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Fantasy Life |OT| Living the American Dream
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Samurai_Heart
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Someone can make one but basically I came to the conclusion like ACNL the spreadsheet will become useless, with loads of people who stops playing after a while =/ and in the end people will just post to each other here their friend codes here.
Robin64
Member
Heh, you're absolutely right there, really.
Samurai_Heart
Member
Best way to start (Now that letterbox/swapnote is gone T-T) is with people who have no last online status that you can see, like I said in the ACNL thread it will be a pain, I basically re-added all the FCs and deleted anyone who deleted me (where it basically ask you to put a temp name for the friend). Just note down the FC and names before you start deleting though.
Wished Nintendo added an app to check who deleted you but doubt they ever will for the 3DS =/
Oh yeah, I need to do that as well, added some people for Pokemon and don't know if they deleted me.
Robin64
Member
What are you going to make first?
Tell us all about it.
Let me play vicariously through your impressions.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Heh I just finished doing exactly this, there were a lot of people with no status but not many had deleted me.
I'll wait until it's confirmed that we can play cross-region... and then I'll be harsher and cut some more!
So many of my friends I remember well from Swapnote/Letterbox but I haven't played or communicated with them since it went down
Yup. Killed a vital part of what made the 3DS unique, IMHO. Something more intimate and warming than Miiverse.
I was hoping we'd at least get FlipNote as a consolation, but.....
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Dat New Leaf hype! When the lewd thread spilled over into Swapnote... wow.
The amount of notes coming through was insane, great times.
I remember that. It was insane! So many notes that every time I opened the app I would get like 50 new notes. The lead-up to AC:NL's release was really fun
Ok, I'm pulling off the wrap, opening the game case. That new game smell, I love it. Club Nintendo thingie is going to the side for later. Gonna look at the boxart some first. *twenty seconds pass* Man, I love Level-5. But anyway, game time! I gently take out the game, slide it into my 3DS. The music that plays is pleasant but nothing special. A bit short, maybe. There's a sick airship at the top, though. Actually, I forgot to look at the back of the box. It actually looks a bit crummy, haha, not a fan of the font, at all. Alright, I closed the box, putting it in the shelf now. Back to my desk. Deep breaths. I'm preparing to start up the game. Boy, this is the moment. It has all come down to this. Ok. I can do this. Welp. HERE GOES--
End of Prologue.
Will follow through with my Magician plans.
Robin64
Member
You've had like an hour and you made it that far? Just put your damn name in!
Had an hour or two with the game already. it's a bit on the slower side of things, having a combat class certainly must help quicken the pace slightly, but it's definitely charming as hell. Woodcutting it my first (I'm starting with all the gathering classes because what's more frustrating than seeing a perfectly nice ore / tree / fish etc and not being able to get the thing.)
Sammy Samusu
Member
Before we add each other, we need to know if the game supports cross-region online play. :/
Robin64
Member
Well right now, only Europeans will have it anyway. We're a month away from that test, so add away safe in the knowledge we're all superior EU players.
How many letters/characters do we get to use when naming?
I want to name mine E. Filys Atnaf!
Robin64
Member
...that's awful. You think about what you've done.
YesManKablaam
Neo Member
Started off as a Tailor. Got to be looking fine before I start saving the world.
Robin64
Member
I'm really bad at picking male names, ok?
So play as a girl!
Personally I'll be a male named Robin.
Honestly, I choose girls in most games when given the opportunity but never in these life-sims, for some reason.
Anyway, I just decided on a name.
Apollo
moozoom
Member
Had time to play again last night, so here are some more impressions...
I leveled my Hunter rank quite high, ( I love the bow attacks - having some Dragon's Dogma Magic archer flashbacks while playing ) and opened up some new areas... but I got the problem that I went by many minerals and trees that I couldn't cut or mine - GASP.
So I decided to finally change vocations, and leveled most of them until "apprentice" rank so I could finally make hunter/story quests but also take home all the goodies seen during the exploration. I suppose you can buy most of the ingredients for crafting, but I prefer to collect them myself (and it's cheaper !)
Some advice : maybe try to change vocations once in a while instead of doing all of the tutorials one after another like I did. You can skip them if you want, and have the job ability instantly, but I wanted to see the little bits of plot that happen during the different tutorials quests.
I'm playing with a friend that is Magician / Alchemist, so I think I'll skip those two for now I'll get to it when I'll be bored of the others vocations or maxed up in everything.
Online play was great, not much different from local co-op apart from some framerate drops once in a while. It really takes me back to those hundreds of hours we shared in DQ IX with the same group of friends.
We went exploring some caves, and were utterly destroyed by a big monster so I guess you have to come back later in certains areas. I find the difficulty well done, there's no grinding necessary, just doing the different quests and killing the mobs on the way is enough to progress (something I enjoy in games since Chrono Trigger). Anyway, you can avoid the monsters if you really want to skip ahead.
GOTY for me. Apologies to the villagers in my New leaf town, the mayor is busy.
I leveled my Hunter rank quite high, ( I love the bow attacks - having some Dragon's Dogma Magic archer flashbacks while playing ) and opened up some new areas... but I got the problem that I went by many minerals and trees that I couldn't cut or mine - GASP.
So I decided to finally change vocations, and leveled most of them until "apprentice" rank so I could finally make hunter/story quests but also take home all the goodies seen during the exploration. I suppose you can buy most of the ingredients for crafting, but I prefer to collect them myself (and it's cheaper !)
Some advice : maybe try to change vocations once in a while instead of doing all of the tutorials one after another like I did. You can skip them if you want, and have the job ability instantly, but I wanted to see the little bits of plot that happen during the different tutorials quests.
I'm playing with a friend that is Magician / Alchemist, so I think I'll skip those two for now I'll get to it when I'll be bored of the others vocations or maxed up in everything.
Online play was great, not much different from local co-op apart from some framerate drops once in a while. It really takes me back to those hundreds of hours we shared in DQ IX with the same group of friends.
We went exploring some caves, and were utterly destroyed by a big monster so I guess you have to come back later in certains areas. I find the difficulty well done, there's no grinding necessary, just doing the different quests and killing the mobs on the way is enough to progress (something I enjoy in games since Chrono Trigger). Anyway, you can avoid the monsters if you really want to skip ahead.
GOTY for me. Apologies to the villagers in my New leaf town, the mayor is busy.
Doing Hunter now, looks like they have tons of skills as well (18 including base attack)!
Start button, you don't have it at first, once you get that cutscene with the butterfly in front if the Goddess statue, you go to the guild and everything opeen up.
Thanks!
Same thing happened to my mother, haha x)Well that's weird, I chose for woodcutter in the character creation thing but the guild master just gave me a Paladin license
I think you have to double click on your first job.
1.Sneaking level up! Too cool to sneak pass a monster.
2. You can gather items for quests without taking the quest first. The game will let you know that you complete the requirements for the quest.
3. Don't undertimate elit mobs and don't fight the dragon if you're low leve : 86 damages! One shooted me at level 5, lol.
2. You can gather items for quests without taking the quest first. The game will let you know that you complete the requirements for the quest.
3. Don't undertimate elit mobs and don't fight the dragon if you're low leve : 86 damages! One shooted me at level 5, lol.
My life as a cook, part 2.
Being an apprentice cook, there's something that I have to do: running around to gather ingredients and boy, the country is vast. Most of my gatherings are unfortunately inedible plants but I discovered a few farms that allowed me to pick some veggies for free and that were selling their own production of course. But buying ingredients is very expensive, I don't think I'll be able to leave my attic soon
My quest to become the best cook ever has been side-tracked by some... unexpected encounters. Still, I decided to take the time to help them, it's better for business to have some good and influential friends after all. After a few errands and adventures, I crossed the whole country to buy some tomatoes ! THE WHOLE COUNTRY! For some reasons, the weather around the city is too cold to grow tomatoes. And obviously I need them for my recipes like the world famous fluffy omelette. With my bag full of ingredients, I went back to my master and started working. It took me a while but master finally acknowledged my skills and I am now an apprentice cook or something. Now, I can try my skills on new recipes, but I suspect the fishmongers to be some kind of thief, buying fish is squeezing my wallet dry. I'm afraid I'll be a poor cook all my life.
Being an apprentice cook, there's something that I have to do: running around to gather ingredients and boy, the country is vast. Most of my gatherings are unfortunately inedible plants but I discovered a few farms that allowed me to pick some veggies for free and that were selling their own production of course. But buying ingredients is very expensive, I don't think I'll be able to leave my attic soon
My quest to become the best cook ever has been side-tracked by some... unexpected encounters. Still, I decided to take the time to help them, it's better for business to have some good and influential friends after all. After a few errands and adventures, I crossed the whole country to buy some tomatoes ! THE WHOLE COUNTRY! For some reasons, the weather around the city is too cold to grow tomatoes. And obviously I need them for my recipes like the world famous fluffy omelette. With my bag full of ingredients, I went back to my master and started working. It took me a while but master finally acknowledged my skills and I am now an apprentice cook or something. Now, I can try my skills on new recipes, but I suspect the fishmongers to be some kind of thief, buying fish is squeezing my wallet dry. I'm afraid I'll be a poor cook all my life.