This forest sucks.

The only thing I found in the jungle was a new whip for Ernest.

The Grantes Forest is a vertical wall. I think it's supposed to imitate coming to and leaving the foreground at points, but it felt weird. I won't condemn it, though, since it's something different, and it's a Gameboy game. I do wish that my controller didn't suck... It has d-pad drift somehow, so it kept pushing me off the branches. There are a ton of jumping off points by design and so many hidden chests. Most of them are just healing items if I recall.

In the second screen on the bottom to the right, an NPC tells us he's from the resistance against Aba. They're former residents of Slave. He tells us to follow the beatles to find their HQ. I went looking for small bugs but found nothing. I had a tough time even finding the Hercules beetles. Fortunately, there's a dude on GameFAQs who made maps of every dungeon in Blue Sphere. It took some deciphering, but I found the bugs, who can be kinda tough in a fight, and they led me to a house. Ernest knew where we were, and we were allowed in!

Inside are more survivors of Slave. We learn that Aba took control six months ago and killed so many people. But we're here for Ernest's ship. The guy in charge lets us deeper into the forest, but I was struck with a sense of IRL dread, so I ran out of time. So I'll find this crashed ship...


...tomorrow!


Getting tired or fighting these surprise monkeys and their long armed hurt boxes.