half
dozen or so times.
Thing is, it took me a half hour or 45
minutes to find that part, for all the running around and hitting
switches a guy's gotta do to get through this thing. The good news
is that just before I went back and found that second save point, I'd
found the way to the exit but decided I'd go back in and explore some
of what I missed, just in case there's some stuff I missed along the
way.
And now that I think about it, one
other thing I really should explain here is what the switches and
forks are all about. The wild Gargants we're using as transport in
here are scared of water, which I think may have been made mention of
when we dealt with them in Treno, too. The switches redirect the
flow of water onto various parts of the roots the Gargants crawl
along, thereby altering the routes they go.
I'm probably going to regret my
decision to go back in and explore some more after I've already found
the exit, but that's going to be a thing I'll get into next time.
Hopefully it won't be another week or eight days until then, but
either way, have fun, keep gaming, stay safe, and DFTBA!
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