Well, mission partly accomplished,
anyway.
I did find that place that had the shop
that only sold the stuff that I'd had before and then sold for some
reason. It's a cool concept, and I think I've seen it used in a
couple other games, but I've never really used it much. That's
mostly because it's a cool concept, but not a particularly useful
one, that I've noticed.
Gotta say, that's probably the worst
part of this place, a town called Forfeit. Not only are all the
shops filled with things that most players would have long since sold
for a reason, i.e. that they've long since become useless, but
there's no inn or save point.
Fortunately for me, I guess, I just
happened to stumble across it by happy mistake and looked around
because I'd said I would. I'm not sure I'll go back, because there
doesn't seem to be much point to it. The only reason I might is if I
find out that there's something I actually need from there. There is
a chance of that, of course, since there's a basement in Forfeit,
where a king and a queen have rented out some space. The king says
he likes wearing disguises and going out to look for rare things
because it gets his rocks off, but whatever. The queen tells you
that she's running a “House of Magic” and asks if you've got any
straw dolls and long nails. I did, but sold them, because there was
no way in hell I ever thought I'd need them. At least there's that
shop that sells things we'd sold to shops previously, and I had items
I needed to sell anyway, so I went and sold those so I could buy what
she said. Turns out, the queen will turn them into an item called
Gloom Voice. I did have one of those as well, at one point. A
decent item, but not necessarily one I'd want to take into a fight
with me. Maybe if I go back, she'll ask for different combinations
of seemingly useless items, but I'm at a point where I don't think
I'll do that unless I need to level grind later.
And I may have to do exactly that,
because I'm going to skip that other side quest I mentioned last
time. It sounds a lot like it might be a lot like finding Forfeit
Island. Something to do, but not really worth it. If I have to
grind, I might just do the Dragon Egg quests instead. There are
three of those, and the good strategy guide I found makes it sound
like it might actually be worthwhile.
But before then, I'm going to spend the
next few issues trying to actually finish off the game. My SNES has
been acting more and more like there's a short in it, and I'd at
least like to say I beat this game on it, since I don't think there
have been any re-releases of it, though the Wii Virtual Console may
prove me wrong.
Until then, though, stay safe, have
fun, keep gaming, and DFTBA!
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