8 FINAL FANTASY - MARSH CAVE AND PISCODEMONS

Dear Readers,

Time for the first big long dangerous dungeon! Garland's place wasn't so big. We first explored the upstairs part of the dungeon. There are a few rooms to explore up here but no key items.

Lonely place here apart from the harmless bats that just say "Kee Kee!". The dungeon music is quick paced and gives you a sense of unease, especially when exploring the more labyrinthine areas of this place with all the different rooms.

Before exploring the downstairs, we had to go back to Elfheim to recover and refill our boosted stats after fighting tons of enemies. We would go on to fight tons more(and make many more trips back). So many of them! Between all the undead creatures, Joseph can take care of them easily with Dia and Chris with Fira.

By the way, "Dia" is Irish for "God". I wonder if they knew that? It may be Dia or something similar in other languages too though.

Apart from undead enemies, there are other tricky ones like the green slimes. They don't take much physical damage so fire and ice magic work best against them. We're also starting to see enemies that can land several hits now like the gargoyles. It may be a good idea for Chris to learn Slow.

So back to the Marsh Cave. Actually, I remember the first big main dungeon in Final Fantasy Adventure being the Cave Of Marsh! Pretty different though. There's no hydra boss at the end of this place. Exploring further we found more doors bound by the Mystic Key so we'll have to revisit this place later. There are also tons of rooms to explore down here and many of them don't have chests at all or just have empty chests.

After so many trips back to Elfheim to recover, we finally found the room with the crown! The only thing was that it was guarded by a group of Piscodemons. You don't see them on the screen and they attack you like you'd be attacked in a random encounter, but they're always in the same place. The Piscodemons look like Cthulhu or something. Quite fearsome but we're pretty strong at this point after spending so much time being attacked while trying to find this place. We took care of them easily. After this we got the crown from the treasure chest! Yay!

Now to head back to the Western Keep!