Got past that boss. Took a couple of attempts, but I got there. Totally ignored what the boss tips in the FAQ suggested, as the strategy put forward there just seems impossible. I don’t know how often the boss used the status-cancelling ice attack when they played, but it used it every other turn or so when I played, making psyching up impossible. I got there in the end, mind, though I did have to use some items I’d been hoping to save.

Ah, well, got there. And then it was straight off to a tough dungeon, with another boss at the end. So, yes, the boss I was having trouble with was a sort of start-of-dungeon boss. Insanity! Luckily, the end-of-dungeon was pretty simple, not having any annoying attacks.

After that, I was rather at a loss, so I wandered around the map for a while until going to get a hint from, er, the place you can go to get a hint. (I know I say this diary may contain spoilers, but I’ll avoid them where possible.) That pointed me in the right direction, so I went off where I’d been pointed, found some new, tougher enemies, realised it was ten o’clock and went back to a town to rest up and save.

Fifty-two and a half hours in now. There’s not a lot of the map I’ve not been to, as far as I can tell, so maybe I’m getting close to the end…