The Alliance Alive (2017)

If any of you have played this, I need help. One of the achievements is to beat Grossa in the Ancient Museum. So obviously a New Game Plus thing.

I can't do it. His broadcasted big death move kills me every time, if not the first time, then soon afterwards. Everything else he does hits for zero. What should I do? Galil and Azura have around 550 HP, both more than 65 armor, both are using Hard Block (neither sparked Fortress in the last play through) with a Lost Shield equipped. They're both doing around 1400 damage (Galil with Mists of Pain, specc'd for STR and END, Azura using Destructive Sigil specc'd for FOC. Using endurance or anything boosts, Galdabrook or Divine Sigil, don't seem to help.

Anyone out there have any idea?

I feel like this is what the Romancing SaGas should have been. Okay, so I don't have twenty characters from which to build my team. But I do have nine competent characters, some "hidden"/optional, all of which come to you kind of designed for something, but are also entirely customizable. If I want five back row DPS archers, I can make that happen with little headache. If I want a team of five sword-wielding tanks with shields and healing magic, I can do that too.

Which I appreciate. Because, unlike Saga, where you have to figure out "Ellen seems okay at xyz - but she can't actually learn sword abilities because reasons, better grind another eight hours to build up some martial arts skills before I take on the next dungeon of impossibly difficult mobs. Oh and she's crap at magic. Actually forget this, I'm going to find the lobster."

Well, and also TAA has a story and character development and stuff happening, so it's better than SaGas in that way, too, lol

Robbins is best penguin. HE HAS A KID NAMED MACARONI 😊

Really enjoying this so far. It plays very much like a SaGa game, which is fair since most of the same people made it, just without all the scaling difficulty bull. I also like how the world, so far, is pretty closed in, but you still feel like you have a lot of freedom to explore. Although I did make it to one place and they were like "We'll have to come back here later!" like, ok dude, I get it. 🙄

I'm enjoying the music too, and was thinking it's very FFX, and lo-and-behold, my boy Masashi wrote the score. I should look into the Bravely Defaults and Legend of Legacy and the other games these folks have done.

S13

• Rounding up Hakurei dan Port untuk semua item, shop dan recruits
• [ Shiki ] Join the Party
• [ Robbins ] Join the Party
• Finding Ether Gear (4th) at Snow Peak Ruins

BOSS: Flying Fairy x4, Snow Hippogriff x1 > Acquired: Muse Lyre

• Upgraded to Flying Arc
• Revisited Caged Realm with Flying Arc
  • Mage's Hut > Sell 2 Sorcery and Recruit
  • Rotten Catacomb > 5000 Gold and Quicksilver
  • Hermit's Hut > Buy 2 Cursed Signimancy