The hardest part so far is just figuring out what needs to be opened. I already know where I need to go but the switches won't budge so I must have missed something. Looks like more monsters til I figure it out what to do. Thank you. But sometimes I feel like there's no one or nothing that can make me feel better, which is why I don't want to tell anyone about me anymore. The only person who could probably make me feel better now has been gone for five years, and I'm still struggling to move on.
Yeah, the underbelly is a rough place to be in. I don't think it is so bad this time around, but the boss fight after gets rough, if I remember my order of events. Last I checked, I said I'm here to listen. So you still have one person around you can trust.
I'm about to enter the underbelly in Greede. That was one of my least favorite places in the first game, as it's where I first remember fighting the Direspiders (I'm terrified of spiders in general and two huge ones at once is overkill). It's just been a rollercoaster ride lately. Sometimes I feel great, other times I don't. Lately I've been feeling pretty bad. It turns out that in the end I'm the only person I can truly trust with my problems. My mother would flip out if she found out half the stuff I'm thinking about, I'm not very close to my sister, and my friends at work seem to be the kind that don't even care about anybody. There are two reasons that keep me from breaking down, and one of them is constantly reminding myself that I have duties to uphold. I'm sorry if I bored you, I just don't have a lot of people I can truly talk to these days.
You'll get some good practice going up against the rest of the bosses in the game. It is good that you're being motivated. You should do it when you can. Don't worry about Shift, it'll always be there. You're under no obligation to read it.
I better get to practice then xD I don't know why, but I'm slowly getting motivated to start writing again. I stopped pretty much around the time I left. Getting back to Shift is another story, though. But maybe someday, I just have to pull myself together first
The hardest fight for me was the second last major boss in the game. The rest of the fights would challenge me a little and it might tense, but I got through them. It is a three or four stage fight that a lot of people get stuck on. I had to retry it once or twice I think before I beat it. But otherwise the rest of the game was not as bad, just clearly more challenging than the first.
Ah, Spirit Hymn. That's been very helpful for my avatar (bow user) when I need to heal or cast some spells. The Lost Forest was a bit easier for me thanks to that. The boss I encountered at Thaumus Rock was probably the toughest so far. Do you remember where you really struggled in the game?
Yeah, Mana Parasite is the reason why mages can continue to function so well in the game. Though there were a couple of optional boss fights that I actually completely drained the enemy of MP. I ended up having to rely on Yulia for MP recovery afterward because she was a bow user for me and she had one that was based on consuming AC for party MP.
You're right, it gets TOUGH in the second game. The party is currently looking for Caesar, and I'm about to head to Thaumus Rock. The whole experience - the search for him - has been quite frustrating as I've been near death a few times. It has been easier ever since I rested Eldore's stats and made him a mage. Now I can spam spells like there's no tomorrow thanks to Mana Parasite Though I'll probably need to train my own avatar more.
Yeah, healing is going to be the one thing that you'll have to remember to stay on top of. The healing is one of the challenging parts to keep track of and they are not always reliable for it.
It'll definitely test my reflexes as I usually take too long to respond to a character that needs to be healed. Sounds like it's time to practice and get better at that.
Probably best to get used to it though. There are going to be plenty of fights where you are going to be challenged.
Judging by his location, it looks like the fight is optional. But curiosity got the better of me so I got hit pretty hard.
Yeah, he is the first real fight you'll hit in the game. He is mainly trouble because of the limited things he can be hurt by. I solo'd him as a mage since the rest of my party couldn't do anything to him.
BAH! Just got killed by a Wraith. Nothing seems to hit it except Holy and Fire magic ._. It was a good chance to practice but now I have to traverse the passage beneath Balandor again.....
