Eternal Sonata - Gen. Discussion + Info

I half hate to do this, because I hate these questions usually, but here goes....

I'm about to beat Lost Odyssey and getting ready for my next RPG.....Eternal Sonata or Blue Dragon? What say you?
 
I went with Eternal Sonata. Looked better to me. Seems to be more interesting. BD seems to have a great battle system, but I couldn't get over the blah characters. It's like I wanted to like BD more than I seemed to. I really enjoyed the ES demo, too.
 
Dang, I hate Mysterious Unison so much. My party (Jazz, Viola, Falsetto) are lvl. 60, 59, 60 and are getting destroyed (only on the 2 floor). I need to get used to Party Level 6, I HATE when the guard and attack buttons change sooo much.
 
[quote name='Azumangaman']Dang, I hate Mysterious Unison so much. My party (Jazz, Viola, Falsetto) are lvl. 60, 59, 60 and are getting destroyed (only on the 2 floor). I need to get used to Party Level 6, I HATE when the guard and attack buttons change sooo much.[/quote]

If you're having trouble, I'd recommend switching out Viola with either Polka or Fredrick. While you do some extra damage with Viola, it isn't enough to offset the fact that, at best, Heal Arrow restores less than half of the potential amount that Fredrick's or Polka's final AOE healing technique does. Equip Tyr's Left Arm (which increases combos), your Werewolf Choker, and that item that gives burst status to Falsetto, and you should have enough speed and be able to deal enough damage to take out one enemy at the start of each battle. You can either use your healer to deal some extra damage, or have him/her run as far away as possible and use an AOE damage and healing special, whichever your preference. Just don't miss any guard opportunities and hope your healer doesn't get ambushed from behind, as battles start to go south rather quickly once you're stuck playing catch up (as you already know).

A good way to build experience on the early levels is to only fight the dragon enemies, as they're a lot slower than the bandits. Falsetto should be able to take out the first dragon at the start, and the other attacker in your party should be able to take out the second (after it attacks). Your two main attackers should be able to set off a harmonic chain every turn, unless they're attacking an enemy on the other side of the field.

I started out the Mysterious Unison with a party of March, Viola, and Falsetto at around level 50-55, and ended it with Jazz, Polka, and Falsetto at around level 75. The hardest boss is on level 12. If you can get through that battle, the final boss shouldn't be any problem.
 
My Mysterious Union party for the harder bosses were Allegretto, Jazz, and Claves. It's funny because I never used Jazz nor Claves as my mains.
 
Wow. Sorry for making you write so much G33 (excellent advice though). I realized my problem was that I was so freaking tired and I just could get the button changing. I started with my starters (Jazz, Falsetto, Viola)
at around level 60 and now my characters are level 78, 77, 78 respectively and I haven't fought Rondo yet :D
UPDATE: Just kicked the crap out of Rondo. She killed Viola around 7 times, but I have over 70 Angel Trumpets so its all good.
All 3 (Jazz, Falsetto, Viola) are a happy level 80. I'm going to sleep now, and tomorrow I'll get the 99,999,999 (I have about 92 million so I just need 3 battles with those big things) then I'll get the 6th soul shard. Then I can kill the last thing, then FINALLY go back to the last boss and destroy him!
 
I wish this game would get DLC. I would love to play this again, but it was pretty long and I just don't wanna re-do all that :whistle2:(
 
Beat it today. 34 hours...damn.
My starters were all at level 84 at the end, and the final boss was so pathetic (main story) that I just used randoms (Allegretto, Claves, Polka) and it took about 3 minutes (maybe less?)
Great game though!
 
I wonder, does anything different happen at the ending at the second playthrough? I got my 1G on this game the other day and didn't even bother to finish Chapter 7.
 
2 months later...I beat Mysterious Unison. My party was Flasetto, Jazz, and Viola. The unison boss was strange, he kept following Viola, and only hit the others a few times, never got to her. I was barely touching level 80 when I beat him.
 
Finally started an encore playthrough yesterday. Enemies definitely get harder; that double HP and +50% attack/defense makes battles longer and forces you to start using items more.

Hoping I can have the achievements finished off within 25 hours. I'm trying to rush, but the harder battles mandate a bit more grinding than before.
 
I don't know if it was that long. :whistle2:k
But it's been a while, so I could be way off.

I think I'll replay this on hard this summer.
 
Started this a couple days ago and I haven't had much time to play. I am however a couple hours in and thoroughly enjoying it.
 
Bump because i've gone back and started playing this again. I was about 25 hours in (halfway through chapter 5) was looking at the guide I got off IGN, realized I missed a crapload of things and decided to start over from scratch. Also Salsa and ummm the other kid kick major ass.
 
Yeah I want to start playing this but kind of trying to finish a bunch of other lengthy games first so it'll be a while. I started the first 30 minutes are so and it seemed like its going to be great.
 
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