Quesada's Swan

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Are we at the Golden Room now?

I have Will play the Wind Melody in the middle of the chamber.

What Gold Block?

I'm thinking we're going to face our first boss in this game soon...

A gold tile southeast of us is now glowing!

I have Will step on it.

Nothing's happening.

I equip one of the Incan statues and try to place it on the glowing tile. Still nothing.

Maybe I'm too light. I go to Dark Space and switch to Freedan.

The gold tile's stopped glowing!

Back to Will again...

I have Will step on the tile and I have him do everything from twirling his flute to Dashing.

This is a clever puzzle...

What am I missing here?

But as soon as I typed the sentence above, the door to the next chamber opens!

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We're back outside again!

I see another Dark Space portal west from our exit, and a pedestal with three columns surrounding it southwest of the door...

I climb the nearby ladder down, and notice a small recess on the mantel on top of the statue.

This must be where we can place one of the Incan statues...

Now for statue number two...

I hear a warbling sound. That's not good...

Into Dark Space, where I switch to Freedan. We talk to Gaia, who gives us advice on the boss coming up.

Gaia: "If you suffer damage, hide behind him."

Outside, I step on the pedestal...

As the wind blows, we leap to the other side of the cliff in a dash!

I'm semi-prepared for this moment.

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Holy heck!

Unfortunately, I fail to finish him off, but I do have an idea on what to expect...

I have to attack his hands first, then his head.

Like the bosses in Soul Blazer, this boss does not mess around.

We're back outside, where Freedan notes the area to the boss looks familiar...

Then we lose our second life!

I switch back to Will, since he's a smaller target than Freedan is...

I still lose...

I sort of like this little detail below. Will mentions that he might've been dreaming of trying to finish off the boss earlier. It sort of gives an in-story justification of a "lost" life.