Battle of Olympus
I had never played this game before until today and I've gotta say its a pretty great game I've been missing out on for years. Kind of reminds me of a better version of Zelda 2.
If you haven't played it i would recommend picking this one up.
If you haven't played it i would recommend picking this one up.
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Battle of Olympus is an awesome game, but gets hard really fast. I've managed to get all the way to Hades, but have yet to beat him.
Im pretty sure you mentioned it to me yesterday? If not somehow i had the urge to pop it in today out of nowhere. lol.
Battle of Olympus is an awesome game, but gets hard really fast. I've managed to get all the way to Hades, but have yet to beat him.
Im pretty sure you mentioned it to me yesterday? If not somehow i had the urge to pop it in today out of nowhere. lol.
Yep, I did mention it yesterday. I think it was when we saw a copy of it at the game store in the $1 game case. It's a sweet game and one that I've been playing since I was a kid.
It seems to be directly made on the same 'engine' (I know nothing about programming language) as Zelda II. Even the title screen is similar, and the final battle is pretty much the same as well.
I don't like this game at all. I like Zelda II, but this game just didn't do it for me.
Have you played it all the way to the end, it's hard to say if a game is really good or not until you complete it.
Have you played it all the way to the end, it's hard to say if a game is really good or not until you complete it.
very true.
I used to hate Faxanadu when I was a kid (just did not give it enough time) but find it excellent after I gave it a new chance.
I have been meaning to get a copy of BoO for some time as a well. Looks interesting
Battle of Olympus is an awesome game, but gets hard really fast. I've managed to get all the way to Hades, but have yet to beat him.
Same here. I have met him many times but I always fail to defaet him. If I understood things correctly, there is some kind of potion I am supposed to get somewhere but I dont have it. Maybe it is used for filling up the lost lifebars during battle but I have not found it yet. Sure was a long time since I played the game now but I must complete it so I can move on to another game
I also made maps for Crete, Peloponnesus, Phrygia and the kingdom of Hades since these worlds were hard to navigate through
Battle of Olympus is an awesome game, but gets hard really fast. I've managed to get all the way to Hades, but have yet to beat him.
Same here. I have met him many times but I always fail to defaet him. If I understood things correctly, there is some kind of potion I am supposed to get somewhere but I dont have it. Maybe it is used for filling up the lost lifebars during battle but I have not found it yet. Sure was a long time since I played the game now but I must complete it so I can move on to another game
I also made maps for Crete, Peloponnesus, Phrygia and the kingdom of Hades since these worlds were hard to navigate through
You might be thinking of the Trojan Pitcher, which you get in Laconia. There's a specific pillar you have to hit and then the pitcher falls from the sky. I think you can use it like a potion, if I remember correctly. You can fill it up at a fountain in Attica. You basically need the Moon Crystal if you want to beat Hades since he is invisible for half the fight. If you have it, it will cast his shadow on the floor so you can see where he is. I've never been able to get past this part because I find it visually confusing to attack Hades since you're looking at an upsidedown image of him during the first half of the fight. I always attack too early and miss, or get attack by him.
Well I shall try that. But if I remember right you are falling down when entering the Kingdom of Hades so how do I get upp from there without starting all over?
Once you enter Tartarus (Hades' Kingdom), you can't go back. There isn't any way to go back, which sucks because if you miss getting an item, then you have to go on without it. If you have a password from right before you entered Tartarus, I would enter that on the password screen and then go back and get any items you might be missing. It will make the fight against Hades much easier.
Only question is where I can refill the potion once it is depleeted? I will save a password to the overworld before going to Tartarus just in case I'm shit out of luck
(abuses pressing left+right simultaneously to make the hero move really fast)
I just had a look and it seems like I ve lost the password I used for Tartarus so I used another one that brought me to the beginning of the game with only the Trojan Pitcher and the 3rd heart missing so I just took them both and now I will be ready for the final battle with Hades. Lucky am I to have drawn the maps for tartarus so that I just can walk straight through.
Only question is where I can refill the potion once it is depleeted? I will save a password to the overworld before going to Tartarus just in case I'm shit out of luck
The fountain just in front of Athena's Temple in Attica will refill the pitcher. There might be a couple other founatins, but I can't recall if there are or where they could be.
4 year old speed run of this game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB7t50ZWquA
(abuses pressing left+right simultaneously to make the hero move really fast)
Very nice speedrun, albeit a TAS.
The fastest one should be on tasvideos.org. Worth checking out.
Very nice speedrun, albeit a TAS.
The fastest one should be on tasvideos.org. Worth checking out.
Yep, tasvideos.org is where I found it. Pretty much THE site if you have any interest in tool assisted speedruns.
The trick behind this method is knowing how he behaves. If you stand still and duck he won't run into you, just run up to you and start stabbing. If you stab back while he's stabbing at you he'll jump away. Do this a few times and you'll get him up against the wall. Once you get him backed into the corner position is very important. Too close and he'll jump into you (as seen the first time I get to the wall), too far away you won't hit him. It's very precise, the difference between too close and too far is only a handful of pixels, but once you get it it works like a charm. If you have the moon pearl it gets even easier with this method as you can time the hits instead of just mashing.
You don't strictly need the moon pearl for Hades, even in real time (though it is incredibly helpful). I made a video a while back of how I intended to handle the end game for the speedrun I mentioned working on earlier. It is emulated, but doesn't use any of the emulator perks outside of the starting save state.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY5gSpQJDpQ
The trick behind this method is knowing how he behaves. If you stand still and duck he won't run into you, just run up to you and start stabbing. If you stab back while he's stabbing at you he'll jump away. Do this a few times and you'll get him up against the wall. Once you get him backed into the corner position is very important. Too close and he'll jump into you (as seen the first time I get to the wall), too far away you won't hit him. It's very precise, the difference between too close and too far is only a handful of pixels, but once you get it it works like a charm. If you have the moon pearl it gets even easier with this method as you can time the hits instead of just mashing.
I'll have to give this strategy a try next time I get to Hades. It sounds very helpful and I should be able to beat this game once and for all with it.
The fountain just in front of Athena's Temple in Attica will refill the pitcher. There might be a couple other founatins, but I can't recall if there are or where they could be.
Well I refilled it in a fountain in the castel of Crete så if there is such a spring somewhere in Tartarus I will reload there. Shall take a look on the map over Tartarus as I think it might be marked
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trick behind this method is knowing how he behaves. If you stand still
and duck he won't run into you, just run up to you and start stabbing.
If you stab back while he's stabbing at you he'll jump away. Do this a
few times and you'll get him up against the wall. Once you get him
backed into the corner position is very important. Too close and he'll
jump into you (as seen the first time I get to the wall), too far away
you won't hit him. It's very precise, the difference between too close
and too far is only a handful of pixels, but once you get it it works
like a charm. If you have the moon pearl it gets even easier with this
method as you can time the hits instead of just mashing.
That
reminds me of the way to beat the shadow in Zelda 2. Will try that as I
have all the items so I can see Hades during the battle
Perhaps I should upload my maps here for the tricky stages in the game. They sure come in handy when you need to get through those parts quickly and certainly
The fountain just in front of Athena's Temple in Attica will refill the pitcher. There might be a couple other founatins, but I can't recall if there are or where they could be.
Well I refilled it in a fountain in the castel of Crete så if there is such a spring somewhere in Tartarus I will reload there. Shall take a look on the map over Tartarus as I think it might be marked
I just looked at some maps I have on the game and there are fountains in Laconia, Phrygia, and Phthia. My map doesn't show a fountain in Tartarus, but it does show a room with a Nymph that will restore your health.