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Do healing spells scale to the caster's Ether? I feel like Chisa's healing spells aren't getting much stronger as she levels, due to her low ether growth. Maybe I should give her some Ether Serums.

NVM: I did see an increase in healing after giving her a more ether-focused weapon.

I just started the game. The ATB system makes all the bars fill unless you're in a skill/item menu, which can be difficult to deal with if you have to scroll through a lot of options in battle. It also still fills while targeting. Yeah, this could make things tough unless I have a massive speed advantage through overleveling and gear.

The HP percentage to convert an enemy into a Rune is pretty small for Xandra's starting weapon, which can be bad if Az'uar is never able to make an enemy hit that threshold before they die. There's supposed to be a poison enemy skill that might make it easier to force them into that threshold though.

Did anyone reproduce that glitch that flitchard mentioned? The game hasn't been updated for a while, so that secret ending might be impossible to get. Is it significant in terms of story difference, or is it minor?

Does anyone have a chart for Az'uar's class system? I'm not sure which element I should go with for his first evolution. Is it better to specialize in a single element or rotate elements?

I made a Google Sheet for the Rune combinations: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JwlMEkesq1gyG6-wnF8aM6f1zvaY6jN1pzIMx-IpZLE/edit?usp=sharing

6/29: I unlocked the second class, allowing Az'uar to inhale three runes. It'd be nice if the cap for holding runes increased with each evolution, since the runes will run out faster if I go for the stronger combinations.

6/30: I tried to grab as much stuff as I could from the 1st stealth mission. There are dragon shards there, so hopefully we can return there. If not, I hope there are more than 50 dragon shards in the game.

When stepping on a save point, the player always gets a prompt asking if they should use a Sanctuary item. The top, already selected choice is always yes, which can be inconvenient to those who want to stockpile Sanctuaries. Similarly, in the strategy board game, pressing Cancel will lead to a prompt where the first choice is "forfeit turn," which is similarly non-reversible. In these situations, you should avoid making the top choice the one with the most consequences.

7/2 During the Alden post-strategy board celebration, there is a certain choice you can make. However, you can't save during this segment, which means if you want to pick a different choice, you have to do that strategy board all over again.

7/3 I got Az'uar to evolve into a Gaia Dragon (Water, Earth, Wind), making him immune to status effects.

7/4 In the last moving statue puzzle of Fyradin, I managed to get the statues to form a bridge between the pyramid and chest, but the game still won't let me cross. I solved the puzzle before normally and then reset at the entrance before attempting to solve for the chest, so could that be the cause? Also, it would be better if we could reset puzzles individually instead of having a reset switch for all of them in the first room.

7/6 I figured out the secret behind the signs in the Borderlands, as well as the mysterious NPC who tells you to look for hidden dragon glyphs.



7/7 Thanks to the arena, I somehow caused a glitch where my strategy badges got duplicated.

As for the bug flitchard mentioned about cutscenes, these seem to happen randomly. Sometimes, you can get the cutscene to work when viewing them again.



7/12 Even with Essence Filter, a triple rune combo will cost over 2000 HP if you have no runes. Plus, equipping Essence Filter means unequipping Lung Shield. Yeah, non-rune skills are probably the least risky way to deal with the final boss, though I'm sure players with the reflexes to get around the game's ATB can use this mechanic to kill the final boss quicker. It is worth it, since the final phase took me 15 minutes without runes and 9 minutes with runes.

Also, I checked and final boss's minions can be sealed into three runes at once. If you have Xandra's ultimate palette, you can extract three Omni Runes from a minion and use those instead of Dragon Essence. I'm sure this is the intended strat for the final boss.

7/15 It's still pretty easy to rune the minions in time before the final boss can act, locking their AI into always reviving the minion. I think you would be better off delegating the minion revival to another, tankier minion. This will allow the final boss to focus on offense. This would also create a bit of a tactical choice for the player. They can choose to let the reviver unit live so they can farm runes, but at the cost of having more enemy attacks to deal with. They can also kill the reviver to lower the number of enemy attacks, but at the cost of eliminating their source of runes.

Instead of asking if your PC can run Crysis, we should ask if it can run a RPG Maker game with a lot of plugins and special effects.

I confirmed the difficulty setting is ignored in the Seraphic Shrine, since the bosses' HP is the same on every difficulty. The Seraphic Shrine bosses are balanced to require Hell mode tactics, so I imagine the jump from Normal must be shocking. At least it's not like Tales of Destiny R where the bonus boss deliberately punishes the player for using the easiest setting.

Actually, the good guys do resort to a morally grey power-ups and even get called out on it in the bonus dungeon.

For the graphics size, have you tried pressing F4 to enable borderless full-screen? That might help a bit in getting the sprites to look big enough. I personally prefer having a more zoomed out view, especially when it comes to playing RPGs with touch encounters.

Also, the battle system is actually well-balanced, even on the highest difficulty. The bosses are strong, but they generally have tells for their strongest attacks, giving you an opportunity to guard through them. Your party has advantages that few other JRPG characters have, such as converting excess healing into barriers, being able to upgrade support skills to not use up a turn, using the Soul Trigger party-wide buff, etc. If you're having trouble with the first boss, there is video footage of people beating it and one player even wrote a boss guide. If it makes you feel better, I also lost to that boss on my first try.

Here's video made by BerryB for the imp boss: https://youtu.be/cjqeGemqxgY

If you try to feed the Seedsnapper after it is fully grown, you'll get a message that you can no longer feed it, but then you'll still get one more message where the seedsnapper is "hungry."

Edit 1: For some reason, despite doing Night's sidequest and getting the Watcher Summon status in battle, his summon menu was empty.

Edit 2: Alright, I'm done. All that's left is to upload the rest of the LP.