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Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment |OT| Now in English | #YOLO - You Only Live Online
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Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
story cant be advanced in mp. just wandering around and leveling can. cant trigger story events in mp.
do you need to advance the story to unlock more dungeons/events or is MP able to go through those it just doesn't get story with them?
When I first saw it I was like...okay...but when it
discarded its former equipment for that second stage weapon
Yep, was pretty fun.
Finally got a move on and cleared the third part of Hollow Fragment.
Pretty interesting boss.
Oh and Philia's complete armor unlocked! Her Attack outfit is pretty nice too.
That costume aghhhh, I need it.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Actually I think a bunch are unlocked, since there are some I have not unlocked but was able to access. Though granted if you are not strong enough the only thing that would happen is you dying most likely lol.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
The combat system is that good. As its not just about "numbers" as in your level, its also about your actual skill and understanding of the abilities you have at your disposal. Spamming attacks wont get you anywhere either for the most part as you will wind up running out of SP and being screwed.
mellan_Konsten
Member
Your words make my choice easy, I will buy this as soon as it is up on the store (let's hope it will be possible to preorder in EU.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Your words make my choice easy, I will buy this as soon as it is up on the store (let's hope it will be possible to preorder in EU.
My videos are a pretty good example of that, they are scattered through the thread though the later ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKHQ9BRrmV0&list=UUosxT5X0VL60PqgEd68gGHQ
Am sure you have seen this before, but have not recorded anything new in a long time for the game, but for others who have not seen it gives a good idea about the combat just from watching me fight.
Skyfireblaze
Member
Finally got a move on and cleared the third part of Hollow Fragment.
Pretty interesting boss.
Oh and Philia's complete armor unlocked! Her Attack outfit is pretty nice too.
Wow I'm a bit floored at how good this screenshot looks
Normally Vita screenshots look really... mediocre when viewed on PCs, due to the different DPI I assume, but this one looks great!Wow I'm a bit floored at how good this screenshot looks
In-game there's the option for you to toggle between third-person and first-person ( ... for certain reasons *cough*).
Makes it easier for clearer screenshots I guess.
Whoops. Are we in the wrong game.
Awesome and hilarious. I assume this is part of the DLC that Japan has gotten recently?
Skyfireblaze
Member
Ah I see yeah that makes sense. And of course! The first person function is only there to simulate how Kirito sees things through the NerveGear, nothing else... *cough*
But yeah thinking about this, the only thing I'm so far bummed about is that they didn't use the actual anime UI for the HP bar etc though I guess they did this to have a UI that actually works for a real game.
Yeah just had the same thought. That looks pretty darn impressive :OWow I'm a bit floored at how good this screenshot looks
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Have no fear! You can play the games multiplayer with 3 other AI characters! Its ALMOST like having real friends! Minus the icky bits of human interaction!
Read the OP and watch videos.
Skyfireblaze
Member
This makes me so happy. Officially day one for me then.
I wonder if UK/IE will actually get this on 20th, or it will actually be Friday like everything else (but no-one ever tells us).
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
hmmm not sure on that actually
I have a similar position except I've seen the anime.
This is based off of the first arc (of the first season), right?
names2hard4you
Member
This game was the biggest surprise of the year for me. It is just so good guys.
Also I'm gonna need to grind Phillias stats after seeing that costume. I got her the atk one and settled for it since it looked great, but that one looks even better. Thanks for sharing the screenshot!
Also I'm gonna need to grind Phillias stats after seeing that costume. I got her the atk one and settled for it since it looked great, but that one looks even better. Thanks for sharing the screenshot!
First person mode? Fantastic. I really liked the first person bits in the anime because they are immersive moments where you really get in to Kirito's head and see what he is seeing. It only makes sense that they would include that for the game and I am glad to hear it confirmed.
Sigh, I can't seem to enjoy fighting bigger monsters, but I think I'm doing something wrong.
The flow of a normal battle is:
>Keep pressing O, preferably when the circle appears for Just Attacks.
>Once your Risk is 5, switch (the >switch< is switching who the enemy targets, right?) since your points will regenerate faster.
>Spam "Good", because it replenishes your SP and since the system sometimes is really weird (AI does something worth praising but is giving me "?") so mashing it yields the best results.
>When a monster is preparing a stronger attack block or stun him (I hate that the block has such a long cooldown, but I guess it'd have been op otherwise).
>Use skills either at an end of the combo or freely if you need burst damage/stat boost.
Am I missing something?
The flow of a normal battle is:
>Keep pressing O, preferably when the circle appears for Just Attacks.
>Once your Risk is 5, switch (the >switch< is switching who the enemy targets, right?) since your points will regenerate faster.
>Spam "Good", because it replenishes your SP and since the system sometimes is really weird (AI does something worth praising but is giving me "?") so mashing it yields the best results.
>When a monster is preparing a stronger attack block or stun him (I hate that the block has such a long cooldown, but I guess it'd have been op otherwise).
>Use skills either at an end of the combo or freely if you need burst damage/stat boost.
Am I missing something?
names2hard4you
Member
Personally I find the camera speed way too slow, but its nice using it when in town for example, or on dates with the Heroines. The visuals look great on it too, everything is really sharp and detailed.
BeatnikGunsoo
Member
This game comes with the psp prequel right?
I don't have the game yet, but my understanding is that it contains the content from the psp game along with a whole new set of content.
Anyone have any advice gear-wise/skill wise?
Hollow Fragment 5th part kicking my butt.
Can't help but feel I might be a bit underleveled at lvl 118...which weapons do you guys usually go for? I really want to try Great Sword, but the lowered acc makes it a pain to use whenever the 100% hit skill is on cooldown.
To use the lingo, it's a remaster, "definitive" version of that PSP game. Slightly upscaled graphics, improve user interface, more options for you to interact more with your "waifus" of choice. Hollow Fragment is this additional sprawling area with its self contained story that is added to it.
So the PSP game=clear floors, Hollow Fragment=additional area you can go to for higher level monsters/more gears etc. They are both accessed from the central teleport stone.
Hollow Fragment 5th part kicking my butt.
2nd encounter in the map area with that poison spewing queen
Can't help but feel I might be a bit underleveled at lvl 118...which weapons do you guys usually go for? I really want to try Great Sword, but the lowered acc makes it a pain to use whenever the 100% hit skill is on cooldown.
To use the lingo, it's a remaster, "definitive" version of that PSP game. Slightly upscaled graphics, improve user interface, more options for you to interact more with your "waifus" of choice. Hollow Fragment is this additional sprawling area with its self contained story that is added to it.
So the PSP game=clear floors, Hollow Fragment=additional area you can go to for higher level monsters/more gears etc. They are both accessed from the central teleport stone.
I was doing the Hollow part and upon entering the new area a Hollow Mission has started. I didn't notice that I'm supposed to sneak past enemies to get to the goal and failed immediately.
I left the area and entered it again, but the mission didn't pop. What am I supposed to do? Just wait for another random one?
I left the area and entered it again, but the mission didn't pop. What am I supposed to do? Just wait for another random one?
They will spawn again after a while.
There is a photo viewer (which has the animated stills but without the dialogue) and a movie viewer (which includes FMV-style cutscenes including the Opening movie
) after the game is completed.You aren't underleveled, I did it around that level iirc. It just takes some creative uses of skills depending on what you have. I usually use dualswords myself. On the English version, I'm going to use more of the other weps but still want to make sure I level up dualswords so I can get eclipse/starburst stream as they are awesome skills in my experience
(edit: shit, I meant to post that as an edit instead of a new post, woops :/)
I currently have Dual Wield at 1000, one-hand sword at 1000 (to unlock broadsword), 600 into rapier. Already got Starburst Scream and Eclipse, but the debuffs (bleed+slow) were really a pain. I think I got the boss to about 1.5 bars before I got distracted or died to some "lol you are bleeding out so fast. Die so that you can respawn at the start of the map and start the whole sequence again!"
Man I wish we can retry some battles right where we encounter them.
Not fully sure where I should commit my points...did the new patch allow you to spend your points more freely? I think P.Man mentioned in the old build it wasn't possible to max out all the skills...
I think she spawn some minions around the second bar of health or something? Maybe I should have gone with some AOE weapons...
Man I wish we can retry some battles right where we encounter them.
Not fully sure where I should commit my points...did the new patch allow you to spend your points more freely? I think P.Man mentioned in the old build it wasn't possible to max out all the skills...
I recommend that mace skill to remove debuffs, playing the jpn version so I don't know what it is called in english, should be restoring flame or something like that.