I still don’t like this just like BoF1, kinda sad since I really love BoF3 and 4.
The story is better than the first one, but it’s basically just your typical evil being that was sealed but now is about to escape, so you have to defeat it. There are 3 different endings apparently, bad, good, and best. I got the good ending only because I didn’t know the requirements for the best ending before it’s too late.
The game isn’t too hard, you can get away by just auto-ing all random encounters, even a few bosses. Of course, in true old JRPG fashion, the final dungeon and final battle has a steep difficulty curve from the rest of the game. But even that still isn’t that bad. Also in old JRPG fashion, the encounter rate is pretty bad too.
The worst part of this game is the backtracking you have to do, some place needing a certain character and lastly, just like BoF1, progressing can be really obscure.
The backtracking in the early and late game is really bad, the early game you have to go back and forth your starting town for 4 times or more I think, without any way of fast travel, combine that with stupidly high encounter rate, you got yourself an annoying game. And the part where you can’t progress unless you talk to this specific person can also increase your backtracking time. And you can add one more thing, some characters are needed to progress the story or jump over some obstacle, you won’t know that until you reach the obstacle, so after you reach it, guess what? Backtrack to a town to change your party.
There’s a collectible in the form of Shamans, where you can recruit some random NPC, this Shaman can be fused with your party member to give them new form and better stat. This is all good, until you realize that if the fused party member health is low, it will cancel the fusion, and you will have to go back to your base (the only place where you can fuse) in order to fuse them back, this is more of a hassle than just powering through the game with a relatively weaker party but still strong enough to beat the game.
Not to mention, your fusion will also get canceled if a certain event is going on, the notorious one is in the middle of the final dungeon, the longest and most annoying dungeon. So if you want to have your fusion for the final battle, you will have to go back outside and trek the dungeon again, while being careful not to let your fused party to be low on health.
You can also recruit people to be part of your town, but I don’t know if this is important and I can’t be bothered to do it.
The story is better than the first one, but it’s basically just your typical evil being that was sealed but now is about to escape, so you have to defeat it. There are 3 different endings apparently, bad, good, and best. I got the good ending only because I didn’t know the requirements for the best ending before it’s too late.
The game isn’t too hard, you can get away by just auto-ing all random encounters, even a few bosses. Of course, in true old JRPG fashion, the final dungeon and final battle has a steep difficulty curve from the rest of the game. But even that still isn’t that bad. Also in old JRPG fashion, the encounter rate is pretty bad too.
The worst part of this game is the backtracking you have to do, some place needing a certain character and lastly, just like BoF1, progressing can be really obscure.
The backtracking in the early and late game is really bad, the early game you have to go back and forth your starting town for 4 times or more I think, without any way of fast travel, combine that with stupidly high encounter rate, you got yourself an annoying game. And the part where you can’t progress unless you talk to this specific person can also increase your backtracking time. And you can add one more thing, some characters are needed to progress the story or jump over some obstacle, you won’t know that until you reach the obstacle, so after you reach it, guess what? Backtrack to a town to change your party.
There’s a collectible in the form of Shamans, where you can recruit some random NPC, this Shaman can be fused with your party member to give them new form and better stat. This is all good, until you realize that if the fused party member health is low, it will cancel the fusion, and you will have to go back to your base (the only place where you can fuse) in order to fuse them back, this is more of a hassle than just powering through the game with a relatively weaker party but still strong enough to beat the game.
Not to mention, your fusion will also get canceled if a certain event is going on, the notorious one is in the middle of the final dungeon, the longest and most annoying dungeon. So if you want to have your fusion for the final battle, you will have to go back outside and trek the dungeon again, while being careful not to let your fused party to be low on health.
You can also recruit people to be part of your town, but I don’t know if this is important and I can’t be bothered to do it.