That Rev Chap

Forty hours in. Still so no sign of it coming to an end. Nowhere close.

Didn’t help myself by getting stuck in one spot for well over an hour earlier. I thought I was missing an obvious solution to a puzzle and when I found it I assumed I’d kick myself. Instead, I felt like kicking the game because it turned out I’d tried to do the right thing but rubbish controls had meant that it seemed to be impossible.

(Basically as soon as a moving platform stopped moving I’d step off it, even though I wanted to continue walking across it. I assumed the game was making me step off it in a kind of mini cut scene way, but no. If I left the controller for a while and waited for the camera to stop rotating round and then tried to move I walked across the platform without a single problem.)

Still, it got me more XP so it wasn’t a complete waste of time.

Anyway, after that sticking point everything went smoothly and progressed nicely until now, which is bed time. Tomorrow I know exactly what I need to do when I switch on, which is nice.

The translation is great in this game and there are some ace voices but, oh my, some of the accents are utterly awful. In a kind of brilliant way. One in particular today was just so, so terrible. It was ace.

So I made my way back to the boss. Luckily, the dungeon before him hadn’t reset, so it was pretty easy to get back to him. A tough fight, but I defeated him. And then, as is the way of these things, he transformed into a different form and splatted back to church. So I decided to try one more time to kill him. As luck would have it, he doesn’t reset back to his earlier form so I only had the second form to deal with.

I checked the boss tips on GameFAQs, which scared me. I hadn’t set myself up properly, didn’t have any of the recommended attacks or weapons and thought I was going to die. I nearly did, too.

We were twenty or thirty turns in. My main healer was on the floor dead and my secondary healer was near death and running out of magic, fast. He could have died that turn but the boss chose another target. And after the boss’s turn it was my turn. A fireball in his face and then a huge scythe chop and… down he went! I couldn’t believe it.

Far easier than GameFAQs had led me to believe… though I could have died had things been slightly different. I guess I was a bit lucky.

Anyway, after he was defeated the game got back to normal… more or less. Harder now, for reasons I won’t go into, and darker than it’s been previously. Things are getting serious.

Thirty-seven hours in and still a lot to do.

Oh hooray.

A lengthy dungeon followed by a boss battle far harder than anything else ever seen. And when you die you start off from a church in the nearest town, so I’m going to have go through the dungeon every time I want to try to kill the boss again.

I have no idea if I’ll even be able to at this level, or whether my tactics are at fault or whether I just need better equipment.

Suffice to say, I did hundreds of hit points in damage to the boss without it blinking while it used its three goes per turn to stamp me into the ground.