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This is a playthrough topic for the 2007 cult classic Hopeless Journey! It's an RPG Maker RPG. Are those still a thing? I did play it once 15 years ago but I don't really remember anything about the game.

So the game starts and I'm controlling a Lv1 Thief named Susa and we're in jail. We trick the guard into opening the cell and then promptly beat him up to escape. After that, we hide under a nearby cardboard box to sneak past the rest of the guards. Not that we really needed it to get past the sleeping one. "I FEEL ASLEEP". Shortly afterwards Susa is given a choice to save a girl or loot a treasure box. Naturally, I have Susa choose "Save the Girl". Unfortunately, she has amnesia and doesn't know who she is other than her name being Elena. In any case, she tags along with Susa to escape the prison but won't join in battles since she can't fight. I get to check the chest now and it's empty! So I made the right choice. The next room has a bunch of obnoxious instant game over traps. Bad game design. At the end, I meet an undead monster named Cervantes Montoya. I am prepared to die. He rambles off some nonsense before leaving us alone. At the end of the prison is a boss and I almost soft lock here. I have no potions, no way to grind exp and no real options but to attack. So I just reroll the battle until I win. Bad game design. Just outside of the prison we meet the king of Norjizeer. The entire prison escape was a sham! It was a test to find party members to be sent off to find the Avatar of Light. This is to fulfill the Ashera Prophecies:

"One day, evil will rise to conquer the land."
"Hidden under the guise of good, it threatens to destroy our world."
"The Avatar of Darkness and the Avatar of Light will do battle..."
"and the Avatar of Light will kill the Avatar of Darkness."
"But the Avatar of Light must first reveal himself, even though he himself does now know himself."
"Otherwise, the Avatar of Darkness will never reveal himself either..."
"...And all will be lost."

Susa has no choice but to agree to help. Elena stays behind. She wasn't part of the test and the king has no idea who she even is. So it's time to meet the other party members! We meet Ryoko who does not want to join our party and a bunch of other losers. Eventually, I get to the real party members: Albert Sadafals Deliavich and Karin Vivus. Since Susa is a thief, neither of them likes him very much. We head into town and get introduced to warp crystals. Instead of walking out on to the world map, I take a warp crystal to Mordur Isle. From Mordur Isle, I can take warp crystals to other places. So the first stop is to warp to Mordur. From here Al wants to go to the libraries in Vuja. But, Susa thinks that place has been tapped out for info since everyone goes there. He wants to go to Asharam, the town of thieves, instead. Al and Karin are suspicious but eventually go with the idea.

In Asharam, I hit up the bar for a story about a sphinx with a missing eye. We're told the innkeeper knows more about it. So we go there next. And it turns out the inn is actually a brothel run by BP. Karin is unsurprisingly peeved but ultimately agrees to spending the night here. During the night, Susa hears some fighting outside and heads to check it out. It turns out BP is a holy guardian and some debt collectors took his money and sight stone. "The girls in the brothel wanted to be there because they needed the money". This BP guy seems kinda shady. I don't think it was okay to say that even in 2007. >_> Anyways, we beat down the debt collectors with some help from the rest of the party who show up late. We get some more info out of BP. He's the guardian of the hidden dungeon and those thieves stole the key. BP says he'll lead us to the hidden dungeon. Also, as if we can't read the status screen, he tells us his name is Big Punisher.