John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Jul 18, 2019

Zushio fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jul 22, 2019

Bedurndurn fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Jul 22, 2019

• The character you pick at the start only matters so much as they're locked into your party until you finish their chapter 4 storyline a substantial way into the game. The game is structured so each character's story is mostly independent and you can cherry pick which ones to follow so long as your team is strong enough. You can also do every character's storyline on the same save file if you want and finishing them all (along with some sidequests) unlocks some post-game content.
  
  
• The game has a dash when holding down the B button. The base speed is decently brisk already, but it's still nice for doing side quests in town. The game says it increases encounter rates out in the field, but it's not especially noticeable.
  
  
• Town fast travel works everywhere, so it can be used as a dungeon escape if you get in over your head.
  
  
• The tavern lets you access every character's gear from one screen, which makes it easier to strip gear from idle characters and pool them for your current team.
  
  
• Primrose's chapter 2 town isn't very intuitive to get to. You want to start at the forest town H'aanit starts at far southwest and go north toward Victor's Hollow. You'll see signposts that'll guide you the rest of the way to Stillsnow.
  
  
• Shrines will start showing up on the roads outside the chapter 2 towns. They show as small, short black stone circle on the painted world map if they haven't been discovered yet and the mini-map icon is a horizontal ring with four columns coming out the top. These unlock the secondary jobs for the characters.
  
  
• You don't really need to know all this to start since you can go with whatever character appeals to you the most then recruit the rest later and it'll still work out. These are just my takes.
  
  Path actions: Things the character can do to interact with townspeople. Some are "noble", which mostly just means they work via a minimum level requirement for a given townsperson. Tressa is an exception who buys items with money and has a chance of getting a "haggle" discount afterward. "Rogue" path actions have no level requirement, but have a % chance to fail based on the character's level. You can fail a rogue action 5 times in a given town, which locks out path actions there until you pay a modest amount of money to the tavern barkeep to reset it.
  Talents: Unique abilities for the character.
  Job: Character's combat class that defines what weapons and skills they can use. A character has a primary job that never changes, though they can pick up each other's jobs as secondaries to mix and match with.
  
  • Tressa (Merchant): Can buy items from villagers at a discount compared to the shops and she gets a small but notable amount of gold sometimes when traveling between screens. Job is merchant, which is a bit of an all rounder with some offense abilities and unique non-heal/buff support. Can steal money from opponents in combat, which is substantial on bosses.
    
  • Therion (Thief): Steals items from villagers, also lets you open purple chests in the world that usually have pretty good items in them. Compared to Tressa, he can collect a ton of smaller items for free but struggles on taking the high-end equipment. Job is thief, which has some nice physical debuffs and steals SP they can then funnel into friendly party members for their spells. Can steal items in combat, though stealing gold is done by the merchant job instead.
    
  • Olberic (Warrior): Can challenge villagers to 1v1 duels, usually used to get them out of the way of doors with chests or NPCs behind them. Can also boost his defend action, which seems a bit pointless. Job is warrior, which is mostly damage abilities and hits fewer weapon/magic vulnerabilities than most. He basically hits like a truck when things line up but can be painfully inflexible when they don't.
    
  • H'aanit (Hunter): Can provoke villagers to fight them like Olberic, though she can only use beast summons to attack. She can capture beasts during battle and use them as attacks, each having 3-7 uses before running away depending on what type it is. This gives her some extremely potent and varied attack potential no one else can really match, though building a stable of strong monsters can a fair amount of extra work since the success rate on capture for the more powerful monsters is pretty low. Job is hunter, which is similar to warrior, but has some major utility in the leghold trap that causes bosses to act last on a given turn.
    
  • Ophillia (Cleric): Can recruit townsfolk, later summoning them in battle. Each summon lasts a few turns and basically acts on its own as an extra uncontrollable party member, sometimes bringing really useful buffs or weapon types. Job is Cleric, which is basically a white mage with spammable group healing and some moderate light element offensive spells.
    
  • Primrose (Dancer): Can recruit townsfolk like Ophillia, but she has the rogue version which gives her a higher ceiling if you're willing to gamble a bit and some of them can be on par with the playable characters power-wise. Job is dancer, which buffs party members and has some offensive dark magic.
    
  • Alfyn (Alchemist): Can talk to townsfolk for information, netting some background info on them and sometimes minor bonuses like find-able items, inn discounts or expanded shop selections. Concoct lets him combine certain items found after battle and in shops to do different effects. As long as his supplies hold out, it gives him some insane utility being able to multi-hit with every element type to break defenses or group heal/cure debuffs. Job is alchemist, which is the second healing job. It has single-target healing, which makes it less raw output than cleric, but more flexible since it can remove debuffs and can poison enemies for okish damage.
    
  • Cyrus (Scholar): Talks to people for information like Alfyn, but it's the rogue version so it has a chance to fail. It's a bit rough since most townsfolk can be questioned even if they don't provide rewards and, unlike the other rogue path abilities, there's no preview to judge if the gamble is worth it. On the other hand, his talent reveals one unknown enemy vulnerability at the start of each fight and, combined with the scholar job, makes him one of the best to have along when grinding through road or dungeon fights on the way from point A to B. Job is scholar, which is basically a black mage, lots of screenwide elemental damage.