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Paritio's (Chapter 4 spoilers) boss was cool because it was a multi-target fight with enough hp and stages so they wouldn't just melt immediately.
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Finished Partitio's and Throne's Chapter 4's. Man, I didn't think it would be possible to have complete polar ends of "well I didn't see this coming" reactions For Partitio's Ch4: yeah that was kind of great tbh, wasn't expecting Roque to just try to mow us down with a Steam Doomtrain. I feel like the ending was a little too naive in a sense, but hey, I'm all for Partitio's way of doing things and hopefully that ends up working better for the world especially now that he's flipped Roque. For Throne's Ch4: uh yeah, Lostseed was creepy af and I don't think "Dollar Tree Dracula is not only Throne's real father, but he knocked up countless women and all of the Blacksnakes are his biological children including Father, and he also literally cucked his son to have Throne" was the direction I was expecting her story to take. Plus he completely glosses over how he was loving immortal. I dunno, maybe the epilogue will eventually loop around to that. Although from the way it seems now, the remaining citizens of Lostseed seem barely coherent and are probably screwed, especially that one lady that was hording a bunch of rotten meat.
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I felt so bad for stealing that stuffed toy from the woman there and how her dialogue changed.
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Speaking of stuffed toys (Random NPC spoilers) The gently caress is up with the "StUfFeD ToY" kid in Gravell? There's a side quest about a creepy kid in that same town but it doesn't seem to be the StUfFeD ToY kid (they have different ages for one thing) and there doesn't seem to be anything you can do about the StUfFeD ToY or anything. Just this weird creepy detail that doesn't lead anywhere.
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Apr 20, 2023 14:48
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I just assume it all ties back to the area in discussion somehow. Though there's also the ghost girl that doesn't seem to lead anywhere so maybe that town is just hosed.
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Apr 20, 2023 14:56
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Finale: So, uh, was Arcanette supposed to be a total pushover? By the time I finished her off, she was still only doing one action per round.
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Apr 20, 2023 15:29
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FireWorksWell posted:Though there's also the ghost girl that doesn't seem to lead anywhere so maybe that town is just hosed. there's apparently a quest for that kid. but i have no idea how to find it.
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Harrow posted:Speaking of stuffed toys Go outside Gravell to the cliff before you and wait for dawn. Bring Temenos with you.
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Apr 21, 2023 01:14
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They already mentioned that. It's not the same kid that you see in the town.
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Apr 21, 2023 01:20
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Yeah it really seems like that should be related but either it is and they typo'd the age (and didn't add any real resolution to the quest) or it's not related and there's more than one creepy kid in town.
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I'm about 2/3rds of the way into the True Final Chapter and holy gently caress how many people were in on this "destroy the world" plot?! Although it seems unlike Mindt and Kazan, Ori was definitely not built for this life (well, Tanzy wasn't either, but goddamn where the gently caress did that come from)
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Apr 21, 2023 14:35
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MechaX posted:(well, Tanzy wasn't either, but goddamn where the gently caress did that come from) drat did I feel awful for her, but yeah, kind of came out of nowhere.
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Apr 21, 2023 14:45
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I just got 2 and I don’t remember being this lost in 1 but my memory is pretty fuzzy. Am I supposed to just beeline for chapter 2 of my starting character? Or go and pick up all the other characters first?
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Chasiubao posted:I just got 2 and I don’t remember being this lost in 1 but my memory is pretty fuzzy. Am I supposed to just beeline for chapter 2 of my starting character? Or go and pick up all the other characters first? You'll probably want to at least pick up 3 more people for a full team before doing any chapters 2. Once you have a full team you can just play the game in whatever order you like.
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Apr 21, 2023 17:21
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Do whatever. Travel around.
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SKULL.GIF posted:You'll probably want to at least pick up 3 more people for a full team before doing any chapters 2. Once you have a full team you can just play the game in whatever order you like. Agree with this but otherwise the world is your oyster. Be mindful of zones above your level caus the damage will scale way up very quickly but that doesn’t mean you can’t dip in and snatch goodies if you’re so inclined. It’s just pretty rough for a single character or even two. I think three would let you get away with some stuff though, if for some reason you don’t want to get four.
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Just beat the final chapter. Knowing that Dracula is a descendant of the evil wizard working for the Dark god doesn't make the twist that Dracula was behind everything in Throne's chapters less stupid. Actually, a lot of those twists were really dumb. Tansy and the reporter were both in on it? Sure why not, gently caress it. Still less tacked on than almost everything involving Galdera in the first game so they've improved there Loved the game overall though. Better than the first and I really enjoyed the first one.
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SKULL.GIF posted:You'll probably want to at least pick up 3 more people for a full team before doing any chapters 2. Once you have a full team you can just play the game in whatever order you like. Thanks! Like I said my memory is shot so I don’t remember if 1 had breadcrumbs leading you to more party members but 2 seems to be “well I mean they’re here if you want.”
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Apr 21, 2023 17:52
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What I did was run around the world grabbing all 8 characters, then just explored and did chapters as I felt like, shuffling around my party as I went.
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:Just beat the final chapter. Tanzy was less "in on it" and more just a really unfortunate victim of Arcanette's honey-tongued manipulation. She was wracked with grief and guilt over her lover's death and sadly the person she found to help her through it wrapped the poor girl around her finger. The intended takeaway isn't "wow it's hosed up that Tanzy was a villain" but rather "wow it's hosed up how Arcanette took control of her through her grief".
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Apr 21, 2023 18:45
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Harrow posted:What I did was run around the world grabbing all 8 characters, then just explored and did chapters as I felt like, shuffling around my party as I went. This is what I’m gonna do. Gotta be honest the cleric is a dork I do not like his intro chapter. I started thief this time. In the first game I went dancer.
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Apr 21, 2023 18:59
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Excuse me but Temenos "Sherlock Holmes But Somehow Even Gayer" Mistral kicks rear end 
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Apr 21, 2023 19:24
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Temenos is what you'd get if Cyrus was sassy instead of oblivious. I love them both.
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Temenos going into Detective Vision mode might be my favorite character thing. Him mentally bonking people in the head until they tell him stuff is also great
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Harrow posted:Excuse me but Temenos "Sherlock Holmes But Somehow Even Gayer" Mistral kicks rear end Maybe he'll grow on me idk. He's better than Cyrus was I'll say that.
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GloomMouse posted:Temenos going into Detective Vision mode might be my favorite character thing. Him mentally bonking people in the head until they tell him stuff is also great Every time he goes "the truth... lies in the flame" I'm like "gently caress yes, let's go"
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YoshiOfYellow posted:Tanzy was less "in on it" and more just a really unfortunate victim of Arcanette's honey-tongued manipulation. She was wracked with grief and guilt over her lover's death and sadly the person she found to help her through it wrapped the poor girl around her finger. no I get all that. What I mean is what a random character to end up having such a big role in the end. Seemed like nothing hinted at it until it just happened
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:no I get all that. What I mean is what a random character to end up having such a big role in the end. Seemed like nothing hinted at it until it just happened There's a small hint when you Inquire her. Her little bio mentions how she swears everything on the "Goddess" but nobody knows who the hell she's talking about because no gods in this world are referred to like that and she refuses to elaborate. As it turns out Arcanette was her "Goddess". Which is supremely hosed up.
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Wait Finale spoilers ORI is in on it? That makes no sense and undermines huge swathes of Partitio’s story!!! AAAAAAAA
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Final Chapter: It's funny because Ori starts out on the evil side but Partitio's Powers of Benevolent Capitalism are so powerful even Ori is won over by him at the end.
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Someone pointed out that if you're going around Inquiring everyone, on Roque Island, there's a somewhat miserable family and if you line up ages with backstories, the husband had a kid when he was 13... and his wife was 19. This game.
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There are a lot of pretty dark stories hidden in NPC inquires/scrutinizes if you put together things you learn from multiple NPCs. Some funny ones, too. I love how drat near everyone in Clockbank is either a thief or former thief.
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Is last gasp worth keeping for anything other than npc farming? The fact that it's single hit makes it much less desirable to me now that I'm rocking sentencing gavel limb from limb aggressive thrust and frenzy fire.
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Limb from Limb is really all you need damage wise I think. Sentencing Gavel is also nice for sweeping random encounters. At endgame my Hikari’s current load out is Limb from Limb, Sentencing Gavel, Shield Thief, Boost from Beyond (just to set up Alpione’s easily), and Divine Protection.
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Harrow posted:There are a lot of pretty dark stories hidden in NPC inquires/scrutinizes if you put together things you learn from multiple NPCs. Some funny ones, too. I love how drat near everyone in Clockbank is either a thief or former thief. There's also the guard who thinks everyone in town is really nice and loves the place
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:Just beat the final chapter. I just finished the last of the character/crossed path stories and I while I definitely enjoyed my time with it, it's been 70 hours and all the threads I cared about are resolved and I'm feeling like the final chapter stuff seems like a bit of a chore and it's time to move on. Figured I'd just read some spoilers to see how bad I was missing out and I'm definitely feeling validated in my decision.
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Finished the final chapter; some of the twists were completely bonkers but it was fun throughout. I never finished OT1 so a lot of the stuff in the true final battle floored me the party coming together for an 8v1 with the "the final battle begins" text was hype as hell. That final boss had hands though and things could spiral out of control real quick if you got unlucky. Overall, I felt this game stuck the landing overall and was a real fun experience overall. Coming from someone who bounced off of OT1 pretty hard and ended up spending 80 hours in OT2 enjoying most of it, yeah just play OT2. If a possible OT3 can go even further beyond this, we might get something absolutely magical. Captain Oblivious posted:Wait As mentioned it's actually the other way around; Partitio being so earnest is the thing that actually got Ori doubting the plan entirely MechaX fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Apr 22, 2023 |
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(Final chapter spoilers) Yeah I thought that worked because the whole point is that Partitio’s goodness and earnestness helps Ori break out of the cult’s programming and he ends up unknowingly saving her life.
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Just saw a fun point online (massive endgame and ending spoilers): out of the shadow group members, Claude, Trousseau, Tanzy, Oboro, Arcanette, Petrichor, Harvey, and Ori, their first-letters spell out Octopath too; this loving game
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MechaX posted:Just saw a fun point online (massive endgame and ending spoilers): out of the shadow group members, Claude, Trousseau, Tanzy, Oboro, Arcanette, Petrichor, Harvey, and Ori, their first-letters spell out Octopath too; this loving game not just that. if you arrange their names next to the names of their opposites in octopath order, it spells octopath backwards - remember the whole initial plan of the cult was to sacrifice people representing the gods in reverse order?
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