Ys Chronicles I Walkthrough By looked (Iooked@aol.com) October 1st, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Gameplay Tips 3. Walkthrough 4. Weapons 5. Armors 6. Shields 7. Rings 8. Items 9. Keys 10.Key Items 11.Sellable Items ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction This is a walkthrough for the IOS/Android versions of Ys Chonicles I - Ancient Ys Vanished Omen. This game is a port of Ys 1&2 Chronicles for PSP, which itself was a port of The Japanese PC game Ys Complete, and Ys Eternal. This guide does apply for those version also, as well as Ys 1&2 Eternal Story for Playstation 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gameplay Tips 1: Save Often. The difficulty is not balanced in this game. You might be invincible against enemies in a current area, but when you move on to the next area, they kill you in just a few hits. The game allows you to save anywhere, so make use of this. 2: Killing Enemies. If you've never played an Ys game before, the combat will confuse you at first. You can't swing your sword. You have to strategically "run into" them. You don't want to hit a enemy head on though. You want to be slightly right or left if you are attacking them vertically. Or slightly above or below them if attacking horizontally. 3: Refill Your Health. In non dungeon areas you regenerate health by standing still. Use this to your advantage. Once you obtain the Health Ring you can Regenerate your health in dungeons as well. 4: Original or Chronicles mode? You get this choice when chosing a new game, but it has no affect on gameplay. It's mostly graphical and artwork changes. I've heard people say that the choice affects screen ratio, but that doesn't seem to be the case for me. I'm playing on an Iphone5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Walkthrough Town of Barbado After the opening cutscene, you gain control of Adol. Walk over and talk to Buldo, and Ira. Optional Task: Short Sword Right off the bat you can get a free short sword by talking to everyone in town. This will save you a bit of money. Talk to Buldo and Ira again, and go through all of their dialogue options Exit the building and you will find George standing to the left of it. Pastor will be a little further to the left near the Pickard's pen. Marco, Petero, StepheFran, and Arsia will be wandering around town. In the building directly below Buldo's clinic you will find Trance, Danny and Rebecca. Exit their house and enter the one to left of it. You will find Sheryl, Mayson and Silvia. There will be 2 buildings to left of Mayson's house, take the top one to enter the bar. Talk to Karin and Gerald. Exit the bar and go left, then north, bypassing the building to your left, and enter the house north of it. Talk to Daria. Now enter the big building south of the barthe other building. Talk to Drake, then take the stairs up to the roof and you will find Jerrop in the upper right hand corner. Backtrack to the first floor,and talk to Slaghf. Go through all of his options, and when you chose the last one, he should give you the short sword, if not, you missed someone. There is nothing else to do in Barbado, so exit north the grasslands Grasslands Follow the linear path in a northern direction. You will soon see what looks like a castle wall. Make your way to the left side of it, and go north. This is the outside of the Town of Minea, and this is where we want to go, but there are a few things we could do first. Optional Task: Golden Pedestal Cross the bridge, and go north to the next screen. Go north again from this screen. Go east here, and cross the bridge. You may want to avoid the wolves for now, they hit pretty hard at level 1 with no equipment. Go east across another bridge, and then go south. In this new area go south and you will see a lake at the bottom. Go to the upper right hand corner of it, and you will find the golden Pedestal, which we can sell at the shop for 2000 gold. Optional Task: Bestiary Potion From the Lake where you found the Gold Pedestal, take the exit that is west and slightly north from it. You will find a chest, open it to get the bestiary potion. If you equip it, and then use it, you will gain information about enemies. Now back track to Minea and enter. Town of Minea The first thing you should do is visit Pim's shop to sell the Golden Pedestal. It's the leftmost building in the first row. Optional Task: Buy the Sapphire Ring from Pim's shop. The cost is 1000 gold, but when you return it to the owner, he will pay you 1500g. Leave Pim's shop and enter the first building on the right side of the path. This is the bar. Talk to the 3 men sitting at the bar. First talk to the master, then talk to the one eyed man and listen to his story. Talk to him a second time, and will give you 1500g for the ring. Now go to the bottom of town, and go to the right for the the weapons and armor shops If you've done all of the optional task so far, you will already have the short sword, plus 3500 gold. This is enough to buy the Long Sword, Chain Mail, and Small Shield. If you haven't done the optional quests, then you need to go to the field and grind. You need one of each to advance the story, and the game doesn't start you off with out money. Go all the way to the left and enter the building there. Talk to Sarah the fortune teller. Accept her challenge and you will You obtain Sarah's Crystal. Before you leave town, go back to Pim's shop and purchase a wing. This will allow you to warp back to Minea at any time. If you chose it, and refuse to buy it 9 times, he will drop his prices by 20% permanatly. Leave town and go North 2 screens, then east across the bridge. Go North east here, and then exit east to the Zeptik Village. Zeptik Village Go back across the bridge, go to the 4-way dirt fork, and this time go east to Zepic Village. Speak to the Mayor to get access to the mountains, then speak to the Jevah in her house to get the Shrine key. You may also want to talk to Iris while you are here to open up a side quest last. She is wearing a white dress, and wandering around outside of her house. Speak with her a few times to get all of her dialogue options. Exit north to the mountains. Go north until you reach the entrance to the shrine, then go east. Follow the northern path to the Theif Stronghold, and talk to Goban. Now it's time to do some major level grinding. Spend time outside of Solomon Shrine getting Grinding your gold up to 3000. I find it easiest to kill the knight on the bridge, then run left and kill the 2 over there. Just run back and forth and do this, they respawn. This takes up a bit of time, but it is necessary for the upcoming boss fight. Once you have 3000 gold, enter Solomon Shrine. go right and touch the gold statue. From the entrance, go to the doorway to the right, and open the chest to get a Ruby. Use the wing to return to Minea. Enter Pim's shop and sell the Ruby for 1200g and buy another Wing. Now go to the Armor shop and buy the Plate Mail, and Middle Shield. Now return to Solomon's Shrine and enter. Solomon's Shrine B1F Go all the way to the right, and you will see a gold statue. Touch it to teleport. From where you start go south, then west, then south through 2 doorways. Go west, then north through the door. Then west, and south through a door. Go west, and north. You will see a special door. Go through it for a boss fight. Boss Fight Wait on the bottom, or top of screen, and wait for him to appear in the middle. When he does, run through him as soon as there is an opening in the fire. Obviously you can do this at any point, but to account for the sluggish cell phone controls, just wait in the middle. Afterwards continue through the hole in the wall. B2F Note that you can't regenerate health in dungeons, but you can on B1F. So stay close to the entrance. From the entrance go South, west slightly, then south through a series of doors. Go east, and north through the second door you come to. This will lead you to a chest containing the Jail Key. Go back through the doors, and go east, and north to the next door you come to. Follow the path east, and take then second the last path there north, and follow it to get the Treasure Box key. Backtrack south, follow the path back west, and take the first path north that you come to. When you reach a path to the south, take it, and get the silver bell from the chest. Time to backtrack out of here. Follow the path back to the southern wall, then to the western wall, and back up the series of stairs. Head east, and take the second path north. Continue going east, take the path south when you hit a fork, and continue east. You will see 2 prison cells. Open the second one to rescue Feena and get the Mask of eyes. When you are done talking to her, go south, and hug the eastern wall. This will lead to a chest containing the necklace. backtrack to B1F. B1F Go south through the doors until you hit the southern wall. Go east, north through the door. Then east, south through the door. Then east, and north through three doors, leading to a chest with the Ring mail. Now backtrack to the Statue, and leave. Misc Items Go back south to the Zeptik Village, and talk to the May. You will return the towns Silver bell, and get the power ring in return. You should equip this immediately. This is the ring you will use the majority of the time. Optional Task: Parchment Exit Zeptik, and go west, south, and then east across the long bridge. Exit to the south. In this area take the south exit directly under the Lake. Take the exit to left of the huge Loda Tree, and follow this path to a chest You will get the Parchment, which can be used later. . Now go to Minea, and sell the Necklace at Pim's Market, for 500g Optional Task:Talwarl Return to Port Barbado, the starting town and talk to Slaghf again. if you don't remember how to get there, just exit left from Minea, and go south. Slaghf will give you the Tarlwarl. Optional Task: Rescue the sleepwalker While you are Barbado visit Buldo's Clinic, and you may see him talking someoneIf not, talk to him, leave town, and return. You must have also talked to his wife Iris in Zeptik. After he leaves, return to Minea. Go north 1 screen, and head west. On this new screen you should hear a fighting sound. Go north a bit and follow it. Kill the enemies there, and Luther Gemma will introduce himself, and warp you back to his house in Zeptik. There is no real reward for this, it just fleshes out the story a bit. Optional Task:Reflex Armor and Large Shield Now might be a good time to grind up the remaining money to get the best equipment from the shop. Head West out of Zeptic, and cross the brige. Keep going West, and north, and you will eventually find the Abandoned Mines. The game warns that you should be a level 8 minimum before entering, but level 6 should be sufficient. Just run in, kill the first 2 enemies, and run back out. They drop 200 gold each Farm them until you have 11,000. Return to Minea and buy the Reflex Armor, and Large shield from the Armor shop. Make sure you have a wing. Now Head back to Solomons Shrine. Solomon Shrine B1F From where you start go south, then west, then south through 2 doorways. Go west, then north through the door. Then west, and south through a door. Go west, and north. B2F Go south through the series of doors again. Go east, then north through the third doorway. Follow the path east until you hit a wall, Then go north and follow the path around to B3F B3F Follow the path west to find a chest in the northwest corner of the room containing the Ivory key. You should probably spend some time here leveling up. The enemies on the bottom half of this floor are tough. I reccomend getting to level 12. Follow the path to southwestern corner of this room. You will see a gold teleport statue here, but don't take it yet. Go east past it, and follow the linear path to next teleport statue that you see. Take this one. Follow the path to get to a chest containing the Silver Shield. Go south and take the next teleport statue. Then follow the path back west, and take this teleport statue. Go south, you will see a gray statue. Remember this point. Head west, and go through the door to a chest containing a heal potion. Go back to the gray statue, and equip the mask of eyes. A door will appear next to the statue. Go through it, and take off the mask. You can't see enemies while it's equipped. Take the south door, and Go east, and take the series of doors and the statue, until you reach a chest with the marble key. Now backtrack to the door you went through with the mask of eyes, and go north. Go west, then north through the door touch the wall for a boss fight. Boss Fight This Snake-like enemy can only damamge you with his head. So your strategy is to run circles around him, and keep running into his body. He should go down quite easily. Afterwards, go to the indentation on the wall where the snake was and go through the door to get the chest to get the first book of Ys. Use a wing to return to Minea otherwise you have to walk out of the shrine. Visit Sarah the Seer in the lower left hand corner of town to get the second book of Ys. Time to go to the mines. Head north out of Minea, and go north 2 screens. When you reach the third screen, go North west to entrance of the Mine. Abandoned Mine Level 1 From the entrance, head west. Keep going west past the southern path. follow the path down, and around to a chest containing a potion. Follow the path east and south. At the intersection go east for a chest containing the Timer Ring. From there go North, and east, and follow the path to the northeast to a chest with the Silver Armor. Follow the path south, stay to the east and go south. Then go west across a bridge. Follow the path around, and go through the entrance to the next level of the cave. Level 2 Go east, and stick to the north wall. You will see a chest to the south along the way. Go south to the entrance of this small area. Open the Chest for a Heal ring. The heal ring is one of the most useful items in the game. When it's equipped it allows you to regenerate health while standing still in dungeons. Hug the east wall, and go all the way south. Follow it west across a bridge. Go north and open the chest containing the Loda seed. Go north, then east when you have to. You will see three paths going south. Take the Third and hug the left wall to a chest containing the Harmonica. Use a wing to return to Minea Silver Sword Go to the Upper right hand corner of town and take the door. follow the path and give Reah the Harmonica. If you Picked up the Parchment, equip it, and use it in front of Reah Now. Now Leave Minea. Equip the Loda seed, and use it. Go North 1 Screen, and then go left on this screen. Follow the path south and west, and then hug the west wall You will see a tree that is much bigger than the rest of them. This is the Loda Tree. Go in front of it to talk to it. He will tell you to go see his brother, so head east across 2 bridges. Head south on this screen, then south and a little to the right on the next. to another Loda Tree. You will receive the Silver Sword. Now go back to the mines, and get to the Entrance of Level 2. Level 2 From the entrance head west, and south, and then east past the little rock outcrop. It's hard to see, but the entrance to level 3 is on the south side of this huge rock. Level 3 Follow the Linear path. When you reach a fork, go west. Go north when you see and enemy. Follow this area to a chest containing the Key of Dahm. Go back west, and continue to follow the path west. At the fork go south for a chest containing a potion. Go back to the fork and go east. Follow the linear path around to a door. Make sure you are at max level before entering, and have all the equipment from the shop before you enter. Open the chest to start the boss fight. Boss Fight This boss spends most of his time as a swarm of tiny bats. He can't be damaged until they all come together to form one giant bat. This fight can be a pain on cell phones because your thumb is often in the way. The best way to handle this fight to stay in the top corners. Start in the top left if the Swarm comes after you fast, back up, he is going to form, and then hit him. If it comes slow, try and circle out of there and go to the other corner After the battle open the chest for the 3rd book of Ys. Preparing for the Tower Time to tie up any loose ends, since you can't return from Dahm Tower. If you haven't done so already, Go to Minea and buy all the equipment you don't have. Then head over to Zepik, and to the Jevah's house. If you haven't visited with them since recuing Feena, talk to them both, then leave town and return. Feena should be gone this time. You can find her on the Pier on the right side of town for a scene. Talk to Jeva, and Adol will tell her of Sarah's fate. Leave town and reenter again talk to Jevah and and have her read all 3 books of Ys. Leave town and reenter again. This time Feena should be back with Jevah. Talk to her, and she will tell you to head to Dahm Tower. Now head back to the theives Stronghold, east of the Solomon Shrine. Talk to Goban, and choose yes to enter Dahm Tower. You can't leave the tower once you enter. Dahm Tower 1F From the Entrance go east. Pass the first path north, and take the second one. Go outside. There is an area like this in between every floor. You can regenerate health in these outside areas. Also it is circular, so going left or right doesn't matter. There are always only 2 doors, the one you came through, and the one you need to go to. Go to the next door to 2F 2F Follow the Path, and head into the northern room with 3 chests. Containing a Heal Potion, Mirror, and the Evil Ring. Backtrack to 1F 1F Take the Northern path to the west. 3F Follow the path South, then east. When you see a gap in the statue, you can use the Mask of Eyes to reveal a door there, but there is no need to right now Follow the path to 4F 4F Go south, east, then north. 5F Head West, and take the second path to the North. There is nothing on the first path 6F Walk through the door, and you will be zapped down to the basement. B1F You are now in a prison, and all of your Silver Equipment is gone! Take the time to reequip yourself. Go over and talk to Luther Gemma, he will have different dialouge depending on whether you did the side quest to meed him or not. then inspect the right side of the wall to get some dialogue, then just back up and wait. Cue Dogi's customary break the wall scene. Then Talk to him to receive the Eagle Statue. On cell phones it says statue taken, but it must be a mistranslation, because you do receive it. Head west, and start the trek back to where you were. Be a bit more careful though, you aren't as strong as you were. 3F When you reach the gap in the row of statues, Use the Mask of eyes, and go through the door. Talk to the old man to receive the blue Necklace 6F When you reach the trio of statues again, Equip the blue Necklace before going in any further, and you will be safe. Follow the path east. 7F Head West, then south, then east and through the north door. Follow that path to a chest to recover the Silver Sword. Go back north, and go the right of the 2 northern doors. 8F Follow the path Down, and around to the Boss Door on the far left. Boss Fight The Preying Mantis stays up against the north wall, and throw out 3 boomerang like blades at a time. You'll want to stay on the bottom of the screen here, wait for him to throw out his 3 blades, and loop around them, and attack the Mantis while he's defenseless. You only have time for one run through. You'll basically be running in circles until he is dead. After he is defeated, go through the northern door, and open the chest containing the Hammer, and another Book of Ys. Now, backtrack to the eastern exit. 9F Ignore the door directly to the south of you. Go West, then south. You will see a chest along the way. Follow the Path around to regain your Silver Shield. Once you do though, the statues will come to life. Then go south, and through the door. 10F Go West to a north/south fork. Go North. Outside go left to the second column equip the Hammer and Smash it. Luther Gemma has taken up residence on the 11th floor, but there is no need see to him right now, unless you just want to see the dialogue. You will need to return here later though, so remember the location. Go back inside, and take the southern fork. Go through the door in the far east side of the floor. 11F This floor would've slowly zapped your health if you didn't smash the column. Head east to the exit. 12F Head West and go through the door. 13F You can talk to Rauba here if you want, but it's not necessary. Go West, and take the northern Door here. 14F Go east, and through the door for a boss fight. Boss Fight There isn't much strategy to this rock guy, just stay tight on him and keep running left and right. With a little luck, he will run out of HP before you do. Go north through the door, and open the chests containing the Rod, and the 5th Book of Ys. Go back to 13F. 13F Go through the southern door, and touch the mirror. Head south here passing by a mirror on the way. Touch the southern most mirror. Go west, and south. Touch the mirror. Touch the mirror in the northeastern section here. Kill the enemy, and open the chest to regain your Silver Armor. Touch the Mirror to go back to the beginning. Go through the south door and touch the mirror. Go south, and touch the first mirror you come to. Take the right mirror in the room you emerge in. Touch the mirror that you appear in front of, then follow the path to the exit. 15F Go west, and take the southern path first. Open the chest for the Battle Shield. Go back north, and follow the path west. Ignore the path north for now, and follow the path south, east, south, then west to enter Rahd's Tower Rahd's Tower Follow the path around, its linear. When you get to a door, equip the blue Necklace, and the Evil Ring together, and go through the door. Speak with Reah to get the Glasses. Equip the Glasses, and use them to read the Green and Yellow books. Now Exit Rahd's Tower, back to 15F 15F It's now time to back track to 10F 10F Once you reach the red hallway on 10F, follow the path to western side of the room, then take the exit directly to the north. 11f Talk to Luther Gemma. You will receive the Blue Amulet. Got back to 15F. 15F Take the path directly to the left of where you enter. Follow this path, and take the northern exit when you reach a fork. 17F Head down the right path, the left is just a dead end. Make sure you have full health you have to take on the enemies head on, and this can sometimes kill. Have a health potion ready just in case, you are about to get another anyways. Go west, then north, and open the chest for a health potion. Go west, and north to the exit. 18F Go South and take the eastern fork. Go north at the north/south fork and through the door. 19F Follow the Path around here, and open the chest for the Battle Armor. Go back down to 18F Go south until you a wall. Then west until you hit a wall. Then north and through the exit. 20F Follow the path, and when you see enemies burst through the wall, avoid them and go through the hole in the wall. Avoid the enemies in front of the chest, then open it to get the flame sword. Go back through the door, and follow the path east to the next floor. 21F Go east, and touch the northern mirror. There are 2 doors south of you. Take the one on the right and follow the path northeast to touch another mirror. You will appear in a room with 2 mirror. Touch the left mirror, and follow the path to a boss fight. Boss fight The boss is 2 floating heads, a yellow one, and blue one, each with 4 floating orbs around them. Only the yellow head can take damage, and each time you hit him, they will swap places. So just stand on the bottom of the screen, and wait for an opportunity to run and hit the yellow head, and return to the bottom. This fight can be difficult with touch screen controls, but it actually gets easier as the fight goes on, because the orbs go away as they take damage. After the fight, Go north through the series of doors, and through another boss door. Equip the Silver Sword, Silver Shield, and Silver Armor, Dark Fakt won't take any damage from any other weapons, and he does tons of damage to you without the silver equipment. Step on the tile with the design on it. Boss Fight Dark Fakt is a pain. He floats back and forth through the screen, and hits you with fireballs the entire time. If that's not bad enough, everytime you get a hit, a piece of the floor disappears. If you are standing on top of it, you automatically die. The other problem is that if you just hit him randomly, you may run out of room. The best strategy is to run in circles around the edge of the floor, so you still have room to manuever. It still takes a bit of luck to beat him. After he's finished, pick up the final Book of Ys from his cape. Equip the glasses, and read the black book. Congratulations, you finished Ys book 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Weapons Effect Found Short Sword Adds 5 damage Barbado, Weapon Shop 500g Long Sword Adds 15 damage Weapon Shop 2000g Talwarl Adds 25 damage Given By Slaghf Silver Sword Adds 40 damage Loda Tree, Darm Tower 7F Flame Sword Adds 55 damage Darm Tower 20F ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Armor Effect Found Chain Mail Adds 5 defense Armory 400g Plate Mail Adds 15 defense Armory 2000g Reflex Adds 25 defense Armory 5000g Silver Armor Adds 35 defense Mines Level 1, Darm Tower 13F Battle Armor Adds 50 defense Darm Tower 19F ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shields Effect Found Small Shield Adds 5 defense Armory 700g Medium Shield Adds 15 defense Armory 2000g Large Shield Adds 25 defense Armory 6000g Silver Shield Adds 35 defense Solomon Shrine B3f, Darm Tower 9F Battle Shield Adds 50 defense Darm Tower 15F ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rings Effect Found Power Ring Increases Attack Given to you by the Zepic Elder Armor Ring Increases Defense Solomon Shine B1F Timer Ring Slows down enemies Mines Level 1 Heal Ring Regenerate Health Mines Level 2 Evil Ring Eats Health Darm Tower 2F ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Items Effect Found Heal Potion Refills Health Solomon Shrine B3F, Mines Level 1, Mine Level 3, Darm Tower 2F, 17F Mirror Freezes Enemies Market 2000g, Darm Tower 2F Wing Warp to Minea Market 200g Beastiary Potion Show enemy info Grasslands Sapphire Ring Give to Donis for Pim's Shop 1000g 1500 gold ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keys Effect Found Treasure Box Key Opens locked boxes Solomon Shrine B2F Jail Key Opens Feenas Cell Solomon Shrine B2F Shrine Key Allows you to use the Statues in the shrine Given by Jevah Ivory Key Needed for the snake boss Solomon Shrine B3F Marble Key Needed for the snake boss Solomon Shrine B3F Key of Dahm Need for the Bat Boss Abandoned Mines Level 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key Item Effect Found Crystal Need to talk to Jevah Given by Sarah Loda Seed Need to talk to Loda Tree Abandoned Mines Level 2 Silver Bells Quest Item Solomon Shrine B2F Harmonica Quest Item Abandoned Mines Level 2 Statue Need to talk to Rauba Given By Dogi Dahm Tower B1F Rod Needed to use Mirrors Chest after the Rock Boss Glasses Needed to read the books Given By Reah, Rahd's Tower Blue Amulet Quest Item Given By Luther Gemma Tower 11F Hammer Breaks Beams Darm Tower 8F Mask of Eyes Shows Hidden Doors Solomon Shrine B2F Blue Necklace Bypass Traps Given By Rauba Dahm Tower 3F ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sellable Items Effect Found Golden Pedestal Sell for 2000g Grasslands Ruby Sell for 1200g Solomon Shrine 1F Necklace Sell for 500g Solomon Shrine B1f ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 2016 Shaun Ginty