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Table of contents
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I. Welcome
II. Version history
III. Controls
IV. Story
V. Horse taming/riding
VI. Walkthrough
VII. Horses
VIII. Acknowledgements
IX. Contacting me
X. Disclaimer
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I. Welcome
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Welcome to my guide for Spirit or, to be more precise, Spirit: The Stallion
of the Cimarron: The Search for the Homeland. I hope this guide, when
completed, will cover all your questions about this game. Let's begin!
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II. Version history
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Version .25-First version. Completed Sections I-IV, the first two parts on
the walkthrough, started Horse Section, and completed sections IX and X
Version .4-Second version. Changed some incorrect information, completed IV
D (Cliffs and Caves)
Version .5-Added section dividers and ASCII art and fixed grammar and
spelling errors.
Version .60-Fixed formatting and spelling, added a couple additional
acknowledgements
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III. Controls
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Start-Brings up a menu allowing you to restart or quit the level or quit the
game
Control Pad-Allows you to move the character or horse
A-Allows you perform an action
B-Allows you to shake trees and bushes for fruit
R-Allows your horse to kick and selects action
L-Allows you mont/dismount
Select-Brings up several screens.
The first one shows your horse's picture, name, training difficulty, and how
it feels.
The second screen shows you how much water and food you have and the actions
you can perform
The third screen shows any special items you have collected.
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IV. Story
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Told by Spirit:
"When we ran free in the Homeland, we sometimes felt like nothing could touch
us, but Mother Nature is always ready to remind us who is really in charge!"
My friends are panicking! I must calm them!
Oh no! Rustlers! Where are they taking me?
My friends and I need your help!"
[While this is happening, a violent storm is occuring.]
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V. Horse taming/riding
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One of the biggest challenges in this game is getting a horse tame enough
to ride it and having it stay that way.
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Selecting your horse
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Before each stage, you must select a horse and tame it. Before
you start to tame a horse, go to the Select menu and look at that horse's
taming level. A horse with a higher level will obvisously be harder to
train, but it will also be harder to maintain the horse's happiness level.
My advice is to save these horses for the middle stages because you'll be
more seasoned than at the beginning of the game, but you won't be in the
desert areas where food and water are very scarce. Also, plan ahead
regarding what horse you will pick! Food in the base area doesn't
regenerate, so keep that in mind, and save your food stock according.
NOTE: The game won't let you select certain horses until later in the game.
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Taming your horse
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When you first go up to a horse, it will most likely be hungry. In the base
area, horses will only eat their favorite food. To avoid wasting food, check
the Horses Section (not yet completed) of this guide or turn off your game
and restart if the food you tried wasn't the right one. I know this is
time-consuming, however, I must state over and over again that food is rare!
Your horse will also want water (which is in infinite supply in the base
area), and will want to be sung to and talked to. See the Keeping Your Horse
Happy Section for more details on what actions to use at what times.
Your horse's happiness bar has to be full before you can
mount it (with L).
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Keeping your horse happy
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Your horse will need constant care and matinence if you hope to successfully
complete any of the game. Watch the two meters at the top. If the blue one
decreases in fullness, your horse is either hungry, thirsty, or lonely.
Here is what to do in all of these situations:
Hungry: Feed your horse (Out of the base area, it does not matter what food
you feed it.)
Thristy: Give it water. Either give it water from your water skin or take it
to a drinking pond or river and press B.
Lonely: Pet (Hand), sing (Music notes), or talk (Mouth) to your horse. After
the Forest, you can play a flute for your horse, which is a very good way of
cheering it up.
Sometimes your horse will respond better to a certain action, so try all
three. Also, sometimes it will take more than one use of an action to cheer
up your horse.
The other thing you need to think about when taking care of your horse is
its health bar, the red bar with the heart next to it. This is far less
complicted than the blue bar; it only goes down when your horse is attacked
by a wild animal. To get it back up, use red hearts. They come in abundance
and you'll use them a lot less than you will use food and water.
NOTE: If your health and/or happiness bar gets drastically low
(near empty), you will have to start the level over again.
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Riding your horse
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First of all, go up the horse and mount with L. Press A to jump over
rivers when you come to them. B and R are attacking buttons, so go up to
the animal in question (such as a bear) and press R to back kick. I prefer
to use R over the A (front) attack because it is generally more accurate.
If you want to get off your horse, press L again to dismount. Sometimes, if
the horse's happiness level goes down far enough, your horse will buck you
off. The first time this happens, you will be allowed to get back on, but
you better take care of your horse quickly because if its happiness meter
gets any lower you will be bucked off and not be allowed to get back on until
your horse is happier.
There are many things in this game you can not do on horseback. Here, for
your convience, is a list.
You cannot:
Collect food
Get water
Collect special items
Shake trees
Talk
Sing
Pet your horse
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VI. Walkthrough
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A. Base Area
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The area where you start out. Immediately to the left is a water skin.
Pick it up and go right to the lake to fill it with water. It holds four
drinks at one time. Next go around and collect food and hearts. You can
only hold ten food items at one item. Here's a list of what you can find:
Oranges (orange): 8
Corn (light green): 5
Berries (red): 6
Hearts: 4
Peas (dark green): 7
NOTE: These numbers may be a bit off, but at the very least this will give you
a general estimate on what you should find.
Tame a horse (I very highly suggest Rain), stock up on food and hearts, fill
your waterskin, mount your horse, and you're off! Follow the arrows to the
first stage.
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B. The Forest
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Okay, life on the trail is tough! Some basic guidelines for this stage
are as follows. Ignore most enemies; at this point in the game, there aren't
that many of them, and if you do attack them, you run a serious risk of
hurting your horse. Your most dangerous advisory in this stage is the bear
and it's in a spot where you'll more or less be forced to fight it. Keep
plenty of hearts on hand for ths fight, and back kick a lot. Keep a very
close eye out of food and watering holes. When you reach a watering hole,
unless your horse is already thirsty, put as much water as possible in your
waterskin. Regarding food, again I must tell you, DON'T WASTE IT! Nearing
the middle to the end of the stage there are "dry spots", areas with very
little food and water.
Also, nearing the very end of the level, you will encounter a river. Firstly,
this river is like the lake in the base area; that is, they never run out of
water! Give your horse a drink (it probably is not in the best of shape right
now), and then fill up your waterskin. I know I say that a lot, but trust me,
you really don't want an angry, thirsty horse that won't let you ride it when
you're far away from water.
Near the river, you'll see a beaver. If go up to it, it will "tell" you it
wants five claw-stick things, so go back and find them. In general, search
in groves, especially in the extreme lower and upper parts of the screen.
Give the beaver the items after you've collected them, and he'll let you on
the bridge. Go across it, and you'll get a password.
For the last part of the stage, simply go along the bottom of the screen
until you are blocked by hedges, and then go up until you see an object at
the base of a tree. Dismount, and pick it up to see that it is a flute.
This is a more efficient way to cure "Loneliness" than singing, talking, or
petting your horse. Ride off the screen to end the stage.
You'll arrive back in the base area. Pick up any food you find, fill your
waterskin, and start taming a horse. Your best bet is to select one with a
Difficult or, if you think you are up to it, Very Difficult taming level.
Ride to the left most part of the base area by the rocks, and follow the
arrows to the next stage.
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C. Cliffs and Caves
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First of all, when you first enter this stage, head to the left. Don't
bother going up because there's nothing there. Ride along, avoding all the
mountain lions until you get to the ram, who is asking for five white...things
(I'm not quite sure what they are). Anyhow, to find the first one go back,
take the first trail you see before the ram down, and go to the right. For
the other four, simply go down the path under the ram, and look in the
extreme right and lefts of each plateau. After retriving all five, go to the
ram, dismount and give them to him. Before following him up, get your horse
in the best shape possible because the game will give you a password.
Now, you get to experience the "cave" part of Cliffs and Caves. On the first
cave screen first go in the upper cave and collect the
water, food, and items. After you've finished getting your horse taken care
of, go back to the first cave screen, and go in the the other cave. On the
next screen, go to the cave on the far side of the screen, not the one next
to you. The one next to you contains berries and water, but it also
contains a vicious mountain lion, so it probably won't be worth your trouble
to go in there. On the third and fourth cave screens go in the upper caves
(to the left). On the last screen, pick up the Taming Talisman, which allows
you to go through the opening and complete the stage.
Once again, you'll find yourself back at the base area. You know the drill:
pick up food, fill the waterskin, and tame a horse. Go to the lower left part of
the base area.
~~~To be continued~~~~
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VII. Horses
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Rain
Body color: White with light brown patches
Mane: Cream
Taming level: Very easy
Favorite food: Oranges
Buttercup
Body color: Golden
Mane: Golden
Taming Level: Difficult
Favorite foods: Peas/Oranges
Dream
Body color: Dark brown
Mane: Cream
Taming level: Very difficult
Favorite food: Corn
Shadow
Body color: Gray
Mane: Black
Taming Level: Average
Favorite food: Peas
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VIII. Acknowledgements
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God, for too many things to count
My family
All the people who worked on this game, for their time and effort
DreamWorks, for coming up with the idea.
GameFAQs and its creator, CJayC, for posting this and for such a great
website in general
http://www.network-science.de/ascii for the ASCII art.
Luna-chaan, a very sweet bird
You, for reading this
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IX. Contacting me
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If you want to use the guide or large portions of it on your website or need
additional help with tihis game, please email me at
[email protected]
Do NOT send me virsuses, junk mail, chain letters, or anything that is
offensive, harmful, or does not relate to this game or FAQ. If you have a
hint or strategy you would like to share, send it. However, do not send
information for the horses not yet covered in the horse guide, please.
If I think what you submitted is of merit, I will send you an email saying so
and give you proper credit in the Acknowledgements section. When sending an
email about this guide, please put something similar to Spirit FAQ in the
subject line.
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X. Disclaimer
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This guide is copyrighted 2003 Emily Lund. It is not to be used on any
websites other than GameFAQs (
http://www.gamefaqs.com) without my written
permission. It is not to be used for anything other than private, personal
use and can not be sold for profit.
