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BOF Dragon Quarter: How far am I?
- Thread starter belgurdo
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wipeout364
Member
YOu still have a ways to go I think. There is a bunch of bosses as you get closer to end. That game rocks best RPG of last year.
Dragona Akehi
Retired
Considering that I beat the game with about 48% D-counter without ever using it in battle, (unless locked into it at the beginning of a battle), I'd say you're alright.
Just keep in mind that you never need to use it unless you ARE locked into the Dragon form. There's always a way. (And yes, including clearing every room of enemies.)
Just keep in mind that you never need to use it unless you ARE locked into the Dragon form. There's always a way. (And yes, including clearing every room of enemies.)
ManDudeChild
Member
I've had BOF: Dragon Quarter for a good 4 months and STILL haven't touched it.
Ferrio said:
All enemies early on have the potential to ruin your day, so make sure you cut them a couple of times then move outside of their movement range to keep them from fucking you up. Once you hit level 10 or so (or get Lin), you can probably lay into the tiny enemies with no problem, but the big ones are still a mother, so just shoot/use magic on them until they die, or hide Ryu behind something that obscures movement and cut away. Traps help immensly, too.
Don't even bother with giant enemy groups, since it takes ages to kill all of them and the rewards usually aren't great. Just lay a trap or (once you get Dragon power) run through them.
JackFrost2012
Banned
belgurdo said:
DO NOT WASTE YOUR METER RUNNING THE HELL AROUND
The only way you can hurt them before jumping into battles is throwing traps at them, like bombs or whatever. I don't remember if slashing them (or hitting them for that matter) gives any effects on the battles, except you getting the initiative attack on them. How I played it is that I would try to engage into battles with only 1 monster in them, or try to seperate monsters if they're packed together. It's much easier to win battles if you only have to defeat 1 enemy. Do you even have any allies with you yet?
Shouta
Member
I got to the beginning of the last series of boss fights with like 50% (Would`ve been lower if I hadn`t D-Dashed through certain areas and used my Dragon Powers on two bosses earlier in the game) meter and just ended up blowing through the rest of my meter to finish the game quick =D. You can easily go through it without the D powers though. It`s a really easy game, just a lot of gamers are weaksauce ;p.
Greenpanda
Banned
You should be fine; I think I had about that on my D-Counter for the Frozen Road the first time through, and I was fine. Ended up with enough left to use D powers against all the last 5 bosses or so.
Don't worry too much about the increases just from walking around; it's very slight. If you simply avoid using your D-powers much, you'll have no problem getting through. (I'd recommend saving probably 50 percentage points for the last 2 areas...)
Don't worry too much about the increases just from walking around; it's very slight. If you simply avoid using your D-powers much, you'll have no problem getting through. (I'd recommend saving probably 50 percentage points for the last 2 areas...)
Crazymoogle
Member
Er, does SOL Restore reset your meter or just return it to the saved value? I was under the impression you could be pretty wasteful with the % as long as you don't mind restoring (which seems to be a given to build up XP anyway)
Well, I finally slogged through the first dungeon myself. I had to use SOL restart a few times and hit the shop for a couple ten packs worth of Healing items, but I finally seem to be moving the plot forward. I have no idea how one would make it through without a lot of items, though - even with top notch trap management the monsters do a great job of ripping the team apart.
Well, I finally slogged through the first dungeon myself. I had to use SOL restart a few times and hit the shop for a couple ten packs worth of Healing items, but I finally seem to be moving the plot forward. I have no idea how one would make it through without a lot of items, though - even with top notch trap management the monsters do a great job of ripping the team apart.
BobbyRobby
Member
I got really close to the end of the game, but I was just too low in level. I restarted, and haven't played much since. Great game though.
It shouldn't at all be THAT hard to beat the game without resorting to D-stuff, even still an SOL restart after making 75%+ progress will damn well guarantee an easy victory. Some of the abilities you discover by then (as well as the nest egg of Party XP to pimp) will really let you whip through the game in a matter of hours.
My intial run had a lot of experimentation and I reached the final few bosses with upwards 90% D-gauge(I used the dash feature stupidly quite often for the first 1/3rd of the game not realizing the repurcussions). SOL Restart + ~6 hours later...game annhilated. My D-gauge never got any use beyond the chipped percentage that cuts away from walking. D-rank 1/208 or whatever...
No need to start thinking about tedious loopholes to leveling. Just play naturally, you'll do fine.
My intial run had a lot of experimentation and I reached the final few bosses with upwards 90% D-gauge(I used the dash feature stupidly quite often for the first 1/3rd of the game not realizing the repurcussions). SOL Restart + ~6 hours later...game annhilated. My D-gauge never got any use beyond the chipped percentage that cuts away from walking. D-rank 1/208 or whatever...
No need to start thinking about tedious loopholes to leveling. Just play naturally, you'll do fine.
Dragona Akehi
Retired
Shouta said:
And you sir, are weaksauce for using D-Dash and the D-Dive at all!
Damn, I made it through the entire game w/o resorting to D-Power, knocked the last few bosses around and unleased the Dragon Breath on them just to show that I could fuck them up EVEN MORE.
This game, and Ninja Gaiden XBox have a special place in my heart, because when you finally learn the game, you'll realize that YOU, not them, are the boss creature everybody's trying to dispatch.
To all the ones who say "man I bet if I had all those powers of the last boss, I'd kick that boss' ASS", well, here you go.
BRING IT.
This game, and Ninja Gaiden XBox have a special place in my heart, because when you finally learn the game, you'll realize that YOU, not them, are the boss creature everybody's trying to dispatch.
To all the ones who say "man I bet if I had all those powers of the last boss, I'd kick that boss' ASS", well, here you go.
BRING IT.
JackFrost2012
Banned
DJ Brannon said:
My second time through, I made it to the last boss with like 16% D-Power. It was hi-larious.
Dragona Akehi
Retired
A wonderful feeling isn't it?
Greenpanda
Banned
Crazymoogle said:
It returns the counter to the value it was at when you made your last permasave. Yes, you can keep restoring to that save and building up XP. (Doing permasaves does take away from your final ranking at the end of the game, though. But it's easier to get a better ranking on a subsequent playthrough, anyway.)
If you do SOL Restart and go back to the start of the game, the D-Counter resets to 0%, of course
Dragona Akehi
Retired
Shouta said:
NO EXCUSE!
WEAKSAUCE!
I need to run through the game again. It's so much fun and it's great that they give you more story with each runthrough.
Doom_Bringer
Banned
THIS GAME SCREWED MY MEMORY CARD! AND DELTED THE SAVE I HATE IT!!!
Crazymoogle
Member
Ferrio said:
They don't walk into the fire glyphs? WTF? Every enemy I've run into so far gladly walks into the fire. (still good for damage reasons, though)
Crazymoogle said:
They sometimes do, sometimes don't. I'm always surprised when they do.... idiots. Though bombs rock, never could figure how to use them. I'd lay them on the ground... and nothing. But then I was facing some huge thing, layed down two glyphs, Kicked him into it then set off a bomb he was in the radius of.
Crazymoogle
Member
Ferrio said:
Yeah, I'm kinda confused about those too. From what I could gather, bombs are activated by the "Use" option (L trigger underneath 'Pick Up') but I haven't tried that yet in fear of being damaged by the blast myself. The game vaguely alludes to them being useful as pre-battle traps, but like you mentioned, I haven't seen any remote explosion effect before combat.
The only monsters I've seen that haven't run into the flames tend to be the ones who get stuck in the environment. I've seen one particular group that always seems to get hung up around a corner the size of a treasure chest.