I should play Popful Mail!
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Oh yeah that’s why my previous attempts to play this failed. The game is filled with tedious walking back and forth across the stage. You gotta attrition your health. Interesting it has 3 save slots and your save starts you at the beginning of the room you saved in. It almost functions as quick save/load on the Sega CD.
I am playing the Japanese version which is more balanced supposedly but I spent 90 minutes in a cave and eventually got a walkthrough open and the answer was that tedious. Talk to the monster on the left side of the stage, platforn/attack to the right. Talk to the human trapped in a cave. Walk back to the left. Walk back to the right. Walk to the left, now you can continue. To the next stage where you do this all over again then have to eventually come back to this first stage to continue…to the left.
Joke was on me. “Once I get out of this cave it has to get better right?” “No. There is More Cave!”
Continues my theory that Falcom songs are okay, but are all 1 minute long and start to drive you crazy at 20 minutes. Now I am rethinking of my plan to replay Ys Book 1 and 2. Now maybe there is a game to play while listening to other things. Maybe the 500 Falcom albums on streaming services.