| 07:25.41 | Ivnedar | huh, that's an interesting save point mechanic I hadn't run into before |
| 07:26.24 | Ivnedar | In Tales of Symphonia, the save points' glyphs have been rubbed out over time, mobs have a small chance of dropping a gem that you can use to fix them |
| 07:26.47 | Ivnedar | That's including the usual ones that exist just before a major boss fight |
| 07:28.39 | Ivnedar | so you have to weigh up the risks of fighting mobs and possibly losing, and having to reload from a previous save, possibly hours earlier, hoping for a gem so you can save, or risk it and push on ahead and hope you kill the boss first time |
| 07:31.29 | Ivnedar | that and I found out the hard way that there are mimics in the game :P |
| 07:31.55 | Ivnedar | low on health, saw a chest, hoped for healing items, chest ate my face |
| 07:48.58 | ZorbaTHut | that's kinda interesting |
| 07:50.18 | ZorbaTHut | although my favorite "save point mechanic" is still TWEWY's - the game gives you a ton of control over how difficult battles are, and a "loss" lets you immediately retry or just return to right before you fought the battle. You lose out on the gradual MP attrition mechanic, but it's one of the few RPGs where you basically can't lose progress |
| 08:00.51 | seebs | TWEWY was really good about a lot of things. |
| 08:30.28 | Ivnedar | the sudden spikes in difficulty in this one surprised me. Though, it is a remaster of an earlier release game |
| 08:30.55 | Ivnedar | so I can see a lot of similarities between it in and the later games in the Tales Of franchise |
| 08:36.34 | Ivnedar | I'd just finished playing Tales of Xillia before starting on it, in that one, if you lose in major battles, you get to retry, and before going back into battle, you get access to the character pane, redo your equipment, party, ai strats, skill layouts, use items |
| 08:36.53 | Ivnedar | minor random encounters will still punt you back to load screen |
| 08:37.09 | Ivnedar | but they're usually easy enough that it never happens |
| 08:51.04 | ZorbaTHut | twewy was fun because it gave you a bunch of extra shinies for voluntarily taking on extra challenge. there were a lot of items that could practically be acquired only by playing at a higher difficulty (could be changed wherever you wanted) or by chaining battles together into a massive hellish battle |
| 09:12.34 | Ivnedar | the gear curve in xillia is quite cool too |
| 09:12.42 | Ivnedar | there's no level restrictions on items |
| 09:12.51 | Ivnedar | shops level up as you buy stuff from them |
| 09:13.04 | Ivnedar | as they level up, new items are made available and older items are discounted |
| 09:13.21 | Ivnedar | you can also donate materials to the shops to level them up quicker instead of selling the materials |
| 09:13.50 | Ivnedar | by farming a bit, you can end up with lvl 60 characters equipped with lvl 90+ shop gear |
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| 18:51.27 | Noshei | FUCK yes |
| 18:51.45 | Noshei | only took me a week, but I finally recovered my RAID 5 array |
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