Friday, October 26, 2018

PrinceWatercress plays Illusion of Gaia - Part 8 of 21


We've been teleported to the second dungeon...and we'll have to go through a lot to get out of it!

Sky Garden






Talk to the Moon Tribe members. You'll learn that you will have to explore all four areas in clockwise order, and that you will have to go to the other side of the Sky Garden in order to get out of here. There is also a Dark Space portal at the start in case you need to save.

Do as the Moon Tribe says: go from the east-most area to the west-most area and get the Crystal Balls for each. When you find a Crystal Ball, equip it and place it into a tile with the hole in it in order to build a bridge leading to the boss.

The worms break up and explode when you kill them. The segments go in a V pattern in the front side, but on the back side, all the segments rise up before dropping in random spots in a rather tight area around where you killed the worm, and if those segments hit you, they will do damage.

The blue robots will try to fire lasers at you as well as hit you with their fists. You cannot block the lasers, but you can block the fists with the shoulder buttons. On the front side, they are blue and their arms go all the way to the end of the screen; on the back side, they are red, their arms have shorter range and their arms do come back.

If you drop off an edge, you will go to the other side of the Sky Garden. Here, the world looks a little different, as will the enemies. There is a front side and a back "mirrored" side, and you will have to explore both sides well in order to get through the Sky Garden.

The fireball worms are indestructible and should be avoided. They are blue on the front side and red on the back, but they don't act differently between sides.

The statues that carry swords will attack you telekinetically with their swords, and you will have to destroy the swords in order to neutralize the statues. The statues can then be moved with your telekinesis, and you will have to move the statues onto tiles in order to solve some puzzles. The swords are blue on the front side and red on the back, and they will re-spawn if you ever leave the area by either heading back to the central hub or entering a Dark Space portal as they are not counted as enemies by the game.

If you are on a narrow pathway that has your back against the wall, you can simply hold Left and Right on the Control Pad to move across it.

There is also a Dark Space portal in a room guarded by a statue in the southeast portion of the Sky Garden. Enter the portal, and you will be able to transform into Freedan.

There are two Red Jewels in the Sky Garden. One of them is at the beginning of the east-most section, while the other is on the back side of the southwest section. You should have 19 Red Jewels collected so far in the game by the time you are done with the Sky Garden.

In the southwest section, you will have to hit switches on the back side in order to move some pillars on both the front and back sides. This will definitely have to be done to get the Crystal Ball. You will have to hit a switch on the back side with Freedan's Dark Friar, transform to Will when you get back to the front, then run down the nearby ramps and break the statues with the Psycho Dash to get to another part of the back side. From there, you will have to destroy a statue's sword and then move the statue to a nearby title with your telekinesis. This will allow you to run up and down all the ramps to reach the third Crystal Ball.

In the west-most section, when you make it to the ramp, run down and jump at the first ramp, then immediately hold Left after you cross so you don't run across the second. By doing this, you can explore more of the section. You'll want to do this in case you need to go to the back end switch to Freedan.

When you find all four Crystal Balls and place them in the tiles with the holes in them, you will be able to build a bridge to the boss...

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