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I'm pretty sure esrb doesn't really give a gently caress beyond the first couple hours Fire Emblem has so much child murder, and not in-game child murder, I mean cutscene murder
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One of my favorite things about this game is that most of the stories have very smart villains. They all know you’re coming for them, which makes it even better when you beat their asses.
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Mar 4, 2023 00:22
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Tae posted:I'm pretty sure esrb doesn't really give a gently caress beyond the first couple hours a lot of dark stuff in primrose's story happens in the first 5 minutes of you opening the game if you start with her so i don't think that really applies here
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Mar 4, 2023 00:45
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Evil Fluffy posted:I'm going to need a trip report on this and how it goes. I'll make one if I encounter it again on the sea while having Ochette in my party. I have heard it's one of the better captures on account on the support capabilities it can provide. Though I imagine it's going to go easier than my first fight against it (which wasn't all that hard, just long on account of it's 95k HP). Plus, I have Arcanist!Osvald now with quite possibly the best staff for an Arcanist to have, which will make it even easier to sustain myself for long fights. Plus, my main team are in their low-mid 40s now, while I fought it the first time at around low-mid 30s (long story short; Cleric!Osvald and Armsmaster!Hikari carried the fight in terms of damage dealing; Partitio and Scholar!Temenos was good support + they could chip in for weakness breaking during certain lulls). And, well, maybe also getting my party members I'm not using up to speed + getting Castti and Agnea to join my party. I kind of got sidetracked by a lot by the sidequest/exploration stuff. Rand Brittain posted:Who is enforcing the dodgy contract Partitio's dad signed? There appear to have been no consequences to just beating the poo poo out of the landowner's local goons and taking physical possession of the deed, so, I guess, "nobody"? I think the local goon himself was the one enforcing the contract. And after Giff spilled the beans on how a certain part of the contract is fraudulent, the residents got some legal leverage in addition to just plain rage at said goon. Doesn't really matter though since Partitio will be meeting said landowner in the present day.
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Chapter 5 Hikari's Final Boss : Those chapter 5 bosses don't kid around, uh? I steamrolled most bosses so far while being underleveled and undergeared, but getting my entire party stunlocked on one of the final rounds while Mugen's Dark Form was having 5 attacks a turns was incredibly anticlimatic. Completely took me by surprise. Then everything reset and you need to kill the boring first phase again. drat! Fun fight, but that was so unexpected at the end there. Full HP to 0 in one turn. Overall, this is such a big improvement from the first game, but I still feel there's some overall pacing problems. I'm trying my best to not overlevel so the content remains relevant, but it's very difficult. It's just too easy to cakewalk most of the game if you're exploring a bit. I feel like maybe some level-sync for chapters bosses would help? But even then you can still have access to equipment and subjobs that just make it as easy. There should be some sort of restriction so the power creep don't get out of control so early, but I'm not sure how you could do it. It just feels weird to have some amazing hype before a boss and then kill him in 1 turn of Hikari's Limit Break. I would remove him from the party, but of course you can't since he's somehow the main character I've chosen. What a weird choice they carried from OT1.
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Mar 4, 2023 14:09
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I'm amused that Primrose's story was so dark that they went the complete opposite direction with Agnea and her story is almost all smiles all the time. I like how with her Chapter 3 there was no conflict beyond talking down someone's stage fright, like some other chapters have no bosses or even combat but this is just Agnea having a great time inspiring and helping out fellow performers with no corrupt jerks or wild monsters or whatever interrupting things.
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Mar 4, 2023 14:36
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very cool that in Partitio's prologue story, you just happen to run into the same apothecary woman from Castti's story.. Hope there's more crossover like this in other stories too.
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Mar 4, 2023 16:46
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DLC Inc posted:very cool that in Partitio's prologue story, you just happen to run into the same apothecary woman from Castti's story.. Hope there's more crossover like this in other stories too. I'm pretty sure I've seen (Throne ch. 4 spoilers) a Pirro lookalike as a soldier in Cassti's Ch. 2 Sai section.
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Mar 4, 2023 16:56
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Combo posted:The mobile gacha game has some dark story lines too. Hard to get much darker than "is a gacha game" tbh.
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I've just started this game going with Osvald first and looping clockwise around the continent(s). So far I've just finished Throne's chapter 1 and I feel terrible for anyone that encounters my party on a dark night because they're getting mugged, coerced, and possibly knocked out for good measure.
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Mar 4, 2023 23:25
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It's funny that the characters most threatening at night are all on the eastern continent. Wait until you recruit Temenos...!
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Mar 5, 2023 01:15
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I’m still midway through, and I’m just wondering: does every character get at least one chapter with no bosses/minimal battling?
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Mar 5, 2023 01:44
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That's been the case for me so far. I don't mind it, though.
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Mar 5, 2023 02:11
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I think Hikari's the exception, but that makes sense, because he's a heroic swordsman.
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Mar 5, 2023 04:11
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I did Castti’s Chapter 2 in Winterbloom earlier and I’m not sure why the game felt the need to make me tear up but it did, congrats game.
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Mar 5, 2023 04:43
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Yeah that part got to me harder than I expected anything in the game to.
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Mar 5, 2023 05:14
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Do I need the boat to get to the third city in the Brightlands?
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Mar 5, 2023 10:50
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:I did Castti’s Chapter 2 in Winterbloom earlier and I’m not sure why the game felt the need to make me tear up but it did, congrats game. Same. Hell, it even hit Osvald.
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Mar 5, 2023 12:21
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welp I ended up going team TACO (Throné, Agnea, Castti, Osvald), and they're all of them mad overpowered. Throné and Agnea's EX skills together trivialize most random encounters, concoct is mad broken, and Osvald just does stupid damage and also can analyze. I'm assuming the POTH backup crew gets equally stupid with enough investment but I don't mind either way. I've enjoyed all their grim tragic tales far better than Octopath 1, but I gotta give first place to Agnea of the stories I've seen so far; having a final boss that is explicitly just a dance-off even if it's mechanically treated as an RPG battle is a brilliantly simple idea, and doubly so that Agnea fuckin wrote her own final boss theme, because she was the actual boss in that encounter. A+, you precious cinnamon roll.
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Mar 5, 2023 12:24
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Do I need the boat to get to the third city in the Brightlands? Kinda mechanics spoiler: it is locked behind a character's story progress; more specifically it is where Throné's final chapter takes place.
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Mar 5, 2023 12:26
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Did a scenario writer put down the name "Thorne" on a piece of a paper, only to angrily to ball it up and toss it in the bin?
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:welp I ended up going team TACO (Throné, Agnea, Castti, Osvald), and they're all of them mad overpowered. Throné and Agnea's EX skills together trivialize most random encounters, concoct is mad broken, and Osvald just does stupid damage and also can analyze. I'm assuming the POTH backup crew gets equally stupid with enough investment but I don't mind either way. Agnea with Inventor's divine skill, setup for starting the match with 3 bp, and Merchant's "start match with latent power" makes her an insane teammate.
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Mar 5, 2023 15:14
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I mean Castti can do that without needing the inventor skill and also gives everyone 4 free BP plus she can give BP every turn so long as your supply of leaves/latent power lasts.
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Yeah, Cassti is fantastic too. I really like how many options you have for a solid team in this.
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Encountered my first weird bug. I wanted the Resting, Resting skill for Hikari. It’s in the Beasting Village in Totohaha to the left after you enter. The NPC just doesn’t exist in my save for some reason. Day or night, reloaded the game, etc. I’m not doing any quests there and already recruited Ochette. I’m like 20 hours in so no way I’m restarting but it’s a great ability so kind of frustrating. I got deep sleep as a substitute since you generally get hit anyway so the sleep doesn’t seem very impactful. I made a new save file and beelined to the village to test and he’s definitely there so something is wonky with my earlier save that I can’t figure out. Anyone else run into something like this?
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The Gunslinger posted:Encountered my first weird bug. I wanted the Resting, Resting skill for Hikari. It’s in the Beasting Village in Totohaha to the left after you enter. The NPC just doesn’t exist in my save for some reason. Day or night, reloaded the game, etc. I’m not doing any quests there and already recruited Ochette. I’m like 20 hours in so no way I’m restarting but it’s a great ability so kind of frustrating. I got deep sleep as a substitute since you generally get hit anyway so the sleep doesn’t seem very impactful. You probably recruited them. They won’t be in town if so.
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Evil Fluffy posted:You probably recruited them. They won’t be in town if so. I think I ruled that out but I’ll check when I get home, cheers.
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Mar 5, 2023 16:53
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Finished Castti's story as my first one. Dang what a loving good game. Castti is such a great lady.
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Mar 5, 2023 16:57
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I’m trying to teach Fatal Fang to Hikari which supposedly comes from an Elderly Man in Clockbank but I can’t find him. Anybody know where he is?
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Mar 5, 2023 17:22
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I forget which house exactly it is but it's on the west side. You'll go upstairs and there will but a guy blocking a door to an outside balcony. Stabby grandpa is out on that balcony during the day.
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YoshiOfYellow posted:I forget which house exactly it is but it's on the west side. You'll go upstairs and there will but a guy blocking a door to an outside balcony. Stabby grandpa is out on that balcony during the day. Ohhhh I hadn’t tried knocking that kid out. Thanks! Edit: lol he’s too strong for me, I can’t even challenge him yet. I guess I’ll get Thousand Blades in the meantime… nevermind that guy one-shotted me with Thousand Blades hahaha Blackbelt Bobman fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Mar 5, 2023 |
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Mar 5, 2023 17:29
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Really wanna play team pooh because I'm a child.
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Wow, the recommended levels for chapters jump pretty quickly. I just did chapters with recommended levels 21, 24 and 26 and the next one is 29. My main character is 32 but everyone else is 23-25, jeez. I bought the boat but the sea has a recommended level of 34 lmao
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The travel banter in this is really adorable. I haven't found a way to re-watch ones with three or four members, sadly.
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Mar 5, 2023 19:52
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Those are in the journal, if you go to the sidequest menu and enter the "all" tab.
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Didn't even think to look there, appreciated!
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Is it just me or does Octopath 2 have a ton of extra side dungeons compared to the first game? I think I'm going to have to backtrack all the low-mid level zones once I finish up the chapter 2s. I ran one on a whim and found another rusted weapon and didn't even have a boss fight for it. I need a BOTW-style map marking system so I can X out dungeons I've cleared since IDK how else to keep track of it all. I also ran into Father Dagon  and managed to get it down to about 40% of its HP before it decided to end me with a 2000 damage AOE followed by a 7999 damage aoe.  ...I bet I could kill them if I went back with 3 merchants and a shitload of money though.
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I wish this game had a checklist like the last two Ys games.
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I was wondering why Throné’s chapter 2 boss was so loving hard compared to everything else and then I realized that her chapter 2 basically splits into Mother and Father branches and the Mother route is level 7 while the father is 16. My party is in the 16-17 range right now and the Father route boss still edged me out. Gonna target Mother right now instead.
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YoshiOfYellow posted:Finished Castti's story as my first one. Dang what a loving good game. Castti is such a great lady. I really like the Castti is an absurdly good person while also not taking any poo poo or hesitating to do things to save people. They do a good job of painting her as a force of nature.
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