First Steps: Chapter

Open your map; your objective marker is to the northeast.

Go north and a little west from your starting position in the Upheer Plain to find your first chest containing 100 guilders.

Continue west to find another chest right below a ledge containing the Choppy Old Cloak.

Double back east, collecting sparkles and fighting enemies for experience.

Approach the house and witness a flying creature hassling an older lady, leading to a battle.

Learn that flying foes require aerial melee attacks to be hit effectively. Jump with the Circle button and attack in mid-air.

Fight the wyvern until a cutscene (a non-interactive cinematic the game plays automatically) occurs, triggering a tutorial on Higgledies.

Learn that Higgledies automatically assist you and can be ordered to perform skills by stepping into their circle and pressing X.

Understand that certain Higgledies can be absorbed by holding down the button for your character’s spells and abilities, indicated by a Higgledy picture and number in your menu. To absorb, move to the Higgledies, hold R2 and the assigned skill button.

Finish off the Wyvern. The lady, Auntie Martha, will introduce herself and invite you to her house.

Receive Runcile the Righteous, a higgledy hero, who will join you. Named Higgledies act independently and have unique tricks.

Assign heroes via the Party menu for a more in-depth tutorial on Higgledies.

Learn that Higgledies have stats (feistiness and hardiness) that increase as they level up, which occurs at a kingdom facility later in the game.

Understand that Higgledy personalities dictate their battle actions (e.g., Runcile is shy).

Learn that some Higgledy skills are automatic, while others require triggering via the circle. Some skills require 'awakening', a mechanic not yet available.

Note that you can only equip Higgledies whose total cost does not exceed 10.

Learn from Auntie Martha that more Higgledies can be obtained by finding higgledy stones or creating them later.

Exit Auntie Martha's house and find a Trip Door next to it (Auntie Martha’s Cottage).

Go behind Martha's cottage to an area south with more treasure.

Find a chest on a small hill south and a little east containing Freshly Baked Bread.

Locate another chest at the cliff’s edge to the northeast containing Detox Simply Slippers.

Be aware of a level 50 dragon on the large hill nearby; avoid battle.

If brave, save your game and wait for the Windwyrm to venture south to sneak past it and reach a treasure chest on the eastern end containing a Burning Ring.

Return to the previous area and go to the western end to find another chest containing a Soreaway.

Make your way back to Martha’s cottage, hugging the northern cliffside, to find another chest in the open containing the Sixth Censer.

At Martha’s cottage, look east for a passage leading to a bridge.

Go to the end of this area to find a chest by the water containing 300 guilders.

Cross the first bridge but not the second. Venture east to find another chest containing a Soreaway and an entrance to a cave.

Enter Grotty Grotto, find sparkles, enemies, and a chest in the first room containing the Damp Wizard’s W.