I have been working my way through this game at a decent clip playing on Easy mode for story reasons. I plan to post my thoughts on the story and such when I am done (in chapter 7 now!) but man oh man I never did quite get good at the combat.
Thru talking to my friends in Xenochat I finally learned how to stack elemental combos. Thru talking to them I know I need to get better at timing my driver auto attack canceling so that I can grind Affinity faster but man I still have a hard time with that. I feel extremely fancy when I commit a level 3 combo. I have never once activated the orb chain thing outside of the 1 tutorial on it. Pouch items help me a lot though.
There's so much to this game I feel like I would never run out of content playing it, and despite being kind of bad at it, I definitely see the appeal and have found it much more intuitive than most Active-Time JRPGS. The button presses make a big difference and the affinity system is both unique and makes sense so it would be cool to know the tricks for getting good too.
Thru talking to my friends in Xenochat I finally learned how to stack elemental combos. Thru talking to them I know I need to get better at timing my driver auto attack canceling so that I can grind Affinity faster but man I still have a hard time with that. I feel extremely fancy when I commit a level 3 combo. I have never once activated the orb chain thing outside of the 1 tutorial on it. Pouch items help me a lot though.
There's so much to this game I feel like I would never run out of content playing it, and despite being kind of bad at it, I definitely see the appeal and have found it much more intuitive than most Active-Time JRPGS. The button presses make a big difference and the affinity system is both unique and makes sense so it would be cool to know the tricks for getting good too.