These missions were typically all similar despite the various scenarios available to you. In The World TreeвЂ™s Woe and the Blight Below, you had to choose a mission based on the location selected from the airship. The other two forms of medals are the sentries (which attack on their own) and a one-time use monster medal that is like casting a skill. If youвЂ™re in a tight spot, then theyвЂ™re extremely handy but cost more slots than regular monster medals. Another new addition is the use of party skills where you can assign differing slot based skills to help your party as they fight.ДЄn addition to the monster medals is the ability to control certain monsters for a short period of time. Upon reaching a star rating, you will unlock even more skills. You will need to frequently swap between your party members to make the best of the situations while levelling up your weapons for that character. Simply equipping weapons and letting the вЂ“ somewhat useless вЂ“ AI level up the weapons for your characters doesnвЂ™t work here. Unlocking weaponry is done via completing quests and side-quests, but unless you do the side quests, youвЂ™ll be stuck on weapons that deal as much damage as slapping a monster in the face with a trout your weapons are almost useless until you step off the beaten path.

It is now possible to complete the game without taking much time away from the story, with grinding and extras for instance, although there are some points where completing some side quests are a necessity. This time youвЂ™re forced into progressing through the story to combat the grinding nature of the first game.

No longer can you unlock every skill before the end of the game at a leisurely pace. Many aspects have been tweaked from before. Unused characters do level up with your main party but at a slower rate. You could substitute the characters but generally, the level of them are lower than your current party, thus having fewer skill points to aid in the main quests. Not just that, but your entire playtime is recorded in a book of unlockable passive skills, and it would be far too detrimental to leave that character out of your party to substitute for a newcomer. ItвЂ™s a shame that when you race towards the latter stages of the game, you are given several new heroes to try out, because by then theyвЂ™re almost pointless to use due to spending a lavish amount of time training and learning the gameplay style of each skill system and weapon. The two cousins (your main characters) have similar styles but have differing elemental alignments вЂ“ Fire and Ice.

Desdemona might be a tall, yet diminutive figure, but she wields a halberd that respects her sentiment of protectorate over the crown in the Seven Kingdoms. ItвЂ™s a touch that would normally be dismissed from separate game-to-game series.Д®ach characterвЂ™s personalities is reflected in their choices of weaponry. Some of the returning characters were present in The World TreeвЂ™s Woe and The Blight Below, and while it might seem easy to disregard the prequel and start anew, the acquainted characters act in kind when seeing their old friends. Having a despairingly large void of history is not such a bad thing, as the designers instead were able to spritz the uniqueness of each character with wonderfully animated and well-dubbed voice acting instead вЂ“ this is a rarity!

Having characters appear out of nowhere does mean that the story can be kept to only a few main characters purely for development purposes, but it would be nice to have some background to their caricature dispositions.

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