Them's Fightin' Herds

Story

The game's story mode begins with Arizona making her way from the prairie to Reine City, where she has been sent on a quest by her parents as a declared master of the prairie. On her way, she passes through a cave system that used to be a salt mine and is now home to shadowy predators. In Reine City, Arizona makes her way to the museum to find clues to the Prophet's Key. When Velvet shows up and learns that Arizona is the champion of the prairie, she challenges Arizona to a fight on the steps outside the museum. Arizona defeats her and Velvet's ice spirits carry her away. Desperate to get Arizona out of town, a citizen gives her his boat tickets and sends her to the Alpake Highlands. In the highlands, Arizona climbs up a mountain while fending off birds of prey. At the top, exhausted, she is rescued by members of the local Alpake tribe. After waking up, she talks to their leader Adobo, who warns her about the "terror of the misty mountain tops". Arizona is pursued by a mysterious figure in the mist, but the figure always remains hidden at a distance and laughs. At a clearing in the mist, Arizona examines a stone and sees it rumble. Paprika bursts out of it and "fights" Arizona with a series of hugs, kisses and stunts that break the fourth wall. Arizona prevails, leaving Paprika dazed and unconscious. In the Temple of the Ancestors, which Arizona learned about at the Reine City Museum and from Adobo, Arizona fights more predators and solves a few puzzles along the way. Finally, she reaches the Hall of the Monolith. Before she can examine the monolith, Oleander appears and, like Velvet, realizes that she and Arizona are rivals. Oleander and Arizona begin to fight, with Fhtng th§ ¿nsp§kbl (or "Fred") helping her in the course of the battle. Arizona eventually wins, but Fred knocks her out and scolds her for thwarting his plans. Fred wakes Oleander up to tell her that she has won. While Oleander copies down the inscriptions on the monolith, Fred loots Arizona for all the items she found on her journey. After the duo leave, Arizona wakes up in a daze and doesn't know what to do next. If the player loses in the third phase of Oleander's Fight, the same thing happens, but Fred doesn't knock Arizona down and talk about how she thwarts his plans.