How to see the progress of moon cycles?

[Seraph]

I read somewhere that the game has a feature to show you when the next phase would happen, but I can't find it anywhere. I'd like to know when it changes to something that isn't a full moon so I can go enter the Moon Grotto and actually be able to change the moon phase to what I want.

Just to make sure, after getting the Bright Moon Trigon, does the moon cycle still continue? Because I've seen people asking whether they got stuck because they got that Trigon before getting the key to the Moon Grotto.

[Leonard]

Open the Megatome

[Seraph]

I did that, but it only shows what the current moon phase is and it has three lines underneath that. I can't scroll down or turn any pages, so I don't see how I'm supposed to be able to derive anything from that.

[Leonard]

When it isn't bright or dark moon right now it shows you how long until the next dark or bright moon. The moon phases are suppose to be like the real life moon (not sure how accurate this is so maybe you can look up somewhere in the internet (when it is bright or dark moon when the game doesn't tell you how long until the new moon phase.)

[Seraph]

Ah, that must be why I couldn't see anything. Thanks!

It's a shame the game can stop your progress like this for potentially days.. It's a great game and I want to continue it as soon as I can.

[Leonard]

Originally posted by Seraph:

Ah, that must be why I couldn't see anything. Thanks!

It's a shame the game can stop your progress like this for potentially days.. It's a great game and I want to continue it as soon as I can.

Well,it was originally a mobile game (as far as i know) and suppose to be play in short sessions.

[WyrdestGeek]

According to some web page, there will be a totally "dark" moon on June 16.

The game also has a Moon Grotto, which would allow you to ignore the real world moon phase, but I'm not sure how to access it yet.

The game is also aware of players that decied to cheat by adjusting their system clock. The game allows it, but denies you the Honest Player award (or something) and gives you Cheater Cheater (or something) instead.

[Seraph]

Yeah, I'm aware of those things, WyrdestGeek. The Moon Grotto is actually the reason why I want to know when the moon phase changes, because then I can do something to go there and actually have control over the cycle.

[WyrdestGeek]

I was just in the moon grotto, actually. Once you get the key that Girl doesn't know what it opens, that's the key to the moon grotto.

Once in the moon grotto, you cause the Scythian to sit on a stool, then a representation of the moon over your head is forced to cycle. It keeps cycling till you cause the Scythian to stand up.

So you should be able to cause it to shift to any phase regardless of what the current phase is and do it as often as you like. (I guess)

For me, the moon stayed shifted until I collected the dark moon trigon.

I also had to fight some monster that came out of the golgolithic mass on just about every other screen. I'm not sure if that's because I tampered with the moon phase or if the game just does that after you start trying to get the other two trigons.

The battles are easy though as long as you know about using Shield to dodge in Mike Tyson's Punch Out fashion.