You must be joking if you think both of them were serious.
At least you got Ivar right. I'll spoil you though; he never gets better
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Tales of Xillia |OT| - Teach me about Bazongas!
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You must be joking if you think both of them were serious.
At least you got Ivar right. I'll spoil you though; he never gets better
dakkumauji
Member
Depends on if you are willing to wait or grind out more materials.
Uh, I usually kept TP at 50% or so. Also depends on how often they use their artes. But later on, TP recovery becomes a lot easier.
I wish Namco had the balls to tell the story in skits and the in-game dialog, as those are single-handily saving the story and characters from being total dog shit since the cutscenes are dreadful. Milla
was unintentionally hilarious. The battle system and soundtrack are decent steps up from Vesperia though, which is nice.
getting captured and felt up by the big tittied cat lady
Why would you do that?
Member
Grinding while linked with Leia is like the best thing ever.
1) Go to an enemy and hit 'em a few times to knock them down
2) Leia will Steal (I get Lemon Gels now)
3) your dual Arte meter fills up
4) Dual Arte, often finishig the enemy off
Rinse and repeat. I make sure to sell my Lemon Gels. It's like getting a bonus 1000 gald per battle.
1) Go to an enemy and hit 'em a few times to knock them down
2) Leia will Steal (I get Lemon Gels now)
3) your dual Arte meter fills up
4) Dual Arte, often finishig the enemy off
Rinse and repeat. I make sure to sell my Lemon Gels. It's like getting a bonus 1000 gald per battle.
yes please I would love that.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Yeah, just got to that too. Perfect reaction from MIlla. XD
Memento_Mori15
Member
Must say, I'm really liking this game so far. Really addicting gameplay, everyone is a blast to play as. I thought I was going to main Alvin but then Leia showed up. Elize and Rowan are also fun to play as. This is the first tales of game that I'm actually not playing as the main and I don't have the main character in my team. Mila keeps on dying and Jude...well, the others are better character wise. The characters are great so far and those skits are really enjoyable. The only one thing I can't figure out is chaining a link arte. Sometimes it appears, sometimes it doesn't. Probably have to reread the battle manual.
So much Ivar hate. Guy reminds me of Zagi from Vesperia so I kinda like him because of that.
Also found a dungeon where you can easily grind after the dungeon when you get Leia. Abusing elemental weapons, food that gives you 30%-100% experience, and surprise attacks; gained 5 levels in less than 20 minutes fighting
But I bet this has been found way before. I was about to grind for an additional hour but I don't want the game to be too easy...
So much Ivar hate. Guy reminds me of Zagi from Vesperia so I kinda like him because of that.
Also found a dungeon where you can easily grind after the dungeon when you get Leia. Abusing elemental weapons, food that gives you 30%-100% experience, and surprise attacks; gained 5 levels in less than 20 minutes fighting
the golems in Old Vicalle Mines. Used Leia, Alvin, Rowan, and Eliza. Turn on increase in earth defense, link, spam wind attacks while Eliza heals, and it's really easy to win.
When the link meter on the left is full and you do a link arte, you go into overlimit. In overlimit you and your link partner don't flinch from attacks and don't lose AC. Also you can combo link artes together until overlimit runs out (that's what Chain Chance means). You can even chain a link arte with one link partner into a link arte with a different link partner, like Final Gale > Demonic Chaos. Just quickly switch partners before inputting the next link arte.
There's no limit, just can't repeat the same one.
k guess I need to mess around with it.
I've noticed sometimes activating a link arte will make me instantly lose a little bit of overlimit. Usually happens on a second use of Rising Falcon + Alvin (Soaring Falcon?) I'd start with Soaring Falcon, chain Demonic Chaos and Force Blast, let the chain drop, use Rising Falcon and activate Soaring Falcon again and the instant it activates my overlimit drops slightly.
Memento_Mori15
Member
Aw, I see now. Thank you for the detail reply! I'll try this next time I play
That's intentional. You're supposed to use different link artes to make the most of it.
Why would you do that?
Member
So I just learned about the bazongas. Good times.
Also, I really like the item customization options. I'm really sad that the Tales games have sort of removed the plethora of in-game costumes and instead try to get you to buy DLC, but the random items you get and the ability to position them is an almost as good replacement.
Also, I really like the item customization options. I'm really sad that the Tales games have sort of removed the plethora of in-game costumes and instead try to get you to buy DLC, but the random items you get and the ability to position them is an almost as good replacement.
I sure would love a new costume to replace Milla's terrible default one. That's right, I think it's terrible. I guess that's how they get you to buy DLC costumes!
I gave Elize Hat Hair (which looks like hair swept back) and a Swordsman's Eyepatch and now she looks like Xiahou Dun aka badass.
Hah. I'm still in act 2 and nearing 40 hours. I take my time. I have let the game sit while browsing for a couple of hours though.
EDIT: Speak of the devil. JUST beat the Ptero-thingy and got the second trophy. About 40 hours. Characters are level 33-34. Moderate difficulty. That boss was fairly easy. Hard to hit at first, but he went down.
Do anyone have any combo guides or something for Milla? I want to make some sick combo videos....once I get some sort of video capturing device of course and attempt to get Milla at level 99. Is there any way to do 1 damage only in this game like other Tales of?
She didn't know Jude was that type of man.
Go to the starboard side, which is accessible from down the stairs from where the closed off area you left.The generators are at the very end of those intertwining hallways. You'll know you are there in the right area when you keep hearing the radio go off.
She didn't know Jude was that type of man.
Go to the starboard side, which is accessible from down the stairs from where the closed off area you left.The generators are at the very end of those intertwining hallways. You'll know you are there in the right area when you keep hearing the radio go off.
There is a minimum damage skill that sets damage to 1.
Yessssss. Leia is amazing.
Leia~
Cool! This is gonna be fun.
Eudaemonium
Member
I have her in the pre-order DLC Stahn costume. I'm really waiting for the Dhaos one to come out so I can buy it, since I think it looks kickass.
She uses items. Should have used Leia to steal
What's the best way to get rare monsters again?
She uses items. Should have used Leia to steal
What's the best way to get rare monsters again?
i failed the first time cuz i didnt had her. the second time when i cleared still took me 44 minutes because when they got low they would go zerk and leia would die for a few seconds and believe me when i say that AI used that short time ALWAYS to use items. and ofc the guard was a pain in the ass. getting half hp back with 4,5 hits is so unfair
Why would you do that?
Member
So I just reached a very, very special part of the story. Oh man, though, a LOT of fighting. Since I overleveled myself for the previous boss, it was actually really easy. I think I'm going to redo those lengthy battles with a 100% EXP bonus food item.
On that note, it is disappointing that there is no "100% EXP AND Gald Bonus" food (the highest is 50%). It leaves me with the hard decision of whether to boost my exp or gald a lot, or boost them both a little.
When grinding, I like doing linked encounters. After doing a few of them, a Bakura ALWAYS shows up for me when I move to the next area.
On that note, it is disappointing that there is no "100% EXP AND Gald Bonus" food (the highest is 50%). It leaves me with the hard decision of whether to boost my exp or gald a lot, or boost them both a little.
She uses items. Should have used Leia to steal
What's the best way to get rare monsters again?
When grinding, I like doing linked encounters. After doing a few of them, a Bakura ALWAYS shows up for me when I move to the next area.
Leia is ok but her "story" with
made me cringe, thank god it endend without much dialogues.
*kininarimasu*
Agria
anyone? I'm kinda curious.
*kininarimasu*
It's surprising that Leia doesn't have any aerial Skills and the Milla has them all, considering most of her skills work in the air, and some even better like Soaring Blast. I also found out that if you do an up attack on a downed enemy you force them to stand back up again without breaking your combo or taking reduced damage as a result of being on the floor. Knowing this it greatly extends Leia's combos by dashing forward after hitting the ground, forcing them to stand up then knocking them into the air again.
slaughterking
Member
Finished the game today. It certainly was a Tales game! Looked like one and sounded like one, played like one and made me cringe like one.
It's a bummer that Vesperia is still the prettiest Tales game to date. Xillia just looks so flat and empty and stiff and lifeless and boring. Some terrible framedrops during battle, too. I do appreciate how fast everything loads, but I just have to assume at some point Xillia was still supposed to come out on Wii until Bamco had that genius revelation that Tales games work best on PS3. Overall I don't find the technical shortcomings too offensive or distracting, but I would certainly not mind some progress. These games will start to look pretty odd once the next-gen arrives.
Story was nothing special. Which is to say, it is appropriately awful. At this point I'm half-convinced characters and story in Tales games are procedurally generated by some machine. It's always the same crap, barely anything that genuinely works for me on any level. I enjoyed the skits, but there's no way I could get invested in the central conflict. Nothing I can relate to, borderline nonsensical at times, trying too hard at other times, way too stretched out.
That said, I'm not surprised about any of this. It's a Tales game after all and despite all that I had a good time. The battle system is just too much fun and there's that classic JRPG charm that always gets me. I'm already looking forward to Xillia 2.
It's a bummer that Vesperia is still the prettiest Tales game to date. Xillia just looks so flat and empty and stiff and lifeless and boring. Some terrible framedrops during battle, too. I do appreciate how fast everything loads, but I just have to assume at some point Xillia was still supposed to come out on Wii until Bamco had that genius revelation that Tales games work best on PS3. Overall I don't find the technical shortcomings too offensive or distracting, but I would certainly not mind some progress. These games will start to look pretty odd once the next-gen arrives.
Story was nothing special. Which is to say, it is appropriately awful. At this point I'm half-convinced characters and story in Tales games are procedurally generated by some machine. It's always the same crap, barely anything that genuinely works for me on any level. I enjoyed the skits, but there's no way I could get invested in the central conflict. Nothing I can relate to, borderline nonsensical at times, trying too hard at other times, way too stretched out.
That said, I'm not surprised about any of this. It's a Tales game after all and despite all that I had a good time. The battle system is just too much fun and there's that classic JRPG charm that always gets me. I'm already looking forward to Xillia 2.
nintendoman58
Member
DAMMIT DAMMIT
THIS DAMN EX DUNGEON BOSS!
THIS DAMN EX DUNGEON BOSS!
First one = Not too bad.
*two of them show up = difficult, but not impossible.
*three of them show up = NOPE.
*two of them show up = difficult, but not impossible.
*three of them show up = NOPE.
That's what I'm trying to do but there's boxes blocking me in the second area. There's one I can jump on but it doesn't go anywhere.
Did you hop on the teleporter? It's in a room that looks like a bar.
Err, actually never mind. There's only one way to get to the generators and it's on the top (with reference to the map screen) path. You can only get to the bottom right generator from the top right (also through a teleporter).
Me too though I haven't seen it in forever since my end game party of Jude and the 3 ladies is just too good. Jude/Milla and Jude/Leia have the best link artes too, though I like a lot of others too. Tempest Piroutte is just too awesome, especially following Tornado Blade.
R_thanatos
Member
Actually xillia was made from the ground up for ps3 they just didn't have time to finish what they wanted to do because their original project was too huge.
And just so you know the slowdowns have been mostly corrected in the sequel.
The one slowdown that gets me (outside of battles) is when there are scenes with a lot of smoke/mist/fog in both Xillias. I guess that's probably due to bad programming/optimizing since nothing impressive is going on.
Pretty much my reaction during the whole segment lmao
And I got the platinum. My time for Jude's playthrough was just under five and a half hours (hard to tell because the in-game clock didn't reset in NG+). Loved this game, probably my second or third favourite Tales after Vesperia (and Phantasia). I'm going to wait until Xillia 2 to officially rank it though, because I want to see this world's story and the characters stories concluded first. Game did have flaws obviously, and was missing some traditional Tales tropes, although in true Tales fashion,
Oh well, loved every moment of this game. Next up is Symphonia HD! (Unless the Vesperia PS3 English patch is released first..... I might have just jinxed it.)
My time for Jude's playthrough was just under five and a half hours (hard to tell because the in-game clock didn't reset in NG+). Loved this game, probably my second or third favourite Tales after Vesperia (and Phantasia). I'm going to wait until Xillia 2 to officially rank it though, because I want to see this world's story and the characters stories concluded first. Game did have flaws obviously, and was missing some traditional Tales tropes, although in true Tales fashion,
the final boss(es) sucked.
If you are where I think you are, it thankfully gets better fast.
Very likely lol