---------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** Technomage Misc. FAQ Misc. FAQ (c) All rights reserved Made by: Nabeel Akhtar Email: kchain@mol.net.pk (Oh my God! It's changed AGAIN!) : nabeel_47@hotmail.com (ONLY E-MAIL ME HERE AS A LAST RESORT) Started on: 7/25/01 7:03 PM Last update: 7/31/01 7:52 PM Created on: MS Word Contents: 1. Legal Stuff 2. From the author (mainly apologies heh!) 3. Versions 4. Game Review (I always do this) 5. Hints and Tips 6. Misc. things: a) Weapons b) Spells c) Defense Equipment d) Mystical Items (tools) e) Items 7. About the author 8. Other works 9. Where you can find this FAQ 10. Credits ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** 1. Legal Stuff: - Plagiarizers, rip-offers, copycats etc etc. This special "segment" in my FAQ is especially for you guys. Aren't you glad? Anyway, all I have to say is that you better not steal, rip, copy, tear etc etc my FAQ or I'll rip and tear you apart somehow ... You DON'T want to know. Do your own hard work and leave us writers alone. Got it? HUH? DO I make myself clear to you or do you understand English? If so or not ... I don't care. I have already written everything in this small message for you. You should copy and memorize this in your head. Rip this little message and paste it all over where ever you want. But ONLY this message. NOTE to Webmasters and others: If you want to paste this FAQ on your website or homepage just ask. NOTE to CjayC: HEY! My e-mail has changed. I have got two now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** 2. From the author: - My apologies to all you guys who e-mailed me and didn't get a reply. My e-mail on Gamefaqs is WRONG or rather is changed (heh heh). Sorry! Anyway, now I have made two e-mail accounts and one of them is on hotmail, so no matter what the hell you will at least get a reply from my hotmail account. I always check my ISP account first, so if you don't get a reply in two days than one of the following is possible: 1. My Internet account is closed. 2. I have gone somewhere and will never come back (just kidding). 3. I have lost my memory and have forgotten my passwords (it'll never happen). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** 3. Versions: - 7/27/01 7:03 PM 1st version: I just started the damn thing. It's about to be 9: 00 PM and it's way past my bedtime ... Hahahahaha. OK! Enough of the jokes. I have only written what I have written up till right NOW and a little bit more. There will be a huge update or just a second ... I haven't even mailed this to Gamefaqs. I'll add lots of things tomorrow. 7/28/01 5:32 AM I have ended the game. I have never seen credits like these. Overall I don't think it was a bad game after all. I may probably finish the FAQ today. I have written up till the "items" section. 7/29/01 9:45 AM 2nd version: Corrected the dates. Sent the FAQ to Gamefaqs. Completed the FAQ!!! Sending to GameFaqs again today. May update for corrections. 7/31/01 7:52 PM 3rd version: Weird! Gamefaqs doesn't post my FAQ! Did some formatting and removed the ASCII art. Maybe that was the problem. Guess I'll send this FAQ again. 8/8/01 12:08 PM 4th version: Formatted it. Changed the fonts. 8/12/01 12:50 AM 5th version: Did some editing. Added psxcodez to the list of sites having my FAQ. 8/13/01 8:30 PM 6TH version: Did some formatting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** 4. Game Review: - Those of you who know me or rather remember me will know that I always write the review of the game I am writing something about (walkthrough, FAQ etc). It always lets the gamer know what he is buying and whether it will be worth his/her money. So why not read the review on a website or something? A website is quite convenient than this old plain text. Maybe, but at least I won't be biased. At least I won't tell you that the game sucks or it's great (because I played it). At least I have played the game well over 5 minutes (I have ended the game, it took me over 17 hours) and can give a clear-cut review. At least I don't give stars (only trash websites give that anyway). Now I'll get on with the review. Technomage is made by a Danish (Not sure) and possibly a PC developing team if I am not mistaken. In any case Sunflowers developed it. It is an action rpg like Alundra 2 or Threads of Fate. However it reminds me of Diablo. The small character, lot's of monsters (mostly undead ) etc. Thankfully Melvin (the game's hero) isn't THAT small (he is dwarfed though). Even the menu is VERY VERY PC-ish. Gameplay: - There are lots of puzzles (some are good, some are ridiculous and sometimes you don't even have a clue on what to do) and Melvin fights a lot too. By solving puzzles and beating enemies he gains exp. and when it reaches 100, a point is given automatically to each stat category i.e. Strength, Intelligence (Mana), Constitution (HP) and Mysticism and two points can be distributed manually as well. This is called a Top-up (normally called a Level-up in rpgs). You can save and load the game any time (except special occasions like during a boss battle where the game prompts you to save your game before) and you also have a quest log and an auto map that can be accessed through L1 and R1 respectively and also in the main menu. In battle it may look pretty easy to beat the monsters, however it's not easy all the time. You have to time your swings or strikes and if you miss them than the monster is likely to attack you. There are also only a number of selected weapons, tools, spells etc you can get in this game. Graphics: - No! Not too good. Again very PC-ish and weird type of graphics. The CG is not bad, however the character design just ruins it all. Picture this, a normal 5 foot 11 inches guy has been dwarfed and he's your hero. The developers just tried to copy the FF style, which has been a flaming failure. The game doesn't look dull though. A lot of colors have been used and it looks nice i.e. the background looks nice. This game is in 3-D but it could have been a hell lot better because I have seen 2-D games better than this. Sound: - There are voice-overs in this game! That's pretty cool ... right? Well ... not exactly. Only two or three characters had good voice acting but the rest including your hero has got the most poorest voices I have ever seen. "Oooooh! What ever am I going to do nooooow?" The sound is average and just bearable in this game. Lot's of things make similar or rather same kinds of noises. I swear I first believed that the game didn't have music! Than I cranked up the volume and voila there was some sort of weird instruments banging their heads in. I switched the volume down. Story: - It's too plain. I'm not going to spoil anything but (POSSILE SPOILER) you are a unique guy and people believe you bring bad luck. Than you go away, adventures await you (so does your father) and there is a girl too (that's just like you), she sort of joins you and you want of find out what's going on and Save the World like every little twit in every little game does ... but not a bad attempt. I mean c'mon, this isn't Square or Capcom you know. Replayability: - Why would you play the game all over again? There are no secrets or even side quests in this game. The game just leads you to either a town, a dungeon, a maze etc. No replayability. However the game will keep you busy for over or under 16 hours, depending on how quickly or slowly you play the game. Overall: - After all the bad things I have written about this game, a guy must be truly insane to play this game. And maybe I am. I don't understand but I wanted to end this game as quickly as possible. Something made me play the game and ignore its bad points. Believe me it works. I never felt like NOT playing the game or I am forcing myself to play it. I guess I can say that maybe you could give the game a little chance. Rent the damn thing or play it at your friend's house. If you like PC games this maybe a little bit different for you and you may like it. This rpg is like a console and PC rpg mixed into a blender and served it in front of you. This could be a totally different exp. for you but that's where it all ends. That's how the ball roles, that's how the cookie crum ... Marks: - 1. Gameplay:7.5 2. Graphics:7.0 3. Sound:6.1 4. Story:6.9 5. Replayabilty:7.5 6. Overall:35/50(Fair Game) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** 5. Hints and Tips: - It would be better to either read the manual or these hints and tips before you venture into the world of Technomage. These tips could just save your life out there. 1. Always talk with people and listen to what they have to say. Not every thing you have to do will be in your quest log. 2. Always save your game when you are uncertain on what you are going to do next or when you are low on life. 3. You can save anywhere and load the game anytime. Make full use of this feature. 4. Always equip your best weapon. 5. Some weaker spells are better than most strong spells e.g. using a freeze spell will freeze your opponents giving you valuable time to attack or flee and it will also use less mana. 6. You don't need to stock up in this game unless you are extremely LOW on healing items. PROOF: In a three hour dungeon I managed to stock up over 80 healing potions (also used a couple of them too). 7. Use torches in dark places, you are bound to miss a switch or something without them. 8. Save gold for items like Strength cubes, Intelligence cubes etc. By using these items you can permanently increase your stats. 9. Break crates to pick up all kinds of goodies. 10. Notice all push and pull crates (the game will tell which ones you can push and break). 11. The puzzles in this game stink. I only know of one, which made the best of sense, and I was actually impressed a little. If you simply cannot figure out how to solve a puzzle consider going into this site: http://www.technomage.de/english/index.html 12. If you see monsters close to a door or something and you can't open the door, than start attacking the door. Your swings and strikes will hurt the monsters and they will die. 13. There is a tool "bomb" in this game. It is infinite and you can use this to hurt monsters too. 14. Bombs are also used to break down walls etc. 15. Another tool "radar" is also extremely useful. By using it you can see monsters (red dot on radar) and even treasures (green dot on radar). Very useful. 16. Always try to solve all your quests that are written in your quest log, mainly because of two things. One, you HAVE to do them, two, you will get gold and other items. 17. Use long-range weapons against those monsters that throw rocks, arrows at you. 18. The freeze spell is extremely useful. USE IT! It works against everybody except bosses. Also when you hit a frozen monster, it gets a critical hit that may outright kill him (if you are very strong). 19. Whenever you get a top-up (Level up, exp. reaches 100) give one of the two points to Mysticism. The more Mysticism the better. You'll know by checking your menu. 20. Do not use items like Large Healing Potion and Large Mana Potion. NEVER use the extremely rare and expensive Large Combined Potion. Save it for the last boss of the game. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** 6. Misc. things: - a) Weapons There are only 8 kinds of weapons in this game. That's pretty sad but I think the game leads you directly to a weapon. Meaning that you cannot miss any weapon in this game. Here are the weapons and their locations: 1. Dagger: - Location: Uncle Rissen's house. Information: It's a weakling this. Poor range, poor attack. What can you expect from your first weapon in any game. 2. Sword: - Location: The shed Baras' is guarding in Steamertown. Information: Not a bad weapon. Has better range and attack than the dagger. You will be using this a lot. Trust me. 3. War Mace: - Location: Area "Fredo" in the Hive. Information: You don't swing this weapon. You sort of strike it vertically. Get it? Range I think is on par with the sword. Better attack though. 4. Bow: - Location: You can get this made from a tree outside Jelon (the fairy village). You should have a special branch that you get by solving a quest of some fairy in Tsa Jelon. Information: Long-range weapon. It's a good weapon to knock flying and other monsters. Very poor attack though so you'll have to carry a lot of arrows. 5. Fire and Aqua Arrows: - Location: You'll get these from enemies and other places later on in the game. Information: You use them with the bow (what else!). Better attack than normal arrows. However I think he aqua arrows are better because their cost is higher than the fire arrows. BTW use aqua arrows against fire creatures and vice-versa. 6. Hammer: - Location: In the canyon (you'll know where). Information: Better than the mace in every way. 7. Axe: - Location: From your friend Fredo (the guy you saved in the Hive) in Shactown. Information: The best weapon? This? Well I guess so. It's got the best attack and range. That's it. TIP FOR WEAPONS: When your mystic reaches 21, you will be able to charge your weapon by holding "Square" and release it to damage your surrounding enemies. b) Spells There are 7 spells. The visuals are OK. But I have got some personal favorites. 1. Fireball. Location: From your (Melvin's) Granny in Steamertown. Information: Your first spell naturally. It's ok. You'll be using this in puzzle solving most of the time. HOWEVER, it can be effective when you have a lot of mana and you are facing a boss. By using this you may find that you are doing more damage and using less mana points. 2. Ice Claw. Location: From Fredo in the Hive. Information: Extremely useful. Effective against almost all enemies but useless against bosses. This spell freezes your enemy, giving you valuable time to either escape, attack, go into a good position to attack etc. My favorite magic spell. 3. Viper's Vortex. Location: From Gwen in the Fairy Forest. Information: A tornado rips through hordes of monsters. Hits most enemies. Useful at times. 4. Meteor Storm. Location: In a canyon where you fight Stone Guardians. Information: Yeah it's useful against bosses and enemies. 5. Lightning. Location: You'll get this in the Tower. Information: Pooh! Pooh! Pooh! What-a-ridiculous spell. I hate it. I may have used it three times. Poor attack. 6. Magic Battle Shield. Location: In the Volcano. Information: Useful against enemies who use spells against you. BTW you have to use this in one of your puzzles or rather tests (Hint!). 7. Earthquake. Location: In a dungeon (late in the game). Information: Useful against lots of monsters. It's a nice spell. Has nice attack too. Will kill very nearby monsters and will hurt other monsters too. TIP FOR MAGIC: When your mystic reaches 7, your mana will automatically increase. Extremely useful. c) Defense Equipment The defense equipment isn't your usual chain mail etc. Find out yourself. 8 defense equipments. 1. Ankh Amulet. Location: In the Crypt. Information: You only find this useful only once. That's it! You use it to see ghosts. BTW, even though there are ghosts you can't see later in the game, if you equip this they don't become visible (ooooohhhhh). 2. Ring of Life. Location: You get this from the mayor in Steamertown. Information: Very useful. It hastens regeneration (???) and treats poisoning. Somehow I like it. 3. Magic Amulet. Location: From Dahlia, in the Inner Forest. Information: It improves the spells' attack. 4. Chain mail. Location: From fairies (in the clearing I think), after defeating the river monster. Information: Reduces damage from physical attacks. 5. Stoneskin belt. Location: From your (Melvin's) "girlfriend", canyon. Information: Reduces damage from fire attacks. 6. Merlin's Cape. Location: From Bullyforth (sheeesh! What a name!) in the Snow world. Information: Reduces damage from magic attacks. 7. Experience amulet. Location: From Trade Master in Shactown. Information: Raises hit frequency. I seriously don't know what the hell this is. 8. Gloves of Dexterity. Location: From Talis, before going inside the Temple. Information: Increases accuracy of your weapons. I don't think it actually works. d) Tools Only 4 tools. All of them are useful and have to be used (except Radar). 1. Bomb. Location: From Mel's father in the Hive. Information: It's uses are to destroy walls etc. Can also be used as a time-bomb to hurt monsters. Deals little damage though but FUN! 2. Radar. Location: From druidess Duna in the fairy forest. Information: VERY USEFUL. Tracks down enemies (red dot), treasures (green dot) and by using this you can also find out where those pesky ghosts are. 3. Speed Boots. Location: From fairies after winning beetle race. Information: Without this some of your puzzles would have been impossible to solve. One very scary thing about this game is that YOU CANNOT RUN. Use this to quicken your pace up a bit. 4. Grappling hook. Location: From Dagomar in the canyon region. Information: Use this on bollards to go from one ledge to another. e) Items I will only be covering the items that you will use during battle etc and not puzzle items. You are free to ask me about the game's other items however. 1. Small Healing Potion. Information: This potion partially heals you and is cheap to buy. Believe me you don't need to buy these. I cranked 80 of these items in a 3-hour dungeon by searching the place like mad. 2. Chalk. Information: I only found this useful only once and that too was not in a maze or anything. Don't buy these too. You'll get a lot of these in dungeons as well. 3. Torches. Information: Yeah! You'll be using these a lot too. But you will also be finding these in blah blah blah. These torches light themselves up (you can turn them off) and after sum time they will run out and you will use a new one ... automatically. Plus you won't know whether you have used a torch or not. 4. Anti-Venom Potion. Information: Treats poisoning. Meaning that it's not a simple antidote that will guarantee your poison to be removed. It's not that useful. 5. Anti-Venom Herb. Information: It completely cures poisoning. BTW, in extreme cases you may actually need to use two of these. Useful. Carry some of them in your rucksack at all times. 6. Small Mana Potion. Information: This potion recovers some of your lost mana. You won't be using these TOO many times as after you get a 7 points in Mysticism, you will automatically regain mana. 7. Combined Potion. Information: These replenish both health and mana. Very useful but don't buy these as I cranked up 90 of these during the whole game excluding the ones I used. 8. Large Healing Potion. Information: Completely heals you. I got only 24 during the entire game. This shows how important they are. NEVER use them during battles against normal enemies. ONLY use these against VERY tough bosses. 9. Large Mana Potion. Information: Completely replenishes mana. Don't buy these. You won't be using them too many times as well. 10. Large Combined Potion. Information: Super! Refills everything! I NEVER used these during the entire game. Not even against the last boss. What the hell am I? They are very expensive too. 11. Magic Cubes. Information: You will find these magic cubes in shops, crates and sometimes from people. Use them immediately when you acquire them. They will increase 1 point in either Intelligence, Constitution etc. BTW, whenever you see them in shops BUY THEM despite the heavy price tag. 7. About the author. My name is Akhtar ... Nabeel Akhtar (OK! Enough!). I now study in class 11, third of O'levels to be exact. I'm only 15 years old. I have now mastered MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and I'm making websites. So you'll be seeing my website sooner or later (most probably later). Seriously I'm much mature than my age. BTW, I live in Pakistan, Lahore (heheh). I love console games and hate PC games except for The Sims and C&C. Be seeing you guys. 8. Other works. In other words "shameless self-promotion". But hey! I don't give a damn. I wrote these, anybody got a problem. 1. Metal Gear Solid walkthrough (my fav game, the best game in the world) 2. Tomorrow Never Dies walkthrough. 3. Tomorrow Never Dies codes. 4. Grandia secrets. 5. Technomage Misc. FAQ. That's all folks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** 9. Where you can find this FAQ. www.Gamefaqs.com www.Psxcodez.com www.neoseeker.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** 10. Credits. 1. Thank God for everything 2. To Sunflowers for making this game. 3. To Gamefaqs for accepting this. 4. To my slow-coach computer 5. To you for reading this FAQ. 6. To myself (I guess) for making this FAQ. Bye everybody. Till we meet again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***********************************************************************