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Back to Part 7: Black Whistle

The ending showed as Aki took his new White Whistle with him on his last dive. However, this part of the story shows what would happen if Aki didn’t take his last dive, but instead took care of some business with his new White Whistle.

You get some new perks as a White Whistle. For one thing, every Skill tree is now completely accessible. If you reach the level cap of 99, you’ll have just enough points to unlock all the skills. Of these, the highest priority is easily Advanced Gatherer, which will grant double the rewards of mining, including Relics. This along with increasing Backpack capacity will make your adventuring from this point much easier. Lunge 2 speeds up climbing greatly, but the strains of ascension are still a factor.

5-Star Items lets you craft the Feather (Dark) and Agile (Dark) armor sets, and Relic Synthesis (High Class) lets you craft the best Relic weapons (putting aside another weapon you can win a bit later) and the Relic (Special) armor set.

With all the armor available to you, you can now go for the best armor in the game. For combination of Defense to weight, the best armor set is the Feather (Dark) set. But if you don’t care about weight, and want the highest defense possible, you want the Relic (Special) set, swapping out Relic Hat (Special) for Ozen’s Umbrella, if you have it. Just be warned that going for the Relic (Special) set requires first upgrading the Agile set to the Agile (Dark) set. While the Insect Exoskeleton cost seems steep, you can get what you need easily by beating up on the bugs that mess with you when you stick around in the Goblets of Giants for a while. Upgrading to the Relic (Special) set takes a lot of Relics from the 4th and 5th layers, mostly 5th.

There are some new quests at the Guild HQ. As always, you have to accept them for progress toward them to count. The Supply Shop how has White Whistle variants of the Pickax and Hatchet. That aside, there’s nothing new to buy.

When you fast travel, it now costs much less HP and Fullness, to the point that even travelling to the 5th Layer becomes easy. You still won’t be able to fast travel out of the 5th Layer, however.

Any outstanding quests that you haven’t finished will still be available to you. This includes optional bosses, such as Ozen and the Orb Piercer. There will be a new questline available to you which can be initiated in the Goblets of Giants in the 4th Layer. This involves accompanying Reg as he goes searching for Riko. This appears to be an alternative story to the one where you were a Moon Whistle, because Riko and Reg will act like they’ve never met you before. You might want to come prepared with some ropes, though you’ll find Rhombus Thorn Plants in the area.

To begin the quest, approach Reg at the entrance of Goblets of Giants. For a fast way down to the next quest point, there’s a water slide near the entrance, and to the left. There’s plenty of manga and anime references in the exposition, and you get new recipes. It’s also amusing how Reg comments on how you’re cave raiding in the Abyss to search for Tiare, when he’s right there, as your White Whistle.

In the Giant Vine Bridge, you’ll have a fight against a few Horcriers (Subspecies). While just a couple at a time are not usually a problem, the battle begins with a few of them, and you’ll be completely surrounded. Choose a weapon and put some wear on it. After that, it’s back to the Goblets of Giants.

There will be a brief time in which Reg is out of commission. Just travel to the quest point. Once you’re there, Riko will tag along. Once you get back to reg, the questline will be complete, and you’ll be rewarded with Reg’s Helmet. It’s not bad, but it doesn’t have a light.

There will also be a new optional boss waiting for you in the 5th Layer, in Sandy Ice Area 1. To reach him, you’ll have to hop or climb up an adjacent pillar of platforms, and then hop over to him using the top of a nearby Footing Slicer. If the Footing Slicer goes aggro, it may be out of place, which can be an issue if you’re not quick enough up the platforms. Approaching Detchuanga will cause a long exposition dump, followed by a boss battle.

EXTRA BOSS: Detchuanga
Detchuanga had his own self-serving motives all along, and he wants a White Whistle for his collection, and doesn’t care who he has to manipulate to get it.

In addition to a standard Melee attack, Detchuanga has a wide ranged attack that sweeps into an expanding and retracting circle around him. To avoid it, simply duck down. Because you can move while crouching, you can easily take advantage of this to move into position for an opportunity to attack.

While Detchuanga’s attacks are devastating for the damage that they do, his most diabolical is his grenade, which has a wide range, and throws you into the air. This may cause the strains of ascending to trigger. Because this is the 5th Layer, the strains of ascension include hallucinations and the loss of one’s senses. In terms of gameplay mechanics, this means losing Fullness through vomiting, seeing characters who aren’t there, losing HP, having your on-screen character model vanish, having your directional controls messed up and not seeing who or what is attacking you. In a difficult boss battle, this is catastrophic, and if it happens, you’ll probably lose the battle.

Once again, once his HP is down, a quicktime event begins in which you have to mash a button. If you succeed, you’ve won.

Detchuanga wanted to possess a collection of valuable relics. But in the end, one of his own relics ended up controlling his corpse. Sad irony. In any case, you get the Blaze Reap, the highest attack weapon in the game with 999 Attack! And cooler still, it makes a small explosion on impact! But at 4000g, it’s heavy to carry around. And kind of redundant if you’ve got multiple Thousand-Men Wedges equipped. It’s also gone if it breaks. So, to the trunk with it as another trophy item.

I remember that at one point there was a quick way to return to the surface by going back to Ido Front and triggering the credits again, but that doesn’t seem to work for me right now. Perhaps that was patched out.

In any case, you beat the game. If you want to continue playing, that’s up to you. You can try to reach the level cap of 99 and thus access all Skills. You can try filling out your Notebook. Or, if you want to, you can take on some quests that remain unfinished. It’s up to you what you want to do, you can explore the first five layers as you wish.

Thank you for reading!