It's not back forwards mash attack. Brandish can only be activated after your basic 4 hit melee combo by pressing forward + square. Level 1 gives you 1 spin, level 2 gives you 2 etc. Each spin can be slightly delayed from the previous, and you can change direction anytime before the next spin.
Ah, I see, thanks a lot!
Necromancy works anytime you find any bones. Also level 1 necromancy gives you 1 skeleton at 50% of your level, level 2 gives 2 skeletons at 60% etc. So you have to decide whether to bring them back to be revived as a hireling or just use them as skeletons. I play with zero hirelings, so I just use them right away. Hirelings are common to your pool of characters, (i.e. if you've unlocked a lvl 35 hireling with your fighter, it will be available even to your lvl 2 dwarf) but you cannot choose your own characters as hirelings. This is because hirelings die can permanently during combat.
Again, thanks for the info. I didn't have a clue you could summon more than one skeleton per, er, skeleton on the ground, that's cool!
A buddy of mine over at the gamestop near my house let me see the artbook they got in shipment last week, have to say i'm kinda disappointed the art is nice but the book is very thin it's maybe 100(?) pages.
Um, it's a preorder bonus. It's 64 pages, which I'd say is quite generous for an extra at no cost. If you've been buying "real" artbooks in the past, you'll know that most can go for 30-60$ or more ON THEIR OWN.
Does the game have multiple costumes or is it just palette swap?
Palette swaps. It's a 2d game; costumes would mean drawing every single animation from scratch; for that kind of effort I'd rather they just made a new character.
I'll be honest, Elf is by far the hardest character.
That's awesome to hear, as she'll probably be my first character and I was fearing the game would be too easy.
Look how silly I am.
I just downloaded Chronicles of Mystara and picked apart so many similarities between those games and what I know of Dragon's Crown, that it finally dawned on me that George Kamitani was involved in both.
lol. I am hyped beyond belief once again.
No kidding! There are TONS of nods from Dragon's Crown to Mystara. Just a few:
- The mine/fire geiser traps in Mystara are ported straight over to DC (a hole with a surrounding sloped ring of metal).
- Lots of stock D&D monsters, like the beholder, owlbears, hellhounds, scorpions, lizardmen, chimera, harpy, red dragon, etc.
- A lot of spells are ported straight over (meteor swarm, polymorph, flesh to stone, and so on).
- Blocking (rare for a BEU) and counterattacks.
- Ring menus and consumables like daggers.
- Some enemies impervious to physical attacks, only vulnerable to magic.
I know there's lots more that I'm forgetting.
