I got this game back in April 2015 as a portable RPG I could play while not having my own place, but renting a room in someones apartment while traveling to the nearby town for unemployment stuff and then work as I got my current job in august the same year. And now 8 years later (as of September 2023) I finally finished it. 86 hour... what was I doing? I recall that I maybe restarted the game at one point while traveling the ruins since I got stuck, but still.
The game, the things I remember at least, is that you are the Highlander. No, not the one from the 1986 movie, this Highlander carries a spear. You end up in the town Etria that lies in the outskirt of the Yggdrasil labyrinth. Travelling through the stratums he encounters three other travellers, the Magician Arthur, the Healer Simon and the Knight Raquna. Together you find some ruins and in it the girl Ricky that have slept in suspended animation for a 1 000 years, hence the title. You form a guild and explore the labyrinth and ruins to uncover the secrets.
Apparently the world is a post-apocalyptic Earth where for example Raquna is a noble from the kingdom of Ontario. In the middle of the labyrinth is the Yggdrasil core which threatens the world and the ancient world sent Ricky into the future to stop it from destroying the Earth together with the computer AI M.I.K.E. It gets a bit hazy here, I recall fighting Gungnir, the machine that was plan A, which would have destroyed all life as well. Final stretch was the fifth stratum which was the ruins of a modern city... I guess in Japan due to the name Shinjuken or something like that. That was where I ended the last time until now where I was able to get through the floors and fight the final bosses. I pushed through when the recommended level was 50 and I was at 63. It was 4 damn boss battles (lucky with rest between some of them). I was clearly suboptimal leveled with my skill points, too diverse, should have a focussed on some skills and should have gone for the passive skills.
But the ending battle was epic. So, even if it took me 8 years I found it rather fun. Probably should have read a guide on the skill levels to avoid spreading the skills too thin. I got Untold 2, 4, 5 and Nexus on the 3DS and the HD collection on Switch so I have a lot to catch up with. The gameplay is actually rather fun, you map out the map yourself and put in hints here and there so that you can get through it. Some problems though is that certain icons are supposed to represent certain things, but if you don't see them until the final floors you might use it for something else. And there's also a limit on how many you can have so suddenly, when I'm mapping out all poison flowers on a certain floor I hit the limit so I have to use another colour to indicate danger which irritates me a bit. Same goes for teleportation markers, I assume that was what the numbers where for, but the one floor that has them have more teleportation points than numbers so I improvised the symbols to fill the map. Small nitpicks.
The rest is fight monsters, gather items, solve quests and so on. Only a couple of weeks before finishing it I learned that you could auto-battle making traversing older areas a bit better. Might even have speed up my game if I knew that. The items you gather you sell and unlocks more weapons, armours and items. Love the idea, but since that is coupled with "use fire on this monster to get this item" or "use a slash attack to get this item" instead of just pure RNG I need to recall all this... and that is hard when you play a game across 8 years.
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