Just a Mirage Update

Hi, I just beat Mirage so I wanted to give another update!

First of all, I love Ozzy. He has so many great lines that made me laugh.

I imagine his sinuses are always dry since he's a skull, haha

I also really liked Istar. She's so cute! And even though she makes a lot of mistakes, I forgive her since I think she's always trying her best.

I know people think she's annoying, but I like her

The first fight I had trouble with in Mirage with Loother Ray. He's a cheating boss and a 4v1 fight but I managed to beat him on the fourth try. 

I didn't really like Aggrobah that much as an area. It was maze-like and my quest helper arrow broke on two different days when I was questing there so navigating was kind of a nightmare. Also, implementing the Sultana's plan there was pretty repetitive since it basically makes you do the same fights three times. To make it even worse, there aren't any wisps in that zone so I kept going back to Caravan for health which was annoying.

I thought recruiting the house qhats was a bit more interesting. They were different enough where it wasn't as repetitive and I thought their names were funny (Purrzian, Calixco, and Sayameez).

In Istanboa, I saw the "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" reference coming a mile away but I still appreciated it. "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" is of course the 1953 song originally recorded by The Four Lads but popularized by They Might Be Giants. I think that's the second TMBG reference in the game, after the "What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?" reference that the Oracle in the Acropolis house has (that I made a whole post about in 2013).

Snake Plizkin isn't my favorite Mirage companion, but he did have some good lines. I like that at the very end in the Thieve's Den he has a side quest to get his teddy bear back. 

The Taffy/Tiki/Ricky fight was another tricky cheating boss. The first two fights weren't too bad, but all three of them together were too much for me. I ended up getting henchmen to help with it.

The fight with the Scorpion was pretty cool! It was a lot easier than the Rat fight though, I managed to beat him solo on the second try. In that fight, there was an amazing round where I got beguiled and two of the Scorpion's minions healed me. They weren't very loyal to him, I guess.

When I got to the part where the plan was to dress up as a camel and dance I thought it was similar to the Polaris quest where you do ballet as a polar bear, so I thought it was really funny when Ali Baboon acknowledges that by saying he's not a Walrusk Empress. 

I also thought it was funny that Eerkala turned out to be an evil Istar reskin. Oh yeah, and the Chronocle was an Auroracle reskin, which I wasn't expecting but did make some sense. I liked the pictures it had since they were cool and made the encounter different from the Auroracle.

I quickly swept through the battles up to the Grandfather Spider boss fight where I ended up needing henchmen again. I maybe could have done it but I was too impatient to chip at 30,800 health by myself.

The storm henchman did the finishing blow with a Catch of the Day

I felt so betrayed by Mellori. I thought we were friends! I felt bad leaving her behind in Wizard City when I started Mirage and was so excited to have her back at the end. 

I did not see that coming!

They really made that moment worse with how sappy Mellori was about our friendship right before she attacked Grandfather Spider and revealed she's not actually Baba Yaga's daughter. And then Grandfather Spider kidnapped her! I'm excited to see her again and I hope she apologizes and we can still be friends.

To make it even worse, I did the Sinbad side quest right after. I thought he would be my new friend after I lost Mellori but he betrayed me too! I did laugh when he said I'm too powerful which makes him look bad.

It's true but he didn't have to kick me while I was down

Not only did I finish Mirage, but I also completed my first Scroll of Fortune! 

I entered the Rate My Stich event again and this time I got judge's choice for my Krokotopia outfit and my new overall outfit got rated pretty well too.

I also tried the PvP version of Beastmoon, but I think I like the other version better. It's very hard, but overall less stressful to fight NPCs in my opinion. I still favor balance dragon right now, but I found I also like death cyclops. I also tried myth colossus once and managed to win a fight where I had odds very much against me with a bunch of minions, so I might try that one again if I get a chance. 

Well, now it's time to start Empyrea! I'll make a post about how that goes when I finish it.