Etruria
You start here, in the palace. King Morock Tells
you you need to pass the training center to be recognized as a true warrior.
He also tells you you will get the Spectre's Fingernail once you become a
true warrior.
Leave the palace, and talk to everyone. Note what
they have to tell you. Go to the building at the far right. That's the training
center. Go to the right of the room, and enter the swirl.
This is an extremely basic level. It's main purpose is to get you
used to flying and clinging to walls. There are no enemies, but there are
spikes. Scale the first wall, and fly to the right. make your way to the
right using the white stones as stepping stones. Once you have climbed to
the highest point, you must fly to the left, to get Arkob's Pot. Once you
get the pot, you're done the level.
After you pass the training center, you are told
about a mysterious Black light that swept the town. You must hurry back to
king Morock. Once you leave the room, you must pass another level.
Hooded Demons pop out of the ground in this level, so watch your step.
After the last building, there is a hidden room. drop down, and pass through
the wall on the left about midway down. In the hidden room is a vial that
isn't colored red like the others (it increases your health). Other
than that, try not to drop in between the buildings, as the enemies down
there can be quite annoying. At the end of the stage, take the door, and
face Nagus, the boss.
Fighting Nagus
Nagus is a pretty
easy boss. Stay on the left platform, and let him have it. If he shoots the
targe fireball, it will simply bounce and float under you. If he shoots
a spread of three fireballs, backtrack a little bit and float in midair so
that the top and middle balls pass above and below you, respectively. If
he jumps towards you, make your way to the other platform.
After you kill the boss, you can leave his room.
You'll appear in Morock's room. he gives you the Spectre's Fingernail. You
can now jump higher than before. Yay. He tells you to go to Gibea, and visit
King Barr. So your adventure continues.
Outside Etruria, there are 6 vials in a pot near the mountains. Go
west until you meet the hooded guy blocking a road. He deduces that you must
be from the Ghoul Realm. Because he reminds you so much of Sherlock Holmes,
and you hate cocaine addicts who star in mystery novels, you decide to kick
his ass. After you beat him, take the bridge. It's a pretty short level where
you have to scale walls, and pass spikes and fire. It's not a hard level,
but be careful. Once you pass the bridge, go North to Gibea.
Gibea
Ah, Gibea. Welcome to the second town. Once you
wander around and chat with the locals a bit, you realize that this town
really got its ass kicked by some unimaginable force. Cool. This sounds like
something worth checking out. So, you decide to go talk to king Barr. After
striking up a brief conversation, you realize that whatever it was that kicked
this town's ass also turned Barr into Beavis. So now there's another level
for you to do. Go east and talk to a zombie. He asks you if you want to cross
the river of flame. Like you have a choice. Agree, He'll give you the Dargon
Scales and let you go on.
Excitingly, you get to do another bridge level. This one this bridge
is similar to the last one, only there are moving platforms that shoot stuff
at you. Shouldn't be too hard. Be careful, and move on. At the end of the
bridge you make it to Sidon, a shitty little town that sort of just sucks.
Don't really worry about this town, but remember the name. I may refer to
it later. There are 6 vials laying around outside Sidon, and there is a hooded
guy you can fight for more. When you're ready, go east north, to a temple
looking thing, surrounded by trees.
Wow! A brand new level: "Hinom"! This is the first really tricky
level in the game. The monsters in here can really be annoying if you aren't
super careful. Right off the bat, you're hit with some new enemies. The ones
that chase you around, stop, and chase you again die in one hit, and should
be easy enough to dodge. The ones that are stuck to the platforms and spit
weird little balls are the ones that can be a pain. Especially if those flying
chaser doodads are on your tail. Take out the flying one, and then carefully
shoot the ones that spit at you from a distance. The level is basically one
long line, except for one part. It may not be obvious at first, but the part
that splits (pictured at the beginning of this paragraph) leads to the end
of the level. The more obvious path leads to an extra life. Go left down
for the exit, right for the extra life. Hint: Do not die going after the
extra life. That sucks.
Soon enough, you should come to a part where there's
a pit. When you jump in, you realize that there is actually an updraft (coming
from spikes; meh) which pushes you up when you start flying. Avoid spikes
and whatnot on your way up. You're almost there! Just go left, dodge some
spikes, boney seagulls that drop things on you, and gum chewing pod people.
Then go down and left. I swear, it's gonna be better down there. You have
to be careful of a couple of spikes, and then you get to fight the boss.
Fighting the boss
This boss shouldn't
be too much of a problem. While it sits at the right, jup up and fly, so
you are blocked by the platform but can still shoot under it. That way, when
he sucks you towards him, you won't move (he also blaws you away; counter
by pressing right). Try to stay in the air at all times. When he shoots bubbles
at you, use your mad skillz to dodge them. They move slowly, so this shouldn't
be hard. When he switches sides, float under him to the other side and
repeat.
After you kill the boss, leave the room. You will
get the Night Drop and the Buster. None of your stats gain any levels yet.
Equip the Buster right away. It's better than your first attack.
Now, we go back to Sidon. Have a break, get your
password get some mealstrom. Whatever.
The Hectate
Now you're ready for the next little part. From Sidon, go west then
north to a cave. Someone called the Hectate lives there. There are 24 vails
lying around in this cave. Take advantage of them. Now make your way to the
house inside the cave. Talk to the Hectate, and she'll make a Candle of Darkness
for you (pontless, but... eh). Now use the candle on the little swirly in
centre of the room. Now it's story time. Red the story of you want. It basiclly
tells you to find the Gremlin Stick in Desert Sittem. But alas, your wings
suck ass! So talk to the Hectate to get the Wings of a Fallen Angel. Leave
the cabin, and use the east exit.
After a short walk, you should find yourself in
front of a little Zombie man. And boy, is he happy to see you. He's so happy,
he lets you try to cross Gaza Valley. Walk past this guy and into the
valley.
Gaza
Valley is a bitch. Try your hardest to jump over the first pit. That's the
killer. You have to jump right at the very edge, and fly as you're falling
down. You must reach the peak of your jump before you start to fly, or you
will not make it. After you get to the other side and cling to the wall,
climb it as quickly as possible, or else one of those bone seagulls will
hit you. The rest of the level is pretty ho-hum. The game throws a new thing
at you, though. Platforms that fall when you stand on them. No problem. Stay
in the air. At the very last platform, it looks like there's no place to
land.Take a leap of faith to the right, and you will land on solid
ground.
This brings us to Sittem. There are 12 vials kicking
around the desert. Collect them and then go into the palace at the bottom
right.
Okay. This castle is pretty annoying, but there's nothing
too new. At the start, keep moving down and don't really worry about the
flowers on the wall, except for the one pictured to the left. Use your buster
to break through the wall and try to kill the flower. You can only hit it
when it's open. The bats are fairly simple, as they just fly in a straight
line and don't worry too much about the genies. Just punp 'em full of
buster.
If you take the shortcut through the wall, try to keep in
the air. Kill everything that comes your way. At the first peak, be careful
for fish that jump out of the sand. This area can drain your life quickly.
Once you get over the first hump, stay on the platforms, as there is a heart
in the top right corner. You could use the refresher. Be careful not to hit
the spikes while getting it. Now drop straight down, so you're on a platform
to the right of a genie in a bottle. Do not attempt to to collect the bottle
(I do that sometimes). Now drop down a little and go to the right. This area
is pretty easy, but stay high up from the sand, as to avoid the fish. And
get ready to fly whenever you drop down, because you never know when there
are going to be spikes. Break through one wall, and you're at the end.
Fighting the boss
This is the boss
of level 3. The sand ground pushes you around while he flings himself at
you. Try to keep moving and try to stay on the platforms or in the air. After
he hops around a bit, he'll make some small sand demons that float through
the air at you. If they attatch themselves tou you, it slows you down (a
la mini-goombas, Mario 3). Avoid them at all costs. Well, except for at
the cost of life. The boss isn't too hard anyway.
Once again, when you kill the boss leave the room.
Once you leave, you get the gremlin stick. Joy. You also get Tornado. Tornado
will come in handy for the return to Gibea.
Okay, go back to Gaza Valley. Equip yourself with
Tornado. Test it out a bit. When you're comfortable with it, use it
to cross back over Gaza Valley. Now go back through the Hectate's cave.
Stop off at Sidon and have a drink with the guys or something. Now go back
over the bridge. Now go back to Gibea and talk to Barr.
King Barr
Hey,
what do you know? He shill thinks he's Beavis. No rest for the good guy.
Use the Gremlin Stick on him. He'll be so happy that he got his power back,
he'll give it all to you. Now you can jump higher. Yay. He also opens up
a new path to the west. So go west and follow the path. Eventually, you will
come to a bridge with a dude in front of it. When you talk to him, you
discover that he's dying. He hangs on long enough to tell you that
the black light is headed for the King's Palace. Coincidentally, that's where
you're headed. Kick his dead body asside and continue. Now for another fun
bridge level.
This bridge level is pretty tricky, unless you know what to
do. Fly up and kill the first monster on the platform. Now cling to the wall
below the spikes. Now drop down, and fly as you are falling. Fly right again
and kill the next monster on the platform. Now go up. You may want to use
Tornado, but you don't have to. Kill the dude, and move to the edge of the
platform. Jump down and right. If you get hit by the guy on the ledge don't
worry. Kill him and now just go right. And viola! One more bad guy and you're
done. Now you find yourself in front of a castle. You can wander aroud and
get vials, but go here before going in any other place.
Now
you're in the King's Palace. You're greated by a bunch of idiots who don't
know what's going on. Something's fishy. So you decide to ask around. One
dude tells you that something is awry here. Go and get your password. You
may need it. Now, you decide to ask the king about the weirdness. But guess
what? He has no idea what you're talking about. He even tells you not to
worry about it and go back to Etruria. Something's fishy here too. Do not
agree to go back home. Guess what? He's a bad guy. Didn't see that coming,
did you? Okay. So try not to get too scared of his evil looking form, and
get ready to kick the hell outta him.
Fighting the
boss
Well, this boss is somewhat hard. Just
keep moving and be patient. Shoot at him when you can. Try to not get yourself
caught in the corner. He doesn't attack you in any way, he just runs into
you and that takes off power. He's pretty quick. Be caeful and you will come
out on top.
After you kill the phoney king of the Ghoul Realm,
the town goes back to normal. Wander around and talk to the townsfolk. You
are told about the black light and Mt. Imaus and an old town and stuff. You
can also get the Essence of the Ghoul Realm in one of the labs. Just say
No when the guy asks you if you've heard of it. Your life will
increase.
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