I loved the wild strawberries in the area that recovers +1 LP to all. Only time were recovering these wasn't tedious. If you keep fighting and opening the basket trap instead of a fae you will get strawberries.
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SaGa Scarlet Grace Ambitions |OT| So Good It Sells Itself
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I loved the wild strawberries in the area that recovers +1 LP to all. Only time were recovering these wasn't tedious. If you keep fighting and opening the basket trap instead of a fae you will get strawberries.
I haven't posted much since I've been so engrossed. I just finished doing (Urpina sidequest spoiler) Urpina's dual wield section and now I'm working my way through Cerenaif. I'm looking forward to the upcoming bits when the game opens up a bit so I can really go in on smithing at the various smithies. One of the upgrade paths I really want to do requires two different specific elemental smithies.
I'm in this area now and had a question about one of the roaming engagements here.
Can you interact with the fae hunters at all?
I've gotten Dual Wield, and I've recruited Griffin and Chichi.
I can capture the fairies and take them to the festival to get holy water, or take them to the stone and get into a battle (done each once), but not sure what to do with the hunters.
Thought someone had told me to take care of them. I just want to destroy those boxes on the map haha
I've gotten Dual Wield, and I've recruited Griffin and Chichi.
I can capture the fairies and take them to the festival to get holy water, or take them to the stone and get into a battle (done each once), but not sure what to do with the hunters.
Thought someone had told me to take care of them. I just want to destroy those boxes on the map haha
I'm now having an issue where the Steam version closes immediately with no errors. Tried everything I can think of to fix it. This sucks.
Let it get to 1.
Is there any guide how to develop magic in this game?
I keep pumping all the fluxes to Siren, but it takes ages to even level up, and it said my Aes lvl it too low to glimmer new spell.
I also changed Solon's weapon to Great Staff, but doesn't seem to let him glimmer or use any new magic.
The other thing is, is there any way to speed up spellcasting?
I keep pumping all the fluxes to Siren, but it takes ages to even level up, and it said my Aes lvl it too low to glimmer new spell.
I also changed Solon's weapon to Great Staff, but doesn't seem to let him glimmer or use any new magic.
The other thing is, is there any way to speed up spellcasting?
I managed to defeat
without a single casualty somehow, a bunch of my units were a few HPs away from death and single ink attack would have probably wrecked my whole party. Sleep and paralysis saved my ass multiple times during that fight.
Hugely satisfying but i think that's enough SG for today lol
that big skeleton squid
without a single casualty somehow, a bunch of my units were a few HPs away from death and single ink attack would have probably wrecked my whole party. Sleep and paralysis saved my ass multiple times during that fight.
Hugely satisfying but i think that's enough SG for today lol
You can.
You need to let the fairy remain in the trap and then progress the days until one of the crates says it has a bottled fairy in it, then you can go beef with the hunters.[
Win the battle that follows.
It's probably not really helpful, but I use the Japanese Kamikouryaku guide. The game is incredibly dense, and it'll probably take a while before there's some kind of guide in English I'm afraid.
Does this GameFAQs post help?
Try interacting with the other locations and objects on the map.
I've added all the loading screen tips to the opening post.
Visit every town, then go to the abandoned village a few times. You'll fight a battle, and then whether you win or not, go to the cocoon.
I quickly compiled a list of Roles and the Techs required to unlock them on the SaGa wiki. The ones without techs mentioned might be the ones acquired through the story, but I can't verify that right now.
Thanks for the link.
1 follow-up question, how do I know whether the staff I have is for forward or backward learning?
Glancing over the wiki, it appears there's only one backward learning staff, the Mold Breaker, which you'll have to upgrade from the Transitory Staff when your Smithy reaches level 12.
All the positive impressions are winning me over, despite me not enjoying the aesthetics and UI.
How long roughly is the game? I'm hoping for something that's not overbearing and wears out it's welcome.
How long roughly is the game? I'm hoping for something that's not overbearing and wears out it's welcome.
Blacksmith Level looks like the most important stat so far. The cost reduction to low tiers of upgrades makes them virtually free, which I think encourages being fairly liberal with expensive upgrades thanks to how much they boost your Rank. Just note when a weapon has the rare spark type of its class and
Some questions:
It is supposed to be replayable, but it can be really open and variable, and there is a difficulty setting that can lengthen or shorten the game essentially. Anything from 20 hours to 50 hours seems in the range of normal.
Some questions:
- The Town Development/trading minigame is kind of a mess. I imagine is tedious on characters that aren't Leonard?
- Does Battle Rank impact the final boss, or is it set / other mechanics? If Scarlet Shards determine difficulty which is easiest?
- Are there lists of what changes on Combat Difficulty settings?
- I assume Leonard has the most access to recruitable characters. How many can he get total? How few can Balmaint get?
It is supposed to be replayable, but it can be really open and variable, and there is a difficulty setting that can lengthen or shorten the game essentially. Anything from 20 hours to 50 hours seems in the range of normal.
As far as I've been able to tell, it's a straight battle rank modifier. I haven't found any detailed information about it on any JP site, but they all seem to talk about it like that's what it is.
this one suggests that hard mode also gives you more battle rank experience per encounter (+15 initial and +4 on refights), and also seems to indicate that Ambitions raises the default experience per encounter from +10 to +12 (i guess maybe Easy mode lowers it to +10?)
But more importantly, that website includes a chart to figure out what your Battle Rank is based on the number of Crystals offered as a reward from encounters
This is awesome, but it seems to be referring to encounter difficulty, rather than the difficulty setting in the menu? Or at least it is difficult to determine which they're talking about. Sometimes they say the difficulty level of the battle location and sometimes they say difficulty setting.
Edit: Okay they have a few other pages that talk about it, and it's definitely vague about "enemies are weaker" or whatever. Weird to see concrete numbers for so many things but not this.
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In vanilla SG, Leo had a maximum of 37 recruitable characters (though some exclusive to each other). Ambitions added a few more.
Balmaint had a maximum of 42 recruitable characters, under the same limitation.
I really like that idea for difficulty levels. In practice it makes the difficulty curve steeper, and keeping up with the curve has always been the center of the SaGa difficulty curve (at least for the games with substantial BR mechanics). It also makes it harder in an interesting way, as you move up to higher tiers of enemies rather than just fighting the same type with multiplies stats.
Wow, I would not have guessed that. Do you end up doing totally different zones depending on your answers in Balmaint's arc? I would not have guessed he has more than the open-world character.
A lot of effort was clearly put into the translation, which does a fair bit of heavy lifting for the atmosphere and the already cool sidequests, but this is not really a game you should buy if a meaty main story with twists and turns is a priority. The world and battle system are the stars here, and the latter especially shines really bright.
What does getting the holy water do when you are in sidequest land for Urpina?
Edit: Also, what is the deal with the spirit that follows you. I chose not to steal, but how do you "solve" this situation?
Edit: Also, what is the deal with the spirit that follows you. I chose not to steal, but how do you "solve" this situation?
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Well it doesn't waste your time, that's for sure. It's less concerned with taking up your time with tropes you've seen a billion times done before, so it mainly aims at presenting an atmosphere and world building rather than an actual cutscenes heavy experience. It's definitely made more towards those of us who have been playing RPGs for a long time. It's more of a seinen presentation, if you get my meaning. You'll be disappointed if that's the only reason you're playing, it's far more about the gameplay systems and the challenge/exploration. Great music too, by the way.
here's the answer:
There will be reviews over the next couple of months. There's already one (7.8) by somebody that clearly didn't beat the game yet. If this keeps up, it will be the highest reviewed SaGa of all time!
I have no idea. I think it's impossible. I've tweeted about it, but I don't exactly have many followers. I mention it on every forum where I have an account registered. To be honest, there's not much one can do, just like it seems like Dragon Quest won't be a monster hit in the west, SaGa will be an obscure series that a few fans will love.
It's a tough nut to crack, sadly. The digital-only release and lack of FIGS translation makes it nearly a nonstarter in Europe, especially since it doesn't really make a good first impression out of the blue if you just watch a trailer or whatever. I've tried to sell it to a couple of friends and only one bit after getting to play it for a bit on my Switch. It's also not a great date in general, what with all the sales and the recent big releases, but to be honest I'm not sure another date might have made too much of a difference. Hopefully the eventual deeper discounts will help like they did TLR, but that always seemed a bit lightning-in-a-bottle-y thanks to the very special circumstances of that release.
There's still a lot of fire skills. Early on I had Incendiary arrow and Rising Nova for instance. You really need to have as many different weapons as you can. Short sword also have many elements like ice and thunder too.
About 15 hours in I feel this is more or less Unlimited Saga 2 to me.
My biggest issue so far is that the game punishes you for trying different things as recovering LP is never easy nor it is fun.
Thanks! I finished that up
Now the dog is hanging around and it says its owner is in the water mill but if I go there the guy just asks me to fish, anyone know what to do?
So I've done this and nothing happens? I've been running around this place forever chasing hunters, releasing faeries (I did just read this isn't necessarily what I should be doing) and interacting with as much as I can. Do I just keep doing fights at the abandoned village, or were you just referring to getting Griffin? The only interaction I've had at the cocoon is after freeing faeries.
Try to visit every town a second time, there were two sets of conversations for me in each town. Then I went to the coccoon and got the skill
Does this game have dungeons or is it just fights on the world map? Can you grind in it? I played it for an hour to get used to battle system but it's confusing. The crafting is too and the menus like I have no idea what I'm looking at.
