Probably about
halfway.
Edit:
I was hooked after an hour or two. If you aren't hooked yet, I would say the big turning point for you might be after
The Temple of Trials.
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Probably about
Edit:
I was hooked after an hour or two. If you aren't hooked yet, I would say the big turning point for you might be after
Nah, to me it felt like
he last 3rd of a 3 act story, albeit a very long 3 act story. There is actually still more story info post game if you want to find out more
cpp_is_king
Member
Hmm, well that would have been useful to know. I've lost track of how many tricks I've had to throw away because the monster didn't have enough slots
MikeE21286
Member
Just got my 2nd party member.
Mind kinda turned upside down with the first combat encounter.
Gonna take a bit getting used too. Two characters, 4 familiars, swapping familiars, affinity, etc.
Really starting to open up.
Mind kinda turned upside down with the first combat encounter.
Gonna take a bit getting used too. Two characters, 4 familiars, swapping familiars, affinity, etc.
Really starting to open up.
I gave up using opposing signs like 10 hours in, lol.
razgriz417
Member
Ah sorry I meant active slots as what you can use in battle. There's a hard limit on total number of available skills (8)Hmm, well that would have been useful to know. I've lost track of how many tricks I've had to throw away because the monster didn't have enough slots
MikeE21286
Member
Yeah I think I'm gonna abandon it too.
They rarely mention it and I'm getting along ok without paying much attention to any of it
Wow I completely forgot about that.
cpp_is_king
Member
I'm sure this is a common question, but what are the 3 or 6 best familiars I should have, and who should be using them? Currently I have
Oliver: Puss in Bouts + Demoliceros
Esther: Gogo (3rd form starting familiar) + random
Swaine: Gunther (3rd form starting familiar) + random
I'm postgame, so I assume pretty much anything is accessible to me.
Oliver: Puss in Bouts + Demoliceros
Esther: Gogo (3rd form starting familiar) + random
Swaine: Gunther (3rd form starting familiar) + random
I'm postgame, so I assume pretty much anything is accessible to me.
Johnlenham
Member
Ive been using
mite and naga with puss in boot leveling up
penguin- owl thing- angler fish
tiger that punches stuff- monkey- whatever he started with.
Seems to work ok, It becomes hard trying to balance ones I want to use with ones I want to evolve for fun/ semi usefulness but I try to put the right type with the right person for the bonus it apparently gives them.
mite and naga with puss in boot leveling up
penguin- owl thing- angler fish
tiger that punches stuff- monkey- whatever he started with.
Seems to work ok, It becomes hard trying to balance ones I want to use with ones I want to evolve for fun/ semi usefulness but I try to put the right type with the right person for the bonus it apparently gives them.
I wouldn't really say there is a "best" 3-6 familiars, but if I had to pick just 1 familiar for each party member, at max level, it would be
Demoliceros, Electrongo and Bone Baron.
Some other good ones to balance your group are
Grimray, Honkey-Tonker (amazing stats), Mahanaja, Nightcap (highest overall stats in the game at lvl 99),
Same here, forgot about it as soon as it was mentioned.
Aligator? Maybe you're looking at the Salamander enemies?
Oliver's probably fine with the Dino alone, and he's better at magic than any familiar you could give him.
As for the other two, here's what I used for most of the game:
Esther: Hooray (Grimray), Sparkee (Acee), Lagoon Naiad (Greater Naiad)
Swaine: Bonehead (Bone Baron), Girlfiend (Phantasma)
Worked out fine, and everything but the Naiad made use of familiar compatibility.
razgriz417
Member
You gotta leave first then come back for him to show up
zeopower6
Member
You have to complete every single errand to get exactly enough stamps to get all the rewards.
cluxdeluxe
Banned
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cpp_is_king
Member
As someone who just completed the game, I consider the story and the art design / art direction to be one of the best of the past 15 years. I rank it up there with Chrono Trigger and FF6 in terms of story. The only complaints I have are related to the mechanics and the combat. But even then, they are relatively minor (but then again, those have never been the major important aspects of an RPG to me). So I guess it depends on what you like most in an RPG
Augemitbutter
Member
It's priceless.
I always groaned at seeing the notebook guy rather than Derwin.
MikeE21286
Member
Just passed the
pretty interesting lol
Trial of Friendship
zeopower6
Member
He's probably DS-only. There were a lot more creatures in the DS game. (Now that I'm looking, Griffy/Flutterby were originally in the DS game but was removed/not added in the Japanese PS3 version... then readded in the Western version)
yeah, I totally agree with this :/
zeopower6
Member
Is that even a common feature in most RPGs?
It's not even a common feature in most games.
Just got to Hamelin but I finally came across a point that drove me mad.
It involved one of the fetch quests you had to do:
It involved one of the fetch quests you had to do:
The fetch quest where you need the 3 slapsticks. It started off okay I blinded the first two whambats I faced then all of a sudden I couldn't blind any of them. I went over 10 deep before one finally got blinded again. Geez!
cpp_is_king
Member
In fact I've never even heard of it for any game ever
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_with_custom_soundtrack_support
Edit: that list isn't even complete.
I will agree that I'd never expect it to be an option in an RPG.
Edit 2: here's a huge list for ps3 games: http://www.ps3trophies.org/forum/games/134214-games-custom-soundtrack-support.html
zeopower6
Member
That's kind of odd... maybe it was just bad luck? Any time that I needed to do that, I got it the first three creatures.
That list is short, so no wonder people probably have never really seen it all that often.
Edited above, it's not compete.
Fix The Scientist
Member
This game reeeaaallllly could have done without the
segment. I'm also starting to dislike the main characters, mainly because they interrupt my exploring so often with endless bullshit chatter or "advice" that i'm now quickly skipping through all the text to get back to the game.
frog
That kind of sucks. That alligator looks cool. The one I'm most disappointed about is the rapier wielding fox whom someone has as an avatar, though I suppose he was redundant with Purrloiner.
On the xbox you can play any music on your harddrive or streaming from the PC and the song will stop for cutscenes or 'non-ingame events'
Its a system level feature on the xbox that I assumed was on the ps3. FYI I just go a ps3
Nose Master
Member
What was so bad about it? It was like, ten minutes. I agree about the characters, though. Oliver especially got very grating around that point.
Unrelated, I don't understand how anyone is having a problem with the difficulty. You can put one or two movement speed+ items on Oliver and kite everything in the game with your eyes closed.
Dead Prince
Banned
On the xbox you can play any music on your harddrive or streaming from the PC and the song will stop for cutscenes or 'non-ingame events'
Its a system level feature on the xbox that I assumed was on the ps3. FYI I just go a ps3
ps3 is far behind and doesn't have enough ram to allow it. and it's optional (after a few firmware update to allow CS) but devs don't give a fuck
zeopower6
Member
Hm... is it a fox or a rabbit? If it's the rabbit, he should have been in the game but was removed since the mobile game he came from never left Japan/ceased operations a few months ago. I wanted him too. He looked awesome!
Just got to know that my order of the limited edition has been cancelled.
I pre-ordered this game back in October last year from Zavvi. Despite the bad stigma Zavvi has on GAF I've been buying games from them for over three years now without any big problems so I expected this to go the usual way. They tried charging me twice but there was some payment problems (my fault) which I noticed a few days later. I fixed the problem and requested my order to be resolved. Few days later I get a message saying I had cancelled my order despite not having done so at all.
I would have at least fucking appreciated if they gave some sort of warning that they would cancel it. What I think happened instead is that they gave my unit to some other random dude who had pre-ordered it and then sent me a mail that I had cancelled it lol.
Anyway having had some interest in this game (but not being hyped) I'm slightly irritated rather than being full of rage (especially if you consider how rare this edition will be, hell it already is) but this killed my interest in it and I don't feel like paying the double amount of the original price just to fetch the limited ed. again.
That collection would have been nice to have though :/
I pre-ordered this game back in October last year from Zavvi. Despite the bad stigma Zavvi has on GAF I've been buying games from them for over three years now without any big problems so I expected this to go the usual way. They tried charging me twice but there was some payment problems (my fault) which I noticed a few days later. I fixed the problem and requested my order to be resolved. Few days later I get a message saying I had cancelled my order despite not having done so at all.
To be fair much of this is my own fault as I was slow checking updates on the order but
Anyway having had some interest in this game (but not being hyped) I'm slightly irritated rather than being full of rage (especially if you consider how rare this edition will be, hell it already is) but this killed my interest in it and I don't feel like paying the double amount of the original price just to fetch the limited ed. again.
That collection would have been nice to have though :/
It doesn't make sense to me why they removed so many familiars that had full character models...
...oh, wait, DLC, let me guess?
gundamkyoukai
Member
Finally got my copy and will start playing tonight .
jeremy1456
Junior Member
I liked the game quite a bit.
I didn't really enjoy the story until the last act of the game.
I didn't really enjoy the story until the last act of the game.