Return of the Dark Sorcerer (Rerun) #12 - Ronan's Forest Walk

Return of the Dark Sorcerer (Rerun) #12 - Ronan's Forest Walk

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The Cursed Forest
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The Cursed Forest (2019)
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Return of the Dark Sorcerer is a hack for Final Fantasy 6 by Gi Nattak. New characters, new portraits, rebalanced spells/moves, a new overworld map, new events, and multiple difficulty levels are just some of the features of this hack.

The latest version can always be found in one of the following two locations:

https://www.ff6hacking.com/patches/rotds/FFVI_ROTDS.zip

http://ngplus.net/index.php?/files/file/8-final-fantasy-vi-return-of-the-dark-sorcerer/

As usual, you'll need to find a proper ROM on your own to patch with.

Version being played: 2.0.1

Ronan and his comrades are all done raising hell in the imperial base. The next task is to get back to Fraust, but the only option available is to head through the Cursed Forest. I'm sure THAT'S going to be ending well!

Joining for this run is Avalon's ally Eldrin. He's like our first soldier buddy right after the events at Durandal Castle. Only the Fight & Item commands, but he brings along the Elven Beads in one of his relic slots which grants a nice boost to physical evade.

As for reaching the Cursed Forest, just keep walking north & east until you cross a bridge. Right after crossing it, go north to find the entrance.

The Cursed Forest, to put it lightly, is like stepping into one of the Star Ocean series' fabled massive difficulty spikes. That is to say don't fight any eyeballs you can see unless you want 250-300 damage AoE's ruining your day. The eyes I tries fighting in the forest? Well, those weren't the eyes that basically made this my second attempt to try getting through the forest.

This forest does throw a few oddballs at you. First, at the healing spring, you'd expect to go south to proceed deeper in. Instead, you need to go east. It's all vanilla routing from here, but you barrel right into the second oddball....a group of elite imperial soldiers wants some revenge for the imperial camp.

These elite soldiers are called Dark Elites. Despite the big group of them, they're nowhere NEAR as threatening as the damned eyes in the forest. Granted I only have Ronan in the front, but he can tank all the physicals and the enhanced physical skill (Shadowblade) easily. They might try some poison magic in Virus too, but it's not too severe for single target damage, maybe 200 at worst.

Once the soldiers drop, it's very clear the crew is being hunted if there's elite soldiers being sent out. Trying to fight them AND the ghosts? Not good at all. Nor is fighting all of them and a horde of zombies....which the corpses of the previous slain enemies become and attack the party. Zombies still have their biting capabilities to produce more of their kind. With four of them around, things can turn sour very fast if several of them all try to bite your team early on.

The solution? A new item I've got in the bag, Holy Water. Use this on an undead enemy and they die instantly. Using two here makes managing them so much easier.

After the battle, go back to the healing spring to refresh if needed, otherwise take the northeastern exit to find a kid in the forest. Ronan puts two and two together to realize that it's none other than the kid that left the orphanage on a quest for revenge, Arc. Logical thing to do is to go help the kid, right?

Well, someone's stopping the party and it's a ghost of sorts who calls himself Reaper. He claims that the party will die if they head forward. Arc apparently is safe due to a talisman he carries with him.

How's the team going to proceed then? So long as Reaper can collect their souls when they die, he'll guide them through the death zone. Doubly so when he takes a keen interest in Avalon's soul as he's not a pure bred human, that's for sure.

As for Eldrin? He's gonna run off and try to slow down the imperial guard as long as possible, death be damned. Will we actually see him again though? Only time will tell.

More next time!



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