Sorcery! Part 3

There is, in fact, Sorcery in this game!

It felt more like a big sidequest rather than bigger selfcontained story like the previous two games for me. Especially was how confusing it was with the whole past/present aspect of the game. Though exploring the land to find locations and weaknesses of the 7 story bosses was what kept the story from being bad in my eyes. But still I find decisions and spell system in the game really enjoyable to explore.

After a smooth experience on the first part of the game, followed by getting stuck a couple times on the second part, I once again started to explore part three normally and realized how vast the world of the third game was. With little pointers towards what to do and limited resources, I managed to progress through some of the seven serpents, before getting stuck. After I realized how the beacons distorted time and how various events happen/change based on the time of the day, I decided to follow a guide to make sure I don’t miss any of the serpents. Incidentally, the only guide on Steam was an “NBAS” guide, the meaning of which I didn’t know at the time (lol). Even so, the guide was not very detailed, so I just used it to determine which regions needs to be visited to encounter and beat all the serpents. However, I again got stuck due to the way the Winds of Time mechanic works in the game. I eventually got it working by editing game files and passed to Lake Ilklala, but I couldn’t get the whistle to call the Ferryman. I eventually had to try and retry several times to swim through the lake and kill all the other serpents before blowing the whistle on the shore near the Earth Serpent (blowing it before defeating the Earth Serpent or from the first island didn’t do anything and rather took away the option to blow the whistle later). Moreover, during part three, I also lost the legendary sword as after the scripted theft, you can only recover one sword if you had multiple, and I never got to choose (got back the default one). Considering how many problems I had to run into – poorly executed winds of time mechanic, the loss of the legendary sword bug, and difficulty finding the last (air) serpent – even after following guides – it was an overall bad experience for the otherwise wonderful series I was enjoying playing.

19天没吃上一顿饭，已然辟谷飞升的近战法师大冒险。解谜部分体验比第四部好，斩蛇很开心。

♥♥♥♥♥♥ those serpents up frfr

Simply great. Well worth the time spend playing it :3

I love this game.

Great writing and worldbuilding. Part 3 is the most non-linear and also the most fun to play, having more content than 1+2 or 4. I actually played this prior to playing Parts 1+2, I'd say it's good enough as a standalone game (though I recoommend getting the series as a whole). If you play with a permadeath/no retries/ironman mindset, you may find it unfair because certain actions can lead to terrible outcomes with little warning. I recommend playing with an exploratory/learning mindset instead, don't be afraid to undo actions to learn more about other outcomes/possibilities.

again, go into these games knowing that perfection is not needed to move to the next game! these are based on FF gamebooks which were much more punishing than this. don't bother trying to 100% if it's causing frustration, that's an optional challenge. you CAN proceed. so free yourself from modern gaming brain and just explore, it's worth it. there's a whole LotR's worth of writing in here and it's all great. so much hidden stuff! (and if you want to 100% anyway there are guides online)