Don’t you hate it when a game keeps you from progressing until you go and grind, or until you return to an earlier stage to pick up some random item you didn’t get the first time, or until you talk to some guy in a corner of town you hadn’t even noticed before, that sort of thing? You hate it, don’t you? Then maybe you should think a bit before playing Entaku no Seito. Just a bit.
Flush off my victory against Ol-Ohma my eyes were so full of stars that I couldn’t see the bad stuff too well, but when I started playing the epilogue the problem came up again. Even before that there was a part where I had to dig out a FAQ and look up the locations of all 7 pieces of a legendary weapon. After that I had to raise a certain character’s affection to a certain level to use another legendary weapon (which sucked anyway).
And now, to move into the epilogue proper I had to get ALL my party members up to Soul Rank 7, which meant I had to take the weakest ones into the dungeons and move back and forth between encounter points spamming Union Skills like crazy to make them like me more. Every 200 steps or so my MC would get hungry and I would warp out and share a very expensive meal with a party member to boost their affection, then back into the dungeon to grind again.
It was kind of fun, I suppose. I mean, a dungeon crawler is a basically one long grind from start to finish, so what’s a little extra grinding between friends? Plus I took the opportunity to give everyone except MC, Lolon and Eltha sub-classes, so that was a good time to grind those up a bit, get some free stats boosts for very little work, etc.
But still! It’s the principle of the thing! So I was really mad for, like, a whole hour yesterday. Not mad enough to quit over it, but pretty disappointed nevertheless. The better a game the more annoying it is when stuff is added that any sane tester could have told them was unnecessary.
Sorry to leave what is most likely my last post on Entaku no Seito on a negative note, but it had to be said for the sake of honesty.
Where can I find a guide for this game? I seen in your post you said you had to get one for the weapons. Thanks!
Here’s the FAQ I used: http://spoiler2.sakura.ne.jp/srv/sorel/E694BBE795A5E38381E383A3E383BCE38388.html
A general FAQ for the whole game: http://spoiler2.sakura.ne.jp/srv/sorel/FAQ.html
Where to find all 7 pieces of the legendary Star Staff – http://spoiler2.sakura.ne.jp/srv/sorel/E382AFE382A8E382B9E383882FE6989FE381AEE69D96.html
Very comprehensive and useful little site. Even though it has ‘spoiler’ in the URL it’s very light on spoilers so you can use it without fear. Good luck!
Sweeet! Thank you!