Drakan: The Ancients' Gates (Sony) - Notes
Last modified on May 7th, 2003
- Since the exact form of what gets left behind by enemies' demise or what is contained in barrels, crates, and chests, can vary from occurrence in a game to occurrence from a restarted position or another game at the same point, ranges of gold are usually shown.
- There are a several places (i.e. the entrance to Kragmor in Surdana,
the entrance to the Northern Tundra in Ravenshold), and
the entrances to Shiverbane and the boss areas therein, where Arokh must be walked through a tunnel in order to get to the next area. If you leave him at the entrance, he can be lost for the rest of the game and you will not be able to finish the game.
- You may find that archery skills tend to be more important in the earlier stages of the game and magic more so during the latter. Accordingly you may wish to concentrate more skill points on improving her archery skills at first, and then add more to magic later on.
- You may wish to have her sell at least a couple (Earth and Lightning) of the elemental swords during the earlier stages of the game to the blacksmith in Surdana. Rest assured that she can buy them back later in the game when she actually needs them. She'll be better off in the earlier stages with the gold and can buy them back later in the game when gold is more plentiful and less important.
- Each time a weapon or piece of armor is refubished, its durability value is dimished.
- Grull and Wartoks will run away and cower when nearly vanquished.
- The Flamestrike sword and bow, Fireball spell, Fire Blade, and the Fire Talon bow, have the power to set trees, houses, bridges, even the light bridge in the Ravenshold cave, on fire. You don't need to do this, but you can.
- Rynn can only replenish their health by quaffing a Health Elixir or Potion of Life. Sometimes after dragons are defeated, a slightly red glowing orb is left floating in the sky. Arokh can fly through it to replenish most of their health. Mana can be replenished by having Rynn quaff a Half or Full Mana potion. Once her magic level is sufficiently advanced, her mana will begin to automatically but slowly regenerate after she's expended some or all of it.
- If you want to switch to another memory card to establish more than four separate saved positions, you must place the current memory card in the right slot, in order to save your current position on the new memory card in the left slot.