Legend of Pandora

I expected to like this game a lot, but then I died right before a checkpoint and now I don't like it.

This game would be better if there was an automatic save and if the skills were more obvious or if monster regenerated quicker.

I've got some serious rock pushing problems. There's nothing blocking them, but they'll only go one space over. I should be able to enter these areas yet I don't think I can squeeze through.

Hello!
I have completed the "No Newspaper," "Lost Communications," and "Lost Son" quests and currently have the "Snake Hunter" and "First Blood" quests. I have neither Swim nor Push. The only enemies I have seen so far are Octoroks (their Zelda name - please Google it if you are unfamiliar), one snake in the village, and green enemies that look like dogs and live only in the forest. Can anybody please help me?

Stuart, you get the push skill later, in the

just be patient :)

How, in heaven's name, do you learn the push skill?? I have the manual and I have 3 skill points I can use. I just can't figure it out :|

POP (facepalm)

no way to go to the cementery or in the beach
how to? is there a secret entrance somewhere?

Can someone please tell me how to use the Pushing Manual? I have three extra skill points and one extra stat point, but the "use/equip" button is still grayed out when I select the manual. I feel like I must be missing something obvious...

Not a fan of the walkthrough, it doesn't help with not knowing where to go. I'm stuck on The Road To Leviathan Cave mission, I have no idea where the cave entrance is. I found a cave but I'm blocked by water as soon as I enter. Help anyone?

Well, I was going to cancel my earlier question, because most of those rocks were actually exits. And then I went to the northerly cave that seems to be a bonus... except I couldn't get out of it. Good thing I'd saved.

Overall there are scaling problems with money/exp which result in every battle becoming a grind, but nothing too serious for me. Others may find it aggravating. More annoying was the placement of side quests. Probably half of them start the counter *after* you've already made the kills / found the thingy / etc.

I really liked most of the map. It made me dizzy when it switched screens, but the sections were thoughtfully done.

Unfortunately for me, this was a frustrating experience. I seemed to find that the game was somewhat disproportionate between the player's stats and the enemies.

I found myself grinding to get the best weapon in the game and still having problems with enemies after that. Some quests have you kill 20 overly powered enemies while the reward is a less than savory weapon of lowered class.

I really wanted to like this game. I have an affinity for leveling up and becoming overly powered but even upon completion of the game, the "Ending" left a very bitter taste in my mouth.

For those of you whom are less patient than I,
Spoiler for the ending and why it does NOT work.

While this review was harsh, I do hope it was constructive.

Awesome game!!

Finished it in a day. really good.

One thing that I found hard was to remember where all the vendors were. I want to find better goods, but could not remember where I had seen them. Anyone make a list of locations that had vendors?

Oh, same with the payoff of the side quests. In order to defeat those monsters, I need, say, a higher level sword, and then I'm rewarded with a basic sword. Lame.

Alas, I have baseball to watch, otherwise I'd do a little walkthrough adding. So here's the spoiler-riffic map.

At least, that's as far as I got. I still can't get up to those last areas.

Honestly, even with a low-level weapon, you can grind your way through all but the last levels, and that's only because you need a *faster* weapon. Just use strategy

You do need some timing (yes, it's possible to take on 3 or 4 at a time without a scratch), and will have to sit there for long minutes, but there's almost never a reason to die on this map, besides forgetting to buy poison antidote. This does assume that

I could've used a shop list too, though. Just 'cause I wanted to collect the weapons.

Uck.
Almost all of the graphics are stolen (most of the sprites and tiles are ripped straight from the Zelda GBC games with very minor changes, if any), the game consists of a long chain of bland kill/retrieve quests and fighting enemies with exceptionally poor AI, and even worse, I've completed an entire dungeon and not run into a boss. A game like this without a decent number of boss fights is like a burger without meat.

The battle system is brokenly easy, thanks again to the poor enemy AI. Basically all of them either move very slowly in random directions or move very slowly toward the player, making it a simple matter of standing in one place and swinging a sword over and over again. The only time you're in any danger at all is when you get stuck with an enemy directly on top of you and the game won't let you move out (which feels more like a glitch and/or the game cheating than it does anything approaching an actual challenge). You get so much money from just going and doing what you're supposed to go and do that, most of the time, before you can even begin a quest with a weapon as its reward you already have something way better than it.

Okay, okay. Honestly, there are worse games out there. This game is okay if you feel like doing grindy, repetitive, kinda boring stuff, which sometimes a person might feel like doing. I think maybe this whole game just rubs me the wrong way. It's because of the stolen graphics. If you're going to steal graphics from possibly the best zelda games of all time (namely, the Oracle series), you could at least steal a little more and give your game a good design with some actual puzzles, or challenging enemies, or an engaging story, or...SOMETHING.

Does anyone know how to load a save file on this game? There's no 'load game' button...I suspect it's done by clicking 'new game' and then selecting the save file, but I've put a lot of time into the game and don't want to risk losing my file.

um this be my first posting, hope i didn't go overboard with the spoilers and useless facts, enjoy...

[Thank you so much, herrcramz! I'm updating walkthrough with your advice. -elle]

How can I get to windy city??

so I went in the mausoleum and got the push skill book. I can now push rocks, but where do I go from here? I cant find any road to get to the windy village. any help?

Thanks herrcramz, greatly expanded my map. However I still can't get to the plateaus at the end, and that one blocked off treasure room.

Aha! Very important secret area.

The other stash is after you get the swim manual. In mine it was a less helpful boost, but don't forget to backtrack nonetheless.

hello can't find the pirate island, where is it in the map? and where i can find the man for the passage to the doom quest? i'm stucked

Anyone know anything about these two areas:

I have tried and tried and tried, and cannot figure out how to activate/enable/whatever the push skill manual. How? Please help. I had tons of skill points when I got it.

@shudog, I found that area first time through, but have no idea of how to pass the stones. How is it done?

@shelagh.smith The skill should appear in your Stats & Skills menu once you have acquired the manual. It's to the right of the Money Collector skill, and should be grayed out. All I had to do was click on it to select it, then spend a skill point.

@shudog Never mind, I stumbled over the correct method. D'oh, do I feel slow.

I'm stuck at completing the 14th quest. Where is the " southern cave"? Anyone with a hint?

I also am having trouble using the walkthrough: the images do not actually help me find where to go.

Can someone please help me out with actual information? I've been through all the quests up to pirate island, I have a key in my inventory but no idea where to use it, and I don't have the swim manual or any idea where to get it. I have no clue where to go, and the map is huge. I cannot figure out from the image which little bearded guy assigns you the pirate island quest: what area is this? There is also a guy who tells me that the underworld is behind a stone, but there is no direction I can push it in that will allow me entrance. Is this the part I'm missing? Is it somewhere else?

Without some kind of hint, my only option is to go back to every single area and hope to find something.

This brings back some great memories. I'm not even all that concerned with leveling, etc. I will eventually finish the game, but just running around killing bushes and mushrooms for a few minutes puts a smile on my face. Thanks for this!

Where can I find the swim manual?

Okay, schmokie, you and I were maybe in the same boat. Here's what I managed, finally, after logging out and back in.

I don't know if this helps, but hopefully someone will profit from my frustration.

I have to agree with both the lovers and the haters: nice retro visuals, clearly an homage to the Zelda series with lots of exploring to do. The finish of both game and story are very disappointing, though, with too many loose ends in both. They might as well have stuck up banners with 'please donate' halfway through the game.
I'd play the sequel, but am nowhere near tempted to fund it.

[whine]Please, someone, make a better map. The one in-game and the overview map in the walkthrough are too small to be useful, and the zoomed-in views in the walkthrough all look identical, so there's no way to tell *where* they are.[/useless complaint]

Unable to acquire the First Blood quest. When I talk to the person from the screenshot in the WT, he only says "HELP".

I've got a problem with pushing manual, I can't find it. I looking for it in cementary and mausoleum. where is it exactly?

how to find the librarian cousin

Does anyone know the deal with cave just to right of the save point on the Northern Plains? You need to be able to swim to get to it, but inside is a rock that won't move anywhere helpful and a mushroom that you can't chop down.

Thoughts?

Im stuck at the same place that "porkins.nmi" does refer...there is a mushroom that wont get cut as hard as you try... thatsnot usual. Its some kind of glitch? Please help.

i cant find the push manual can some one help me

nevermind

why are hurcules sword and vulcan broad sword cost more than gold slayer yet gold slayer has moer damage? Do those items have some special effect?

I suppose it's quite a bit later, but perhaps that gives me some time to cool down. I should explain what I mean when I complain about the graphics being stolen wholesale, as opposed to being a good tribute to the game it's stealing from.

Clarence's Big Chance is an obvious homage to Mario games, probably Super Mario World in particular. But all of its graphics are original, and, way more importantly in my book, it makes use of the kind of mechanics that exist in the games it's a tribute to to give the player an actual challenging and fun game. It has its own slant, yes, but it could have ripped off the exact physics and powerups and I wouldn't have complained if the level design was solid and the end result was fun. That's my complaint here: It takes things from the games it's trying to be, which on its own I would probably be okay with, but then it doesn't do anything interesting or fun with them.

Bottom line: I would honest to goodness love to play a game that was the "Clarence's Big Chance" of Zelda tributes. But I would hate to play a game that was the "Legend of Pandora" of Mario tributes.

Always, game slows down causing glitch when you are dodging the crab with GOD Mode or other prehack cheats since I can't play all day long and you can't click for saved game slot.

Legend of Pandora maps

Okay, since I've seen some people asking about decent maps and I wanted one myself I've made these. So here are some that I've put together. They are only of the overworld, no dungeon maps.

Warning though, these are 1:1 full size maps of the major areas of the world.

I am completely lost with finding the swim manual. Where exactly can I find it? I think I might be missing a key as well, but I don't know where to find that either. The latest quest I have is "crab massacre".

Enjoyed the game, except for the ending, which looks like it's been updated, but it's still very simplistic. Anyway, up until then it was a nice world to explore.

Does anyone know if the Berserker skill is worth building up? Does it work with whatever weapon you're using, or only with axes?

@porkins.nmi - I found that little cave too, and couldn't get anywhere with it. :-(

What's with the sign inside the wall in the northwest corner of one of the Desert Cave rooms?

And finally, some tips for getting through the final cave:

how to push a rock?

wheres the town? and how to go to other way?

I found out what is in that unreachable screen east of Windy Village and north of Sewer management.

Garbage. Challenge is replaced with huge hit point enemies, creativity is replaced with repetition. Movement bugs abound, and often paths lead to pointless time-wasting dead-ends. Terrible game that didn't deserve the extra attention. There's enough skill evident in the game that a much better game could be made, rather than dragging it out with excessive mazing and ridiculously long enemy fights. Scale of 1 to 10, this gets a 3.

The berserk hit works with both sword and axe weapons or only on axes?

This game is absolutely horrible. I rate it

"Should be hacked by everyone playing it if you want an enjoyable experience"/5.

This should be the poster child for what happens when you don't playtest your own games.

However, some tips for a more enjoyable expericne, go Axe or Sword. I prefer Axe. Pick one and stick to it. This is not a "tip" it is a requirement. DO NOT TRY AND BE AN ARCHER.

Side quests are useless, but do them in the beginning to get the Zombie Ripper (axe) as fast as possible. For each "drop" item, there is only one quest. Feel free to sell it after the quest is done.

If you can not find the swim manual:

Finally, when you reach the windy village, stock up on tons of antidotes (Maybe 50 of them?). You'll thank me later.

I cannot get to the treasure in the labyrinth secret area. I push the 3 stones 1 square but then what? I still can't get through.

Using the tricks mentioned by others earlier, I was able to explore the whole world map, but I don't know how to upload screenshots here. Going north of the world map is a bit interesting..

I don't know how to get the swimming manual? Where is it actually? Is it in the labyrinth?

Thanks

People say they can't find the cemetery.

Where you get the push manual?

Where you get the swimming manual?

Good Luck!!!

So I made it to the end of the game and went through Pandora's Cave. But at the end, it asked for donations to help create a sequel? Did anyone else get this or is there more to do? I came to what I thought was the last room of Pandora's gave and there were two basements of stairs. One brings you back to the start of Pandora's cave and one brings you to your father. I didn't find anywhere else to go. Anyone else?

Ok thanks!! Any idea when the next part is coming out?

While it does have its own charm, I felt really bored with the combat. It didn't even take that much time to accumulate enough gold for better weapons after going all in towards the "gold" skill. By the time I made it to

it lost my interest completely and I went off to play Legend of Zelda. :P