While i really liked the first 3 hours of this game with its immediate freedom and very appealing combat system, the rest of it immediately collpases in on itself and becomes disgustingly unfun.

Go into this dark ass labyrinth and fight enemies way too strong for you. Find a random seed and somehow know that you have to eat it to progress the game. Dont fight that werewolf bat cause if you dont have a SPECIFIC sword you have to get by eating a seed then leaving then finding Reah then talking to Reah then giving Reah her harmonica then going to two trees and watching a cutscene, then youre fucked. Go back into the awful mines that's layout is akin to a 4 year old's art class project and fight the bat with the 3 frames of vulnerability.

Hoorah.... the mines are now over. Now i can have fun?!?!??

Wrong. Go to zepik village and run around in circles and talk to feena then leave then come back and talk to feena then leave then do 3 backflips then recieve a psychic premonition that you should probably ask grandma to read those random ass books youve been lugging around all game then leave then come back then feena should be there and THEN you will be told you can enter darm tower

And darm tower is where the game goes to rot and die. Awful layout. You have to find specific gear sets in order to progress, which are pretty much impossible to locate in this horrible labyrinth. No walk-through can help you here. Im stuck on this floating head boss that no one has ever had a problem with apparently cause i cant find any help. I do no damage. Im assuming i need a special sword 100 floors down from where i am that i need to backtrack to get, but i dont want to.

A shame because this was really free of all the issues i had with 80s-90s games but then it all fell off as soon as the mines happened. Hopefully ys 2 is better, for now i quit.