Friday, July 22, 2022

PrinceWatercress plays The Lone Ranger - Part 4 of 12


For the third part of the game, you'll have to noodle around and talk to people until something happens. Thankfully, I was able to figure things out, but it can still be easy to get confused here.


At the start of the area, Tonto will tell you that the towns in the area were booming due to the gold rush, but now that all of the gold is gone, some of the towns are now ghost towns.

The first city on the path when you head south at the start is El Paso. The sheriff, gunshop and doctor - from top to bottom, respectively - are all near the entrance. If you talk to the sheriff now, he will tell you that he has heard good things about you, but not much else.

At this point in the game, you can get the medium barreled guns. Get them now, as this will increase the range of your shots. Also, be careful in the towns, as it is possible to hit the female citizens with your bullets and lose health from doing so.

The townspeople in this point in the game are not very useful expect in specific circumstances.

In the upper-left corner of the town, you can play a simple variation of five-card draw. After betting some money with the D-Pad and A, you can choose which cards to throw out. "No" lets you hold it, while "Draw" lets you toss them out for something else chosen at random. Afterwards, you'll get to see what you have. If your cards are better than the dealer's, you double your money. Otherwise, you'll win nothing and you lose what you wagered.

From here, head further west. Tonto will tell you that the townspeople are scared of something. Just northwest of El Paso is Albuquerque. Head there. The townsperson to the west of the entrance will tell you to see the sheriff. If a townsperson tells you this, head back to El Paso. Also, go fight the enemies here if you need the money, but be careful. There is also a hotel here. Keep that in mind.

Head back to El Paso and talk to the sheriff. He will tell you that three outlaws have been poking about and that he injured himself trying to arrest them, then ask you to round them up. 

Before going after the outlaws, there is a town further to the northwest. This is Laredo. There is a gunshop, a doctor and a train station here, but the train has not made it to town yet. There is also a firing range in the northwest corner of the town.

Head back to El Paso. If the music changes when you enter a house, you'll be told that a bank has been robbed. This advances the plot. The bank is in the top center of town and has the word "Bank" on it. Talk to the bank teller, and he will tell you that the robbers came from Walnut Grove, which is one of the ghosts towns in the area.

Walnut Area is the ruined buildings at the far south part of the area and is guarded by enemies. The ruined buildings are enemy hideouts, and you can fight enemies there for extra money. The ghost town between Albuquerque and Laredo has a house on the north end with a side-scrolling section, and if you enter it, you can go upstairs and kill the light blue outlaw for health. To go up stairs, just stand in front of a stairway and hold Up on the Control Pad to climb up. From here, you can use Up and Down on the stairs to travel across them.

The enemies in the windows in the top-down outside section don't give you anything when shot, and they eventually come back.

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