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Within the first battle we’re nonetheless defending King Dominate. He takes a considerably unpredictable path and many of the enemies don’t transfer till you get close to them; even so I by no means discovered that Dominate himself was in a lot hazard. That is much like the battle in situation 1 with the Queen Worm.
Subsequent up is that this stage the place you must navigate these platforms that rise and sink each few turns. It slows down the battle rather a lot. The one plus is that Dominate gained’t actually transfer past the primary space, and so the one enemy that can go after him is one harpy factor that may be simply handled by his entourage.
After this we attain the final city and might lastly use the blacksmith to make some good weapons. I didn’t have a lot cash at this level however that quickly modifications.
The following stage is tough. You’ve gotten a bunch of preliminary enemies to cope with which might be made considerably annoying by having to go down a slim stairway. However the large downside is the boss. These enemies won’t transfer till you’re of their vary, after which all of them come at you and forged damaging spells. Resist would assist however Hera wasn’t excessive sufficient stage to make use of it — truthfully I’m not solely certain how I did it ultimately; I stored getting screwed however then one time I suppose my positioning was simply fortunate and most of my characters survived lengthy sufficient to make use of Aura and take out the spellcasters. As soon as it’s down to only Deathhelen it’s not very exhausting.
After this stage, the traditional ruins open up that are just about the identical as within the first recreation though I didn’t discover it fairly as simple to stage. I bought my primary celebration as much as the 13-15 vary, which additionally earned sufficient cash to get a bunch of blacksmith weapons. There are solely two extra phases left after this.
This second to final stage is annoying. You might be compelled to separate your crew into your primary squad, after which your leftover characters who might be headed by David. Your primary drive holds off limitless reinforcements on a distinct map whereas David’s squad offers with enemies contained in the tank, ending with a 330 hp boss than regenerates 20 hp a spherical. Your regular David squad will solely be a number of characters, so what you must do is both stage them as much as a ridiculous level, or use a personality referred to as Puppets that you simply get from the city bar, who can seize monsters within the bonus dungeon.
Personally I take into account this unhealthy recreation design. I don’t thoughts the crew break up, however they need to allow you to break up the crew nonetheless you need, quite than forcing you to make use of this tiny squad that you must complement by grinding the bonus dungeon. Usually I’m not a giant fan of video games that allow you to freely select your characters for 95% of the sport however then have one stage the place it’s immediately “shock, you must use the characters you didn’t stage in any respect!”
In any case, as soon as I went again to the bonus dungeon and recruited a Queen Worm, two Hydras, a skeleton knight, and a Wyvern, the stage wasn’t too unhealthy.
The ultimate stage is significantly simpler than this, so long as you don’t ship Medion out forward to get killed. You first should struggle Symbios’ facet characters from the primary recreation, who for me had been all very weak and will largely be taken out in successful (though I did get Medion killed from full HP by a fortunate crucial transfer, which is why I’m glad to make use of save states on successive battles the place you’ll be able to’t save). As soon as that crew is gone, you simply have the 2 closing bosses with two weak grunts — Yasha can forged stage 3 spark however Aura was in a position to cope with that fairly simply.
In order that’s SF3 half 2. To be trustworthy I didn’t get pleasure from it as a lot as situation 1. I believed {that a} honest variety of the inventive battles they tried (just like the ship cannon one, or the break up celebration one I discussed above) weren’t properly designed, and particularly since you continue to can’t skip battle animations the turns appear to go fairly slowly.
We’ll end up Shining Power III later in 1998 with situation 3.
