The best JRPG combat ever (excluding Souls obviously)

If you didn't play from beginning to end on Expert, you didn't beat the game.

nah bro
i am one shotting every encounter with solo maelle on expert
the concept is great but the balance is terrible

enemy jumps right into your face (it's not an attack)

enemy puts his weapon up to your face (it's not an attack)

enemy slams the weapon down right in front of you (it's not an attack)

enemy starts charging up its weapon, waving it in front of you (it's not an attack)

enemy spins around (that's the attack)

What part are you at and what abilities? I do the most damage with Sciel, with Maelle she doesn't have enough AoE attacks and the stance setup is annoying. I don't see how you are oneshotting though since the cap is 10k and most enemies have like 50k+ health, and Maelle requires a bunch of setup

I did. I played on easy mode and reached the end. That means I've beaten the game, OP.

excludinng Souls

*roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll*
*poke*
[Cutscene where the boss falls over murmuring “Forgive me Zanzibart”]
[Zanzibart forgives him and boss gets a huge power up]
[Phase 2 starts]
*roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll*
*poke*

Unironically pure kino

just finished act 1
i have the sword that starts you in 3x damage mode, with this setup fencer's flurry wipes almost everything

Bitch please. If you didn't have a dragon dildo si shoved up your ass every minute you played, you didn't beat the game.

There's too much choice exhaustion in this game. Every 15-20 minutes you have a bunch of new pictos, attributes to allocate and potentially enough points for a new skill.

I never found that weapon, but even virtuouso fencer flurry + defenseless doesn't do nearly enough damage to oneshot anything around my level

All that was already revealed by the end of act 1 doe

Who is the kid with Maelle in her ending?

What the fuck. The number of skills this guy has.
Does Expert only increase the damage dealt by enemies? Or also increases their HP/defence?

HP too

I was on the fence about playing on expert but 10 hours in and I'm loving it, been fighting most of the side bosses except one that deals like 4k damage in one hit and having the time of my life.

Good, because I beat some optional bosses and am overleveled. Damage doesn't matter, because I literally didn't put a single point into HP or defence, so most things one-shot me anyway.
Expert it is then.

I should probably respec my party. I have a lot of stats dumped into might.

But enough about Elden Ring

Some orphan she's taking care of and who likes Gustave

Why would there still be orphans when she could just bring back his parents.

She falls off hard, you only do the oneshots for a small part of the game, and its not reliable in boss fights

The best JRPG combat ever

I just beat the Paintress and I have no fucking clue what's even happening anymore. We are schizoing so hard it shouldn't even be possible but let's keep going and see what happens.

I know right?

Best JRPG combat is Rebirth you seething contrarian

It doesn't matter how many times you repeat how good VV is, people will run from it because

first game bad

cash grab rerelease

two girl alignment reps? romance routes! we're turning into persona! (it's not)

People are immensely retarded when it comes to this game for whatever reason.

Le world isn't real is the 2nd gayest and most retarded twist in history of humans writing fiction (right after time travel that gets suddenly asspulled in stories which aren't initially about time travel).
Would have been 10/10 story if that wasn't a thing and a sudden development at the end of act 2 was handled in different way. But as it is, it's rather hard to take seriously.

You're not using the right luminas then.

She can't bring back expeditioners killed by nevrons.

It's also one of the oldest story and worldview frameworks of human fiction, religion and mythology. Hating on it is a silly take.

spend a bunch of resources levelling weapon

beat boss

reward: Weapon I upgraded+1 level

E33 is one of the few cases where I've watched a story go completely off the rails but actually land on another track and cruise through to the ending.
Helps with how much setup there is ahead of time and that a lot of the Act 3 content expands on it and gives you so much direct information that its very fleshed out and believable.

boring slop

I've been playing jrpgs for over 30 years. Batshit insanity is a feature, not a bug, to me.

And yet it's more fun than any other jrpg or rpg in general, crazy

It would've been if it weren't for those 60hour+ boring fucking sidequests
Clair Obscur wins

1 billionn+ damage solo

falls off

Wut

Reminder that if you used cheese on simon, you didn't beat him
Afaik nobody beat simon aside from maybe ongbal, since all the clears have been using cheats or cheese

No inclusion

No black transexual lesbian nagging about slavery shilling for nevrons

The only blacks are just a copy paste in the market area and the one with a name dies after 5 minutes in the game to never be seen again

No current social and or political issues

No LGBT propaganda

You can complete the game and sex is not even mentioned at all

Nobody is asking for Nevrons to be allowed in Lumiere.

All females companions are well written and pleasant to be around.

All females act brave without having to humiliate the men. No trace of feminism in the whole game.

All female characters have female bodies, act femenine, are not sexualized and are pretty.

Everybody is white in a white world.

White music made by white musicians with white singers

Braids hair style for the guy with the monkey style and name "Monoko" is called "Viking" topkek

This game will become a problem and will never be Game of the Year because sooner than later we will be seeing propaganda against it because it is so white that it alone is proving the lie of the industry for the last 10-15 years and how games created by people who loves games can be a thing instead of retarded activism put in a game"for reasons".

What is "cheese" to you? The mechanics of the fight insist you optimise your build

Nobody is batting an eye to the lack of black characters in the party, not even resetera.
Funny how a game can be so fucking good that not even the usual woke crowd don't complain about

Stendhal have 2500% scaling, which is miles above any other skill in the game, and a suspicious outlier, if you used this probable bug to beat simon, you didn't beat him, simple as

Fromshit streamer culture truly rotted the brains of video game community.

There is absolutely nothing bugged with Stendhal, it's simply Maelle's hardest hitting single hit. Virtuoso stance doing X3 damage after all the lumina calculations is what causes the cheese.

Then why the cheese only works with stendhal?

Okay what if instead of stendahl I just used gommage to hit for 20m to clear his firdt and second phases, is that cheating?

Because, Stendhal is Maelle's only extreme damage single hit. All her other skills are multihit.

20m

Lmao that doesn't one shot him you retard

No other "Extreme" damaging skill comes close to Stendhal, it's scaling is insane. Verso's extreme scaling skill with Painted picto to turn it into Void damage doesn't come close to Stendhal's damage and it's a 13 multihit that requires a 1 turn set up.

exploration in Act 3 is kinda shit unless I'm missing something, I have no idea which areas are early game Act 3 or late game Act 3 so I ended up finishing some late game Act 3 areas at the start. Now all the early game Act 3 areas are completely brainded to the point were 1 AOE ability wipes the entire enemy group

Yeah I didnt oneshot the fight, why would I want to rob myself of experiencing the mechanics of the superboss?

Again, it's not Stendhal. Verso doesn't have Virtuoso stance, and Verso's strongest attacks are multihit, not single hit.

Lets be very clear him, you only beat simon if you survives his 3 phases, without skipping any of them, and after seeing all his moveset

I one shot him using stendhal

didn't beat it

I 3 hit him using X

didn't beat it

Okay so what did you mean when you said only cheaters have cleared him? I survived all three phased without one shotting any of them.

If you used pictos you didn’t beat the game. If you leveled weapons or stats you didn’t beat the game. If you set lumina you didn’t beat the game. If you purchased and used skills you didn’t beat the game. If you did anything other than pass your turn and then parry attacks you didn’t beat the game. Git gud

after seeing all his moveset

Why should I be interested of "seeing the moveset"? Is that some brainrotten OCD obsession about Not Missing Game's Content? Thankfully I'm not mentally ill like that.

Congratulations you are the second person in the world to have beaten simon

It's overpowered but I doubt it's a bug. It's pretty common for the main character in JRPGs to get a "fuck you I am OP" ability that is better than every other ability in the game

No. He has ranks. Stendhal is bugged, in no way should a base skill be as strong, if not stronger than Gommage. But whatever, cheese away.

Its easily stronger than gommage, it is by far the strongest skill in the game

You cant seriously believe that everyone just looked up a guide to one shot the boss right?

I do, unless you stumbled upon stendahl cheese by accident, which is not that hard to do
Just look at the numbers, less than 1% """"Beat""""" simon

the combat is the worst part of the game just get a trainer with auto parry

I had a sick ramping damage build with monoco that let me loop into gold mask lampmaster every turn, got me through Simon

The damage multiplier at S Rank is 200% the same as Virtuous

One shots the superboss with 50mil hp

falls off

hmm

shut up you whiny faggot

you didn't play the game

I tire of seeing this game.
Please rotate it out of the discussion so I do not have to see it anymore, thank you.

that's Elden King for lesser, casual gamers like you

Most blatantly shilled slop since BG3.

he didnt play dragon warrior

just watch a youtube video at this point

You literally hear 'life enjoyer' having sex in the prologue.

All female characters have female bodies, act femenine, are not sexualized and are pretty.

Everybody is white in a white world.

And then you woke up and it was all a dream (just like the plot of the game)

I will keep posting about the game until the fever is gone

Why is everyone here so fucking schizofrenic?