Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Jul 9, 2012

Skit: Enlightenment

Technically this skit triggers regardless of who you use Savage Wolf Fury on, but it kinda fits when you use it on Schwann.

Before we actually head further into Heracles, we can talk to Leblanc and company.



Leblanc and Boccos are kinda useless, but Adecor actually has a shop to stock up on usable items.



I use this opportunity to synthesize a ton of stuff:



Nice! This increases our Over Limit gauge to four bars and enables Over Limit Level 4. In addition to all the bonuses you already get from previous Over Limit levels, Level 4 makes you completely invulnerable. Yeah. Over Limit in Vesperia is overpowered as gently caress.
This is the last upgrate in the 360 version. In the PS3 version there's one more, although that one just increases your gauge and doesn't unlock a new level.

Skit: The Royal Guard

Alright, so let's talk about this dungeon. It sucks.

Okay, that's maybe a bit harsh, but the first time I played through this I got completely stuck for like an hour cause I missed a ladder. Which means I saw all of this dungeon's rooms as well as the enemies (and the dungeon music) here a whole loving lot.



The enemies are split into more of Alexei's knights like in the last two dungeons, some flying dragons I can only assume are tamed by the knights, and some robots. They're a bit tougher than usual random encounters but not too bad.



The dungeon itself has these outside sections where you walk along narrow paths on Heracles' side, and some inside sections where you have a bit more space to navigate. But just a bit.








In the first couple fights here, Karol gets Destructo Booing, pronounced without the second "o". It's just like Destructo Pain Shot, except it reduces the enemy's Physical Attack stat.

Skit: Patty's Troubles

Skit: Titles

Skit: The Manly Way

This Sorcerer's Ring upgrade allows us to use the Ring on a couple more things. In this dungeon, this includes those path-blocking gates, as well as some locked doors.



There's some neat items hidden in some of those locked doors but nothing else of note.

Going a bit further leads to this door, which continues into the dungeon, but there's one thing we should do before entering here.



A bit more to the left are another door and some terminal.



Inside the door is something that's clearly a puzzle room,



but we can't actually proceed into it cause the ladder in the back is too far up.



The terminal outside, however, can be used to turn on that freight lift above it. We'll do that right now to save ourselves some minor backtracking later.






While we're here, Rita gets Ground Dasher! Essentially an evolved version of Stalagmite. Earth elemental and a pretty big area of effect.


Anyway, inside that big door we passed is a cutscene.

Skit: The Mobile Fortress Heracles

Now, we could go down there, but unless you want the save point it's pointless. The game even lets you take on all those knights, but the door will still be locked if you beat them all, so don't bother. Spoilers we need to go back here later anyway.



Instead, we just proceed to the right.



Which leads back outside in what is an incredibly convoluted way to actually get anywhere in this thing.

Skit: Travelling with Flynn

I put on a Holy Bottle (makes enemies not chase you, and prevents encounters unless you rub against them for a second or two) because I was getting kinda sick of the fights.



And back inside.





That box up here needs to be pushed to the left onto the next screen.






Because over here we can push it down onto a shield generator.





Which disables one of the barriers here. This is the puzzle room we saw a glimpse of before.




Now, while I'm breaking this generator over here by just shooting it with the Sorcerer's Ring: There's a ladder on this screenshot. Can you spot it?





This is the ladder that I couldn't find the first time. Wasted a ton of time due to that. Ah well.



Down here we can lower the other ladder we saw before to make a shortcut back to where that freight lift terminal was.

Before we can head further into this room to destory the rest of the generators, a PS3 exclusive cutscene.

Am I breaking the mood here with my party hat?





The next two generators require some timing, shooting down some boxes that go by on the freight lift. This one's fairly simple.

Skit: Which is Real?

The other one is down here and a bit more annoying.



For one, if you didn't turn on the lift outside, the boxes here don't move and you can't shoot them down.



Also, it's kinda hard to judge where you actually have to shoot a box down since, if you're in the correct spot, the generator is off screen.



This is me having hit the generator.




Even further down, we can see the last generator in front.



But we can't actually do anything about it at the moment, since the lift here is locked.



We have to go back to where we first entered the room, walk down the path with 80% now defunct barriers, and turn it on at a terminal after thr fourth.



After that we can go back and move the lift up.



Then drop the box from above onto the generator.







Phew.



I think this is a good point to end it for now. Next time: The control room and whatever awaits within!

Admiral H. Curtiss fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Oct 9, 2016

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