To be honest, Xenogears is pretty flawed and a lesser game than Blade overall, but it was so ambitious. The story's scale is such they couldn't properly do it justice in one game and never tried again. There's also that 90's Squaresoft charm I adore, and giant robots of course! As for Saga, Ep.1 and especially Ep.2 may be a bit of a pain to play nowadays but they're worth it just to experience Ep.3 - which is probably in my top 3 PS2 RPG - to its fullest.
Depends on the character, Shulk needs to reposition quite often for example
Some arts have optimal effect defending on your position relative to the target.
The biggest missed opportunity of this Remaster/Remake/whatever is not swapping just a couple of instances of Engage the Enemy with it.
Yeah I heard about the "disk 2" mishap of xenogears, kind of curious to get to that part of the game. Hopefully this series comes back in some manner at some point but with current SE I kind of doubt it. I was having a lot more trouble with saga's battle system when I played it, gonna have to get my head around the boost stuff when I go back to it.
If the combat system is giving you trouble, have a peek at the quick video guide linked in the OP (and stop whenever you reach a part that the game hasn't even introduced cause you don't need to overload your brain right away)
if you want to add "inline" spoilers, use the tag
[ispoiler]spoiler text[/ispoiler], your spoiler tag had the actual spoiler entered as teh spoiler description!!! (very dangerous!) but since you didn't put anything in as the actual spoiler content, it only displays in replies.[spoiler="description of spoiler content"]actual spoiler here[/spoiler]
Thank you, I made a mistake writing with the smartphone and I didn't notice that I put the content of the spoiler in the tag
Apparently they fixed this in DE...
welp. locked myself out of 3 quests without realizing :( I was going for 100% but apparently that won't be possible now, I guess 100% without 3 quests. Does anyone know other quest lines that lock you out of future quests? (Not talking about mutually exclusive ones, since those are impossible to complete at the same time anyway).
I think its less of a "you missed out on these quests" situation, and more of a "you made a choice so events will happen differently, including those quests not existing" situation. So rest assured, you can still 100% the game lol
welp. locked myself out of 3 quests without realizing :( I was going for 100% but apparently that won't be possible now, I guess 100% without 3 quests. Does anyone know other quest lines that lock you out of future quests? (Not talking about mutually exclusive ones, since those are impossible to complete at the same time anyway).
Yeah, I'm just saying it's a bummer. I wish there would've been two extra quests for the outcome I chose for example. And I noticed that the only quest related achievements are 50, 100 and 300 quests so I'm good.
welp. locked myself out of 3 quests without realizing :( I was going for 100% but apparently that won't be possible now, I guess 100% without 3 quests. Does anyone know other quest lines that lock you out of future quests? (Not talking about mutually exclusive ones, since those are impossible to complete at the same time anyway).
You can just temporarily enable Expert Mode and bring everyone's levels down a few levels.
Try it out some different characters if you haven't already. The variation is very fun!
I barely disk any heart to hearts, what should I keep in mind to get that achievement? Also are there any missable ones? When I played on Wii I only did the story and never bothered with these
You just need to make sure to succeed perfectly in one Heart to Heart by picking the right answers, and fail miserably in another by picking the wrong answers.
wow we still have those :O
I still remember taking on one of the flying elites in Satorl Marsh in the original versions and barely making it out alive. That was so good.
