Which is funny because it wasn't exactly a boss, just a group of enemies that ended up giving me a hard time. The 2 in the back kept using that big 400 damage attack and one person would die, and thus the vicious cycle of rezzing and redying over and over.
second kakanas fight
was also tough on me but I didn't die. I got down to 2 immortals alive, and they stayed alive in time for the other immortals to auto-rez.
Right now I'm at the end game, just working on side quests and leveling/learning skills. Little over 60 hours, but a lot of that has been idle time the last 3 days or so. Real time played I'm probably closer to 45.
was also tough on me but I didn't die. I got down to 2 immortals alive, and they stayed alive in time for the other immortals to auto-rez.[/quote]
That was an easy fight for me. I hadn't taught the skills to anyone yet but I equipped my absorb fire and nullify fire on two party members and it was pretty much impossible for me to die after that.
EDIT: Damn optional boss.
Was beating the Holy Beast and had it below 5,000 health and then it casts Hopelessness and everyone dies instantly from the 9,999 damage spell. I want my +10 slot accessory!
[quote name='MSUHitman']FYI if you live in Asia the DLC US players got for pre-ordering the game is now free for Asian XBL members according to Major Nelson's blog.[/quote]
I actually went and bought my copy the day it came out. I just asked the girl at EB if I could get a copy of the preorder bonus and she was nice enough to just let me have it.
I'm really glad I did get it because Weapon Guard 2 comes in handy.
A friend of mine made a Japanese account just to DL the bonus stuff, and I recommend you guys do it if you didn't get it for preordering.
[quote name='dastly75']Just beat the first boss. It took me 4 or 5 tries and beat it out of pure luck. I managed to do a attack pattern that made the boss do the same attack to the same person in which I kept throwing a healing potion on. Pure luck I tell ya.[/QUOTE]
I tried three times last night and gave up and went to sleep. About to try it again after leveling up some (seems like randomly some enemies don't give me any experience, and then sometimes they do?)
So far the plot and music and graphics seem awesome, so this is going to be hilarious if I can't beat the first boss. This guy is much harder than end of game bosses in most good games!
[quote name='Wolfpup']I tried three times last night and gave up and went to sleep. About to try it again after leveling up some (seems like randomly some enemies don't give me any experience, and then sometimes they do?)
So far the plot and music and graphics seem awesome, so this is going to be hilarious if I can't beat the first boss. This guy is much harder than end of game bosses in most good games![/QUOTE]
Not sure if this changes, but each enemy only gives 1 SP (Exp.) Along with the low encounter rate, this makes grinding kinda impossible. The best you can do is level up to the nearest level, unless you want to bore yourself to death and go up another.
tip for the first boss:
use the strength up potion ("power drink") on Kaim and equip him with the ring that does increased damage. Also, start by casting shield and barrier spells with Jansen and Seth. Even after this, it still kinda comes down to luck--sometimes the boss doesn't use the spell that wipes out the whole party, sometimes he uses it twice in a row.
[quote name='Apossum']Not sure if this changes, but each enemy only gives 1 SP (Exp.) Along with the low encounter rate, this makes grinding kinda impossible. The best you can do is level up to the nearest level, unless you want to bore yourself to death and go up another.[/spoiler][/quote]
SP changes from enemy to enemy.
As for experience, the game is made to where your exp gain bottoms out after you reach a certain level based on the enemy you're facing. There is one place before disk 4 that you can reach and overlevel but it's not worth it.
[quote name='Draekon']SP changes from enemy to enemy.
As for experience, the game is made to where your exp gain bottoms out after you reach a certain level based on the enemy you're facing. There is one place before disk 4 that you can reach and overlevel but it's not worth it.[/QUOTE]
oh. it seems like the grunt enemies of each area (all the ones in reg. encounters) give you 1 sp. So the exp you receive is based on your level?
They really did some interesting stuff to streamline the game. A good thing I think, though I like to be able to grind a little.
Was beating the Holy Beast and had it below 5,000 health and then it casts Hopelessness and everyone dies instantly from the 9,999 damage spell. I want my +10 slot accessory!
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Just special link with Tolten and equip Persistence skills on your characters. It will leave everyone with 1 hp. This should be your permanent skill since it's one of the best skill in game along with absorb physical or magic absorb. Tolten is pretty useless, he only good for Persistence and nice royal equipment, other then that he sucks. His base stats are horrible and you rather use Sed.
[quote name='Apossum']Not sure if this changes, but each enemy only gives 1 SP (Exp.) Along with the low encounter rate, this makes grinding kinda impossible. The best you can do is level up to the nearest level, unless you want to bore yourself to death and go up another.
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The encounter rate is really small in this game if you physical want to level up your characters even if you use the dash button to speed up the process. Don't worry about sp growth, it will gradually change over time. In the end, you will get a lot more then you need.
Killing the worm the first time is easy for me. The second time it comes out and it's already fully charged, thats ing buillshit. It paralyzes all my party and I'm ed pretty much till I get wiped out. Apparently I was supposed to get some sort of anti-paralysis stuff before I got here.
[quote name='dastly75']Ok the second boss is a bitch.
Killing the worm the first time is easy for me. The second time it comes out and it's already fully charged, thats ing buillshit. It paralyzes all my party and I'm ed pretty much till I get wiped out. Apparently I was supposed to get some sort of anti-paralysis stuff before I got here.
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i just beat those worms and they where a bitch! but what i did was have Kaim, Seth kill those bugs and have Jansen cast spells on worm and used the heal all spell
[quote name='dastly75']Ok the second boss is a bitch.
Killing the worm the first time is easy for me. The second time it comes out and it's already fully charged, thats ing buillshit. It paralyzes all my party and I'm ed pretty much till I get wiped out. Apparently I was supposed to get some sort of anti-paralysis stuff before I got here.
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Earlier in the level there is an accessory that gives the anti-paralysis ability. Just do random battles for Kaim and Seth to learn the skill and equip it then give it to Jansen before the fight so all 3 are immune to paralysis.[\spoiler]
[quote name='dastly75']Ok the second boss is a bitch.
Killing the worm the first time is easy for me. The second time it comes out and it's already fully charged, thats ing buillshit. It paralyzes all my party and I'm ed pretty much till I get wiped out. Apparently I was supposed to get some sort of anti-paralysis stuff before I got here.
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To stop your party from being paralyzed, you need to find the accesory that makes you immune to paralyze. Put it on one of the immortals and grind until you get enough SP to learn that skill, set it and do it to your next immortal. Then in battle, once your 2 immortals have the skill set, put it on jansen and the boss is cake.
Well, I beat the first boss. I leveled up two levels and used Shield on all three characters and that power drink, which was all I could realistically do (at that point-level 15-enemy encounters were only giving me 3 experience).
This has me really worried though. Not sure I should bother continuing when the FIRST BOSS gave me this much trouble. (And on top of that I still may have only won because for some reason he never used his group attack thing this time...)
[quote name='Wolfpup']This has me really worried though. Not sure I should bother continuing when the FIRST BOSS gave me this much trouble. (And on top of that I still may have only won because for some reason he never used his group attack thing this time...)[/quote]
I had no trouble with the second boss since I learned anti-paralasis. First boss gave me a run but I think you're not suppose to melee it and spam fire or something. Since then I've had a few that were semi-difficult but haven't given me anywhere near the trouble that the first one gave me.
[quote name='zewone']Working on the Temple of Enlightenment no
Could use some help if anyone is that far.[/QUOTE]
Can you be more specific?Skill Allocation? Gear? Boss Fight? Puzzle? Experience? Or the whole shebang.
You can go through most of that stage without a lot of recommended equipment by level grinding. You can can get easy 50-62 on first area. If your low on health go back to map and reenter for full heal. I highly suggest equipping Ailment Resistance and Fire Proof against a monster that will self explode. In second area and onward, the enemies will get stronger and in effect you will gain more experience. If your lazy just fight exploding enemies on second area or greater then use turn tail on others expect the Hellish Kelolon. They give you one level for one fight till level 95.
Here are some recommended equipment locations. I'm too lazy to type them all and flip through pages back and forth. Too much extras in this game.
1.Fire absorb skill: (Sarah Notebook) Defeat Persona boss on Old Mansion This will help you against those enemies that self explode.
2.Get the Age of King Sword and use royal equipment (skill link with Tolten) for either Kaim or Seth.* Must complete all royal seals. Duh, you must have Tolten!
a) Crimson Forest-Maze of Gloom: First area of stage, Northern region
Reward: Royal Knight's Emblem(HP Max UP 4)
b) Black Cave- Helltrap: Go to Black Cave North Area. Go down one screen to Helltrap. You will see a save point. Hug the west wall of map to find royal seal
Reward: Master Sword & Master Ring
c) Ice Canyon-Snowy Plateau: Go to Ice Canyon North Area. Hug the right wall until you will see a pathway up.
Reward:Quad Element Charm(Elemental Resistance)
d)Burning Cave-Path of Darkness: Go to Crash Magic Train Site. Go up 3 map screens (I think) to "Burning Cave-Path of Darkness". You will see a poisonous area. Take the left route to royal seal
Reward: Royal Emblem (Auto-Barrier)
e)The Great Ancient Ruins-Astral Square: Go past the first screen to proceed to Astral Square. Near the entrance past the ascending platform.
Reward: Golden Gauntlet( Auto Shield Skill)
f) Kelolon Village: Go to right side of screen
Reward: Quad Element Amulet( Null All Elemental Effects)
g) Uhra-Back Alley: In a dead-end alley shortly before Castle of Uhra Station Square. You need to climb a ladder downward.
Reward: Royal Knight Sword and Royal Knight's Ring
e) Uhra-Gongora's Mansion-Courtyard: Go left side of Gongora Mansion and enter that door . You will find a nearby royal seal.
Reward: Opens door to secret cave.
Once you have all royal seals, take cab or train to Uhra Central Station Square and proceed to all way to right. Then take the elevator to find the last royal seal.
3. Double Cast for your Sara and Ming. Skill link with Janson at level 52+
4. Ailment Resistance (Angel Guard): It automatic mission quest if you enter the Forgotten Cave poisonous area. You must have Magic Locator of 2 to find it. A automatic event midway of The Great Ancient Ruins. Head north then right on lower section of map. You will see a poisonous area. Cross it until you see a mysterious land strip with no items. Examine it.
5. Sed Ultimate Weapon
Getting There- Once you get White Boa you should see lots of blinking light indicating all extra sidequests. Move Northeast corner of the map and ram the ice burg with your White Boa
Talk to dude close to the elevator in Pirate Fortress to activate it.
a)City of Saman- On first screen go north by the Central Tree
b)Sea of Baus- Go north till you see a barrel
c)Old Sorceress' Mansion- Go past first screen to enter the mansion. Take a left to meet with one of your crew member. Must beat Persona boss to activate it.
d) Use the Nattulis. Dive then head in sea,north of Ipisolion Port. You will see strange bubble. Touch it to meet with another crew member
e)White Boa- Go to Ming's Chamber
f)Kelolon Village- Run around until you find a random encounter. Save him from attackers.
After you done finding all 6 members, talk to guy who give you all the hidden treasure locations.
Ugh @ vgchartz. Why do people still pay attention to it when NPD has proven to be far more reliable?
And 100k in its debut month, let alone its debut week, would be pretty successful for a title like LO (that's in a niche genre like JRPG that usually doesn't sell unless it has "Final Fantasy" in the title) when you consider that Blue Dragon bombed in the U.S.
[quote name='fatbeer']Can you be more specific?Skill Allocation? Gear? Boss Fight? Puzzle? Experience? Or the whole shebang.
You can go through most of that stage without a lot of recommended equipment by level grinding. You can can get easy 50-62 on first area. If your low on health go back to map and reenter for full heal. I highly suggest equipping Ailment Resistance and Fire Proof against a monster that will self explode. In second area and onward, the enemies will get stronger and in effect you will gain more experience. If your lazy just fight exploding enemies on second area or greater then use turn tail on others expect the Hellish Kelolon. They give you one level for one fight till level 95.
Here are some recommended equipment locations. I'm too lazy to type them all and flip through pages back and forth. Too much extras in this game.
1.Fire absorb skill: (Sarah Notebook) Defeat Persona boss on Old Mansion This will help you against those enemies that self explode.
2.Get the Age of King Sword and use royal equipment (skill link with Tolten) for either Kaim or Seth.* Must complete all royal seals. Duh, you must have Tolten!
a) Crimson Forest-Maze of Gloom: First area of stage, Northern region
Reward: Royal Knight's Emblem(HP Max UP 4)
b) Black Cave- Helltrap: Go to Black Cave North Area. Go down one screen to Helltrap. You will see a save point. Hug the west wall of map to find royal seal
Reward: Master Sword & Master Ring
c) Ice Canyon-Snowy Plateau: Go to Ice Canyon North Area. Hug the right wall until you will see a pathway up.
Reward:Quad Element Charm(Elemental Resistance)
d)Burning Cave-Path of Darkness: Go to Crash Magic Train Site. Go up 3 map screens (I think) to "Burning Cave-Path of Darkness". You will see a poisonous area. Take the left route to royal seal
Reward: Royal Emblem (Auto-Barrier)
e)The Great Ancient Ruins-Astral Square: Go past the first screen to proceed to Astral Square. Near the entrance past the ascending platform.
Reward: Golden Gauntlet( Auto Shield Skill)
f) Kelolon Village: Go to right side of screen
Reward: Quad Element Amulet( Null All Elemental Effects)
g) Uhra-Back Alley: In a dead-end alley shortly before Castle of Uhra Station Square. You need to climb a ladder downward.
Reward: Royal Knight Sword and Royal Knight's Ring
e) Uhra-Gongora's Mansion-Courtyard: Go left side of Gongora Mansion and enter that door . You will find a nearby royal seal.
Reward: Opens door to secret cave.
Once you have all royal seals, take cab or train to Uhra Central Station Square and proceed to all way to right. Then take the elevator to find the last royal seal.
3. Double Cast for your Sara and Ming. Skill link with Janson at level 52+
4. Ailment Resistance (Angel Guard): It automatic mission quest if you enter the Forgotten Cave poisonous area. You must have Magic Locator of 2 to find it. A automatic event midway of The Great Ancient Ruins. Head north then right on lower section of map. You will see a poisonous area. Cross it until you see a mysterious land strip with no items. Examine it.
5. Sed Ultimate Weapon
Getting There- Once you get White Boa you should see lots of blinking light indicating all extra sidequests. Move Northeast corner of the map and ram the ice burg with your White Boa
Talk to dude close to the elevator in Pirate Fortress to activate it.
a)City of Saman- On first screen go north by the Central Tree
b)Sea of Baus- Go north till you see a barrel
c)Old Sorceress' Mansion- Go past first screen to enter the mansion. Take a left to meet with one of your crew member. Must beat Persona boss to activate it.
d) Use the Nattulis. Dive then head in sea,north of Ipisolion Port. You will see strange bubble. Touch it to meet with another crew member
e)White Boa- Go to Ming's Chamber
f)Kelolon Village- Run around until you find a random encounter. Save him from attackers.
After you done finding all 6 members, talk to guy who give you all the hidden treasure locations.
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My Immortals are level 67. I'm having no problems with the fights.
It seems like you've been this far, mind giving me some pointers for the boss at the top?
[quote name='RBH']Ugh @ vgchartz. Why do people still pay attention to it when NPD has proven to be far more reliable?
And 100k in its debut month, let alone its debut week, would be pretty successful for a title like LO (that's in a niche genre like JRPG that usually doesn't sell unless it has "Final Fantasy" in the title) when you consider that Blue Dragon bombed in the U.S.[/QUOTE]
Kingdom Hearts and Pokemon sells figures are really strong for U.S as well. This proves that jrpgs have to be more mainstream to draw more user base. Don't get me wrong, 100k is a solid number for Japanese rpgs, but Microsoft true intentions was to draw more market share in Japanese Market. And we all know how that turn out. Considering it's budget and marketing this product, it's really a flop. It much easier for them to draw higher sales with a first person shooter or Western Rpg like Star Wars Old Republic
[quote name='Draekon']I had no trouble with the second boss since I learned anti-paralasis. First boss gave me a run but I think you're not suppose to melee it and spam fire or something. Since then I've had a few that were semi-difficult but haven't given me anywhere near the trouble that the first one gave me.[/QUOTE]
Thank goodness! That was NOT what I'd be expecting for the first boss!
I got to the second boss, and beat it fairly easily (although I 'cheated' because I'd read on here already about having anti-paralysis ready). WAY easier then the first boss.
Now I'm fighting
the guys that attack right after the second boss. Had to pause and eat supper, so I'm not sure how this is going to go. So far the writing is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better than average for a Japanese RPG. Like way way way way better. The "wacky" character is actually...funny!
[quote name='fatbeer']Kingdom Hearts and Pokemon sells figures are really strong for U.S as well. This proves that jrpgs have to be more mainstream to draw more user base. Don't get me wrong, 100k is a solid number for Japanese rpgs, but Microsoft true intentions was to draw more market share in Japanese Market. And we all know how that turn out. Considering it's budget and marketing this product, it's really a flop. It much easier for them to draw higher sales with a first person shooter or Western Rpg like Star Wars Old Republic[/QUOTE]
I have to wonder why on Earth Sakaguchi didn't do this for the Playstation 3. Probably would have sold 90 bajillion more copies (I guess he likes the guys who work for Microsoft Japan though).
Still, hopefully it'll at least make its money back. Lost Odyssey is *THE* reason I own a 360. I'm sure I'm not the only one, so it may have had a bigger effect than the numbers seem to indicate.
[quote name='zewone']My Immortals are level 67. I'm having no problems with the fights.
It seems like you've been this far, mind giving me some pointers for the boss at the top?[/QUOTE]
I beat it with no problems, but I was level 80+ when I fought him.
Cast faster(spirit magic) with either Ming or Sara on both fighters to use 3 combo reduce cast speed to one turn.
double cast(learn from Janson)
mental stability 1 or 2 (learn from cooke)
hp abosrb(Ice Canyon- Blizzard Peak: Scaring the Penguin off the Cliff to get Amulet)
magic absorb(Uhra-Tolsan 's Inn have Tolten speak to Attendant to get tailsman)
persistence(learn from Tolten,)
Auto shield(learn from Sed),
Auto Barrier (learn from Sed)
Magic Defense 2 (Beat musical challenge 8. You can find cubic music score 8 in Numera Place- Queens Chamber)
Freeform( Saman-Main street- You will see two man in dispute. Talk to them and believe his story. Find the missing item near the big tree to right. Give him the missing item to get General's Pen)
[quote name='Wolfpup']I have to wonder why on Earth Sakaguchi didn't do this for the Playstation 3. Probably would have sold 90 bajillion more copies (I guess he likes the guys who work for Microsoft Japan though).[/QUOTE]
Microsoft drove up to his house with a truck full of money. He's not made of stone!
Every time time when a random battle starts to load, you know the part with all the purple rings flashing onto the screen?
Well there is a blurry rectangle in the middle of the screen and it stretches across the whole screen. When the purple circles go away and the battle is loaded it disappears.
I watched the Lost Odyssey segment on the 1UP Show and the blurry segment appears there as well, so I know I'm not just crazy, haha.
Yeah every time I go into a random battle that blurry rectangle is all I notice. It is really annoying. So does anyone else see this?
Beat the second boss finally, had to backtrack and then grind for SP which wasn't much fun...but I get to move on finally. The dream that eventually follows the second boss is a good read.
I'll probably wind up with the game down the road, but I will say now that the commercial is perhaps the most annoying video game commercial at this present time. It drives me cuckoo for Coco Puffs.
ok, I'm royally pissed with this game right now. I think I may actually have to start over due to some weird glitch.
Early on in disc 2 roughly lvl 30
I'm in the upper level of the experimental Staff and getting all of the damn gate passes even though Jansen can't steal worth a damn. I'm at that part where the crane/box goes up and down in the middle of a floating pathway deal. Well, the glitch is that the floating path is now "stuck" on the right side of the crane/box but isn't far enough over as to where I can get on the path deal again. It's basically halfway between the box and the end of the platform and I can't move it. 20 hours of my life was just wasted and I have to start over because I have no saves before getting to the Experimental Staff. .
[quote name='nasum']ok, I'm royally pissed with this game right now. I think I may actually have to start over due to some weird glitch.
Early on in disc 2 roughly lvl 30
I'm in the upper level of the experimental Staff and getting all of the damn gate passes even though Jansen can't steal worth a damn. I'm at that part where the crane/box goes up and down in the middle of a floating pathway deal. Well, the glitch is that the floating path is now "stuck" on the right side of the crane/box but isn't far enough over as to where I can get on the path deal again. It's basically halfway between the box and the end of the platform and I can't move it. 20 hours of my life was just wasted and I have to start over because I have no saves before getting to the Experimental Staff. .
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I think you should do some more exploring in that area. Sounds like you missed a switch or hit one out of order.
Well that's the thing of it. I had to leave earlier today so I walked out of the area and saved. I had done everything leading up to that and got everything setup to make the next little part. Now when I go back up there the situation is as described. I've tried "clearing the path" and then leaving to see if that would alter anything but it doesn't. I think I just hit a really weird glitch in the program. Either that or my 360 is wonked out because I was playing Marvel:UA with a buddy earlier today and we got stuck on an elevator for twenty minutes and nothing happened.
I haven't played the game yet but I was disappointed with the packaging. I think they could have done better then leaving the 4th disc on the side inside a sleeve like that. Your telling me they couldn't make the disc holder a tiny bit bigger for that4th disc? =)
[quote name='DragonSlayerX']I haven't played the game yet but I was disappointed with the packaging. I think they could have done better then leaving the 4th disc on the side inside a sleeve like that. Your telling me they couldn't make the disc holder a tiny bit bigger for that4th disc? =)[/QUOTE]
I think their packaging is atrocious period. I remember on other systems multiple discs were handled WAY better than just throwing a bunch together on a single spindle (and then throwing the forth disc in that little paper thing)!
I guess I should just be happy they're willing to make games with multiple discs.
So I've done almost everything there is to do in the game..and learned something very disappointing about the treasure trove achievement.
Now, i read, get all the treasures in the world, I'm thinking...get each of the treasure hunt items. I mean theres an entire side quest devoted to em, and it takes a long time so it made sense in my mind. Well apparantly, you have to get every item in the entire game. Every chest, every trash can, every everything etc. Now nothing is permanently missable, but holy shit, I don't look forward to this.
Also, checking around at gamefaqs, it seems no one can confirm getting this achievement, and there are tons of people stuck at 980/1000 with well over 100+ hours played.
[quote name='Zoglog']I've read in the past that the English version will have the Original Japanese voice over supported. This is true in the final release?[/quote]
[quote name='hohez']So I've done almost everything there is to do in the game..and learned something very disappointing about the treasure trove achievement.
Now, i read, get all the treasures in the world, I'm thinking...get each of the treasure hunt items. I mean theres an entire side quest devoted to em, and it takes a long time so it made sense in my mind. Well apparantly, you have to get every item in the entire game. Every chest, every trash can, every everything etc. Now nothing is permanently missable, but holy shit, I don't look forward to this.
Also, checking around at gamefaqs, it seems no one can confirm getting this achievement, and there are tons of people stuck at 980/1000 with well over 100+ hours played.
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That achievement is defiantly the hardest to get. I finished all the treasure hunt quest and I'm still missing that achievement. You have to get 99 seeds for lame ass earth absorb amulet. Come on, that item is a piece of shit for the trouble you have have to undergo. It's much easier to get Tolten All-Elemental null or defeat Immortal One for all Elemental absorb.
I was just browsing through the item glossary and I missed a good deal of items. Does the Xbox live marketplace item count? I never logged online, but according to guide there are quite a few uber item you can purchase . I wonder do you have to get the Nataulis treasure as well? If so, I'm going skip it. That piece of shit moves really slow and guide doesn't even cover it. I don't want to move every square inch to find all sunken treasures. That's Lame! Too much trouble for 20 measly achievements. It's a good thing that I don't give a shit about achievement. I think I have 870 achievements for that game.
Absolutely loving this right now, the first few days I was getting pissed off at the tediousness and difficulty of some sections some times but once I hit...
When Kaim and the crew arrive at the Ghost Town and he re-meets his daughter
It got me hook, line and sinker. Brilliant story so far, but that bit was the OMG moment so far and Im not even done with the first disc.
This is one game where the guide is almost a need haha. Im going to get it today, it can be really frustrating.
All that's left for me is to level two more party members up to their 50's until I learn all their skills, then complete the Temple of Enlightenment, finish up the Backyard, and finally grab the last two seeds I'm missing. That should finish up most of the achievements. If I'm still missing a few accessories, I'll use a guide to find them and if I don't get the treasure achievement, screw it.
[quote name='archibishopthedoge']This is one game where the guide is almost a need haha. Im going to get it today, it can be really frustrating.[/quote]
Don't really think it's needed much if you talk to every NPC every chance you get basically. The only thing I recommend you do if you think you're wanting to get everything is get a list of Seed locations and check them off as you find them, not necessarily to use it as a walkthrough. Then on the final disk go back and get any you missed along the way. I'm sitting at 97/99 hating life right about now.
Wish there was an NPC in the game that would tell me where my missed seeds are.
[quote name='archibishopthedoge']Absolutely loving this right now, the first few days I was getting pissed off at the tediousness and difficulty of some sections some times but once I hit...
When Kaim and the crew arrive at the Ghost Town and he re-meets his daughter
It got me hook, line and sinker. Brilliant story so far, but that bit was the OMG moment so far and Im not even done with the first disc.
This is one game where the guide is almost a need haha. Im going to get it today, it can be really frustrating.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, that was amazing. I'm blown away by how good it is just on the first DISC. It blows away...frankly every other Japanese RPG aside from Sakaguchi's earlier games...
except the difficulty level is wacky. It's normally just fine/normal, and then you get these insanely, pointlessly hard boss battles that feel like someone's kicking you in the face for trying to enjoy the game. Heck, that fight right before that sequence is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too hard.
So I'm probably going to get stuck somewhere sooner or later. I'm probably stupid for even continuing to play it, yet at the same time I am absolutly blow away by it. Where's the easy mode?
EDIT: Oh, and so far I'm not seeing any of the so-called technical issues I've heard mentioned in reviews. Battles aren't too frequent, which is great, but even still they seem to load basically as fast as most RPGs. Or maybe not...but it's not terrible.
because of my schedule, i only get to play games on the weekends and I'm only 8 hours into LO. So, I can't keep up with the conversation going on. It kind of stinks. But, I'm glad everyone is having such a positive response. I haven't played a game this good in a while. It reaffirmed my love for JRPG's and turn-based combat.
I decided to pick this up last week based on this thread, reviews, and the trailer. I figured a game by someone involved with the Final Fantasy series would definitely appeal to the wife, and I was not wrong. This game has blown us both away so far, and we've barely scratched the surface (only in about 3.5 hours so far). Graphics are gorgeous, the 5.1 surround really immerses you into things, and the story / voice acting - movie quality IMO.
What we like to do is sit down and play for a couple hours, passing the controller back and forth. Since my wife is the big FF expert (having played VII, VIII, IX, and Kingdom Hearts), she helps out whenever it appears we're getting stuck. But the best advice I think I have so far is to just try and talk to everyone you can, and don't pass any opportunities to press A to hit a switch.