Normal battles are never that difficult since you can see (and dodge) enemies on the field and gain the ability teleport back to the leyline.
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Shin Megami Tensei V |OT| Da'at Hair
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Given how enemies can often be behind obstacles and you might not see them, I would say it's not that simple. Teleporting back to the leyline is helpful though.
They also have annoyingly large collision detection for some reason, and I've often gotten into battles by accident that visually I had dodged around. :/
You can keep your eyes on the radar to see if anyone's hiding and with the teleport ability you can easily figure out what kind of line you need to take to get through a crowded area.
If it is anything like previous games, the gap in exp per level increases more and more as you get away from the demon's base level. It is one of a handful of mechanics that are key to the planned obsolescence game design, and only the few stuff that does not scale with level (null/reflects, full heals, and buffs/debuffs) combine to drag out a demon's utility.
Daisoujou and Doppelganger were prime examples of breaking the planned obsolescence design.
I'd argue early game is probably harder than late game as far as normal encounters go since you don't have a loaded demon squad or any of the good miracles unlocked.
Seeing a town in the form of the Fairy Village was cool. I had wondered if we would get stuff like that other than what's in the "fake" Tokyo and I'm glad we did.
I just got to starting that quest, and based on what I'm hearing, not even halfway if I understand correctly. Someone that's finished please answer this.
Obviously, lol. Plenty of games don't get much harder as you progress, hence the question. Want to be sure so I don't feel like I want to restart in a few hours time...
This is interesting to see I guess lol. I was so sure I was near the end too. Great news tho!
You're likely maybe in the level 30s at that point, that's where I am (I think my Nahobino is 31 IIRC), you definitely are not close. There's stuff going pretty high if you look at the reverse compendium fusions.
Honestly the level jump from the 3rd area to the 4th is insane. I was like mid 50s coming out of the 3rd area, and then all of a sudden all the bosses are in the 70s and demon mbbs range from 50s to low 70s. Its a huge range, so I assume they want you to grind up a bit. This is on hard mode
I remember it being asked a while ago in the thread: Andras seems to be a fairly reliable source for farming Chakra Drops. I've noticed I've gotten about 3 or 4 or so in about 7 fights with them? Might just be lucky, mind. My MAG Nahobino is certainly appreciating it though!
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Yeah that's true. I'm actually 37 due to good luck so I was able to fuse that one knight on a horse. I think his name is Elgir or something. I needed to get that high to beat that one demon boss haha
As a new player, I'm focusing on Agility, Magic and Strength. I figure Agility is super useful for evading attacks
I'd definitely recommend against both Strength and Magic at the same time. You want to build Nahobino for a role and trying to balance them both will leave you with poor move coverage and lackluster stats in Vitality and Luck.
Hard is the Deliberate Challenge difficulty this go-around; you can only select it at the start and cannot drop down without losing out on it for the rest of the file.
Start with Normal, but if it proves overbearing drop down to Casual.
Yeah, I'm only at the second boss now. My MC basically just supports the more powerful mag-based demons. My damage output is pretty middling.
Normal is good and has a decent challenge on some of the boss fights (I just got wrecked by a few bosses consecutively like 60-70% through the game lol). Hard is actually hard.
You can try whatever sounds right (they're appropriately named) and change it anytime later if it seems off. The only conceit is that you can't use Hard unless you start there, and you can't go back up to it if you turn it down from there (which is dumb, but it's the way it is).
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No shame playing in Casual! You can switch back and forth between Normal and Casual if you find it too challenging or want more challenge.
Thanks everyone. I'll start with Normal and drop down to Casual if I need too. :)
I'm trying to get some other work done, but some of the themes and stuff keep popping into my head a bit and I just had an idea that I'm going to be a little sad if not realized lol.
Given the amount of exposition spent on what a Nahobino is and the definition of "godhood" versus "demons," plus the marketing and in-game stuff about ascending to godhood ("apotheosis," etc.), I'm going to be a bit disappointed if I can't literally use the fusion system to permanently and thoroughly affix Aogami and the protagonist together.
Do it, Atlus, let me fuse the protagonist.
Do it, Atlus, let me fuse the protagonist.
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The SMT series is notable to me in that you probably will finish the game in the 70-80s level range, as opposed to RPGs like Final Fantasy where it's usually like 30-50.
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They either "rank up" or "rank down" a demon depending on the race. So like an Aquans and an Inugami would transform into the next demon higher/lower in the Beast Race. Each element works differently for each race
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I didn't realize MH: Rise was considered an RPG
Yeah I don't think it truly belongs there either, but MH has always been sort of hard to classify, to be fair.
okay that's legit
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NTWEWY not being nominated for ANYTHING is a huge snub here. Cyberpunk has no business being on there.
hm…I wonder if I'm better off going with strength/agility then since I find myself flat out attacking the most
Might as well start on hard and see how far you get before switching it to easier as you can't make it harder on your current run.
Does anyone know what the actual definition or etymology of "nahobino" is? It's not something that comes up in a Japanese dictionary, and trying different ways to break the syllables up doesn't bring up anything useful either. The closest I could find was "naobinokami," which are Japanese gods of restoration/purification of sin, but I have no idea if that's it.
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Right, so is "hitoshura", but the etymology of that one is easy to figure out. I just want to know where it comes from, if anywhere.
Lmao was thinking the same thing. No idea why person was expecting to get annihilated by Slimes on normal lol
