Bloodstained Hands

Woops I forgot to post this! It's about my personal stats for the game. I haven't actually defeated the final optional boss because I can't put enough attention to do it. XD

Anyway, this post contains total MAJOR spoilers. (For other players: don't open if you haven't finished the game yet!)

Thank you for your patience; I just submitted a review!

It's way more difficult to get the right kinds of screenshots VS playing the parts of the game I need to get to to grab screenshots. XD I almost got pulled into playing into the Amethyne arc, hahaha!

Hi, Strak!

I'm so sorry I haven't spoken in so long. Truth is that I've had difficulty with the last optional boss due to my short attention span and I've been procrastinating with getting non-spoiler screenshots (boo hoo all of my saves are in the later parts of the game), but I want to assure you I've had my review saved in my files for so so long!! XD Also, I totally waited for the Misao nominations and voted it, and wow congrats!!!

Anyway, the other reason I've been busy is that I started work on an original series and a game. Yipee! BSH did influence me to start on it, especially with how long you mentioned you worked on it. I'm looking to release a formal demo before the end of this year. (The informal one was distributed to trusted friends.)

Enough of me. If the game's been updated since I last popped in here, then I'll be glad to pick up the latest version, grab some screenshots from it, and submit that review. You deserve that additional review. I have no idea why there's only one until now. So sorry I dropped off the earth for a bit, but I'm still here! And congrats on the newer release(s)!

Oh and are the old saves compatible with this latest release? I think the version I have is 5.9. Even so, I don't know, the game wasn't that hard to master compared to how your blog update made it sound like. Or at least for me. I enjoyed the grind. XD

Anyway, thanks man! (I sound so hyper. I'm just excited for this new version release!)

1)I have play the game right up until the final area but the grinding for spell level are sooooooooo bad:
_Ok let start with the assasin skill,Venom is kinda weak unless you are severly underlevel or undegear or the enemy is pretty tanky otherwise your attack is more than suffice,cauterize is only useful for the status cleanse the healing isnt greaat as enemy can easily one tap you with crit(which is another dumb idea enemy that can one tap you because of luck isnt a great design),Shroud oh boy shroud most of the time you wont need it leaving it low level but when you ACTUALLY need it(you know the dangerous battle) the level is too low for it to be consistent and end up killing you more than helping,miasama ending up being the better skill overall because i simply do more thing in 1 turn so leveling it up is like lving 3 skills at once.

_OK now on to Grey skill and oh boy it even WORSE than the assasin grind by a LANDSLIDE,instead of just 3-4 skills he had 10 skills to level up and worst of all some of the skill wont be unlock until higher level which leave them cripple,all the elemental spell are the same beside the one that unlock later those get cripple unless you grind alot,Heal is probally the easiest spell to level up naturally but i guess you decide to compensate that by making it a crappy healing because at lv6 which is pretty high i cant even heal half of my hp while the boss out here one shotting my character so i relie way more on healing item(which cost no MP btw so it unfair how crappy healing is)and also really locking multi healing the only multi healing in the game behind lv10 grinding that is evil,Life is probally the hardest spell to get a high level naturally because you alway want your character to be alive,Cure is pretty shitty in battle so i only use it outside of battle or if ally get hit with a REALLY nasty one,synthesis is probally the most useful spell to level up but because you get it sooooo late it not really that useful because you will have ultimate remedy by now.

2)Ok this is smaller compare to the skill grind but having a team compose of 2 assain,1 mage,1 "tank" seem like an interesting change until you run into harder fight and you realize the crack in the team,2 very similar team mate mean that there almost no diversity in combat,having 1 mage be the only one that have elemental damage+healing+reving mean that they arent effective at all at either job and with so many skill to level you might a well either turn him into a full on black mage or white mage to save time and sanity,Matthew is suppose to be the "tank" but with how often the enemy target the assasin he doesnt do the job as there no taunt skill but hey atleast he has no skill grinding which is a hige plus.

3)Ok this may seem like a small nitpick but i thought that the assasin side quest would be you know "interesting",all i got is red one being a generic kill X ammount mission,green one is a literal fetch quest and blue one being a wait until dark to unlock some lock.I know that these are meant to be repeatable mission to earn money but comeon have abit for variety pls.

4)Money dont drop from monster seem realistic and new as first but then it get annoying fast when i need money and the only way to get it is by doing boring repeatable mission which basically is grinding anyway so i dont get how making making enemy not dropping gold benefit gameplay???

5)The most minor one in this list but also the most annoying one: Boss fight outta nowwhere,that right because you can save anywhere there no need for save spot but atleast warn the player of something up ahead i frequently at the end of an already explored place with low HP expecting to go to the overworld and ride to a nearby town to heal but suddenly a boss come out of now where and wipe my character, that is bad design no sugar coating it and auto save dont help much as it early in the game and potion doesnt really heal that much plus they are expensive af.(you should be able to tell that a boss is near the first time you shouldnt relie on auto save as a band aid)

*The skill grinding problem is big,lower the maxed level from 10 to only 4 im lv 27ish and at end game i should have most of my skill at maxed level,lower grey spell max level to only 3 because he has triple the ammount to grind,make multi heal available early dont lock that behind new game+ grinding,significally reduce the ammount of time needed for life to level up maybe 1/5 the amount as it very situational,skill that you obtain late should have some level to start to not make it useless or you know scrap all of this and make the skill evole as the story goes so no unesscary grinding.(For context i delibitely use skill when i dont need to,some time when im near a level up i just let 1 enemy survive and spam the skill,whenever i get a underleveled skill i go to the training dummy to grind it to respectable level so imagine if i play it normally then i would be underpreapred af)

*The team coposition problem i dont know how to fix it as it pretty intergal to the story so that on your part to figure it out i guess.

*The side quest problem idk just make more interesting one,make alot more mission until it repeat itself or make the side quest more invole but reward you more so you dont need to grind much so you wont see it repeating as much.

*The money drop problem idk maybe atleast make the money drop SOME ammount of money it break the flow of the game that you arrive at a new town but met with expensive equipment so you go back to the guild to grind that make the story feel slow.

*The last one is easy to fix just have a character or SOMETHING to let the player know something BIG is coming dont blindside the player like that even for story reason.

author=Strak
Wow, I'm impressed you were able to take on those bosses without the ultimate weapons! That's impressive! Even I have difficulty with them without a good loadout.

I think you got them all! There is one more secret final boss, but it doesn't become available until you reach level 99, so it's more of a second playthrough (or third or fourth) boss. Nice work!

There actually is a reason behind why the bosses are where they are. I'll explain below.

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So basically, I wanted to create a boss for each region and dungeon, even if there wasn't a boss included in the story. To that end, if a region already has a boss, they didn't get a super boss. In the Belua Prison, you've got the Black Knight, in Emerdala there's Atlach Nacha, Mount Fulmen had Kouryuu, the Towers had Tarasque and Bahamut, Glacio's Throat had the Leviathan, the Mines have Crevasse, and the Veins have Lindwurm.

Anyway, that's why some regions have optional bosses and others don't!

I guess I was sleep deprived when I wrote my previous post coz I only encountered these but did not defeat all of them.(Don't know why I typed defeated SMH) The only ones I managed to defeat was the Fish and the orbs on Mt Fulmen(I tried the dragon but he was extremely strong so I left him for now).
I also tried the Black Knight 2-3 times but he was quite strong but I think I can defeat him if I upgrade my weapons.
I guess I'll have to start the weapons for now n then get the remaining bosses...
Also out of curiosity, where is that lvl 99 secret boss? Is it only available in NG+ coz I have the regular version only.. I'm only asking so that I can avoid it because I'm nowhere near the required level n don't want to unintentionally trigger the fight lol..

Thanks for the info!

Ok so I completed all the side quests(acc to the ones mentioned in the Side Mission Tab) and I'm about to start the mission for acquiring the weapons.

I also finished some optional bosses. Want to make sure I got all the bosses before I start the weapons mission. I checked the bosses from the Story Mission Guide but just in case can you let me know if I missed any boss from the list?
I have defeated these so far...Added under spoiler tags


I think I may still be missing some optional boss. Maybe there's something in Diamo or the Nothern snowy region? I feel like there's not much that happened in that area simce I was there last maybe?
Thanks in advance!

P.S: Don't ask how I got to this point so quick, apparantly I have wayyy too much time on my hands than I'd like to admit...

author=Strak
Hey, thanks for playing! Unfortunately, controls in RMVX are a ridiculous nightmare to deal with. There is a read be file in the root folder of the game that explains controls better, as well as a section in the Guide, which is accessed from the menu.

However, assuming you haven't changed any controls for any previous games made with RMVX, you should be able to escape from battle by holding the Q key. Or possibly A. It's one of those two, can't remember off the top of my head right now.

Thanks for playing!

Hello! I got the escape key. It's the Q key to escape from battles. One point I want to note(it's just mildly annoying tbh) is that the escape bar fills extremely slowly especially when there's 3 or more enemies(sometimes even with 2 enemies) and this causes the party to take lots of damage during that wait time.. IDK Maybe it's meant to be like that or I'm just low-leveled to endure the hits(I'm currently in the desert area around Astrid's Castle rn), but just wanted to point this out...

Also, I have one question. How do you start on the tasks that some random village people talk about? There are many people in different towns that make a comment that they require something and these items are highlighted in RED.. I'm sure all these tasks are somehow connected and will be completed one by one as I travel to different towns. I also recall the first request(not 100% sure) was in Emeralda where one person asks for something SHINY. I had no idea what to get for this task & so I never started it...
Could you please help with this? I was thinking I would backtrack and try to complete this before moving too far ahead. I think I already am very far ahead n now most likely have to go back to every possible town before the Desert Area :/
Thanks in Advance!

Also another question in spoiler:

Hi, I just started playing the game! It's interesting so far but I had a question.
How exactly am I supposed to escape from battles?? I looked at the guide in game and it says to hold down L during the battle when no actions are being performed.
I tried holding the L key and literally nothing happens... I don't know if I'm doing something wrong? Can someone help?
I have had to fight every random monster encounter I came across so far.. Yes it's good XP to battle but it starts to get annoying after a while... Plz help!!

SORRY. If my memory doesn't play tricks on me, when I played the first time the alternate path appeared on the right AFTER the set with the red butterfly. That's the reason for asking for a save file after that point.
Tanks.
fifacv@hotmail.com

help pls. I'm playing for a 2nd time but my arthritis doesnt let me finish the mission at the academy .(41 hours in the game). Can only cross 1st and 2nd set of butterflies. Can you Help me?.I don't know how to send you the file. I just save the students an must cross the colums with the butterflies. my level is 38

thanks a lot