Fwiw there is a reason to grind, all fights give sp which you can use to level up your learned abilities. Said abilities also will slowly master themselves if they are equipped and used in battle. You can't over level by grinding, but you can make your attacks hit harder or boost the length of buffs/debuffs by leveling abilities.
Ah I can see now. The level of SP gain seems very low- I’m getting 2-3 per fight and the first upgrade for one character is 250 SP!
Right, but if you do a few more fights you'll see that skill is now at 240 SP needed to level.
Oh I seeeeee! That makes sense, I like that
Damn, good luck on your next go at it!
Oh yeah, I love the pacing in Chained Echoes a lot. As for grinding, I never had to go out of my way to grind. Could always find a way out of any challenge with some planning.
Yeah good luck Ghost! I totally ate every damn nut before the endgame
While this is true, I never found any reason to grind. Just fight most of what you organically encounter as you explore and you'll be fine - unless you're really trying to unlock tons of abilities on every character (which is mostly pointless given how limited slots are) then it's not worth it
I unlocked everything on everyone late game and maxed everything out. More out of a compulsive need to do so.
Plan to get both of these but waiting for sales to hit a certain point. Also I remember getting hit by BK second disk difficulty bump and not going back DX
Sega with the Square strategy of "yeah just release them all at once, what could go wrong?"
I'm good right now. Only one of those releases on Switch and I'm waiting on reviews for Unicorn (although I'm sure the OST is going to be exquisite). I've yet to actually play any Vanillaware games and to be honest the last thing I need for my backlog is another studio to follow.
I’ll take this to mean in the sense if you were in the direct middle of playing it and you stopped, I’d say Octopath Traveler II due to the chapter structure and strictly turned based combat is easier to pick back up. Personally it isn’t too hard to get back into Xenoblade either for the combat since it is deceptively more simple than it looks on the gameplay front, but you’d want to stop at an obvious break point in the story if you dropped it. FFXVI I’d say is the most difficult. The battle system isn’t super complicated, but it definitely has a unique rhythm to it all the same. Took me about an hour to get comfortable with it again between beating it at launch and playing the DLC five months later.
Thank you! This is really helpful.
Yup, that's me too. Everytime I see the guides anf faqs on "how to create the perfect persona" and you pretty much have to become an eugenics experts I'm like "not learning this bullshit, you and you, merge" and hope for the best.
Halfway through 5 Royal I just ended up rocking one that had a bunch of good attacks plus a healing move and that was the end of my fusion journey in that game.
Wait until you try a SaGa game with Monsters and trying to deal with mutating them
In my very sporadic ongoing playthrough of P4G, I just really prefer how SMT handles the whole demon fusion/raising aspect. I actually feel like I have a better grasp of planning out my team there, partly because it's more relevant what demons I have available and what "slots" I need to fill. Plus demons actually level up at some point and I'm not convinced Personas do
Yeah, whenever a persona levels up and its Magic stat doesn't increase, I'm like, what's the fucking point then?
That's how I've been playing every MegaTen title and it hasn't steered me wrong yet.
That reminds me of when my cousin was playing Final Fantasy Legend years ago and managed to mutate a really powerful monster, then ruined it by feeding it some random meat.Wait until you try a SaGa game with Monsters and trying to deal with mutating them
Generally speaking unless you’re trying for weird stat shenanigans or crazy min maxing that’s not at all worth it in Persona, the fusing is almost exactly the same as in SMT: Mostly you just care about their moves and sometimes their resists/blocks. The usual strategy is just level up a persona until it learns all the moves it gains by level up, and then fuse it away. They level up significantly slower after this point so it’s not generally worth keeping them around.
Heck yeah! It never feels like you have too much stuff. It helps that the combat has enough bite that it incentivizes using your stuff rather than trying to power-level through the challenges.
Yeah I like that, everyone is rarely more than 2-3 solid hits from death, and you can’t overwhelm the enemy quickly, so stuff like poison and bleed that do damage over time become viable tactics. Plus your HP/MP is restored after each fight, so it’s less about conserving resources over multiple battles and more about using them well in each battle.
I really like Xillia, probably more than most. The dungeons aren't great and the fields (the 'connecting areas' basically) aren't either, but pretty much all of the main more crafted locations look pretty nice. I really like some of the things the game does especially later into the plot, too.
well... i bought neo TWEWY and... i'm having a hard time liking it!
I would say no, but the stop-and-go feeling sticks around longer than I would have liked.
She is personally at the bottom of the totem pole in terms of characters, yeah. I generally felt less enthused about the NEO protagonists compared to the original's, but uhh (slight spoiler) there's kind of a lore reason for it.
well, i'm gonna keep giving it a go because i like most things about it aside from that, so hopefully i'll hit a stride and start enjoying it more. i'm probably a little less than 10 hours in as of now.
