This is my final post about Mystic Quest, I finished it today.
First, some music I forgot to post in my last update:
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Chocobo Theme
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Battle 2 (plays while fighting against the Dark Lord (and in some other fights))
So let's get started right away with another boss fight:
This time I didn't really have a strategy. Maybe with magic (ice?) you could hit him from the side, but I barely leveled my magic. So I just went in and hit it as much as I could while healing myself.
I hate all of the snowmen puzzles in this game. Basically what you have to do is that you need to freeze enemies with ice magic which then become snowmen. You have to push these on special plates to activate certain switches. Often you don't realize until after you killed every enemy in the room. So you have to retreat several rooms back to make the enemies reappear and then carefully only kill the ones you don't need. Since you can only push, you then have to wait for the remaining enemies to move to a place from which you can reach the plate. In this special case you also have to be careful not to move the snowmen too far. This puzzles are so unnecessary frustrating.
Next boss, another easy one. Only problem is that he will sometimes curl up and roll around the field. You can't him then and this phase will get increasingly longer as the fight goes on. At the end he will really try your patience.
Lich is back! The fight is pretty straightforward. Just take out your whip and kill him.
Milestone! I reached the maximum of 65535=2^16-1 gold pieces.
Another familiar boss. You can actually stay in the entrance and still hit him. You will get hit there but not much and it's certainly better than crossing the sparks.
Next milestone: I reached level 50. As you can see I mostly ignored magic.
The final stretch: the entrance to the dime tower. This is the point of no return.
Garuda's back. Easy fight, he practically can't hit you if you keep attacking from below. (I stole that FF3 Garuda from Aeana some posts before mine)
Left the Dime Tower and went up(!) the waterfall. Final dungeon ahead.
Seems they went out of ideas here. The first two screenshots are actually two different boss fights. The third is a copy of the very first boss fight of the game.
And finally I receive the legendary sword Excalibur! After all the buildup they did for this sword, it was kind of lame to just receive it at some random place in the last dungeon.
The three stages of the final boss fight. They're all pretty easy. The last one would have been quite hard, but you get the girl as company which means you can request healing anytime.
And done. The girl becomes the new mana tree after I killed her mother. Quite the happy ending.
The credits are your typical compilation of "meet all your friends again" scenes. It's still quite nice.
Now I have to think about what to play next. Aeana's posts make me want to try the Famicom version of FF3 (it's still sitting on my shelf unplayed), maybe I'll do that.
{Dark Schala's enormous amount of informative Mystic Quest Legend screens}
Thanks for your hard work. You put my meager assemblage of Mystic Quest Legend screens to shame.