Dark Crystal!
Posted by Mike Blitz on January 25th, 2008
We exit the Sealed Cave and make a quick journey back to Final Fantasy IV’s underworld town of Tomra. There we buy some armor upgrades, stock up on potions again, and head back towards the Sealed Cave for more fun with Deadly Doors.
As a side note, in previous Final Fantasy games and up to this point in this game, I’ve mostly used potions for healing purposes. However, here in Final Fantasy IV it makes more economic sense to use Rosa and Cecil’s healing powers instead of potions. Rosa in particular has a large pool of magic points which lasts for dozens of battles if I manage it well. At a save point, I can get all magic points back by using one or two tents, which cost 100 gil each. High potions, however, cost 150 each, and they only heal about 500 hit points. On the initial run into the Sealed Cave, I used potions for healing, and to replenish them cost me nearly 8,000 gil. I could get the same amount of healing from Rosa at a cost of about 400 gil in tents.
But I digress. Back to our adventure…
We continue hacking our way through the deadly doors, which thankfully get fewer and fewer as we move further into the cave. After another couple of levels, we once again come to a safe zone, where we rest before moving on. Shortly after that, we hack through one last door to find ourselves in a magnificent room. There, in front of us, is a Dark Cyrstal! We’ve done it.
Wary of a trap, we move forward and grab the crystal….
Nothing happens. Humm? This is too easy.
We exit the room and warily begin heading out of the cave. Something’s not right. They wouldn’t let us have this thing this easily, would they?
Status: Paranoid
Image: olivetti
