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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVOFibwVMw0 anybody else ever play these games? I recently just started with Wild Arms 1 and i've been really digging it. The locations are cool, the writing is funny and the story moves along really quickly. theres a small party and 1 of the three people has said like 4 things the entire game so far, but hell, who cares! The limited party means the battles arent too challenging but ive seen a lot of enemy variety and a ton of bosses in just the first 8 hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDw21BXBtCY its a pixel art based PS1 game so theres some additional fidelity over SNES contemporaries that looks great, even if the dungeons themselves are little plain. I also like that the different tools means theres light puzzle solving all over the place and feels almost like a zelda game + final fantasy. Ill probably play through the first 3, I picked them up on PSN for cheap. Good vita game, especially. The only thing is I wish i could take screenshots but by 3 I guess ill be able to.
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As a heads up, theres a section in the game called the Tripillar, which is one of the bits that makes you split up to finish it. I would highly recommend sending Jack to the left, Cecillia north and Rudy to the right. It will save you a lot of time, which I did not know and had to take a while to swap characters around into the right places. Cheers,
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May 16, 2017 19:03
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Well i just died for the first time this entire file and lost 40 minutes because of this Tripillar unmarked character specific path bullshit. gently caress off
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May 16, 2017 19:14
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Im past the tower, and off to assault the Photosphere (helpfully the bad guys explained tyhat this means SPhere of Light)
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May 16, 2017 21:53
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I dunno, so far I only have a lowly ship.
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May 16, 2017 22:15
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I figure you must get one considering they talk a lot about Golems and built it up early on that they're ancient pilotable WMDs
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May 16, 2017 22:55
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trying to jack off posted:unfortunately IT suffers from the kind of disease where he will have to play 4 if he wishes to play 5 It's true, although I'll probably pirate 4 and 5
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May 17, 2017 01:56
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sector_corrector posted:i can't remember, what do you do in the giant mech? is it just a ship type thing, or do you fight in it? Update: so far its mechanically a canoe, which is weird considering it's this monstrous sprite on the overworld. But I've just found one of the two ancient drives which will turn it into an airship , pretty badass. I wish Calamity Jane was a party member, her story is cool and she hangs out with your crew for a lot of the game
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May 18, 2017 03:56
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I'm probably not going to play a remake of a game immediately after I played he original but I may check it out after I've played 1-5
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May 18, 2017 17:03
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I defeated what I thought was gonna be the games final boss but I feel like this is the middle of the game and now I'm just kinda sailing around murking demons plotlessly
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May 20, 2017 22:06
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Zaggitz posted:which boss. Mother, in the photosphere.
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May 21, 2017 06:16
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I had found his grandpa's shack and had a little taste but it was really cool how they revealed it in the main narrative
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May 21, 2017 17:30
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Lol
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May 22, 2017 19:33
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Think Ill finish this today. Got the airship and theres some side missions available but the combat is so easy I dont really care about doing any of them for the challenge's sake, more interested to see what happens with the Characters,
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May 22, 2017 19:34
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alright, perhaps Ill check them out after I beat the game. I just got a cutscene where the BlackTear Drop split the planet in twain
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May 22, 2017 20:43
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Also the final boss in the game is named Ka Dingle. Are you serious
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May 22, 2017 20:50
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RIP boomerang, you fought valiantly. Zaggitz posted:You should do the arena and the one optional fight in st centaur since those have story stuff and cool conclusions to some of the side characters arcs. Otherwise go nuts on the finale. I'll do this now, but what is St Centaur
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May 23, 2017 04:51
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well I found out that this game has a Metal Slime equivalent enemy (rabbits hanging out on enormous clocks) so Im grinding them and sipping coffee and Ill probably do all the bonus bosses outside of the Abyss. Some of the golem/guardian fights are actually pretty tricky for once, so it's neat. Gearing up with some Ultimate Swords is always agood feel
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May 23, 2017 15:45
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Beat the arena, that's a nail biter. Boss rush modes are great
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May 23, 2017 16:52
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Zaggitz posted:iirc if you check the arena after beating it theres a secret boss. unless you already fought Boomerang Flash He was a total badass and the only extra boss I ended up cheesing with Goat DOlls after a few attempts. Even with a double stacked party defense spell, his AOE one shot my squad. You are a powerful warrior, Boomerang Flash.
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May 23, 2017 17:50
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The Zed finale was cute as well. This is a very charming game. Next time I play Ill probably just throw on Invisible and run throguh the last dungeon because Im probably OP already from doing all the side stuff.
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May 23, 2017 17:51
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I'm going to finish this tonight, when I get home. I think I already posted this but I wish screenshot button worked with PS1 games on Vita, lots of good moments lost forever.
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May 24, 2017 01:15
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The finale to this game is like a 90s JRPG wishlist go to the moon, three different curveball final bosses, dimension hopping, The Power of Friendship, etc. What an awesome drat game! Although, as expected, I kinda blew through the final bosses bc I had done the side content, which is a rewarding feeling in its own right. atleast its not as bad as FFX , where I beat the final boss in one attack because I had Wakka's ultimate weapon with damage limit break + nailed a perfect attack reels move and did like 80k damage in one attack or whatever.
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May 24, 2017 03:01
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I may boot up 2 tonight, at least to check it out. I hope its mechanically a little more involved bc i know the translation sucks nutsack so I probably won't really be able to understand the story.
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May 24, 2017 03:18
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Cool, I started it up and it seems like the opening is deliberately mirroring WA1. Ashley looks exactly like a higher polygon model of Rudy would be and the other two characters look suspiciously a lot like Cecilia and Jack. It's going to take a bit to get used to the fully 3D environments but so far it seems like a more refined Wild Arms, and I'm all right with that. Idk if I'll get into fully right away but I'll definitely play this game, especially if it has a bigger roster
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May 24, 2017 04:50
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Wild Arms 2 may wind up being way cooler than 1. The translation is rougher, and theres often some lines of dialogue that are just complete nonsense, but they improved on the combat a lot. Magic has become just an FP skill like anything else, and it doesnt spend the meter, it just requires certain thresholds to use it. At first I was thinking "well this just means I cant heal unless the magic girl has done something" but each level adds one point to the combat starting FP pool, which is a super smart way of giving you powerful magic you can use, and also making it something you can level into using all the time. Also you can avoid random battles, the puzzles seem more robust, the visual design reminds me of OG DQ7 (and the DQ DS remakes)...this game kicks rear end! I love Wild Arms!
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May 26, 2017 06:25
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Regy Rusty posted:Yeah that's how magic works in Wild Arms 3 as well. It's a cool system. You inspired me to go back and start playing WA1 this weekend while on vacation and I was a bit surprised to find a more standard MP based system. The basic heal scales with Cecilia's sorc stat so I used it the entire game and it pretty much always healed to full, and the defense debuff works on every boss and can double your physical damage. Outside of that the basic magic is all whatever. The advanced stuff thatunlocks in the midgame gives you way better buffs
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May 26, 2017 14:41
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Yeah I renamed everything to the dragon quest equivalent so I didn't have to learn new spell names
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May 26, 2017 19:15
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whoa they actually explain what ARMS means in 2. Agile Remote Mission Squad. I thought it was a kind of gun
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May 27, 2017 04:14
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Nice I was just playing some more 2 while getting ready to sleep. I losing my poo poo though, there's that mechanic in the game where you can hit circle when a ! appears to prevent a random encounter. And then there's an NPC in a town who just says Encounter Cancel doesn't work when fighting terrorists...
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May 30, 2017 02:39
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I started playing 2 again and got sent to Shadow Moses Island
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Jun 21, 2017 20:01
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Avoiding every single encounter is fun too to make the bosses more challenging.
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Jun 21, 2017 22:20
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Just met the helpful lizard duo named Liz and Ard.
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Jun 22, 2017 21:10
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Brimstone Inquiry posted:Wild Arms 1 gets much better when you realize that it took a lot of inspiration from The Dark Tower [/headcannon please respect]. [Dr. Evil voice] Riiiiiiight.
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Jun 23, 2017 03:10
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Tim seems like he could be a really powerful magic user but since I skip 100% of random battles he will never learn any magic and I don't want to babysit killing blows for him like this is a fire Emblem game. So he's staying benched, permanently. Boy I hope this game doesn't do the thing every JRPG ever with a large cast does and has a dungeon in the finale where you have to cycle through everybody.
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Jun 23, 2017 03:12
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Yeah I stopped by the first town and just blew through all my available guardian stones with a solo Tim party. It didn't take long at all, at first I thought that spell list was for one stone but then I realized it was just showing all the available ones. His AOE heal that ignores turn order and always goes first was necessary for some recent boss fights, thank you Tim. I also just got Kanon and she's badass. Have recently entered Coffin of 100 Eyes, very ominous
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Jun 24, 2017 21:01
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These diablo towers are pretty rough. Is there ever going to be a shop available where I can buy healing items, because I'm now out of revive fruits and that's tough...
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Jun 25, 2017 15:04
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The 4 person escape sequence is rad as hell and took a part from 1 that I thought was kind of annoying and made it super fun. Hell I would play a game of nothing but puzzles like that
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Disc 2 outta nowhere!!!!! And now Ashely Winchester is dead floating through deep space while hallucinating conversations with an ancient <Sword Magess>, this game owns
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