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by Vertigo 7 » Sun, 29. Mar 20, 05:14
we're less than 2 weeks away from launch! I gotta say, I haven't been this excited for a game launch ever. I've got time off work scheduled. I've got pizza rolls in the freezer. I'm ready!
I've been doing some digging around into the info SE has released on the game play mechanics. One thing I missed back in like November or so, each equipable item has a materia core that can be upgraded as you fight things to enhance stats and upgrade character abilities. I find that really interesting because I wonder how much utility that will add to base weapons and if that includes the ability to add materia slots. Just for pure cosmetic reasons, if the iconic Buster Sword would be feasible to use through endgame. I know there are other weapons, we've seen at least 2 others of Clouds and the Atomic Scissors of Barret.
Also, it wasn't clear to me before, but now is, that all summons persist for their time limit on the battle field. I know they showed off Ifrit and the DLC summons, but it was only ever a short snip of like Leviathan or Shiva performing their ultimate abilities. I'm really curious how that's gonna play out for the variations of Bahamut or even Knights of the Round. Though, I wouldn't be surprised at all if those 2 specific summons don't make it into the first episode given how late in the game those were acquired in the original. But it's always possible, I mean... in the original, you didn't gain access to any summons before leaving Midgar.
The other thing I'm curious about is if they're going to allow importing of saves from the first episode to the 2nd episode, so your character progress can carry over. I'm a little mixed on that. There is going to be "end game" for the first part, which I'm sure will incorporate a lot of grinding and leveling etc. and no word on New Game+. Unless they impose a cap, say overall the max level is 99, but for the first part the max level is 30 or whatever, I'm not sure that I would want to import a level 99 cloud into part 2 and be so OP that it's boring to play. On the other hand, any progress I've made with leveling materia and what not, I definitely don't wanna toss that down the drain =p
Either way, I'm quite sure I'm gonna enjoy the hell out of this. I'm most definitely going to get my monies worth out of it!
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