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Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition |OT| 2D, or not 2D, that is the question (now available on PS4/XB1/PC)
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Just went through Gallopolis in 2D mode, (transitioned after the demo) and was surprised that none of the townsfolk offered me a quest. Are the quests missing in 2D mode? Seems like a strange difference, but not sure how else to explain it.
edit - they are showing up now. Possible that "Townsfolk talk tripe" inadvertently blocked me from getting the requests at first.
edit - they are showing up now. Possible that "Townsfolk talk tripe" inadvertently blocked me from getting the requests at first.
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While I am not that far yet, all the same quests from the 3D version were offered around helidor in 2D mode.
I played for a few more hours tonight and didn't want to stop. This is an incredible port. Iwata would be proud of the job they did.
The auto scroll for the cutscenes makes this a much better experience for me vs PC. Graphics be damned
Just a heads up you can make this encounter a lot easier by using one of the flower consumables (Can't remember the name, starts with h) to put one of them to sleep so you can focus on one enemy. Pretty sure the % of that activating is higher than using one of the knife abilities.
Makes it much more manageable and I didn't have to over level with stronger enemies on. Though some of the boss battles do have a bit of rng with stronger enemies.
Playing the demo. I'm in love. Gonna buy the full game next week hopefully. Made me look at RPGs differently.
NOA published Octopath in the west and I've seen it at $45 multiple times this year both digital and physical so maybe early next year? It was $50 on Amazon earlier in July
Once you past through the Door of Departure/Before you arrive to Hotto. Extra perk is you don't necessarily have to have the armor equipped to be able to wear it visually.
I'm not too far into it (just past the end of the demo, but man. This is a special game.
It just feels so cozy. The characters and how they interact with the hero just make me feel good. I have very little experience with this series, but I think I'm going to want to do a deep dive once I finish this up.
It just feels so cozy. The characters and how they interact with the hero just make me feel good. I have very little experience with this series, but I think I'm going to want to do a deep dive once I finish this up.
I finally started the demo tonight. I was putting it off because I wasn't planning to play the game until early next year because this fall is pretty packed, but seeing all my friends playing (or replaying) made it hard to stay away. Hopefully I can finish it before Death Stranding comes out.
Wanted to "give it a taste" and ended up playing for 2.5 hours, exploring every corner of every map that I could. Just now saw the title pop up lol.
There was a sparkle in a chandelier in the castle, could I have reached it somehow? Also, there is a sidequest I just started to perform a pep move or something, any tips for that? I don't see a psyche up or tension sort of option like on the last couple DQ games I played around with.
Wanted to "give it a taste" and ended up playing for 2.5 hours, exploring every corner of every map that I could. Just now saw the title pop up lol.
There was a sparkle in a chandelier in the castle, could I have reached it somehow? Also, there is a sidequest I just started to perform a pep move or something, any tips for that? I don't see a psyche up or tension sort of option like on the last couple DQ games I played around with.
Finally caught back up to where I was after changing my name again. Got the red orb. This game is already excellent, as I've willingly replayed sections before the sections before that for a total of like 15 hours or so at this point. Can't wait to see what it actually has in store now.
I don't know about the chandelier item, but in regards to the pep move you just need to keep playing. It'll come up.
The demo took me 10 hours to finish, and I felt like I moved at a decent pace. Did all the side quests, but didn't grind. It's meaty.
You can't get the item in the castle yet.
As for the pep quest, it's random. You can just keep defending until both characters get pepped up.
There was a night scene in Gallopolis where
they're in the circus tent with the Prince where he's the only one in the party not sitting in the chair correctly, with the back of the chair pressed up on the table
I laughed like, "What, you too cool 4 school to sit in the chair like a normal human being Erik?"
I laughed like, "What, you too cool 4 school to sit in the chair like a normal human being Erik?"
Why can't you just be normal Erik lol
what you mean by that? Are you talking about the fisticuffs skill tree?
Just beat the Gondolia boss ! I died the first time because I got too cocky and git punished despite handling the battle pretty well.
Got more cautious the second time and managed to beat it with only Hero and Sylvano standing.
Got more cautious the second time and managed to beat it with only Hero and Sylvano standing.
The various grunts when he jumps and uses certain skills in battle.
Yes. You won't be able to open gray locked doors for awhile. Just keep playing.
Switching to the DQ8 overworld theme is 1000 times better.
Is the battle pop-up text (top right) new? It showed up with Erik's portrait and he said "don't overdo it ok? If you need to heal then heal".
I don't remember ever seeing that on PC
Is the battle pop-up text (top right) new? It showed up with Erik's portrait and he said "don't overdo it ok? If you need to heal then heal".
I don't remember ever seeing that on PC
Her martial arts moves are based on her attack power including her weapon so if you go for those, go for a spear too. Claws seem like they're more for recovery & utility than damage. I also remember she can deal really good AoE charm damage later on if you stack a lot of style equipment.[/quote]
Do you guys recommend setting all characters to manual control? They seem to do well on auto but there's been some times where they blow a three person pep attack chance because they use it early.
Okay damm "Super Tough Monsters" in Draconian Mode is no joke. I'm also using Lower Exp and No shopping.
I'm up to the "Devil Boss" in a treasure chest. Both of my guys are Level 7, used the Forge and everything.
The damn boss can Pep and Heal itself! He's wiped me in two freaking turns when he takes back to back turns. This is ridiculous!
Any tips? I'm not a JRPG noob. The closest I've gotten here is using the Hero's Greatsword Parry skill and giving the best sword to Erik. We were able to use a Super Pep attack and get the boss health down low, but he Pepped and Healed and wiped us.
I'm up to the "Devil Boss" in a treasure chest. Both of my guys are Level 7, used the Forge and everything.
The damn boss can Pep and Heal itself! He's wiped me in two freaking turns when he takes back to back turns. This is ridiculous!
Any tips? I'm not a JRPG noob. The closest I've gotten here is using the Hero's Greatsword Parry skill and giving the best sword to Erik. We were able to use a Super Pep attack and get the boss health down low, but he Pepped and Healed and wiped us.
Erik's sleep move with the dagger is really effective on bosses. Also it can be hard to time but if you can get both the hero and Erik into Pep then The Real Decoy will take off a huge chunk of his health.
I would recommend turning off Lower Experience, though. It doesn't effect this battle specifically but the game's tolerance on what you get XP for is IMO way too tight. In the event that that you want to gain an additional level or two it will force you to only be able to fight one or two monster types in an area because the rest give zero XP.
I'm having such a blast with this game, about 20 hours in. Sylvando is AMAZING. Wow I haven't enjoyed a character this much in so, so long. Excited to see where his story goes. Veronica and Serena as well.
I love Serena's polka dotted outfit. Actually all of them have been great. Erik's turban outfit (with or without the turban) and Jade's bunny girl look great on them.
Ugh, can't stop playing this game. Haven't even done any of the 2D quests beyond the first cuz I keep wanting to progress. I hope finding new tocles isn't locked behind Quest completion, as in they won't appear in certain areas if you haven't done some of the other 2D quests, or else I'll be screwed finding them later.
Ugh, can't stop playing this game. Haven't even done any of the 2D quests beyond the first cuz I keep wanting to progress. I hope finding new tocles isn't locked behind Quest completion, as in they won't appear in certain areas if you haven't done some of the other 2D quests, or else I'll be screwed finding them later.
Yeah, I can imagine. Maybe I was unlucky but the times I tried sleeping one they only stayed under for one turn so it was questionable how worth it was making the attempts (which, to me, seemed to have a low % chance of success).
I feel like this game has difficulty that's kind of all over the place on harder monsters.. Which isn't necessarily *bad*. What do I mean by that? Certain sections early on are oppressively hard, but then suddenly after you get 4 party members everything becomes really easy.. Until it spikes a bit again later.. But now I'm kind of coasting and feel like the difficulty from harder monsters kind of settles in to being roughly equivalent to what old school JRPGs were by default. That is to say - Not too hard, but can definitely push you at certain moments.
And the above paragraph should highlight just how brain deadedly easy this game is on normal difficulty. Like, seriously. If you want to have to think or strategize at all, do not pick normal. Normal should just be considered story mode since you can't fail (and there's nothing wrong with that, but I know there are some people who appreciate having to dig into the mechanics).
Status effects work pretty well on early bosses if you have anything that can put it to sleep at that point.
Try using the forge to get +2 or +3 equipment to increase defenses up enough.
The boss also runs out of MP so if you can just live long enough, you won't have to worry about him constantly healing.
It's also a different feeling in 2D mode where you can't selectively ignore encounters lol.
Enjoying myself but with Shypox + Party Shypox + Protagonist death = game over combined with random encounters can lead to some frustration in some areas.
I feel like the normal difficulty is kind of overblown some places can still be tough and bosses can still be a pain. Regular enemies are easy yeah but I had a few calls with some bosses later on. I was playing on harder monsters and turned it off because mobs were annoying but bosses felt easier and I felt like I was just wasting time on healing. Though the Gallopolis boss I took down no problem on harder monsters for some reason ehile others before it were way harder.
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the game is #6 on the US eshop, not bad for a game where i assume most people would be interested in a physical copy.
