Legend of Grimrock – level 1

 Legend of Grimrock  6 Responses »
Apr 162012
 
Legend of Grimrock level 1 map

Legend of Grimrock level 1 map

Not too hard time in the first level of the game.

In the first room you need to get the torch and the door will open. (it is written on the wall, just click the inscription for translation.)

Also in this room, immediately after you start the game – behind your back is the first secret room with a projectile weapon and a pair of boots. (Thanks to ErPanfi for pointing this out) You will find a loose brick on the south-east wall of the room.

Then you will get some basic things known by reading the walls like pulling levers and chains.

In one of the corridors you will need to leave a stone on a floor plate to open a door. Then few squares further you will see another inscription saying “Loose rock” which means – check the nearby wall for a bit different broken brick and press it.

There is a side corridor with an opened trap door. The inscription says you need to throw a stone to the floor plate behind it so it closes for you to pass over.

I suggest you first FALL in the trap door and loot the secret room on level 2 below (there is a teleport back to level 1). And when you get back – throw a stone to close the trap door and get the items in the alcove there.

Go around (use the right hand rule to make sure you found all stuff). Collect everything you like. There are some rags laying around to equip your characters.

If you feel lost anyway – press Tab (map) or if you are hardliner dungeon crawler – draw your own map. (There is a PDF file in the game install folder for you to print and draw the map with notes).

If you choose to use map (options menu) – Notes are taken by clicking on the map and writing a note.

Notes are deleted by right clicking them. Useful if you put all your heavy useless junk in one room and want to remember where you left it.

Fireburst spell

Fireburst, your first spell

Spells are cast by right-clicking, choosing runes and then right-clicking the blue button beside the runes.

First spell you can cast is fireburst. You will find a scroll explaining what rune do you need. (only top-left one that looks like a triangle pointing up). Just don’t cast it against a wall or you will burn badly.

But enough of this… back to exploring.

Few snails will try to bite you. Fighting is done by right-clicking your heroes hands. But you better not go bare handed – equip the knives you found laying around.

Find the key in one of the alcoves and get to the room with the head.

The inscription says you need to return his sight.

Which actually means you need to find 2 sapphires to put instead of eye-balls in this statue.

There are 2 rooms with monsters, one north and one south.

Only the north one is tricky, so you take south one first.

South room has 2 plates, one trap door and 3 snails for killing.

FALL in the trap door and loot the room below. The teleport will return you back. You can unlock this room from level 2, so there is nothing more to do here.

Close the trap door and kill the snails.

Loot the side rooms.

Open the portcullis and get the sapphire.

North room is bad if you try to be hero.

Use the coward tactic instead:

  • Stay in front of the portcullis.
  • Open.
  • Kill mushroom.
  • Close portcullis.
  • Rest. (R key)
  • Rinse and repeat.

(you will probably get your first collective dream while sleeping. Read it all by clicking with the mouse… if you played Ultima Underworld – you will get some memories)

When all mushrooms are down – go get the herbs (you will find mortar and pestle later on level 2) and take the sapphire.

Button for a secret room in Legend of Grimrock

Button for a secret room in Legend of Grimrock

North wall where the sapphire alcove lays has a button opening secret room north from there. Press it and collect the stuff.

Now back to the head.

SAVE the game!

Push the “eyes” in and fight the skeleton.

The shield is good and the pike is … well – let’s say useful for your back heroes to thrust in the battle instead of slacking.

Unlock the hidden room with the small hidden bricks, get the healing from the big blue auto-save stone and go to level 2.

You are done here.

3 secret rooms, 13 monsters (check your stats if you found all of them)

Descend to level 2.


 Posted by at 12:23 pm

Legend of Grimrock

 Legend of Grimrock  2 Responses »
Apr 152012
 
Legend of Grimrock, Snail fight

Legend of Grimrock, Snail fight

I was a bit preoccupied with Skyrim lately and somehow missed this game when it showed on the market.

At first I was a bit

“Doh! $16 for an RPG that can barely fill a whole CD”

I did some small research and found I was completely WRONG 😀

It is not the graphics or the music which makes this game good.

It has the spirit of the old games from DOS, when you were young (well…, some of you may have not been born yet).

In the same time, the graphics and sound are far from outdated. The game is demanding some hardware to play on best details.

So … if you missed any of the following:

Legend of Grimrock, Runes inscriptions are read with a click

Legend of Grimrock, Runes inscriptions are read with a click

  • Eye of the Beholder
  • Eye of the Beholder: The legend of Darkmoon
  • Eye of the Beholder: Assault on Myth Drannor
  • Lands of Lore: The throne of chaos
  • Ultima Underworld: The Stygian abyss

… this game is EXACTLY for you! You will cry and screem and not sleep until 4 am. I promise!

Why you will love Legend of Grimrock?

  1. It has the depth of Eye of the Beholder with all the puzzles but you don’t need to know ADnD rules to play It.
  2. It has the good eye candy and all the secret rooms and “head scratching” from Lands of Lore.
  3. (If you miss Bacatta – there is a minotaur with you in Grimrock – at least as strong  and big and sturdy and … sorry – not having 4 hands)
  4. It has the huge abyss and you are thrown there, because you are “a criminal” and criminals are thrown in this vertical dungeon-with-supposedly-no-escape to be absolved from all crimes (if they can ever escape the dungeon).
  5. Legend of Grimrock, Level 1 map

    Legend of Grimrock, Level 1 map

    The MAP! It has squares 😀 … and if you are a hardliner dungeon crawler – the game authors provide a small PDF file with squares and notes, so you can DISABLE MAP feature in the game and draw your own map on paper. With notes ;).

  6. The fight is taken 1:1 from EOB except the spells. You right click the weapon slot and you do slash, throw, cast, block, etc. – whatever is equipped in your hand. 2 weaker chars on the back don’t take hits (if not surrounded) but pump with arrows and spells while 2 tank characters in front take all the hits on their plate armors.
  7. Fight is dynamic – if you are lazy and disorganized – you die. No pausing for checking inventory, so you better be prepared.
  8. You can’t attack from the two chars in the back with weapons in the beginning, but later you find spears and pikes from skeleton fights and … if you insist – arm them and brute force everything regardless you have stronger spells 😀
  9. Spells are made from 9 runes. You need to know the runes and have the skill level in either of the elements. Otherwise, they simply fizzle. The first spell scroll can be found on level 1 or guessed by randomly casting each rune.
  10. Projectile weapons can be recollected and reused. Collection is automated when you walk over slain corpses.
  11. Traps are not always *bad* and can often drop you on a secret room with items.
  12. Plenty of secret rooms (above 70) on all the levels with so many ways to find and open them – you will love them.
  13. You can rest everywhere. Even in behind a portcullis with strong monster on the other side 😉 (this is actually how the mushrooms on level 1 are beaten)
  14. You need food to operate normally and can’t rest if you are hungry.
  15. Everyone can wear everything, regardless if S/he is proficient or not. (with quite bad penalty though, but still – Mage with plate armor and pike is still quite sturdy)
Legend of Grimrock, puzzle. Need 2 stones to pass.

Legend of Grimrock, puzzle. Need 2 stones to pass.

So, is the game worth ~ $16?

If you miss the old dungeon crawler games – By all means, buy it.

If you have a hightech PC with lots of RAM, quad core or better, video card which can fry eggs while working… stick with Skyrim.

If you are in my shoes – buy both games 😉

Have a look at the paper doll below and the statistics. Have you seen such beauty and simplicity in other games lately?!

Get the game and try it. I already underslept for 2 evenings.

Legend of Grimrock, Paper doll.

Paper doll.

Legend of Grimrock, Paper doll - stats.

Paper doll - stats.

Legend of Grimrock, Paper doll - linear skill tree.

Paper doll - linear skill tree.

Legend of Grimrock, gameplay statistics

Gameplay statistics

Convinced? Start the game and start exploring. Level 1 is very easy 😉

 Posted by at 1:03 pm

Demon hunter walkthrough and maps (part X)

 Android RPGs  36 Responses »
Mar 242012
 

Demon hunter walkthrough and maps

This part of the walkthrough is BONUS STAGE after you choose to save Perna . If you are not yet there, DON’T spoil your game story but refer to previous parts of the walkthrough:

Part 1 – About Kamael and Dubaq

Part 2 – About Inferno

Part 3 – About Stigia and Cave of Darkness

Part 4 – About Gehena

Part 5 – About Distia

Part 6 – About Marlborose and Makerusia

Part 7 – About Arbenus

Part 8 – About Minauross

Part 9 – About Tower of Punishment/Sin

5 things to do here:

  1. Grind like there is no tomorrow
  2. Kill Asmodeus
  3. Kill Blood Demon
  4. Kill Renin
  5. Try to find a way to save Perna 😀

The last seems impossible.

I’ve killed every single possible monster and every boss monster in all 11 areas of the game.

No Perna.

No Portal different than the 3 portals leading to the hard boss monsters on all 11 maps.

Anyway:

Hell mode is accessible from Dubaq base – there is new purple gate.

From this gate, you can access the hellmode or get back to normal (small icon top right on screen will say “hell”).

Everything in Hell mode starts from level 66-67. Slimes west of Dubaq now take 7-8 hits to kill. Dumpas and Varians east of base are level 70-73.

Drops are 100 times more rare, but quality gets better. Even slimes drop level 60+ junk.

Hunt monster cards while grinding. There is one for every monster. Even bosses. At 30% you get another 3 cubics (get them from any vendor in camps).

There are 3 new hunter quests that you can take in the 3 bases. They are all level 8 hunter, so I hope you took my advice to get you hunter level up. It’s not hard.

The bossess are:

Asmodeus (Evil God) given by Evan in Dubaq.

Blood demon (Fallen wood king) given by Hotsan in Naru.

Dark Ren (Dragon within darkness) given by Diran in Talagaron.

… but you will need hours of grinding to be high level enough to kill them.

Grinding places

Map of Inferno

Map of Inferno

Grind in Kamael until you get to level 74-75. All areas are suitable.

After level 74-75, go to Inferno map Flame of fire Devil-1. There are 6 Murians in a line. They are Levels 75-80. Very quick grinding and good drops. Fastes way to get here is to transport to Arbenus and get west to inferno (just use the portal). One map with rocktashas (ignore) and one map with 8 drakes. Also good for grinding if you like to jump alot.

Levels 79-85 can better be done in Cave of Darkness. Cave of eternity-1 is the map where the transport scroll takes you.
Go east,  killing everything in the next 3 maps, until you reach the room where you saw Perna naked. Save and then go west.
Rinse and repeat. Kuro’s fall very fast, but the dwarves have high evade and you will miss a lot.
Lots of level 4 soul stones to replace the ones in you items.  Limit is +10 for level 4 stones, opposed to +7 on level 3:

Cave of Darkness map

Map for the Cave of Darkness

When level 86+, give a chance to two maps in Distia:

Outside of Canal-2 has 6 Varians in a straight line. Levels 90-95. Not hard to kill when 86+ at all. The map is one map east from the teleport point, so it is easy to reach too.

Heart of chaos-3 has 6 poisoning wacooms and 11 kuros. VERY good xp, but needs quite a lot of jumping to gather them together for a quick mass kill skill. The best path to reach this map is to teleport to Makerusia and use the gate back to Distia. You will appear in the room below Bormenta the guardian…, just get one map east and start killing. Drops are often good level 75+ weapons and lots of L4 stoicism and immunity stones.

You can train here until level 96. Then the XP will start to be insufficient and training – slow:

Map of Distia

Map of Distia

Next good map is Mouth of Hell-1. Use teleport to Tower of Punishment/Sin and you are there.

Tower Of Punishment

Map for Tower of Punishment (Tower of Sin)

6 Hell versions of Varians and 2 hell versions of Hellons. Very heavy damage, so be prepared to save a lot.

I don’t know why, but this grinding map gives some level 60+ stuff. It’s quite useless so sell it, destroy it or keep it for your alt characters.

You will also collect some armors and guns and a lot of L3 breath/blood sucking soulstones.

Rarely there will be a skill soulstone drop. Approximately 1/500 kills.

When fed with grinding, go kill the bosses.

Bonus Boss fights

(you don’t need to be in Hell to kill them – they are accessible in normal mode too)

The easiest to find is the giant tree which killed Chu. Just go west from Talagaron camp to the room of Greed. There is a portal leading to the tree demon

Blood demon

Not hard, but one mistake and you die.

(The map where Blood demon is, is accessible by a portal in the same room where you fought Greed the first time.)

  1. His root attack does very heavy damage (5k damage), so move a lot while attacking. If you can’t run fast enough from the roots – reduce game speed.
  2. Spider attack will come in 3 spiders hanging from strings and then dissolving. It hits for 3k damage and poisons.
  3. Stun shout and summon trees is next and the blood demon will start using root again. If the stun succeeds you are off for 10 seconds. Enough for 2-3 root attacks. Heal or you are toast.

Beware: His shout attack always follows the spider attack and he will glow his eyes while opening his mouth.

When you see his mouth wide open – start dashing away quickly. Can’t get stunned while dashing!

Return to Hotsan in Naru camp. 2000 hunter points and 3000 gold for completing Fallen wood king.

Asmodeus.

This demon has tons of HP and hits quite hard. Took 25 minutes with a slasher.

Small room with 1 platform located from a portal in Arbenus – Essence of Doom-8 (North part of Arbenus, the most west part of the long corridor).

Asmodeus will start showing from both sides and punch you.

If you stick to one side, he will stay on the same (most of the time). If you run, he will switch sides!

4 attacks:

  • Punch will do 3k damage and sometimes stun. Jump in the air when you see him aim with his fists.
  • Scratch does moderate damage – about 1.5-2k. Bearable.
  • Charge will do 6k damage and you probably can’t avoid it most of the time. (The sign is, he will disappear for few seconds to one of the sides and come back charging. Either from the same side or the other.) Slashers can block this attack and take only 600 damage.
  • Lightning bolts. This attack starts soon after Asmodeus drops a forked spear on the ground. Damage is heavy, but the lightnings are rare and you will probably get hit just once.

In all cases – jump alot to avoid the fist attacks and try to avoid being hit by “Charge“. It definitely sucks and stuns.

You can’t use menu button while fighting, so if you are stunned – drink potion and hope he will not use “charge” more than once.

Return to Dubaq camp and return the quest for 2000 hunter points and 3000 gold.

Renin

He is in a portal in Tower of Punishment-1. The portal is in the North-east corner. You can save safely in the next map before the battle.

Renin is a skeleton of a black dragon with few attacks. Be sure you wing is charged or will soon be, before you enter this battle!

  • Dragon bite. Very nasty attack that sometimes pushes you back.
  • Fireball. Jump over it to avoid damage or enter deep in his body, but beware – he often uses Dragon bite then.

When he is below 50% HP, he starts using his next attack:

  • Meteor shower. 1500 damage per meteor. Go to the left, Meteors don’t reach you there and heal. Get back and hit him hard. Repeat until he is near 10% HP.
  • Soon after he goes below 10% he will start hitting with meteors like insane and you can die really fast.

Go deep in his body and hit with everything you got.

  1. Hit the wing and keep kicking with all skills that managed to recharge while everything is slow.
  2. Don’t stop. Heal like mad and keep hitting with your best skills.
  3. If he is still alive after the wing’s time compression dissipates, you will probably fall.

Go back to Talagaron camp and return the quest for 2000 hunter points and 3000 gold.

That’s all you can do in Hell mode so far.

How to save Perna?!

I don’t know.

Please, drop me a mail, a comment or a letter if you know the answer.

  • I’ve grinded like an idiot for 39 levels after I killed Hanin and Elen.
  • I’ve killed all 3 major Bonus Boss monsters in Hell mode.
  • I’ve killed every single boss monster on all the maps.
  • I’ve killed every minor boss monsters for which there was hunter quest.
  • I’ve traversed ALL maps.

No Perna.

No Portal.

No Elen.

No nothing.

I’ve read forums from 2010, when there was discussion about “Saving Perna being included in later patch/update of the game”. One of my readers knows Korean and checked the developer’s forum too (they say, there is a rumor about Perna being saved somehow).

So – Please. If you know something that we missed – leave a message down below and I will include it inside this walkthrough:

 Posted by at 11:43 am
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