A vicious circle

I was playing Dark Cloud while I took a break from homework, and it's driving me insane. It's a neat game and it reminds me of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, but there are just NO places where you can run away to in order to get all your problems healed. In this game, not only do you have to watch your HP, you have to watch your thirst and your weapons' HP. The problem I'm having is that in the beginning of the game, the Mayor gave you supplies whenever you talked to him - but now, you have to buy them from the shopkeeper dude. What I need the most is repair powder to get my weapons' HP back up (if you wear them down, they break, and there goes all of the work you did customizing and building them up with various items and things) and stuff to cure me if I get poisoned by these stupid bats that are all over the place. You can refill your HP meter and your thirst meter by going into springs in the dungeons, but there's usually only one (or none) per dungeon level and I can't find ANYwhere that will replenish your HP and thirst outside of the dungeon... despite the fact that there are rivers and ponds everywhere. You can't go in them.

So my problem is that I can't fight anymore because my weapons are all close to breaking, and I can't get repair powder because the Mayor won't give me any. I can't buy any because I don't have enough money (because I keep dying, and they take half your money when you die in a dungeon) and I can't get more money because the only way to get money is to fight in the dungeon... and I can't fight in the dungeon because my weapons are all close to breaking, and I can't repair them because I have no repair powder >____< ARG.

The walkthroughs don't mention problems like this. Either they're crap, or I am. Probably the latter. It's a cute game, though, and you get to construct the world (the premise is that an evil genie destroyed the world but the faeries put everything into spheres, which you have to find and unlock in the dungeons). You place houses and rivers and trees and things wherever you want. I like THAT part. It reminds me of Legend of Mana. It's the getting my ass kicked repeatedly that bugs me.

I would SO rather be writing about Hero and Leander, and come on - homework over video games? Seriously.

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