It was a bear to get this done, but not
for the reasons you might think.
This part of the game itself was not as
hard as I remember. The problems came from that I'm playing on a
system that's going on 25 years old and its age shows rather badly.
The first thing that went wrong was the same thing that got the Lufia
game, but that's why I was smart enough to have two saves this time
around so I didn't lose the game. Plus, I think there's a short
someplace in the controller I'm using, because it shorts out if I
move wrong or don't hold it the right way.
But the game itself wasn't that bad,
compared to what I remember. There are some good items to be had in
Doma Castle that I'm surprised I didn't get before. I must have been
saving them for this part of the game, but then again, I didn't
really use them here, either. Most notably are an X-Ether and a
Beads relic.
There's the room where the party can
rest up in that can still be used. When we use it, the party sleeps
as normally, but when the party wakes up, Cyan doesn't wake up.
While the other three, in this case, Locke, Sabin, and Edgar, try to
rouse him and figure out what's wrong, three strange creatures come
along to introduce themselves as Curley, Larry, and Moe, the Three
Dream Stooges, and they've come to eat Cyan's soul and jump into his
head. The others follow them in, and find themselves in an Escher
painting where monsters attack them. At first, I kept getting
killed, but once I switched Sabin and Edgar around, it was no
problem, because at first, the party is split up and needs to be
reunited.
Once that's done, our three remaining
heroes go against the Dream Stooges. I know it's possible to kill
all three of them, but Larry got away this time. Once the Stooges
are out of the way, the party finds its way into Cyan's dreams.
At first, Cyan dreams that he's on the
Phantom Train, where we can get some decent shields. There are some
puzzles that need to be solved to get through. One involves two rows
of three chests. The solution is to close the far right one on the
top row and the middle and far left ones on the bottom row. To
finish the train off, go into the train's control room and exit. That
opens up the path to the next section, which is the caves of Narshe.
In this case, the end is a circular path that's an infinite loop if
followed along the way that seems to be forward. Going in and back
out the farthest right door there is the way to continue. I had
forgotten that this was the one last time we got to use MagiTek
Armor. The bridge we cross while chasing Cyan is too weak to hold
the armor, and we go crashing into Doma Castle.
When the party comes to, they see the
spirits of Elayne and Owain, Cyan's wife and son who died when Kefka
attacked Doma near the start of the game. They say that they want us
to save Cyan from his grief because he's being haunted by a monster
called Wrexsoul that'll kill him if it's not stopped.
Wrexsoul is hiding in the throne room,
and when the party approaches, he's pretty much done in Cyan, saying
that his grief, hatred and anger have reached critical mass and now
Wrexsoul is going to get the rest of the party, too.
Wrexsoul can possess party members, and
does it in such a way that we don't know which one it's hiding in,
which means that to get the monster back out where it can be hurt, it
means killing party members and then reviving them. Having the Life3
spell really comes in handy for that. Sabin's regular attack works
well, as does Edgar's drill, in his tool kit.
When Wrexsoul is finally taken care of,
Cyan's family says he's going to be OK and Cyan himself learns the
rest of his special sword moves. When the party wakes up there's a
new piece of Magicite to be had. It's for the Esper Alexander, or
Alexandr in this translation, which has the Pearl spell and a few
others.
From here, there are a few other side
quests to go on. There's seven of the eight dragons left that I'm
thinking I might go for, and DoomGaze as well. There are also quite
a bit more rages for Gau I can probably get now, and some more lores
for Strago, too. Those can all be found on the Veld, which I think
I'll spend some time running around on. I'm not sure how much of
that I'll actually write about. The dragons and DoomGaze, for sure,
even though DoomGaze is pretty much a random thing I need to find by
flying around on the airship. And there are a few other cool things
I might try, like Dinosaur Forest, since they have some good XP, MP,
and make good rages and have good blue magic, too.
But we'll see. Until next time, stay
safe, have fun, keep gaming, and DFTBA!
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