Effectiveness

Well, I entered the game ready to battle Seamus, however it turned out that he didn't want to battle me at all. I felt a bit amused at that since I talked about fighting him many times so far, and I was sure I would have to duel him. So anyway, I left the Fairy Garden through that easily unblocked second entrance, and got to Tiralin. Only two worgots attacked me on my way. But inside Tiralin there was Seamus again! and he wanted to battle me in fact.

The battle was stressful, because I considered it important, and I won it with use of both Sillia and Tadana. Sillia herself might have not succeeded all alone, so it's good I had Tadana trained already to ninth level.

Then I visited the merchant of golden carrots, but I did not buy from him anything, and then I started searching Tiralin for the rune. Instead I obtained a Swamp Rune, and at that remembered that the rune of Tiralin is in fact in the swamps. But Shadow Elves are there, and I knew I might have to duel some of them just to reach the Tiralin Rune, so I resigned from going there for now. Because in fact I wanted to do some reading about strengths of fairy elements, and to know what elements are nature and water fairies strong against. This is possibly the most important information required to have a successful game of Zanzarah.

Additionally, in the magic store I met another magic merchant and did not buy from him anything either, and when I was near him, I opened my menu, and the list of all items scrolled down by itself to only the last object, and my mouse cursor got blocked. It stopped working inside the menu. So I left the program – hence two movies of this gameplay, not one – and went back in, and after restarting the saved game everything was back to normal and menu was working again. So I wandered around Tiralin a bit more, and then, when I was leaving the city hall and opened my menu, again everything scrolled down to show only the final item, and the mouse cursor again stopped working for the menu. But I know it is repairable by exiting the program – simple reloading however does not solve this problem and the game must be entirely left and re-entered – and so I don't worry about it.

Having written all that above, I went on search for the table of fairy strengths and weaknesses, and was reminded that it is accessible in the game:

”You can call upon the Effectiveness Screen any time in-game by pressing F1. This menu also has several more information screens which you can go through with the arrow keys. It is also useful as a fast pause button, battles included.” (quote from: steamcommunity.com)

I wanted to put the Effectiveness Table into the site margin, but since it can be had in the game, then I won't. I'll just keep it here. I vaguely remember from the last time when I played this game, and it was some few years ago, that there is some mistake in the Table. I think that one strength/weakness is missing, and it may involve nature fairies.

After a while I just want to add that I found that mistake, because it is more of a typo mistake. Dark is strong against Nature. And that's not marked. However it is marked that Nature is weak against Dark. And I thought that's the only error of the table.

Unfortunately however it is not, because there is another mistake of the same kind. Air is weak against Energy, which is marked in the chart - but it is not marked that Energy is strong against Air.

These are actually serious mistakes.

Especially that that's not the end of them. There is a third error of the same type. Ice is weak against Stone - this is marked. What's not marked is this: Stone is strong against Ice.

I checked the Effectiveness Table very carefully and there are no more mistakes than these three.

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