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Berg
Welcome to Berg
When you first start a new game you'll be treated to a series of cut scenes (believe it or not, these were state of the art at the time). You can't skip these, but
they provide useful information so practice your patience and try to learn things. When you have control of your character, head toward the bottom of the screen and
run into Ramus. After a brief conversation, head right, following the top of the screen. You'll go down one bridge, then up another to a new screen. After more cut
scenes and dialog, head back down into town.
Optional Backstory
If you would like more backstory here, you can wander around the town and talk to folks until they repeat themselves. If someone asks Luna to sing, go ahead and let her.
The White Dragon Cave
When you're ready to move on, head to your house in the upper left corner of the town map. Talk to everyone until they repeat themselves, and you'll eventually get
permission to raid the basement. Go down the stairs on the bottom left of the screen and get stuff out of the chests. (As far as I know, you can't open the
barrels.) You should receive: Angel's Tear , Star Light , Herb , Dragonfly Wing . Once you have these, leave the house and head to the village entrance on the far left
of the village screen. Talk to Ramus, then open the menu by pressing Square and equip your characters.
Cave of the White Dragon
When you are ready, leave the village and you'll appear on the overworld screen. Follow the mountains around to the right, up, then down and back to the left. You
should see the cave just below the village of Berg. Head into the cave. This is where I like to spend a bit of time leveling up. Don't use the AI - manually have
your characters attack. Don't use your items - rely on Luna to heal folks when needed. When you run low on magic, head back to Berg and heal at the statue in the
middle of the town. While you're there, head to the weapons shop and sell any items you've picked up in combat (don't sell your Angel's Tear , Star Light , or
Dragonfly Wing !) and see if there are any new weapons or armor you can afford. I like to repeat this process until everyone has the best armor and weapons Berg has
to offer. That usually gets me to level 8 or so. At that time, I will begin moving deeper into the cave.
Before you go further into the cave, head straight down from the cave opening. You should see an ice wall blocking your path further down. Remember what those
look like - you can trick a monkey into breaking them for you. Once broken, they will stay broken even if you leave the cave. That means you can create short cuts
and open paths that would otherwise block your way or hide items. Anyway, make your way to the left and explore the cave. Be sure to open any chests you find.
Continue going back to Berg to heal as needed. You should eventually make your way to the other side of that ice wall I mentioned before. Get the monkey to chase
you, then move out of the way so the monkey breaks the ice wall.
From there, head down and follow the path. You should eventually reach another cave entrance. Head inside and watch the cut scenes with Quark, then head back out
of that room. The rocks blocking your way left should be gone and you can continue on. Go left, then up and into the next area. You'll need to get the monkey to
break the ice walls here so you can continue. As you continue look for a couple of chests blocked by ice walls. If you can get the monkey to open them you can get
250 Silver, another Star Light , and the Dragon Ring . Take the Dragon Ring back to Quark, then head back to Berg.
You might be tempted to level grind here, but be patient and there will be a better place soon. When you're back in Berg, use the statue to heal and then head to
the item shop. After a brief discussion head back to Alex's house. On the way Luna will leave Alex and Ramus. Agree to go with Ramus and head out of town, then into
the forest to the left. Wander around a bit and eventually you'll end up back in Berg. Return to Alex's house and talk to everyone over and over until Alex goes to
sleep. After a brief dialog, Luna and Alex can meet up with Ramus at the village entrance.
Weird Woods
Head back to the left and into the woods. After the path is cleared, you'll be able to
wander around the area. This is where I like to level up a bit more. You'll end up in a
major fight soon and it will be good to have characters that can hold their ground.
While wandering around, pick up any Herb or Antidote items you find. Like before, I
tend to just sell most of these off and rely on Luna to cure conditions. Since poison
goes away at the end of each battle, I rarely use them once the characters are strong
enough to defeat these enemies in one or two rounds. By this time Alex should be able
to do more than one attack. Having him focus on the strongest enemies makes these
battles a lot easier.
Anyway, there's a large open area here. If you're leveling up, don't go to the upper
left past this area until you're ready for the big fight. The upper right exit from
this area has a slighly hard to see orange chest. It's locked, and if you try to open
it Nall will wonder what's inside. If you head left, you'll end up in three
back-to-back fights. Since you can't recover between battles, clear out all but one
enemy and heal up before finishing each battle. If you find you are having a lot of
trouble, you can ask for help from the mysterious stranger who offers assistance
between battles. When the battles are over, there will be more cut dialogue and you'll
be able to move on. If you were unable to withstand all three waves of attack, you will
get a little bit more dialgue, but there isn't any tangible difference. Head down and
find your way out of this area. At this point I like to be about level 13 or so. If
you're not, you may want to level up a bit here - but be sure to head to Saith first
and buy new weapons and armor. When you get to the overworld map and you're ready to
move on, head left across the bridge and down and rigth to the town of Saith. (You can
ignore the left fork for you - you'll be coming back there soon.)
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