So entered the tower for a third time, this time with the Claw, or better known as Demon Toal... or just Toal Fact. Described as a berserker with high attack, but low health. So he's the worst to play through actually. I've died more times than the others combined... and maybe it has to do that I've played it on Hard. Otherwise plays as much as the others, but some significant changes. For example Toal doesn't get the mask so he won't be able to see the hidden bridges or the secret room that Gemma hides in. In return he gets better equipment that enhances stats. He also doesn't get an auto-revive like the others in the endgame, but the goddess ring that boost strength and defence with +5 and have some plot importance, but that's it.
Storywise it's a bit more interesting. After staying behind with Commander Tovah to cover the ascent of Solomon Shrine his cleria sword was broken and the darklings took him in and granted him some demonic essence. As the darklings started to search the tower for the goddesses Toal began from the first floor and climbed upward. The interesting thing with this is that you gotta fight members of the search party. Also, apparently he was in love with the older of the goddesses and they tell him that there is a traitor who gave the darklings the power to build the tower and control the demons. Now we getting somewhere. So the rest goes as usual up to the point when you defeat Dalles. From the sky a trident piercis him and kills and Cain Fact appears, Toal and Hugo's father, the mightiest of the six priest of Ys. He apparently orchestrated the whole thing to gain ultimate power to free humanity from the goddesses he sees as suppressing the human race. How and why I don't get, but Toal is given back his sword that have been restored by Gemma and fight the the transformed Cain that have taken the shape of Darm, the final boss of Ys II. And who named the tower I've been running up and down in. Take two tries to get the pattern down, but he is defeated, the goddesses goes to sleep and the ending wraps up. Both Roy and Epona survived, the silver sword that Adol gets from the Roda tree is the same sword that Toal used and hid there. It's also Toal that started the creation of the six books of Ys, named after the six priests. He also took over the role as high priest off the Fact family after his father and returned to Ys while Hugo stayed on the surface.
Overall a fun game, a bit repetitive, the three characters doesn't differ that much. Unlocked a couple of extra mode like a Battle Arena and boss fights. The arena was interesting in that battling enough you could afford to unlock Adol, but only for the arena and boss mode. Which is kinda disappointing since a story-less mode of just running up the tower and defeating bosses to learn how Adol worked would be welcome. Still, I won and another game is completed.
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