So lost, in fact, that I can't even
keep the issue numbers straight!
I know I'm closing in on the end of
this game, but it's been so long since I've actually done it, I
couldn't quite remember how to get where I need to be to actually
pull it off. I did get my memory refreshed a bit, like I said in the
Final
Fantasy Tonight article I wrote Thursday night or Friday morning,
from a previous attempt that evening. There's a blinking chest that
I needed to get to that hadn't been there before that's a switch
after all three parties have hit some switches. How to get there
took a look at the Caves of Narshe walkthrough.
Even after that, I wound up making
things harder than they probably were. Once I got to the proper part
of the walkthrough, remembering how to get where I needed to be was
no big deal. The problem was that once I got there, there were some
of those four-ton weights that needed to be pushed onto the switches
the other two parties were standing on. The first thing to do was to
get the parties off the switches. The thing I was forgetting is that
I needed to hit the talk button to actually get the weights to drop
down.
Once that's taken care of, it will
allow the other two parties up onto the central passageway, one at a
time. The party that initially gets on the central passage allows
the first of the other two parties up, the second party does the same
for the third, which can then proceed forward to the next section.
The first thing that happens there is a
boss fight with a mech called the Guardian. I think we could have
run into this thing back in the Imperial Castle all the way back in
the first half of the game. Back then, we didn't stand a chance
against it. Now, though, it's not so much a problem, as our levels
are higher and at least one of the party members has the Bolt 3
spell. The more the merrier in that regard, of course, but I only
had one, which was sufficient.
Beyond the Guardian is the save point I
was looking for, which is a good place to stop for now. Further down
the passageway that opens up are the three goddesses that were made
into the statues on the Floating Island at the midway point. Far as
I remember, there are no save points from here on, and it's quite a
long way until the end of the game, all things considered. Kind of
like the trip to the center of the moon in Final Fantasy 4. So,
better to wait until I'm fresher in the head to get on with that.
Until then, my friends, stay safe, have
fun, keep gaming, and DFTBA.
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