@TohruAdachi: I mostly just want to make sure I get through the game, I have a tendency to lose interest in games super fast so I want to keep this an easy going and fun experience, when I hit that wall(the eye of the storm and after that was the wall for me) I was about ready to box it up and ship it back to newegg hehe. I'm about level 35 now I think, and I just got to Hamelin so from your description I should be on track.
Yeah same for me, I plan on beating the game,doing some post-game stuff and than quitting the game until I get bored of Persona 4 Arena and than come back and Platinum Ni No Kuni.
@TohruAdachi: My problem has been that Esther just buuuuurns through her MP so damn quick. My only complaint is I wish you could set up more advanced A.I. routines like how you could in Dragon Age. Luckily, her running out of MP usually isn't a issue since there is almost always a save point before a boss and most field enemies are fairly easy if you aren't in a area you are vastly underleveled for.
I usually have to solo the boss with Oliver or just make the boss go after me while they attack it,on the other hand I wish they made it so when you used the attack button it instantly changes back to Esther and than you can attack again,etc. Because usually after you use an attack like a spell there's usually a cooldown too,and it'll take awhile for the familiar to use the attack button so they should've just made it similar to Final Fantasy. Oliver 1st -> Es 2nd -> Sw 3rd -> Oliver 1st.
Not a terrible idea but also there are cases where you need to cancel out of an attack animation and either hit defend or in the cases using familiars who don't have an Defend/Evade switch to Oliver and hit Defend before a big attack hits.
Yeah lol I was using a familiar (forgot which one) for the the near end-game final boss and instead of blocking I used Psyche Up.
I lasted about 5 hours. The combat is terrible. Boring and repetitive is just not my cup of tea at all. Also, the voice acting for the player's character is just the worst. I knew there would be no way I could sit through tens of hours of "yippee!" and "neato!" For what it's worth, I'm not a huge JRPG fan but I was hopeful this one would click with me. It SO did not.
That's probably it than. Usually JRPGs the character usually say some weird catchphrase or just does a weird pose. I don't know about voice acting,I liked it,but I just loved the Japanese one more so I switched it,and the combat isn't really terrible in my opinion,only problem is you always have to watch out for golden essence before your party members take it. On the other hand I was so totally gonna bash on you until you said you weren't a JRPG fan. I played a total of 13 JRPGs in my life and around 6 RPGs in my life,not really if they're JRPG though,but the other two are WRPG.
@TohruAdachi: Well I won't be doing it anymore but I hit a bit of a brick wall and wasn't having fun so this should even it out, I'm using low level familiars now so it's not a cake walk, haven't fought a boss yet so I don't know how that'll go.
Really? I didn't really have to grind until after the desert because the genie was a problem,but even still I didn't think I had to grind for that part either. The only part I really grinded for was Hamelin. I had to solo,and I was like level 30 grinded to level 36 and I was so angry because it was the same result,just spam your skills and spam MP pots on your self for thirty minutes and finish him. When I was level 30 I had to solo him and brought his HP down so low,but NOOOOOOOO,trained to level 36 and same results and finally managed to kill him. So I don't think I had to grind for the Hamelin part either. So to be honest,I really only had to grind for near end-game,just remember to get the Jack-in-the-Box merit reward it'll really help you when you get into certain parts of the game that I had a problem with but didn't want to grind. Like a dungeon and the monsters were to strong so just sneak up and silently kill.
@TohruAdachi: My problem has been that Esther just buuuuurns through her MP so damn quick. My only complaint is I wish you could set up more advanced A.I. routines like how you could in Dragon Age. Luckily, her running out of MP usually isn't a issue since there is almost always a save point before a boss and most field enemies are fairly easy if you aren't in a area you are vastly underleveled for.
I usually have to solo the boss with Oliver or just make the boss go after me while they attack it,on the other hand I wish they made it so when you used the attack button it instantly changes back to Esther and than you can attack again,etc. Because usually after you use an attack like a spell there's usually a cooldown too,and it'll take awhile for the familiar to use the attack button so they should've just made it similar to Final Fantasy. Oliver 1st -> Es 2nd -> Sw 3rd -> Oliver 1st.
@Demoskinos:True that,you just have to use the All-Out Defense right when the opponent uses the attack before the dumbass AI walks around like an idiot. On the other hand the only thing I hate about the AI is that S-w-n-e always takes the MP essence even though half of the time doesn't use his MP,and they keep steaing my golden essence! On the other hand Esther just heals so that's good... I really wanted to play S-w-n-e as an main attacker in the party similar to FF13 because I used Sazh, but no.......
I finally beat L-u--n <-- (People who are near end-game will know who I'm talking about!) and the game totally troll me,but I'm actually really happy it was continued. :)
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