11. WALKTHROUGH - CHAPTER 9 - THE PISCINE AND THE OGRE [1100]

Guide your way through the watery depths and ancient temples in Valiant Hearts: The Great War. Solve the Roman numeral puzzle and face the Ogre.

Alright, we're heading deep underwater now for Chapter 9, tackling the Piscine Village and a rather grumpy ogre. Let's dive in!

You'll start off by following a sign pointing towards a 'Piscean Village' to your right. Keep an eye out on your way – you'll stumble upon a !Statue with a riddle about a 'path of light.' Just below it, you can grab a SPEEDUST. Don't worry too much about the riddle for now, we've got bigger fish to fry!

When you reach the village, you'll find it's completely deserted and crawling with baddies. However, you'll meet two Pisceans, named Gen and Drust. Turns out, they're green, amphibian... well, 'muck creatures.' They'll tell you an ogre has been snatching their people. They'll also give you a STRSTAR, so make sure to grab that.

From there, head right and enter a door built into a hill. Inside, you'll find a switch. Pulling it opens a path, but only for a limited time! You'll need to fight against some strong currents and make a mad dash through the circuit to grab a MAGDEFDUST and some other goodies before the path closes. Don't dawdle!

Back outside, you'll be able to skim over the water towards a cliff face dotted with numerous entrances to a temple. Looks like a pretty imposing watery dungeon is waiting for us.

But first, we've got a puzzle to solve. Head into the mountain through the ground-level entrance. You'll see a bunch of Roman numerals painted on the walls. In the lower-right corner, there's a stand with the numeral VIII. Push this stand around a bit, then have FF cast the shadow of the VIII onto the VIII on the wall. Nothing happens, right? Okay, head up to the next level. You'll find a XIII stand. Push it down a bit, then project its shadow through the floor onto the partially hidden XIII below it. Now, fly up to the third floor. You can ignore the V stand for now; instead, exit through the right side of the mountain. This will let you go grab a DODGESTAR. Once you have that, return and push the V stand down to the ground floor. Project its shadow onto the pillar, and boom! Puzzle solved. An elevator will rise, bringing with it our angry ogre friend.