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I actually have very little to say about the mechanics of the game except that I didn't really understand the intricacies of the combat, but I liked that my companions prevented me from stealing home items (saved me lots of time checking everything) and that different gods and goddesses are associated with different spell classes. However, I found the plot of the game a huge rollercoaster and an interpretation of Greek mythology that is in “so bad it's good” territory. The story is quite honestly the weirdest in a game so far.

• you wake up as an amnesiac. After talking to like 3 people, a bunch of holes to the underworld open up and you fall into the underworld. but you don’t die, and the people you were just talking to turn into pixies and drag you back to the surface world. Apparently you’re immortal, and you have a recurring dream in a strange place where someone tells you they are descendants of Atlas. Are we a Titan???
• With a flock of pixies following you, you head to the nearby village of Gortyn because Knossos is closed to you. To enter Knossos, you disguise yourself as a girl using the dress of a dead girl — her parents want to get rid of her belongings and literally tell you to steal the dress. Then you go the local slave trader and he brings you as a slave to Knossos, where there are all these other girls who are going to be sacrificed to the Dark One, some terrible sea monster. You help them escape. Also at Knossos, you meet another person who can jump from very tall heights and survive, Reion. He’s the local circus attraction. To leave this island, you have to borrow the innkeeper’s ship; the innkeeper allows it if you’ll do a “private showing” of the suicide jump for you.
• Sadly for him, his ship gets eaten up by the Dark One. You navigate its guts to leave and wash up at the town of Laconia. Reion goes to Athens.
• Laconia is being occupied by Spartan soldiers trying to deal with the monster incursion, but their captain’s dead. They say they’ll appoint a very courageous person as their captain. You can demonstrate your courage by...jumping from a very tall height. You do that and now you have 9 Spartans following you around. Maybe 10. You lead them back to Sparta, which has been badly damaged in a monster attack. A monster blocks the north gate of the city, so you go in with your soldiers and defeat it. Also, people in Sparta say the Athenians treat their slaves VERY POORLY.
• Athens refuses to let you enter the actual city. Instead you have to go to the dirty and cramped slave quarters. You try to sneak into the “free” part by...jumping from the wall dividing the two, but get arrested. You meet your old immortal friend Reion, who says that when he sees a tall height, he feels the urge to jump...you ask around and the old beggar in the corner of the slave quarters is actually the Athenian king, who wanted to know if the slaves were really treated as poorly as rumored (yes) and can’t get back to his castle because no one believes he’s the king. He takes you through an underground passage to the free part. There people say they are now friends with Troy (lol) and to go to the town of Therma, which is having trouble producing travel wings. Also, Heracles interrupts a theater production to declare that they should all be trying to save the world, not putting on plays, and gets dragged out. We talk to him and he joins our party.
• At Therma, the problem is that monsters are blocking the way to the Temple of Hermes. Daedalus tried to go but cannot fight the monsters; after we deal with the Naga in the cave, we find that the travel wings have reverted to normal prices.
• On the way to Troy, we first pass through Drisko, a trading town that’s seen a recent resurgence because people must use the land route between Athens and Troy now that the Dark One is busy eating all the ships. It’s also super hot. The residents speak of an immortal in a cave who spends all his time working on a statue instead of eating or sleeping. At that cave, the rumored immortal is someone we saw in our dream! His name is Themisios and his statue is a replica of what we’ve been dreaming of. His maid Stemia also wants to accompnay us on our journey. Our dream changes — the people there are now petrified — and we leave the dream before we are able to talk to the one unpetrified person.
• We go through a mountain pass to get to Troy. There, some mountain debris falls on us and...Themisios dies! Turns out Stemia was the immortal one.
• We finally get to Troy. The king tells us that the Dark One is the cause of all our problems and instaed of a ship, we can use the Trojan Horse, which is very sturdy, to confront the Dark One. It works and we defeat it, but the horse sinks. A centaur yeets out of the Dark One, and a ship takes us back to Troy. The centaur wants help getting home, which is just...somewhere in the mountains. We haven’t seen any villages in the mountains yet, so we take a ship (the seas are now safe) to a new destination, Bengaji.
• At Bengaji, the centaur Kurin is kidnapped because there’s a legend that eating centaur meat will make you immortal, so the king of Persia is offering a ton of money for centaurs. We go to Persia, but can’t go to the prison or enter the castle. At the centaur village, the elder Keron thinks that we had a hand in Kurin’s kidnapping (we don’t get the time to defend oursevles) and turns us into centaurs. Perfect, a Trojan Horse-style infiltration. We get immediately apprehended and thrown into the dungeon with Kurin, and have to sneak out of the dungeon back to the world map and return him to the centaur village. Unfortunately, Keron thanks us and then tells us to gtfo because humans suck. However, the Persian castle is now open to us. We try to tell the king that eating centaurs does not an immortal make. We prove our own immortality by...jumping off the castle balcony. But since we can’t tell the king how to become immortal, he locks us up. x_x Then monsters attack and the king forces us to go fight them because we’re immortal and he has hostages. So we do that and return, and he is very very sorry. Also, the sun is becoming weirder and weirder — Persia is now stuck in night or something — and he tells us to talk to the king of Athens and the sages who live beneath Mt. Olympus.
• Athens is mostly empty except some kids! They’ve all left for “New Athens” south of the Temple of Zeus. Also, a ton of the adults are gone because they died fighting monsters. The king directs us to the sages beneath Mt. Olympus. We go through the mountains to the sages of Logosis, and they tell us that the sun has stopped because Helios usually pulls it in his chariot, but there must be something wrong with either him or the chariot, so the sun is stuck in place. They also tell us that to get to Olympus we need a silk ribbon to summon Pegasus (see earlier games). No one knows where the silk ribbon is, but someone tells us that Daedalus is trying to make a kite that can fly to Olympus instead. Yay for the ingenuity of mankind.
• Daedalus needs an aleph wing to make his kite, but all the alephs are long dead and he needs a wing from a live or recently dead aleph. We check out the aleph cave and there is one recently dead one, presumably killed by the boss monster in the cave, Barock. After defeating Barock we bury the aleph and bring its wings to Daedalus. He makes us a kite.
• To use the kite we must...jump off a tall structure. Jumping off the one in Troy gets us to the clouds of Mt. Olympus. There we encounter Phaethon, who says that it’s his job now to carry the sun around, but Uranos stole the chariot horses and placed a bunch of lookalikes there. We also see Heracles, who is trying to find the real horses. We eventually find the real horses and return them to Phaethon. Heracles accompanies him for protection. Yay! Before we leave, Heracles tells us to beware of Zeus. Uranos appears and tells us he’s not our enemy; he had a plan to defeat the monsters and stealing the horses was part of this plan (oops) but it was going to work out. He gives us a “Sky Caller” we can use to get to Olympus. I think either him or Phaethon gives us the key to the temple of Zeus. Then Zeus zaps both him and our kite with lightning bolts. With our kite gone we plummet to the ground, where we’re rescued by local villagers who think we’re deities.
• We use the key to open the temple of zeus’ gate. At Olympus, we have to pass some puzzle sections to enter heaven. We can talk to all of the gods, but they are almost all critical of humans and the damage they’re doing to the world. Apparently Zeus has ordered humans to be killed. We also learn that Prometheus gave us our immortality, so Zeus locked him up in a tower. Hephaestus is still on our side and gives us the key to the tower. At the top of the tower, Prometheus tells us that he intended to make all humans immortal, but he only had the power to do 3 of us and Zeus objected. We lost our memories because he wanted to prove that humans could make the right choices, whatever that means. Then we get yeeted off the top of the tower.
• In New Athens, the king of Athens is going to meet with the king of Trantia to the west at Logosis. Logosis has been partly destroyed (I think by Trantian soldiers). Albion, the King of Trantia says that Uranos has a plan for getting rid of monsters, which is to fill up all the holes to the underworld...They need a ton of labor for that, and Athens can either ally with Trantia or be enslaved. The king of Athens is not very enthused by this, but has no choice but to accept. Then a giant earthquake happens and we all fall into the underworld.
• In the underworld, we meet another immortal amnesiac human, which is weird because Prometheus says he only gave 3 of us immortality. We trek out and make it back to the surface near the town of Renz, one of Trantia’s towns. We realize that the architecture looks like the one from our dream! At Trantia, the king has survived and observes that the hole-filling plan is working. However, the giant hole near Renz can’t really be filled by human effort, and people think that if Atlas could be un-petrified (why is he petrified?) he could help; there is a town of Atlas’s descendants to the south. Trantia is pretty expansionist. But he can’t go anywhere because his ship is broken but the ship artisans in the southern town of Labat are on strike.
• On the way south to Labat, we go through a narrow land passage where we see a little Dark One and the Dark One and are very confused about how the Dark One could possibly have kids. At Labat, we learn that the strike is because Trantia’s previous king’s advisor, Baor, used a ship to disrupt the natural order of things by creating that narrow passage and blocking the sea from flowing. All the shipbuilders are hiding out in the forest. Some of them think it wouldn’t be so bad to repair the king’s ship, and we take a ship shaft back to the ship. When we repair it the king allows us to use it.
• We sail south to the Atlas descendant town, Atlasia. It’s...the town of our dreams!!! We see a strange vision of a beautiful woman. The town said there used to be realistic statues of an old man and child, but they saw two people carrying the statues to a nearby cave. That cave has a TON of statues and we can somehow understand them. They say that Baor turned them to stone. Also, we can unpetrify Atlas if we collect the blood of the 3 gorgon sisters. So we go around to do that.
• On one of our stops, we go to Baor’s hometown Eus, paradise on earth. His parents said that he was too greedy and ambitious and used his power for ill, while his son left to find Baor but never returned. We pick up Baor’s journal.
• On another stop, we encounter Daedalus, who gives us a ship he’s made that can ram and destroy rocks. We use this to free the dolphins and bring them back to Triton. Triton gives us a key to Oceanus’ palace. There, we encounter a strange shadow of Stemia. She regains her memories — she was a priestess in the temple of Oceanus, and Oceanus vanished. Then there was a light (Prometheus granting her immortality). When she woke up again she was with Themisios. Sorry, I clicked through this really fast. Her real name is Stella. She prays to Oceanus and it’s revealed that he’s the Dark One, and he’s now super wounded. We get the silk ribbon by going inside him again and can now summon Pegasus to fly around. Also, Heracles realizes that if he can find other “shadows”, we can also regain our memories!
• With all 3 gorgon sister blood items, we return to Atlasia. The king of Trantia has unblocked the landslide between Atlasia and Mt. Atlas, and together we climb the mountain. At the top, we defeat Baor, then offer the 3 bloods to Atlas, but then Prometheus appears and tells us that we WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO DO THAT and we made the wrong choices. Albion tries to attack him with the power of Uranos, but Prometheus says that both he and Uranos wanted to save the humans, and both methods didn’t work, and now Zeus is going to send a flood to destroy the earth. We get yeeted from the mountain. Heracles shows up with our 3 shadows in tow, but then the flood happens and we wash up at Eus. The shadows got lost in the flood. Reion is especially furious and says that getting our memories back doesn’t even matter because everyone else is dead. We get on Pegasus and fly around but there’s literally nothing except the sea and mountains remaining. Then we hear Hades calling Baor to the underworld and somehow we end up there.
• The underworld has the spirits of everyone we’ve met so far. People are still selling things, somehow...they tell us that Hades’ castle is in the north. After defeating Cerberus and Orthrus, we meet Hades; the rest of our party is not allowed to come. But he calls us Baor and asks us why we failed to do our assigned task of destroying humanity with monsters after he granted us immortality (so we are the one Prometheus didn’t grant immortailty to). The gods were basically using humans as proxies in a contest to see who could deal with the “humans ruining Gaia” problem, and we failed in our monster invasion, so Hades lost and Zeus kept his throne. He transforms us into Baor’s monster form and throws us into Tartarus. There, we push around some blocks until we go into the one entrance. Chronos, the lord of time, says that he’s been watching us and we will be trapped in time — he rewinds time and puts us in Mt. Atlas! We are the person our own party fought! The beautiful woman appears again and tells us that if we defend ourselves we can still communicate with our companions. During the battle, we don’t attack, and eventually the party realizes that we’re trying to communicate something. But Albion doesn’t understan why they’re empathizing with a monster and calls on Uranos’ power. Now all 5 of us (including my past and future self) fight Albion and defeat him
• Because we never gave the blood to Atlas, Zeus doesn’t send the flood. So Heracles is able to reunite us with our shadows! We are Baor; he left his village with Medusa’s head because they pushed him out for being too greedy and ambitious. He advised the king of Trantia and became famous there, but he wanted to do something even more memorable, like linking the continents. So he plotted to petrify Oceanus (so the Dark One is actually Oceanus’ wife) by injuring Oceanus’ son to lure him to the channel between Trantia and Labat; this worked. He then got wind of the Atlas descendants trying to use the gorgons’ blood to revive Oceanus, so he petrified them all as well. Eventually, being mortal, he died and was supposed to spend a lot of time in the underworld atoning for his sins. But Hades summoned him, gave him a younger body, made him immortal, and told him to lead the monster invasion. But right as he entered the surface Prometheus zapped him and he lost all his memories — this is the beginning of the game. Nils is his son. Reion is a descendant of Heracles.
• So to finish, we have to right our wrong and unpetrify Oceanus. We go to that area, fall down a cavern, and end up inside petrified Oceanus (I think). At the end of the cavern, Albion summons Uranos’ power again to fight us, but we defeat him. Uranos doesn’t understand why Gaia (she is the beautiful woman!) is defending us, but accepts it. We make “the right choice” and unpetrify Oceanus. Then Pegasus brings us to heaven, where Prometheus praises us. Either he or Gaia admits that no one knows if we made the right or wrong choice, but the map zooms out to the Earth continent map. Gaia says that we will have to spend more time atoning for our sins, but she hopes we can be reborn in a place that is totally green.
• Reion goes off to tell people the truth about what happened and Stemia accompanies him. Nils decides to accompany us — he had made it his mission to kill his father, but now that that’s us, we journey together. The credits scene shows us atoning in the underworld by pushing around a boulder and stuff, but eventually Hades has us reborn into a young girl’s body and we indeed live out another life in a verdant place with lots of plants and pigs and friends.