Wednesday, August 13, 2025

PrinceWatercress plays Hydlide - Part 3 of 5


As you can see, getting prepared for Boralis is not easy.




At the start of this video, I'm at Level 5. I'm as strong as I can get from the Ropers in the maze.

Once in the maze, head north, then east. This lets you get to the chest that contains the Pot, which lets you see holes in the floor that you could not see before. This reveals a hole in the southeast corner of the maze, which you'll now need to head to.

Once you go down the hole, you'll need to open every chest until you find the Key. The Key is in a random chest every time you play. Along the way, you'll need to watch out for the gold soldiers known as the Goldams as you do this. Once you do that, you'll want to leave the maze where you came in from in order to heal up. You can heal anywhere if you stand still long enough, but it is best to do it in the light green grass, as healing speeds up on those titles as opposed to in forests or in castle-like areas.

The little brown guys running around in the forests are the Kobolds. They're weak for this point in the game.

From the maze, I head to the graveyard to the south and open the chest there now that we have the key. This lets us get the Jewel, which we will need later.

From there, go back into the maze and go through the hole on the other side. When you're back above ground, go north of where you came out from, and save and password. When you go north again, you'll see four trees moving around. One tree does not attack you when you run into it in attack mode, and if you run into that tree long enough, you'll get Fairy 2. Once again, save and password near the trees, and be prepared to load a lot.

From the trees, run west through the desert and avoid the sandworms. There will be a hole that you need to enter. Get in the hole, then save and password. While the Goldams are still powerful, the Ladyams - the pink soldiers - are a little easier to defeat. You'll need to fight them until you get the Shield, which increases your defense. From here, you'll need to heal up while still in the maze, then beat up some Goldrms until a chest appears in the southeast corner of the maze. You may have to load several times just to get enough of them to show up away from the hole on the east end of the maze. When the chest appears, open it up to get the Ring. The Ring allows you to heal twice as fast, which will work wonders with making progress in this game. Too bad the faster healing time only applies to the light green grass tiles.

Go through the hole at the east end of the maze to get back to close to where you started the game. From here, I head to the graveyard and farm experience from the zombies running around in the dirt. For best results, stay on the green grass, and attack from any direction other than in front of the zombies when they get close enough.

PBT8GJHDB3V9B2L3 - beginning of maze
Y21LLK1N78RKKMK7 - near the trees
M1XMQB2QHBL6B5DJ - Fairy 2 collected
M9NB9PNJH4Q89PL1 - Shield collected
RHMKDTRTV8WKH774 - Ring collected

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