3 weeks ago i finished Beyond Oasis and that makes me want to
play E. Hashimoto (Buster)'s Guardian of
Paradise/Rakuen no Guardian (2005)
again.
Thanks to Aeon Genesis for the
translation. The title screen is simple and meaningful, a lad looks determined
to achieve something. But what's the thing that he really wants to do? We shall
see at the prologue.
The lad lives with his little
sister and they live happy life. It goes well and such.
When suddenly, the sister goes
ill and the doctor can't find way to cure her because the disease is mysterious.
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He search for healing water of
Holy Tree's spring in faraway paradise land unlike Giza in Dragon View who basically does crying and cursing when his sister is ill (and
then she dies). I better make him go outside of their house as soon as i get
control over him before it's too late. Nice house, by the way. You control protagonist's movement by using arrow keys and i don't find a way to reconfigure that.
I don't know who's the lady but she knows our name: Tela and
Tina. Both names are short so no way, i forget them.
After talking to some NPC, i drop
in these three knowitall brothers. You may think that 3 NPCs on same roof that
give you vital info, sounds really useful. But only the youngest brother
that gives me info on next subject. The other just say "We're three
knowitall brothers" and "We know something that you may not
know". I sense some scam. <_<
By general code of RPG or
Action-RPG, i should meet with elder or king before i can leave the starting
town. I try go to elder's house to ask permission to leave but his
granddaughter says he's out. I try go outside and talk to all NPC again but i
can't find him. When i enter elder's house again, he magically appears!
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He informs me that to go to the
paradise, i need various elemental emblems from each spirit and the forest spirit
is in the forest on the east. Off we go!
Yikes! I got blown out by green
jelly which is the first enemy that i encounter. To be fair, i don't have any
weapon yet. I try to go back to house and search for any kind of weapon but no
result. The protagonist and his sister lived peacefully of course they don't
have any urgency to keep some weapon. Silly me.
This is the first block-pushing
puzzle, each block can only be pushed once. They darkened blocks means they are
already pushed once and can't be pushed anymore. The solution to this is quite
simple: push blocks on the corners to bottom and then push the center one to
either left or right.
The cave over there leads to dead
end obstructed with bushes. So i have to dare to go through this platform and
fortunately the platforming in this section is friendly because the platform
moves slowly and covers long range even though i can't jump.
At the end of that platforming
section, there's just a hole so i decide to go inside of it and i end up in
other side of the cave. After another section of monster-dodging and switch
flicking, i finally get a sword. It was there inside of a stone like the legendary
Excalibur. This may seems harsh for the player to get the sword after first
monster encounter unlike Zelda, Beyond Oasis or Crusader of Centy (with unfortunate remainder that your father is dead
as you inherited his sword and shield). But i feel that dodging the first type
monster in this game, isn't difficult. They're slow and easily predictable.
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Everytime i cut the bushes, there's a chance that a piece of cheese will
appears. How and why? I get it if they drop apple like in Crusader of Centy but cheese or even more bizarre cartoon meat! But
at least the game teaches me that cutting bushes can produce apple (10% health
refill), cheese (30% health refill), or meat (50% health refill). While
breaking barrel will reward you with the health refill item 100% chance. By the
way sword attack button is: 'Z' key (default).
Not all block-pushing puzzle
requires you to make the block goes into the floor switch with same quantity.
Like here for example, i only need to get that block to one switch and i step
on another one later.
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This one is trickier. The solution is: 1) Move the block that near to me, to up
then right 2) Move the most bottom block to nearest switch, you can move around
that center bush with no problem 3) Move the first block to switch near the
gate 4) Step into the switch in right-top corner. Beyond the recently opened
gate, you will get a key. What's the use of this key? For one of NPC's house?
Well, of course not. It's for
unlocking a gate...in the middle of wilderness! Whatever. Let's carry on!
The combat mechanic here is
rather friendly. If you hit enemies, they will bounce quite distance and you
can juggle them before they land. The sword inflict 1 bar health damage. Most
lesser enemies have 1-3 health bars. The sword projection needs some time to
understand. It's not the usual half-circle based on Tela's facing. Its shape is
more like ellipsoid with more in length than wide. Thus Tela's attack has more
range in front of him and less range besides him.
The game teases me with Health
upgrade that i can't pick up yet because of this stakes. I'll come back to you,
i promise.
There's also code number puzzle.
I randomly fiddle with number machine. When they hit '4' and '3' shortly after
i start operating it, the door opens. There must be clue for this but i don't
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Behind the gate is another key. I
like his naive look when he picks the key like he has no worry in the world,
for seconds he forgets that his sister ills badly. The stupid lad.
Later i find this mint plant that
can talk without me deprived from talking to other human unlike in Crusader of Centy. He gives the hint
about number combination but only '4' on left. But you're too late, idiot. I
solved it myself.
In this section i find some
strange ball and i lead it to that plate...with my sword, not with my foot. By
doing so i break the seal of him and he's happy with my deed and join my quest.
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