 Welcome back everyone to another episode of Let's Play Dragon Quest XI S Defended Edition on the Switch and last episode we basically came to Gondolia. We came back to Gondolia and turns out that Jasper was here and he had all of his forces from Heliodor lined up ready for me. So they've currently taken over the entire city and they're looking for me and we've got to hide and make our way over to Eric who just got kidnapped. So they have Eric hostage and they're trying to draw us out which is not good. You gotta be careful. So actually what I'm going to think I'm going to do is check and see, can I zoom out of here? I wonder if I can. Oh I can leave? I can just leave and gather my strength? That's convenient. Sorry Eric I'm going to have to take a little pit stop. I need better armor because I know a boss is coming up and I need Serena to be strong enough to withstand any attacks that he gives her because she is a little bit helpless right now. Alright so we're back in Galopolis where we last came and there is an armor shop around here. See that'll be good for Serena to be honest. Wow I have a lot of money actually. I didn't realize I had that much. I can actually go all out now. I'll buy that for Serena, I'll equip that. I could buy that for myself but it's not going to make a huge difference. That won't make a huge difference either, the bunny ears sound like a huge difference for her. Alright nice, she's equipped with that. Oh she should have equipped with that too. I'm really giving Serena a lot of good outfits to wear. The dancer's costume, that's a little out of my price range. That would make me a lot tougher. That would make Silvando a lot tougher. That would be good for Veronica but it's not really worth it for me. Okay so what I'm going to do is I'm going to get the leather cape or should I get this? I think I'm going to get the leather cape for Silvando. Maybe I should sell some stuff. Oh a Thor and a Whip, I don't need that. Oh there's only one of these in the entire game. I can't sell that then. Yeah I'll sell the Divine Dagger, I don't care about the Dagger. The hairband, I'll sell that. Oh Bronze Lance, do I need that? Oh there's only one of these in the game too. And there's only one of these in the game too, so I can't sell that stuff, it's rare. I'm such a hoarder, I can't get rid of anything. You can't sell the Trojan Togs, I'm at a loss for what I should sell. The Iron Broadsword, maybe I should sell that. Oh Chainmail, okay so let's see. Oh that should be really good for me. And we don't have anything better than that. Silvando, there's not much he has. And of course I can't get rid of the baby boar outfit, she has to keep wearing this. And I've got all the good rings. So I could buy this Bronze Armor which would make me stronger, but there's no reason that too anyway. That could be good for Silvando actually, I'll get that for him. Silver Platter, it's a plate and he's using it as a shield. Okay good, good plan, hello. Some creatures, oh you told me this already. Oh hello there, handsome, wow. Oh is this really happening? Wait is this for real? She's actually, what? Well I guess I can't keep her waiting. Hello, oh she's making everybody else stay outside. Hey, well Veronica and Miss Arena look really pissed off at me. Off you go, Mr. Luminari, Tuske lotto all the same. You know, you gotta do what you gotta do. Oh my gosh, they know what I'm up to now. Wait, Eric's in trouble and I'm doing this right now, what? Why, Eric is kidnapped. Okay, okay, it's fine, it'll be quick. All right, we'll just get this over with and then we'll go back to saving him. Puff puff, okay that's a little weird. That's her father. Oh my goodness, why are you staring at the wall? Don't you be giving my girl any funny ideas, she's already got enough of their own already. Well how was it? Well let's just get out of here. She's actually asking me how it was. All right we're gonna zoom back over to Gondolia because I think that we're tough enough to defeat Jasper now at this point. We're gonna have to sneak over there and not get caught by the guards. Could be easy hopefully. I need to get a better sword, this old bronze sword, I've been using this for so many bosses so far. We'll use it for one more though. We have to use our wits to defeat Jasper because he's tough, he's a tough boss. He's allowed to go twice in a row, that's his thing, and there's guards all over the town. All right we've already seen this, I'm just gonna skip over it. All right I know exactly where to go, his near sightedness is gonna get the better of him. See like he doesn't even care. Oh hey, he knew the whole time that I wasn't normal, that there was some special destiny waiting for me. Well they didn't see that at all, he didn't even miss me. He's not gonna let me ride on his boat anymore, crap crap, gotta run gotta run. Yikes, yikes, yikes, no! Enemy blocks the way, they're hurting us, tries again. Damn, flee, come on, flee. Oh they caught us again, oh she blocked it. We gotta keep running, I don't wanna waste any magic, well he's doing that anyway. Keep blocking the way, fine, all right we're safe here, yikes, we're gonna head back on. Okay so we gotta get sneak in without getting caught, not to hide here around the corner. Look at these guards are changing spots, just gonna run past him and nice, managed to make it past without getting caught, there's one coming over there around the corner, might catch me, he passed him though, maybe we're gonna cut through here, okay good, I think we're safe for now. Oh that's that, wait a minute I remember that lady from the market district, she was the woman whose husband was rich and she traveled a lot because of him, that must be her rich husband with his monocle, that's her kid, what's a dark spot, why is everybody afraid of it, I just don't tell me it's probably boring, I tell you what it isn't, a secret way out of this place on the third floor, ah that thanks for the tip, gonna leave through that secret passage way on the top on the third floor, I don't know if I get this book though, no more under the rainbow, summer day, weather, baby lamplings, green lampling, oh and then the red one is jealous, we gobble them up, the lava lampling, the lava lampling is an evil lampling, oh maybe we can climb this ladder, there's a single file and looks like there's a rope, we can use this to climb across the rooftop, those guys don't even see me from up here, they're completely oblivious to me, alright that's great we can sneak across, completely undetected, he's really good at tight row walking, gotta say, alright it looks like there's more stuff here, 21 gold, medicinal herb, alright just drop right down, oh there's Eric, he's tied up, that's save Eric, there we can use that to get to Eric, almost like a drop down here, alright, go on through here and we'll use this thing, gondola, we'll use, we'll make our way over there and sneak around from behind and save Eric that way, Jasper will know we hit him, so let's see, oh there's a treasure test there, maybe try to get that, oh hey, you just fishing, why are you, Jasper searching for a dark spawn, why are you there, wait, less than a fishing in life, he doesn't need sleep, he soaps us a fishing net even though the town isn't in the chaos, he's still fishing, wow, how do you use that guy, is he drunk, dark spawn, he's not letting me pass, alright so gotta use the medicinal herbs that we have, I'll use this to heal us up, govando can use one, oh wait, Veronica needs one too, alright sounds good, actually I'm gonna give Silvando my medicinal herbs cause I already have a healing spell, transfer that to Silvando, he doesn't need it, I'll transfer a couple to Veronica too, why not, I should transfer these to also to Veronica, cause she could use these, why not, alright Veronica's all set up with these medicinal herbs, I should give Silvando a couple, cause me and Serena already have healing spells, the healing duo you know how it is, there's Jasper, guys back turned, wow he's really mean, imbeciles, why is he calling them that, right behind you, time for a fight, Jasper draws near, now as you can see he's holding two swords which means he's the dual sword wielder, prepare yourself for thrashing you skimming snake, look over on it in the corner, oh actually I should probably make Silvando listen to my orders and Serena should also follow her, alright so let's do this, I'm gonna sap him, sap his power please work, please work, yes, he just killed her in one hit, I can't believe he just did that, what am I gonna do buff, who should I, maybe herself, that would be a good idea, alright we gotta do something now, we gotta oomph the luminary, yes 49, oh that didn't do anything, okay we gotta do something now, we gotta tolerate maybe your, I'll accelerate the luminary and I'll oomph the luminary also, so he'll be super strong and now we're gonna use flame slash, 55 nice, oh she's preventing him from casting spells, damn, devil's delight, can't use any spells, I forgot he had that spell, maybe she should defend, what power should we have, what should we do, defense right, anyone foolish enough to attack Silvano to be paralyzed and this one increases our defense and magical manning quite quite a bit, let's do it, the paralysis seems like it seems like something you would want but he's still fuddled, alright so now he does not, he can use a strong medicine on the luminary, nice 60, oh it barely did anything, 41 to heal her and fuddles still working on her which means I have to use, might as well just attack him, take some magic back, okay okay let's see what's going on and what do we do now, she will probably be able to use her spell again next match, I should have healed, please work please work, damn it, heal yourself, let's see maybe I can accelerate him, try that, thanks, okay can't cast spells, try healing him, I can't cast spells still, he blocked it, might as well just kill me now so I can move on, yeah might as well, okay let's go one more time, one more time we'll give it another go, yeah I'll lose 24 gold, I don't care about that, keep your progress at least, well Eric in the corner which is ironic because he's the one who's missing, I just poor lost sheep, I thought she said it was a darkspawn, didn't she say that, alright we'll have to move on over here through the secret passageway on the top of the roof, I should give, give in, Veronica is in trouble though, she gets, she keeps getting killed by him, I gotta buff her or something, alright moving on let's keep going, just gonna do some tightrope walking, really hope I don't lose again, he's a tough boss, it's not, he's not easy you know, he's a very tough boss, it's unfair that he can like, he can fight twice in a row, you know I can only do it once in a row, but then again that is what happens when you have two swords because I can eventually get two swords, there is that perk and it's really cool having dual, dual wielding, this is the first game to have dual wielding in the series, it's really awesome, but yeah right now we have a sword and a shield and that's it, that's good physics, okay are we all ready to go, looks like it, he has to be able to get something, maybe I can use a strength ring, the gold ring plus three, yeah I'll give it to Veronica, she needs it more I think, let's go, I'm just gonna skip this because we've ever seen it, or Jasper you're going down this time, okay she's up there again, what's happening again, please work, yes abilities, flame slash, do not hit Veronica, okay I see how it is, I see how it is, trying to hurt Serena, I should really use Oomph on him, nice nice, so heal yourself now, here to help herself, hehe, alright, he needs to oomph me again, I need to buff Veronica, because she's in trouble and now Veronica has already sapped him, which means I could reduce his agility, I could crack, I could bang, I could sciss for his didazzle, let me think what I should do, I think I should crack, that wasn't too bad, alright oomphed already, I should accelerate everyone, yeah I got him with that flame slash, okay so I accelerated him, I should buff everyone, barely did anything, okay who got fizzled, I got fizzled, Silvano got fizzled and we are the two guys who don't even use spells that much, I don't need to use spells on you, or who's next Veronica, yeah she's gonna use, she's gonna kick your ass now, okay crack time I think, wait, haha magic barrier and it's time for her to heal the luminary, look how much buffing we got going on, I thought we had a magic barrier, alright fine, you want to fight or Veronica, you can give Serena, actually he could do something, she could do something else, she could decelerate him, please work, please work, he's fiddled, damn, Belle please use something that'll work, sap him, please work, please work, yes, oh he can't do anything right now, he should use crack I think, might as well, I just gotta beat him as quickly as possible, oh my goodness, no no no, well it's not like we were even gonna use spells anyway, it's not like it matters, I'll heal myself and she will use a strong medicine on luminary and she'll use another strong medicine on him because she can, oh I blocked one of them, can we use a pep hour, yes we can use a pep hour, alright let's do this, critical attack is gonna go up now, it's so cute, staying on top of his back, our critical attack, let's do this, I was on a crit, I thought we were supposed to get critical attack, oh no, oh well that didn't do much, oh that was that was good, I beat him, yes, Jasper's defeated it, the only casualty was Serena, okay Armando did it pretty well, beat Jasper, second try, now we're surrounded again, alright this is gonna seem crazy but just trust me okay, true to form, the rats leap from the sinking ship, so much for your faithful friends Darkspawn, now this ridiculous farce has gone on long enough, all that remains is for you to choose how it ends, surrender to me or entrust your fate to the sharks that circle beneath, well which will it be, Ser Jasper look, it's, it's a ship that's Silvando's boat, the finest ship to ever sashay across the seas, the finest ship, the salty stallion, that's Silvando's ship, try to jump on, oh they'll, few of them fell down into the water, well we managed to escape Jasper onto Silvando's boat, that was lucky, I definitely saved us there, Dave, won't blind me, the drag quest, oh what is that, like a giant octopus, this does not look good, Jasper far laughing himself there, Intacular, that's Jasper's friend, what happened, oh there's other ships, they're helping us, oh they're helping us out, they're fighting the Intacular, I guess he doesn't like cannons, is it Dorje Rotondo, he's helping us out now, oh so he told Dorje Rotondo about us and that's why he's helping us, it was Jasper who did it, and the Knights of Heliodora are really up to no good, well that was a nice ending, we managed to escape and we defeated Jasper, that's great, Vardrust, Oh, but this is such an epic scene right here. Well, the strange structure in the celestial sands. Oh, I wanted to read that. That was probably interesting. Is there anywhere to read these like little hints and stuff? So now we are opening up the world. So let me show you something. If you zoom in, not zoom, this world is now opened before it was somewhat linear, but now we can pretty much choose our adventure, but we need to go to Zavardros because that's where the rainbow is. You'll see that after that you can kind of choose where to go from here. It's a very well designed world, if I'm being honest. So we don't want to go back to Gandolia, and there are random encounters now when you're on the sea, when you're on the high seas. There's a volcano. Uh, yeah, it looks like we should go around here. Oh, we can speed up. Awesome, Drake Slimes. I wonder, does Dragon Slash work on these guys? Alright, let's try Dragon Slash. I guess I'll just have her defend. I love his little scream when he attacks. Alright, Dragon Slash one more time. Can you start fighting real dragons in this game? The Dragon Slash will really come in handy. Alright, well do handy heal all. Is this where I need to go? Oh, this is really far away. Wow. Well, we should head over to Zavardros. I would love to stop by a bunch of places, but I kind of want to just get on with the story. Of course, there's lots of monsters we're going to attack us. Oh, Merman. Sapping me. Alright, he's dead. We're almost there. I wonder what that light beacon is. Maybe there's some story reason it's there. Who knows? Everything in this game has a purpose, and you see something that doesn't make sense, and you come back and you realize, oh, that's why that was there. You'll realize it. The story is really well designed for this world. The world and the story intermingle so well. It feels like it's all meant to be together, you know, piece together and everything. Alright, here we go, Zavardros region. Oh, there's a short end in a little farther away. So a little bit of trivia. Zavardros is where Hendrik is from. Mr. Dave's, Mr. Dave, I guess, said that the merchant bought the rainbow and did Zavardros. Oh, hello, Silvando. Because many local people as you can. That's the thing about Dragon Quest. You always speak to local people to see hints about where to go. Hello? Alright, moving onwards. The warriors rest in. Maybe somebody there has it. Hello, cow. Do what kind of weather we can look forward to. Hello. We've got clear skies for a while and then my reign soon. This must be the warriors rest in. Or just just a windmill. Let's go inside the windmill. Oh, I can't go in there. Thought it could go in. These guys have a bit of a pest problem outside of their place. I could go for a rest. Old Kingdom is Zavardros. So it's, yeah, it's big. Not really. Okay. Hi, Doug. Oh, you can actually pet the dog this time? I couldn't do that before. So why can't you pet cats in this game? Do they have something against cats? Oh, there's a quest here. Fielderone's part of a great kingdom. So Zavardros was also destroyed. Some remnants, the souls of those who slain are still there. Oh, they become monster dead knots. There are those undead people there. So he wants me to kill all of his old friends. Care prayers, what they need to be purified by. Oh, my blonde hair companion. He made her? All right. I accept your request. Zavardros was founded by Drustin, the warrior king. It's also where Sir Hendrick was born. Quite a pedigree. What makes any sadder that those monsters are destroyed? Sir... Where Sir Drustin was born? The warrior king. Maybe we'll find out more about him later. Oh, hello there. It's a green taco. I finally found the password now. Not two seconds before you appeared. It goes to show you an intimate taco like me can be of use now. Let me share it with you. Now I can visit Erdrick's future home via the altar of salvation. What's Erdrick's future home? There are two more... There are more tacos out there. Well, goodbye. Thanks for the password. Oh, hello there. You're on Octagonia. Your dad's fighting in the tournament. Or is Octagonia instead of North? Octagonia is instead of North. The warrior's rest. Yeah, I'm a little bit curious why it's called the warrior's rest. It's named in honor of Drustin the warrior king. A great man who fought alongside the luminary back in the age of heroes. So Drustin founded Zvar's Drust. Okay. So he was one of the luminary's companions. Drustin. That's really cool. Let's read a little more about this history. Oh, I can save here. Okay, that's cool. Let's look around the end a little more. Explore a bit. Oh, hello there. Drust, the purple orb's protection. The purple orb's protection. What's a purple orb? That purple orb still... It's mentioned it's still around here somewhere. I wonder what a purple orb is. That's very interesting. Oh, hello there. She must be a student of some sort. Maybe I could help her out with her studying. The red door with a strange symbol on it. The magic key. Where can you find this key? How should I know? She doesn't know where the key is. Make steel broadswords, sword and steel, steel shields, and steel helmets. Wow. That's a lot of good stuff actually. I could probably hit the mill. Her husband came here on holiday and he ran off. Octagonian to see the Master Martial Arts tournament. Give him a beating himself. She really wants to beat up her husband. Okay, so we've learned a lot of information from the people here. It was pretty... It was good talking to people. A lot of lore and information we learned. Maybe I'll hang out with her later on. So, we get over to Octagonia. They kept talking about it. The girl was talking about it. Let's bring up our steed. Alright, so, Octagonia should be Universal Region ruins Universal Region. It can't be viewed yet. Let's see. I guess we've got to go along the path. There's not much else we can do. Many Saber Tigers are tough. Oh, hello there. He came to Zardras because there was some sort of legendary treasure. There's nothing there. Octagonia's Master Martial Arts tournament. The prizes this year are meant to be incredible. I could go for some incredible prizes. He'd like to go for some incredible prizes. So, let's continue onwards here to Dundrasil Region. There's a lot of places to explore, but Dundrasil is where the Luminary is born. This is his homeland. Octagonia is up there, and there's ruins of Dundrasil down there. Let's stop by the Octagonia for now. I don't really want to visit bad memories at the moment. There's nothing at Dundrasil for me right now. Is there? There's a little taco right there. There's an enemy. I know that's an enemy. I'm not stupid. No, it's not actually an enemy. I thought that was one of those cacti spalls. There's a lot of baddies here. This would be Octagonia. Yeah, we want to go through here now. Oh wow, look at that. It's huge. There's a lot of baddies out here. Pink rabbits. Bolting from battle. There's a circle right there, and there's no escape. Wow, it's not bad. That's the statue of Hendrik, right? That is Hendrik. The guy who's chasing after us. Oh, hello there. I like her accent. It's not very medieval or European. Really? There's some prizes available. I thought she was going to invite you to a boring old dance or something. The masks. That must be on top of the big building. The rooftop arena is where the fights happen. Well then. There's a lot going on here. Hello there. The registration counter. Under the statue of Sir Hendrik. They have a huge statue of Hendrik here for some reason. I guess he must have fought a while ago. So anyway, let's go save. I thought this was the church. Oh no, wait. This is the church. Alright, we'll be saving here. Over 10 hours so far. Playtime. Not too much longer to go. But anyway, that was a good, that was a good, some good progress today. That's it for today's episode here. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time when we continue investigating Octagonia and see what else is going on here.