chrisccerami

I just played through Beyond Oasis for the first time, working through my backlog while stuck at home, and I reached a point in the final dungeon where it seems like it's pretty easy to put the game in an unbeatable state. Here's what happened to me.

I reached a point where there are 3 ice crystals blocking a path. I figured I should go back a few rooms and summon the fire spirit to destroy them, which he did easily. I then proceeded past, fought some enemies, and then came to a row of spikes that was too long to jump over and moved too fast to run through. I couldn't figure out a way of getting past them, so I ended up just brute forcing it and taking a bit of damage. However, once on the other side I reached a gap where I clearly needed the shadow spirit in order to cross.

This is where things get tricky. I tried going back through the castle and finding a spot where I could summon the shadow spirit. There was a crystal earlier in the dungeon where I was able to do that, and then I tried to make my way back to the gap I'd just been blocked by. However, on the way back you need to fall into a pit in order to reach the area with the gap, but having the shadow spirit currently summoned makes it impossible to fall into pits, as he (usually helpfully) catches you.

This means that you would *have* to summon the shadow spirit at some point *after* falling into the pit, but there were no crystals from which to summon it after that point. I resorted to looking on Gamefaqs, and a guide said to make sure to not break all 3 of the ice crystals blocking the path (the ones I had the fire spirit destroy), as you'll need at least one of them left to summon the shadow spirit.

Well, shit.

Luckily I had an item on me that would let me summon the shadow spirit from anywhere, but those are one-time-user and I only found 1 in the entire game, and inventory space is pretty limited. So if I hadn't found that item, or had already used it before this point, I'm pretty sure I'd have needed to start the game from scratch and lost those 6 hours.

Also, to be clear, since you don't have direct control over the spirits, when I brought the fire spirit into the area with the ice crystals, he just goes off on his own and destroys them, so you'd have to be pretty careful to dismiss him after he destroys the first 2 in order to avoid this situation. Seems like a pretty mean potential softlock to put 20 minutes before the end of a game.

Would something like ESC (https://radicaldreamland.itch.io/esc) be eligible? It doesn't appear in the search, but I'm not entirely sure if that's because it's not counted as a game for these purposes or just because no one's entered it in the wiki.

It's also autoplaying for me on Chrome. I'm hoping there's a way to disable it or that one's in the works.

DEADLY SIMS 13 is soooo goood

I'll be pretty bummed if we just get more of the same.

Yeah, I'm annoyed about the same thing. After watching Jeff play Trackmania enough times I finally want to try it out, but it seems like it's been kind of destroyed by the release of Valley. I'm thinking I might just jump into Stadium and see how the Giant Bomb server is doing over there.

I have no idea what a garbage plate is, but it sounds appetizing.

Hey duders, I kind of posted about this before albeit in a somewhat different context, but I'm going to be in Rochester, NY this upcoming weekend on Saturday and Sunday. I'll be going to the Anamanaguchi concert Sunday night, but since I know no one in the area and I've got no plans for Saturday night, maybe some Giant Bomb folks would want to get together and go to a bar or get into some other miscellaneous hijinks. Maybe even pick up a pie and flush it at the hotel (I'm pretty sure that will be on my to-do list either way). So if you live in the city or anywhere in the vicinity and want to get some drinks or hang out, let me know.