2012-03-14, 12:07 AM
Polantaris Wrote:25 Elements? Really? That's the one thing that caused me to completely hate Chrono Cross. There's just too many elements in that game, it drove me nuts.
It's all about how you play it whether or not the game is about spamming a single ability. I never played Tales of Eternia that way, but I could certainly see people doing it. I love Tales of Eternia, but just like every game there's a few abilities you can spam to make the game easy street. It's all about how you want to play. Do you actually enjoy the battle system for what it is, or do you just want to get through it as fast as possible? I don't understand why people play games with the second mindset, but many people do. If you have the first, you can have fun with the battle systems even if it has some horribly flawed abilities. It's not even "Just never use that ability," just learn to work it into your fights, instead of the entire battle being pressing that same activation button over and over.
The 25 aren't elements, they're damage types in this game. I don't believe monsters have resistances, except maybe to the type they are, only weaknesses, and usually at most 4 or 5? The most number of damage types an arte can have is 3 (+2 from Red Charge for spells). There's a few artes though that I would label to be significantly lower in utility.
Asbel's "Heaven's Wrath" has a really weird hitbox with a lot of movement and attacks, and he doesn't readjust himself easily to connect every hit. Ironically, it works well against large targets, but has a bonus to Human type enemies.
Sophie's bottom right alpha style arte has a really long start-up time so it's super easy for her to get knocked down while being in the middle of using it. Perhaps it's something to experiment with by chaining a beta arte into it, but I rarely used it, and I think I may have just turned it off for her when she's AI.
Pascal's Magnetic Gate is pretty useless most of the time. I've generally felt it's a waste of CC if you're trying to use it to set up a combo, but I'll try experimenting with this later.
Sarah Wrote:What? I haven't seen either of these. I'm still in Barona with Tiger Festival and there's no chest near the Cryas. And there was none up the windmill. I was up there like nine times.
Oh wait. I'm reading this wrong. Those are in the future. Maybe there aren't any missable Carta then. I think that may be just from the Wii version then, where some couldn't be obtained after the time skip. I'm sorry =[ It stuck in my mind there were some exclusive ones because I remember missing some my first time on the Wii.
Derosis Wrote:>Finds Mechanisim for the North gate
>DONT NEED TO USE THIS AT THIS TIME
>WHAT THE pomegranate NAMCO?
You need to use the mechanisms in each tower in some specific order I believe?
Also, all of my rage when
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Zankuujin Mujinshou is localised as EXPUNGING SWORD.
Expunge is such a terrible word.