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From: scfsiu@watsol.waterloo.edu (Steven C. F. Siu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Faery Tale Adventure
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Date: 21 Sep 90 20:50:58 GMT
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I have already finished the game, but I don't know what some of my items are
used for, so:

SPOILERS ALERT ( don't read this unless you have finished the game!)




- What is the 'crystal shard(sp)' for?  Since it is not exactly straightforward
  to get (i.e. need to find 'bone' first etc.) I hate to believe it is useless

- What is the 'rose' for?  Again I'd think it has some use, since it is the
  ONLY item I found in the 'hidden city', which can't be reached until you
  have all the statues, which is not possible until you've rescued the
  princess....

- What is the mysterious 'pixar altar' or whatever-it-is-called?  (i.e. At
  certain time of the day, with certain special object in your possession,
  when you perform certain action while standing in it, certain thing(s)
  will happen <-- my guess.  What are the details?)  I am talking about the
  structure inside Pixel Grove(sp).

- Are there any other special items (not including weapons i.e. magic wand)
  apart from: crystal shard, bone, rose, sun stone, shell, golden lasso?
  If so, what are their uses?


Miscellaneous ramblings:

I was thinking that the dragon in the cave was the 'golden beast', so for a
while I keep trying to use the lasso on it.  I didn't think of the swan as the
golden beast because 'beast' has an evil connotation to me.

I actually defeated the <ultimate evil witch> (thus finished the game) before
I found and rescued the princess.  That is (IMHO) a bad design of the game,
because it becomes anticlimactic to have to rescue the princess.  I got the
impression (from reading previous news article) that you couldn't get pass the
'force field' without having all the golden statues (which you won't have
until after you rescue the princess)?  I don't know, anyway I pass through it
with no trouble.

(What happened was that I found out the existance of the flying golden beast
very early in the game, and I somehow got the impression that Grimwood is the
(or one of the) impossible mountain that I couldn't reach until I have my
flying pet.  So I set out trying to find the golden lasso.  Of course (as you
know) the lasso is in Grimwood.  That's why I didn't fing the golden beast and
couldn't rescue the princess for so long.)

Finally, at least twice while I was crossing the ocean on the turtle (before
I can fly of course),  I found a man standing at the middle of the sea.  It is
reproducible  (i.e. they are at a *fixed* location).  I couldn't communicate
with them (there are two different men in two different places), but I can
kill one of them.  I think this is just a bug (and probably just on my backup
copy).


Steven