HOUSEKEEPING'S PROFILE

All of the endgame equipment is pretty solid. My first playthrough I used:



And I used this setup for my second playthrough:



The equipment setup you're going with is kind of a hybrid between my two playthroughs that'll work pretty well. The key is picking a couple of "must haves" and then giving your other characters the best remaining options. Too, you're right about the location of the Goddess Sword.

Yep, that's about it. The final section of the Four Winds Bandit's Fortress is on par with the final level in terms of difficulty. There's also a final stage to the Pig Arena if you want to count that.

If you're feeling like a super completionist, there are Chrono Trigger style bonus endings you get by completing the game at different points during a new game+ using the Perpetual Chaos you get in the post-game screen, which would be considered bonus content, I suppose.

Yeah, there aren't any classes per se in this game; it's all determined by the gear you can equip. For most characters, the question is either, "Do I gear towards attack or towards spirit?" For Leif, it's, "Do I gear towards attack or defense?"

With dual-wielding, VX seems to use the weapon with the worst accuracy. It might be an average of the two and I just got unlucky, but I created a weapon with zero accuracy and paired it with one with 95% and missed about eight times in a row. The attack power is combined, though.

The Sword of Shifting Mist is a high-spirit sword, so it's mainly useful if you're making Ivy more magic-oriented.

My mapping in this game is pretty bad, and that's one of the lessons I learned from making it (I also learned how to approach regular encounters better--sorry for the random encounters!). In future games, expect the mapping to be more compact and interesting, but a full-scale revamp of this one would be too big of an undertaking, especially since part of me would love to remake this game from the ground up if I'm ever in a position to consistently produce profitable commercial games.

Finally, Furipu:

Yeah, that area was a sort of an out-of-the-way means of cranking up your characters early on. You can go back there later in the game, but if you do it early, it's really tough but gives you tons of xp and Diego's axe, which is pretty bitching.

You can hold off on crafting, but the different evolutions of the equipment will lead to good stuff all around; the only problem is that you might prefer, for example, playing Ivy as a physical character instead of a magical one, and you might limit your options if you start crafting other types of equipment.

Hey, just got done watching your let's play! You're very animated, which will probably get you lots of subscribers if you stick with it. I'm glad you like the game enough to give it a shot and post about it here!