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Big name, big game and big fan following...it's bound to be a game widely discussed!

As we seem to have a thread for most of the big games, I thought we may as well have one for this behemoth of a game - so if you have any ideas, favourite ways to play the game or just want to pass comment on what already appears to be a fantastic and absorbing game - please post here.

If you want to discuss the plot or other aspects of the storyline - remember to use the tags to hide it from people who want to play the game without ruining it for themselves.

first off...I'm liking the combat system now - no definite turn based combat? Action seems to be constant even though you have to select your moves. Brilliant?

Oh my... Done! :D

I really, really, enjoyed playing this game in the end and am so glad I nicked my nephews PS3 for it. He's making gentle hints that he'd like it back now but I'm not handing it over yet. Going to go back and finish the missions which will mean upgrading some of the stuff I've collected.

Not finding them that easy now. I'm being deaded before I can finish the thought "hmm... what do I do here" ><

Make sure you stock up on Shrouds before the hunts. Makes things much much easier to get 5 star when having the haste shroud on.

also a small tip, the star rating system is dependant on how "good" your characters are. Some of the marks become easier to 5 star if you actually take off your best gear. (This is quite rare though).

I ran out of shrouds ages ago ><

I'm not going for the treasure hunter trophy though so I think it's time I started to destroy all the stuff I never ever used.

Thanks for the tips :)

Thats the only trophy i don't have atm.

The amount of work it needs is insane. You need to have held all the rank 1, rank 2 and at least 1 version of the ultimate weapon for each character.

To upgrade to rank 2 is fairly cheap.... but 8 weapons on each 6 char adds up. Then add 6 upgrades from rank 2 to ultimate.....

It's a fortune put it that way.

Ineedsleep wrote:
> Warhunt wrote:
> I've pretty much explained the weapon upgrading system to death
> on this thread as it goes. You might pick up some pointers
> there.
>
> TBH tho, it doesn't really matter what you pick for each
> char.... just pick one and upgrade it and stick with it.
>
> K, thanks. I know there are only 6 pages but that saves me
> trawling backwards with one eye closed :)
>
> I think darksoul is talking about the Primarch Bar(something).
> I remember defeating that by pure luck and lots of teeth gnashing

barthendules is his name wot stratadgy would you suggest?

Right, so Barthandelus Fight 1, my suggestion:

I believe for this fight I had Lightning, Snow/Fang, Vanille. Paradigms of use being RAV/COM/RAV, RAV/COM/MED, MED/SEN/MED.

Firstly, librascope to start off to get the four heads' weaknesses and strengths, and just go ahead attacking the heads one by one with Relentless Assault and Diversity (for healing if the attacks of Barthandelus are hurting too much).

Following the destruction of the heads, the body becomes vulnerable. A similiar sort of strategy, Relentless Assault to increase the chain gauge and Diversity for healing.

For more powerful attacks: T Smile, I suggest Combat Clinic, then back to normal after healing.

Destrudo: Relentless Assault until Barthandelus collapses, this significantly reduces the amount of damage that he gives out (although i'd still suggest a switch to Combat Clinic just to minimize the amount of damage and speed up the party healing)

Continuing the switch between offense and defence should have Barthandelus down with very few problems.

Pretty much covered everything there. One small addition however that I found useful.

I believe the the heads upgrade themselves when another dies.

All 4 heads cast "Rank 1" spells ie Fire, but when you kill 2 they start casting Fira and the last one alive casts Firaga etc.

For this reason I killed 2, then got the last 2 down to 5-10% life left each. I then killed them both at the same time very quickly.

Yada, yada, yada.... blinking mission 62! Watched the vids, taken the hints and yet still get squashed by them.

Don't even get me started on the Adamans - always 5 star them yet still no drop of the catalyst I need :(

* hoping now I've posted that I'll be successful at both - it usually works that way ><*

only bought this game a couple of weeks ago, on chapter 7 at the moment, thought id hate the linear feel to it but i actually dont mind it. Hope is such a pain in the backside! Not been too challenging so far, couple of places took me a few goes to get past, but plain sailing other than that.

I found each character's 'summon boss' were the only ones that gave me any trouble.

I agree with the Hope comment though, he is a whiny little so-and-so. Snow needed to man up as well, in my opinion.