After the Blockhead debacle, I talk a bit about the failings of this game. It’s very bad about allowing you to work through puzzles or obstacles yourself and there’s some serious hardware limitations that stunted the beauty of the game. Also, Blockhead needs no further elaboration upon.

Anyways, I finish off the Oni Island arc by defeating Ninetails, master of the demons assaulting Ryoshima Coast, in a truly amazing boss battle. Then I wander about and clean up some side quests in Sei-an City.

Tobi is a wonderful character and I was actually misty-eyed for the conclusion of his little story arc… though that might have been from the frustration of dealing with Blockhead FOR AN HOUR.

AUUGH, the game is terrible about allowing you to work puzzles out for yourself and Blockhead is LITERALLY THE WORST PIECE OF GAMING I’VE EVER EXPERIENCED.

I enter Oni Island in our quest to bring the end to evil!… and then spend much of our time racing a flying piece of paper named Tobi.

Also, I get rather completely savaged by some foxes at the beginning of the second recording session? I did real bad.

In this episode, Amaterasu orchestrates the deaths of two regal figures in order to gain access to the Dark Lord’s stronghold.

After briefly forgetting where my buttons are mapped to, I make the long climb up Catcall Tower, feeding cats along the way, obtaining the Catwalk brush technique, and upgrades to three of my prior techniques as well.

We pursue Kaguya, the bamboo girl, to Sasa Sanctuary where she has a tearful reunion and subsequent farewell with her grandfather, Mr. Bamboo, before flying into space in a rocket ship. Then we confront Queen Himiko and head off to the rest of Ryoshima Coast.

And I read from the Wikipedia article for the actual legend of Princess Kaguya for six minutes! So that’s something you can look forward to.

I finish up the side quests in Sei-an City by buying the two items from the Emperor, floating people around the canals, and chasing an old man with a tree growing out of his head as he jumps OVER the canal to bloom all the cursed trees.

We continue meandering Sei-an City and encounter Waka’s homebase: a floating island with multiple devotees and COMPUTERS!?

Also, I murder the crap out of a duplicating, half-naked thief a couple times, suffer the wrath of the emulator not being able to handle drawing designs, and just do some generally helpful things about the city.