Dragon Quest XI part 5

*SOB*

Of course it continues with a funeral for Veronica, Serena cuts her hair and receives all Veronica's magic in a dream and turns into the real reincarnation of Serenica that helped Erdwin. With that the elder tells of the ancient creature that gave Erdwin the power of flight and gives the hero a flute. Playing the flute on a certain points awakes a flying whale that can let you travel to points indicated by some golden light. Mostly there are one or two hidden areas to the normal areas where you can fight certain monsters and find material spawn points or locked away treasure chests. After going around checking everything and finding some kind of weird temple I can't enter our hero travel to a floating island above Octagonia. Arriving you find a building that looks eerily similar to a crashed building in Octagonia that appeared after the cataclysm. Apparently it just to be a floating town for the keepers, the guardians of knowledge since time immemorial. And now there is only one left, the youngest and he tells them about how Erdwin forged the sword of light. So it's a quest for getting another sword to defeat Mordegon with. You also get some lantern with holy fire so you can travel to a flying mining rock where you get some orichalcum, them travel to Gallapolis to get a hammer in order to bang the metal into shape. And then it's off to Hotto.

Now, Hotto is at the grip of a dragon and have turned into sacrificing to satisfy its hunger. But the ones preparing the sacrifice can't get there since a monster is blocking the way and the protector of the town can't fight it with her injured leg after fighting the dragon in the battle that took her son. So you get hired. Apparently it's the kids for the mother chosen as a sacrifice trying to save their mother. She claims she saw the protector speaking with the dragon and feeding it. As you go to the volcano and confirms this you confront the protector as the dragon appears. The lord stops you from hurting the dragon and promptly gets eaten. Well you beat him, and he escapes to the volcano. You go to the lord's room and reads her diary where it is revealed that the dragon is her son, turned into a dragon by a curse which was the reason the dragon reappeared all the time. She tried to cure him with the mirror of Ra (that have been in several Dragon Quest games), but she couldn't do it without more training... game... I haven't recovered from Veronica yet and now you throw this at me? You get the mirror and kills off the dragon for good, not able to save him, but turn him back to human before he dies. Goddamit game.

You get a key to the inner sanctum of the volcano where you unlock this ancient smith where Erdwin forged the sword of light and now you are able to do the same. So now I just finished sidequest until confident in attacking Mordegons castle. Reach him in his dark castle you have to once again fight Mordegons generals that had the orbs, ending with a fight with Jasper that tells the reason for his betrayal. And it was his jealousy for Hendrick which he felt overshadowed him, leaving him behind as Hendrick became the hero to the people. Well, sucks for you. Defeating him leads to anther awesome scene as you all try to enter the teleporter to Mordegon and all generals appear once again trying to occupy the heroes comrades so that he has to face Mordegon alone, but the power of friendship prevails, destroying them all. You fight Mordegon and kills him, taking the sword of darkness. The world is at peace and you travel around it seeing everyone coping after the cataclysm. And it ends with all surviving heroes standing at the grave of Veronica, taking a drink in her memory for making the sacrifice to save the world... 

So that was Dragon Quest XI. I really liked this game. It was fun and at the same time hitting you in the feels constantly. With 60 hours in it just about the right amount of time... wait, what happened to that strange tower with all the spirits around? Is there endgame content?

Let me just open this door and check!