Your opinion about Random?Random might seem to be a little bit overshadowed by LF3, but I don't think that it really is the case. It's more like Random and Luciana beeing a true couple now, more so than Random and Sarah. Random respects Luci's wisdom, and that's why he lets her do most of the decisions, but he's still the hero we know from previous games. In fact, Luci says it by herself - "I made a call and I knew you were the only one who could answer it" (or something like it - after fight with GC) - that sums it pretty well.
Also, with ultimate equipp, Random is the strongest character in LF3 imo. He is almost invincible, is capable of dealing incredible damage (Although it's kinda weird that his strongest spell - Fury, gets replaced with weaker spells once you get the golden armor. I guess you really wouldn't need anyone else with it...
) and with Azuron never runs out of mana.
P.s. And the new artwork of Random in golden armor is awesome!
Your opinion about Sarah?Sarah changed in the end of LF2, but in LF3 she acts like the change never happened, or maybe she just doesn't get that much attention in LF3, because Luci is the main character here. Anyway, I've always liked Sarah.
And with In-go Fileha she's almost as strong as Random.
Your opinion about Luciana?Luci has always been my favorite character in LP, but in LF2 I felt like she was a different person than in LP. I understand that people change, but Luci, as I understood her in LP, couldn't change to the Luci in LF2, imo. She was simply a different person. In LF3 she changed again, and now she is the person I believe Luci from LP would change into when grown-up. Strong and very wise. No doubt Luciana is the main character of LF3. Also, she's a goddess now, not only half-goddess, and I expect her to play major role in LS.
Your opinion about Wendala?I've always considered Wendala to be very smart and powerful, and liked her pretty much since LP1, thus her change in LF3 wasn't that surprising to me. I should also add that I liked her artwork in LF1 and LF2, the new one in LF3 not so much.
Your opinion about Coryool?I never could imagine Coryool being a traitor and in the end I was happy that I was right. I also liked his role as a "Wild card" - when needed he was always there. He also seemed to be much more determined than in LP. And, the "save the beers" quest was hillarious.
Your opinion about the Grand Commendanter?Megalomaniac and brutal, but in the end he wasn't so invincible as he had thought. But, based on LF3 story, it seems to me that GC wasn't in fact that powerful as I've always thought. Let's take Kommender for example, he doesn't really seem to care if GC succeeds or not. He probably considers GC to be some crazy despot trying to conquer some remote planet, who happen to have lots of money. At least that's the feeling I have after finishing the game. When looked at on the bigger scale, GC simply doesn't seem so important suddenly - unlike the True demons, I'm really curious what will happen in LS.
Your opinion about the new characters? -
Adon - Fairly strong, often used him in party with Xander. But if I had to choose between demons, I liked Zoo in LP3 better.
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Angelina - Kinda crazy, but strong and really courageous.
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Alexander - Best of the new characters, imo. Strong, deadly spells and also very calm and supportive towards Laxius Force. Seems to be nice counter to the young characters.
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Claria - She just appeared with Coryool and I don't know how or why, it didn't make much sense to me.
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Daryl - He's almost as arrogant as Louis, but Louis was at least strong fighter. Although it's true that without his help Random would be probably dead, so Daryl deserves some praise.
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Deuterium - Fairly strong, but ugly.
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Djarma - Very proud and good leader, worthy addition to Laxius Force.
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Kenny - Haven't used her much, seemed quite boring to me.
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Kratin - Strong and courageous, I liked him. Had some pretty good quotes.
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Leanda - Another character from LP. And she seems to be stronger than she used to be in LP.
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Lily - Couldn't find her bazooka.
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Marilyis - Not very useful.
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Nash - Mighty Drukku Druk is back! I really liked him back in LP3. And his banters with Neon are cute.
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Oglong - Haven't found him.
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Seiman - Strong and loyal to Alexander. He seems to be pretty dense sometimes.
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Timbany - Strong and funny.
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Vanina - Useless.
Your opinion about the game's ending?It was an absolutely stunning and breathtaking conclusion of the whole trilogy. Just epic.
What was your favorite chapter and why?The last one.
What was your favorite moment and why?I will list more of them, don't want me to write just one with a game like LF3. But I wouldn't call them exactly favorite, they were more the strongest moments.
- The encounter with GC and Random killing Luci. It was terrific, I literally couldn't believe what was happening on the screen! (If I had to pick up one strongest moment of LF3 that would be it.)
- When Random is dying after Aliener attack and Luci says that she loves him, that was crazy.
- Titanic chasing Random.
- Random getting the golden armor, for me that was the point where everything changed and I felt that GC was actually beatable.
- Random getting Apocalypsia, I was looking forward for the moment since LP3.
- Wendala and Alexandra killed by an assasin in the Throne room. (But it was kinda spoiled by one of the release screenshot of LF3, where you can see Random and Wendala in Astral-Litz - I didn't know at the moment that it was
Astral-Litz, but I knew that it was a place I haven't seen in the game yet, thus I expected Wendala to survive.)
- When Wendala had to decide who will be resurrected by Yveen. I wanted to resurrect Leona so badly (Even after all these years I still remember the scene from LP2 where Thomas kills her, it was so sad.), but I just couldn't do this to Brussian and had to resurrect Marion. I would go with Marion and Leona if possible, but unfortunately one of the characters had to be Alexandra/Sandy, it really sucked. I believe it was the hardest decision I ever had to make in any game.
- Flight to the Astral-Litz and then the silence at Landing pad, it was strangely serene, it really felt like calm before the storm and I felt that the game is reaching its climax.
- Fights with Hondler and Guidibba, they were both deadly foes.
- Finding Aaghamaniym (the ultimate mace) without any help, I was really proud of it.
- Fight with Louis.
- Fight with Wendala, Coryool and Louis on the bridge.
Which dungeon is the hardest?Astral-Litz by far. Probably because of the fact, that with imported save, my characters outleveled and outequipped basically any other dungeon in the game, but Astral-Litz was tuned for lvl99 and top equipp. Even with ultimate weapons it was hard. I even stopped using Luck Ring on Random here...
And Hondler was the hardest boss in LP3, imo.
Cosmopolis Guard was pretty hard, too.
What's the game's best/strongest sides? - Very well thought dungeons, funny and challenging battles, plenty of quests, insane ammount of secrets (it's plain impossible not to miss at least half of them for the first time, no matter how hard you try), interesting characters,
feeling of accomplishment when you actually finish it.
- Story. Sometimes I wonder what are the limits of Indi's imagination. He never seems to run out of ideas and things always happen differently and are more complicated than what I would expect. (LF kinda reminds me my favorite books - Barsoom series from E. R. Burroughs - in this.)
- Humor. There are so many good quotes. And things like red chest in one of the pyramids - empty, then I checked again and Djarma said something like that Red chest cannot be empty and here we go - I got a book Vana ancient times (teaches a very powerful spell). Or the computer in Astral-Litz, where Sarah needs to type anti-spam code...
That was hillarious. Moments like this are really one of the trademarks of Indi's games. (Btw six years after playing LP1 I still remember following scene: Sarah opens a chest. Random: "What's inside?" Sarah: "Million gold, diamonds, ..." Random: "!!!Really???" Sarah: "No, just kidding!" I believe that's a good example how important and memorable these little momments are...)
- Then there's something, I would call it "synergy" between various aspects of the game. I mean not only that LF has good story, fights and so on, but each part supports the other and the game works well as a whole - You are searching for all the secrets not only because it's fan, but also because you want to snad a good chance against GC. Once you find some relic or ultimate weapon, fights become more enjoyable, thus you enjoy the story more (because you don't die so often and the game becomes more fluent). It's just an example and it's not so easy for me to explain the whole idea in my not-so-good English, but I hope that people who played LF understand what I'm talking about.
- And last thing - It's the game length. When playing LF3 I felt totaly immersed in its story, the game just went on and on and on, it was amazing. Shorter games cannot do the trick for me. In fact the only other game that ever gave me this feeling was LP3.
Have you played Laxius Force 1 and/or 2 and if so, how does this one compare?I've played both LF1 and LF2. I loved both of them, but I still considered LP3 to be superior to both of them (and in fact to any other game I've played). LF3 changed this. It's huge (it took me 96 hours of in-game time to complete it in my first playthrough, considering how many times I had to reload/retreat back I would say it was between 120 and 150 hours of real time - and that definitively challenges LP3), incredibly complex with so many secrets and with absolutely crazy story. Even LP3 pales in comparison. (Just in case I haven't expressed it clearly enough - LF3 indeed is better than LP3, imo.)
Is Kommender better than the Grand Commendanter?Although GC was the main adversary here, Kommender seemed to be a much more dangerous enemy to me. GC is brutal and cruel and makes a lot of enemies before accomplishing what he wants. Kommender on the other hand seemed to be much more efficient and focused on the task. (GC sends a comet after Random and destroys the whole Temple of Indinera, Kommender sends Alienator and Titanic, both almost kill Random and make no collateral damage in the process.)
Petula: Yay, Win or Fail?Yay, yay, win. (I liked Petula since the beginning, he's really funny - in fact I like him almost as much as Guanidia). Btw there's a topic on the forum if Petula is male or female, but I always considered him a male.
Timbany: Little Monkey or Big Gorilla?Most of the battless is LF3 were over pretty fast, thus playing Timbany as little monkey and choosing "Throw rock" all the time was annoying. I had him as Big Gorilla all the time (And it was pretty hard for me to figure what to with the last door in the Royal Library ...).
Which of Wendala's Masters did you like best?Charly, he reminded me good old LP1.
If you were to be on Kommender's list, would you rather face Aliener or Titanic, and why?Aliener, this thing was nasty but fightable. Titanic was just unstoppable.
Who should win the Beauty Contest: Sarah, Luciana, Wendala, Yveen, Alexandra, Angelina, Leanda or Sandy?Based on all the LP and LF games, I've always believed that Yveen is unmatched. If it wasn't for Yveen then I would say Wendala. But I've always liked Luciana the most.
(old players) What did it feel to see Herbert and Joshua back?I liked Herbert and Joshua in LF2, and seeing them return was surprising for me. Unfortunately, it was so late in the game, that they were in fact only good for arena wins.
(old players) What did it feel to see Djarma, Kratin and Timbany back?I was glad to have them back. I was awaiting this since LF1.
And a few notices about the game, that didn't fit into any of the previous questions: - With so many characters, managing equipment tends to be tedious. At least having some "unequipp all" spell like in LP3 would be useful. Also there's possible to cycle through party with Page-Down and Page-Up in the Equippment screen - if you could cycle through all characters, not only the four chosen ones, that would help a lot (don't know if it's possible in RPG Maker, though), (Btw that's how it works in Dragon Age - you can directly choose only between active characters, but in Inventory you can cycle through all of them.)
- I was glad that in LF3 was used the same script for XP eggs like in 3SoD, thus I didn't need to open inventory for every single of them when boosting my party. That was useful.
- I still believe that world map is better solution than maps in inventory and food rations (I know, I know, I'm probably biased toward world maps
). Getting directions to some place and then searching for it on world map feels just more adventurous than getting map and using it.
- The amount of work put into LF3 must have been insane, everyone working on it certainly deserves a big praise. Thanks again for the awesome game and looking forward to LS!