JOSEPHSERAPH'S PROFILE

One weird thing, though, that I find quite aggravating, is how spells scale terribly bad. They all deal flat damage + 2.5*mag... which means that magic is relevant, at most, in the very beginning of the game, and the further you go the less useful it becomes (as a stat)

I opened the game up on the editor and looked at the magic formulas -- Level 3 black magic deals ~6000 + (magic * 2.5) damage... which means that, at 300 magic, you're going to contribute 750 points of damage to the spell, or about a 10 or so percent increase. Every weapon that increases magic, therefore, is useless, and any non magical character equipped with a Level 3 black magic spell will deal very high damage regardless of stats -- or of flat enemy defense, for that matter, as every point of spirit seems to contribute to only 1 point of reduced damage.

I've been exploiting this by givinb Bolt the very first Fire 2 tome, and bolstering his Speed -- not magic -- through equipment, so he can get 3 times more turns than a mage character ever could and deal like, 200 less damage every cast. With ethers being quite cheap, this is really strong, bt also makes the mages feel useless save for utility

Anyway it's a minor nitpick that reeeeeeeally messes with the balance of the game imo. Every Magic Shard contributes to... 2.5 damage on a Fire 3 (or a Fire 1)

It seems like the same applies to every other skillset attack, actually -- Good flat damage + very, very poor stat scaling...

Onto more gameplay feedback, I'd also like to be able to see when I manage to increase or reduce a stat, as there is no indicator saying i sucessfully reduced enemy defense, for the matter. Not that reducing defense matters all that much since even endgame enemies have on average 200 defense/spirit, which when halved mean about a 100 damage increase vs most abilities, and a 200 damage increase against physical attacks. actually it kinda feels like you just hit the "quick formula" button and went with easy to balance flat numbers instead of thinking of the formulae... which is fine, it doesn't directly hinder my enjoyment of the game, but it means I will have to forgo several mechanics -- be it stat manipulation, stat shards, proper equipping, to focus solely on secondary equipment effects, elements and Speed, when the characters' skillsets clearly seem to favour otherwise (such as having the distinction between mage characters and non-mage but in practice having both doing equally well with magic)

I was forced to fight tritoch without my 2 strongest characters, Carina (who has been getting all the skill shards and has very very high magic which is actually kinda very useless) and bolt (who is quick and full of utility plus very well equipped) but i get the feeling it was intentional so we wouldn't be able to Libra/Peep it, since its an unwinnable battle hmm

insofar the underground berona laboratory is my favourite environment, visually
edit:....i wonder if the blue/green/red shrubs are a reference to resident evil

euheuhuhruhehejhjrhjehuyrh nope
also, they were underground but somehow they manage to exit the laboratory straight into the upper part of the city, i inda expected some long stairs with (perhaps treasure filled? ohoh) small floors in between or something

sleep girl, for now you will be reunited with your loved ones
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tbh i wasnt expecting to get attached to the characters but about 5h into the game i realized i would and grrrrrrrrr