I got away with MC, Aki, Mitsuru, and Koromaru being my main party in FES. She's not a dedicated healer but that's what I used. My second playthrough I used Ken instead. But after hearing about arguments for Yukari, I think I'm sold on her now.
I'm still early but I noticed I still haven't gotten a single healing spell for her. I guess this explains that.
Yukari is the Yukiko of p3 (well, yukiko is the yukari of p4). Lots of SP, healing, support and also some damage. I cant even imagine playing either game without them
I'm still early but I noticed I still haven't gotten a single healing spell for her. I guess this explains that.
That's funny because my go to P4 party is pretty similar to my go to P3 party. Kanji for Aki, Naoto for Koromaru/Ken, and Teddie for Mitsuru.
This is pretty eye opening. In the originals I never bothered leveling the characters I didn't use so I never knew this. Will definitely take this into account this go around.
I'm using MC/Aigis/Ken/Koromaru instead of my previous P3 party of MC/Akihiko/Ken/Koromaru simply because Koromaru's Theurgy pairs with Aigis' Theurgy really well, and I like having all-enemy insta-kill coverage for Tartarus climbs.
The buffs they added by doing the Linked Episode/side activity content is pretty absurd. Having an automatic Sukunda from Koromaru every fight makes treasure hands super easy to farm, for example.
How easy is it to notice these events? I've only done two so far. The first the game basically forces you to meet with Junpei, but Aki's I just happen to find him where I needed to go for a request. I would like to get as many of them as I can.
they kinda are easy to fight in this one regardless
It's fine to do whatever. If you're trying to play perfectly optimally then do it in one night, but if you can't then there's no issue. In the original and FES there was a mechanic (tiredness) that made it so party members were weaker after a certain number of floors/battles and then left and were unavailable for the rest of the night if you returned to the lobby. This partially acted as a way to force you to spread it out over a few nights, so it's definitely not intended for you to push yourself to a silly point if you've used your resources. It's definitely ok to spread it out.
Ah, that explains a lot and makes sense. I'm not personally a fan of grinding/tedious (over)leveling, but I likely will be in a similar boat to the poster you responded to. Up to Floor 16 in my first foray into Tartarus thus far (still haven't left)...I have 2 Snuff Souls left, but my whole party is nearly out of SP (again) at the moment. I think I've found 4 total SP regenerating items so far (all Snuff Souls)...seems like SP replenish items rarely/never drop in the lowest floors of Tartarus and only spawn in chests, at least based on my experience so far.
This is me in general/me right now with the SP management - glad to hear that the first time was the the only time that you had any SP issues - hoping that's what it will turn out like for me, as well!
Fellow one goer, here. I got a Spirit Drain (Drain SP from an enemy to replenish your own) card from a Shuffle on the second block of floors, and now any time my MC is low on SP I use a teleporter to go back to like Floor 2, suck up some lowbie SP, then resume my climb 🤩
FES is just alright as whole, but the continuation of the story after that is great imo. The ending of FES hits hard for me.
I'm permanently stuck with Yukari Aki and Mitsuru. But for a second playthrough I'll bench Aki for Koromaru.
I thought Bebe was okay in Portable but he's amazing with the voiceover here. It makes me so happy every time he tells me "peace out" at the end of the link.
