Verranicus fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Apr 2, 2016

• Coming from Tales, two short and two long skills is embarrassing, but I guess that's just an SO thing.
  
• Also coming from Tales, the entire system is effectively Semi-Auto like it's still 1996, also just an SO thing.
  
• I have whiffed with an L-heavy basic attack, because it involves running up to the enemy and doing a slow jump attack (like in Tales of Phantasia!) so it can miss if the enemy moves.
  
• poo poo's hard to see in melees, camera is a major contributor. This is especially bad in the war segments with encounters that spawn continual enemy soldiers with friendly soldiers also in play, which are really hard to tell apart. The second one takes place at loving night. At this point you really might as well just slam O and X alternately and let the game pick your target.
  
• Also, targeting is kind of obnoxious.
  
• poo poo's also hard to see while the bigger spell effects are going off.
  
• The big triangle mechanic they talked up is largely hosed by timing. The entire system is based on countering but the action delay is heavy enough that I'm having a really hard time actually reacting to enemies, plus, again, the thing with enemies being hard to see sometimes, and the fact that if you're trying to bait enemies, sometimes they'll just turn around and go for somebody else.
  
• In the specific case of light attacks vs. heavy attacks (it may be that these are general issues but heavy attacks are simply easiest for me to see because they have a big obvious effect): certain enemies can use heavy attacks basically instantly. I'm convinced a bee's entire heavy charge-up is faster than Fidel's light attack. I have also hit heavier enemies with light attacks and not interrupted their heavy attacks, so there's probably some hidden attack weight bullshit involved. And there's not much in the way of attack splash so if something that isn't in front of you/your target starts charging a heavy, regardless, you might as well just accept it.
  
• Oh yeah, and the whole "hard to tell what's going on sometimes" issue isn't helped by the fact that spell-chanting and heavy attack effects are utterly identical for all combatants.
  
• Doesn't matter though because you can combo enemies and the AI will be attacking so why sit there and bait a counter to begin with, especially when there's good odds that the enemy will just start ignoring you, apparently.
  
• Entering combat while running (holding X) will automatically trigger your L-heavy skill (also holding X). Because combat is seamless there's little time to let go. Do not run near enemies. (Also don't run because the exploration camera isn't sensitive enough so you basically have to slow down to rotate the camera whenever you turn a corner, but that's not a combat gripe. Whoops.)
  
• Death to MP.
  

Caphi fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Apr 3, 2016

corn in the bible fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Apr 3, 2016