Hydlide 2 FAQ by ReyVGM _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ To be used exclusively with the supplemented maps since I will not provide detailed directions. Please follow the guide chronologically or you might get stuck in the game for just using a key in the wrong dungeon. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Controls ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Return or N: Menu Space or Y: Change Attack/Defense Mode F1-F5: Use Magic. D: Remove an item. 0 (Zero): Speak Mode (used to talk to characters) Esc: Pause Select: Scroll On/Off Magic ¯¯¯¯¯ In Attack Mode: Fire (learned at lev 2) Ice (learned at lev 4) Wave (learned at lev 8) Magma (learned at lev 12) Flash (learned at lev 16) In Defense Mode: Revolve (learned at lev 2) Search (learned at lev 4) Sleep (learned at lev 8) Cloud (learned at lev 12) Silence (learned at lev 16) Spells ¯¯¯¯¯¯ These spells are found in the Camp option on the menu. Detoxicate (learned at lev 3) Reinforce (learned at lev 5) Jump (learned at lev 9) Teleport (learned at lev 17) _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ This game is really REALLY hard. World Map ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 1- You'll start in the forest town. Fight monsters until you reach level 4 and earn some money. Be very careful though, not everyone that walks around is an enemy. It's very difficult to tell who's a good guy or a bad guy. Only attack if they attack you. If you kill a good guy, your FORTH will drop and no one will talk to you, including the store owners. If it takes you a few weeks to reach level 4, don't feel bad, the game is really designed that way. After getting some cash, buy the Lamp and some Oil from the bottom left store. Buy equipment from the bottom right store. (Your item/equipment bag can only carry 10 items total BTW.) On higher levels, you'll get to train with the top right person and increase your attack power. 2- Once you feel confident enough, head to the cemetery and bash the tombstone marked in red (in my map) until it breaks. This is needed to trigger a future event. If you fight the Ghouls in the cemetery, they might sometimes drop a Black Crystal. This is a bad item since it won't let you regain health. You'll actually need it later on, but for now just drop it (enter item screen and press D to remove it). 3- Go to the open field on the bottom right of the map to where a Key is shown. You'll find it by going under the two trees near the river. Some stuff in this game is not found just by merely stepping in the right place, you actually have to face a specific direction too. So, go under the top-left tree and face up. The game will prompt you to open a treasure with the [Key] inside. Now that you have the key, you'll be able to enter the Desert Tower. Desert Tower ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 1- Once you enter, everything will be dark. Don't fret. Open the item menu and enable the lamp. (Make sure to disable it once you leave the dungeon or it will consume all your Oil.) You'll also probably get a lot of Black Crystals here, so just keep removing them from your inventory. 2- Go left and take the stairs. You won't see anything there though since the game doesn't bother to show you stairs or chests. Remember that you usually need to face the correct direction to "trigger" a stair or chest. You can also use the Search Magic to spot places of interest if you wish. 3- Go down and take the next stairs to the 3rd floor. 4- Go right and search the spot with the chest to get the Antidote, then go left and take the stairs up. 5- Move down to the next screen and position yourself between the two columns where the stairs should be and press Left to go to the last floor. 6- When you see a green enemy named ORC, kill it. It will randomly drop a [Key]. Keep killing him until he drops it. You won't be able to beat the game without this key, since they are all accounted for. Now go right and search the bottom right spot for the [Laser Sword], the strongest weapon in the game. There are a couple of warps too, the left one warps you back to the 4th floor. The right one warps you to the bottom left part of the room. Don't step on the other ones or you'll lose energy / get poisoned. After getting the Laser Sword and Key, you can leave the tower. World Map ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 1- Once outside, disable the Lamp. You can now either go to the Desert Town, or head to the next dungeon. It's not necessary to go to the desert town right now BTW. If you have enough money to raise your magic and you think you can survive the desert, then go to the town on step 2 below. If not, then head to step 4. 2- Go directly down to where the Desert Town is on the map. Now, to be able to see the town, you first need to have destroyed the tombstone I mentioned before and you must NOT have a Black Crystal in your possession. Since, you already bashed the tombstone, then just get rid of the Black Crystal (if you have it) and the town will magically appear. 3- In this town, you'll see two folks. The left one sells potions, heals you and detoxifies you (all for a fee of course). The right one increases your magic bar, for a fee. There are also two ponds, the left one fills your magic (touch the wall) and the right one is poisoned, so don't enter it... yet. Ignore the red markings for now, since you have to find other stuff first. 4- Go to the open field in the bottom right of the map and bash the rock shown until it reveals a hole. Enter the Labyrinth. Labyrinth ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 1- Take the Red Warp 1 and you'll be dropped in Gray Warp 1, head left, down, right and take the chest for a Salve. Then go left, down, left, up, pass through the false wall shown in the map as an arrow, right, up and take the chest for a [Key]. 2- Now go down, left, pass the false wall, down, bottom right exit and touch the marked spot to receive the "PURITY" password. 3- Now head up to Red Warp 2 and you'll be dropped in Gray Warp 2, from there head to the entrance and exit to the world map. World Map ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 1- Head to the bridge between the desert and the open field and go down to the river through the false bridge wall. Head left until you reach the River Dungeon. Enter through the false wall. River Dungeon ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 1- You should have 2 keys in your possession. Go up, hit the left Switch and the wall with the two-way arrow on the right will open. Now go to the right switch and the wall with the two-way arrow on the left will open. You will now have used up the 2 keys. 2- Pass through the right wall that just opened and go down to the fire enemy enclosed in a wall. Don't be fooled though, the right and left walls are false. So step in, defeat him and stand where he was to get a [Key]. 3- Now head towards the left fire enemy and defeat him just like the last one. You will use up your key and get the [Green Crystal]. Head outside to the world map. World Map ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 1- Now you can head to the desert town. But first, go back to the desert tower, fight the Ghouls until you get the [Black Crystal]. If you have one, ignore this step and head directly for where the desert town is. 2- When you reach the spot, you won't see the town since it's normally hidden from view. Before you uncover it, use the Search Magic and you'll see a spot light up. Step on it to receive the [Mystic Drug]. You'll also get poisoned (use the Detoxify spell to remove it). By the way, DO NOT use or delete the Mystic Drug or you won't be able to beat the game. 3- Now, if you didn't come to the desert town before, this is the time to do it. Just make sure you have destroyed the tombstone mentioned before and remove any Black Crystals from your inventory. The town should magically appear. 4- In this town, you'll see two folks. The left one sells potions, heals you and detoxifies you (all for a fee of course). The right one increases your magic bar, for a fee. There are also two ponds, the left one fills your magic (touch the wall) and the right one is poisoned, so don't enter it... yet. Instead, stand below the 1st tree from the left (the one with the red mark on the map) and press Down. You'll be prompted to write something. Write on the keyboard the password you got in the Labyrinth (PURITY) and press Enter. Two openings will appear in the two ponds. The left one drops you off in the world map river, so ignore that one. The right one is no longer poisoned and it drops you in the final dungeon. If you thought the game was hard up until now, get ready for this dungeon. It's bigger than anything you have played so far and harder. Go back to the forest town and buy the maximum amount of Oil. You're gonna need it. Final Dungeon ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Basement 1: 1- Go all the way down and then right to get a chest with a [Key]. 2- Then go all the way up until you see another structure. Here you will find Oil to the left (for when it gets too low) and to the right, the stairs to the 2nd basement. 3- In the top left of the map you'll find the stairs that lead you back to desert town if you get the need to buy stuff. To the top right there is a fairy, but she will only appear after you've gotten all the crystals, so ignore that area for now. Head for basement 2. Basement 2: 1- Go to the right and hit the switch below the headstone to open the wall where the arrow is on the map. As soon as you pass, the wall will close and you'll be poisoned. So quickly run to the bottom and hit the other switch. Your condition will be back to normal and a new path will open to the left. 2- In the next room there is another false wall on the top left. But first, go down and pick up the chest for an Antidote. If you don't have room in your inventory, then make room or leave it. 3- After passing through the false wall, go all the way left and pass through the false wall on the bottom to find a switch, press yes to receive a [Key]. You should have 2 keys now. Ignore the stairs going down since they lead nowhere. Take the Red Warp 1 and you'll be taken to Gray Warp 1 in Basement 3. Basement 3: 1- Those stairs right below where you start from takes you back to the warp that you just took in Basement 2 to get here. In case you want to know. 2- From where you start, go right, hit the switch, go down, watch the marks on the floors or you'll be put to sleep and the enemies will kill you. Take the one way arrow to the left, go down and move the headstone up to open a wall on top. This will also trigger a chest right below. You'll lose some energy after opening it, but you'll also get a 3rd [Key]. Now, go up and take the opened path left. 3- Go all the way left and use a key to open the chest and receive the [Yellow Crystal]. 4- From now on, there are several ways to reach the 4th Basement. By stairs and one-way warps. Just follow the ones I mention. But first... 5- Go right and head for the chest. You'll receive the [Dream Staff]. It's not as strong as the Laser Sword, but it stops those nasty lizards and harpies from casting spells. Once you pick up the chest, you won't be able to leave that small space. So search for the Red Warp 2 down below and it will take you to the Gray Warp 2 in the north part of the map. 6- Go left, go through the one way wall and take the stairs back up to an inaccessible area from Basement 2. Basement 2: 1- From where you start, take the false wall to the right and go left to the chest. Use a key to receive the [Purple Crystal]. You should have one key left. 2- Now we are done with Basement 2. Take the Red Warp 1 again to go back to the beginning of Basement 3. Basement 3: 1- Head towards Red Warp 2 and then take Red Warp 3 to be taken to the confusing Basement 4. Basement 4-1: 1- There are two Basement 4's and both can be very confusing without help. 2- From where you warped, head right until you enter the area with the brown soil, use fire magic on the lower-right headstone (press F1 in attack mode) to destroy it, step where the headstone was and use your last key to receive the [Red Crystal]. 3- Backtrack to where Red Warp 9 is to jump to the lower left part of the map. 4- Let's trigger Basement 4-2 now. Head to the area with the brown soil to the bottom. See where those up and down arrows are on the map? That means to stand inside that area, go up to the next screen, then come down. If done right, you should see a headstone in the middle of the screen. Now, if you go up again (and only up) you'll automatically be in Basement 4-2. Basement 4-2: 1- If you did the up/down trick from the top-left part of Basement 4-1, then you'll be able to go left and down towards a chest with an Antidote. It's not worth it, so it's best if you just do the trick from the top-right part of Basement 4-1, that way you'll be able to go to the north part of Basement 4-2. 2- Anyway, from where you start, go up then left into the water through the false wall. Ignore the false wall below since you can't go through it yet. Instead, enter a false wall on top to go into the lava river. You'll lose energy so be quick. Instead of doing the logical, which is to go right, go left to the end of the screen and you'll magically wrap around and appear in the top-right part of the map. Keep going left and go through the false wall to step out of the lava. Much quicker than if you would have gone right. 3- Go down and left until you come across some fire breathing dragons. If you ram into them you'll defeat them quickly, but you'll also take a lot of damage. Instead use Flash magic, it might take a while, but you won't get killed. 4- After you're done, keep following the path, be careful with the warps and once you are finally in the top-left room, search the right part for a switch that opens up the the false wall you skipped before and search the left part for the last [Key]. 5- Now, you have to get the last crystal. Go right and take any of the Red Warps 1 and you'll be dropped in the bottom-left part of the map. Find your way up again to the false wall that leads to the river. Now you can take the bottom false wall you ignored earlier. It will lead to a chest with the [Revive Potion]. Take it. Make space for it. (Do not go left or right or you'll lose a lot of energy.) 6- Go up and take the false wall to the lava river. Go right along the path and take the left false wall out of the lava. Step into the river and go right then down. Careful with the warps. Use the key on the chest to get the last crystal! The [Blue Crystal]. 7- Now use your Jump spell (found in the Camp menu) and go all the way up to the 1st Basement. Basement 1: 1- Go to the top-right part of the map to where the Fairy is. Now that you have all the crystals, the fairy will appear. 2- Take this opportunity to go out and buy oil or potions if you wish. Make sure you are at maximum level (20) and you have increased your strength with the trainer in the first town and have increased your magic with the guy in desert town. Once you've done that, head back to Basement 1 and take the stairs down to Basement 2. Basement 2: 1- Find your way down to Red Warp 1 to get taken to Basement 3. Basement 3: 1- Head towards Red Warp 2 and then take Red Warp 3 to be taken to Basement 4. Basement 4-1: 1- Go right towards the area with the brown soil where you found the red crystal. Then go down through the false wall and find your way down to the only stairs leading to Down. Now that you rescued the fairy, you can enter these stairs. Basement 5: 1- Multiple forms of Varalys (the last boss from the first game) will greet you. Don't bother attacking them. 2- Place crystals on both the middle right and left statues. Then go up to the next room. 3- Place a crystal on the 2nd statue from the left. Go to the left room. 4- Place a crystal on the 3rd statue from the right in the top left row of statues. Go to the previous room and then go to the right room. 5- Place a crystal on the middle right statue. Now go to the previous room. 6- Stand between the two horse headstones and push the right one to the right and the left one to the left. A crystal will appear. 7- Use the Mystic Drug (the white potion) and you'll start to flicker. This allows you to stand inside the crystal. Do so and wait 3 or 4 minutes. If you see your energy going down, then you are not standing in the same spot as the crystal. After the 3 or 4 minutes are up (I have no idea why you have to wait that long), you'll get the lousy ending. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Huge thanks to a now defunct Japanese page: naramura.kdn.ne.jp/msx3/kouryaku/hydlide/hydlide2.htm