Map (Warning: Big)
Grim City is the capital city of Estoria. It serves as the hub for your overworld exploration; selling every kind of commodity that exists in this quest barring potions and allows you to rest in for free. Because you will be returning here frequently over the course of the quest, I will set up a number of secrets that act as shortcuts to distant areas of the overworld including an entrance to a large cave system that runs underneath the entire overworld and even into dungeons at some points. The city also features NPCs that say different things over the course of the quest and change locations from time to time.
The two main highlights I wish to showcase here are the two main shops, both of which are huge compared to the other shops that appear in the overworld.
Vasu's Jewelers:
Exclusive to Grim City, Vasu's Jewelers offers a range of rings that will benefit you on your travels. Unlike in the Oracle games, where you have to bring them to Vasu himself to get them appraised, they are here already appraised and he stocks multiples of them. However, each ring can be activated only once and their effects last for a set duration, generally making their effects much greater as a consequence. Note that all of the rings are shown here to showcase and test them - You are limited to just the Red and Blue rings at the start and you slowly unlock the rest as you progress through the quest.
At the start of the quest, when Vasu hands out the Small Ring Box, you can carry up to only one ring. As you obtain bigger ring boxes over the course of the adventure, you can carry up to two and eventually three rings around with you.
Press L underneath any ring or shop item to bring up an information string that shows the name, price and description of each item on display. Press A to buy them.
General Shop:
The biggest shop in the quest. This shop sells no less than 17 different items, excluding item upgrades, highly organized into different sections based on their function. Why is this shop so big you ask? Simply because this is all in a central location on the overworld and one that you will be revisiting many times, primarily to stock up on supplies for your travels.
As an added convenience, the shop will have some rare items later on in the quest that are otherwise hidden in the overworld in stock for high prices. Want that shell over there right here and now without bothering to explore the overworld for it? Better grind up then! But if you happen to stumble upon it, you could have saved yourself a lot of rupees by not having to buy it.
Item order as can be seen here:
Top Row: Active equipment.
Middle Rows: Passive equipment. Divided into ability- and upgrade- based upgrades from the left to right sides respectively.
Bottom Rows: Consumable pickups. Divided into Hearts and Magic on the left and Ammunition on the right.
The city also has a number of smaller highlights, including an info house, which contains information detailing various miscellaneous aspects of Estoria including the new enemy AI and portions of the backstory. There is also a telephone booth, which gives you information about what to do next in the event you get stuck. And the Lin-
Oh that's right, the Link statues. How did they get here when Link lives in Hyrule, which is far away from Estoria? Surely there must be an explanation for this. That, my friend, I will shed some light on in the update when I talk about the story of the quest in a later update.
Edited by Orithan, 06 July 2014 - 05:25 AM.
AS for the map itself, it seems to be Grim City lives to it's name. From the palette you chose, it really brings a "gloomy" kind of look because it's dark, quiet and a bit mysterious I should say.
