Tower of Owen
Tower of Owen |
Enemies: Pugman, Fury, Blood Bat, Petit Mage, Aughisky, Far Darrig, Medusa (boss).
Items: Echo Herbs (x3), Spark Dagger, Bomb Fragment, Sonic Knuckles, Salamand Sword, Flame Mail, Zeus's Wrath.
If you came to the Tower of Owen before visiting the Gulgan Gulch and grabbing the Toad spell, you might have been confused. With the spell in hand, however, things will be much easier. In the initial watery area of the tower, head to the left, then south, and then rightward. At this point, a cutscene will automatically take place, alluding to needing to be turned into a toad in order to proceed. Make sure the white mage in your party has learned the spell. Restore the party to normal size (recast Mini on all party members). Then use Toad on all four members of the party. Make sure to cast both spells on party as a group rather than four separate castings. Exit the menu thereafter and proceed rightward. While in toad status, doing this will bring you to the next part of the tower.
In this next area, immediately cast Toad on everyone in the party again (or use Maiden's Kiss items) to restore all members of the party. Then, head southward, westward, and northward to the next staircase. Here, go southward over the bridge, then bear rightward towards the treasure chest which contains Echo Herbs for your inventory. You'll notice that this is all quite linear, so you should be fine here without getting lost. As you proceed, another mysterious voice will talk to the party (this happened once at the beginning already). Hereafter, go southward along the series of bridges, rightward to grab the Spark Dagger from the treasure chest, then leftward to another staircase.
Go leftward here. Another game-catalyzed cutscene will take place. After it does, look for a small pathway jutting northward towards the wall. Face this pathway and press the action button to hit a switch that will lower a wall behind you. You can now access the area to the south, so do so. Head left all the way to the wall and northward to find more Echo Herbs, then head up the staircase to your right. Then, loop around this next area to yet another staircase leading even higher up the tower.
On this floor, you'll have a choice. First, head upward and to the right. A Bomb Fragment and more Echo Herbs can be found in the two treasure chests you'll run headlong into. Then, head leftward, following the winding path as it leads upwards and to another staircase. Go rightward along the bridge in this next area, and then up to a split. Go right at the split to find some Sonic Knuckles, then go leftward and towards, you guessed it, yet another staircase. In this final stretch, simply follow the winding, but linear, passageways. Just be sure to collect the three treasures en route to the final staircase - Zeus's Wrath, some Flame Mail, and a Salamand Sword. Proceeding from here into the next area, simply run northward and run right into this area's boss. Get ready to fight!
Boss - Medusa |
Info: HP: 3,300 | Gil: 2,600 | Experience: 420
Fighting Medusa may intimidate you, but she's actually rather easy to defeat if you fight in a wise manner. What does that mean, exactly? Well, you'll want to keep an eye on everyone's HP, because Medusa can attack pretty fiercely, and multiple times per round. Her ability to use magic spells such as Blizzara also makes her an ample threat, as does her ability to silence members of the party (the latter of which can be easily combated by Echo Herbs, three of which you found en route to this battle.) Other than healing, you'll want to direct your attention towards some hardcore attacks. Even though Medusa uses Blizzara, it happens to be her weakness, so have your mages direct that spell at her. Melee fighters should, naturally, stick to melee attacks. Simply said, simply done.