Originally posted by importaku
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In the DS version there were extra layers of strategy when raising imagines/familiars making a reason for trying to get a lot of them, on top of feeding them food from the alchemy pot to level them & using the gems to give them new magic powers. There were also marbles you could feed them these only appeared in the DS version sadly, the marbles changed the alignment of the weapon slots the imagine had. In the game they could only hold certain items if they matched the slot colours, this meant you had to hunt down a variety of them till you found ones that had the right slot colour combination or close enough, obviously the marbles were rare so once you got a imagine with nearly all the slots you needed you could tweak a few colours to make it perfect. The most powerful artifacts were black items, this is a rare slot colour & the marbles even rarer to change the slots to black. Took me a while to assemble a strong team that could hold all the best gear.
I love the PS3 version as it complemented the story already told in the DS game and the new take on the battle system was refreshing after 100+ hours in battling the top down turn based DS game, however i loved the DS version more as the puzzles were done so much better, they were done in a way that pulls you into exploring the book. There is one dungeon that had a maze where in the mist there are cursed arches if you walk under one you get a spell removed from your list & once you lost it you had to manually redraw the rune to put it back. Now in the book theres a page with a picture of a jewelry box, on closer inspection you realise the contents of the box are actually a map on how to pass through the maze safely avoiding the cursed arches. There are quite a few puzzles like that, ones that have help hidden in the book. Plus having to draw the runes instead of just selecting a spell from a list made it more enjoyable, it was one of the things that made me actively want to search out new spells.
Moyas tower was a massive reason to keep playing long after the game had been completed, it's what kept me going for about 30 hours after i finished the main game. A tower with 100 floors each of which you have to search the entire world & battle imagine to get ingredients to build the floors one at a time, each of the floors has harder imagine as the floors get higher some of these drop items you need too fo build the upper floors. This time it's the pot genie's dad that does the work
When you reach the very top theres a fantasically hard battle to win a pretty awesome prize.
Anyone not familiar with what Moyas tower is then here's a handy vid.
I love the PS3 version as it complemented the story already told in the DS game and the new take on the battle system was refreshing after 100+ hours in battling the top down turn based DS game, however i loved the DS version more as the puzzles were done so much better, they were done in a way that pulls you into exploring the book. There is one dungeon that had a maze where in the mist there are cursed arches if you walk under one you get a spell removed from your list & once you lost it you had to manually redraw the rune to put it back. Now in the book theres a page with a picture of a jewelry box, on closer inspection you realise the contents of the box are actually a map on how to pass through the maze safely avoiding the cursed arches. There are quite a few puzzles like that, ones that have help hidden in the book. Plus having to draw the runes instead of just selecting a spell from a list made it more enjoyable, it was one of the things that made me actively want to search out new spells.
Moyas tower was a massive reason to keep playing long after the game had been completed, it's what kept me going for about 30 hours after i finished the main game. A tower with 100 floors each of which you have to search the entire world & battle imagine to get ingredients to build the floors one at a time, each of the floors has harder imagine as the floors get higher some of these drop items you need too fo build the upper floors. This time it's the pot genie's dad that does the work
When you reach the very top theres a fantasically hard battle to win a pretty awesome prize.Anyone not familiar with what Moyas tower is then here's a handy vid.
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