Kukuk
Headphoneus Supremus
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Beat SO2R. Loved it as much as I remember loving it. I totally misremembered a lot of the game, though. For whatever reason I was thinking there was a third act after defeating the wise men where Energy Nede combined with Expel or something. And now I'm kinda tripped up because there's 2 continents on Expel that you don't explore, at least on the first playthrough? Probably going to give the game another playthrough to see what I missed.
It's funny to me how much easier the game is to cheese than the original game. I think in the original game you're limited to which skills are available from the start? And you had to buy packs of skills in order to start leveling them. Right from the get-go you can totally take advantage of training and really skyrocket your XP gain. Then I was using replication to make tons of money.
By the end of the game, through a combination of training, scouting, and XP cards I was able to hit level 255 with about 33 hours of total gameplay. The last 100 levels took maybe 4 hours of leveling?
At any rate, I'm super happy with the game, and it's making me want to play SO3 again. That one was maybe my favorite, and I'd kill for a remaster. Even modest remastering ambitions on par with FFXII's would do wonders for that game.
It's funny to me how much easier the game is to cheese than the original game. I think in the original game you're limited to which skills are available from the start? And you had to buy packs of skills in order to start leveling them. Right from the get-go you can totally take advantage of training and really skyrocket your XP gain. Then I was using replication to make tons of money.
By the end of the game, through a combination of training, scouting, and XP cards I was able to hit level 255 with about 33 hours of total gameplay. The last 100 levels took maybe 4 hours of leveling?
At any rate, I'm super happy with the game, and it's making me want to play SO3 again. That one was maybe my favorite, and I'd kill for a remaster. Even modest remastering ambitions on par with FFXII's would do wonders for that game.