Ding Dong, We Get a Clue!
Posted by Mike Blitz on January 8th, 2008
Eureka! In less than a minute after we wake up again, everything falls into place!
We’re on the plain to the south of the huge tower in the overworld, and on the waterfront to the west of us is a cave entrance into the mountains that surround the tower. We can’t get to the cave, however, because the Enterprise can’t land on the water, but in front of the cave entrance are some of those shoals that I remember we traveled on when we were looking for Rosa’s cure. I slap my forehead, as I remember the hovercraft! We had used a hovercraft earlier in the game! D’oh!
It all clicks in an instant. The damn hook doesn’t turn the Enterprise into a hovercraft, it must let us hook the hovercraft and bring it over here! Of course. And the cave isn’t a cave in the underworld, it must be the save that leads to the big tower, which perhaps is connected to the underworld.
In any case, we scramble to get the Enterprise airborne, then scream off to search for the hovercraft, which I think we abandoned somewhere near Fabul. After a slight detour where we try to hook a wandering black chocobo, we come upon the hovercraft and easily hook it to the Enterprise, which cranks the watercraft up into the sky with us. Excellent!
Excited, we race back south, towards the entrance to the cave.
Status: Clued in, perhaps.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Well done! You’ve done it! Congrats!
January 8th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
*Appluase.*
January 8th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Conglaturations!
January 8th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Now I remember this part. Good luck, you’re gonna need it! By the way, sorry for this double comment, I had meant to post it on this topic, not the last. If it’s possible, you can delete the last one if you’d like.
January 9th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Thanks, all! I can’t believe that I got that all screwed up, but I totally forgot about that damn hovercraft. Once I took a close look at the shoals, it all came flooding back.
Time to move on!
January 9th, 2008 at 1:54 am
By the way, im the anonymous who posted about killing the six dolls before their merging. I have played both FF 4 and 5 on PSX with my friend, because there is a two-player mode in those. Sadly we got stuck in final bosses, so we haven’t seen the endings. You’re doing a great work Mike!
January 10th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Windark,
Have you thought about going back and finishing them?
That’s too bad you didn’t make it the very end of those games. I hope that doesn’t happen here.
I had one game do that to me a few years ago. It was the first release of the Driver games, on the Playstation. I made it through the whole game and got to the last mission, which was suddenly so brutally difficult. I was determined to finish the damn game, so I just kept trying and trying and trying. I played it straight for two days—maybe 300 attempts—and I just couldn’t finish it. Never did, either. Still bugs me.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
It was quite absurd really, because in FF 5 when we first got to the final boss, we were seriously underleveled, somewhere along the lines of 35-45. We grinded to upper-50ies, managed to kill a REALLY tough optional boss, which is actually stronger than the games final boss! And still we haven’t killed the final boss!