Delicious Waffles
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Anyone got any tips for
? Maybe a certain level to be.
Rank S of the Solosseum Series
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Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch |OT|
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RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Talking about the DS version has gotten me all nostalgic about it. I remember when I bought it during my 2011 trip to Japan... I was so excited when I unboxed it, man it was a great package. I think I still have the photos.... yep, here they are.
Freezasaurus
Member
LOL, I completely forgot about that... I can't strategize for crap in this game ever since I got one. All strategy goes out the window and it's just Earsplitter 24/7.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
Getting it spammed with it three times in a row without the chance to heal in between is great game design.
I ended up doing it post-game and breezed through it. It might be best to come back later.
I just ended up beating him. I must have had more than two dozen chaos spammed at me. Ridiculous. I used more than 10 phoenix feathers during that fight, and that's without counting what adult pea was resurrecting on top of that. I spent most of my time reviving people after he hit a 1/4 of his life. He kept spamming them like crazy. Thank god I had that last merit badge with the extra 100 mp and hp for oliver. I wouldn't have made it without it.Terrible game design for that boss.
That's a gorgeous packaging.
Another thing I now realize that adds credence to all that epilogue stuff being tacked on later. There is no animated cartoon featuring pea or the white witch.. .Quite odd for a game named after her eh ? Well in general, there was a huge deficit of ghibli stuff in this. disappointing. But well I liteally just beat the final boss so I'll go back sit down in front of the tv to watch the end credits now I guess.
Spent almost all day playing today. I'm trying to finish it before Rising comes in.
Stopping tonight at the Marshes. I probably would be done if I stopped trying to do most of the available quests. :'D Darn my gaming OCD.
Oh the Derwin quests are the most annoying ones. After the Yule quest, eff that noise. I'll wait to finish those quests post-game.
Stopping tonight at the Marshes. I probably would be done if I stopped trying to do most of the available quests. :'D Darn my gaming OCD.
Oh the Derwin quests are the most annoying ones. After the Yule quest, eff that noise. I'll wait to finish those quests post-game.
whassupbun
Member
What level are you and your party? This is the easiest set-up I can think of if you didn't do any extra grinding for levels and familiars:
Make sure everyone's at full health/mana before you go into battle.
Switch Drongo (the blue duck familiar you get with Esther) to Oliver and make sure you equip the Thunderspark trick, give Sid (the seed spirite you get in the early forest dungeon) to Esther and equip Healing Tear, give Thumbelemur to Swaine.
Set your tactics to Esther>Keep us healthy, Swaine>Provide Back-up, attack leader's target.
Just control Oliver/Drongo for the entire battle, spam Thunderspark, when you see the boss preparing to use a trick, press square for all out defense, use Evade, time it well and it will save your life. Switch back to Oliver and heal Esther when she's dying, drink Coffee when your mana is running low. If all else fails, run in circles and let the boss chases you, let your teammates do the work and slowly chop down his health 1HP at a time.
Picked it up on Saturday and oh boy what a great game this is.
Got up to
and really loving everything so far.
The graphics are top notch as is the soundtrack, the story is just like it was in cartoons I watched as a kid, and the battle-system took a bit of practice as I'm used to proper turn-based battles in JRPGs, but I got the hang of it and it's good fun.
First JRPG since FF7 that got me hooked.
Got up to
the genie battle
The graphics are top notch as is the soundtrack, the story is just like it was in cartoons I watched as a kid, and the battle-system took a bit of practice as I'm used to proper turn-based battles in JRPGs, but I got the hang of it and it's good fun.
First JRPG since FF7 that got me hooked.
I got a Tin Man with Short Circus ability at that time so I just kept spamming the boss with that. Others just kept up the attack while the boss chase after me once in a while.
Game is now $50 at amazon and still includes the Griffin familiar offer!
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DangerousDave
Member
I saw a easy way to get the most difficult items (scroll of truth), that is:
- Get a medal of inmunity by alchemy to prevent status change.
- Put the AI as "do nothing".
- Look for the enemies, using veil.
- In the combat, select Swaine, use "defend all", wait unit after a few defends, for a golden orb.
- Use the orb with Swaine, that will steal the rarest object.
- Get a medal of inmunity by alchemy to prevent status change.
- Put the AI as "do nothing".
- Look for the enemies, using veil.
- In the combat, select Swaine, use "defend all", wait unit after a few defends, for a golden orb.
- Use the orb with Swaine, that will steal the rarest object.
AbandonedTrolley
Member
Good tip, will use this when I have to go farm!
Delicious Waffles
Member
Beat the
.
What an easy battle compared to what you're up against before it. Took three tries and over 45 minutes to beat that one.
took one try and maybe ten minutes. Crazy.
I was barely able to get passed
at lvl
. The
wiped the floor with me. Remember what level you were that allowed you to breeze through it?
Guardian of Worlds
What an easy battle compared to what you're up against before it. Took three tries and over 45 minutes to beat that one.
Guardian of Worlds
I was barely able to get passed
Horace
81
golden starters
Fleet_of_Foot
Member
Is Dinoceros a good familiar? It seems like I see him mentioned a lot. I caught him early and now he's just a lvl 1 chilling in my backup cage. Should I level him up?
Yes. Level him up and you'll see why.
SolidSnakex
Member
He's the best as far as damage output goes. The only downside is that he's slow.
Delicious Waffles
Member
He's a beast. Level him up as much as possible. You'll be happy that you did.
Finally finished this.
Frankly, I'm really disappointed. The further you go in the game and the more desire you have to play the game well, the more its flaws show. The pathfinding and logic on your summoned monsters is horrible, the timing / counter system goes contrary to how you'd normally play the game, the logic behind friendly buffs freezing all attacks and movement (yet continuing the timers and enemy movement) sucks, and even the lack of showing a weapon that I've equipped on my guys just makes this game feel rushed in several areas.
I loved DQ VIII, liked IX, and have bought every L5 game that's come stateside on any device, and wow this one feels like a B-team effort, sad to say.
I wish Ghibli's wonderful art had been put on top of a better game.
Frankly, I'm really disappointed. The further you go in the game and the more desire you have to play the game well, the more its flaws show. The pathfinding and logic on your summoned monsters is horrible, the timing / counter system goes contrary to how you'd normally play the game, the logic behind friendly buffs freezing all attacks and movement (yet continuing the timers and enemy movement) sucks, and even the lack of showing a weapon that I've equipped on my guys just makes this game feel rushed in several areas.
I loved DQ VIII, liked IX, and have bought every L5 game that's come stateside on any device, and wow this one feels like a B-team effort, sad to say.
I wish Ghibli's wonderful art had been put on top of a better game.
Augemitbutter
Member
Just dropped from my mailbox
After I'm done working, it's time. What am I in fooooor!?
possible goty or top 3.
Ok so I'm up to
and I just got my arse handed to me by the boss. Any places recommended to level up? I'm at level 26 but my familiar with Thunderspark is far behind.
I checked out that
and I can't kill the enemies there at the moment so I guess
are out of the question. :/
Hamelin
I checked out that
Ugly Duck Island??
Toko's
Freezasaurus
Member
Which won't matter a lick considering the damage he does, and his defense is pretty insane, too.
Just beat the
and calling it a game (I'm assuming nothing happens if you beat the game again afterwards). Was at level 91 after 57 hours. Completed everything except the creature compendium and alchemy. Was tempted to fill out the compendium but I think I'm going to pass. The alchemy I do not care for and never had any intention of trying to complete it (I was at 4%). Obviously it's early but it's a favorite for my GOTY. If this would have came out last year it would have been my GOTY. Somebody please make more games like this.
Guardian of Worlds
Its attack stats are very impressive; the highest in the game I think. The way you use Dinoceros and its evolutions is to send it out first and use a wide area physical damaging move like earsplitter.
There's no point in making it attack normally though because its movement and attack speeds are slow. A good way to counter this is by having a fast familiar like Naja.
Wat, why?
Just finished up my first (and possibly only) story related encounter with the (post castaway, pre hamelin)
. Rrreaaaaaal subtle imagery there Level-5 =P.
At first I thought it was kind of funny but didn't read too much into it, but when describing the situation to a friend, he summarized it as:
In hindsight it's all kinda obvious but it completely flew over my head when I played through the section.
fairy grounds
At first I thought it was kind of funny but didn't read too much into it, but when describing the situation to a friend, he summarized it as:
You need to go inside the fairy mother but her "mouth" doesn't just open to anyone. You have to do what the likes to get her to open it up for you. Once she opens up, you have a "cannon" fire tiny people into her "mouth" who proceed to find eggs and cause them to be birthed.
In hindsight it's all kinda obvious but it completely flew over my head when I played through the section.
LOL, if you didn't know about the game you wouldn't stop lying.
Just under 27 hours and cleared Hamlin. Fast travel get! The game seems to open up now as quests are appearing all over the place. And I started unlocking some 3rd forms - Puss in Boats, Dynamite, Elegantiger, and Esther's familiar as well. So far so good. I'm pretty well leveled as I don't need to think so much in normal battles and just spend most of them as Swaine trying to steal and get more ingredients
I gave him some armor and holy shit unless it's a trick or magic spell he only gets damaged 5hp at most.
Lysander91
Banned
I finally got the travel spell after slogging through around 5 hours and it has improved the game immensely. I understand the linearity for the first 5 or so hours, but the next 20 hours would have been much better if you even had a more limited form of fast travel.
Yah, so the bird does it but the bird doesn't really exist so the white witch does it. Am I right ? That also explains why Pea feels guilty then
Edit:
But wait a minute, since there is no white witch in the DS version who does it in the DS version ?
Freezasaurus
Member
LOL, same. I think the most I ever saw taken off of him at once was 35, and that was while fighting the final boss.
Granted, my main characters were around level 85 at that point, but still.
Lolz, some of my character were losing 200 per shot in that fight but yah I was around level 50 sth by then.
Fast travel in rpgs is funny because it wrecks the hotel economy. Hotels keep getting more expensive as you progress, but, you can basically just teleport back to the first hotel and sleep for like 10 gold instead of 500.
I personally teleported back to Deep Dark Wood since there was one of those monument stones right at the entrance. Free refills of HP/MP and save my game. Then spend 1MP to teleport back to where I was. Very good deal.
Only stayed in each hotel in the game one time a piece.
I'm not really sure how the DS story went, to be honest. Maybe it wasn't even shown?
Maybe the wheel broke and no reason was given?