LIGHTNINGLORD2'S PROFILE

When enemies have resistance/immunity/etc. to an element which the others are weak to, and the weakness is, let's say a x1.5 Factor, i'd go the mass attack that hits all enemies for at least neutral damage. Also, not all enemies have to have the same Weakness Factor to an element. My idea is that the guys with many different elements have low damage output in general, forcing them to hit the enemy's weakness to do decent damage. Likewise, members with high damage output could have few or just one element so that they're strong against those who don't resist it and are very weak against those who are immune/resistant.

Here are some pros and cons about high and low weakness/resistance modifier:

High
+ The element of an ability is more important
+ You have to watch out for your party's weaknesses
- Stats are less important
- Makes other abilites useless when a weakness can be exploited

Low
+ Stats can mean a lot more than just the element
+ Eases up the stress on your party member's weaknesses
- Elemental coverage becomes very secondary/redundant
- Players can't use resistance to combat a powerful ability

When it comes to pure storytelling, games are inferior to the other media in most aspects. It's the interactivity and game mechanics that makes this media stand out. My main interest for RPGs over classic storytelling media is that I can suspend the main plot to do some other interesting things.

Will you ever come to the point where you use the canon characters?

By the way, I heard Jean being reffered in some places as "Suzuki Rinbokusan". Not that I know her well...

I don't think players would do something unfun to make the game unfun - that's why grinding is made so tedious in first place. I view it as an emergency option if you don't have the skill (or screwed up your resources) to overcome an opponent. The difficult boss is usually the mark where the game becomes a challenge. Or it requires a simple strategic trick to overcome him (like an obscure status effect or a different playstyle).

Another thing: What is it called when the game uses literal fake difficulty aka "This looks really hard to do, but it's actually quite easy"?

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