Cloud's Log: Day 4
It's been awhile since I last talked about Tales of Symphonia, including something I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT in my last log: The Ossa Trail
The Ossa Trail: The Clumsy Assassin
Now, I loved this game as a child and I regard it as my favorite Tales game, but it has been awhile. I didn't even remember Sheena, one of the playable characters, was such a klutzy goofball character, seriously...
Okay, so you meet a ninja, which even the game regards her as 'Clumsy', who has the worst luck, and is silly to boot. She tried to kill Collete: The Chosen One, but Collete trips and activates a conveinently placed trap set right next to her, via a lever. This causes Sheena to fall in it. She doesn't die, but serious, come on. A Ninja falling into a pit so easy? Please...
Anyways, you continue on the trail and Sheena catches up to you via a cave at the end. You fight her, and I disposed of her and her familiar rather easily. She runs away afterward, but you will see her many times. And next time, she wiiill kill the Chosen, don't you forget it... -_-;;;
Back to Palmacosta: The Palma Potion!
Back on track! I made it to Palmacosta, where I hit the shops and bought most of my gear! It's a nice fishing town, until I make my way into town, and our team bumps into another party of 4 at a corner. Collete causes these passerbies to drop a potion, which one of them were holding. Now responsible, I have to get them a new replacement, and no, I can't leave the town without finishing this... Anyways, the Palma Potion is a hot item in the town, and is rather pricy, so I have to do some work to get one. So off to that...
Tales of Symphonia Mini Games Fun!
This is a nice break from the game. To make money, you have to play as a waitress in a memory game. You play as Turbo Waitress Collete, and try to remember the orders of customers. At first, you start off with one, but it ranks up, and you have to remember up to 4 customers' orders. And they'll order a varying number of particular items, so try to remember it all! Do well enough, and you get paid, as well as a free Palma Potion, yes!!! x ) There is also a section with Genis, where he can challenge a smart boy to a test of wits with taking a test. As Lloyd, you are tested over trivia on the game, so it's nice it tests you on how much you were paying attention! It gives a funny cutscene as well. x )
Return the Slab Potion and Get the Book!
With that done, I give a new potion to the travelers I bumped back in the beginning, and they go on their merry way. As for my team, we go to meet the Mayor to get info on the next area, the Water Ruins. To do that, I need a book, so I go to the mayor, Dorr, to retrieve it. The problem is, someone else claimed it, the Chosen and her group. Uh-oh! I'm the imposter!? Actually, we prove ourselves as the real Chosen team with Collette's angel wings. But, where's the book? Mes got a feeling the people we bumped are the fakers O: Now, I mist give chase!
The Overworld, the Geyser, the Peak, and Trouble in Palma?! (Also, Fetch Dog)
Whew, this is a doosy. So, I have a new area to explore. I wonder around and first find myself in a small area with a boat ride and tour to a hot spring. I decide to try the boat ride for fun, which triggers another funny cutscene. Our cutey Raine is afraid of water, giving a cute "Wa-AAHH" scream. It was cute x ) So, we row to a geyser, which turns out to be the location of the water ruins. I can access it, but umm, I should be getting a book. So I left, but not without meeting Sheena, who is yet again lagging behind.
So I leave this resort in search of the book. I eventually find the peak where the fakers went, but surprise, they aren't there, and they sold the book to this dumb old man, who won't give it to me. He will let me LOOK AT IT if I give him a dumb statue... So I leave in search of this statue. Oh, also, there is trouble in Palmacosta, so I must go back there too...
Going back to Palmacosta to see what the trouble is, I follow the trail back when I find a House of Salvation, which surprise, Sheena is there again! At least we had a nice chat... I also find the statue the old man wants, but surprise again, that statue is also a fake, as the real one has been lost, but it's okay, I will find the real one because it drives the story!!! T_T I am becoming a lap dog...
Anyways, I eventually go back to Palmacosta, and find the Desians attacked! I come to find that one character, a mother of a shop, is going to be hanged due to her daughter being rude to Desian soldiers before.
(Oh, I forgot to mention, there was a scene where Desians were trying to shop for items, but the daughter of the shop refused to sell to them, which caused this eventual scene)
So, my team and I save the mother about to be hanged, and fight the Desians. We save them and are thanked by the mother, daughter, and people I think..?
Anyways, I leave the town (before some shopping) and... go to the House of Salvation again? I find that the daughter was taken to a human ranch, and they want my help. Being the hero that I am, I decide to help. I go to the ranch to help them, but it turns out to be a trap to give the Desians Collette. We decide to attack the ranch anyways, because it's what heroes would do...
It's the Eeeeeeend~!
...And that wraps up my recap. Whew, I did a whole lot. Looking forward to continuing again x )
Dance my pretties!
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