Boat-blocked from Solberg's Tower (A2)

[Mechalibur]

Tried looking online for a solution, but I only found an unanswered Steam thread.

 

I'm trying to take the boat to Solberg's tower, but both of the paths leading there have wandering monsters blocking the way. If I try to get off the boat, I get the message that I need a clear space in order to leave the boat. No matter how much I wait, the enemies never move or despawn. If anything, more of them keep spawning - there are currently 3 monster spawns blocking each tunnel. I'm completely at a loss here for how to proceed... any ideas?

[Randomizer]

I try moving the boat away from the landing places and hope when I race back that they haven't beat me to one.

 

Edit - I'm guessing you haven't got to the west pillar to use the portal as an alternate route.

[Mechalibur]

I'm still on part 1... it's been a while since I played the game, is there an alternate route there later?

[Randomizer]

After the first time you visit there and reach the portal pillar, then you have the address so you can skip the boat.

 

But since you are still in part 1 that isn't an option. You might try exploring elsewhere and return much later and see if the area resets with fewer monsters.

[Mechalibur]

My only concern with that is that if I can't even get there, I could spend a lot of time doing other things and then just completely be unable to progress through the game if it doesn't resolve itself.

 

I think I'm just going to have to start over at this point to be safe.

[TriRodent]

If you haven't even gone down the river then there's really no reason to get to the tower now.  You need royal clearance to talk to him and you're a loooong way from that.

 

Come back later and the monsters probably will have wandered off, at least enough for you to land

[Randomizer]

The main reason to do Solberg's Tower before you go down river is to get the last bit of experience in Chapter 1 to possibly go up a level.

[TriRodent]

I suppose, although if you're that close to levelling up, a loop from Formello to Ft Draco down to the destroyed fort and back to Formello a time or two would probably give you enough wandering monsters to grind enough xp on.

 

Even if you can get to the tower (discounting the xp for finding it), you're nowhere near strong enough (iirc, it's been a while) to even get to the point where you're told to come back later.

 

Six of one, half dozen of the other I guess. Point being, there's no reason for Mechalibur to restart the game.

[Mechalibur]

"They'll probably wander off" just isn't good enough for me. I don't want to spend 20 more hours and find out they still won't move no matter what, so I restarted just in case. I was only a few hours in, so it's not the end of the world.