navydude
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« on: November 23, 2008, 01:34:04 PM » |
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Ok, this game has been given so match s@#$ because people feel the battle system is to complicated but, its actually very simple so I, in my infinite wisdom, will explain it to you people who are kinda eh about getting it.....
First of all, if you've played any of the Saga Frontier series and I'll assume you have, imagine Romancing Saga for the Ps2.... now you have 5 players in your party and imagine those 5 players can control up to an additional 4 more party members. Ok, so people have been comparing this game to dynasty warriors and all types of other shit but its not, its simply a mixture of Saga Frontier and Ogre Tactics. So like Ogre tactics, everyone shares everything... HP, AP EVERYTHING!!! However, each unit (unit= individual person) has their own amount of HP so if it runs out of HP the unit faints but the union (union= the entire group) will still survive but if the union runs out of HP the union will be TERMINATED lol... Oh, and its not only limited to 5 generals, as you progress through the game, you gain the ability to have more generals which in turn builds a bigger army for yourself which makes the game much easier...
Now for some terms that may have you guys scratching your heads...
DEADLOCK= One on one fight UNTIL YOU OR THE ENEMY IS TERMINATED lol
FLANK= When your in a one on one fight and somebody attacks you from the side, they have flanked you... makes since right lol???
REAR ATTACK= When both flanks are taken by the enemy or you, the next attack comes from the rear causing lots of damage.
INTERCEPT/ INTERFERENCE= When you or the enemy is going to attack another TARGETED enemy, you or the enemy may be intercepted/ interfered by troops that you did not intend to attack... intercept applies to your troops doing the intercepting and vice-versa.
RAIDLOCK= When you break of a deadlock to go attack another enemy, heal yourself, etc., you are a sitting duck an whenever you are next attacked, unless you defeated the enemy you broke of the deadlock for, you will be in a raidlock where damage is increased to your troops.
MULTI-DEADLOCK= When your facing a REALLY BIG F@#$ING enemy, he can attack most of your unions at the same time and you have to be careful of this because he may use moves that can hurt all unions on the field.
Now techs and growth are done the same way the were done in Romancing Saga so, you choose what type of weapon you want to use and you learn specific techs for that type of weapon i.e. the duel wield weaponstyles allows you to learn the tech Resonance Edge which was my favorite tech in Romancing Saga. What you have to remember is that Last Remnant IS Saga frontier under a different name but, if you don't like Saga Frontier, that doesn't necessarily exclude you from playing this game because I hated Saga Frontier 1 and didn't really like Saga Frontier 2 all to much but I loved Romancing Saga and this game, is turning out to be like Romancing Saga although there is a REAL storyline to follow this time.
Yes yes, the game slows down during battle but what do you expect with the beautiful graphics and the hordes of enemies on the screen at one time so if you won't buy a game because it slows down, well, go kill yourself lol :haha:because these people have been working on the game for 3 years and if the could've done something about it, they would have but its really not that bad. Game seems pretty good so far and battles are fun and fun to watch and I alomst forgot, you can't really choose what tech you're going to do because this game is all about strategy.... so this is what the battle menu looks like
Attack
Attack (Highlighted) Use combat arts
knee split Use mystic arts
attack Keep your health up
smash Play it by ear
cross slice
You have to press the X button so you can actually see the menu on the left. So, you'll have generally, good idea of what your unions are about to do but, the AI in the game is really smart so it reassess the situation and do something totally surprising and smart, i.e., I was fighting a boss and he was whooping my ass so I decided to heal myself by casting the restore spell on only one unit but I had not noticed that one of my other units in the union was about to faint so the AI reassessed the situation and used a recovery art that healed the entire union, not just healing a single unit... Yes, not being able to choose individual commands is kinda frustrating i dire situations but thats why you have to strategize...
Thats all for now and I hope I gave a general view of how things work in battle.. so long dummies lol
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