Doom Island
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        Fly to Narvick on Shuman Island.  Buy new equipment (the best in
the game) and talk to the Elder.  He will tell you to go to the three
towers, and send you to the Shuman tower first.
        Enter the tower on Shuman Island.  These are rather lame
dungeons.  Go right, up the ladder, and then south.  Go up the next
ladder and enter the door.  Go up the stairs and outside.  Go in the
next door and get the S-ice Ring.
        Go back down the steps and go west from the door.  Take the left
of the next two doors and go up the stairs.  Go in the left door for the
S-water Ring, then take the right door for the stairs.  Go up the next
stairs and in the next door.  Kill the Leech (Zap works well) and go up
the stairs that appear.  Go in the next door and up the stairs.
        Take the door in the upper-left and go down the stairs.
Outside, follow the path all the way right, past the first door, and in
the second one.  Follow the passage to the next door and get the S-thun
Ring.  Go back to the door you passed up and enter.  Kill the Black
Dragon with Zap to make stairs appear.  Go up, head north, and enter the
next door.  Save your game, heal up, and go up to fight Gades.
        As always, Triple Attack is useful.  Artea should cast Zap every
turn; it does lots of damage to all of the Sinistrals.  Selan should
heal by casting Stronger on individual members or Champion to the whole
party.  If you have the Courage spell, you might want to cast it on the
party once. After the fight, you'll get the Divine [Pearl] Armor.  It's
weaker than the Zircon Armor, but equip it anyway because of its Phoenix
IP.
        Go back to Narvick and see the Elder.  He will send you to
Strahda Island.  Heal and save, then take the airship to the northeast
island and enter the tower.
        Go right and in the door.  Take the stairs up and then head up
the ladder on the right.  Follow the path around the next door.  Go up
the stairs, head left and go up the stairs there.  Enter the next room,
go up the stairs, and kill the Leech.  Take the stairs that appear and
then the next set of stairs.
        Go right and up the stairs.  Go left (past the door), and up the
stairs.  Keep going up until you reach a door.  Enter, go up the stairs,
and kill the Black Dragon.  Go up the stairs and continue to the next
room.  Heal up and save.  Equip Artea with his bow and go up to fight
Amon.
        Amon is a tough boss.  Use Triple Attack, but save Maxim's IP
for Phoenix.  Artea should cast Zap, and Selan should heal.  If nobody
needs healing, have Selan use Courage on the party or Trick on Maxim or
Guy.  Amon will confuse your characters, and that's what makes him tough.
If a character is confused, cast Coma on them to put them to sleep, so
they won't hit your characters.  It's weird, but it works.  Don't bother
putting Artea to sleep, because he can only attack Amon with his bow.
        Return to Narvick and talk to the Elder again.  Buy any
equipment left to get.  If there's anything left you need to do, do it
now.  Once you beat the last tower, you can't go back.  Take the airship
to Kamirno Island in the northwest.
        Go in the door on the right and up the stairs.  Go up the ladder
and in the nearby door for the S-fire Ring.  Outside, head west and go
in the door.  Go up the stairs and take the ladder to the right.  Enter
the door and go up the stairs.  Head back left and follow the path until
you come to a room with a stationary Gorgon.  Kill it and go up the
stairs that appear.
        Go right and into the next door.  Go down the steps and head
left.  Go up two sets of stairs, then go up the ladder and continue
north.  Go in the door and kill the Leech.  Keep going up the steps
until you reach the save point.  Heal and save.  Once you go up the
stairs, you're stuck going to the final "dungeon", so make sure you're
ready.
        Go up and get the Pearl Armor.  Daos will appear and you will
get Dual Blade.  You will then return to Portravia.  After the dialogue,
you can go to the church and save your game, but I don't recommend it.
You can't leave town, and it isn't that much work to go from the save
point on Kamirno to here.  Go back into the lab and talk to Lexis.  You
will automatically go to Doom Island.
        I hesitate to call the Shrine of Daos a dungeon, since there are
no monsters and no puzzles, just the Sinistrals.  Go in either side
door, get the Miracle, and go down the steps.  Take the middle door for
three Miracles, then take the other door and go back up.  Get the
Miracle and take the center passage.  You will fight Gades.  Gades is
basically the same as he was on Shuman Island, so just use the same
strategy.  Your IP is restored after each fight in here, so go ahead and
use your IP attacks, especially Triple Attack and the ones provided by
the Pearl equipment and the Dual Blade.  Flash is the best Capsule
Monster to use against the Sinistrals, because he/she/it? can heal.
        After the fight, go up the stairs.  Take the door on the right
for a Miracle, then take the top door and head right through the
passage.  Take the side door on the left for a Miracle, then go up to
the third floor.  Head around the platform to the top for two Miracles
(why does Daos just leave all these Miracles sitting around?), then
ascend to the first level of the altar.  Circle around to the back and
go down the steps for HP and MP restorers.  Go back up and head to the
top of the altar to fight Amon.
        Beat Amon the way you did before, then go back to the heal spot.
Continue up the stairs and circle around the outside for three Miracles.
Cross the bridge and fight Erim.  Erim is a little harder than Gades and
Amon, but not much.  Just fight her the same way as before.  She has
instant death attacks, but just use Valor or the Phoenix IP to bring the
character back.
        After the fight, return to the healing spot and then teleport up
to fight Daos.  Daos is so easy, I thought there was another boss after
him (the mysterious Arek, who never shows up anywhere except in the
intro).  Fight him as you did the other Sinistrals.  Go ahead and use
your items, you don't need them anywhere else.  If he confuses your
characters, you might want to put them to sleep or use a Shriek, if you
have any.
        After you beat Daos, the bridge collapses.  (Why doesn't Maxim
use an Escape *item* to leave?)  The identity-challenged Iris/Erim/Lufia
will appear and tell you to destroy the three Mystic Stones.  Just walk
through the maze and destroy the Stones, then watch the ending.  Note:
There is a closed door in the room with the third Stone, but there's no
way to open it.  Maybe if you have the all the Iris Treasures...
        When "The End" appears, leave the game on.  A small part of
Lufia 1 will come on.  There's still more.  After a while, a screen
showing how many times each character was killed, how many chests you
opened, how many fights you won, etc. will appear.
        After you beat the game, you'll notice a new option called
"Retry" on the file select screen.  If you choose that, you'll start a
new game, but you'll get 4 times the experience and gold.
Unfortunately, the bonus doesn't carry into the Ancient Cave.  Beat the
game on Retry and Gift mode will appear.  Gift mode lets you just play
the Ancient Cave.  The best part about Gift is that you can select your
party!  Just go to the tavern and you can change characters.  There are
more hints on the Ancient Cave at the end of this file.