http://www.grawl.nl Ys: The Oath in Felghana by Grawl grawler (@t) gmail (d.t) com 07/06/05 - Version 0.2 ============================================================================== Donations ============================================================================== It seems thousands of players enjoy my guide, seeing the countless mails I receive. This makes me very happy, since it means my guide actually has some use ;p So I'm asking you, if you're enjoying this guide, could you perhaps donate some money? Heck, I'll be happy with your 2 bucks you were going to spent on a cheeseburger later ;p Thank you! http://www.donategrawl.cjb.net ============================================================================== Introduction ============================================================================== Every question, feedback, comment etc. can be mailed. Put "YS: Oath Felghana" in the subject, so I can pick out the mails easily. Thanks! Also add where you found the guide, is possible. Never mail me if you can't keep it civil. I have no problem ignoring your mail when you start to call me names. Most of the time I'll pick a fight, and post the mails afterwards on some forums for fun, but that's not the point. Keep in mind that you can use this guide for free, so show some respect, and don't act like an 11-year old kid (even if you are one!). If you found a mistake, or don't understand something, just mail me, be as detailed as possible, and we'll work things out. I'm not related to Falcom. This FAQ has been made for fun, not to make any money out of it. Don't use this FAQ on your site/magazine etc. without my permission. Copyright (c) 2005 by Grawl. I keep a list of sites that are allowed to use my guide. Using this guide without my permission will lead to a lawsuit, not matter what. To make searching easier, I added search-codes in the TOC. Just press CTRL + F and enter the code to jump to that part immediately. ============================================================================== Table of Contents [YS.00.00] ============================================================================== * Table of Contents.................................................[YS.00.00] * History & Next Version............................................[YS.01.01] * Introduction......................................................[YS.02.01] * Walkthrough.......................................................[YS.03.01] * The Story Begins................................................[YS.03.02] * Tigray Quarry...................................................[YS.03.03] * The Illburns Ruins..............................................[YS.03.04] * The Zone of Lava................................................[YS.03.05] * The Abandoned Mines.............................................[YS.03.06] * The Elderm Mountains............................................[YS.03.07] * The Icebound Cave...............................................[YS.03.08] * Valestein Castle................................................[YS.03.09] * Character List....................................................[YS.04.01] * Enemy List........................................................[YS.05.01] * Items.............................................................[YS.06.01] * Inventory.......................................................[YS.06.02] * Equipment.......................................................[YS.06.03] * Secrets...........................................................[YS.07.01] * Hard Mode.......................................................[YS.07.02] * Time Trial......................................................[YS.07.03] * FAQ...............................................................[YS.08.01] * Conclusion........................................................[YS.09.01] ============================================================================== History & Next Version [YS.01.01] ============================================================================== Version 0.1 (07/05/05) - Everything is new. (32,5KB) Version 0.2 (07/06/05) - Fixed a small mistake, added Secrets Section, updated the walkthrough, and some other random things such as enemies. (45,8KB) ============================================================================== Introduction [YS.02.01] ============================================================================== Before you start reading this guide, I want you to get a few things straight; * I'm not a Japanese help-desk. If you can't play the game, because you lack the knowledge to read/translate Japanese, don't come to me. Once again, I'm NOT a Japanese help-desk. My Japanese isn't good enough in the first place. * This game is designed for Japanese environments. If the game doesn't work, check the FAQ-section. Other than that, you're on your own. * For now, the guide won't contain any Japanese tags, so you can just leave the front the way it is. * My Japanese isn't as good as it should be, so I may misspell some names here and there. * Because of my Japanese, I'm not able to translate the dialogues enough to figure out the story. I can guess what it's all about, but I won't write it down, because I might be wrong. * If you've never played any Ys game before, and you aren't great at fast moves etc., I suggest to play the game on easy. The normal mode is pretty difficult sometimes. That's a warning. If you want to know if you can handle it, just play the normal mode until you beat two bosses. If that wasn't too hard, you can probably try some more. If it was too hard, you should play on easy. * Talk with everyone you can. When you do this, the characters will be added to your character-file (in the option menu), so you can check what person I mean. * Your character is called Adol. * This walkthrough is made while playing on normal. * If you're unable to beat a boss, try to level up, or get more gold. Levelling up will make you stronger, and once you get more gold, you can buy new weapons and armor in the shop. * Kill all the enemies you encounter, even if you've been there before. This'll help you level. * The more enemies you kill, the higher you orange bar (exp multiplier) will go. It'll run out if you're not fast enough. * Enemies will drop various items; healing herbs (you can't take them with you), and boosts (strength, mana etc.). They'll run out fast, so the best idea is to move on. * When you die during a boss fight, you can simple retry. Don't bother re-loading. ============================================================================== Walkthrough [YS.03.01] ============================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Story Begins [YS.03.02] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The game starts when Adol and Dogi are talking. They hear a Guff howl, and Adol runs forward to check it out, leaving Dogi alone with a couple of Guffs. Great work Adol ;p Adol finds Elena, and some Guffs. Time to protect the cute girl. The tutorial will start, explaining how to attack (Z to attack, X to jump), and how to perform various moves. Kill the Guffs, and move will attack. You'll learn how to use a special attack. When the big icon on the lower left is blinking, you can press V. This will give you a boost, and allows you to do more damage, and move/attack faster. After the fight, Dogi will run into the screen, and you'll all have a nice talk. *Intro Movie* Adol, Dogi and Elena will walk towards Redmont Town. They talk with Gardner, and he'll let you in. Dogi and Adol decide to stay in the inn, but Elena goes home, since this is where she lives. In the mean-while, you'll see King McGuide talk to Chester. Note that Chester is the brother of Elena. And just the way it became night, it becomes morning. A fresh start. Now, you only need to talk to Elena in order to trigger the next part of the story, but I suggest to talk to everyone. Elena lives in the house in the topleft corner of town. Once you talked to her, go back to the inn, and you'll see some people gathered on the square. Talk to Ricardo (the guy with the brown hat). When you have to select something, go for the top option. You'll get the world map (go to your inventory to use it), 50 gold and 1 raval. The ravals are used to upgrade weapons and armor, in case you wonder. Find the pig-like creatures. There are 10 ravals hidden around that area, slightly out of view. Head outside the city. Keep going to the right, and save. Keep going right, while battling enemies, and you'll reach... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tigray Quarry [YS.03.03] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Outside is another save point and Paul. Talk to him, and you can go inside. Time for some fun. From the beginning of the cave, go right and right (lower exit). In this area, you'll find a chest with 5 ravals. There is a pot with gold on the far right. Go up the stairs on the right, then keep heading right until you find a man called Dewey. Talk to him, and he'll give you keys. Head all the way back to the area with the stairs (lots of them), and take the lower left exit. Save, and open the doors. Don't take the northern exit yet, since there is no way to go for now. Follow the path, and you'll bump into your first boss; *Boss #1: Dalurn (HP: 190)* This is a tricky boss as first boss, but not really hard. He'll start in the middle of the field, with a shield around him. Don't attack him, since it'll hurt you. He'll throw three kind of attacks at you; * Swords from above: Move around, and they won't hit you. Don't jump. * Swinging swords: The most difficult one to avoid. Move back, and jump over them, while you move towards Dalurn. * Swords aligned: The swords will form a "wall" that'll come towards you. Simply jump over them. After he used three attacks, the shield will vanish. Attack him (special attack if you can). Once he did this for about two rounds (depends how much damage you did to him), he'll do the same attacks, but in a random order. Watch this moves closely to see what'll use against you. After a short while, he'll keep doing this, but right after he used the attacks, he'll transform away to a random location. Then he'll use an attack against you, but it's simple to avoid. Just jump over it. It's time to hit him. Repeat this all until he gives up. Walk down, and open the chest for the fire ring. Press S or D to equip it. A tutorial will show you, you can use it by pressing C. This will cost mana though, which'll recharge slowly. The Mozuks will take little damage from your sword, but fire will work great against them. Head back to Dewey, and go down the stairs. Go left, and find a pot with gold. Go down, and you'll find another pot with a healing item. Keep going to the right. Note you'll encounter the bugs I mentioned earlier. Use fire against them. After going down some stairs, you'll find a straight hallway. Find a way up the platform. There is a chest here, but it's semi-invisible, and you can't use it. Check the torch behind you. Jump, and set it on fire. Open the chest for a fire jewel. This allows you to charge you attack, and cause more damage. Might as well try it out on the Mozuks ;p You'll reach a save point and Edgar. Talk to Edgar. Then enter the room north for your second boss; *Boss #2: Ellefale (HP: 400)* Remember you can charge your fireballs. Do this, or you'll have an extremely hard time with this boss. I forgot I could charge at first, and just couldn't figure out what the problem was. Then I used the charge, and I didn't die a single time =p Anyway. at first, she'll use two kind of attacks; horizontal, and vertical. When she uses the horizontal attack (watch the way she throws), jump over it. When she uses the vertical attack, move side-ways. Once she's damaged for about 200HP, she'll start using two more attacks. She'll throw some wind at you, which follows you, wherever you go. Just run past when it gets near, and that problem is solved. She can also shoot a few blue lasers at you. To avoid those, jump at the right time. After she dies, you'll get the Ellefale statue. It's a quest item, which'll you need the final battle. Leave the room, and after some chit chat, you'll end up in Redmont Town. Some more talking, and you can move around again. Visit Rochus (leave the house, then enter the house on the right). He'll give you 7 ravals. Now talk to Elena, then head inside the church and talk to Bishop Nicolas. Accept his quest, and you'll get the key to the ruins. From now on, Antonio is willing to give you 500 gold, if you give him 10 ravals. I suggest you not to do that for now. You can do it a bit later though, when you have more ravals. Once you did it three times, Antonio will give you a ring, which you can trade for an amulet with Cynthia, or for a symbol with Randolph. However, talking about gold; you should have enough now to buy a new sword, and new armor. Don't upgrade them yet, it's not really worth it. If you don't have enough money, return to the mines, and battle some more. Once you're done, leave the city, and head for... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Illburns Ruins [YS.03.04] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To get here, just check your map. Where you went right to find the mines, now head up, the right. Open the gates, save, and enter. This area is a lot harder than the mines, so watch out. Just follow the path up, until you can go left or right. Go left for a pot with gold, then go right again. You'll end up in a hall, and you can raise a platform, but it has no use for now. Just go right, and you'll be outside. Open the pot (ignore the enemies), and keep going. You can go four ways from here. Where you came from, up (room with enemies, and a chest that contains 12 ravals), down (room with enemies, and a chest that contains a shield) and to the right, which leads to a new area. You can guess the order, I hope? ;p On the far right, is a chest that contains 6 ravals. Then go back a bit, and light the torches. A platform will raise. Go up, and light the torch on your right to raise another platform. Keep going to the right. Once again, you can go four ways. Where you came from, down (room with enemies, and a chest that contains a life potion), up (room with enemies, go to the right, light the torch, then go left for a chest that contains some ravals), and right. Keep going once you went right, and ignore the enemies. Just keep going. You'll find a pot on your way, and in the next room you can go four ways again. Back, up (pot with gold), down (enemies, a pot with gold (left), a pot with a healing herb (right) and a chest that contains the second fire jewel) and right. With the second jewel, your blasts are even more powerful. Head right, and you can finally save. Head to the right, watch the small conversation, and get ready to battle Chester. *Boss #3: Chester (HP: 700)* This isn't an easy fight, so be prepared. He has 3 attacks for now; * He throws blades at you. Simple avoid them by running around. * He'll dash at you. He'll have a green aura around him. As soon as he comes towards you, jump over him, and attack him from behind. Watch out, because he'll use a shield, and counter-attack if you don't move away fast enough. * He'll simple attack you with his sword, when you're close enough. Once he has 400HP left, he'll start teleporting around. Just run around in circles to avoid most of this. He'll dash at you soon enough. That's the moment when you can attack. Note that you should never attack his shield, or it'll explode. Once the fight is over, you'll be thrown into the lava zone by Chester. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Zone of Lava [YS.03.05] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Save, and walk down the path. This area is hard, so beware. Take the path to the left. There is a bridge here. Just jump down. You'll end up in a complete new room. On the left side of the room is a chest. It contains the fire amulet. Equip that in order to walk over lava without taking damage. On the right side is a pot with gold. When you're done, jump down. There is a chest in the corner on the left, but a lot of hard enemies. Open the chest for some ravals, then run as fast as you can to the right side of the room. Leave, and go up to end up in the main room again. Save if you want, and go left two times. There is lava here, so equip the amulet, and you'll be fine. First, go up, and find the chest (note: avoid the deep lava) to find a new sword. Then head back and go down, and follow the path. You'll find a pot with a healing herb. You'll end up in a big room. Just keep walking, until you find a chest. It contains the wind ring. Dalurn will show up, and leave just as soon. Go back to the big room. You'll be followed by flames, so just keep running until you reach it. *Boss #4: Guilen (HP: 1100)* A pretty easy fight. He'll come out of one of the five holes. You can notice this, by the bubbles. Move away from him as far as possible, and hold your magic-key (C, be sure to press S or D to select the wind ring). As soon as he gets close, jump over him, release the magic-key, and hold it straight away. You'll hover over the dragon, and as soon as you land, you can jump the other way, hover again etc. You can do this three times, and by then the flames on his body will be gone. Now get behind his tail, and keep hitting it with your sword. Piece by piece, his body will fall off. He only has two attacks; * Shoot fire. Just stay with his tail, and this attack won't hurt you. * Fireball. He'll quickly turn around, and shoot a fireball down. He barely uses this attack, so there's nothing to worry about. When he had enough, he'll enter a random hole. Stay away from it, because the lava that comes up hurts. Repeat it all, until only his head is left. Just keep slashing his head from behind, until he dies. Real easy, and you should be able to do it without losing much HP. Return to the save-point, and save. Head back to the first save point. Note the new enemies. You can kill the small bugs (Mozgouz) with your wind ring. Anyway, save again at the first save point, and return to the main room. Head right. There is a wall here that blocks your path. But if you walk to the left platform, and use the wind attack, you can hover to the other platform. There is a pot here with gold. Now just keep heading right, until you find another save-point. Don't save yet, but walk a bit further. On the alter you'll find an item. Pick it up, and use it in order to learn to dash (press the arrow-key two times). Now save, and head to the right for yet another boss. *Boss #5: Gyalva (HP: 1200)* At first sight, this is a tough fight. On second sight, it's a breeze. I used the fire ring for this battle. The dragon uses two stages; Stage 1 - It'll stay away from you, and you can't hit it. He can do a variety of attacks; * Fireballs: He'll shoot fireballs at you. Just dash to the side. * Super-Fireball: He'll gather up power (you'll notice when he does that). Dash to the side to avoid this attack. * Dive towards you: He'll dive towards you, from his current position. He'll also go back. Sometimes he only dives once. * Super-Dive: He'll move to the far left or right. Quickly dash to the opposite side. He'll turn all the blocks around, and when you're on it, it can be painful. He'll only use one attack, before he goes to the next stage; Stage 2 - Now you can hit him. Charge up your fire ring, and shoot at him. He'll shoot fireballs at you, which will cause the blocks to move up. Just stay still (keep your distance), and jump when the fireball is about to hit you. The extra height allows you to hit him when he's not close enough. Sometimes he's near the ground, and you don't have to jump in order to release your fire. After a few attacks on stage 2, he'll move back to stage 1. This boss has no extra attacks, so check how his moves work, and defeat him. After the fight, you'll gain the fire statue. Follow the path, and you'll find a broken bridge. Swing to the other side, and find a chest with 12 ravals. Then fall down, and leave the room. Chester will pick a fight again, but Elena and Dogi will wander in. After some talking, you'll be in Redmont Town. A lot of people here, and a lot of talking. Once they're all gone, talk to the mayor for 20 ravals. Buy a new shield/armor if you have the money. If you don't have that - don't worry, we'll do some things before we'll continue the main story. If you still don't have enough after that, you should just kill some enemies for money. Leave the town, and Elena will give you a feather. You can use it to teleport, which is just very useful. Might as well try it out. Teleport to the ruins, first save-point. Enter the ruins, and go up and right, and you'll be inside. Kill the enemies, and light the torch. Go up. With the wind ring, you can now enter the room. Kill the enemies inside, open the pot for gold, and then open the chest for 20 ravals. Some more enemies will come in. Kill them, and then teleport to the second save of the quarry. From there, head to the right, towards the broke bridge. You can now cross the bridge with your wind ring, and find a pendant. Also, open the pot for gold. Return to town, buy some more equipment if needed, and then talk to Aida. Show her the pendant, and she'll give you the shiny crystal. You'll need it later, for the castle. Now head back to the second save of the quarry. Head up to a new room. There is a pot with gold here. Talk to the people and head inside the... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Abandoned Mines [YS.03.06] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a long part, with tough monsters (not really, only the orc-like monsters). The hardest problem is there is no save around for miles, so be as careful as you can. Anyway, head to the far left. You'll find a room you can enter to the north. Enter it, and look at the statue. You'll learn how to double jump, and get a book. To double jump (you guessed it) press X two times. Now go back, and get down. There are 2 pots here (topright corner, bottom right corner), and when you go to the right, you'll find a pot, and a chest with 50 ravals. Head back, and go to the bottom left corner, and follow the path. There is a lake here, and a chest. The chest contains some ravals. Keep going to the left. You'll end up in a new room, where you can go down the stairs, and left (over a bridge). Cross the bridge, and open the chest for the second wind jewel. Then take the stairs down. Open the pot for some goods, and then keep going to the left, until you can go down with some stairs (again). In this room, there is a pot in the topright corner, a chest with 40 ravals in the bottom right corner, and a chest with a life potion in the bottom left corner. Then take the path left (you need to use your wind technique here). In this room is a chest with 65 ravals, and some stairs. And finally, you'll reach a save point. Save save save! Time for the next boss when you go up. Don't worry, it's a laugh. *Boss #6: Istersiva (HP: 2000)* Scared by the HP? No need. Switch to your fire ring, and fire at the worm (no need to charge). He'll spit out small crystals. Just destroy them with your sword. The top priority is to destroy the small crystals. If you do that, the big crystal will never shoot a laser. The small crystals hardly do any damage, so don't be afraid of them. Destroy the small crystals, then shoot at the worm. Once it has only 1000HP left, it'll die, and the real boss will appear. Afraid? Hah! This guy is easy too (or girl, no offense). He has a variety of attacks (I'm including the ones when he's even more desperate, since they are almost the same); * Egg-Drop: He'll float around, and drop eggs. Stay away from them, since they explode. * Machine-Gun: He'll shoot small balls at you, but they hurt quite a bit. Just use your wind ring and float over them. * Energy-Ball: He'll shoot a few big energy balls, which'll explode into smaller balls. Use the wind ring to hover over them. * Barrier: The green crystal will spread, and create a big shield. Just walk away from it. After he did a few attacks, purple crystals will spread around him, and shoot lasers. Just walk underneath them, and use you wind ring to cause damage. Repeat this until he dies. You'll get the mine statue. Go back, and save. Teleport back to Redmont Town, and see the Mayor. Some talking, and you're free to go again. You probably won't have any money for new stuff, and that's the way it should be. Just go outside. Be sure you talked to Anya and Hugo. Time to hunt for goodies. Go to the quarry (the save-point before the mines). Head right, and you'll be in the screens with the stairs. Go all the way up. You can reach a platform you couldn't reach before. You'll find a pot with gold. After that, head to the first save of the zone of lava. Go to the main room, head right, then (stay in the room), go to the topright corner. You can jump on a new piece of ground now. From there, you can go to a new room, with a chest. The chest contains a life potion. Now go back to Redmont Town. Walk towards Elderm Mountain. Notice the new enemies. Once you get there, save and double jump. Walk north. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Elderm Mountains [YS.03.07] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go right, to the new screen. On this screen, you'll find a flower. Take it with you. Then follow the path. When you're about to leave the screen, walk back a bit, and drop down. There is a pot with gold, and a chest with 90 ravals. Now leave the screen. Eventually, you'll find a cave. There is a pot with gold. Enter the cave, and follow the path again. You'll eventually end up in a big cave that has a lot of turns. You'll notice a big hole on the left side of the screen. Jump down there to find a pot with gold. Continue your way up. When you can go right, do so, and you'll find a chest with 50 ravals. Ignore the enemies there, they're too much trouble. Go back, and go up, in order to take the path to the left. In the topleft corner of this map, is a chest with 50 ravals. Once again, just ignore the enemies. On the right side is a flower, surrounded by ice. Use your fire ring in order to destroy the ice, and grab the flower. Keep heading north. You'll end up in an area where you have a lot of climbing to do. There is a chest with 40 ravals here. Almost on top, you can go left, and find a pot with gold. Find the way up. In the next area is a save point. Go right for the next boss(es); *Boss(es) #7: Ligaty (HP: 3000)* The tactic is to keep all the enemies alive till they end. When one dies, they'll use more advanced attacks. When there's only one left, it's a killing machine. They are all able to take damage from your sword. The green harpy takes damage from your wind ring, while the red harpy takes damage from your fire ring. Weaken the red harpy first, till it has 200HP left (use the fire ring, since you can only damage her, when the HP counter says 2200, you did enough damage). Then switch to the green harpy, and use the wind ring, until the counter says 1400. Then start to attack the blue harpy until she dies. Because the other harpies barely have any health left, do some kamikaze attacks by running at them, and start to slash away. When there are still three harpies, they'll use various attacks; * Feathers: They'll shoot feathers at you. * Meteor (Red): The red harpy will shoot down towards you. * Whirl-Wind (Green): The green harpy will use the same attack as you use. * Ice-Attack (Blue): The blue harpy will shoot ice towards you. * Duet: They'll go up in the air, land down, and produce notes. Jump over them. The best time to attack, is before, and after the duet. In the mean-time, just jump and dash around. Once there are only two harpies left, they'll use above attacks (excluding duet), and these: * Singing: They'll sing together, but produce notes themselves. Harder to avoid, but not hard to avoid. * Comet-Duo: They'll shoot down towards you, four times totally. The best time to attack, is after the Comet-Duo, because they'll stand still for a short while. Once there is only one harpy left, they'll use their own special attack, and; * Ultra-Song: The harpy will produce 3 waves of notes. A bit of jumping will take care of that. Once again, just keep them all alive till the end, and it's a breeze. Now go back and save. Keep going to the right, and you'll find a house. Enter, and you'll find a person called Berhard. You can go to his house if you want to be completely healed. Not that I see the point of that, with the save-point nearby, but still... Just be sure to talk to Berhard at least once. Keep heading right. You'll find some new enemies, and an area where you start a bit higher than the rest of the map. There is a pot here. Just hover to the right side. Then go up, to find another flower. Keep going up, until you find the entrance to a cave. Don't enter yet, but go left, and drop down. With some use of your wind ring, you'll be able to reach a chest with a life potion. Enter the cave, and simply follow the path. Eventually you'll have to go left or right. Go left if you want to grab some gold from various pots. Beware of the enemies, a lot strong ones. Then go back, and go right. You'll find Dogi. Reach the other side (double jump, then hover with the wind ring), and Dogi will throw you the final ring; the earth ring. This allows you to dig through walls. The Ilba's Shells will be much easier this way too. Find the wall with a crack in it to the right, and dig through it. Enter the room. You can save here, which is really nice and recommended. Open the chest for the first jewel for the earth ring. Now let's do some things before we continue, shall we? Teleport to the first save-point in the Zone of Lava. Head to the main room, and head down and then right. You'll find a wall with a symbol on it. Crack though it. Inside is a chest with 200 ravals, and a pot with quite some gold. Now teleport to the last save-point in the mines. Walk to the left, up the stairs. Go to the left, and crack through the wall. Watch out for the enemies, as they are able to do you A LOT of damage. Just ignore them, and open the chest for 200 ravals. Ignore the pot, and teleport away somewhere. Now head to the second save-point in the ruins. Walk left 4 screens, and you'll find a cracked wall. Crack it open, and enter. Once again, a lot of strong enemies. Just run to the end, open the chest for a cloak, and teleport away. In case you still didn't trade ravals with Antonio, it may be a good idea to do that now. You'll get a ring (trade it with the guy at the inn for an item that boosts your boost), and tons of gold. If you have enough money, but the best shield, armor and weapon the shop has to offer. If not, just return a bit later. That was fun, wasn't it? ;p Return to the save-point, and leave the room. Now head left a bit, and go up. Dig through the wall here. In the next room, is a very narrow path. Don't fall oooooooooff... Actually, just jump down. You'll end up in a completely different room. Head to the left (ignore the enemies). With the combination of dashing, the wind ring and double jumps, you can make it. Go left, and then all the way down. Enter the room here, and you'll find a chest with shoes. These will help you navigate on the ice. Yes, you'll never slip away again. Teleport back to the save-point, save, and go back to the narrow bridge. Much easier now =p Find your way past it, and you can go down. So do that. Go down, and then go to the left, to a new room. From here, head up, and follow the path to find a cracked wall. Dig through it. Follow the small path here, and leave again. You'll be in the previous room again, and you're able to open a chest with 120 ravals. Return back down the small hall, and keep walking down to find a new room. Follow the path down. After a while, you'll notice you can go left or right. Go left, or you'll fall in a pit with spikes, and get most of your health gone. From there, head to the right. You can go up three times. Pick the second one to find a chest with a life potion. Pick the third, and follow the path to the topright to find the next area. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Icebound Cave [YS.03.08] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find the save-point, and follow the path to battle the boss. *Boss #8: Gildias (HP: 3000)* A battle in which you'll need a bit of luck. Be sure to have your earth ring equipped at all times. He has various phrases, and he starts with the first one (how much sense did that make to you?), and does some attacks; * Bite: When you're too far away from him, he'll bite at you. * Breath: He'll use his breath against you, which causes ice pillars to rise from the ground. * Wings: He'll use his wings and shoot ice towards you. If you look closely (start with a double jump), it's not that hard to avoid. Dash towards him, and kick one of his legs away using the earth ring. He'll fall down. Smash him in the face, and when he tries to stand up, kick one of his legs away again. You can do this until he has about 2200HP left. Then he'll go into the next phrase. He'll stop biting, but use more attacks; * Ice-Pillars: He'll shoot three rows of ice pillars towards you. * Sky-Dive: He'll dive into the sky, some pillars will fall down, and he'll land again. Both the pillars, and the dragon as he falls, will hurt. The trick is to time a double jump (just before the pillars hit the ground) and then use the earth ring, in the direction of one of his legs. This'll kick him on the ground, allowing you to kick his head again. Take your distance from him when he goes into the sky though. When he has around 600HP left, things will get ugly, and he'll use one more deathly attacks; * Throw-Down: He'll dive in the sky, just like the normal attack, but no pillars will fall down. Instead, he'll try to grab you. Try to avoid this at all costs by running vertical, or by double jumping. If he manages to grab you, he'll throw you down. This won't hurt yet, but he'll make sure you hit some ledges, which cause quite a lot of damage. It can bring you down back to 25% if you're not careful. You can avoid the ledges with the wing ring, but it's nearly impossible to miss them all. Just kick one of his legs, and slash his face (boost is your friend). He'll give up soon enough. The ice statue will be yours. When you try to walk back, you'll notice the exit is blocked. Use the earth ring against the rocks. Dogi will break the exit open for you. You'll both walk outside, but Chester will show up, and hurt Dogi pretty bad. Berhard will take care of it. You should just get back to Redmont Town. Save, and head towards the port. You'll see dead bodies, and Gardner, who's wounded. Talk to him, and then head inside. Elena and Anya are attacked by soldiers. Help them out. When you use the earth ring, this is pretty easy. After the fight, you'll go inside with some guys. After the chat, talk with everyone, get what you need (should be nothing), and head towards the castle. Talk to Fran and the guards, and then enter (save first, obviously). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Valestein Castle [YS.03.09] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There is only one way to go from here, and that's north. Might as well go there. Follow the path, and you'll bump in some enemies. Just keep going. In the next screen will be spears. The trick is do time right, and double jump. The problem are the enemies that wander around. Go right. Head up the stairs, to find a room with more stairs. Destroy the Halvaiger on the stairs, and keep going straight ahead. Try to avoid the big balls, because they hurt, and knock you off the platform. If you fall off, and you're not lucky, you'll fall in some spears, and perhaps an enemy is ready to ambush you. If you want to be certain the last thing doesn't happen, you can destroy all the enemies first. And more will come soon, sir (or ma'am, what you prefer). ============================================================================== Character List [YS.04.01] ============================================================================== I'll add more as soon as I have it myself. 01. Elena Stoddart 02. Chester Stoddart 03. Dogi 04. Edgar 05. Gardner 06. Dewey 07. Ricardo 08. Paul 09. Margo 10. Joel 11. Adonis 12. Cynthia 13. Randolph 14. Antonio 15. Aida 16. 17. Anya 18. Rochus 19. Harold 20. Fiona 21. Hugo 22. Father Jan Pierre 23. Sister Nell 24. Bishop Nicolas 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. Andre 30. Fran 31. Berhard 32. Dularn ============================================================================== Enemy List [YS.05.01] ============================================================================== I'll add more as soon as I have it myself. The following monsters are listed like this; Number. Name/HP/STR/Exp/Lvl/DEF/Gold (Special Note/Best rings against it) 01. Guff/42/42/5/1/40/1 02. Riez/67/44/8/2/44/1 03. Bicmole/47/46/17/2/31/1 04. Gulms/52/50/24/3/50/2 05. Kayrun/57/48/33/4/44/2 06. Radel/88/58/40/5/59/3 07. Mozuk/113/68/65/6/61/4 (Fire ring needed in order to kill) 08. Fazzle/111/75/65/6/63/5 09. Sigled/154/81/75/7/65/6 10. Eager/82/81/95/9/72/4 11. Seean/97/81/95/9/72/4 12. Gulg/123/89/105/10/82/7 13. Diegled/155/95/115/11/89/7 14. Barl/121/91/115/11/80/6 15. Sizarian/115/90/121/12/87/8 16. Zown/167/101/122/13/81/8 17. Zual/121/103/124/13/78/8 18. Almenger/162/104/122/14/100/8 19. Gewme/175/105/131/15/93/9 20. Mozgouz/117/104/29/16/104/3 (Wind ring needed in order to kill) 21. Kelzarl/172/108/153/17/119/10 22. Queguff/205/121/143/17/109/9 23. Deriez/160/125/145/17/109/10 24. Fozen/185/125/156/18/117/10 25. Robal/213/134/156/18/102/11 26. Geld/186/128/165/19/132/10 27. Barlen/168/135/182/21/130/12 28. Doradel/264/135/188/21/130/13 29. Gel-Grad/207/140/204/22/130/14 30. Kradel/246/146/206/23/147/22 31. Jigel/156/149/146/24/125/20 32. Halick/180/149/226/24/132/24 33. Zolmie/352/154/223/25/150/28 34. Pashhow/228/151/227/25/129/3 35. Ilba's Shell/288/165/233/27/157/26 (Earth ring) 36. Ilba's Core/192/171/241/28/93/10 (Will escape when Ilba's Shell dies) 37. Salada/242/152/241/27/137/30 38. Vi-Jigel/176/167/170/28/141/20 39. Alemtron/233/171/241/28/156/50 40. Galgado/316/171/250/29/163/60 41. Mon-Jigel/313/165/258/30/165/354 42. Jigradel/325/177/263/30/166/80 43. Ishguest/333/188/249/31/169/100 -Lots of empty space- 65. Dalurn, a Shadow of the Evil One 66. Ellefale, the Statue of Azurite Death 67. Chester Stoddart, the White Knight in Heartless 68. Guilen, the Jaw of Roaring Flames 69. Gyalva, the Tyrant of the Blazed Sphere 70. Istersiva, a Mutation of the Crystal 71. Ligaty, the Sensual Dancing Three Beasts 72. Gildias, the Guardian of the Frozen Cave ============================================================================== Items [YS.06.01] ============================================================================== I'll add more as soon as I have it myself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inventory [YS.06.03] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |--|--|--|--| 01. World Map - See the world |01|02|03|04| 02. Teleport Feather - Teleport to save-points |05|06|07|08| 03. Mirror (50 Gold Shop) - Invincible for short time |09|10|11|12| 04. Horn (50 Gold Shop) - Stuns enemies |13|14|15|16| 05. Life Potion (10.000 Gold Shop) - Increase max. HP |17|18|19|20| 06. Dash Crystal - Gives you the ability to dash |21|22|23|24| 07. Flower - Hugo needs these |--|--|--|--| 08. Pendant - Show this to Aida to get the shiny crystal 09. 10. Key Quarry - Opens the door to boss #1 11. Key Ruins - Open the door to the ruins 12. 13. Book - Allows you to double jump 14. 15. 16. 17. Ring - Trade it for a symbol or amulet 18. Symbol - Boost your boost 19. 20. 21. Ellefale Statue 22. Fire Statue 23. Mines Statue 24. Ice Statue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Equipment [YS.06.04] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Weapons (Strength increase): +20 - You start with this +34 - 800 Gold in Shop +48 - Found in the Zone of Lava +62 - 24.000 Gold in Shop Shields (Defence increase): +6 - You start with this +12 - Found in the Ruins +18 - 2.800 Gold in Shop +24 - 16.000 Gold in Shop Armor (Defence increase): +8 - You start with this +16 - 650 Gold in Shop +24 - 3.500 Gold in Shop +32 - 18.000 Gold in Shop Accessories: Fire Amulet - Walk into lava without taking damage (deep lava still hurts) Shiny Crystal - Reveal weak spots in the castle Shoes - Navigate on the snow/ice without slipping away Cloak - When standing still, you recover HP Rings: Fire Ring Jewel #1 - Found in the Quarry Jewel #2 - Found in the ruins Wind Ring Jewel #1 - Found after the fourth boss Jewel #2 - Found in the mines Earth Ring Jewel #1 - In a room to the right, of where you got the ring ============================================================================== Secrets [YS.07.01] ============================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hard Mode [YS.07.02] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In order to play the game on hard, you need to beat the game on normal. The enemies will do twice as much damage, and he bosses have more attacks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Time Trial [YS.07.03] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beat the game, to unlock time trial. You can play against all the bosses in a row. ============================================================================== FAQ [YS.08.01] ============================================================================== Q: Can I play this game, with an English version of Windows? A: Yes. You can try two things; 1. Use AppLocale to run the game (Google for it). You'll get a lot of yadayada from nerds, but it works great for this game, so why not? 2. Set your locale area settings for Windows to Japanese. This may cause some English applications and games not to run properly anymore though. Obviously, Japanese fonts should be installed. I'm not going in-depth here though. Q: I need help on an enemy/boss/area, but I have no idea what it's called. How can I find out? A: For enemies/bosses/characters; go to the menu, and check the last tab. You'll find an option to view the enemies/bosses/characters there. The English names are included. For areas; when you wander into the area, the name will be displayed in the top left corner of the screen. ============================================================================== Conclusion [YS.09.01] ============================================================================== I hope you enjoyed my guide, since I put a lot of work in it. If you encounter problems, feel free to mail me. Also suggestions, feedback, comment etc. are accepted. The mail addy is on top of this file. Thanks-list: N/A And especially you, for reading this. For other guides, you can check this link: http://www.grawl.nl ============================================================================== Copyright (c) 2005 by Grawl. 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