At first I liked the game. But technical problems and lags kinda killed it. This is very important actually.
The game lagged terribly in the "lacste" something and when I restarted from the last point it deleted my save. I'm disappointed. My computer runs heavy games and heavy online games very good. Sounds weird to me that suddenly my computer became garbage.
I could have been a great game but failed on several points.
First: While the use of gates to keep you out of some locations was good, it still left me rather lost and I only found places by thrashing around till I landed in the right spot. You might say this is 'Old Zelda Style' where there is no map. But the reason it had no map was because they didn't think to add one or couldn't.
Second: I'm stuck on the fire relic monster. I slash away to kill the lava creatures but they slip into my sword range and are immune after I attack them. So they damage me while I am unable to kill them and usually can't reflect his attacks afterwards after being knocked around. And If I ignore them, they just grow into a massive group. Nothing I have is of use on the beast and as such, I can't finish the game.
It needs work to be good.
1. You're right, I couldn't. Also, the walkthrough, although external, is supposed to help.
2. Use your ghost spear--it kills them in one hit. You're not supposed to use your sword, because it is too weak against them (and makes it difficult, as you said). The King of Fire is actually really easy to kill if you just go over to the spot where they spawn, where he punches the lava, and kill the first, then hit the second one when it comes for you, and wait for him to shoot at you.
So many reviews are saying what a great game this is and I beleive them...but I can't even get out of the village you start in. What gives?!? Theres some rock or something blocking the house you're suppossed to get into, you have no weapon to start with, you have no idea what you're suppossed to do, none of the characters you speek with give you any clues on where to go/what to do to advance the game, where's the fun in that?!?
I tried going in the two staircaes that went underground...didn't get very far since both of said staircaes led to dead ends. Went to the Oracle Tree, all I found out was how to change the soundtrack. I trie everything I could think of to either get out of the village or into the house I'm suppossed to get into and nothing works...kind of hard to play a game when you can't get out of the starting point.
I'm sorry for the 1 star score but at least give us a clue as to where we need to go/what we need to do when we start out so we can at least experence the full effect of the game and not get frustrated walking around the same village for an hour just watching the screen go from day to night.
The staircase to the lower-right of the main screen is the first area you need to go to--I don't know where you got stuck and thought it was a dead end, but this is the first I've heard of getting stuck so early! I hope this video will help you out so you can enjoy the game a bit more (and hopefully improve what you think of the game!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yrJ1yWG4u4&feature=youtu.be
I Got Trapped :|
Thing got bugged after beating the second boss. Accidentally pressed esc and when I went back into the game, the controls were frozen and no event got triggered.