I hope so, I'd like a challenge, especially now that I have all characters. There's lots of possibilities for character tactics now. I mean, I could have jumped to a higher level quest before, but that would require tons of grinding, so I decided to go the natural route and get all the characters and then move to Chapter 2. I'm still below the level required, but we'll see how it goes.
I have had trouble with three bosses so far. (All optional) Most of them are easy but there are some spikes here and there.
Yes. Default is 60, just edit the ini to unlock fps to what you want.
Which character did you start with? But the answer is quite a lot. It's an old school JRPG.
The Scholar I think. The one which has to track down ancient spell book.
How generous are the items drop ?
I tried to do alfin's story early on and one of his bosses was like hitting a brick wall.
I don't want to say you played it wrong, but imo you kinda played it wrong. There shouldn't be any grinding whatsoever, and I think barreling through with an unchanging party definitely adds way more monotony than intended. I doubt that's what they had in mind when they made it and I never understood the insistence by some to do it. The game is amazingly fun if you switch up your party (and thus your strategy) each chapter. And play with everyone. Going through with just four is likely why you had to grind some, and then it makes the back half boring as you drag along others.
I disagree. It features 8 charming stories that all feel really different from each other but also from the rpg landscape as a whole. The characters shine, even some NPCs (especially after endgame). It's different and maybe not for everyone but I really enjoyed the breath of fresh air it provided from the usual world destroying evil sort of thing (though that is partially there in the endgame).
The game by design is set up to encourage you to need to swap party setups and dual classing around often. If you never built party members in other classes to gain abilities to improve them in areas then you missed the point of the entire class system itself. In general by the end you should easily be able to have one of about any magic or weapon in your party to take advantage constantly. Till you multi class the party constantly shifts per story needs and once you can multiclass you change it up more to gain proficiency and skills for everyone.
See I don't really understand this. The whole reason I stuck with one party, is because even using the same 3 characters for 8 chapters, those 3 were still massively under leveled for the next set of chapters. I felt like I was forced into using the same party the whole game, otherwise I would've had to grind 2-3x as much as characters would be even more under leveled then. I did every characters' chapter 1, and then I'm expected to be like 10-15 levels higher than I am before I start chapter 2s. How am I possibly supposed to make up that level gap without grinding? I'm not one to do side quests in RPGs because they're damn boring, so maybe that's why, but I feel like Exp is given out rather scarcely, and doing a ton of them wouldn't have really made a difference.
I honestly don't see what more I could have done with the combat system though? I had H'aanit + Apothecary, Ophilia + Scholar, Cyrus + Dancer, Therion + Warrior. If I knew of a passive that would benefit someone, I'd get them it. I didn't really see any value in swapping jobs much because at the end of the day, I'd still end up with a similar mix because most fights are the same in the sense that you need buff + debuffs, multi-hit attacks for breaks, heavy hitters for massive damage, and healing.
Cyrus in general is using his attack k magic to waste folks most of the game. Alfyn is great as a healer and does respectable damage but it's all in the equipment. One of the best to dual class. Merchant is phenomenal and honestly using her as your main is considered the easiest route. She hits a ton of times so breaks folks easy, makes you money, gets you discounts and even pumps out BP to make everyone else whose on damage duty do more hits and damage.Her ability to hire as an attack let's you abuse weapon weaknesses like mad, plus keeping her around means constant money so you can get top geared for everyone and even at a discount.
My experience with the game was that I completed every characters chapter 1, and yet all the surrounding dungeons, as well as all the chapter 2s absolutely destroyed me due to the level gap, so I made the assumption that the game is just about grinding to fill the gap (let's face it, lots of jrpgs are like that). So I did the same after every set of chapters, opting against using other characters as it would just increase that time. I felt the game was guiding me against doing side content, because right from the start it was killing me far too easily. If it's that easy for a player to get misguided, I don't really know what else to say. It's why I didn't particularly like the game, because it felt like every path was the wrong one, but I had to march on anyways.
But you refused to do side quests or wonder off path? Even though every person in every town and in the overworld had icons on their head. The game was even advertised on the premise that as you interacted with the world the things you did for or to the people would change all the aspects of the world itself. The game was pushing that pretty hard out there. It was even said that to tell 8 seperate stories about 8 lives in a world where you could move nonlinearly around that the only way to really tell a story would be through sidequests. Beat a character chapter unlock new ones. Some self contained to an area, some multipart, some overworld and some that lead you around the world. This was the pattern and it was there not only from the start no matter who you chose to start as but before the start from every review. Unless all you'd heard was RPG and paid attention to the artstyle it was pretty big. Playing it that way was designed into every aspect of the design so you'd naturally end up with all 8 as fully functional in any loadout because to get sidequests you often need to swap whose in your party in a town to clear it out.
