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DQ8 Demo Battle Mode search "challenge"

Red Scarlet

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The Battle Mode of the game has a pretty large area for you to explore. On the up side, there's easily a couple of hours of playtime to explore it all.

But how good are you at exploring? In the entire area that you are able to move around in, there are a number of treasure chests on the world map, along with visible monsters. How many are you able to find? I know the final number, but how close can you get?

Some things to know:

There are some visible monsters and treasure chests that you can *see*, but not reach. Include these in your numbers.

There are only two places that you can enter, the 'Church Along the River', and an old couple's house. Talking to the nun in the church is also the only Inn in the whole scenario. You cannot warp there either, you have to hoof it back. But you do have the map.

Level 18 is the "max" for all 4 characters.

If you build up Kukule/Angelo's points for Bows, you can learn an ability to absorb MP from badguys which can help avoiding treks back to the one place you can rest.
Building up the Hero's 'Courage' stat should teach him the Repel spell eventually.

Monsters do drop normal and rare items (at least a couple do), so you can find some stuff you otherwise wouldn't be able to in the demo (like a hammer for Yangus, or a Staff for Jessica or Kukule/Angelo).

A small list of the places you can *get to*, but not enter are (I'll edit and change to the demo names if I don't remember them):

These may be considered spoilers, so yeah. Some places I'm just giving a generic name, though. All named places are due to being named in the demo.

Start at Church Along the River
Maiella Monastery
Doni Town/Simpleton
Old Monastery Site/NA
"Beach Cave"
Asukanta Castle/Ascantha
Lakeshore Inn/Lakeside Cabin
"Grey Building with Red+Green door"
Palmid/Pickham
"Island House"
"Swamp Cave"

Try to describe where (using the closest place from above) and what is in the chests (even the locked ones) with spoiler tags for the number of chests and visible monsters that you find, including the 'name' of the visible monsters too.

Let's see who is the best explorer! I'm sure this topic will be on page 5 when I get back to it though, but maybe it'll be somewhat fun. Gogogo guys.
 
How are the spell names in the demo? They turn out okay? The few screenshots I did see looked really good so far...
 
I'd have to play the demo again to re-look, but they seemed to be what were said earlier.

Sizz, Frizzle, Crack, Woosh, Bawoosh, Squelch, Miniheal, Mediheal, etc.

I spent about 5 hours with the demo, and pretty much if something in the game was named, ~90% of the time it was a completely different name from the Japanese version or earlier English names.
 
Red Scarlet said:
I'd have to play the demo again to re-look, but they seemed to be what were said earlier.

Sizz, Frizzle, Crack, Woosh, Bawoosh, Squelch, Miniheal, Mediheal, etc.

I spent about 5 hours with the demo, and pretty much if something in the game was named, ~90% of the time it was a completely different name from the Japanese version or earlier English names.
Ugh... this makes me sad... :(
 
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