Ok, this game got beaten today
Here are a few tips for you folks cause playing an old DOS RPG without a single walkthrough is *kind of* annoying:
- DO NOT EVER throw away the two gems (red and blue) you get after beating the first God's Tower.
- after using them in the second God's Tower TAKE THEM with you
- ALWAYS keep them in your backpack
- beware of the missing common keys bug! Workaround is posted @ Underdogs in the Comments section.
- during battles ALWAYS keep the Ethblade spell casted, A L W A Y S. Your characters have to have their left hand empty for this spell to work, I never kept anything in the left hand slot.
- Antimagic, Deflect spells are your friends
- HEAL during battles using HEALING or RENEW.
- monsters not only do not respawn but they also do not regenerate. If you have problems with some tough encounter back up one level, heal and go back down to finish the fight.
- the DEADLY LEVEL OF GREEN FIREBALLS in third God's Tower is beatable. Hide away in safe corners, heal, and push on.
- you can kill the last boss BEFORE you set him free, makes the final challenge much easier (he is SUPER fast).
- be sure to finish this game under Windows 98 or pure DOS. After you kill the last boss there's cinematic that crashes DOSBox. All cinematics excluding the intro crash DOSBox.
Have fun, the game is great (Gravis music ROCKS), easy and quite short.