Illusion of Gaia: The Ocean Palace of Mu

[BenjaminGlatt]

Mu? Mu is fucking easy. At some point you get Psycho Slider and then everything becomes running around sliding everywhere because it's awesome. Having trouble with the boss? Too bad, use Psycho Slider and be invincible the entire time while dealing damage to both of them. EZPZ.

[DARKflame34]

Got through Mu all on my own, no help at all! FERK YERRR

...doesn't mean it wasn't insanely hard, though :P

[GoRedskinsAndWizards]

I've played through this game so many times that I can beat it without using a single herb, and it's reached the point where I don't think of Mu as being difficult anymore. But seeing these comments has reminded me of how much trouble I had on my first playthrough.

[ChrisspacePatti]

Yeah this was the one dungeon me, my brother, and stepdad kept getting stuck at. Back then, we rented it, we had no idea how to beat it, and the instruction booklet was tattered to sheds (which for all we know might've been from the previous renter's dog). Eventually I decided to ask for a fresh copy for christmas so I could finally beat this haunting level for good, with the help of an undamaged booklet which might as well have been the game's miniature strategy guide. *sigh* Nostalgia... ~_~

[Kreuzritter1989]

I lost myself so many times in the fu++ing dungeons of Mu...but I could not stop playing.

[QuirkyGengar]

You know what was worse then the puzzles in Mu? Only having one hit point and those floating cloaked guys shooting those plasma circles at you. I had to slide out of their way just to stop myself from dying, but unfortunately I ran into one at the time.

[SchadowLP]

I love Mu and this theme :) 5*

[drowninginferno]

2 people are still stuck in Mu

[elliphor]

this music will be burned into your skull as you run around constantly trying to find where to go.

[Earthium]

ya boss at mu, stuck on it for 10 years before i went back and was able to beat it

[Darkley4]

In my mind i think Mu translates into Hell for me

Love the Game and its music

[Rodriquez124]

Gaaah MU, this was a very tedious temple with lots of backtracking, confusing and it nags on your nervs. The Song actually captures the mood there perfectly. Gaia,one of the best games.

[Reaper87xx]

Mu is definitely one of those areas in a video game that you HATE but the game just couldn't be without. When I went from Sky Garden to Mu I was thinking, "Are you shitting me? Pretty sure there was no "level up" anytime in this game ANYWHERE, assholes!"

[NightbladeEagle]

Mu...just a few words:

Its hard, you get lost cause everything looks the same and the Bosses were unforgivingly hard.

[strawberrymits]

I hate the stretchy necked things. They're scary ._.

[strawberrymits]

I only hate Mu when I'm there. The Vampires were some of the most difficult Bosses to beat in any game I've played (although it got easier as I got older, the first time I was 8). Still tho... I feel the rage deep down inside for this sadistic level bubble and creep up when I hear the music... The memory of ALWAYS dying on the very first mob in that level makes me sick, but I wouldn't change a single thing about the game. The difficulty is weaksauce leaving the character xD!

[TheNewEmphinix]

The Vampires were the toughest bosses in this game.

[TheDaijoubu]

I circled & backtracked round this dungeon so many times. It was a pretty big, and frustrating.

I remember that I was constantly doing Will's slide kick on every single spot. And I always hated those bouncy bubbles...

Also, It's better to use Freedan, In this dungeon the only thing Will's good for is sliding in the smaller area's

[bigman495]

This level was a bitch, especially the boss(es). They were even hard when I had to revisit them in Babel!

[Ayzahar]

Mu is Atlantis. Strangely enough the guy who decided to decipher the Mayan language just invented random letters for the hieroglyphs he found. Two of which represented some sort of sunken island, and in his "translated" script it was "Mu".

[Rodriquez124]

It's confusing on the first playthrough that's for sure, took me a good time to get through when i first played this game, but great temple and the music- fantastico!

[Thedutchjelle]

Mu is probably one of the hardest dungeons I'll ever play in a videogame.

It's just pure evil.

[azuarc]

@Thedutchjelle It sure wasn't easy. I think in retrospect I might have made it harder than it needed to be, but this was certainly the high point in difficulty in the game, especially if you hadn't been diligently clearing every map area before now.

[Thedutchjelle]

@azuarc

Huh, what do you mean "I might have made it harder".

You designed this game? Or was it poorly worded?

[azuarc]

@Thedutchjelle Probably just speaking for myself. I was 13 when the game came out. I always find old games are easier in the tough parts when I go back and play them again much later.

[EarthTraveling]

@Thedutchjelle This game was fun but THIS particular level ran me dizzy around in circles it was torture. Good music now though.

[moshingtodeath]

@Thedutchjelle you're right, but try with Tales of Phantasia and the Moria gallery, THAT is hard D:

greetings! ;)

[drowninginferno]

@Thedutchjelle Shit mu was mad fun and I like the music and level I know it's annoying runnning back and forth draing the water but it is what it is, the onlything I hate about Mu is the bosses, they don't match the theme of the dungeon cause

Laira cliff = weird dragon kinda makes sense

Sky Garden = Bird thing makes sence

mu = vampires ??? no

great wall of china = sand fanger yeah makes sence

Pyramid = mummy queen makes sence

space = commet monster yes

hidden dungeon = weird demon ok

[stupidity265lol]

@Thedutchjelle Angkor Wat is the second hardest I swear to Gaia.

[Carrotha]

the music really captures the atmosphere. it's bleak, and probably the toughest dungeon of the game. you get few powerups for ages, hard bosses (especially with Will.. didn't even realise you could fight with Freedan initially), hard enemies, and only a couple of rest spots. Pretty good stuff.

[Skyblazerflash]

Great level Great music!!!!!

twilight style for the bosses (hard anyway)

and maybe a gold saint hidden....!!!!

[mintyfreshsage]

The game is great and all, don't get me wrong.

But Mu sucks. :(

You had to do something, backtrack, do something else, backtrack again, and then backtrack some more until you actually got to where you wanted to go.

And then the Bosses killed you. And because the monsters are hard and you don't get any bonuses for the first two thirds of Mu, you have no lives, and you forgot to save.

But the rest of the game is rewarding.

[Reaper87xx]

@mintyfreshsage The rest of the game is rewarding?  No, getting THROUGH Mu is rewarding. :-)

[PTp1ranha]

The first ten seconds kind of feels like you're in a maze surrounded by monsters while all your friends are lost and in danger... So I guess it's accurate.

[TheDeathclawhunter]

a god awful maze followed by some of the most difficult bosses ever....and yet this was always the level that always stayed in my mind. this game rules

[mopbrothers]

Where is MU located on Earth?

[Alilatias]

Not sure where MU itself is in real life, but if I remember correctly, on the game's world map (or on the map that was inside the game box that my family had), MU is around the general area of an island that looks sort of like Easter Island.

My guess is that MU is sort of a legend of sorts.

[Kahran042]

Mu is a legendary continent, supposedly located somewhere in the South Pacific.

[Ayzahar]

It doesn't. It's suppose to represent Atlantis.

This Spaniard decided to destroy all writing tablets of the MAYA, and a few that survived he decided to translate on the whim. One of which he said represented Atlantis, and the Mayans called it Mu. So Mu = Atlantis.

[piromaniac9999]

@Ayzahar

I read somewhere on wikipedia that there is a rumor that mu was another continent lost alltogether that was of a civilization even older than egyptian culture.

What i want to know,is where did they get some of the statue of faces?

And is it really atlantis?

[sanrok2]

The music and the game itself is AWESOME! The game begins a little blah, but it gets REALLY interesting =D

[vknong]

I love 1:38 to 1:53 :)

And the bosses were awesome, although annoying at first as I had no idea how to handle them lol.

[dyobeats]

I felt so lost on Mu because there was no city to turn back to and your only way is forward.... Absolutely epic...

[catgirl13136]

i hated this lvl it took me like a year to get past it

[BaggysAnime]

I played this level not too long ago on my Snes emulator on my pc cos i lost my old Snes and i couldnt get past this level...

The Bosses where Awesome though

[bart78170]

FUCK this level xD

[EarthTraveling]

@bart78170 LMAO YA

[freakguitar1]

@bart78170

ye i fucking hated that piece of shit level! and its music! argh :D

but was a good game.. i just never found out why the hell i tear my ass up to find 50 jewels, beat that monster boss thing, and then nothing happened...

haha :D

[drowninginferno]

@bart78170 Shit i beat this level and beat the bosses in 45 min, also anly lost once lol

[art11art12]

haha fuck this place!! omg...I remember walking around lost as hell..and then finally finding it and it was one slightly different left then the one I took before....

[Son23]

Why were water temples so damn hard and annoying in the good ol' days?

I always HATED doing this level. You always had to backtrack. I don't know, the feeling of this level was just annoying. So was Mt. Temple

I love this game, and love going back and playing it. Sometimes I wish they would port it to VC, DS, or maybe remake it for some system. Either way, I LOVED this game

[lemke11]

Ugh...memories of constantly going the wrong way, retracing steps, losing all my lives...I freakin' hate this stage. Music's good though.

[hinoki]

Aurg, I would always get stuck in this dungeon for the longest time!! Even though I didn't like the level, I loved the music ^^;

[Royazali]

I HATED this place! It was cool and all, but the vampires gave me a lot of trouble. Mu was, like, the beginning of the Water Temples! lol

[LordAztahoth]

Hahahahahahaha goddamn Water Temples XD XD XD

[GeneralSilver99]

best dungeon in the game, and super awesome game in general ^^

[jimbostube2]

First post! Hooray! Thank you for posting this tune and the others; it brings back memories.