Neutopia I Complete Walkthrough by Daniel Martin ([email protected])
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This walkthrough Copyright 2000 Daniel Martin
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Neutopia is Copyright 1990 by Hudson Soft.

Table Of Contents
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I.      Introduction
II.     Land Sphere
        Labyrinth 1
        Labyrinth 2
III.    Subterranean Sphere!
        Labyrinth 3
IV.     Water Sphere*
V.      Air Sphere*
VI.     Finale*
VII.    Credits.

A "!" indicates an incomplete section and a "*" indicates a section not yet
started.
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I.     Introduction

  The purpose of this Walkthrough is to take you from the beginning of the
game all the way to the final battle with Dirth picking up all the neccassary
equipment along the way.  I'm also interested in the $30 bounty for a
FAQ/Walkthrough for Neutopia I.  Though I doubt I'm going to get it because
I'm not interested in filling in every little nit-picking detail.

  I am not going to repeat things that are printed in the instruction
booklet, however.  If you lost your instructions or are playing with an
emulator there is at least 1 copy of the instruction book online at the time
of this writing.  Even if you can't find a copy of the instructions most of
the games mechanics are pretty straightforward.

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II.    Land Sphere

  Select Start from the opening menu by pressing the Run button and read the
opening dialogue.  The old lady will give you the compass which will direct
you to the labyrinths located in each sphere.  While inside the labyrinths it
will also point toward the location of the medallion you?re after.  You can
return to the old lady at any time to get a password or save your game with
the file manager.  She'll also heal you if you ask for the password.

  Head south three times and into the staircase.  You can either listen to
the old man or skip his rambling by pressing the II button.  Press against
the chest to open it and gain the Book of Revival. This will allow you to get
passwords.

  Travel west and use the cave entrance.  Get the medicine of vitality and
four bombs from the two chests and exit.  You can only carry eight bombs now
but you will gain upgrades as the game progresses.

  Proceed west, north, then west.  Under this tree is a man who well sell
bombs and to the south is a lady who will sell vitality medicines.  You wont
be able to get to the bomb seller until you have the fire wand to burn down
the tree but we'll get that later.  You probably can't afford the 200 gold
required for the medicine so just skip the lady for now.

  Go north 4 times then east, north, and west.  If you wish to get the
password or save your game you can enter the cave and talk to the old lady
there.  Head north, if you need healing kill both crabs and enter the
staircase, after that head east and you'll begin the first labyrinth.

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Labyrinth 1

  Going east and then north twice will bring you too a fire spitting head.
Avoid him and go west then north.  You'll have to kill all 4 monsters to open
the door again but make sure you get the crystal ball first.

  Return to the room with the fire spitter and then head east twice to get
the crypt key.  In each room you'll have to slaughter all the monsters to
continue progressing.  In the room with the treasure chest you'll have to
push the block north or south.

  Once more back to the fire head and this time north twice.  More monster
killing awaits.  You'll need to eliminate the monsters in this room to open
the 3 doors.  Take the west door first.  Kill the monsters, grab your armor,
come back and head north.  You'll never need to enter the eastern door.

  To the north you'll find an old man listen to what he says if you want or
just press the II button to skip it.  Use a bomb on the east wall and take
the newly created exit.  If you don't have any bombs you'll either have to
kill a bunch of monsters until you find some or go get the fire wand and use
it to access the earlier mentioned bomb shop.  The directions to the fire
wand are two paragraphs down.

  Go east twice killing all the monsters you find to unlock both doors.
You'll also need the crypt key to unlock the last door to face the boss.
Once you go in to face the boss there is no turning back.  It's a two men
enter one man leaves kind of deal.  The first boss you face will be a blue
dragon who shoots 4 fireballs ever few moments.  The easiest way to kill him
is to stay away until he shoots his fireballs.  Once you dodge those walk up
to the dragon and get in 2 or 3 quick swings the run back to the other edge
of the room that'll give you more room to dodge his fireballs.  Repeat the
process until he's dead.  If you're a bit more daring you can attempt to
stunlock him by repeatedly hitting him and not letting him recover.

  The dragon will explode in multiple fireballs of blood and gore.  Well
there's no blood and gore but you'd assume there was.  This display will end
shortly and you can go north to grab the first medallion.  You'll immediately
be teleported back to the shrine where you began.  You'll also gain a life
meter increase.

  From the shrine you'll need to go south 3 times, east 4 times, and north
twice.  Kill the slime there and then push the bottom right rock in any
direction to reveal a hidden staircase.  Inside is a monk who will give you
the fire wand.

  You'll need to go west, north twice, west twice, north, west, north twice,
west and finally south.  Got all that?  If you did you should be in a room
with 4 monsters and a wall mural use a bomb on the wall mural.  Enter and
you'll find the Monk of Kee who'll increase your life meter by one.

  Backtrack north, east, and then south.  Go east three times and then south
twice.  The password lady is here if you want to save.  Head east, if you
need healing go south and burn the western most tree otherwise, head north
into the 2nd labyrinth.

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Labyrinth 2

  Once into the labyrinth head north and notice the brownish blocks.
They'll stick out swords in the 4 cardinal directions if you get to close so
be very careful of them.  North again, kill the monsters and push the eastern
block to continue north again.  The old man here will tell you that you need
a "large supply" of bombs to continue.  You'll actually only need two bombs.

  After you ignore the old mans dire ramblings head west and then south.
Inside the chest you'll find the bronze sword which will quite obviously deal
more damage than your first one.  Go back north and then west.  Practice with
your new sword on the conviently placed monsters, push the block and then go
north to grab the crystal ball.  Once you have the ball go back south.

  Return to the old man by going east twice.  Walk east twice again perform
more heroic acts of monster killing and singular block pushing.  Head north
once and place a bomb on the northern wall while avoiding the fire spitters
to open up a passage.  Through the passage is the room containing the crypt
key.

  Force yourself to see the old man for the last time.  Once you get back to
him head east 3 times.  From the pool room travel south twice perform your
secondary role of monster exterminator to open some doors.  Use the second
bomb you need on the western wall to create a new passage.  Once you walk
through you'll notice a room with four monsters and one brown block.  This
block will try to stab you much like the ones from before.  Kill all four
monsters and open the door the the 2nd boss of the game.

  Your next bossly encounter will be with a walking robot.  (Apparently he's
jewish as well.  He'll still fight you on the sabbath though.)  He'll walk
around a bit and then his eyes will begin to flash.  Once they do you'll
know he's about to split into 8 parts.  The parts will scatter in 8
directions to reveal his inner core.  The core itself will head directly
toward you.  You can use the fire wand to destroy the flying parts if you
wish as well.  After you dodge his flying parts attack the core with the
fire wand or your sword.  A few cycles of this and he'll eventually explode.
Go north to collect your medallion.  You'll teleport back to the shrine and
receive your life increase reward and access to the next sphere.  You've now
completed one fourth of the game.


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III.   Subterranean Sphere.

  The more things change the more they stay the same.  The sphere's are
little more than scenery changes.  The monsters aren't all that much
different and you'll still collect 2 equipment upgrades and two medallions.
So take in the new sights and prepare yourself by picking up bombs and
medicine from the land sphere.  You can find sellers of both items in the
other spheres but the cost progressively increases.

  Your going to start off in the new sphere by grabbing the moonbeam moss.
Using the moss will allow you to light darkened rooms.  It's not exactly
required to beat the game but it?d be difficult to do without.  Start by
going north six screens (make sure you go west of the lava on the second
screen).  Go east and burn the stalactites to reveal a staircase.  Enter and
collect the moonbeam moss then return south to the shrine entrance.

  Move west twice and burn the protruding stalactite to show a staircase
that contains an 800 gold reward.  Go south and perform a little ant removal
while practicing your moonbeam moss skills.  Push the eastern stone and enter
the staircase to increase your bomb capacity.  You're now ready for the first
labyrinth.

  Battle your way north until it seems like your passage north is blocked by
stalactites.  One of the stalactites is burnable with the wand and you can
continue north without going east.  You'll find the password lady inside a
visible staircase to the left of 3 rock monsters.  The path blocked by the
rock monsters leads to nothing so continue along the western path north until
you reach the labyrinth entrance.

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Labyrinth 3

  From the labyrinth entrance room go north, east, and south lighting rooms
as necessary.  In the room with the treasure chest kill all four toadstools
and push the western most block south or north to gain access to the crystal
ball.  From the crystal room head north 3 times solving a minor block puzzle
along the way.  Dispense some justice on the monsters in this room to unlock
the western door which leads to the Bronze Shield which means you can
actually block some of the ranged attacks of the monsters on this sphere now.

  Return to the room one north of the first room in the labyrinth.  Maneuver
your way west twice and then north three times to find a monster room that
contains some sword blocks and normal ones.  The upper left block will open
the door for you.

  North again to find the boss door.  You don't have the crypt key yet so
take the only other worthwhile exit which is to the east.   In this room
you'll have get past a monster generator that doesn't stop while avoiding
some sword blocks in order to get north.  The easiest way to do this is to
continue shooting your fire wand at the monster generator until it stops
generating them.  Then from a safe distance use your wand to kill a few of
the monsters.  If you kill all the monsters the generator will start again
so only kill enough to let by.  North twice from the monster generator will
put you in another locked room.  The moving block is on the bottom row in the
middle left column.  To the east is the crypt key.  Once you have it make
your way back to the room with the boss door.

  Eliminate the monsters again and open the boss door.  The first boss of
this sphere is actually two flying gargoyle like creatures.  From my
experience they have a shared life gauge as one will always die shortly
after the other so don't worry about only attacking one until it dies.  Just
attack the one thats more closest.  Other than the standard ramming attack
each of them will take time to pause and throw out 8 knives.  Just avoid the
knives and attack with your wand our sword until they pause again.  They'll
die after a bit of this.  Collect the medallion and get ready for the next
labyrinth by picking up any medicines or bombs that you wish from the land
sphere.

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VII.  Credits

CJayC - For all the excellent work he does at GameFaqs.com.
All the graveyard clerks at my local 7-Eleven - Without them very little of
this would have gotten done.

If you wish to point out any spelling/grammar errors (of which there are
many) feel free to email me.  My address is [email protected].  If you need
help for walkthrough sections that have been written re-read the walkthrough.
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