---------------------------------------------- THE EAGLE SHOOTING HEROES Walkthrough/FAQ ver 1.0 ---------------------------------------------- (also known as 'she diao ying xiong zhuan' in Chinese and Eiyu Shachou Den in Japanese) Only for the Playstation console Avail. WINTER 2000 Revision History ----------------------- 28 Dec 2000 : 1st created, walkthru up to end of Chapter 1. +++++++ ******* Contents ******* +++++++ 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Overview 1.2 Comparisons 1.3 Why this thru/FAQ 2 GETTING STARTED 2.1 Game Layout 2.2 Controls 2.3 Character Status 2.4 Items 2.5 Special Skills 2.6 Battle techniques 2.7 Battle System ++++++++++++++++ **************** 1 INTRODUCTION **************** ++++++++++++++++ 1.1 Overview Eagle Shooting Hero is the 1st ever all-Chinese PSX game (Not referring to Kanji Japanese games) developed by the good people of SCEI ie Sony. I was surprised that a Chinese PS game would appear on the market, let alone a Chinese PS RPG. Anyway I'm glad this game was released, cuz its such a different experiece, and really fun too. The game is based on Jin Yong's novel series with the same title, which of course, is most familiar with so many Chinese-literate individuals. Do note that I did bad rough translations throughout. 1.2 Comparisons It can be termed as a 'new school RPG' with all the FMVs and 3D environments. It has a great storyline and damn unique characters. I mean, what did u expect, it came straight out from a novel. Compared to FF8/9 or Chrono Cross, the dungeons and backgrounds are pretty bland, and the camera angle in towns suck. However, the gameplay is pretty ok for an RPG of today's standards. What is great about this game is its theme, story and characters. 1.3 Why this thru/FAQ Well... there aint too many walkthrus/FAQs for this game at the moment, I was really a bit frustrated to find so little information on this game to help me out... and also I thought perhaps I could share with fellow gamers what I gathered from the game. ++++++++++++++++++ ****************** 2 GETTING STARTED ****************** ++++++++++++++++++ 2.1 Game Layout The game is linear, and you follow an FFT kind of track. You progress on from one location, do your stuff there, complete it, and move on to the next area. Within one location is probably made up of: a. A town b. A dungeon, or a few dungeons The town probably is made up of: Pawnshop: You can trade, buy weapons, Skill scrolls, and sell unwanted items Medical Hall: where you can buy recovery herbs Inn: for saving and resting A tavern: for some information gathering Key character homes/buildings Civilian homes Other structures like a whorehouse or gambling den Scattered treasure chests and perhaps a dock. The dungeon is your usual treasure chests, branching roads and random-appearing foes and a boss at the end. 2.2 Controls The controls are not very different from most PS RPGs, but the button layout is of Japanese style ie CIRCLE to select/confirm X to cancel, hold to run TRIANGLE to bring up the menu L1 change character L2/R2 rotate camera. Note that you can rotate the camera only sometimes, and this can be quite irritating. Analog joysticks can also be used for walking/running, and vibration is supported. 2.3 Character Status Much like the usual RPGs, you are in control of Guo Jing, the protagonist. And he has various stats. RED: Wai Gong (Physical Strength) : Your Hit Points BLUE: Nei Gong (Inner Strength): In China, this is something like internal energy drawn from your body. A physically inferior person may be very strong in Nei Gong. Treat like Magic Points. Eh,,, something like that... YELLOW: Qing Gong (Skill of light-footedness?!): In such 'medieval China' novels, martial arts exponents commonly possess this skill which allows them to scale mountains, climb walls and float over enemies. Treat as another MP gauge. These 3 stats may be recovered by resting or using herbs. In the Eagle Shooting Hero world, there are 3 kinds of attacks represented by the 3 colors RED BLUE and YELLOW, as opposed to the Physical and Magical attacks in most Japanese RPGs. Each character also have these stats (roughly translated): ATTACK determines damaging power DEFENCE determines how much damage inflicted upon character EXPERIENCE the usual LEVEL the usual HEROISM I suppose the more points you rack up here, you are more heroic... There is no Accuracy/Evade stat though. There is also a special skill element in the game... 2.4 Items There are 4 categories of items in the game. Press Triangle to call up the menu, choose the item menu and then press L1/R1 to toggle. Curative Items: heal up Wai Gong, Qi Gong, Qing Gong and cure poisoning with these items. Can be used anytime in the game. Weapons: Swords, Metal fans etc. unusable Special Skill Scrolls: see 2.5, may be used outside battle. Important items: such as LingZhi, white condors... items neccessary for developemt of plot. Unusable. 2.5 Special Skills Your character is able to learn Special Skills which activate randomly during battle. Think Front Mission 3. eg if u have the Strong Attack equipped, it may activate at a probability which increases your attack and defence for one turn. Yea, something like Ryogo's ROFLUP in FM3. Other skills give you the ability to overcome poison, fake death etc etc or even cause yourself to fall asleep! How to learn Special skills? You gotta acquire skill scrolls which give you the skill once used. You can get them from chests, the shop, or by theft. You can learn a whole list of skills, but you can only equip 4 at a time. Once equipped and used, the skills will increase in level which means that it becomes more effective as time goes by. 2.6 Battle Techniques Different characters can learn different battle techniques, or 'kung fu' techniques as the plot progresses. Unlike most RPGs where there is only the 'Attack' command, you choose which technique to use. Howver, there is no Magic option. Anyway, more of this later. The techniques are categorised into the 3 color classes. RED: Physical attack. The sort of basic attack with no frills. NO cost. BLUE: Inner Strength attack. Will incur a cost of Nei Gong points. YELLOW: Light-footed attack. Will incur a cost of QIng Gong points. Each technique has a few stats as well: ATTACK: add that to your basic character attack stat to get the total attack when using that technique DEFENCE: add that to your basic character defence stat to get the total defence when using that technique COST: every use will incur this number of points dedcuted from your Nei Gong or Qing Gong, depending on the class of technique it belongs to. REQUIREMENT: Some techniques require some conditions to be met before being used. Such as for the Nei Gong Fan attack which obviously requires a fan, or the Twin Sword attack which requires Guo Jing with his Yue Nu sword and Huang Rong with her Er Mei sword. EFFECTS: some have special effects, such as numbness which is inflicted randomly by Guo Jing's Fan attack, or a STEAL effect. Personal observation so far: I have realised that there is some sort of priority amongst the 3 classes. Yellow dominates Red: Guo Jing's arrow attack hits the enemy using a Red attack with the enemy unable to close in with his fists. Red beats Blue: opponent using Blue attack tries to jump in only to be countered by physical blows. Blue overwhelms Yellow: opponent using Yellow technique is shown unleashing move, but is interrupted by the Blue attack. In other words Y>R>B If both yours and enemy's attacks are the same, both will incur damage. Something like paper rock scissors! But can some1 confirm this? Each battle technique levels up with use and thus become more powerful as the game progresses. 2.7 Battle System Random encounters occur in dungeons, and battle is turn-based. Before each turn, you get to choose what to do for EACH character in your party. Press Up/Down to scroll. You can: Check statistics: bring up status screen Run: there is no random escape rate, you can either escape the battle, or not. Use item: choose item to be used by character when sparring starts Choose technique: pick the technique you want to use, if u decide not to use an item Change position: there r 3 positions: TOP MIDDLE BOTTOM Confirm: begin sparring! Personal observation: I can only guess that if you choose TOP, you are most damaging to the enemy on the top row and receive the least damage from him and likewise for MIDDLE and BOTTOM. Can any1 verify this? Question: How is the order of attack determined? How is the number of strikes by each character determined? Cuz it sure varies. After you pick confirm, the characters will take turns sparring and damage will be dealt to each other. You cannot inflict any damage if using an item, but the item is effected before the enemy comes into contact with the user. Of course you die if your Wai Gong reaches 0, but there are no Phoenix Downs or whatever in the game! Don't worry, dead characters still get experiece points. ++++++++++++++++ **************** 3 WALKTHROUGH **************** ++++++++++++++++ The background is that China is sort of divided into 3 powers: The Mongols to the North, the Songs to the South and the notorious Jin in the middle. the currency is the Chinese LIANG, not gold or gil or zenny or dollars. Note: You can save only at save points and inns. I have highlighted the dungeon locations in the 'thru for easy reference. ************************* CHAPTER I : Mongolian Village ************************* VILLAGE ******* The scene starts with the Blind Guy who had been searching for Guo Jing (you) and stops to find a ravaged village. He is Jiang Nan Qi Guai (7th weirdo from Jiang Nan. Jiang Nan is somewhere in China) The scene changes to where Guo Jing and ChiLeDu (mongolian guy who is obviously jealous of you and takes you as a rival) are alerted by whiney Mongolian girl Hua Zheng of an invasion of the village by Jin soldiers. You rush back. Kill one of the soldiers. CAVE ***** Then your mom tells you that a family heirloom dagger had been stolen. You must get it back. ChiLeDu will join you. Walk out of the village to the prairie, go straight to see 4 cave openings. The 2nd and 4th contain trasure chests. The 3rd is linked to the 1st. just go into the 1st one on the left. You may be confronted by Jin soldiers on the way. Finish them with RED attacks and use herbs if necessary. Don't bother venturing too far deep into the caves as the soldiers get too hard to kill. The next battle is one you cannot win. ChiLeDu will chicken out and a single 158 dmg hit finishes you off. The Blindguy saves you. Go back to the village, talk to your mom, sleep and save. SAVE POINTS are depicted by YIN YANG SYMBOLS in the game (The white tent at the back) Then return to the cave entrance to meet the Blindguy. He teaches you a RED Sword Technique. Go into the 1st opening again for your quest up the 4 storeyed cavern to kill MeiChaoFeng, some psycho bitch. The enemies get tougher as you go deeper and there are a few items here and there, but nothing too important to collect. Just wander your way around and head up the stairs you see. On the 4th storey u meet the boss MeiChaoFeng. Looks like the Blindguy has a grudge with her. Guo Jing would probably die with a few swipes of her claws. (Don't worry Guo Jing still gets EXP) She has 150 Wai Gong and uses her Jiu YIn Bai Gu Zhao technique a lot. So use the Fan technique to counter that, then since it has a stunning effect, when she is frozen use your more damaging Sword attack or better yet steal some scroll from her if you want. Use herbs when neccessary. After that, note that you cannot go through the Skull Door and make your way back to the village. Save/Rest, then proceed to the brown hut at the back, next to your home, to learn the Stealing Fists (coined this translation myself, literal translation would be Empty Incredible Hands technique?!)technique from your new blind master. Then he asks you to learn archery. At this point you may want to restock on some herbs and buy some scrolls. The 300 liang one is useful, the rest seems useless... well I haven't discovered their use yet. Their effects seem negative. FOREST ******* Anyway, u need to learn archery. There is a path from within the village that leads you to a man in the forest. he will teach you by killing 20 leopards. (Greenpeace!!) Then talk to Hua Zheng in the Red Tent of the village. CLIFF ***** Go to the Cliff. Its on the right side of the prairie. Go all the way up and shoot down a black condor to save the white ones. Geez... this game is cruel man... Then Ma Yu a priest of the Quan Zhen sect teached you basic Qing Gong and you are able to collect the White condors and a LingZhi in the chest. Go back to the village. Go to Hua Zheng's red tent again to confirm her absence and return to your master's tent for a meeting and to learn the Fan technique. But you don't have a fan. PRAIRIE ******* Go back to the prairie AGAIN to find the village chief. Give him the LingZhi for his Metal Fan. CAVE ***** Make your way to where MeiChaoFeng was. You are strong enough to do so alone, and can consider swiping a few herbs from the Jin soldiers. Enter the Skull Door and fight HuangHeSiGui the fat ass. Consider using the Fan attack to counter his special moves. After winning, activate the lever to get out to the prairie and the village. Talk to Hua Zhen, your master the BlindGuy and then the merchant and his horse in that order. You need a horse... PRAIRIE ******* Go outside, talk to the stupid kid, and grab the Red Horse. A minigame starts where you have to steer the horse using either LEFT or UP keys. Jump if you see obstacles but don't jump too early. After that, with a horse, you are ready to leave Mongolia. Grab the letter in the Blindguy's hut, show it to your mother, and that's the end of chapter I. ******************************* CHAPTER II: Yan Jing and the Marriage ******************************* Talk to the green guy near the entrance, the blind fortune teller by the street (Darn din know h was blind at 1st) and then go to the tavern for an enconter. I shall complete the rest of the walkthru soon.... I hope... heehee. Please do not rip my work off. Cuz this means that you are a lazy asshole with no ethics. My email is leekinweng@hotmail.com Do drop me a note if you decide to use this file on your site, or extract some information for your own website/ walkthru/FAQ. All PSX, RPG fans and Singaporean gamers I would like to hear from you! Kin Weng leekinweng@hotmail.com Other FAQs online: Xenogears Final Dungeon Walkthrough www.gamefaqs.com