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Yeah, that trend will continue the entire game.

I just met a Commander Goodman, leader of the Shieldbearers. There's another character named Praline a la Mode.

Agnes is the worst. Edea is awesome.

Tiz is okay. He has his moments, and he's never annoying me (unlike Agnes). Ringabel is boring/annoying, but he also has his moments (like a random little moment where he bothers to point out the subjectivity of morality and how that motivates people, when Agnes is all THEY ARE ALL EVIL).

I'm just really hoping Agnes dies.

I really need to pick this up. Well what I really need to do is to add 5 bucks to my 3DS so I can download it.

And now so do I.

You're welcome.

Is anyone else spending a lot of time just watching the town progress?

I'm finding myself spending a lot a time with it on sleep mode, just to open it up and see if I got another present from the adventurer.

I'm a little bit before you quest-wise on that and yeah, just net updates for me too. Town only has a few things near max and I'm playing on Hard difficulty, which is actually slowing me down a little bit (because getting a character blasted by more than his total HP kind of hurts), but I've got a lot of love for the job system and the mix and match nature of it ATM. The free battle items from taking it slow have also been EXTREMELY helpful, as I had enough on hand to blast the first crystal boss to bits very quickly. I can't remember the last time I actually made use of them in a FF-ish game. Feels like I should stockpile them some more so that if a character is more lacking on a boss, I can just have him/her toss those instead, especially if there's an elemental weakness involved. ATM I'm just trying to beef up everyone so that they can actually survive a hit when the Summoner and Ranger job bosses decide to do something.

Edited, Feb 20th 2014 3:17pm by Ravashack

I'm liking the job system, and combat is fun enough (though I hate where they put the status buff/debuff limits, since it's starting to feel really limiting with builds).

But I have to say, I'm not enjoying the actual game part. I get that there are people for whom this oldschool jrpg style is nostalgic and they don't mind it, but it's killing me. Running back and forth across a world map for a quest is just annoying. And the ambling nature in general, is just painful.

I was hoping it wouldn't be so bad as a mobile game, but it is. I'm still only like 2 bosses into Ni No Kuni because I couldn't take it.

I really do think it's nostalgia that makes this palatable. I played and enjoyed FF7 and FF8, and I've played plenty of JRPGs since them, but in general the split between people who like BD and people who don't among my friends is pretty solidly along the lines of when they first experienced classic JRPGs.

The friends who had their early gaming experiences with JRPGS? Liking it. The friends who revisited older titles like FF7 because they wanted to see what the fuss is about? Disliking it.

I should also note that difference maps inversely to who loved FFXIII and who didn't. "Raised on FF7" group hated it, people who got into gaming through other titles and only slowly made their way into JRPGs (or even just mostly played western RPGs)? Really enjoyed it.

/shrug

Yeah, the "tutorial" phase should have finished up earlier. Particularly since paradigm shifting was the real mechanic at play, but you didn't really learn to use it until later in the game, when the roles get unlocked.

I don't mind the point where you hit Pulse, though. There's little reason to grind at all before Pulse, and if you're not grinding the path there is quite quick.

In Florem, Chapter 2. Still slow going but I think it's keeping me interested to keep playing it in small bursts. Still only have such a small number of jobs can't decide what I want to focus on. I know I'm taking Whm, Knight, and probably Merchant up to near max level asap, but after that who knows. Thief sounds like it'd be fun to level (and/or Ranger), and I know I'll be interested in Valkyrie and Ninja when I get them based on the demo.

SpoilerYeah, that one scene did seem to suggest Ringabel could be Alternis. But that would be weird, too, since Edea is supposed to know him well? IDK.

If you don't wanna play through the whole story but wanna see the end cutscene that sets up the sequel, enter the Konami code at the start screen.

WARNING this does give away story spoilers!