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sigher posted:I'm in the post-game, right before the fight with Anise, so after that I guess I'm going for Lil Cactus and the Black Rabbite. I for sure got the one in the Sanctuary right before the last boss, but I'm not sure if I got the one in the Dwarf Tunnel? I'm not even sure how to get back there. Other than whatever is listed on the guide, it looks like I got them all. Shame that the map is pretty unhelpful when it comes to areas you can't even land in. To get back to the Dwarf Tunnel you have to go through Dwarf Village via Maia/Golden Road.
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Every place you've been to should be on your map, and you should be able to see if it has a cactus and whether you found it by now. There aren't any in places you can't go back to. I think there's only one place you aren't ever forced to go to with a cactus (and thus may not have revealed), and that's Diin.
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May 8, 2020 21:44
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Cascade Caverns (the dungeon where you get Lumina) is an easily-forgettable one. You don't ever have any reason to return there except to get the Lil' Cactus spot.
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May 8, 2020 22:56
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Mega64 posted:Cascade Caverns (the dungeon where you get Lumina) is an easily-forgettable one. You don't ever have any reason to return there except to get the Lil' Cactus spot. Also it's blocked for the one time when you pass by it in the story after you can find Lil Cactus there. It's the one I had left after getting the last location in the Sanctuary.
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May 8, 2020 23:14
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sigher posted:The RNG nature of the ??? Seeds is bad and I'm surprised they kept it, and it sucks that the 4th class is locked to the end of the game where you barely get to use them. Also if you've never been to a location it won't show up on your map. The only location that comes to mind that you never have to visit is the oasis town in the desert though. Well, besides some route specific areas that don't matter.
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May 9, 2020 00:00
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Oh, the far side of the bridge the machine golems blow up is another easily missable one.
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May 9, 2020 00:06
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Looks like there's a difficulty mod now https://www.nexusmods.com/trialsofmana/mods/16 enemy stats: hp * 2 (HP doubled) atk * 1.5 def * 1.2 agility * 1.2 intelligence * 1.5 spirit * 1.5 luck * 1.2 defMag * 1.2 offMag * 1.2 exp = no change (Exp points gained can be changed in the future, perhaps for ng+ rebalancing ?)
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May 9, 2020 00:06
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Wow the Ludgar fight is waaaay easier in the remake. Not getting stunlocked every second helps a ton.
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May 9, 2020 01:00
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Gyoru posted:Looks like there's a difficulty mod now Great, how do I introduce these into my switch doe
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May 9, 2020 02:08
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Gyoru posted:Looks like there's a difficulty mod now Oh cool, mods for this game, neat. *sees mod called riesz_underwear* *immediately leaves*
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May 9, 2020 03:13
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So when you pick up a ??? Seed, it is locked into whatever item it will grow into. I've so far found 5, and all of them were class change items for the same character. Is this really a thing I'm going to have to grind in 2020?
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May 9, 2020 03:26
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There's probably a nude mod or three out there already. Because for all that people complain the game is pretty horny, clearly there's a demographic that goes 'this is too horny!? hold my beer.'  A stat tweak isn't exactly the most inspired Hard Mode, although 2x health is a good baseline to start normal enemies on. Sandwich Anarchist posted:So when you pick up a ??? Seed, it is locked into whatever item it will grow into. I've so far found 5, and all of them were class change items for the same character. Is this really a thing I'm going to have to grind in 2020? Wow, that's some RNG. Did you plant them one-by-one or all at once?
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May 9, 2020 03:28
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EponymousMrYar posted:There's probably a nude mod or three out there already. I tried both ways, also tried reloading before planting, and they always come out the same way. It's frankly putting me off finishing this.
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May 9, 2020 03:29
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Zenithe posted:Oh cool, mods for this game, neat.
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May 9, 2020 03:31
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orcane posted:You can go to the world map and switch the filter (on controller it's dpad up/down) to "all map info" which shows all the areas in the game. Hovering over the areas will show you cactus and chest totals. I had no clue you could even change the filter, I'm dumb. Thanks! I'll give it a go and track this drat dude down for the last time. Just finished up the post game stuff and the Black Rabbite, sold off a bunch of duplicate ??? Seed armor and hit the 500K achievement easily. Now all there is to do is 2 more playthroughs to get the final boss achievements and buy the Nitromyte I think. Really good remake, thought I'm kinda disappointed with some of the areas not really looking anything like what they looked like on the SNES (Wandara was my favorite but it looks terrible here) which is a shame because the SNES was so drat beautiful. It would be hard to go back to the SNES title though, the combat is a slog compared to this.
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May 9, 2020 03:36
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:So when you pick up a ??? Seed, it is locked into whatever item it will grow into. I've so far found 5, and all of them were class change items for the same character. Is this really a thing I'm going to have to grind in 2020? You can save close to the chest with the ??? seed and keep reloading and opening it until you get the item that you want. The Light Benevedon's ruins dungeon and (I believe) Woods of Wandara have a ??? seed chest close to a save statue if you haven't picked those up already. It's certainly a thing they decided to bring back for the remake in 2020, well I guess everyone who played the original remembers them (if only due to how annoying they are) so they had to bring them back. If they wanted to keep the ??? seeds maybe they could have also added something like an NPC in the Black Market who will trade duplicate class change items for others. sigher posted:(Wandara was my favorite but it looks terrible here) which is a shame because the SNES was so drat beautiful. Agreed that it doesn't look very good compared to SNES, though I thought it was cute that they kept (and expanded on) the side-view sections even though there's no point to having them in a full 3D game. Item Getter fucked around with this message at 03:40 on May 9, 2020 |
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May 9, 2020 03:36
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Item Getter posted:You can save close to the chest with the ??? seed and keep reloading and opening it until you get the item that you want. The Light Benevedon's ruins dungeon and (I believe) Woods of Wandara have a ??? seed chest close to a save statue if you haven't picked those up already. I saved, then planted and reloaded 3 times and got the exact same items from the seeds each time. Am I just that unlucky or is randomized on pickup rather than planting
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May 9, 2020 03:40
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:I saved, then planted and reloaded 3 times and got the exact same items from the seeds each time. Am I just that unlucky or is randomized on pickup rather than planting Sorry it's randomized on pickup not planting. So try the chests I suggested if you didn't get them already, is all I can suggest besides grinding.
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May 9, 2020 03:41
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EponymousMrYar posted:A stat tweak isn't exactly the most inspired Hard Mode, although 2x health is a good baseline to start normal enemies on. It’s not even a targeted stat tweak, just increasing the stats of all monsters in the game by the same amounts. Early game enemies don’t need nearly as much of a boost as enemies after getting access to class 3, and for those 2x health and more defense might still not be enough for the strongest party compositions. Of course, it’s probably just a proof of concept at this point. Hopefully people will be able to do more in the future.
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May 9, 2020 03:47
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sigher posted:The RNG nature of the ??? Seeds is bad and I'm surprised they kept it, and it sucks that the 4th class is locked to the end of the game where you barely get to use them. I don’t mind the fourth class coming so late because for the most part it’s either a straight numeric upgrade over class 3 or is just not balanced for normal play at all. Kevin’s dark class 4 with Nomad, for example, could get 90% reduction to the cost of all class strikes (Nature Aura stacks with Payback).
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May 9, 2020 05:31
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There's nothing that will survive Chaosbringer Charlotte's CS from what I've seen, I'm mostly upset because I love that attack because the animation is so dope and I can't use it ever again unless I go through the epilogue stuff and meh.
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May 9, 2020 05:40
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Somehow, every CS I get with Angela seems more useless than the last. Double Strike is decent, then Star Pummel was bad, then Hot Shot is also bad, but also enemies just walk out of it before it's done.
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May 9, 2020 06:43
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broke: horny mods woke: thorny mods
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May 9, 2020 06:44
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Ugh, I accidentally overwrote my first playthrough file. I guess it's not a huge deal, but is there any way I can get it back?
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May 9, 2020 06:48
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Are you in your second playthrough already?
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May 9, 2020 07:10
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Yeah, at the end of it. It's a NG+ playthrough from the initial one, so it's not like much is lost, but still kind of a bummer.
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May 9, 2020 07:18
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Sacrificial Toast posted:Somehow, every CS I get with Angela seems more useless than the last. Double Strike is decent, then Star Pummel was bad, then Hot Shot is also bad, but also enemies just walk out of it before it's done. Hi. The problem is you are attacking with Angela.
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May 9, 2020 08:27
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Fister Roboto posted:Ugh, I accidentally overwrote my first playthrough file. I guess it's not a huge deal, but is there any way I can get it back? God this happened to me the first time too, I saved it on first spot on purpose so I "remember" but my reflex is still always "one down, save, overwrite"
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May 9, 2020 09:47
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Zenithe posted:Hi. Probably generally good advice, but someone on the steam forums posted a sub 10 second Anise kill using light/dark Angela’s CS 2.
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May 9, 2020 10:02
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With this 300% XP boost on my second playthrough I'm at LVL 21 after getting Gnome. lol, I love this.
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May 9, 2020 10:05
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Been super slow on this but got the first class change. Then Zehnoa and Bil and Ben showed me just how evil the combat camera can get in this game, good lord.
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May 9, 2020 11:29
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Lol I just beat the game and watching the credits and the voice of a minor character named "Elder" was... Rusty Shackleford
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May 9, 2020 14:51
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John Wick of Dogs posted:Lol I just beat the game and watching the credits and the voice of a minor character named "Elder" was... Bizzarely I came here to say the exact same thing! Proper weird So I'm doing the Angela post game fight. I've not had any problem with any fight in the entire game but Angela's double is absolutely SMASHING me up because at no point can I stand still or it kills me. What the hell am I meant to do, do I need loads of resistance gear or something? Edit: this fight loving sucks, I'm glad none of the fights in the regular game were like this. Dodging out of her attack when it chases me is infuriating Taear fucked around with this message at 15:36 on May 9, 2020 |
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Taear posted:Bizzarely I came here to say the exact same thing! Proper weird I ended up respeccing for that fight on my first playthrough. Just rearranged my trainings so I could slot every magic defense and general purpose damage reduction skill I could get and face tanked my way through what I couldn't dodge while chugging healing items. Probably the only fight in the game, where stacking defensive skills is better than stacking offense. I found that stacking Angela's chance to nullify enemy magic skills useful, just having the chance to randomly nosell some of her spells is surprisingly useful as a second chance when failing to dodge one. Similarily having one of the skills to improve stagger resistance was useful for being able to take a lesser spell to the chin while charging ancient curse and not get interrupted. I just kept dodging the ton annihilation while making only a token effort to dodge the lesser spells, trading health for opprtunities to spam ancient curse, and healed through the damage I took afterwards.
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I managed to do it by dodging the regular spells and ONLY casting on fauxangela when she was casting her ton annihilation since she stood about. Honestly I don't feel like the game is really set up to work with those split second dodges.
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It's definitely a weird difficulty spike and probably even harder than Black Rabite. I enjoyed it a lot though, probably my favorite fight in the game. It's not so bad once you get the timing down but it's way more uh, for want of a better term Dark Souls-y than the rest of the game. Just have to learn the vulnerability timings and also don't let yourself get pushed into the walls. e: I don't know if you're fighting the Final Light or Final Dark version but for the Light one the really dangerous attack is the L4 class strike, there you have to notice the attack name being announced and then move perpendicular to the attack. You don't have to dodge but you do have to keep moving in a straight-ish line. After that she's got a massive cooldown where you can unload a whole bunch of Holy Bolt spam. Sapozhnik fucked around with this message at 16:49 on May 9, 2020 |
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May 9, 2020 16:45
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Well Angela, seems like the thread is telling you to eat poo poo. So it's time for you to eat poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUPn3coOSms
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May 9, 2020 17:21
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Sapozhnik posted:It's definitely a weird difficulty spike and probably even harder than Black Rabite. I enjoyed it a lot though, probably my favorite fight in the game. I was Dark so she was light. Really, just not a fun fight for me at all. I would have put the difficulty down to the bottom (i'm on normal) but I couldn't even find out how to do that. So glad I managed to kill it.
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Okay, so, my review of this game after the fact is that it's a surprisingly fun and faithful remake and upgrade, but its potential is busting through the seams of that faithfulness and it's ultimately limited by the original game. I would really like to see a new Mana game built on this engine that has more active abilities and fewer passive ones, and whose story isn't actively insipid. It really is kind of a theme in Mana games that the limitless power of Mana never does anything useful except for sometimes, maybe, partially undoing some of the damage done by people trying to seize it to rule the world.
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Rand Brittain posted:Okay, so, my review of this game after the fact is that it's a surprisingly fun and faithful remake and upgrade, but its potential is busting through the seams of that faithfulness and it's ultimately limited by the original game. I guess there's a chance that's what they're going to do next? I'd like that. It's a game with a VERY high proportion of people having the "completed the game" achievement on steam too which is a good sign. I really wish the game would let you skip dialogue (when I've already read it and don't want to hear it) without it also skipping like...3 other sections of dialogue.
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