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Apart from the skies, the map ofRune Factory: Guardians Of Azumais divided into four main regions: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. As you visit each region, you’ll have to first learn about its god from the village and then follow along with the main story as you explore the outskirts of each region and fight various monsters.
While most dungeons in the game are fairly straightforward, there are a few where you can find yourself stuck on a puzzle, and Mechanical Maze is one of them. To get past this one, you have to find four specific pedestals and open the final door before you can face the boss.
How To Reach The Mechanical Maze
The first time you’ll hear the mention of the Mechanical Maze iswhen you reach the Autumn Village and start searching for its god. Kai will talk to you about creating a festival that will drive the god out of hiding, and your first location to get the items ready for this festival is the Mechanical Maze. However, don’t get fooled by the Mechanical Maze area in the Autumn Region itself.
You’ll only reach the real maze after getting through the various doorways of the Mechanical Maze in the region. To do this,you simply have to look at the map as you’ll see all the walls within the maze here. You’ll notice that some parts of this wall (colored in gray) are thicker than the rest, and that’s your destination.
The thicker part of the walls in each roomrepresents the doorways that will lead youto the next part.
After crossing the bridge above Path of Fallen Leaves and entering the maze, you can follow these directions to get to the main dungeon:
As you’re going through this maze,you’ll have to battle a bunch of enemies up to level 23, so it’s important to be prepared for that.
How To Beat The Mechanical Maze
The start of the Mechanical Maze is fairly simple as you’ll find yourself in a room with a closed door and a red button beside it. Simply interact with the button and the door will open,leading you into the next couple of rooms where you’ll have to battle a bunch of Tanukiand other enemies. The door in front will be closed again after two rooms.
Here, after claiming the chest in the left corner of the room,you’ll see two lucky cat statues with a wallpaper in between on the right. Hit this wallpaper with any weapon or Sacred Treasure and it’ll open up, leading you into a room with a bunch of rotating wheels. You have to get through two of these rooms so that you’re able to enter the next main room.
If there are enemies in these wheel rooms, you canjust let them come to you first, defeat them, and then progress.
Once you’ve gone past the two wheel rooms and emerged in the main room on the other side,you can use the red button on your left to open the locked door you saw earlier. To open the other door leading you forward on the northern side, you can get close to the fan and press the required button to use your Fan Dance on it.
The next couple of rooms are pretty simple until you reach the final door leading you into the boss chamber. You’ll see four red lights beside this door,which means that you have to trigger four red switches nearby. To get these switches, you just have to enter the surrounding wheel rooms:
you’re able to go to thenorthern wheel room here as well to get the chestbut it doesn’t have any buttons.
How To Defeat Big Boss Tanuki
As you enter the final room of the Mechanical Maze, the Big Boss Tanuki will spawn after a small cutscene. This boss has dual blades and the wind element as its weakness, so it’srecommended to craft yourself a suitable weapon while having the Sacred Fanequipped before the fight. You can also eat some food to buff your damage since your level will be similar to the boss' here.
Here are a few attacks that you can see the boss do:
It’s highly recommended to get thefirst few upgrades of your Sacred Fan abilitiesso that you can use them during this fight.
The general idea to win this fight easily is by dodging the boss' attacks with a perfect dodge, which slows down the time for a few seconds. Your character can’t be damaged in this time, and if youattack the boss with charged attacks, you’ll deal very high stun damage(white bar). It’s important to focus on stunning the boss as this massively increases its damage taken.
You also get a lot of spirit bar (yellow bar below your health) progress as you deal damage during the time slow, which allows you to use Sacred Fan’s Divine Dance: Tengu Windsability as soon as the boss gets stunned and the bar below its HP turns red. This will easily take away over half of its HP, and then you can keep attacking it with your charged attacks until the boss dies.
