Abandoned Mines & Withered Lands in “Oceanhorn!”

So, last time we left off we had just entered the Abandoned Mines, where the local bomb merchant said that the miners had recently vanished. Here, too, he said we could obtain some bombs that we would need on our quest. The Mine is the first real dungeon of Oceanhorn, and therefore it really isn’t all that bad. It’s certainly reminiscent of a nice dungeon romp in a Zelda game, with little nooks to explore, a couple secrets to find, and enemies to slay. The puzzles here are pretty straight-forward and the boss (a pair of giant centipedes) isn’t all that bad, and as expected, our prize at the end is the bomb item.

After completing the dungeon, we see a letter in a bottle wash up on the beach where someone claims to be a prisoner in the Withered Lands and needs our help. Good timing, that – we were going to head there anyway, since the Hermit said that the Owru, who used to live on the Pirta Continent, were the keepers of the Emblem of Earth. The Withered Lands are interesting – a vast desert area to explore and a fortress to get through. Not wanting to spoil too much, I’ll say that the prisoner is quite interesting, teaches us a magic spell, and tells us the location of the shrine where the Earth Emblem should still be kept.

This shrine will be our next location of interest, but you’ll have to wait for Episode III to see what happens there!