Northwest of Quarterly is a train tunnel that connects Guild Galad to Slayheim and the rest of the world. Down there, we see a child flanked by six guards. He's our protectorate. Noel is the son of the unnamed leader of Guild Galad. Unlike his father, Noel is a well spoken and caring individual. He invites us on the train, Ashley is amazed by several things, and we get the train a-running.
It’s supposed to be a short ride under the mountain, but something is off. Weren't we supposed to be through by now? Illia looks out the window and sees something out of this world. We stop the train and enter the Emulation Zone. It’s a multi colored maze world, but the maze is pretty simple to learn. Right, Down, Right, Up, Back takes you where you need to be. Have Tim use Pooky to get his second Tool, Air Ballet. It allows Tim to push blocks from afar. Pushing the nearby block into position unlocks the doorway in the room we went back in. But that's not all that's changed in this room. It turns out that we’re not alone in this zone. We meet the last member of Odessa, Caina. He was the one who controlled the Demon Summoning way back when. He and Ashley have a moment over this, where Ashley shows some rage, and a battle takes place.
It’s the usual Cocytus affair.
He, defeated and upset, retreats, and we continue on. It’s another type of maze where we need to push floor switches that open doors forward. Through the three doors is the core of this place. Tim can push away the blocks to destroy the energy majigers. As we try to exit, we meet Kanan again. This time, she’s paid by Odessa to hunt us. A similar fight as last time happens, but this time it’s actually hard. Tim is terrible. Just, just awful. I figured out how to use him after this, so he’s pointless now. Use summons if you have the room, especially with Tim. It really is the same fight, just with 33% of our attack power removed. Once she’s lost again, she tells us this isn’t her destiny. Kanon is a descendant of the Sword Magess, and she's sacrificed her body to kill Ashley. Unable to do so, she falls back, and we get a timer to return to the train. I did it with 4:30 left, how about you? To escape the Emulation Zone, we need to reach a certain speed to blast our way out, which we could only do if we decouple the last car. It’s a cargo train, so it’s a simple sacrifice.
Back in our world, we’re now on our way to Guild Galad. The trek there sucks. There are a lot of ambush battles that always contain three fast mages. Those guys like to use a spell called Water Catastrophe, dealing nearly 1000 damage to us. I didn’t get hit by three of them, but two nearly wiped me. Use Ashley’s Accelerator special to kill one. Eventually, we make it to the town. We’re brought before the leader, who’s upset we lost a car. When Noel confronts him, he admits it contained a nuclear bomb. Noel was just a ruse to get us to protect the nuke. It was only supported to be a deterrent to Osesaa, though, but they have it now. As payment for bringing his son home, which we were paid to do, he upgrades our hovercraft to teleport with us. We can now use it on the whole planet!
And I explored. It was a waste of time since you can’t explore ahead in the game for some reason. It’s the worst part of the game. Let me see what's in the world, game!
The only clue about where to go is Odessa is looking for a mine. Nothing is in Damzen, but people in Holtz say they’re a target and that there’s an abandoned mine to the northeast.
Which I’ll do tomorrow.
Even though I figured out to teach Tim moves (kill things), he’s still bad. He's so fragile. I hope someone better comes soon. Of all the games I’ve played recently, this has been the worst one. That’s not saying it’s a bad, game just that I’m annoyed often. I have no plans to drop it, but there's my mid game feeling.
No comments:
Post a Comment