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 So, last time when we left Manjimaru...  ...he had just obtained a boat by simply wishing for it with a drawing on a Jizo statue. And so our boat looks just like the drawing, but it is, indeed, a fully functional boat! We need it to do a couple of things here, but in order to save time, we'll quickly go somewhere else to pick up an item that we didn't get last time.  We'll head back east to that first hermit's cave here.  As you might recall, there was a chest behind him that we didn't look at. He's blocking it now, but we do the usual thing by going outside and then back in again like we did last time, then he will move and provide access to it. So, finally...  Ah, well, that's got to have something to do with Kabuki, I'm sure. Anyway, now we can head back!  On the way back, we encounter still some new enemies we haven't met previously! But, truly, how many variations on skull, skeleton and bone can we have in the names of monsters? I mean it makes sense, but still!  All right, let's take the boat now.  Somebody asked about this, and yes indeed, the boat looks like this on the overworld too! In any case, our real destination is Benten's pagoda in the lake to the south, but we'll head north first. By the way, there are definitely random encounters while on a boat too. But there are no special water monsters or anything, just the same ones you find on the ground!  Gotta navigate around a bit here...  We'll continue by walking, but you can see our distantion already there nestled between the mountains. Yes, certainly...  ...it's another Tengu's hut! Manjimaru obtained the Winter Wind scroll. The Winter Wind scroll (風花) does a small amount wind damage to one enemy. As usual, we can talk to him some more. That's all we can do here, so...  ...now let's head south towards the lake!  Somehow, there are still more new enemies we encounter on the way! Nembutsu (念仏) is a kind of a Buddhist chant.  This is a very bad combination. Those rattles hit like literal trucks. There's a good chance you might not survive this even with one level less! As it is, though, the Lightning Flash can just about one-shot the rattles so in the end we don't even get damaged!  All right, enough fooling around, let's go inside!  We get a nice close-up...  ...as we slowly guide our boat to the dock! That is quite a choice of music, indeed!  And here we are, in the pagoda of goddess Benten! Let's see what this person has to say. I probably don't need to say this, but there is no actual time limit. We can take our time. After playing Linda³, it feels a bit odd to not have to actually constantly keep watching the time as we traverse the world in this game!  There's actually more people here!  And more!  And more! Well, that's a bit more useful information finally. Also, it seems we already have the key and it was given to Snake Hermit by the goddess. Or alternately he stole it from Kabuki? We'll see. The chests have two miso dumplings in them for healing.  We'll take the staircase on the other side.  Let's see...  Wow, ok. They are really not pulling any punches here, are they. Notice also a slightly different fight music when the game thinks it's going to a more difficult one!  Also, chests. One of them has a "return stone". As you can imagine this is an item that teleports you out of a dungeon. Especially usefull in some of them so you don't have to walk all the way back out. The other one has a rejuvenating tablet.  All right, let's go one more floor up.  Quite a bunch of chests there...  ...but also a Dude who does not look even remotely friendly! Heh heh.  Oh, hi boss! I was wondering when the last of these three will show up! And so here he is. Surprisingly, this one is actually pretty easy compared to the last one. His attack does look somewhat cool, he swings both of his swords at the same time: Later in the fight when his HP is lower, he will start also to use this other thing: "Fanged King's forehead glows ominously", But it only does a bit more damage than his normal attack, with no other effects. So it's another situation like with the first miniboss (Horned King): as long you're above a certain level, it's just a matter of trading blows and healing. But if you're below that level, you're unlikely to be able to keep up with the damage. Anyway...  Yeah, I was going to. Just need to get the musical instrument from the goddess here.  And he's gone. But now, uh, remember that Dark Souls moment? You fight a boss (in that case Ornstein and Smough) and then you go upstairs and there's a big door...  And then you open the door (although in our case here, with the help of a key disguised as earpick, as expected).  And then, there's Gwynevere sprawled on a big sofa-bed-thing, right? Well, in our case it's not Gwynevere but Benten... but still, this game did it first!  Sure thing! Well, ok, let's have a look.  Her wardrobe is where all those chests were that we saw earlier.  Ah, there is is. And it totally blocks an item slot in your inventory! So did the earpick and the boat drawing, for that matter. By the way, you can actually get rid of the earpick now if you want. The other chests contain just some recovery consumables so nothing of note.  Let's go back over to Benten again.  And she refreshes your HP/MP. Well, all right. We got what we came here for, so it's time to proceed with our journey.  On the way down, we can have again a bit of a chat with Benten's maids.  Or these three here...  So, we can take our boat and leave now.  For the time being, however, our journey will continue on foot, so we'll leave the boat here near Nagashino. In actuality, we really don't have much choice now except to head towards the Demon Bone Castle and deal with it.  It's just a bit to the west. It also looks pretty cool if you ask me.  [DEMON BONE CASTLE]  Immediately, we're faced with a door. Of course, we use our magical musical instrument on it. Manjimaru plucks at the Pure Land Biwa. The Pure Land Biwa Disintegrates! Well, we got the door open. Let's see what's inside, huh? And yes, that last bit means that the biwa is automatically removed from our inventory.  Oh, hey, somebody approaches us.  What even is the agenda of these three sage jerks? I don't know, but we must press on. Trap or not, we need that sword. Anyway, he goes away and we can proceed inside, finally.  Chests already, huh? They contain some healing consumables, which is certainly welcome.  And new enemies too! And our first pallete-swap in the form of Red Claw Marks! They are actually a fair bit stronger than their cousins, the Right Hands of Night! I guess it's a good idea to be at least level 12 before entering the castle. You can probably get up to 13 during traversal, which is plenty enough for anything you can encounter here, including the boss fight(s).  Down here, we find our first elevator, and it is indeed in the shape of a hand! You know what, that actually is pretty cool. Anyway, there are no stairs here. Just these freaky elevators.  On the next floor...  ...more new enemies! This guy seems to be able to frequently do crits on Manjimaru, which is bad. Crits more or less do double damage, similar to Final Fantasy games.  The game likes to troll you with empty chests, and so one of those is all you find here. The only way forward is back down the elevator and to find another route.  So let's try the left side.  Up we go!  So let's see here. That chest, by the way, is also empty.  Oh, hello. (The chest contains a sword which is the same as one we already have on us!)  So it's a rematch against the Horned King. But, his stats haven't changed and we're several levels stronger. Result: he dies in four hits. So I think the Grim Reaper bros might have miscalculated this one. All right, let's be on our way.  But not for long, because...  ...the next Grim Reaper brother (The Clawed King) is immediately on the next floor!  This battle, too, is same as before; due to us being a fair bit stronger, it goes by much easier. As there is no new dialogue or anything, I will not go into details.  Like I said, let's be on our way! We do find a couple of chests with healing items on the way, but I'm not going to bore you with that. However...  ...we do encounter one new enemy! Is this the best enemy design so far? Yes. Yes, it is. I just want to mention that "Bewitching Tiger" (or also "Demon Tiger") is not actually just a random thing--it's a concept really existing in folklore of East/Southeast Asian countries. Anyway, the in-game version is a total chump, but gives a whole 4 exp. I've said this before, but honestly, the enemy sprite design in this game is pretty fantastic all around. As for these guys, they appear on the upper levels of the castle and have the highest HP of all random encounters here. But this is negated by low attack and very low agility, so... they aren't really a threat. Anyway, going one floor up...  ...we run into the final brother, The Fanged King.  Again, nothing hew to see here, so we'll just move on.  We're nearing the top of the castle, so in this chest the game helpfully provides us with a return stone. It's certainly a bit of a trek, so we'll be using that to exit once we're done here!  Another one of those kinds of parts (the chests contain ordinary consumables)...  Let's proceed up.  Here, two chests. One is empty, and the other one contains, somewhat randomly, 240 ryo.  Finally, we're met by another one of the sages!   Uh-oh. This sounds bad. And then... Indeed... ...a new body is reconstituted from their individual parts!  So, this is actually our first "real" boss fight. All the ones before were classed as "mini-boss". Therefore, this is the first time we hear the actual boss fight theme music. Aaand it's pretty awesome, so definitely give it a listen. (Some bosses actually have a special music theme which are usually also pretty awesome so we'll check those out too when we get there).  As for the boss fight itself, like always with these three guys, since they don't have a huge amount of HP (don't worry there will be bosses with HP into tens of thousands), the matter is only about being able to keep up with the healing, while dealing damage otherwise. Manjimaru is currently level 13 and that seems to be a good spot where he can keep up, but also doesn't win in 2 hits either. Officially the name of this boss is "Grim Reaper Shogun" and it has 200 HP, which is about on a par with its "components". There are some funky attack animations here! The Grim Reaper Shogun opens its chest! Intense light pierces the air! The Grim Reaper Shogun's gigantic pincers aim for the prey! I love how attacks don't have names but like full on elaborate descriptions! But anyway, as long as you're on the level 12-13 and don't forget to heal every few turns, you're not likely to have a problem with this. As you can see, his attack is about the same as the last of the bros, however his defence is much higher, so Manjimaru won't be doing huge damage at this level. So this might take a couple of minutes. After defeat...   They all disappear. And in their place...  Well, don't know about you, but that looks like a holy sword to me! Let's pick it up! It certainly takes up space in your weapons inventory, so if you're full... well, you're going to have to ditch something! As mentioned, this will get easier soon when we have more than one party member as they can move things around between them.  And then a ghostly image fades into view!  It speaks to Manjimaru:   A victory pose for a good measure!  Manjimaru twirls the sword in the air, and you better believe that due to the optical illusion it definitely makes a swastika shape when he does that! Incidentally, in the PS2/GC remake, the number of swastikas in the game was reduced, and this is one that was removed--in the remake his sword looks simply like a straight line twirling around. Incidentally, other than cutting down orchids, the holy sword is also a regular weapon that you can equip, but it's not really that strong (and is in fact weaker than we already have), so I guess it's just going to be taking up an inventory slot for now. Obviously, once the orchid is gone then we don't need it any more. Oh, right, about that "Benimaru Slash". Turns out, other than magic spells, Manjimaru is also able to use "sword techniques" (kenpou/剣法) which are I guess kind of like special skills. This is the first one we learn. We'll talk about that more when we try it out next time. But for now let me say that you learn the technique permanently, i.e. you do not need to have the holy sword equipped to use it. In the meantime, as Benimaru said, it's time to leave. Having defeated the assassins, there are no more any random encounters here, so you can walk all the way back out easily. But it's kind of a trek, so you might as well use the return stone to teleport out instantly. Outside...  ...the Demon Bone Castle crumbles into dust, like it never existed! Well, all right. As Benimaru said, let's head back to Takayama then.  Let's go inside.  We go straight for the orchid! Manjimaru draws Benimaru's sword and closes his eyes! The holy sword is vibrating faintly! The beat of Manjimaru's heart slowly begins to resonate with the vibrations of the sword! ...... NOW!  Well then, I guess that's one. Six more to go. I'm sure it won't always be this simple. But for now, we can relax a bit and have a chat with the villagers to see what they all think of this!  Maybe let's start here with this person...  Well, maybe that's a destination we should check?  Hello lady!  There is a couple more peopel here...  ...in the village headman's house. Only two of them have something new to say. Well, okay. Let's head out. First we can make a quick trip beyond where the roots were. By the way, since we've "defeated" the Root Clan in this part of Jipang, the game does a nice thing and there are of course no more any random encounters in these two provinces! A cool way to avoid boring the player with low level fights if they ever come back here. Now if we could only have a few more inventory slots... No? Ok.  It was about here, if I remember correctly.  Crossing the river to the east, we find another Tengu's hut! In fact one of the NPCs mentioned that he is not able any more to play go with the Tengu since the road is blocked. Well, not any more I guess.  Manjimaru obtained the "Heat Haze" scroll! Well, we already know what this one does! The Heat Haze (陽炎) scroll lowers the hit accuracy of one enemy. As we've seen, the spell can also be cast for free simply by using the "Broken Halberd" weapon as an item in the battle. All right, now that that's done, let's head to Inuyama. After all, we have a Kabuki to speak to.   So let's start with these two. So, he skipped town, huh? We'll se about that in a moment, but first let's talk to the lady. Not if we have anything to say about it!  Another person over here. News travels a bit slow, I guess.  Accidentally, Manjimaru is getting a bit into the personal space of this lady here.  Let's check out also this house.  Really? We'll check that out. Next, let's visit another house.  This is the old lady who told us about using the musical instrument to open the doors to the castle.  Also this guy will reveal us the true nature of Kabuki's gesture...   We have more houses to visit.   Next is this person here. This house is of course Kabuki's house, except the sign is gone.  Let's see what the girls have to say now. And then the last one... I mean, of course we do.  And so, Manjimaru is taken on a ride around town, just like Kabuki used to be! We definitely need to be looking for Kabuki, but before that...  ...let's quickly visit the castle itself.   That's actually good advice. At least we have a path forward.  On the second floor of the castle... Yeah, we know!  And finally, the top floor where the lord is. First, we'll talk to the woman. And finally, the lord. Oh. Now it's clear. Of COURSE he didn't give away his own money! I WILL KILL THIS GUY WHEN WE FIND HIM! You know, he's almost certainly gone over towards Suzuka pass to make his way into Ise province before we get there. So let's follow in his tracks! Checking the map...  ...we can see that we can follow the road south from Inuyama (northwest corner) and then turn westwards at the junction there, leading to Ise (伊勢).  Here is that road junction leading west.  And here is the Suzuka pass, nestled in the mountains  Going through, things start to happen...  Oh, there's Kabuki. Let's see what has to say for himself!   Oh, just shut up. You know what, no I won't. You're far too annoying to have around.   Anyway, he finally comes down, and well, as they say, "moar party members!". So he finally joins the party and yes, you CAN give him orders in battle despite what he's claiming! He joins you no matter whether you say yes or no, but saying no gives a funnier dialogue. All right then, so next time we'll start exploring the Ise province to see what goes on here. I did say that this game is kind of a somewhat episodic "road trip" genre, so since the first "part" of our journey seems to be over, let's have a quick look at the map to get a better idea about the travels that we've done so far (I didn't include the backtracking): (Click on the map to embiggen.) It's too bad we had to leave our beautiful boat behind, but don't worry. This game has nothing if not quite some variety regarding the means of transport that the party ends up using to get around. So there's going to be lot more on that front. In general the game kind of starts slowly and pretty tame, but as you go through the game the insanity level just keeps rising and rising. You'll see. In the meantime take care, and see you soon! ivantod fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Oct 31, 2022 |
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Well that's certainly a first party member to gain. I feel like this game is kind of interesting in that the moving-around graphics are so comparatively simple and then you have these awesomely detailed character headshots and enemy sprites, and the cutscene with the Dark Orchid.
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Oct 30, 2022 21:37
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I think you mean Benten cleans ears, not eyes. Apparently that's some kind of thing? Steambot Chronicles has it too.
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Oct 31, 2022 00:07
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Yeah... it's an entire thing in various SE Asia cultures.
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Oct 31, 2022 00:39
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My best guess is that it's supposed to be an expression of trust in the person doing the cleaning, considering your ears are both very important sensory organs and also extremely delicate and susceptible to trauma. I know I sure as hell wouldn't let just anyone near my ears.
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Tallgeese posted:I think you mean Benten cleans ears, not eyes. PurpleXVI posted:I feel like this game is kind of interesting in that the moving-around graphics are so comparatively simple and then you have these awesomely detailed character headshots and enemy sprites, and the cutscene with the Dark Orchid. 
ivantod fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Oct 31, 2022 |
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 Welcome back! Last time, we finished the first "segment" of Manjimaru's journey by defeating the first dark orchid. We crossed the border at Suzuka Pass and ran into Kabuki who promptly decided to join our party. So I guess let's get started with "segment" two.  Here we are. So let's start by talking to these four gentlemen in conical straw hats. Huh, well good to know. We DID hear about a village of ninjas somewhere around here, so I'm sure we'll run into it sooner or later. Well, maybe with our help they will. Well, looks like that's probably our ultimate destination, then? We'll see. I'm sure there will be plenty of hiccups along the way. There are a couple of houses here too. There's nothing interesting in the inn (the building on the right), but in the item shop (on the left) there are two people who have a interesting comment.  Pink tornados? Whatever could that be. Well, but ok, this is just a small settlement that serves as a border crossing, so that's all there is here. It seems to me we should go find that village of ninjas first! So let's leave the border crossing and head west! Meanwhile, back in the villains' lair...  Ah, the three stooges, I mean sages. And we already know from the opening intro that the blue ball is meant to be the evil god Yomi!  And then...  ...a pink swirl shows up and after stopping it reveals another person. However, the new person says nothing, and Deloren continues to talk for a bit longer. So it seems that pink tornados may just be real. We've just seen one, after all. Back to our heroes...  ...were just about to head west. For Kabuki, I'm using the word "hero" very loosely. Although, before we continue, it's worthwhile to check out Kabuki's status and what he comes equipped with:  So, stats-wise, he's about the same as Manjimaru although with a good amount more HP (which is less helpful than you might thing: if Manjimaru dies, the battle is over, regardless of if other characters are alive). He does also come fully equipped with a solitary sword as a weapon and a conincal hat and straw sandals we have already seen Manjimaru wear before. He is also wearing a travelling coat. As for items he has a healing tablet and also (another?) earpick of love! So I guess he must have gotten it from Benten. For magical spells (scrolls), he has: "glistening blade" (氷刃) which is an ice based attack on one enemy; and also "flower storm" (花嵐), which is a wind based attack on one enemy. He does also have a couple of special skills, although in his case it's not kenpou but simply "secret techniques". The first one is "foul language" (悪態), which allows him to draw the enemy attacks to himself. The other one is "dramatic pose" (大見得), which allows him to decrease the defence of enemy groups which are at level lower than his current level. So oeverall some pretty decent stuff here. And more importantly, it doubles the amount of our inventory slots! It's still not ideal, because the items are only available to the character physically holding them, but at least they can be transferred around when needed which is already miles better then what we've had so far.  All right, FINALLY, let's proceed west!  Of course, we're immediately accosted by monsters. This is another pallete swap, but actually there are not too many of them in the game.   As mentioned, we follow along the river, and soon we reach another village. This should be Iga, the ninja village, so let's head inside.  Upon entering, we're approached by three dudes...  ...but then a pink tornado show up again! Who is this guy, Kikugorou, was it? It's again cutscene time! Don't miss this one as it's pretty funny actually! This cannot possibly be who those three sages think is somehow going to be able to distract us from our goal. It cannot. He is ridiculous.  Anyway, let's put that aside for now, as we have a new village to explore, namely Iga (伊賀). So let's start with these guys here.  We have two more people here... Well, ok. Looks like we know roughly what we need to do. (You can't actually see the lantern on the screenshot, but we'll get to that in a moment.  In the meantime, we'll continue talking to ninjas and other villagers. Like for example this lady who is standing directly in front of a house with a large sign saying "KIKUGOROU" (菊五郎).  "Try jumping!" Also here you can see the lantern down to the left of that house  Hello, sir.  Hello, sir. I'm sure we'll find it soon enough. But now, let's go into that house with a big sign.   Next, we stop here by the inn.  Well, I'm sure we'll figure something out, like always.  One other house...  Now, about this lantern. It's actually super simple...  ...you push it, and it opens a staircase! Of course we want to go inside, but first... let's do some equipment shuffle. Like items, equipment too only "belongs" to the person who is holding it and must be "given over" if another party member needs it. So, it's like this.  We'll give Manjimaru Kabuki's sword, for an extra +4 in attack power. Kabuki can take Manjimaru's current weapon (which has overall +21, so Kabuki loses 4 attack. Now let's head down the stairs.  But, as we get down...  Kabuki goes away for a few seconds and then returns, without saying anything in particular. Wonder what this is all about.  Anyway, on the north side of this passage is a chest and a staircase. First the chest.  So we randomly get a magical scroll from this chest! Anyway, the "Fragrance of Treasure" (宝香) spell is a funky one. It allows you to know the number of chests in a dungeon or a cave. I guess then if you count them as you find them, you can know if you found them all or not. It only uses 1 MP, so you might as well check it at some point as you're going through. Up the stairs we go!  And it's a secret house with no front door which is only accessed through the secret passage (as we've been told in Suzuka). Look a few screenshots up, and you will see what it looks like from the outside! Manjimaru obtained Ishikawa's key! Ah, well that sounds useful! The other person: Well, let's go back and take the other staircase.  It leads, of course, to another house without a front door! A random bit of tutorial, sure. But the other person here does actually sell equipment  The prices are getting a bit expensive though!  So, we'll buy "black clothes" for Manjimaru. Here you can see on the top right, next to the number 24, the game shows "卍カ", indicating that both Manjimaru and Kabuki can use this piece of equipment. So that's pretty straightforward.  After equipping it, it gives us another +6 in defence. We'll give Manjimaru's previous clothes over to Kabuki (which gives him +2) and sell his old stuff in turn. All right, we're almost done here. Let's head back outside...  ...where we can now see that on this central house, the big "Kikugorou" sign has now changed to "Kabuki" (カブキ). Uh, is that what he was doing when he disappeared for a short while?  We can go back inside to talk again to that woman who was complaining about the "Kikugorou" sign! So just a bit of fun dialogue for a bit here.  Well, then, it was suggested to us to make our way to Matsuzaka town, so let's do that. We'll head south across this bridge first.  And then we follow this road to the east. But things are starting to get weird already. We can start to see some of the forst "overgrowth" that we've been told about. Also, what is that weird platform doing there. Hmm.  Just a few more steps and we can see the town, too. Well, let's go in.  Welcome to Matsuzaka (松坂) town! And there is already a person welcoming us.  And this lady here.   Over on this side of the town, things look pretty bad with the overgrowth...  That sounds rather inviting if you ask me.  There is a bunch of people here around the castle itself... And the kid... What is even going on here.  Two more people over here.  Let's also check out one of the houses. A stone airship, you say? Huh, that could be useful, if it actually can fly. Uh, but I would still like to have an airship...  In the hotel, we can always find other people who are staying in town... We'll definitely also disturb the guy there who is trying to sleep... It does look like this will have to be our next destination.  The next house.  And one more.  All right, let's go into the castle.  Looks pretty cool!  There are two chests here also, but one has a recovery item and the other... 2 ryo. Gee, thanks game. So we'll just head up the stairs.  That chest there only has a head scarf, like the one Manjimaru used at the beginning of the game, so nothing to get excited about.  Two more people here.  Going to the top floor, as usual allows us to talk to the lord of this castle. All right, we're done talking, but before we leave, let's just upgrade our equipment a bit more.  We'll buy these Hemp Sandals for Manjimaru, it gives him an increase in speed of +7 which is nothing to sneeze at. I'll rearrange the rest and sell the extra stuff to clear up space.  Anyway, let's continue with our journey. A suggestion was made to go south to Shima vilage, to see what we can do about the stone airship. Of course, we get interrupted.  I guess they live on hills now?   As we've been told, we'll follow this road south.  Ah, there's the orchid. Just at the side of the Grand Shrine. Let's go in.  We're not going to worry about the orchid just now (but you can just about see it to the right. We just want to proceed south. Also, notice those stones just under the entrance. Steping on them causes weird teleportation effects here, so you may have to go a bit back and forth until you make it to the other side. Be careful too, because even though we're in a "town", there are still random encounters here. For example:  But for now, nothing we can't deal with.  There is actually a person inside the shrine!   There we go. Let's keep going south. The biome is also starting to look more coastal like.  Here is Shima village! But also there's another one of those stone pedestal things. I think you may be getting an idea already.  This is a pretty small place, so let's explore it quickly first. Starting with the two people you see on the screen. We should also visit some of the houses too.  Hmm, ok, w'll take a look.   Outside more people on this side.  And a few more down on the beach.  Let's go into the fancy house on the beach!  Hm, well, it's pretty clear we need to find this airship.  Over here are some rafts/pontoons on the beach. But in order to access them, we have to go through that locked door there. Luckily, we have the universal key, so we can get into that little house. If you don't have it, you can't proceed here until you get it in one of the "secret" houses in the ninja village. The game does not use the key automatically if you do have it--you must select the use command with the right item yourself.  Inside the house, there is nothing of note.  It just lets us get over to this side. It may be hard to see, but those are fishing nets hanging off the rafts. Manjimaru can examine them, but usually this will happen. Manjimaru pulled up the net... however, he found nothing. But on one of them...  I guess I'm just surprised how nobody discovered it so far? I mean they are still fishing for pearls, right? I don't know.  After finding the flute, we can go again and talk to this older gentleman here. Yeah, sounds reasonable. We'll try that out in a second, but first...  ...some more shopping over here.  We're going to splurge a bit on this Tidal Harpoon weapon for Manjimaru (as you can see on the right, Kabuki is not able to use this weapon anyway). We'll equip that on Manjimaru (it gives further +6 in attack power), which allows us to return Kabuki's old sword back to him and sell the not needed ones. This does of course involve fiddling back and forth with the two characters' inventories, as always. I'm also going to mostly stop mentioning the inventory management from now on. To be honest, it's the one thing which I would change in this game, but other than being annoying from time to time, it doesn't really significantly detract from the game overall. All right, now...  ...let's stand right here and use the flute. And then...   Awesome...  ...we got ourselves an airship, even if it is just one big rock. However, it's not quite so simple, as we can't actually control it directly. It simply goes from one of these "landing pads" to another in pre-determined order. So, riding the airship now, takes us first...  ...takes us here, quite far northwest.  The airship then goes away, leaving us here. We can of course summon it again, but it won't simply go back where we came from, rather it will take the next "leg" of it's pre-determined route. But for now, let's see what's here.  Ah, nice, there's a town here. But you probably want to be a little careful while walking towards it.  Namely, there are some quite strong enemies here which we with our current setup may not be able to handle very well. For example this guy. Mostly he will destroy you--our party can barely do any damage to the enemy, that is if we can even hit it. Spells work here better, but they have a bad hit rate against this guy.  So basically, save before setting off and then just hope you can walk into town without getting attacked. We have been warned about this by one of the NPCs earlier today, though. They are a few levels above us, but most importantly have high defence, which means we don't do a lot of damage. Anyway, this town here is Nara (奈良), so let's take a look and see what's up.  It has a nice stone path dividing it into two halves. So let's do our usual tour and information gathering.  We'll start on the left side with these four people here. We'll be sure to check that out! Yeah, I guess we still have some figuring out to do about how to get there.  Next, let's check out these two houses.  I should mention that we're talking here very specifically about karakuri mechanical dolls (からくり), which were an actual thing in Japan mostly from the 1600s until the 1800s, althogh there are references to them existing as early as the 650s. Also, pay no mind to this, I'm sure it will never come up again. Let's see what the kid has to say. Like I said, pay no attention to this at all.   Let's see what's in here!  Hmm, nobody here. Just some stuff including a big mirror. Well, nothing to do but to continue exploring I guess.  We'll head into this house here.  There's a guy here not feeling so great.  Let's check the other side of the town. Cursed equipment, you say? Sure, let's be on a lookout for those too.  Let's also talk to this older gentleman here. Interesting.  There are a few more houses on this side, so let's visit them. As for the bells, we're talking specifically about doutaku (銅鐸):  Not sure why, but I'm having a feeling we'll need to find them and bring them back at some point. Just a feeling.   Then we have these tree here in a row, although you can barely see the ones on left and right side!  Yeah, I have some news on that topic.   That's about it for here for the moment. Let's make our way back to the airship "landing pad" and see where it takes us next.   Obviously, it doesn't go quite so easily!  I don't even know what to say about this name, but it's quite unambiguous in Japanese. Their attack is described literally as "rushing at you with their horns", so... In any case they definitely fall under "tough" category, and we can't do much to them at our level.  There are also these guys.  Tough also, but when only one, kind of doable with fire magic. As you can see, the enemies have abandoned the "skeleton" theme and are now more "nature" themed.  Really game? But actually this is not as bad as it looks as Twinheads will anyway die all in first turn from a multi target spell, so.  Anyway, our next trip on the stone airship takes us back east...  ...to this place, which we've already seen. But we don't need to stop here, so we'll call the airship again.  Now we are going southwest, past the place where the Jungle castle is, unreachable as yet.  All right, let's see what is here.  Well, first of all some enemies!  This is almost like Dark Souls boss name!  Well, first of all, there is a place here.  It's called Owase village. Let's again have a chat with the people. The ninja guy standing on the left, has a bit more to say. Hmm. Are you hinting?  We have two more people down here. The other guy just reminds you about using the flute.  Hello there. That does not sound safe at all. Let's check out a few houses here also, since the people here seem to have interesting stuff to say, apparently.  Tree people!  Were they also good at building mechanical dolls?   Or sages? Perhaps. We'll see.   Going into the temple, unfortunately, he just repeats the hint about using the map, so...  Our information gathering finished, we can now leave this place. First we have a quick detour to do here to the west.  But of course.  These guys are not so bad, though. Only take two hits.  However, tucked in between the mountains over here is another Tengu's cabin!  Manjimaru obtained the "Moonlight Sleep" scroll. The Moonlight Sleep (月寝) scroll has a chance to put one smaller animal type enemy to sleep. Pretty unsurprising, considering the name! It does use a whole 8 MP, so I guess that counts as a "lot".  Let's head a bit north.  We pass by another one of the landing pads and there is also another place here, although it looks a bit worse for wear with that forest.  Turns out this is the Akame village that everybody was talking about not knowing what happened to it. The place is basically gone except that one house. And those two slightly weird looking trees. Let's approach one of them...  Aaaaa! It's a tree person! Well, that's bad. Let's have a look at the other tree.  That's definitely bad. Let's see if we can find some way to save them both! Not now, however! Next time we'll continue our exploration of this part of the world, and let's see what we can do to solve its (multiple) problems.
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Oh, uh, that got a bit darker at the end than I was expecting. 
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Well, our companion may be somewhat of a jackass, but I'll take him over a certain...old man...from one of LJN's lp's. Seriously, screw that creep. The old man, not LJN; LJN (as far as I know) is a swell guy.
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Gilgamesh255 posted:Well, our companion may be somewhat of a jackass, but I'll take him over a certain...old man...from one of LJN's lp's. Seriously, screw that creep. Well poo poo, never thought I'd see the day I would get personally referenced in a completely unrelated LP I'm reading. For context, Gilgamesh is talking about...ugh, Plosi from Ephemeral Fantasia, whose most notable moment was committing a "funny" act of sexual assault on a female party member you brought him. Definitely worse than Kabuki.
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So glad to see this game is perfectly normal as well. E: Also, I'd managed to forget about Plosi, mostly cause I pretty much never tolerated his presence. But I loved that awful game...
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Raitzeno posted:So glad to see this game is perfectly normal as well. I can definitely assure you that as we progress through the game it will only become more and more normal!
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Hi everyone! Just wanted to mention that this coming update will be a few days delayed--I managed to catch a virus of some kind (not COVID) and was out of action last week. Luckily, everything is good again now, so I should be able to proceed as normal. Sorry about that!
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Glad you're feeling better, take all the time you need.
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Hope you recover soon, as I'm loving this let's play. Eager to see more!
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EchoBaz posted:Hope you recover soon, as I'm loving this let's play. Eager to see more! Thanks, yeah I'm fine now, it was just a pretty nasty flu (definitely not COVID according to the doctor!). We're back on track and the next update is coming tomorrow! Sorry about the delay!
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 Hello! Last time we started the second part of our adventure, in order to obtain the second holy sword and defeat the second dark orchid etc. Anyway, we found out that in the Ise province there are some problems. Like, the head of the ninja village is missing; or, there seems to be a forest overrunning everything, even turning some people into trees!  So this is kind of where we stopped last time after talking to the two tree-people. However, we should also check out that little house, since there is one still accessible that hasn't been consumed by the forest!  Ah, a chest. Manjimaru found a Wild Dog Helmet! However silly it sounds...  ...it still gives us +6 in defence. And we know that in this area where we are now we can use all defence we can get! In any case, there's nothing else to do here for now, so we can leave.  Let's just summon the airship again and see where it will take us this time!  Well, that's convenient. This must be the Negoro burial mound, where the ninja chieftain is being held. It is surrounded by a moat, but that poses no problem for our airship made of stone!  Let's head inside!  I guess we'll be heading downstairs. But before that...  ...we get interrupted! Things are definitely getting somewhat bizarre with enemies in this are, that's for sure.  Although these enemies are not too hard, the goldfishman has an ability "Winter Wither" (冬枯) which takes down your defence by a few points! Still, this is not too bad, compared to some of the guys we encountered last time! Anyway, downstairs it is.  Downstairs, we have ourselves a bit of a maze. (And a chest too. It's empty) But, more importantly, doesn't that look like a katakana letter イ (I) there on the floor? I mean, it's a bit hard to see due to the choice of colours, and also it's upside down, yes, but still!  Yep, the floors definitely have katakana letters on them, this one is ハ (HA). Well, let's pay attention to that as we proceed around this floor.  This chest contains 180 ryo, and also the letter 二 (NI) on the floor.  Not going to show every single one of them (we'll see it all zoomed out later), but here are also ラ (RA) and エ (E). Definitely still no idea what this could mean.  More chests. One of them has another broken halberd, and the other has an item called "the storm talisman". We've seen before an item called "the wind talisman", which allowed us fast travel within the current province. So "the storm talisman" is the same, but you can travel anywhere in the world. Like the first one, this one too has a corresponding spell that we can learn, but we haven't found it yet.  As you might have gathered by now, this game doesn't mind trolling you with chests which are either empty or kind of useless. Such is this one, too, as it only contains 12 ryo. Also, katakana ト (TO).  Eventually at the very top of the dungeon, we come to this situation. There is a passage which is blocked by some kind of electrical barrier. But there is a keypad to the right of it, so let's see what happens if we try to use it.  Ah, well, I was wondering when we'll come to this. But what is the password? I mean, we can assume that it probably has to do something with the katakana letters on the floor (since this screen also allows us to enter a bunch of katakana letters as password. Surprisingly, this is a bit harder than you might expect. First of all, let's have a look at the map of the whole floor:  The letters are all upside down, but don't worry about that for now. In the top left corner, we can definitely see a cluster of letters which can spell the name Kikugorou (キクゴロウ), him being the narcissist that he is, of course the password must have something to do directly with him. But typing just his name like this as password, doesn't work. What else, then? The only other hint we have is that he told us how we would be saying words of praise for him before we meet again. So then, we might look if it's possible to spell some kind of phrase like that which includes also his name? It turns out that this is possible to do, but there's also an extra bit which might help during the solving. The correct solution also represents the shortest path between the bottom right and top left corners. No, there are absolutely no hints on this topic in the game, you're supposed to work it out yourself. Anyway, if we make the shortest path, it looks like this:  Now all we need to do is read the letters in order: キクゴロウエライ, or as written properly with kanji: 菊五郎偉い, or finally in English: "Kikugorou the great". So in order to pass through the doors, we are forced to type the words of praise for Kikugorou, as he already promised us. How annoying. Either way, as you can see, this was not super easy, but in the end, typing the katakana version in the the prompt, the barrier is removed and we can proceed.   Now the layout gets more complicated, because we're no longer limited to one floor, so we may have to go up and down  We can head down for a second...  ...but the only thing there is a barrier which, this time, does not have a keypad to enter the password on. So we have to go back up. There, after a short walk...  ...we find another passworded barrier!  We are definitely being trolled here. However, there's no choice but to type in the password again. And yes, you do actually have to type it in manually again.  Continuing on, this gives us access to the staircase here which leads further down.  Let's see what's on this floor.  This chest here has a return stone. The game is always nice to give us one so we can quickly exit the dungeon. Although in this case you may want to hold off a bit at the end before using it. We'll come to that part in a bit.  Over here, we can find a rejuvenating tablet in the chest. As you might recall, it recovers our MP and will be useful to have in this dungeon as we'll soon see.  Then we head back up!  Shortly after, we find the next barrier!  Seriously.  It leads us to a hallway...  ...which simply leads to the next one.  Yep, gotta say it again. Anyway, as we walk through...  ...we actually encounter a new enemy!  This dungeon seems to be mostly populated by two kinds of goldfish otherwise. In the Japanese text the "teacher" is explicitly female, but well, this is difficult to convey into English since it doesn't really have a word that means "female teacher". Her attack is to "crack the whip" at you, but otherwise mostly unremarkable. Here Kabuki levels up and learns a new "secret technique" of "flying kick" (tobi-geri, 飛び蹴り). It deals double normal damage, but at the cost of reduced hit rate. Let's continue.  We simply continue to the next barrier. But take note of those chests there. They are beind a barrier which doesn't have a keypad. This one here, however, does! Let the trolling continue!  And then...  ...another barrier. But this one at least lets us proceed deeper.  These password prompts are getting more and more sinister. Nevertheless, the password doesn't change.  Downstairs, we finally find an imprisoned person, the ninja village chieftain! We can of course talk to him.  Don't worry, we're not far now, this dungeon is almost over. By the way, in case I haven't made it clear... there are absolutely NO save points in dungeons or anywhere else in the overworld. The ONLY place to save is at an inn inside a town! So when you are playing this without the benefit of save states on an emulator, it can get quite dicey sometimes.  Anyway, we need to walk just a bit more, until...  Huh. Cool.  But over to the left, are Kikugorou and... a flower person? I guess? Let's see.   Incidentally, "hanafubuki" (花吹雪) means "falling cherry blossoms". However, we have no time for that, as we transition directly into our next mini-boss fight.  Indeed, it's literally an evil flower person! Like some other enemies around these parts, defence is pretty high, so physical attacks won't work so well. It's better to use magic/skills. Kabuki's ice blade deals pretty good damage, but it's hit rate is abysmal, so probably not worth it. But, both his flower storm and Manjimaru's demonic fire deal about 20-25 damage each time, so considering that the HP is only 250, we should be relatively ok. Damage dealt to us is also about 20-25 HP or so, so you might want to keep an eye on your HP and heal as needed. The only issue you might encounter here is running out of MP, so make sure to bring a couple of recovery items for that. At low HP, he may use a healing ability, but curiously, it didn't happen to me.  Anyway, after defeating him, they both go away, but also...  ...all the barriers are now unlocked, including those without keypads. Also, the ninja chief comes to talk to us once more.  And he goes away. So we are done with this dungeon, and we could use the return stone... but now with barriers being open there are a few more items to be found. Like for example in that chest you can barely see in the alcove. It only contains a healing consumable item though.  Or this location here, which we walked past earlier. One of the chests is empty, but the second one contains the "Ninja Sword of Iga", a weapon.  We can give it to Kabuki for a +2 in attack power. Not much, but hey. In an ultimate troll from the game, the third chest is also empty. So with this, now we can really use the return stone and leave this place.  And from here, we can simply use the Angel's Raiment spell to teleport back to Iga.  Over in Iga, we can see that Kikugorou has again changed the sign back to his name, but this time it's more colourful than previously!  As always, we can talk to the lady inside!  Since we need to go to chiefs house, we'll just activate the staircase like before. But, downstairs...  And like before, he returns quickly. We'll obvously see later what he did with the sign again! In the meantime let's proceed to the chief's house.  Let's see what he has to say.  We've already heard about this last time. Apparently there is a somewhat unsafe gondola which allows you to cross the valley. Manjimaru obtained the Ring of Sorrow! Kabuki obtained the Seal of Transformation! Huh, you're not going to tell us what this one is for, are you? Well, all I know is that it takes up an inventory slot. Well. That village of Ihika certainly sounds like an interesting place to visit, so we'll be heading there shortly. But first, let's visit the other house without a door.  Over here, we have a shop.  We'll buy an Iron Hachigane for 360 ryo. What is a "hachigane"? It's a kind of a helmet, like this one:   We'll equip this on Kabuki for a +3 in defence compared to the straw hat. Coming back outside...  ...we can see that Kabuki has put up another even flashier sign with his name again. This one is flashing and changing colours!  Obviously, the lady inside the house has a comment to this. And that, thankfully, is the end of that little side-joke and we can focus back on our task! But before that, a few people in this village have a bit to say after us having saved the chief.  Like this person here. Or that other ninja there in the corner. We've already picked up the spell from the Ise Tengu last time, and as for the others, in due course. Also, it's been mentioned now a few times, but despite its slightly unusual name, Kii (紀伊) was a historical province in Japan, located around where modern-day Wakayama is.  And then this one here, tending the garden. Um, yeah, kinda.  And then, finally, this person here. As mentioned, Wakayama in real life is located where Kii province used to be, so this fits. All right, it's time to head south. For this, we'll use the border crossing at Owase village.  Simply walk through...  ...and here we are in Kii.  Checking the map, we can see that indeed it mostly consists of mountains apart from a small coastal strip of land on the south. Our first destination, however, is the Valley of Sorrow, which is that big area slightly to the south of the province centre.  Luckily, there is a road we can easily follow to there.  Walking around leads, of course, to random encounters! As you can see, the enemy theme is still "nature".  Or even more!  The enemy designs are kind of getting a bit out there... Also, why does everything hit so hard here?   After a short while longer, we find what looks like a gondola going across a big hole. That's not a lake, just an unfortunate choice of colour. Let's read that road sign, though. Valley of Sorrow A series of falling accidents--danger of death! Do not cross the valley! Unfortunately, we're going to have to do exactly that. But as we make a step towards the gondola...  Leafy! A bit tougher than those petals earlier, but still unlikely to kill you.  And then a couple more steps after that...   Somehow RNG is really not on our side for these few steps. It's not normally this bad, but right now...  Despite the name, this new enemy is pretty strong and might give trouble at our current level. Kabuki's ice blade does wonders though... if it can hit!  Aynway, as I was saying...  ...let's get on the gondola!  And it ends up exactly like you think it will. I mean, we've been warned.  But no matter. Because this is pretty much where we wanted to go--the Valley of Sorrow! We can already see a few interesting things here. There is a (not Jizo) statue and also some kind of mechanical contraption to the left of it.  Examining the statue... It's a grotesque stone statue. It's holding one of its fingers out. It's holding a finger out? Well, compared to the Kikugorou riddle, this one is super easy. We already have the Ring of Sorrow. So let's just put it on the statue's finger. I mean, what can possibly happen? Well, thre is a flash of light, and then...  ...a structure materialises that we can enter into it seems. So, uh, let's?  Ahh. Looks like this is what we were looking for! Welcome to Ihika village, everyone! Well all right, let's talk to these two people here and see what's up--they are pretty clearly not human, exactly as we were told. (For a certain definition of human, of course.) Well, that's dark. But for now, we'll take that elevator there and descend into the maim part of the "village".  Let's continue to explore. Well, thank you, Mr. Exposition. But it at least clears up a few things (while raising still more questions in turn).  Going forward, we encounter two chests and another person (who looks important). There is also what looks like a computer console just barely visible up top. Well, let's start with the chests.  We're talking about a very specific kind of celestial being, "tenjin" (天人), one of whose abilities to be able to fly though the sky by using a special necklace. As you can imagine, this scroll allows us to teleport anywhere we've been before in the entire world (not just in the current province) and is the equivalent of the item we found earlier today. So that's pretty cool. And then the other chest...  I'm sorry, what? No, I have no idea what that's for. But let's talk to this guy.  Things are really getting complicated. We already have a few things going on.  All right, let's make a tour, as usual.  As you can see, there is also a side room to the right, so let's check that out.  Some backstory for the sages, finally.  Back in the main room, on the left side...  There is of course another room on the left. Surprisingly here we get a direct tutorial. Good to know. But for now, we'll take the lift here further down.  This is a pretty cool thing which exists in this game. But obviously we'll discuss more about it when we do find a red treasure chest. The other two guys here are not interesting. One of them repeats the prophecy story and the other is the save/rest point to recover your HP. So let's go back up...  ...and see what is up with this computer console slash altar here.  A "hologram" is projected. It speaks to us.  I have no idea what half of this means. I'm sure we'll figure it out somehow, though. In the meantime, though...  ...there is one other room on the north side. Well of course. Why not? Well, ok, let's try one of those pads.   Oh, so we just... got teleported somewhere? Let's look at the map.  Hmm, looks like we're all the way on the western coast now. For reference the Ihika valley is that big clear spot in the middle. Well, I mean, since we're here, let's check out this place and see what's up.  So, uh, welcome to Wakayama (和歌山). I've already mentioned that Wakayama was historically in the Kii province, so I guess this fits. I suppose we might as well have a chat with a few people here and see what's going on in this part of the world! Mt. Kouya, indeed, is in present day Wakayama prefecture and is an extremely popular tourist destination.  Interesting, they have here also those Jizo statues... But for now let's just talk to this person. Huh, so we have to find ourselves a boat again. Too bad we had to leave our badly drawn one behind. But we'll figure something out. But at least we know that the castle is definitively not accessible at the moment.   I guess it all feeds into Yomi's life-force or something like that.  As always, we can visit a few houses, too. First we'll talk to the guy standing in the corner. The guy sleeping on the floor is the lord then, I guess? Well that's ok, we're also searching for the bells.    Ok, looks like not much we can do here right now, so let's move on. Let's try to make our way to the southern coast.  Of course, we get accosted on the way! Thse guys like to use ice based spells.  Also, enemy names are just getting better and better! After this battle, kabuki learns a new skill, "double suicide" (心中), which does not actually kill him fortunately. What it does do is inflict large damage to one enemy but at a cost of being damaged himself. So I guess it could work as a finisher, or if you know you'll be able to heal.  Along the way, we can see a few of these water caverns (there were a couple also in the Valley of Sorrow), so we're definitely going to need a boat to access those. We can also check out that road sign there. There is a quiet village upstream where you can rest from the travelling. Please drop by. Well, we're good for now, so we can proceed. Also that sounds vaguely suspicious.  Well, let's check out this place then.  It's called Shinguu village (新宮). Incidentally shinguu is an actual word in Japanese which means "newly built shrine". Let's quickly talk to that guy down there behind the fence. I guess he must be talking about the status like the one in the Valley of Sorrow. So it seems we should be on the lookout for more of them!  Looking in a bit further, it seems like there is some sort of flooding here?  Let's talk to more people to find out.  Hello!  In real life there are actually three different Kumano shrines, located around the Wakayama prefecture. Here is a picture of one of them, Kumano-Hayatama shrine, located on the coast of Kii peninsula in the town of Shinguu in Wakayama prefecture on the Japanese island of Honshuu.  By 663highland - Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11193644  Across that bridge there, there is this person. Yeah, I'd say, the entrance to it seems flooded, as we could see on an earlier screenshot! The building you see on this screenshot is not accessible from this side due to those trees, so we'll have to see about that later. In the meantime, let's check a couple of houses here too.  Like this kid here.  Please tell me we will be able to obtain this ship!  Before we leave, let's just stop by the shop.  We'll buy these "barley ear shoes" for 1000 ryo (man that's expensive).  First we'll replace Manjimaru's old shoes with these for a +4 in speed and then...  ...we give those to Kabuki for a nice +12 in speed. Of course this all requires way too many button presses back and forth through the menus. But either way, after this, we of course sell the old stuff to make room.  And now we'll be on our way, since there is not really anything else we can do here right now.  As it turns out, just a short walk down the coast we find the Kushimoto village that we've been told about. I suppose those things in the sea must be the coral reefs. Let's go inside.  But, as soon as we enter the village...  ...things start to happen! Check out the cutscene video for what happens next!  The term "tayuu" 太夫 that was heard in the cutscene is a bit difficult to explain in English. It means a few different things, like the kabuki actor which plays the female role, or a head of an acting troupe or even a high-ranking courtesan. So take your pick.  And then, just as quickly as they showed up, they're gone. Well, we'll meet up with them again later on, I'm sure. In the meantime, let's take a bit of a break here for now. I hope everyone is enjoying Manjimaru's "road trip" so far--I'm pretty sure you can see that the sheer scale of this game's world is quite a bit larger than what you would normally expect from an early 1990s JRPG. But that's what you get when you have a whole CD's worth of space for your game data, as opposed to a relatively limited cartridges on the Nintendo side. Still, the PC Engine/Turbografx platform never seems to have obtained much of a foothold in the west and so most of the JRPGs that were released on it, including this one, never left Japan (notable exception to this are the first three Ys games and a couple of others). Not that this game would have been an easy localisation task to begin with (as seen just a couple of paragraphs above), but still. Anyway, take care and see you next time!
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Yeah, no kidding about the scale of the world, this is huge! How big a part of the total world have we seen so far?
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I think we all understood how great Kikugorou the great is after that update.
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PurpleXVI posted:Yeah, no kidding about the scale of the world, this is huge! Well, basically the game world is this map which we've already seen:  Here I have circled the part of the world we have visited so far. So as you can see, there is still plenty more to go, the game is indeed absolutely huge. I guess probably mostly people here have already figured out that this game is of a more episodic nature--the overarching plot is less of a focus, but the focus is more on individual little bits that happen to Manjimaru and the party as they travel around Jipang and various events that happen and people that they meet along the way.
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I just noticed that this map is using the four cardinal beasts for navigation as opposed to N/S/E/W, that's a pretty neat detail!
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ivantod posted:
A minor question but it's stuck in my head: Blue haired? is that a typo, a translation issue, or... are you color blind? Because our here Manjimaru's hair is super duper purple in both these pictures.
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bewilderment posted:A minor question but it's stuck in my head: Door number 3! I'm mildly red/green colour blind. I have problems with certain shades, and certainly purple comes into play there because of its red component. Funnily enough, it seems I make a blue/purple mistake in pretty much every LP thread that I have done so far! At this point I should probably just use an image editing program to check first lol. Luckily my red/green issue is overall pretty mild and doesn't really cause me problems in real life (e.g. driving) so it's all good.
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i see manjimaru's family has an Inside Cow. that seems like a lot of work and/or a lot of stink.
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Doc Hawkins posted:i see manjimaru's family has an Inside Cow. that seems like a lot of work and/or a lot of stink. When Bart says "don't have a cow, man" it's genuine, heartfelt advice. :p
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 Last time, on their tour of Jipang, Manjimaru and Kabuki rescued the ninja chief and also met up with his three granddaughters. Also it seems we need to obtain the four bronze bells in order to proceed towards the Jungle Castle. However, it does also appear that we may need a boat to access some parts of this region and there have been mentions of a pirate warship of some sort. In today's episode, we also stumble across an infinite money exploit in this game!  After talking to the three lady ninjas, we're still in Kushimoto village. So let's see what's going on around here. We'll do our usual tour talking to everyone. It's a small place so there's only a few people here.  Well, that's not great. But don't worry, we'll deal with it soon!  Ah yeah, we saw those on the overworld just before we arrived. In fact, Hashigui-iwa (橋杭岩), or in English, "bridge pillar rocks", is a rock formation that exists in real life. It is of course found off the coast of Kushimoto town, in Wakayama prefecture. Here is an actual photograph of it:  Let's move on. We have a couple of houses to visit here too.   First let's talk to the kid! The dad is a bit worse for wear: "Fox udon" (キツネうどん) is actually udon with deep fried tofu. It contains no foxes. Finally the last person... We'll check that situation in a moment. But for now...  And this one guest in the inn... Well, ok, let's investigate this. First of all...  ...here is the shrine, at the northern end of the village.  There is a path we can follow through the forest here. (We're not actually exiting to the overworld, this is just part of the village).  Ah, well, that's interesting. Let's go in.  This is really our only lead at the moment, so let's see where it leads.  There are some chests down here. They are mostly empty. But one has a wild dog helmet. This game really likes to troll with empty chests.  This we give to Kabuki for +3 in defence compared to his current equipment. Also...  ...there are random encounters down here and we even find a new enemy!  I don't neccesarily want to speculate what's going on here on a genetic level. This enemy formation is actually a bit dangerous as they take multiple turns to kill at our level and can inflict some serious damage in the meantime. Multi enemy spells are probably the best bet, as anything else will be too slow and you will get killed before you're done with them.  Let's head back up.  And outside.  Huh, what now. Well, there is one of those disfigured statues there. So, uh, maybe if we try using that mirror on it? Manjimaru uses the Mirror of the Four Waters! And then...  ...things happen! We create an actual bridge across those rock formations!  There is a small water basin/well here. If we check it out...   Nice. That was not too hard. Three more to go. Before you ask, yes of course, even though it's a special "quest" item, it sure as heck takes up an inventory spot. With all the special items we're carrying around at the moment, we hardly have any space left for regular items! Also, yes, I will stop complaining about this issue at some point. Just not today. In any case we're done here and can now go back through that underground cave. On the way back...  ...the game decides to not give us any break! These guys take 3 turns to kill, so even with using multi-target spells, it definitely gets dicey. At least it gets us around 40 EXP which is not bad at all at this point in the game. But we do make it back to the village, where is sell some old equipment as usual. After a quick rest at the inn...  ...we're ready to continue our search for the second bell! For this we'll head towards the east.  Across the bridge here...  ...and then we visit this place at the north end of this big inlet.  Welcome to Kumano village! It's kind of divided on both sides of the inlet with a bridge in between (you can't see the bridge yet, we'll see it in a moment). First we'll stop in the shop.  We'll pick up this "stage costume" outfit for Kabuki (only he can use it).  As you can see, this is a pretty good defence upgrade at +8 compared to his previous outfit, and very much worth getting at this point! And now of course, let's find out the local news.  After resting at the inn, we'll talk to this kid here. Haha, cool, but still we should probably check out that hot springs. Luckily, there are currently no women in our party, so we're not in danger of encountering a questionable fan-service scene there! But before we go, let's see what's up here in Kumano. So again, let's talk to the residents.  Well, we have some experience with houses that don't have front doors, so we may be able to help here. Also here you can see the bridge which connects two sides of the village.  In that house next door... It's about time to visit another Tengu. This one is a bit hard to access though, so we'll have to do a couple of other things first.  Then this gentleman here is hiding in the trees! Crow as a deity of a shrine? Absolutely. And not just any crow, actually it's a three-legged crow! Check this out:  Notice the banners showing a three-legged crow (which is a thing in East Asian mythology/folklore) displayed everywhere. In fact this photograph is of one of the shrines in Wakayama prefecture!  Here is the shrine. It does seem to have something which looks like a door, but either way it shut tight and it seems the only access is from water. Let's keep investigating.  Knowing this game, legends generally turn out to be true, so looks like we'll be captaining a pirate ship soon!  In the house next door...  Here are the Jizo statues, and yeah, some of them lack heads. However, there seems to be also one of those big statues that we can use our mirror on. Let's have a look at that for a moment.  Over here, next to the big statue, there is also another building... but it doesn't have stairs leading to the entrance! Obviously, we can't climb that enormous height. However...  ...simply using the mirror in front of the statue causes a staircase to appear. Well, that was easy. Let's head on inside.  Well, look at that. It's a completely empty room containing only five levers. Hmm, five Jizo statues and also five up/down levers. Do you think that the statues might be describing the formation that the levers should be put into? Don't answer that because it's obvious. Indeed, if we put the levers to match the up/down pattern of the Jizo statues...  ...a staircase appears on the left side of the room. But wait a second! What if... and just go with me here... what if, what if we put the levers in the OPPOSITE positions from the statue pattern?  Hey! Then we get a staircase on the right side! Well, let's check it out.  So it's just a small optional room with two chests in it.  It also contains this guy in it--we return temporarily to the "skeleton" theme for the enemies. In fact, there are several of them in this building and they are all "set" encounters which are triggered when you step over particular tiles. They're also all one-time encounters and do not reappear once defeated. Which is a good thing too, because they're pretty nasty. The good news is... there is an inn right outside, so you can just run out and rest after defeating each one!  "Outfitted" in the sense of not just being a bare skeleton but one wearing armour/equipment. I'm also starting to wish we had more than two party members. Alas, not yet. So is it worth it coming down here for the two chests? Not really. One of them has a restorative item, and the other a piece of equipment which is not as good as what we already have. Meh. Let's change the levers and head to the left side of the house.  Down here there is not much, so we just need to follow the only possible path, while being mindful of those bone soldiers popping up every so often. Notice how from here you can actually see the hidden room on the right, so that gives you a prompt to look into how to access it.  Let's see...   Hey, look at that! It's a pirate ship! Cool! Let's board!  But uh, how do we get out of here? Well. Recall that it was mentioned about this ship actually being armed. If we open our in-game menu...  ...we can see that apart from usual commands here like to use item or spell or equip party members, now that we're on this ship, there is an extra option: "bombardment" (砲撃). Sure, let's see what happens.  That's one way of doing it, for sure!  But, now that we have a ship, let's see where we can go! Before we proceed with our actual tasks, let's first check out a couple of slightly out of the way locations. As usual...  ...there are enemy encounters while on water, too. However, the "bombardment" command is available here too and you can use it if you want--the ship doesn't get a turn of its own though; you have to sacrifice one of your party members' turns to use it.  These guys are not super tough, but they do have the ability to inflict the "forgetful" status effect. It's the same as "silence" in Final Fantasy, preventing the usage of spells. Status effects in this game, at least, always wear off after a while. In battle that means after a few turns, and if any of them persist after the battle, they will also wear off after a short while. Incidentally, party members getting knocked out in the battle are also considered to be afflicted by a status effect. This one is called "almost dead", and will also wear off after a short while after the battle ends and the character will be revived with 1 HP. This doesn't apply to Manjimaru; if he is knocked out, you get transported back to the nearest inn. So you can never get a game over by losing a battle. Anyway, I said we'll go explore on our boat for a bit, but before that...  If we float down the inlet, we arrive again to Shinguu village. If you recall, there were a couple of inaccessible places there. For example this shrine on an island!   The treasure hall is this other house here, which is completely surrounded by trees and not accessible from land. But now we can finally get to it! Let's see what's inside.  Three chests. The one on the left is empty, the one on the right has 780 ryo. The one in the middle is somewhat interesting.  So, despite the name, this is not actually a piece of equipment. This item has the following function: it will stop the enemy attacks for 3 turns, but you will also not be able to act during those turns (meaning in both cases the whole party). So this somehow seems useless at first glance, but there is a way to use it. However, a more interesting thing about this item that it forms a part of an easy (but tedious) infinite money exploit. First of all, this item is somehwat valuable--you can buy it for 2400 ryo. All items when you sell them back to the merchant are paid at 50% rate so you can sell this back for 1200 ryo. Across the river there is a shop where you can do that and earn the 1200. However, and I'm honestly not sure if this is a bug or if it is intended like that (but I really doubt it), but once you sell the item in the shop, it reappears in the chest in the treasure hall. So you can just get on the ship and go across the river and get it again, and then return to the shop and sell it, etc. Repeat this until you get bored and you can have as much money as you want. The need to constantly cross the river in the ship is what makes this super tedious, though. There are a few other items like this in the game, so perhaps this was just some technical issue they were not able to work around. However, I will utilise this to bring our finances up to about 9000 ryo, because we REALLY desperately need some substantially better weapons at this point. And I know where to get them, but it costs money! As for how would you use this item. Well, first of all, in theory, depending on the order of turns, you still might be able to get in an attack or two before the enemies "wake up" later in the same turn. But as it turns out, even the implementation of this item's function is also inconsistent/buggy, so the party always wakes up on Manjimaru's turn, regardless of who actually used the item three turns previously. In this way, having the slowest character use the item will ultimately yield the most amount of "free attacks" after the party wakes up but before the enemies can do so, and then if you just use the item again by the last party member, you can keep the enemies shut down permanently during the battle if you want! As everything with this item, this too is quite tedious to do, and not to mention the cost of having to buy many of these. But, well, it's there if you want to try it. Anyway, I'll be back in a few minutes when I have enough money as mentioned above!  All right, I'm done. If you're wondering where we are, we have teleported to just outside Wakayama, because there is a shop here which has what we need.  Yes, this thing here. Mysterious Sword "Winter Wind". What a name. We are actually getting two, one for each of our characters.  Check this out: +13 in damage compared to Manjimaru's current equipment!  And for Kabuki it's a whole +17! So I would say, it was worth spending a few minutes on this! Ok, now that this is done, we'll fast travel back to where we were...  ...which is about here, in Shingu village. As you can see, we have a bit of a problem as to how to exit the village.  The problem is solved in the exact same way as before, of course.  After exiting from the inlet, we make our way back up north along the other side of the land. By the way, we can only navigate around the ligther coloured part of the water. The dark part (on the right side) is not navigable for us.  A bit to the north is another tight passage.  But it leads to a tiny island with a Tengu's hut!  Let's see what we get here! Well, that was unexpected for sure. As for the scroll, it simply inflicts the "forgetful" status on enemies and makes it not possible for them to use spells. All right, now with that done...  ...let's head a bit to the west.  These guys will literally be the bane of your existence while at sea. They appear literally ALL THE TIME and while not strong, still take forever to take down with spells. At least they give 7 EXP each which is not bad as they mostly appear in groups of five.  Anyway, for now we'll stop at this place over here.  This is another small place, called Shirahama willage. Shirahama (白浜) means "white sandy beach"! The actual beach in real-life Shirahama is, of course, well known for its white sand. But I see already a few people here!  This gentleman is a bit interesting... Not sure why he wants that... but let's indulge him.  First we get back out on the sea in our boat, and then...  ...just like that. Getting back to this gentleman...  We shall certainly do so shortly, but we have a couple of things to do first. Incidentally "ryuujin" (龍神) means "dragon god". For now, though, let's continue our tour of the village.  Over here is the local shrine.  Yes, I know there is a staircase there in the top right corner. Don't worry, we'll check that out shortly. For now, though...  Hello! Yes, and we will be looking for some of them in just a bit, namely that guy's equipment.  Let's visit also a few houses here. Uh, I mean, yeah, but they are not ordinary bells... He's not doing so well, though.  In this house there is just a kid.  Well, maybe, if I could understand it... But now that we've done that, let's head over to the inn.  Hm, we already found an island with a Tengu hut, but it wasn't exactly in the sea... or do you mean there is another somewhere here? Anyway, that's about everybody we can talk to. So let's get back to that staircase in the shrine.  This one here.  It leads to an "unfinished basement", as you can see. What you can probably also see is that there is one of the bells chilling out on the other side of that wall. But... how do we get there? Hint: check back again the screenshot from the spa room. Anyway, if we check that basin of water... Hot water is bubbling up! Obviously, we use the mirror on the statue, as always (well, not quite as always, on the first statue we used a ring).  It causes water to cool down! Let's see how the spa patrons feel about it.  Welcome to tonight's slam poetry competition, folks! In the end, what this means for us is...  ...that we can now head through here!  It leads, of course, to the other side of that basement, which means...  ...that we can now pick up the second bell! There is nothing else down here, so we can now leave this place.  We want to head west anyway, to find that Ryuujin cave, but first...  ...if we head all the way southwest, we find another island with a Tengu hut on it! Amazing!  Uh, thanks, I guess? In any case, we have a mini-boss fight coming up quite soon, and I'm not exaggerating if I say, that without this scroll, it's going to be practically impossible to beat it with characters being on a natural level that they should be when you don't do excessive grinding. So what does it do, you might ask? The Mud Worm (泥虫) scroll simply lowers the agility of one enemy for a few turns. This is quite critical for the upcoming battle, but I will explain the details when we get there. First, we head to the pirate treasure cave, though.  Obviously, on the way, we get some new enemies! Nothing really too out of the ordinary here.   In order to get into the cave, we follow this waterway here. So you definitely need a boat to get in here.  Not only that, but in fact the whole cave is flooded and can only be navigated by boat!  In the cave, there are a few places like this, where you can dock your boat next to some stairs. They lead to...  ...rooms like this, containing treasure chests! In this one... Manjimaru found the pirate longsword! Nice, but it's literally one point of strength weaker than our current weapons! So it will get sold at the first opportunity. Let's hope other stuff we find here is better. Continuing to explore...  ...we encounter more new enemies! Attack of the killer... oranges, I guess? In any case, its worth fighting them as they appear in groups of 4 or 5 and give 11 EXP each, so you're looking at 40-50 EXP for a pretty easy battle!   Here is our second docking point.  This is like Dark Souls when you explore a dungeon and find all matching pieces of an equipment set one by one.  This one is definitely worth equipping, though. Kabuki has been lagging behind in defence compared to Manjimaru, so he gets this one for a nice +16 in defence! Let's go looking for more stuff!  Tucked in over here is our next stop.  Cool, let's see.  This one gives Manjimaru +1 in defence compared to his current helmet, but again, there is no downside, so... This was actually also the last thing to find--theoretically this dungeon is entirely optional, and its only purpose is to get some better equipment if you want. Exiting from the cave on the other end...  ...leads over here. There seems to be another village, so let's have a look.$  Welcome to Kiyohime! The name of the village comes from Kiyohime (清姫) who is a character from a Japanese 11th century tale, "Anchin and Kiyohime" (it's probably older of course, but the first written record about it appears around year 1040. The story is basically about how Kiyohime falls in love with a Buddhist monk named Anchin, but gets rejected. This causes her in a rage to transform into a serpent and kill him, after finding him hiding in a bronze bell in a temple. Unlike other towns/villages we were visiting recently, Kiyohime is not actually a place in modern-day Wakayama, but is named that in game for other reasons! Anyway, let's see what's going on here, starting with the two people visible on this screenshot (yeah, I know, one is cut off a bit!). I guess we'll have to meet her later!  Yes, I've literally left our boat parked there illegaly like that. Let's talk to the guy.  Let's not forget this lady here.  Of course, let's check out the houses too.  Hmm, I see. So I guess probably won't be friendly to us then. We'll check that out in a second.  Ah, here is the weird statue. But, it's not accessible from here, so I guess we may have to find the other entrance to that cavern behind it. Also, what is up with the geysers blocking access to the shrine?  Over here inn, we can talk to this kid. You can probably already tell where all this is going. Also the mother. Perhaps try this with jam instead. But at least it explains the existence of geysers. All right, let's see about accessing that statue. For that, first...  ...we take our boat to cross to the other side. So in the end, turns out that dungeon is not really optional, as you more less need the boat for this.  And then, the cave entrance is literally just here.  We have a brief cavern to go through.  Over here is tucked a chest with 640 ryo. Don't mind if I do. But apart from that, there's nothing here of note, so we can simply...  ...go out the other side, which expectedly brings us right next to the statue. Of course, we use the mirror on it.  It causes geysers to disappear! Which means...  ...we can now use the boat to dock at the shrine. Of course the boat was on the other side, so we had to go back through the cave to get it.  Inside, we find again, to our dismay, that jerk Kikugorou. Looks like he's again brought a friend with him. I guess that's the girl everybody was talking about. Now it all makes sense. And they are clearly blocking our access to the third bronze bell, too!   Look at her elegant tresses swaying in the wind! Please look forward to meeting Princess Serpent!Can we not?  No, I guess we have to. It's a mini boss again, and oh my god look at her hair. It's literally snakes! Anyway, as for this boss fight, alhthough we've been breezing through the last couple, this one can very definitely be a problem. Her physical attack doesn't do huge damage, so that's very much manageable. The only other attack she has is this:  This one is mildly annoying as it has a chance to inflict the "sleep" status on its target. It renders you unable to act for a few turns, but still, that's manageable. What is NOT manageable however, is her extremely high agility (check the stats below). As in some other games (at least some installments of Final Fantasy for sure), the agility stat also drives how evasive she is. What I'm trying to say is that basically the main problem with this fight is that, well, you're not going to be able to land a hit on her at all. And in this game even spells are subject to evasion, so... yeah. So, then, what to do? Well, first of all, I would really recommend being at least level 19 for this fight. You should already be close to it when you get here (around 17-18 for sure if you play the game normally). So take a few minutes to get yourself up to 19. This should help to bring up a bit your own agility. However, this will not be enough by any stretch. So you will need to also make sure that she's at all points she has the "mud worm" spell applied on her. This lowers her agility by about 45 points which is not bad. You will still miss a fair few times, but at least you'll be able to hit like 40-50% of the time. Unfortunately, that's not the end of our problems here. Note that she also has a high defence. This means your physical attacks won't do a huge amount of damage, so you'll have to use magic. But the problem with this is that your MP is not exactly abundant so you run the risk of running out. However, note also that Kabuki has quite a bit more MP (66) compared to Manjimaru's 46. Therefore, finally, our strategy looks like this. Give to Kabuki the offensive spell you will be using to damage her (Demonic Fire works quite well), and give the "Mud Worm" spell to Manjimaru. Then, Manjimaru can apply the Mud Worm every few turns while Kabuki spams Demonic Fire. In his "off" turns, Manjimaru can also attack or heal whoever needs it. As mentioned, you'll still miss half the time, but this way you at least stand a chance. There is actually still one more minor annoyance in this fight. When her HP drops below 100, this will start to happen:  It's a massively annoying 20 HP heal! Demonic fire does about that much damage to her, so it basically negates your last hit. Unfortunately he'll keep doing this every 3-4 turns, so here it becomes really critical to have the Mud Worm applied so you don't lose MP for no reason. And yes, in the orginal Japanese version he absolutely calls her "Princess Serpent-chan". I will not comment further on this. Anyway, with all this in mind, unless you get super unluckly with her evasion, you should be able to do this on the first try. Finally, the reason for the reference to Kiyohime becomes now clear.  But anyway, eventually, that is done...  ...and we can pick up the third bell! So, that's it for today. Next time we'll see how the villagers react to the Princess Serpent situation and of course continue on our quest to find the final bronze bell!
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How powerful is "bombardment" when used in battle? Does it have any advantages over just attacking normally?
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Some of those attack sprites really look cool. And man, more jRPG vehicles need to come with usable cannons. Hell yeah that owns.
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PurpleXVI posted:And man, more jRPG vehicles need to come with usable cannons. Hell yeah that owns.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:how many games have even done this? This and Final Fantasy Legend III are the only two I can think of Showed up in Phantasy Star, I'm pretty sure.
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Blaze Dragon posted:How powerful is "bombardment" when used in battle? Does it have any advantages over just attacking normally? I was wondering this too! Incredible work Ivantodd--I am loving this!
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pixel graphics rpg overworld but its fully destructible, someone make that
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Blaze Dragon posted:How powerful is "bombardment" when used in battle? Does it have any advantages over just attacking normally? To be honest, it's mostly on a similar order of magnitude like your normal attacks so it's not something like 5x or 10x stronger. PurpleXVI posted:Some of those attack sprites really look cool. Yeah the enemy sprites, especially the (mini)bosses are all kinds of awesome in this game. Also the game has nothing if not a big variety of vehicles that the party gets to use over the course of their journey, much more so that most games of similar genre/vintage.
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ivantod posted:To be honest, it's mostly on a similar order of magnitude like your normal attacks so it's not something like 5x or 10x stronger.
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Zereth posted:Does it at least hit more than one enemy? Nope, it only hits one enemy. So it honestly isn't very useful in normal battles when you get 5 or 6 enemies together. But that's ok, this is certainly not the last means of transport Manjimaru and the party will be using which has its own special attack. There will be others!
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Sum Gai posted:Showed up in Phantasy Star, I'm pretty sure. Phantasy Star IV was the only JRPG I've ever seen with vehicle combat. (Final Fantasy III had the airship Invincible start combats you got into by
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Snorb posted:Phantasy Star IV was the only JRPG I've ever seen with vehicle combat. (Final Fantasy III had the airship Invincible start combats you got into by Don't forget Final Fantasy Legends 3's/SaGa 3's own airship, where you could run into random encounters with it, and it would start off the battle with whatever weapon you equipped on it. And that's not getting into when you face off with the eldritch abomination threatening to flood your world, and your ship shows up to provide damage every round. It's not a whole lot at this point, but it's still neat. It's more touching when you realize it's your dad, whose brain is acting as the ship's computer, is trying to help his son out in a slightly more proactive manner for this last fight.
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Skies of Arcadia has ship-to-ship combat, complete with Moon Stone Cannon!, and IIRC you can call in the ship as one of Vyse's special attacks.
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