PrinceWatercress plays Brave Fencer Musashi - Part 23 of 33

In this entry, we approach the Ice Palace, which is our toughest challenge yet...

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Go to the castle library and talk to Scribe Shanky. You can learn about Allucaneet, Shogi and the Empire now, if you want.

The Gold can be moved one space in any direction, except diagonally.

The Knight can be moved two spaces up and one space right or left.

The Lance can be moved any number of spaces up.

Remember the endless forest maze that you went into with Leno earlier in the game? Well, you're heading there again in order to do this next part. You'll have to Assimilate the Hop move from that pink flower and jump over those thorns again.

If you ever get lost, go down.

The correct route is left, up, up, right, up, up, right, up, up, left, then up until you reach the hideout. If you go in the right direction, you'll start seeing rocks and eventually snow.

You'll reach the Frozen Palace. Inside you'll meet Gingerelle, but you won't get much out of the conversation. You'll be seeing her again soon, though.

You'll slide a little further when you stop due to the ice.

The hopping ice flowers will Poison you if they touch you. However, if you Assimilate one of them, you'll get the Map ability, which allows you to access a map of the place for 8 BP. This is the only area where the Map ability will work. Destroying an ice flower does give a random drop of a poison cure.

The treasure box to the right of the stairs is a Memory Box.

You won't be able to go up the stairs yet, so you'll be stuck on the first floor for a while. Stay away from any slopes, as you won't be able to go up them, only down.

There are penguin enemies around here that walk back and forth. Some of them will dive at you like, well, penguins, but others will shoot lasers at you. If you behead them, they will start shooting lasers from where their heads used to be.

In the room where the penguins push the ice cubes into the pit, jump onto the ice blocks and jump to the other side before they fall into the pit. Climb up the boxes and rescue Chef Julienne. Visit him at the castle and you'll be able to get rice balls at the grocery store in the village.

The gray guys that hop around with their eyes raised up will leap at you if you're too close. Assimilating them gives you D-Kick, which allows you to perform a drop kick for 4 BP.

Near where you found Chef Julienne is another door. Enter the area and kill off all the penguins. This will cause a chest to spawn. Open it to get the RedEye. Use it to open the locked door at the far left side of the entry room.