LITTLEBRO'S PROFILE

Two things.
The first is that there is another cut scene replay if you go to the basement of Gharos Ruins - except it continues through and you have to fight the boss again and at the end of it you are taken to the beginning of Chapter One, as it is in the real beginning of the game.

And the second thing is the reason I'm there. I have crawled all over Gharos Woods and the Hotel looking for Marlene and the missing girl, and haven't found either. Getting desperate, I was checking out the Ruins as well. Is there something obvious that I'm missing?

I don't have a save file near where this was happening, but I have found something else.

I'm in the ruins south of the oasis at Caspadul. There's been the cut scene where Cyrielle creates the portal, which I used (with gratitude!!) I came back and wanted to check that I'd missed nothing before entering that room, but when I went to leave, the cut scene replayed - though this time without any of the other sprites, just Elioth moving around as necessary, and the dialogue.

Thanks

Just collected the Journal, but unfortunately, it doesn't help with my problem. I can break down items so that they become orbs. I assumed that I would then select the option 'synthesize' scroll down, select the orb I wanted to use, press the action key (in my case, space bar) and it would then be used to up the stat on my chosen piece of gear. However, when I select the orb, nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?

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There seems to be a problem with Cyrielle. I'd thought a couple of times that she'd missed a turn for no obvious reason, but this then happened several times in the boss fight with the dragon on top the mountain. She wasn't paralyzed or anything, she just didn't get a turn. Made that fight a lot more difficult!

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The problem occured with Gesley on the way to give the flower for the cure. As he's the 3rd member of the party (Cyrielle has temporarily left it), could it be something to do with the way the last person in the party is detected?

I'm only at the beginning, but I've noticed that one two occasions Elioth levels up (message to his brother, plus stats table shows) while he is still a few exp short of 100%. Haven't noticed this with Kaleo.

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Kaleo has now done it as well. It seems to happen when they are just 4 or 5 exp short.

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Just a thought. You give a lot of in-game information e.g. the whole build-up system, the skill system etc. To those who are familiar with things from other games, these are useful reminders. If, however, they are new to the player, then only getting the info in this format is not very helpful. Unless the player laboriously writes it all down, half of it will be forgotten in short order. Perhaps include a README file?

I wanted to go back through the Pass and cave to do another couple of rounds in the Colyseum, but couldn't get back through the cave because of the way the boulders had been set up. Is this deliberate?