Manual

Kowloon Feng Shui Legend (九龍風水傳)

Instruction manual

Kowloon Walled City, which belongs in Yin, has appeared in Yang.

The Supreme Feng Shui Masters who keep Hong Kong's wisdom were stunned.

In the world of Yin, there is no feng shui to be found...

If Yin and Yang meet carelessly, what will happen?

Only one thing is certain: it will bring a great evil.

The high-ranking feng shui masters came to this conclusion.

"Someone must raise feng shui in Yin.

They must go to Kowloon Walled City in Yin, find the four Divine Beasts, and make the Divine Choices."

A hard and extremely dangerous mission.

Yet failure cannot be allowed.

And so one young, gifted feng shui master vanished from Yang.

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For Japan only / 1 player / Memory Card: 1 block

SLPS 02975 to 02978

As the hero, a Supreme Feng Shui Master, you enter Kowloon Walled City in Yin, where you must find the four Divine Beasts hidden somewhere and make the Divine Choices. On the way you will have to solve many mysteries and make it through ruins filled with malice. A great many characters appear, some friendly and some hostile. Even talk that seems pointless can hide an important hint.

Kowloon's Gate has two kinds of space: JPEG dungeons, such as the streets where people live, and real-time dungeons, mazes where monsters called guilü lurk. There are many of each, and you make your way through the world of Kowloon's Gate by visiting the two kinds in turn.

In JPEG dungeons you talk with people and solve puzzles. In real-time dungeons you mostly fight guilü and explore. Learn how each kind of space works as you go.

Controls differ a little between JPEG dungeons and real-time dungeons. See each page for details.

L2 button: turn the feng shui ring left

L1 button: move left; turn the feng shui ring left

Directional buttons: move, move the cursor, turn the feng shui ring (right turns it left, left turns it right)

SELECT button: hold while the map is shown to hide the background

START button: map on/off

R2 button: turn the feng shui ring right

R1 button: move right; turn the feng shui ring right

△ button: not used

○ button: talk, open doors, confirm

□ button: item menu

× button: cancel; fast-forward during conversations

Note: You can turn the feng shui ring with L1/L2, R1/R2, or left and right on the directional buttons.

L1/L2 and R1/R2: the ring turns as if pulled from the far side of the screen.

Left and right: the ring turns as if pushed out from the near side of the screen.

Note: The map is only available in real-time dungeons.

Note: The game plays the same way with an analog controller.

Starting the game

Put the Kowloon's Gate disc Baihu (Disc 1) in the PlayStation with the label side up and turn the power on. After a short wait the opening movie plays, followed by the start screen. Press START, ○, or L1 to begin. Pressing ○ during the movie skips to the start screen. We recommend a Memory Card for saving your game.

Playing for the first time

Move the cursor to 新たに始める (New Game) with up and down on the directional buttons and press ○.

Continuing a game

Move the cursor to the file you want with up and down on the directional buttons and press ○. You continue from where you last saved.

Changing discs

You may be asked to change discs between scenes. When the disc change screen appears, put in the disc it names and press ○. Do not turn the power off or press RESET at this point.

Ending the game

Turn the power off to clear the screen and stop playing. Anything you have not saved is lost. In a real-time dungeon, the game is over if your parameter reaches 0.

Saving and loading

You can save your progress to a Memory Card and load it later to carry on. There are three save slots. Only Memory Card slot 1 is supported.

If the game ends, choose リトライ (Retry) to come back just before the game over.

Kowloonet

You save and load at Kowloonet terminals found throughout the game. There is always one in each real-time dungeon as well as in the JPEG dungeons. You can save and load even without the Access Card item.

Find a Kowloonet terminal.

Press ○ to switch it on.

Press right on the directional buttons to choose save or load.

Kowloonet is also covered on pages 14 and 15 of the Adventure Book.

How to save

Choose U/LOAD (upload) with up and down on the directional buttons and press ○.

Move the cursor to the slot you want to save to with up and down and press ○. (The screen shows used slots and empty slots.)

The first time you save, you are asked 初期化しますか (Format the card?) and ファイルの作成をしますか (Create a file?). Press ○ for both to go straight on to the save screen. A slot marked データがありません (No data) is empty. If you try to save over a slot that already holds data, you are asked 上書きしてもいいですか (Overwrite?). Overwriting erases the data that was in that slot.

How to load

Choose D/LOAD (download) with up and down on the directional buttons and press ○.

Move the cursor to the slot you want to load with up and down and press ○.

Walk around as much as you can and gather information by talking to as many people as possible. The streets of Yin are tangled everywhere, and you will run into a great many people and events. These areas are safe, so take your time exploring.

Moving

You move with the directional buttons. There are three moves: forward, turn left, and turn right. You cannot step back. Arrows on screen show the directions you can go; press the button for the direction you want and you move that way automatically. How far you move depends on the scene.

Press the button for the direction you want.

You move that way.

Direction of movement

The arrows do not line up exactly with the 90° angles of the directional buttons. For example, pressing either left or right can sometimes turn you 180° to face backward.

Some places are off limits

There are only left and right arrows.

Here, pressing forward does not move you.

Even where you cannot go forward, pressing forward or ○ may set off an event.

The map of Kowloonfront (九龍フロント) is on pages 2 and 3 of the Adventure Book.

Conversation is the most important thing in JPEG dungeons. Most of the answers you are looking for, including what to do next, come out of talking to people.

When you find someone you want to talk to, press ○.

The conversation begins. Press × to fast-forward. If you fast-forward a voiced conversation, you may miss an important hint.

Changing talk: What people say often changes, so speak to them again after some time has passed. Voices: Some conversations are voiced as well as shown in text, and some go on in voice alone with no text, so listen carefully. Can't talk: Some people cannot be spoken to even though you can see them.

In JPEG dungeons the L1 button does the same as the ○ button.

You pick up many items during the game. They are listed in the item menu, where you can choose one and use it. Items are only used where they are needed, though; you cannot use one where it is not needed. This also applies in real-time dungeons.

You get an item.

Press □ to open the item menu. Move the cursor to the item you want with the directional buttons and press ○.

What an item is: Put the cursor on an item in the item menu to see a short description.

Using one by mistake: If you try to use an item where it is not needed, you only hear a rattle and the item is not used up.

Real-time dungeons are huge ruins filled with malice. Creatures called guilü live inside, and people who wander in often disappear, so these are dangerous places. Somewhere in each JPEG dungeon is an entrance that leads to a real-time dungeon. When the right conditions are met and the time comes, the entrance opens by itself.

One way: Once you go in, you cannot leave until the quest is over.

Kowloonet: Every real-time dungeon has a Kowloonet terminal where you can save and load.

Main screen

Malice elements

Shows the elements of malice you are carrying. There are five: Tree (木), Fire (火), Water (水), Earth (土), and Metal (金). Any you are not carrying are grayed out. You fight guilü by making good use of these elements.

Qi parameter (Qi P)

Shows the state of your qi, which Kowloon's Gate calls Qi P. Touching malice slowly drains your qi. The bar changes color with what is left: blue is normal, yellow is somewhat dangerous, and red is very dangerous. If it reaches 0, the game is over on the spot.

Recovering Qi P

Lost Qi P comes back on its own as you walk around the dungeon. Defeating a guilü also restores a good amount. There also seem to be recovery items somewhere in Kowloon Walled City.

Moving

You move through dungeons with the directional buttons: forward, back, turn right, and turn left. Press the directional button for the way you want to go. L1 and R1 step left and right, up + × and down + × dash forward and back, and L1 + R1 and L2 + R2 move the view up and down.

Opening doors: Press ○ to open a door. This only works on doors that are not locked.

Doors that will not open

Locked doors

They rattle. Find the key and come back to open them. Doors that open when you return to a real-time dungeon a second time are locked at first.

Guilü doors

When you try to open one, it flashes purple with a crack. Defeat the guilü nearby to clear the malice and the door opens.

The map shows a floor plan of the whole dungeon. You can see where you are and the full layout at a glance, which is very handy. The whole dungeon is shown from the start, but some places may still be out of reach at that point. The map cannot be used during battle.

Press START, or choose the Feng Shui Scope from the item menu (□ button), to show the map.

Hold SELECT to hide the background and show only the map.

You can put markers on the map. Marking places you want to remember helps you keep from getting lost. You can place up to 13 markers, and you can pick up markers you no longer need.

With the map shown, press ○ and a cursor appears at your current position.

Press ○ and the marker blinks.

Press ○ again to place the marker. Press × to cancel.

Changing color: Put the cursor on a marker and press L1 or R1 to change its color. There are four colors: red, green, blue, and white.

Picking up markers

With markers on the map, press ○ to bring up the cursor.

Move the cursor to the marker you want to remove with the directional buttons and press ○.

Press ○ and the marker is removed.

Markers you pick up are added back to the number you have left.

When a guilü appears in a real-time dungeon, a battle begins. Normal battles are fought with malice elements. You win by hitting the enemy with malice of the conflicting element (相克属性), the one that overcomes its element. You can also defeat a guilü by draining its malice. During battle the enemy's attacks hurt you, and you can run out of strength. If that happens, the game is over.

There are also item battles, which only happen in special situations. In an item battle, only items with a particular effect work.

Encounters

Guilü are invisible, but they give off malice, so you can tell when you are close. When you get right up to one it appears and battle mode begins. Even while you cannot see a guilü, its malice lowers your Qi P, so be careful. There are two kinds of guilü: the normal kind, which never comes back once defeated, and the endless kind, which appears in the same place again and again however many times you defeat it. Normal guilü give off purple malice, and endless guilü give off green. Used well, endless guilü can help you, for example by topping up an element you are missing.

When the screen turns purple, a guilü is nearby. This one is the normal kind.

As you get closer to the guilü, the screen wavers more strongly. There is definitely a guilü nearby.

It has appeared.

Malice elements are explained in detail on page 17 of the Adventure Book.

The Seven Star Sword (七宝刀) can hold malice of up to four elements. It drains a little Qi P, though, depending on how much malice you carry.

When a guilü appears, the screen switches to the battle screen shown here. Normal battles are fought with the feng shui ring.

Guilü

Monsters born when malice settles in discarded junk. If you do nothing, a guilü keeps giving off malice and your Qi P drops.

Feng shui ring

The actions you can take in battle. There are five commands: 査 (Search), 射 (Shoot), 吸 (Absorb), 品 (Item), and 避 (Flee). Turn the ring with left and right on the directional buttons, or with L1/L2 and R1/R2, pick a command, and press ○.

査 Search

Checks the guilü's element. Only early in the game does it also show the conflicting element.

射 Shoot

Throws malice of one of the five elements at the enemy. Choose the conflicting element and you defeat the guilü. You can only use elements you are carrying, and an element is used up once you shoot it.

吸 Absorb

Draws the guilü's malice into the Seven Star Sword. You can only absorb elements you are not already carrying.

品 Item

Uses an item. Three items work in battle: the Guilü Orb (鬼律玉), which defeats an enemy of any element; Men's Extract (男油), which restores Qi P; and Shellfish Powder (貝粉, boifun), which changes the enemy's element.

避 Flee

Runs away from the battle.

Qi P parameter

Malice lowers it. Fight carefully so it does not reach 0.

Malice of the five elements

You can store malice in the Seven Star Sword item, but only one of each element. An element you no longer have turns gray, and you can get it back with the Absorb command. If you store all five elements at once, the game is over.

Accidents

While you walk through a real-time dungeon, accidents can happen, such as the area going dark or the elements you carry growing in number on their own.

How to fight

The most basic way to fight is to defeat the enemy with the Shoot command. It needs no special tools or items, so it is what you will use in early battles. Once you get the Seven Star Sword item, you can also use the Absorb command. Malice you absorb can be thrown at enemies with Shoot. If you also have Guilü Orbs or Shellfish Powder, you can use them freely with Item, which gives you more ways to fight.

First use Search to check the enemy's element and learn its weak point. It seems to be weak to Fire.

Choose Shoot, then choose Fire. You cannot use it unless you are carrying it.

You shoot Fire and the guilü goes down. Defeating a guilü restores Qi P.

Search shows that the enemy's element seems to be one you are not carrying.

Choose Absorb.

You absorb the guilü's malice and defeat it. The element you absorbed is added to the ones you carry.

Game over

Damage from a guilü's attacks lowers your Qi P, and when it reaches 0 the game is over and ends on the spot. Even without a battle, staying in contact with malice lowers your Qi P in the same way and can end the game.

Choose リトライ (Retry) on the screen after a game over to come back from just before it happened.

Item battles

Battles that happen in special situations. The feng shui ring cannot be used. Once the battle starts, open the item menu with □ and choose the item you need to fight. Guilü Orbs and Shellfish Powder do not work on the enemies you face in item battles.

Which item works on which enemy is told in the characters' conversations.

Xiaohei: NONAKA NOZOMI

Game Kidz: SASAKI RUN

Wei: KOSUGI JUROTA

Rich: SUZUKI EIICHIRO

Li Hong: MATSUO GINZO

Onmyoji: AONO TAKESHI

Mr. Xia: TERASHIMA MIKIO

Little Fly: FUKUSHI KEIJI

Honey Lady: IGARASHI REI

Bamboomer: MACHIDA YOSHIHITO

Mr. Dopeman: TATSUTA NAOKI

Mirror Merchant: MINE NOBORU

Young Shrimp Peeler: FUCHIZAKI YURIKO

Anita Doll / Suijian: HAYAMI SHO

Celebrity Photo Seller: KITAHAMA HARUKO

Nguyen Nguyen (Japanese voice): HAYASHIDA NAOCHIKA

Xuanji: CHIBA SHIGERU

Connie Yang: ITO MIKI

Zhang Lu: MEGURO YUICHI

Zhang Ling: TAKUBO ISSEI

MEGA NOBUKI

SHIROMA SHOKO

KAWAI NOBUO

MUKAIDONO ASAMI

MOMOSE KEI

YASHIMA NORITO

KOBAYASHI OSAMU

SAKUMA NATSUMI

KAIDA YUKI

AIKAWA RIKAKO

YAMANOUCHI MASATO

KEN SANDERS

RAN YOKO

AMAMATSURI AKIKO

KUNII OSAMU

KUJIRA

TOCHI HIROKI

YAMASHITA AMI

SAKURABA YUJI

ITO HIDETOSHI

AOKI NANA

CHIBA KOICHI

KOZAKURA ETSUKO

KODA NAOKO

TANIGUCHI TAKASHI

YAMADA TAKAO

NAKATA JOJI

MATSUDA JUJI

KITAGAWA TAKURO

NGUYEN DINH CAM

ALEX HO

GEORGE HA

IWASAKI MARI

MOU SEN

This story is fiction. The names of groups, companies, and people in it are made up and have no connection to any real group, company, or person.

Written and Directed by Kimura Hiroshi (木村央志)

Producer: Sudo Akira (須藤朗)

Executive Producers: 〓光生, 五藤宏, 丸山茂雄, 〓刀良吉, and 松尾修吾

Original Plan by: 井上幸喜, 大沢秀和, 木村央志, 須藤朗, 武富聖, 竹原充, and 鶴岡泰三

Character & Creature Design: 井上幸喜, 大竹俊介, and 吉田慎吾

"JPEG Dungeon" Design: 武富聖 and 石川守

Program: 大沢秀和, 長田威生, 佐々木康男, 諏訪巧, 竹原充, 鶴岡泰三, 矢崎歓, and 山本圭一 (Open Network Inc.)

Game Design: 木村央志 and 浅野耕一郎

Music and Sound Effect by 蓜島邦明

Real-Time Dungeon CG Modeling by 吉田慎吾

Real-Time Dungeon Graphics by 塩野勝彦 and 城典子

Casting: Producer 堀江俊郎, Director 大山健治

Shooting Director: 岡田周一

Recording Engineer: 立花隆

Recording: MIT Studio

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