Jumped back into Breath of Fire today. Managed to get through two bosses. The first was the Knight and the second was the Wizard.
Let me start off by saying that I absolutely love this game so far. There are quite a few things that I complain about a lot, but first and foremost, the story is stellar even if the dialogue is somewhat stinted.
So after I killed that Frog dude, I was told that earthquakes were being caused by a Quake machine and that I should delve into the dungeons below Nanai to stop it. So I did just that. After a few minutes of crawling around the lava-covered dungeon I ran into this little problem...
Meo: "Arrrrrrrghhh"
Which made getting to the bottom of the dungeon difficult, so when I ran out of antidotes I died quite a few times. However, like I mentioned here, this is good for level grinding. The irritating part was sneaking past the guards from the save point all the way to the castle. It wasn't quite as convenient as level grinding outside a town, but the baddies in the dungeon were tougher and garnered more EP. So I did this for a while until I made it to the bottom relatively unscathed where I met a Knight tinkering with the Quake Machine. We fought and...
"that all you got?"
So I pressed on. And eventually I collected enough Herbs from fallen enemies and various (way out of the way) chests. I fought the Knight again, and it turned out that I could take him with about 4 Herbs and a lucky streak of Cntrs and Slams. It got pretty close, because once I wore him down to his danger zone, he'd use a magic ability called Recovery and heal. This persisted about 7 times and then he stopped and just did melee damage. Finally I killed him, but not before the damned "Seems Alright" happened. For those of you not familiar with the "Seems Alright" in the BOF games, it is what happens when you wear a boss down to zero and they miraculously regain the ability to stay alive a few turns more. Sometimes "Seems Alright" is replaced with "Grings Confidently" or something stupid like that. That is one of things that angers me about this game. But, it just has to be worked into my strategy when going into a boss situation.
Defeating the Knight brought me to level 10! So I took the E.Key from the machine and the whole town was reduced to rubble. It's ok though because the King said that it was a tough choice to make. A nearby NPC promptly told me that I should travel to Winlan, so I did.
The people here all have wings!
I mosied through their capitol and upgraded some weapon and armor at the weapon shop, then found out the king is ill. Went to the castle and they sent me to bed because I couldn't see the king yet. Then I got to play as Princess Nina.
I was able to sneak around the castle and gather a LOT of Herbs and upgrade her armor for free. Then I found Ryu asleep, and it turns out he sleep-talks...
Somebody apparently has a thing for Sara.
Then I left the city and went to the tunnel to the left and I was greeted by a couple winged soldiers who didn't want me wandering around unescorted. They came in handy, though.
Nina serves best as a healer while the soldiers did whopping amounts of damage. After leveling up a couple, Nina became super fast and would almost always go first, allowing for quick healing when necessary. So we made our way through a zombie town where apparently people were rising from the grave because of an evil Wizard. We trekked through the woods to the Wizard's castle and did some fancy dungeoneering until we came upon him. He overwhelmed us because winged people are apparently susceptible to his Xeon Gas. So one of the soldiers got away and went to the roof where he TURNED INTO A BIRD.
Because apparently having wings isn't good enough...?
He flew back to the castle and they deduced that someone without wings had to go to the tower because they wouldn't be affected by the Xeon Gas. So they flew me back, and they fought some dragons to allow my bird guy to get through.
Once inside the tower, I was shown a VERY convenient room, where I could save AND heal. I wish saving and healing could always just be one thing. But yeah.
Went down into the depths and found my new nemesis. He seemed very displeased that they winged people so easily thwarted his Xeon Gas with...gasp...someone without wings! Oh no! So then we did battle.
He kept using a move called Petrify, where I'm assuming he solidified his skin to make it difficult to deal damage to him. His strongest attack was Freeze which did about 15 damage. So when I was lower than 15 I used a Herb and continued to pummel him. Since I had like 20 Herbs, this was a pretty easy fight.
At last I destroyed him and we received the Remedy that will help heal the King's sickness.
Oh Ryu, just foiling evil plans wherever you can.
So we all flew back to Winlan and it was a glorious celebration of flying birds everywhere as we landed. Nina hurried to heal the King and when I found them the King was barely hanging on, but then suddenly was jumping up and down on his bed. I couldn't help but laugh. This is when I discovered that Ryu actually has some dialogue...which is weird for some RPGs...I don't remember the Ryu in BOF 3 saying anything. It's kind of like a Link thing, isn't it?
Oh well, apparently I'm wrong.
After the King granted me access to the "tunnels" or whatever, Nina decided to join my party. Thank goodness, someone to heal me while I decimate legions of baddies, muahaha.
In any case, I have the RPG bug and I'm gonna keep plugging away here.
Keep on gaming, dragons.
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