It's hard to think like a new player, when even my first time through the game I already knew quite a bit about it from compulsively reading the guides in the back of video-game magazines - not with the intention of cheating, but just because I thrived on getting as much information as I could about these games that I had yet to play. This was back when a couple (http://img.gamefaqs.net/screens/7/7/2/gfs_4834_2_38.jpg) of (http://lparchive.org/Seiken-Densetsu-3-(by-ddegenha)/Update%2021/24-SD3_20_17.png) screenshots (http://lparchive.org/Xenogears-(by-The-Dark-Id)/Update%20146/37-desertcrap44.jpg)* could send my imagination into a tizzy. Still, if it led to you finding all that stuff, I'm glad. And once you remembered that Norfair, you know, actually existed, you seemed to find the way forward pretty easily! I look forward to seeing your progress in the next part.

*near approximations