/vr/ - Retro Games

I've been playing Dragon Warrior 2 on Nintendo. First, some context. Early on in the game, there's an enemy called "Healer" that appears as a blue jellyfish. Its sole purpose is to heal other monsters, so you have to kill them first.

Recently, I obtained a boat that allows me to traverse the ocean. Everything was going fine, until this thing appeared. Palette swaps aren't uncommon in this game, but they're usually just variants like "Baboon" and "MagicBaboon". However, this recolor of the Healer was called the "Man-o-War". I figured that it was just a more powerful Healer and prioritized killing it first. But it didn't seem to have much more HP than a normal Healer. On top of that, the Healers normally spam Heal nonstop, even if nothing has damage. These things didn't. Hell, I've never seen one of them heal at all.

Since then, I've mainly been sailing around fighting these things, trying to figure what their purpose is.