TalesOfWin
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i am at temple of trials, how far am i?
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Like 25%. Maybe less.
Honestly, the amount of time you played this game, if you didn't at least like it I would presume you were a glutton for punishment.
I put 70 hours into FF13 and didn't like 1 minute of it. Did it for some of the trophies before realizing just how ridiculous the list was and giving up.
Hidden treasure chests.
doniewhalberg
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Mmm. Started this earlier, having a hell of a time getting into it though. Everything has been so slow and drawn out so far. Maybe it's just me, I haven't played a J-RPG is literally forever, but I was pretty excited for this before and now, eeeeh. I'm not sure it's going to be for me, if it doesn't pick up the pace a bit. If I have to deal with cutscene -> shallow tutorial for another few hours, I might fold. Later gameplay looks so nice too.
Steve McQueen
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Esther
Esther
Any tips? There's so much going on, that I find it quite confusing. Let put it this way: I did a lot better fighting enemies on my own.
Yup, you are glutton for punishment. Should have known.
How are you fighting battles?
uncharted86
Member
They mark the locations of hidden treasures. You get a spell at one point that reveals them on your world map. You get a trophy for picking up all 100 of them.
breakfuss
Member
I'm not even saying this as someone who's completely enamored of the game: it does get better. For me, I'd say around the 8-10 hour mark.
Ultimadrago
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I'm so sorry.
It seems to me he likes trophies. He's said he doesn't like leaving games with only a few percent on the trophy count.
Well that's the reason I bought it but I tend to finish just about everything I play. Then I put some overtime into it to try and trophy whore it but the game has ridiculously grindy trophies, ones that make some of this game's trophies look easy.
Steve McQueen
Member
Usually, I'll start a battle myself, use magic spells and let Mitey finish the job.
I only have three familiars and just swapped one with
Esther
doniewhalberg
Member
Oh god haha. 8 hours, man. If it gets better though...we'll see. I'm playing Dead Space as well right now, maybe once I've polished that off I'll focus in a bit more and get over the beginning hump but especially with another new game right there, it's been easy to switch over.
cpp_is_king
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Does the 250 familiars trophy count duplicates? Like if i caught 250 of the same familiar would i still get the trophy?
cpp_is_king
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Sad to admit i platinumed that game, lol.
uncharted86
Member
No, but evolving a familiar counts as multiple species for the trophy, so if you evolve one from the first to the final stage it will count as 3.
At least that's what it says in the trophy guide I've been using for a couple trophies. It's found here: http://goo.gl/MpnLS
1. You can grind a little bit outside of the city and heal every time your health goes down more.
2. With money you get from battling, stock up on health supplies. Use those health supplies to heal you self every time you are not near a town or healing spot and continue to battle.
3. What I did was use Miteys cut loose attack because it damages all of the enemies. Once they are down just finish them off with normal attacks.
4. Are your equipment up to date? You might want to do that if not.
5. Stop using Oliver and just focus on Mitey. If you are like me, you will use Oliver the further you get into the game.
Steve McQueen
Member
Thanks
Will give it another go.
Also another good tip is to switch between mitey and Oliver right before you get attack and are in low health. You can avoid a hit from the bad guys this way and allow you a little bit of time to heal up. Then you can switch back to Mitey and fight again.
It's also ok to die as long as you press continue instead of going back to the title screen, you might lose some money, but you get to keep your XP.
It's not that bad. Dungeon took me about half an hour to get through with all chests gotten. I did avoid most battles though due to being OP.
cpp_is_king
Member
That actually doesn't sound too bad then. Grinding Tokotokos you can take a familiar up to 3rd stage pretty quickly.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
They said that if they did make a sequel it would have a new world and probably an adult protagonist.
WAR recon zero
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any way i can have my party defend 100% of the time? i pulled it off a few times but i'm not consistent.
Nose Master
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Anything definitive on the glim trophy? I've definitely picked up 2k by now. If the end battle vacuum ones count, that is. If not, ugh.
Thank god. Oliver and his "wait, what's going on?" after every main story bit is so infuriating.
Thank god. Oliver and his "wait, what's going on?" after every main story bit is so infuriating.
checkeredknight
Member
Oh god the
I really like the environments in this game, there's some really fun and unique ideas.
fairy village bit is lovely. The stand-up comedy thing was awesome, it actually made me laugh out loud. I noticed one of the fairies quoting Bruce Forsyth too, which was funny. The little 2D "dungeon" was a nice surprise.
I think it's 250 different familiars. Golden familiars are included in the count.
RurouniZel
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Die Squirrel Die
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Unfortunately from what I've observed your party members won't cancel their actions when you tell them to defend, so if they are in the middle of a long cast they won't have time to finish it and then start defending.
So it looks like I'll be retiring my Gold Mitey I got with the Wizard's Edition.
He's just not keeping up with the rest of the familiars and having a tough time fighting monsthers (he's starting to take a lot of damage). I can't complain too much since he's lasted me quite a bit (I'm at the Glittering Grotto).
That'll do Shinymite, that'll do.
He's just not keeping up with the rest of the familiars and having a tough time fighting monsthers (he's starting to take a lot of damage). I can't complain too much since he's lasted me quite a bit (I'm at the Glittering Grotto).
That'll do Shinymite, that'll do.
Seems to average around 35-40 if you don't go crazy on side content when you get the ability to go anywhere.
Dreamer RD
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Epic game. But sidequests are awful. Especially alchemy ones.
It gets even better later on
Can't wait for
Porco Rosso 2!
I'm so close, but the S-Rank fights are really beating me good.
Congrats. I still need the merit stamp one (only have the war ogre ax or whatever it's called, that errand), 250 familiar, and alchemy as the tough ones. I'm very close to maxing Mitey's hearts and potential. And I assume I'm close to the 1000 battles and 2000 glims trophies.
@RangerBAD what level are you? I finished the S-rank at level 68 I believe, the final fight was kind of tough but doable.
I have 91 familiars to go. I'm ashamed to say it, but Oliver and company are level 99, except Marcassin because I never used him. Most of my familiars are in the 90s. It has to be what familiars I'm using. I feel like I should be winning without trying with that level. Maybe that's part of the problem too.
Dreamer RD
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Even with Catastroceros?
Thanks. Yeah 250 familiars is also pain in the ass. Had to buy Jumbo Stardrops in casino coz it seems like most needed item. Planetdrop is almost worthless (have 50 standard + 33 jumbo and used only one time on Mendragorer)
Also, it's good that you don't need to craft all items that require such rare shit like Scrolls of Truth, Troll's Tears etc..
I have Catastroceros, but he's not really leveled much so I don't use him. Guess I should level him? Should I put him on Oliver?
I'm extremely confused why they even made planet a familiar sign. Unless I'm missing something, there's only one Planet familiar. And yeah, star seems to be the one that holds the best familiars.
And RangerBAD, that may be your problem. Cata is the only familiar you need once you get him, the rest honestly become mostly obsolete.