GUESS UR JUST NOT HARDCORE ENOUGH BRO
One thing I didn't mention is that after playing through all the prologues, the characters are by and large a nice light hearted departure from typical rpg tropes (of course watch that change as the story progresses). Ophilia just wants to help her family and be a good cleric, Cyrus is a dedicated academic with no time for vag, Tressa just wants to be a badass merchant, Therion is a daring thief, and Alfyn wants to help people with his mad apothecary skillz, and, uh, oh yeah, Olberic and Primrose.
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Olberic is pretty obviously just your stereotypical warrior type with his backstory, but Primrose is glaringly out of place. "Hello pure hearted cleric, absent minded professor, and bright eyed merchant, I watched my father get murdered as a child and then ended up whoring myself out as a teenager, got room for me in your happy go lucky adventuring party???" :doge
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That Uncharted Waters plot tho. :whew
need ahegao emoticon, pls add
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Why does UPS have to deliver so late in the day? :stahp
Mine's coming from AMZL, which means it should come in an hour or two :hyper
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Or come at 7:00 PM
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Or not come at all
:goty2
I'm done with 3 Chapter 3's (Alfyn, Olberic, Tressa) at about 23 hours in and I've kept everyone rotating pretty well so everyone is about at the level they need to be. Of course I went ham on the demo and everyone was about lv 20 after those 3 hours, so, uh. Yeah. (I also have save-scummed stealing opportunities for the really powerful items)
I think the ideal party make-up is probably Cyrus with secondary either Merchant, Dancer, or Cleric, and either Primrose or Ophilia with secondary job of Scholar. Having two people spamming the multi-hit scholar elemental spells is OP, and you can unlock passive skills in Merchant and Dancer that halve the SP cost of everything and refund SP each turn respectively. In a vacuum the next best party members are Haanit and Olberic with probably Warrior and Apothecary secondary jobs, respectively, but really as you're going through each chapter you can sub in whoever needs leveling along with the character whose chapter it is as long as you make sure you've got access to stuff like a good range of weapons on those two characters to help break shit. Warrior and Hunter are good classes because they have weapon based attacks that can hit multiple enemies.
The hardest boss fight I've had so far is Alfyn's Ch 3 boss.
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Dude gets two attacks per turn and rotates his weaknesses between 3 different sets of weaknesses each time you break him. He also has an attack that hits the whole party that he uses regularly. Had to use multiple olives to revive people, probably didn't help that Cyrus and Ophilia were geared to be glass cannons of offense with very few concessions made to physical defense. :doge
Game continues to own. Haven't really even done any side quests or exploring too much.
Took down Ophilia's Ch 4 boss much easier this time.
I also beat 2 of the 4 secret extra job bosses
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The Starseer and Sorcerer are heavily susceptible to cheese due to the fact that they only use magical attacks. If in your party you have a combo of cleric and dancer on different characters (but preferably across 3- I had Primrose as Dancer/Cleric, Cyrus as Scholar/Dancer, and Ophilia as Cleric/Scholar) you can set it up to where you've used both the divine Dancer AND Cleric skills on a cleric, then cast reflect. The divine dancer skill will apply it to everyone, the divine cleric skill will make you cast it twice. Fully boosted, you'll shit out 8 reflect shields on everyone. Both bosses will cast spells that hit everyone 3 times- that will burn 3 shields off everyone and reflect back 12 times, nuking themselves. You can just use the divine dancer skill and get 4 reflect shields, but ehhhhh. Might as well go ham.
Now Cyrus is a machine gunning death machine that can hit a weakness 3 times per turn.
Endgame spoilers:
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There *IS* an overarcing connection to all the traveler's tales: a "true evil" baddie working to revive a fallen god, blah blah blah here have some more jrpg tropes thrown in, fight a gauntlet of 8 bosses from chapters 3 & 4, then have a 2 stage final boss fight where you have to use all 8 travelers in 2 separate parties,
oh also there's no save point in the final dungeon so when you get to the final boss's second stage and he destroys you, plz start over again and fight all 8 bosses again you scrub
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So far Primrose's chapters have had the "best" lines.
"Go pleasure yourself master!"
"Primrose, I am a whore!"
I feel like this game has a lot of weird balance issues, not just in combat.
Yeah so just about finished, have a few more side quests to do then it's off to grind for the TRUE FINAL BATTLE.
Overall, I thought it was pretty great, even if the dungeon design could use a bit more variety (like puzzles, different environmental hazards, scripted events, etc), and the structure got to be repetitive after a while.
My favorite thing about the game, apart from the amazing visuals and pleasant music, was how it really felt like an RPG made specifically those who grew up with the NES and SNES games, and are now much older with much less time to play a game. Most of the chapters took less than 2 hours, which made it seem like the type of game best played in short bursts, befitting a busier lifestyle. There wasn't much in the way of animu type hijinks here (except maybeeee Tressa's personality), mostly the stories are revenge driven, or more personal type quests.
Favorite character in battle was Alfyn after being made Warmaster. Best story I thought was Alfyn, worst was Tressa.
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Come on... "the REAL treasure was your travels along the way!" is the dumbest shit ever, plus the character was pretty useless in combat and had an annoying VA