Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap Walkthrough [Part 2] No Commentary

--------------------------------------------- In this part: I slay the Dragon Zombie and transform into Piranha-Man --------------------------------------------- Wonder boy III The Dragon's Trap is a game released for the Sega Master System in 1989 and the Game Gear in 1992, it also had a remake on the TurboGrafx-16 called Dragon's Curse, though I personally prefer the music and character sprites in the original. I am playing this on the Wii virtual console, and since I live in Europe it is the PAL version. I actually like the PAL music alot more over the NTSC version, I think it sounds sped up instead of the PAL version sounding slowed down. Anyway, enough about my history with this game, I am gonna lay down some facts and stuff about the game now. You start off with the best gear that you've gotten in the previous game "Wonder Boy in Monster Land" which I have yet to play more than 5 minutes of, anyway, after the dragon curses you, you lose all that gear and have to start from scratch. You have 3 stats in the game Attack Power (AP) Defense Points (DP) Charm Points (CP) You need Charm points to buy stuff from stores, if you only see a "?" then you need to either get better armor (different armor results in different charm points, for example some only give you 0 charm points even if they give you more defense points) or by collecting charm stones, which are the red stones you see dropping ever so rarely. NOTE: In the Game Gear version charm points were removed, and the charm stones were replaced with stones that would teleport you back to the town. The blue bottle is Medicine(or potion, but I'm going by the manual here), you can maximum hold 3 at a time, they will refill somewhere between 1-3 hearts, sometimes more, I'm not 100% sure how the mechanics work for them. There is one store that sells Medicine, else you need to find them in hidden treasure chests or get very very lucky with the random drops. You have magic and items aswell, these either drop from enemies or are found in treasure chests, some enemies are actually weaker to certain items and magic spells, I don't know all of them, but I do show off the ones I know in the game, I'll list them down below aswell just cause, anyway here is a list of them: Fire Ball - a wavy pattern fire ball that travels about as long as Lizard-Man's fire breath Tornado - a small tornado that travels along the ground and rebounds off of enemies and walls Arrow - shoots a small arrow directly upwards Boomerang - you throw a small boomerang that can both hit enemies on the way back and collect items, you don't lose any item cost if you catch it on the way back Thunder - a screen nuke, but won't take out stronger enemies in just one hit You can usually have 2 items and magic spells out at once, which the exception of the Thunder spell, double boomerang is my personal favorite. The hidden store i show off in part 1 is a magic shop, but you need like 150-200 or more charm points, which you won't get by just playing through the game regularly unless you get insanely lucky with your charm stone drops, although there is another hidden store that sell charm stones, but you can only reach it with Hawk-Man and by that time you are at the home stretch so it's not worth it in my opinion. The following is a list of weaknesses that I know of: Cyclops - Weak to Fire Ball, early game these takes insame amounts of hits, but only 2 fire balls will take them out. Fuzzball (those glowy blue orbs) - Weak to Tornado and Boomerang, have fun hitting that thing with your sword about 40 times, or just use one Tornado or 3 Boomerang hits on it Yeah that's all I know, not much of a list but still helpful i think. I don't go for 100% in this run, the place i show off with Mouse-Man have pretty a pretty good set, but by the time you have enough gold for that you will already have gotten your legendary gear back which is the best in the game so I don't bother with it. Some equipment have different stats sometimes depending on the character you equip them to, like the Aqua Shield is gives Piranha-Man better defense points than it would if you equipped it to Mouse-Man, the Muramasa blade gives Lion-Man maximum attack power, but in exchange for him being weak to certain attacks, the Hades armor, which I didn't buy, heals you upon losing all your health in exhange to you losing the armor, although there is a glitch where you can heal an infinite amount of times which pretty much makes you immortal. The Lucky sword makes your drop rate alot better, giving you more gold and better items upon killing enemies. I show off every secret room I know of in this run, except the ones leading directly to the bosses which only appear if you have 99 charm stones. Here is a link to the online manual:
That's about it I think, have fun watching!