That was the first ending I got. I was unknowingly on the Golden Route until I accidentally burned down that village lol. I would agree with you on the final battle for the Frederika route. I did Benedict's route and the Golden Route as well, both of which are much more compelling. I haven't done the Roland route yet, I've heard it's the worst by all accounts. I would definitely give it another run. What I did was turn the battle speed up to maximum, skipped all the scenes I'd already seen, and changed the difficulty to easy for the battles I've already done on previous playthroughs. That allowed me to get to where the story branches without slogging through the same parts on subsequent runs
I saved at one of the main branches where you can still attain the golden route. Eventually will go back to replay, and that's good advise on speeding through. Definitely want to go through Benedicts route. I really hope this becomes a series. There is massive potential here and the game was so polished all around. I've been thinking about so many different ways the Frederika ending could have been better though, still bugging me.
I beat Live a Live. What a ride. Some chapters were definitely better than the others but overall it's deserving of being discussed in the same breath as the other Square SNES greats. It's amazing how influential some of these chapters feel, especially the far future and middle ages. Each one scratches a different itch. Highly recommended.
Akira for main protag. Yun for disciple. I leveled them all equally and I guess he's the default. Would have preferred Len just to have a non-male character, but I didn't even know you could choose
Same, I kinda just rotated training the pupils and ended up with the big guy. I definitely want to use Lei next time, she's the fastest and has the best abilities.
Currently in the middle of Atelier Ryza 2 and Tales of the Abyss for my present JRPG fix (always try to have 2 going). Tactics Ogre will be next! February is gonna be huge, new Fire Emblem, Octopath 2, and Ryza 3.
Chained Echoes is a classic turn-based JRPG based on the SNES era, it came out today and is getting rave fucking reviews. Out on everything today.
Charmed Echoes looks good. I’m seriously running out of steam on Xenoblade 3. Can’t believe it too after how excited I was for the first 15-25 hours. So many great ideas that just feel kinda empty at this point in the game (chapter 4) *possible spoilers* The items all have little to meaning as do the side quests aside from the hero quests, which are t doing much to move the needle either. I love the characters and I still want to see where the story goes, but it’s just all too lifeless right now. This is disadvantage of no weapons/armor etc. the accessories are a bore. Damn. Gonna keep going for now and hope things take a turn. Still a beautiful game and a good game by all means.
I’m not very far in Chained Echoes but I am really really digging the presentation and dialogue. Its high quality.
Will start CE soon. I changed the difficulty to hard in XB3. Makes a big difference. Wishing I would have done this sooner. I actually died a few times haha.
I'm having so much fun with Chained Echoes. The story is enticing, and the combat is great. Hopefully it can stick to this.
I finished XB3 last night. What a great ending! the end boss fight with Z/Orgin was all that you could want from a JRPG final boss. The visuals as N and M created the final strike were incredible. I’m still figuring out the XB2 crossover points, but I think it makes sense. Curious as to what the new story DLC will be and I hope it is something that occurs after the ending of the main story. I actually completely forgot about the opening cutscene and was caught off guard with the true ending. Love the subtlety. The story is an all time top 5 for me. And the game overall really picked up right when I needed it to as things were starting to feel a little too redundant easy and meaningless. Comes in right after the original and ahead of XB2 for me.
I just started it, so many option right now JRPG wise, but I better give this a shot after all the great things I’ve heard.