Started: 3/13. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Evening.
I got the backer closed beta and I played a little bit of this. I'm really liking it so far and have a lot more to say about it, but I'm sleepy.
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Played: 3/14. Late Evening.
I'm passed the intro and now the game was like "Go find and recruit people," and it seems to have really opened up. Like I can just leave the main town and go anywhere, maybe? Also it seems like you can only save at inns or save points, which is an uhhh interesting throwback.
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Played: 3/15. Late Morning.
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Played: 3/15. Early Evening.
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Played: 4/26. Evening.
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Played: 4/26. Late Evening.
Now playing the full release. I'm really glad my progress carried over. I just went through the mine dungeon. It was pretty long. Probably too long since it wasn't super interesting, but I wasn't expecting interesting dungeons from this game. What has been great is the character writing.
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Played: 4/27. Evening.
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Played: 4/27. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/27. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/28. Midnight.
This game is pretty much exactly what I wanted it. It has some roughness and questionable choices (like only being able to save at inns/save points), but I'm really enjoying the story and the world so far.
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Played: 4/28. Afternoon.
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Played: 4/28. Early Evening.
Went through the Proving Grounds and thought I couldn't leave so I had a real tough time with both bosses. Couldn't beat the 2nd one and had to reload, which was before the first one. Then I decide to confirm if I couldn't leave and realized I was wrong. So I went back and restocked a lot of my stuff. Then had little issue with things. That dungeon was pretty cool.
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Played: 4/28. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/29. Midnight.
Went back to the starting area and recruited a bunch of folks from there. Did the two mini games. I'm not very good at the beyblade one but I think that's just because I need better tops. The ones they start you with aren't very competitive. I like the card game more.
Progressing the story and, gosh, I'm just really here for everything. I love the characters. I'm so glad that Nowa is not silent. He has so much good personality even if it's a bit generic hero boy. It's just so incredible that they released a PS1 game in 2024.
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Played: 4/30. Early Evening.
I was so close to getting teleportation in my previous session and now I have it so WOOOOOO~~~!!!
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Played: 5/1. Evening.
So by going off and doing other stuff instead of continuing the story, I think they added some dialogue that was like "Why did you make the King wait so long?" which is pretty good. I don't know if that's 100% the case though.
I did do a lot of fishing trying to get the fish for the fisherman since he unlocks so many other upgrades!!!
I'm also getting better at the beyblades mini game since I was told what the rps mechanic actually is. I also really like the card minigame.
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Played: 5/5. Late Morning.
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Played: 5/5. Afternoon.
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Played: 5/5. Early Evening.
Long session. Looked up some recruitment guides so I can make sure I have all the characters and I only missed a few. The accessory bird was very annoying since he requires a 5% drop that just wasn't happening for me. Did get a lot of mystic lumber from the grind though.
Then had a tough war battle, but won in the end. I'm really liking this game. It's pretty much everything I wanted.
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Played: 5/5. Late Evening.
I'm now at a point where I can switch between Nowa and Seign and that seems pretty cool. I have to go to a desert city but what I'm going to do instead is RECRUITMENT
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Played: 5/16. Late Evening.
Finally getting back to this game after falling into a Hades 2 hole. Just did some stuff that I remembered from the guide.
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Played: 5/17. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/18. Midnight.
Back on the recruitment grind. Got Isla from Rising and her voice direction is weird, which is a shame, but she seems really good in battle. Also tried the little thief girl and the spellsword kid and they both suck haha. I do like the nercomancer girl though.
I unlocked Eggfoot Racing and that shit rules. I love it! I keep wanting to call it Eggbug Racing though.
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Played: 5/18. Afternoon.
Continued with the story and I love these sand sharks. They're a lot of fun.
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Played: 5/18. Early Evening.
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Played: 5/18. Evening.
Finished up pretty much everything with Nowa and switched to Seign but he doesn't have the run fast accessory and is SO SLOW.
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Played: 5/18. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/19. Midnight.
Finished up Seign's chapter and upgraded my Castle to lvl 3 and unlocked almost everything in it.
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Played: 5/19. Late Morning.
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Played: 5/19. Afternoon.
Have Marisa now and fought some dragons. Trying to recruit the trader but it looks like there's a cooldown on the restocking. Gonna hold all my stuff until I see double arrows.
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Played: 5/19. Late Evening.
We got a Neclord guy!
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Played: 5/24. Late Evening.
I'm at a point where I have to make three parties and my strat of completely unequiping everyone is bad for this. I had to reload my save from before and go through and prepare. I saved before finalizing stuff as I'm Sleepy.
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Played: 5/25. Afternoon.
I got my parties sorted and likely didn't need to go through this trouble, but we'll see. Still trying to do some trading, but just haven't gotten those sweet sweet double blue arrows much.
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Played: 5/25. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/26. Midnight.
Got around to recruiting CJ! She seems really good. Continued with the story before that. I am having trouble recruiting Clarke, the theater guy, and Hogan the Trader.
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Played: 5/26. Afternoon.
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Played: 5/26. Early Evening.
Was able to get Clarke. I also did the first of the secret room challenges and that boosted me nearly to level 60. Now I'm being a sicko and made a spreadsheet of all the trading items and their buy/sell values for each location. Gotta do the Data Science!!!
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Played: 5/26. Evening.
Played through a very long story section that appears to be towards the end of the game. Still have a lot folks to recruit though, so I will probably try to do that ASAP.
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Played: 5/26. Late Evening.
Extremely in the end game. Now I'm doing all the everything I can haha. Cooking, recruitment, etc. I gotta do beyblades but I finally got some rank three ones so hopefully I'll be able to crush people. I don't really understand the rules of that mini game too well. And I gotta try to get Scarlett!! the Racing is so wonky. But I think I only have like 6 or so people left to recruit.
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Played: 5/27. Late Morning.
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Played: 5/27. Late Morning.
Finished Momo's quest. He's a weirdo.
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Played: 5/27. Late Evening.
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