Last time, I finally reached the final battle with Ma-Du Nebozu, where he revealed his true form (...and it was Barney.) Unfortunately, I lost the fight. So I went back and changed my team's classes around before trying again...
...which led to me actually getting a screenshot of the "Kick Nebozu's groin!" message that pops up briefly when Mejuai reveals that she isn't actually under his control... moments before she, well, kicks his groin and runs off.
Unfortunately, I lost to Yenrab Nebozu again that time -- though I
did do better than the previous attempt. So I went back, changed things up a bit to a combination of classes I hadn't previously thought of (I mean, who ever switches Julia to a Wizard!?) and tried again...
Joguo, switched into Warrior form and equipped with the super-powerful Wazzu Sword, launched off a few Goueng-Zu Slashes (shown here) until he ran out of MP and then was berseked by Julia's magic so he'd be faster and have more powerful regular attacks. Enduo, a Karate Fighter equipped with double Nummite Claws, was berserked right away and immediately started getting
four hits every turn, each of them doing 140+ damage. Julia mostly just spent the whole fight casting Berserker on the others and using healing items, while Robert used Freezerburn and his booger-based super moves on and off until he ran out of MP (and then soon afterward got knocked out.)
At one point,
everyone actually got knocked out.
Everyone, that is, except for Enduo. And apparently the berserk rage he was in just refused to go away, which was helpful considering that if it
had gone away at some point Julia wouldn't have been conscious to re-berserk him. It came down to a one-on-one battle between a berserk Enduo and Yenrab Nebozu...
...and much like that one time where a heavy backpack was used as a makeshift ball-and-chain, Nebozu couldn't stand up to the berserk rage and was eventually defeated.
(As you can see by Enduo's super low HP at the end, it was a much closer fight than the one time with the backpack, which doesn't even really qualify as a fight so much as a "threat of violence which caused a moron to panic and immediately get out of my way" situation. XD)
Nebozu's death scene is much like that of the Kuarudo queens, oddly. The only difference is that he doesn't trigger a full-screen animation of some elemental explosive stuff.
One last moment of goofiness before leaving the castle. And yes, there's one of the teleport-you-away robot guards in his freaking
bedroom. Which is convenient, since it makes it a lot quicker to get out of the place.
Enduo and company, now with Mejuai in tow, activate the teleporter from the moon side and head back to Earth.
What follows is a scene of Enduo and company walking down through the various floors of the Great Tree, then passing out through the jungle, and finally reaching the world map and getting into the airship to fly off. You might think this was the end of the game, but...
...five. I only count five there. I'm not sure why I wrote "six" in the textbox as there are clearly only five characters present on the moon in this scene.
Yep... they're bad guys. And they're arguing over who's going to get to shoot down the airship, which is apparently a thing they can do
all the way from up on the moon. Though considering how high-leveled everyone is now (52 at the lowest) it's probably not surprising that anyone who can put up a fight against the game's heroes is ridiculously powerful.
And the big red guy finally speaks up...
...yep, it's
Obesius. The self-proclaimed "mighty dragon" (but actually probably just a mutated Yenrab who, for some bizarre reason, has gotten obsessed with the idea of "dragons" in human fiction -- the whole "giant spiky lizard" image -- and is now convinced that he is one.)
Obviously, he doesn't really resemble any of the
actual dragons that appear in the game. XD
His "haabaadaabaadooderraa" shown here is actually based on a bizarre Japanese voice clip that I used as one of his voice clips in the game. It sounds pretty much exactly like what it sounds like in the textbox.
Goatsu and Deathio also have them, with Deathio's just sounding like "keah!" (or maybe "kill!") and Goatsu's being another bizarre long one, sounding like "huero squito es oy de doy" to me. That... kind of looks like bizarre mangled Spanish, now that I think about it. XD
And back on the airship... the robots start to pick up readings of incoming meteors.
And that is meteor
s, with an S.
That's a whopping
five so far. The first and second are dodged, but when three come on all at once the poor airship isn't quite able to manage it and gets smacked.
And it gets worse from there --
twenty-five more meteors crash into the airship, knocking the living crap out of it and sending it into emergency shutdown mode...
...including the robots manning it.
Lots of flashing and explodey-noises happen, and then... the screen goes black.
When things fade back in, a mysterious narrator character (standing in the middle) informs you that the stasis that the ship was going to put everyone in to protect them worked, and that everyone was teleported to safety... in random places all across the world, spread out and with no access to the remains of the airship.
At this point you get to choose between the five primary orb-holders -- Enduo, Joguo, Jakarjo, Mejuai, and Robert -- and then get to play through a segment of the game as that character alone. Jakarjo's segment is not even started and Joguo's is incredibly incomplete, so I'll probably be skipping over those two (or saving Joguo's for last and showing what little was done), but the other three are fully playable and can be completed.
Yeah, I'm getting pretty close to the "end of demo" point for this game.
Anyway, after a couple seconds of deciding between Enduo, Mejuai, and Robert, I decide to go with...
...Mejuai! Mainly because she hasn't actually been available since all the way back at the Hudawuda castle ruins outside of Raizone, and I've never actually gotten a chance to play the game with her having access to her full-strength orb at this point (at least during this playthrough.)
Anyway, it turns out that the failsafe of the airship transported her to Nalles Geso and disguised her as a statue for
three years following the onslaught of Obesius' meteors. And now, finally, the disguise and barrier and frozen-in-time-ness are wearing off...
...conveniently happening
right at the exact moment that this guy is looking at the "statue." XD
He stays pretty freaked out about the whole "real girl suddenly appears out of a statue" thing.
And walking just a little ways away from Il Bozo's Outdoor Museum of Art, it's plain to see that a formerly prominent building is now completely gone, replaced by a huge patch of dirt. Yep, the Slutzenhoez Club is no more, which means that there's no way to ever find out if Mejuai was secretly the only female character in the game who'd go upstairs with the "shluts" hanging out in the club.
(Probably not, but still.)
I think I actually found that treasure chest she's talking about... but unfortunately it just gave me a message that it contained
absolutely nothing. I'm pretty sure it kept track of how many of a certain item you had on you at the end of the first half of the game (maybe Magical Sheep Yogurt?) and preserved that same amount for you in the second half, so I must have used up all of mine in the Yenrab Nebozu battle.
Lots of references to NPCs from the first half and what they said/did back then. I don't think I ever found the "stands between Chicken Warlord and Taco Hell, giving out some of their food for free" guy on my first run through this city, but here he is now, complaining that he's banned from both restaurants due to giving their food away for free right in front of both places. XD
This guy was probably here in the first half, but I missed him (and the restaurant he's in.)
Apparently this is a very popular hotel.
Or maybe it just has
a lot of people running meth labs out of it so none of the rooms are ever available, either due to being meth labs or being cleaned up
after being meth labs.
The Wheel of Shiboumaru in the Ninja's Tower Casino seems to have had its prize pool upgraded a bit since the first half. I certainly don't remember
Kirbium equipment ever showing up as prizes back then, anyway!
Don't think I ever got a Deep Dish Pizza back then, either. Mostly just ninja equipment.
Oh hey, there's
another Kirbium weapon. Mejuai will have a lot of great equipment to choose from now, at least.
This guy was commenting on how the apartments were "closed for cockroach removal" before.
Not so many people are going on low-food diets anymore, after discovering that some of their side-effects included anorexia, feeling extra crappy, and
death.
Apparently she figured out a way to get in through the window after all.
And these two figured out a way to... well, y'know. XD
The world map is a bit different now than before. There are
a lot of meteor craters scattered around, for one thing...
...but there's other changes too, like this bridge, which was just a world-map feature before but is now its own mini-map like the bridges over on the east coast back at the start of the game.
One upside of being a hobo: no house to get blown up by random meteors.
The area around Woghsa is a bit different now too, partly due to the meteor impacts in the mountains nearby and partly due to the ocean levels south of the town being different than before so there's more little rivers moving inland.
That cave, of course, is the next plot-important destination... but first I'll continue with this random wandering I'm doing.
Ninja Mejuai can take on a Madasi Yenrab by herself. Apparently she got a lot stronger during her time on the moon (I guess resisting Nebozu's brainwashing 201 times in a row gives
a lot of experience points, as she reached level
57. She was probably only in the 30-somethings or so when Nebozu kidnapped her way back when.)
Remember this, it'll come back around before too much longer.
Apparently Mr. Bugar has headed off to search for Robert during the three years when everyone was frozen in stasis after the airship went kaboom.
More referencing what NPCs said before -- the green-haired girl one spot below her is her daughter, who was a green-haired little kid three years earlier, saying she wanted to be a Booger Fighter (with her mom disapproving.)
Robert's house has been abandoned for three years. It's probably pretty gross by now.
Maybe the magical sheep died out? (Wait... is it magical yogurt from sheep, or yogurt from magical sheep? I don't think I ever decided for sure. XD)
Everyone at this table was talking about ninjas three years earlier.
And now, the cave. It's a lava-y cave...
...as you can see from some of the random encounters, which include these guys returning as a random enemy rather than an out-of-nowhere miniboss.
And when you get to the end of the first segment of the cave,
these guys show up, talking about how they're going to ambush whoever gets to this spot in the cave first.
And then they introduce themselves.
...and Goatsu apparently copied Deathio's introduction rather than doing his usual weapon, excusing it by saying that he's a Blue Mage so copying stuff is just "what he does."
And this leads into their
absolutely ridiculous summoning spell...
Which is kind of reminiscent of Schnee's spells from
Okédoké -- "Moomoo kapoofy, spam on a roll! Oh no! Fall down de hole!"
Speaking of "moomoo kapoofy," that's apparently Goatsu's teleportation spell that they used to get outta there after summoning their monster to attack you.
Said monster is this weirdo, Sheh Akta. Which means "Pink Water" in Khurbyish, bizarrely enough. I'm not sure why, or even
if there was a reason why this thing's name has such a weird meaning. It does use water magic (and ice), but there's nothing particularly pink about it...?
Anyway, after that miniboss (which is quickly defeated even though it manages to
freeze Mejuai briefly at one point), you can get to a mountainous area, and then after entering another cave...
...you come out in the little cave that went up to Clodaro back in the first half! Except now it has a second branch, leading across the mountains through the other cave.
Also, I
finally wiped out these Space Demons (it took four Shin Yagyuhas, but only because I didn't have anything they were actually
weak against) and got the HP-boosting "Pwapyooglethingie" item in the chest they were guarding.
Up in Clodaro, most of the NPCs are talking about Kekyu. I assume her "secret" is how/why she became a giant cat creature, or something along those lines, as it's not elaborated on any more than that (Kekyu herself just talks about how cute her pet rats are.)
And apparently Raizone now has a steady source of groundwater, unlike before when it was always super dry.
Awww, the giant penis statue up in the mountains got hit by a meteor! I guess that makes the cave leading up to it absolutely pointless now.
Also hit by a meteor: the Cave of Arrrghl.
Poor Arrrghlpoots...
Probably because there wouldn't be any way to get there with Mejuai now that the sail barge from the first half is unavailable.
Upon informing the Chief that Ma-Du Nebozu is dead, he informs
you that Nebozu's minions are abundant down here on Earth these days, and...
...
Nebozu himself has even been spotted around the US capital recently, undoubtedly up to no good (like trying to rig an election in his favor. No, really, that's actually what his evil plan is -- kill everyone in line for President, make it so they have to elect a new one, and rig things via brainwashing so that he wins. Unfortunately I never actually got far enough in making the game that this part actually comes up -- I'll wait to talk about it more until the point when I get to the part where it's mentioned, though.)
Nope, that'd be Obesius. But it was a good guess, I guess?
Yep... the Cave of Arrrghl (and along with it the ninja clan, many of the Arrrghlpoots, and... okay the Kuarudos probably survived a fire/rock explosion since they're immune to fire-based and earth-based attacks) is now gone.
One benefit of the meteors: you can reach the Dragon Lair area without the airship now. And the "girl with sharp claws" is...
...Julia, of course! Which means Mejuai no longer has to fight alone from this point onward.
The other "girl with sharp claws" is also in this game, but since I never got too far in the second half she doesn't make many appearances.
Yep. Because trying to fight the boss coming up with
just Mejuai would kinda suck.
Paris Hilton and what's-her-name were also casualties of the meteor storms, apparently.
This priest dude doesn't seem to mind the loss of two shluts, however. Apparently the arrival of shlut-burning meteors from space is a faith-promoting event in this guy's religion.
Now that I have Julia, it's time to go to the next important spot on the map. Remember the NPC who said that they found something weird in the bottom of a crater?
Well... this big ol' golden temple thing definitely seems to be in the bottom of a crater. Who (or what) lurks inside it? Well, this post is getting pretty long, so you'll have to wait until next time to find out!
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