Gailardia 3 walkthrough (and maps)

 Android RPGs  6 Responses »
Apr 212012
 

It took me some precious time to decide to play Gailardia 3. The developers have done very good job again.

Only the price of the game stopped me so far (I’ve not played Gailardia 2 yet, but Gailardia 1 was great)

So, what do you need to pass the third part of this excellent 8-bit RPG?

Again:

  • Speak with everyone.
  • Visit all sages.
  • Read all books.
  • Loot all dungeons and caves.
  • Kill Lamia Demon King again.

Let’s begin.

Castle Raiton.

You emerge in front of the king in castle Raiton.

The game starts with small introduction.

  • Apparently the current bunch of heroes are descendants of Rick from the first Gailardia game.
  • And obviously Lamia Demon king has been revived again.
  • You need to find why and take him (her?) down. Again.

After this, without much clarification the king sends you on your way.

(How the hell Rick has become a king?! He was always the first needing healing or revival.)

Talk with everyone in the castle and read all books to gather those tips and knowledge:

 

  1. You need to find the job-change work permits to advance your jobs.
  2. Make the Leader a really strong hero who can take a lot of beating such as fighter
  3. Have a Monk in the party. DEFINITELY!
  4. The magic swordsman is a Jack-of-all-trades.

Before you exit the castle, you need to choose jobs for your 4 heroes. (you can’t exit castle if you don’t choose)

My choice was:

  • Alan – Warrior (very strong and sturdy, least agile)
  • Chaz – Samurai (very agile, quite strong)
  • Sammy – Monk (weak, can take some beating while healing the others)
  • Lillis – Magician (very weak, but quick and with very good mass kill spells)

I totally neglected and abandoned the choice Magic swordsman, let’s hope I don’t miss something later. But it looks lame and weak from the description.

Next step is to walk around in Raiton castle and explore. There are 2 hidden things (wooden weapon and a herb) in the northwest part of the castle. And as all other cities in the game – 2 traders, Inn and Church.

Grab the 2 things, read the other 4 books with travel tips and get out to find action.

Hunt and level.

Go South from castle Raiton

Go South from castle Raiton

Kill 5-6 groups of monsters and you will be level 2. Kill 10 more groups of monsters and you will be level 3.

Get to know the vicinity of the castle and what groups of monsters are easy to train on. I suggest you train to levels 4-5 to feel some safety with the lower level monsters and then head south.

Side subquest (gem collection 1/7) can be done, by going east from the desert near the castle, but the monsters will be a bit strong for you at this moment. There is a sage 35-40 squares east from the castle. 3 chests – gem, wings and 40 gold. But leave it for better times. For now hunt around the castle Raiton.

Main story quest proceeds South – There is a bridge and a small inn with a sage who tells you to keep south or to check nearby cave slightly to the northwest.

The cave to the northeast has 3 pots and 2 chests.
Leftmost pot has 80 gold and the chests have herb and spider silk.
Level 4 party can take the monsters inside the cave easily, so you may use it for training.

Feel free to train to level 5 in the cave, it’s quite easy and you will get some spare cash to upgrade the equipment to copper.

When fed with the first cave and the sage, keep going south.

You will reach 3 bridges and will glimpse another sage inside the mountain.

After the third bridge there is a sign post saying “go west” to Misaki village and don’t bother going to the shrine 10 squares south without the Silver key:

From the first sage to Misaki village

From the first sage to Misaki village

Misaki vilage.

It is actually a bit North-West from the sign. Beware the electric shell fish. They paralyze. To remove paralysis, either:

  1. Cast “Cure” (level 6 monk spell),
  2. use Paralweed or
  3. rest in an Inn.

This is learned by a book in the Inn. You will also learn, that Colma city is south and the silver key is in a cave … somewhere.

There is a pot in Misaki having some paralweed inside, so help yourself, but it is not that expensive.

How to use paralweed? You need at least one non-paralyzed hero to use the weed on you.

When to head south towards Colma?

  • Gather some money.
  • Buy best equipment in Misaki.
  • Go back to the sage and check for the equipment suitable for monk and mage. (just to be sure)
  • Get all your chars to level 7. (monsters are strong and there are sporadic shellfish attacks)

Go south. You are ready for Colma town.

You can’t get lost if you keep going south – you will reach Colma town in about 50 squares.

If accidentaly you get lost – drop me a message and I will draw a map.

Colma

Some stuff in Colma town:

  1. In the Inn you will find hidden Traveller’s wings.
  2. The sage of Colma knows where is the silver key.
  3. Colma has an adventurer’s shop. Check regularly. (you will find nothing here on the first visit)
  4. Colma armory will have new stuff for you, worth 2500 gold (if you bought everything so far).

When tired from gathering money for stuff or at least level 8, go east to the cave:

Silver key is east of Colma town

Silver key is east of Colma town

  • Use the right-hand rule, the dungeon is not that hard.
  • Level 1 is monsters only, good for training.
  • Level 2 has some chests. South one has traveler’s wings or other useless junk.
  • Level 3 has 110 gold, the silver key and a sign wanting you to revisit once the button is pressed.

The north corridor has 2 unpassable black squares, so go back to Colma. You can’t go north for now, because you need to find the switch that opens the path north.

In Colma, the silver key opens a room with 2 chests. Useless iron sword and Shell ring (+3 defense) inside.

Back to Misaki.

Now teleport to Misaki and head southeast to the sign saying you need silver key for the south cave.

Go south from the sign, the cave is 10 squares south.

Unlock and proceed east, you will emerge from the cellar of an Inn with a guard explaining about Calandora and the need for a detour.

Rest and go outside.

Only the elephants do heavy damage, so kill them quickly. Most of the other monsters you are already familiar with.

First go North and when the ridges end, turn eas and then south. Have a look at this map for guides:

From Misaki to Calandora

From Misaki to Calandora

After a short while and a dozen of battles, you will reach a sign beside a lake, saying Calandora is a bit more to the south.

It is actually 20 squares southwest from the sign, after a bridge.

Calandora town

…has few notable things:

  1. The gem collector wants 7 gems and promises reward. (you already know where the red gem is)
  2. There is a Cellar that needs the cell key to enter. (still not able)
  3. A soldier tells you you need a passport to reach the eastern continent. (First you need to find the underground passage).
  4. Local armory has two samurai specific items, which only samurai can use. Be sure to grab them.
  5. There are also toxic daggers which give more serious damage to mages and monks.
  6. Local shipyard are rivals to Port town shipyard.
  7. The shipyard never completed a single ship because … guess what … they need Aluminum ore.
  8. Aluminum ore can be found somewhere around … *cough* … guess where? That’s right -> Hamilton castle.
  9. Some useless things in the pots and barrels. You probably have enough herbs and wings already. The only new thing is a scented charm in one of the barrels in the shipyard.

Train to level 10, monk gets “Escape!“. Useful spell for a quick get-out-of-this-creepy-dungeon and mage gets “Mini quake” which does 30+ damage to all monsters in front of you. Very good for taking down large mixed groups of magic shellfish, fire beetles or sparks which breathe fire or cast “blizzard” on you.

Buy all stuff in offered by the armory. You will need approximately 5000 gold. Your samurai will become stronger than your fighter (for a while).

This is the moment when you can go east from Raiton castle to the sage, so you take the red gem (1/7). Here is the map:

From Raiton castle to the red gem

From Raiton castle to the red gem

When level 10-11, go southeast of Calandora. A small sign says Hamilton is east, but the bridge is broken, so you need to take the hard way.

Hard way is in the labyrinth south of the sign.

The way is barred by your first miniboss fight.

Should not be a problem for a level 10 party. The snake has about 200-250 life and your “Fire” spell does 60 damage. (blue is often associated with ice, so I think the snake hates fire). 3 turns max, and I wish you don’t get hit by breath too much.

As with all minibosses, the snake always hits 2 times per round.

2200 experience and 200 gold for defeating the blue snake.

Now on to the “Maze”:

Maze with a blue snake miniboss and chest with work permit

The Maze with a blue snake gurading it

The chest in the labyrinth has a work permit.

Hamilton castle.

4 things for now:

  1. New stuff worth 5800 gold in the shop.
  2. Barking dog 😉 that is supposed to bark at you when he learns something.
  3. There is a sentry in the northwest corner of the castle, blocking the way down.
  4. You need to speak to the king if you want to pass.

The king is laconic and gives you the ore without much asking.

When you grab the ore, feel free to return to the shipyard or train a bit to gather money for new equipment. 5800 gold are easy to gather and more experience always pays in time.

Back to Calandora.

The shipbuilders need some time to complete, so go hunt money to buy all stuff from Hamilton and train a bit.

After your return, the builder says you need blueprints and you are more reliable than the shipyard owner.

Speak with owner again.

He sends you to Port town via the underground passage (you need passport).

Talk to him AGAIN and you will get the passport.

To Port town.

This is a bit of a walk, and you better be rested and have best equipment.

Head east from Calandora until you reach the shore and then a bit north.

Enter the passage. The guard will step aside. (If not – you did not speak with the shipbuilder 2 times)

Get the maze to the end. Level 11-12 party should do well. Only blue sparks and occasional huge spider are a threat, but you can heal 100 damage already.

After you reemerge go northeast over the bridge and you will see Port town. Here’s the complete walk:

Go to Port town

Go to Port town

Port town.

  • You will learn about 12-th level monk’s “Full heal” spell and how it can’t be used in battle. Still very useful between battles and only 12 SP.
  • Armor shop has new stuff worth 10000 gold.
  • Everyone is scared from the monster.
  • Port town ALSO does not produce ships, regardless they have the tech.
  • Shipbuilding master WILL give you blueprints if you defeat the monster in the southern cave.

But this walkthrough is getting too long, and I will continue in part II.

 Posted by at 12:32 am

Legend of Grimrock – level 3

 Legend of Grimrock  24 Responses »
Apr 182012
 
Legend of Grimrock, level 3 map

Legend of Grimrock, level 3 map

I suppose you passed first two levels with ease. If not, look here:

Level 1, Into the Dark and

Level 2, Old Tunnels.

Lone pillar of light

Lone pillar of light

The first puzzle on level 3 starts from the very entrance.

“A lone pillar of light, stands alone in the dark”

The lone pillar is in the center of the first room, and there are torch stands on it.

Remove all torches on the wall, go in the previous level 2 and collect some more. You need 3 torches lit on the pillar and none on the walls.

Click! And the door opens.

Pillar of light is lit.

Pillar of light is lit.

2 trap doors, flyers and a skeleton archer

2 trap door, flyers and skeleton archer

In the next room You need to slay a skeleton archer and some flyers. Just avoid the poison arrows.

The big room has 2 trap doors for closing, but first drop down and loot.

On the middle part of the room there is a button (see the picture). Click it and you will have a way to throw a stone and close the trap doors. (throw it far and high, aiming at the torch)

Go where the floor plate is and collect the stuff in the 2 alcoves.

The next corridor has 1 locked door and a room with trap door.

Save the game!

Coward Tactics for 4 skeletons

Coward Tactics for 4 skeletons

Normally – The room is opened by a button and if you enter, the plate will close it behind you.

When IN the room, 4 skeletons will attack you, surround you and kill you.

(You almost always die, when you are surrounded.)

Stay outside the room instead and drop a stone on the floor plate to activate the portcullis and the skeletons.

They will start going around the room, open the door but stay in one place and wait for 1 skeleton to come.

Kill him and close the door.

This way you can kill them 1-by-1 and close the door with the button to rest a bit between fights.

When all 4 skeletons fall – open the door and enter.

All alcoves have something useful, so loot everything and don’t forget to Fall in the trap door and loot there too. It’s not much, but it is okay for level 4 heroes.

There is a lever which opens a secret way out 😀 … which you’ve already cheated, but open it. There is a herb there.

In one of the alcoves is the key, so grab it and get out to unlock the next part.

Spiders bite and poison.

After the spider fight in the next corridors, you will find the healing stone and trap doors which you can’t close yet (but may still fall down on level 4 and loot).

Ignore the way north for now and turn east. Another room with trap doors and spider. Take the spider down. Use the mortar and pestle to make antidote potion if you are poisoned.

The trap doors will lead you to a secret room on level 4. Useful one. I recommend you fall 😉 the item is really worth it this time.

Level 4 big secret room

Drop something on the floor plate.

Go east and find the button. It disables the teleport field.

Now put some useless stuff on the 2 plates behind the portcullis (you can drop stuff on the plates behind, regardless the portcullis are closed)

When all 3 floor plates are clicked, the portcullis will open.

There is magical bracer with 50% poison resistance. Very useful against spired fights, so put it on any of your front chars.

Another secret is opened if you reactivate the teleporter and enter it. A room with level 19 spell “Invisibility”. (Thanks to Orley Lima, for pointing it out)

Get back above in the room with the trap doors and enter the secret room with the Health tome. It gives +25 hit points permanently, when read (1 time only). Here is how to open it:

Book of health on level 3

Book of health on level 3

You will probably fall when you click the second button, but don’t worry. It is a small sacrifice 😉 Give the book to someone who dies often. +25 health is quite a good plus.

Thanks to Anders and Stian for pointing this!

The running teleports room.

First you need to close the trap door. (Don’t jump – it leads to the room with the bracers, and you just looted it)

To close the trap door you need to enter the room and follow the running teleporter for two squares, turn left and throw a [stone/shield/whatever-heavy-junk-you-have], so the plate is pressed. This will close the trap door so you can use it to Go in the room, where you just pressed the plate.

There is an alcove with 3 poison grenades.

After this, you need to drop another stone to the other plate, so the portcullis opens.

This need to be timed very well, so the portcullis stays open until you pass. If you throw the item early, the teleporter will transport it back to where you started and if you are not quick enough, the other teleporter following the first will either take you back or the item you used. Just try few times and you will make it. Look the two pictures here for reference:

After you get to the next corridor you will have to fight another spider and will find 2 piles of spider eggs. Some arrows in one of the egg piles.

(On one of the walls there is a lever which opens the way back to the teleporter, so you don’t need to do this again.)

In the east corridor, a small inscription says “I demand a sacrifice”. Put an object on the trap door behind the portcullis and press the button.

If the sacrifice is accepted – you will get one iron key and one light armor. (Spear from skeleton soldier is acceptable sacrifice if you have spare one)

There is also one big room with 4 spiders and lots of eggs. (use “coward tactics” again, take them 1-by-1, closing the door to rest.)

If you already have the poison resistance 50% bracers I recommended – you will have more chances against the spiders.

There are 3 egg piles you need to break, so you take the other iron key and the long sword.

The door that is opened with the 2 iron keys leads to a room which has a secret like the “Pillar of light” in the beginning of the level, but REVERSED.

It is so to speak …

“Pillar of darkness”.

Put two torches on the walls and don’t put torches on the 3 torch stands which form the central pillar in the room.

A room with a trap door and a lever will open. (ignore the trap door, you’ve been there already).

The lever opens the secret room on the other side of the trap door with an alcove having a cloak good for archers.

To enter this room, you need to remove the weight from the floor plate which you used in the 2 circling teleports room to close the trap door in the center. The same plate closes the other trap door if NOT pressed.

There is another small puzzle, which involves speed. —>

You need to push one button to open the way (and a spider) to the portcullis.

Kill the spider.

Now press the button which opens the portcullis.

RUN towards the portcullis before it is completely open and enter.

There are 2 spiders inside and a button which will stop the portcullis from closing anymore.

After this tricky room, there are some corridors with few more spiders to kill.

Now have a look at the room I’ve pointed on the map below as “Sanctuary“:

Sanctuary room for you to rest from spider attacks

Sanctuary room for you to rest from spider attacks

  • Enter, close it from inside and loot.
  • Rest if you need.
  • Start going out and have a spider follow you.
  • Get back to the room and stay in front of the door slashing and bashing the spider, until it dies.
  • Close the door, save, rest. If badly poisoned – use cure potion (1 flask, 1 cave nettle in the mortar and pestle).
  • Once you get brave, there will be a hidden room opened near the “sanctuary” with another spider inside. (and an edible mushroom)

In all cases – Don’t let them surround you.

There are 9 spiders total in the big room and when you kill the last one, he will drop the gold key.

Also around the spider eggs, you will find a round shield. A bit better than skeleton kite shields.

And a meaningless note saying to beware the spiders.

DOH! You don’t say.

Spectral relay room.

 

  • Put something on both floor plates – in front of you and behind the portcullis and step aside.
  • If needed, raise the item, so the spectral relay shoots again.
  • There is a baked-maggot-on-a-stick hidden back there, so go grab it. (uh, yum … I suppose).

You are almost done.

A lever to close the trap door and a second note from Toorum *(hint about greaves, but he doesn’t know how to open the door)

Luckily you have the gold key and can grab the greaves and a good mace.

After all is done and the way to level 4 is in front of you, go back to the sanctuary near the spider room.

Go north – A new secret room is opened with a small hidden brick button, 2 herbs and another entrance to level 4.

This entrance leads to a part of level 4 which will be a bit hard for level 5-6 chars, so I suggest to leave it for later.

The glowing slimes will kill you very fast.

This concludes everything you can do on level 3. For now.

Go down to “Level 4: Archives” and fight the 2 mushrooms. The fight needs some kiting skills. So … good luck 😉

 Posted by at 11:12 pm

Legend of Grimrock – level 2

 Legend of Grimrock  14 Responses »
Apr 172012
 
Legend of Grimrock, level 2 map.

Legend of Grimrock, level 2 map.

You made it from level 1?

Good. There is a chance you are an old style dungeon crawler then 😉

Immediately to your left is the secret room you’ve fallen from level 1 if you followed my advice.

If not, now is the moment to loot it.

There is new minor monster fight while you go south to find the key for the door.

Not so minor, because the poison cloud hurts a lot.

The key is laying on the floor beside the column in the southwestern-most room on the map. Just have a look on the floor, luckily there is a torch nearby to help you.

Also beside the key, you will find a compas. Useful item if you draw your own map, can put it in your hand if you want, and it will always point north with the red arrow.

Go back now, open the door and go ahead.

The inscription says “Shelter left, cells right”.

The shelter is actually a secret room which can be opened by placing a torch on the empty torch stand (see picture). Good helmet inside but with penalty until you learn heavy armors:

Put the torch in the empty torch stand.

Put the torch in the empty torch stand.

Loot and go south.

Now. There is one small trick the next corridor.

Find the cell which holds 3 arrows and a brown rag.

The key to exit this corridor is hidden under the rag.

Get the rag and you will see the key.

Next room has 2 floor plates for your excess items which you don’t need anymore. Drop something on both plates to open the door.

And there is a small brick on the eastern part of the room, that will open the cell with the arrows, so you can collect them.

Very useful arrows, but they only work the first time – after they are used once as poisonous arrows, when you collect them – they become ordinary.

(you still don’t have a bow, so don’t worry about them now).

The corridor after this, has 3 rooms. All of them – bad and puzzly. (Oh … and a small flying monster which you need to kill before this)

The room with the snails is opened by leaving a weapon in the alcove (collect it when done with the room). Any weapon will do.

The first iron key is there.

The door with the teleport leads you to the holding cells (northwest part of the map)

There are 2 buttons, one of them rotates the contents of the cells, the other resets.

Probably there is ideal case in which you pull only the bag, but I suggest you take the skeleton out too. Cheap XP.

The bag has a helmet, food and the second iron key.

Go back through the teleport and use the iron keys on the 2 doors.

Have in mind the other room … the one with the inscription “Enter thy grave”.

In case you feel ready to kill 3 skeletons – enter it.

The fight sucks. All 3 of them start to get out 1-by-1 when you press the plate. But the door closes and you can’t use the coward trick (take them 1-by-1 by closing the door and resting after each kill).

My tactics was to lure the first skeleton out and to take his place in the small alcove where he stood.

But I reloaded 3 times and died until I took all 3 of them.

Either skip this fight for later or abandon it. The rewards are a cloack, unenchanted bone amulet and a scroll explaining Ice shards (see the picture):

Ice shards runes for the mage in Legend of Grimrock

Ice shards runes

If you manage to kill them – Pull all levers to open the gate again.

Next room with the blue auto-save-healing-stone needs 2 keys to pass.

East and west corridors has them.

West has two flyers which can be taken down with coward tactics.

Then press the button inside one of the rooms, another place with another button opens, press it, third place with a button and another flier, kill it and press it.

In the room with the first button a secret room opens with a copper key and throwing knife.

One down.

East has a teleport and a secret button.

Teleport takes you back to the button always, so you can’t pass it normally.

By pressing the button the teleport disappears for 1-2 seconds.

Not enough to turn back and pass.

So you need to make 3 steps backwards immediately after pressing the button.

Immediately.

3 steps.

Fall into the trap door – if you want a tasty mushroom. (you will return on the other side of the teleport though).

Otherwise, throw a stone in front of you and the door will shut.

In the next room there is another short fight and alcove with the second key.

Get back to the blue stone and open.

The teleport leads you to the north part of the level.

The room that follows after the teleport is opened by another “loose brick”

3 mushroom herders. But you can use cowardice and divide them, killing them one by one again. Just use the portcullis.

The next part of the level is quite straight forward, only the fight before the next level sucks.

4 skeletons will come thrusting spears at you. The good part is – they are grouped. The bad part is – there are four of them and they hit hard.

You can’t fight them by ordinary means, they do too much damage.

The best tactics is to run around them and cast fireburst with your mage. Then side step and run until your mage recharges.

The good in fireburst is – they will all take damage from each burst.

Try it and you will be amazed how quickly and easy they fall.

There are also 3 hidden rooms. All of them have buttons or levers, only the demon head needs you to … stare at him for 10 seconds.

Then the door opens and there is a treasure behind.

So … the whole level has 6 secrets, 2 iron doors, 1 treasure and above 30 monsters. I hope you took them all.

Descend to “Level 3: Pillars of light”.

 Posted by at 12:32 am
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