It's been a while since I last posted, but after a short break, I was back onto Phantasy Star 2 yesterday.
Warning -
SPOILERS AHEADSo, I picked back up just outside the Climatrol dungeon. My party jumped underwater and went on an adventure through the dungeon. I had to back out about half way through for health, but my second attempt lead me to the end and the games first boss, a mere 15 hours or so in...
Anyhow, the boss was called Neifirst and was a clone/twin/plot device who was evil and who Nei had seperated from. She apparently was mad at people for abandoning her as a failed experiment and so made all the monsters in the game. Then she had a fight with Nei which Nei lost almost immediately and died, permanently. After that, my other 3 party members took her on and won without difficulty. It was nice to a see a little bit of care had been put into this section, with big full screen images for a few story moments, but it's a shame none of this care was put into other story beats. Anyway, after a visit back to town we were told that Nei couldnt be revived because she is a monster, despite it working up to that point. Stupid contrivances to keep emotional weight ftw.
Anyway, apparently when Neifirst died the climatrol facility went nutzo and blew up, flooding the centre of the planet. We need to open the dams to let the lake drain, but security forces are blaming us for the incident so they've sent security robots after us. What this means is 'all of those monsters in the overworld have gone and been replaced by robots'. Speaking of replacements, I added Anna to my part to replace Nei, and we took to the dams.
But first, I had to go through the dungeon which contained the keys to the dams. This is the stupidest dungeon I have ever seen. Here - take a look at the map: The ground floor has 69 entrances and exits to other areas, and I do not think that is nice:
http://www.phantasy-star.net/psii/maps/mapscontroltower.html. At the end of the dungeon is a piano you need to play. At first I thought you did this by interacting with it (as you might expect) but no, apparently this KICKS YOU OUT OF THE DUNGEON MAKING YOU FIGURE OUT ALL THOSE WARPS AGAIN. The
second time, I used a spell to play the Piano instead, and got the keys to the dams.
So far I've journeyed through 3 of the 4 dams, and I've saved in the entrance to the final one, which is the green one. I'm assuming I'll be going into space or something soon, because at this point I've been everywhere on this world map there is to go. Gonna try and power through more dungeons tonight.
