Status Chovus Apr 5, 2020
Beat the game. The early game was annoying because of the ridiculous inventory system and I was barely scraping by with loot. It eventually got to the point where I had to look up online how to manage it. I had missed an item box early on but the big change was finding out I could sell grimoires. Up until …
Beat the game. The early game was annoying because of the ridiculous inventory system and I was barely scraping by with loot. It eventually got to the point where I had to look up online how to manage it. I had missed an item box early on but the big change was finding out I could sell grimoires. Up until then I had been putting them in the inventories of characters that I wanted to learn to spell, not knowing any better. As I kept getting more and more though I thought there was no way you are supposed to be keeping these, but wanted to find out for sure first. The mid-game was the most difficult because the characters were not quite levelled up enough for new enemies. So I had to stack buffs on the hero in order for her to do respectable damage. She was already significantly higher level than the others and this made her stay far ahead. There was one point with the cyclops enemies where I had to go back to town and buy better gear because I was trying to cheapskate my way through. Battles were mostly manageable with only a couple of times needing to restart. One generic battle I barely won because you start off surrounded and Dorothy got killed early. I won on the very last turn using attack up and ranged attack scrolls as the hero, and she still just barely did enough damage to kill the enemy.
The time travel bits were a little annoying because of lack of direction and I ended up checking a walkthrough to see where I was supposed to go. By the end of the game I bought the best equipment but could not afford everything. During the final boss fight, Dorothy Star and Leon died. Lenardo was down to low health while the hero used action point restore items to teleport to the boss can use the ultimate energy breaker attack to kill him in one turn. I was on the fence about considering this a masterpiece, mainly due to the inventory system, but the excellent characters, story and ending push the game over the top.
By the end I had found about 27 shiny stones and obviously missed some secrets; including a few treasure chests that I could not figure out how to get.
The hero was level 51 with the best store bought weapon and armor, the greaves of wind, bracelet of alms and soothing ring to be swapped if she needed healing. She had 3 item boxes full of consumables.
Leon was level 50 with the best store bought weapon and armor, and since he dual wields, and 2nd best sword too. Ogre ring, and switched between breeze sandals and health sandals as needed.
Dorothy was level 50 with her bible weapon, cloak of the holy mother, power ring and fine shoes.
Lenardo was level 49 with the best store weapon, 2nd best store armor, fine shoes and tiara of ice.
Star was level 49 with the 2nd best store armor, claw of fire, fine shoes. He used his life nail weapon to recover health between turns and switched between the ectoprism and balance ring every turn to avoid the damage caused by the prism and recover to top shape.