Once you get the hang of things it's not bad, haha.
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Demon Gaze |OT| Even heroes have to pay rent
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Once you get the hang of things it's not bad, haha.
vagabondarts
Member
I'm about 14 hrs into Elminage and halfway through Unchained blades.
Guess they will have to hold me over
If you have a PC theres also the fan translation of Generation Xth Code Hazard, though it'll be a little rough around the edges compared to DG
vagabondarts
Member
Yeah but how do you buy the game
vagabondarts
Member
We need a dungeon crawler community thread
vagabondarts
Member
You have cursed equipment. You can wear healing undies to negate the damage loss
Healing hat works too, but the mental image of this fighter walking around with healing undies on over his armor is hilarious.
Got through
with my level 16 party. I really need to stop playing this and start studying for finals. :/
Astarte
Does your weapon have the "death" status? That randomly OHKOs enemies, I think.
My Samurai has one as of just now. Maybe it was Slash 1 and I didn't notice it was her doing and not my Assassin's.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
If you have an HP- and another equip with HP+, happy days for you.
cj_iwakura
Member
The purchasing a room prereq to building a party is terrible.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
You only have to do it 3 times though... besides, if you got all 5 from the get-go, you'd be playing easy mode.
cj_iwakura
Member
Why have to do it at all? It's just limiting for no good reason.
vagabondarts
Member
Agree. I grinded (ground?) at the beginning until I opened those up. It took me until the second dungeon to be able to afford them all and get my full party.
Worth it.
Basileus777
Member
Why not? There's nothing wrong with the design. You should have a full party by the end of 2nd dungeon anyway.
cj_iwakura
Member
I don't. I barely have money to pay rent, much less 5000. It's terrible design. If I want to have a full party in a dungeon crawler, I should have the option immediately. Make the enemies harder, don't limit the party.
I beat the second boss and the following stuff with me and two other party members. Full party? Ya right.
I don't mind it. The only thing I do mind is not being able to spend money freely when saving for the last two party members is more logical.
Basileus777
Member
That's not an argument against the design though, you're just stating your preference.
Arguably it also serves as a good introduction to players new to the genre because they dont have as many characters to keep track of.
It really isn't that big of a deal. You'll have more money than you can spend pretty soon.
cj_iwakura
Member
It's a valid complaint when a game goes against the norm. That's the kind of thing a knowledgeable DC reviewer should call out.
Figure a lot of people here would be interested, the Japanese site for Operation Abyss has been updated: http://www.opabyss.jp
vagabondarts
Member
Yessssssss
Basileus777
Member
I should hope a knowledgeable DC reviewer (whatever that is) knows better than to call design terrible just because it differs from the norm.
That's a stupid thing to say. Maybe we should just have one DC developer release an identical game every year to suit your tastes.
cj_iwakura
Member
There's lots of ways to innovate without limiting a party behind paying extra fees, but I guess I'm the only person who feels that way, so I'll leave it at that.
I took a peek in here and saw the dread over not being able to
in
area, but I managed just fine since I got a Healing staff for my Healer. Neptune went down a lot easier than Hermes did!
I didn't find the room renting design to be an issue at all. The only time I felt "crippled" by it was up until I made my third party member a healer, and from then on a 3-man party was competent enough until I got enough money for a fourth after clearing both initial dungeons and a 5th two dungeons after that. If anything it let me focus more on learning what the smaller roster of people can do before adding more of 'em to the mix.
use magic
Neptune's
I didn't find the room renting design to be an issue at all. The only time I felt "crippled" by it was up until I made my third party member a healer, and from then on a 3-man party was competent enough until I got enough money for a fourth after clearing both initial dungeons and a 5th two dungeons after that. If anything it let me focus more on learning what the smaller roster of people can do before adding more of 'em to the mix.
vagabondarts
Member
I want that game even more now. Is this a cyberpunk game?
It seems like there are quite a bit of cyberpunk tropes in there.
The hype is real...
I think it's related to the Cross Blood series so not really cyberpunk, but more futuristic scifi.
How do you able to pull it through? My party is level 16-18, and it still happening ;__;
No it is not against the norm. Dungeon Siege II, albeit on different genre also have party restricting and expanding mechanic. Party restriction in Demon Gaze works to not make beginner player feel overwhelmed by numerous options of the party. The early game is doable with only just limited party number as the game neatly designed to fit with it. Besides, you should be able to purchase the next rooms with minimal grinding except for the last one where you actually need grind it, but again the grind it's not too bad. Besides, your rented room able to house stats-increasing furniture so it's clearly there for a reason not just to piss you off.
I used Demon Rage with Mars immediately and focused mostly on Gazer Heart + Terra Bane the rest of the time. There was some luck involved, but it worked out in the end.
Anyone died during that battle or you managed to leave full intact?
Only my main character and healer survived. I was only at default (cool?) difficulty though, which might have made it easier for me than a lot of the more hardcore dungeon-crawler fans in here.
slaughterking
Member
Finally defeated him. Just trying the same old strategy long enough did the trick!
Now that I'm closing in on the end and am right before the fight with
the Archangel
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
You can do everything in the post game.
slaughterking
Member
Cool, thanks!
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
No its what a narrow minded person who thinks everything should be designed a specific way would think.
Seriously dont be a disgrace to the community.
Its based off the Generation Xth series, which is where Cross Blood comes from.
About to plat it once I find 2 items @ 50 hours atm. I would say once I understood the basics only 4 bosses took more then 1 attempt 1 being postgame and 1 being a surpise on how strong it was.
Was AFK for some time on it so time might be a little over estimate. Had fun the whole time.
Astarte down without anybody dying
I get so much exp in
after Astarte my team was roughly the same as the one I posted on the last page but after only half an hour in the
my party is lvl 18.
The funny thing is nothing in the
can really hurt my frontline everybody has at least 75 Armor (my paladin has 135), right now I feel slightly overpowered, just defeated the
without anybody getting damage in like 5 rounds.
I get so much exp in
Grimodar Castle
Castle
The funny thing is nothing in the
Castle
undying
djplaeskool
Member
Aww yiss
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Been waiting for them to update the site. Glad to see it was pretty much on schedule.
slaughterking
Member
The (presumably) last boss is a little tougher than I can handle right now. Seems like a long fight, mostly manageable, but once he somehow manages to kill one of my dudes it completely ruins my rhythm and I can't seem to recover from that.
More grinding, I suppose. :I
More grinding, I suppose. :I
Astarte down without anybody dying
Meanwhile I barely make it alive with level 19 Paladin and Enraged Mars D:
I'm bad at this game
Meanwhile I barely make it alive with level 19 Paladin and Enraged Mars D:
I'm bad at this game
I actually don't know why but my team is really really strong, up to this point I never had to try a boss more than three times and I'm playing on "Warm"-difficulty.
And I don't think I'm playing especially good or something.
The first fight against Astarte I had bad luck and everyone died except my Paladin but because I had the Neptune Heal buff my Pala just couldn't die, after 2-3 minutes it was finally over.
I don't know if my gear is just good or what it is but my party takes almost no damage and deals absurd amounts of damage, my gazer was hitting Astarte for 250x3 damage with Terrabane and my range is doing constant 200-300 hits.
slaughterking
Member
I feel like good/bad luck can make a huge difference sometimes.