This game is really hard

[puzzled]

Wow. I just got to the scarlet river and wow ._. Even though I'm in hiding mode, I have to go home and heal every time I fight. Is the whole game like this? (hard mode) And is there a weapon I'm missing for this benoit guy because wow he sucks.

[Indinera]

Wow. I just got to the scarlet river and wow ._. Even though I'm in hiding mode, I have to go home and heal every time I fight. Is the whole game like this? (hard mode) And is there a weapon I'm missing for this benoit guy because wow he sucks.

Hard Mode is quite tough for a first play-through.
They are several secrets that make your life easier, but if you don't find them.... lol
But personally I love a real challenge so I wouldn't be all that bothered XD

[puzzled]

I just got to the rocky road mountain and .....it's hard. Every random encounter has to be run away from in order to conserve strength, and even still sometimes I die because 2 eagles surprise me and I can't run.

[D-Squall]

Aaaah, but Marine's Green Orb easily kills those eagles. It's just a matter of know how to use your MP wisely. LOL

[Indinera]

also get some mountaineer canes lol they help you not be slow

[puzzled]

I just got past the rocky path and omg....tiger ambushes.................

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[Indinera]

hard mode is hard lol

[puzzled]

I don't like this game very much so far.

Here's my impression:

1) Oh no, 3 dinosaurs!
2) ok, I reload 5 times and beat them
3) whoops, I have to walk back 20 screens to heal everyone up
4) whoops, I have to reload 10 more times to get back to the inn because my surviving character keeps dying
5) .............wish I had more money for healing items, but I can't because I'm saving for forge items
6) -_-

[Indinera]

I think you shouldn't have picked hard mode from the start - thanks for the feedback though
isn't the shrine healing good enough?

[puzzled]

Well yeah the monastery heals just fine and it's cheap too, but I kind of just gave up on the game because literally I was reloading 5 times to beat the dinosaurs then I would have to walk back allll the way back to the monastery after each fight and I was like -_- because literally it would take 10+ reloads due to werewolves ripping apart my one surviving guy. Lack of healing items was very lame. I just bought the morning star for 2500 so now I have 200 gold.

Maybe I shouldn't have started on hard, but on the other hand - I don't think I've really missed any big secrets. I've bought all the forge items up to the morning star, I've done some quests for decent items like snake armor. I have mountain cane equipped on the mountain and I take it off when I'm not on the mountain.

I did feel pretty good/strong in the swamp with the hunter trident and croc net, but every other time I felt like I keep getting massacred, have to run away whenever I can, and sometimes I can't even run because the enemies are too fast and it's just such a hassle. And it's not like LF3 where if you die you respawn, you just have to keep spamming save every 2 inches.

I remember my first impression was dying to some muskrats in the Gray Cave and I hadn't saved in like an hour and I was like nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I don't mind dying and I don't mind hard fights, but it's kind of lame that you have so little healing resources that either take too long to walk to or too much grinding to get money for it. Too much down time between fights in other words - I would rather spend time strategizing in battle, not running away and struggling to find a heal spot.

[bclouds]

Try levelling up and re-explore. Hard is meant to be hard so why complain about it being hard, LOL!

[Indinera]

There is some strategy to do in the dinosaurs fights.

[puzzled]

Well I just figured out that black orb can one hit kill them, it helps

Running out of mana though and the shrine does not refill it so I have to run back to the stupid monastery so often.

[Indinera]

Well I just figured out that black orb can one hit kill them, it helps

Running out of mana though and the shrine does not refill it so I have to run back to the stupid monastery so often.

Bravo!
That's one good strategy indeed

Try to buy phials, I dunno if they have them though, dont remember

[puzzled]

Groan have to walk back to monastery, ran out of special points in the sapphire cave. I sold my croco meats because I was so low on cash....sigh.