Return of the Dark Sorcerer (Rerun) #23 - Rogue City

Return of the Dark Sorcerer is a hack for Final Fantasy 6 by Gi Nattak. New characters, new portraits, rebalanced spells/moves, a new overworld map, new events, and multiple difficulty levels are just some of the features of this hack. The latest version can always be found in one of the following two locations: https://www.ff6hacking.com/patches/ro... http://ngplus.net/index.php?/files/fi... As usual, you'll need to find a proper ROM on your own to patch with. Version being played: 2.0.5 Did a little grinding at the colosseum. As expected, most of the enemies are too rough to handle at this point, but still...why not sacrifice an item and pray for a rare steal from these very monsters? That's where the Bone Shank & Diamond Armor came from, betting items I didn't mind losing to fight an enemy with a desirable rare steal I wanted. The Diamond Armor is nothing special, just some high defense armor, but the Bone Shank is a pretty strong weapon for this point in the game and randomly mugs the target. Perfect for Oboro! As for exploring Rogue City, the enemies do force you to be on your toes. Gremlins can come in packs of four and potentially use Acid Rain, Archdaemons tend to be accompanied by a pair of Zombies, and Tormentors can hit rather hard just to name a few. On the plus side, there's some nice rare steals from a few enemies. Archdaemons have Monk's Belts (allows the wearer to randomly counterattack) while Tormentors have Power Gloves. This area is pretty linear, but there's a few detours at the start. There's a building next to a tonberry in the north with a clock puzzle. If you enter the time of 4:20:10, you'll gain access to a chest with a new Aether for Serin, Nanoflare. Only single target, but it's fire elemental and quite potent on the damage front. To the west of the tonberry you'll find a sentient magitek armor running about. Run into it now and you'll likely die instantly (and the same if you interact with the tonberry). More importantly is a building with a music player of sorts and a skeleton blocking a chest. Flip your rows around because when you place the Spooky Record on the player, the skeleton comes to life and somehow back attacks your party. This skeleton is known as a Dreadfiend and can actually be a little on the scary side. Its physicals pack a punch and it has some annoying attacks to watch for. Dread Gaze petrifies, but the real annoyance comes from its level based attacks which connect if the target's level is a multiple of whatever skill is used. This pile of bones has Level 3 Confuse, Level 4 Flare, and Level 5 Death. This is why I needed Oboro up one level before I started doing things here because he'd be killed instantly by Lv4 Flare & Lv5 Death. Upon destroying the skeletal figure, you'll get one of its femur bones and the Blunderbuss from the chest it was guarding. The Blunderbuss is a nice ranged weapon that Serin can utilize, but that bone can be used right away. After a timeskip upon exploring the rest of Rogue City's northwest zone, I'm back at Stardust Village. That dog blocking an exit behind Jasper's house can be persuaded to move with the bone, allowing you to reach a barrel that has another Aether for Serin, Catastrophe. Another single target attack affair, but is as strong as Nanoflare and non-elemental. This would make it almost always superior, but there's a chance the attack is replaced with one that either kills the target instantly or misses. Still very nice to use for normal battles though. Back in Rogue City, there's not much to mention besides a couple chests, but one of them near the boss of the area contains something very nice, a Blazing Claw. Strong weapon, fire elemental, and can cast Fireball for a bit of extra damage. This goes to Tifa who had one from colosseum betting earlier and...let's just say the next boss isn't going to like fire. More next time!