Walkthrough doesn't match what happens in game?!
Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 3:12 am
Here be spoilers
So I just finished playing as a thief, first time I'd played a QFG game in about five years. Long story short, right at the very end (after teleporting from the Forbidden City to the Raseir palace) I started having issues. It was kind of getting on my last nerve because every slight screwup meant I had to sit through that whole unskippable cutscene of a genie blowing up the city...it started to feel ten minutes long every time.
Anyhow, I snuck past the eunuch guarding the front gate, and the genie led me through the palace (as described in text) to a balcony overlooking Khaveen pacing in the corridor below. My first instinct was to throw a dagger at him, but I got the message "all that accomplished was getting his undivided attention" or something to that effect, and boom, the genie sequence which I would soon grow to loathe. Ok so then what? If I waited more than 30 seconds or so, he'd either call the guards on me, or my genie would start screaming and boom, genie cutscene. If I tried shimmying down the rope that was next to me he'd see me, decide it wasn't worth fighting me, and call the guards and boom, genie cutscene. After a few failed attempts I swore to never see the freaking genie cutscene again, and checked a walkthrough (the one on GameFAQ's.)
I discovered that it described a different scenario than what I was actually in. It said that after entering the palace, I should have a "scene" with the harem girls and then continue into a place with a couple eunuchs and then somehow have to use my magic rope as a tightrope to get to Ad Avis. This is absolutely not what was in the game. I assumed next that the remake had switched things up a bit and this was an old walkthrough, but no, it was up to date, and another walkthrough I checked was exactly the same as this.
Anyway, I finally re-tried throwing the dagger, and actually jumped down onto him and offed him ninja-style - turns out that was the right thing to do. But why in God's name does the walkthrough describe such a different sequence than what's actually in the game? And yes, I was without a doubt looking at the thief walkthrough.
So I just finished playing as a thief, first time I'd played a QFG game in about five years. Long story short, right at the very end (after teleporting from the Forbidden City to the Raseir palace) I started having issues. It was kind of getting on my last nerve because every slight screwup meant I had to sit through that whole unskippable cutscene of a genie blowing up the city...it started to feel ten minutes long every time.
Anyhow, I snuck past the eunuch guarding the front gate, and the genie led me through the palace (as described in text) to a balcony overlooking Khaveen pacing in the corridor below. My first instinct was to throw a dagger at him, but I got the message "all that accomplished was getting his undivided attention" or something to that effect, and boom, the genie sequence which I would soon grow to loathe. Ok so then what? If I waited more than 30 seconds or so, he'd either call the guards on me, or my genie would start screaming and boom, genie cutscene. If I tried shimmying down the rope that was next to me he'd see me, decide it wasn't worth fighting me, and call the guards and boom, genie cutscene. After a few failed attempts I swore to never see the freaking genie cutscene again, and checked a walkthrough (the one on GameFAQ's.)
I discovered that it described a different scenario than what I was actually in. It said that after entering the palace, I should have a "scene" with the harem girls and then continue into a place with a couple eunuchs and then somehow have to use my magic rope as a tightrope to get to Ad Avis. This is absolutely not what was in the game. I assumed next that the remake had switched things up a bit and this was an old walkthrough, but no, it was up to date, and another walkthrough I checked was exactly the same as this.
Anyway, I finally re-tried throwing the dagger, and actually jumped down onto him and offed him ninja-style - turns out that was the right thing to do. But why in God's name does the walkthrough describe such a different sequence than what's actually in the game? And yes, I was without a doubt looking at the thief walkthrough.