Xenosaga Episode 2 Options

[DarkEpyon]

Anyone played this yet? I might get around to it one day. So what do you think of it thus far?

[Light_Strata]

Hehe, the break system is annoying! Esp since the bosses have a 4-hit break pattern so you have to boost to break them...anyways, a quick low-down of the battle system:

Each type of attack hits a certain area of the enemy
Area A, B, and C.
What area a character attacks depends on the person you use.
Each enemy has a certain sequence to "break" them.
Lets say enemy A has a break sequence of B B.
After you hit it with a B B sequence, it enters a "break" status. This means attacks will now do 1.5x damage. However, the break status ends after a single turn, meaning to keep this status on the enemy, you need to boost or you have to have stocked attacks. Anyways, once an enemy is in break status, certain chars can then put the enemies in "Down" status or "Air" Status. Both of these status' make the damage do 2x damage. However, with Air, after a turn, the enemy gets the "Down" status, then after another turn, it returns to normal.

Its a little hard to imagine, but if you play you'll understand this ><. It's a unique new thing they added, but it gets annoying, especially with boss fights cuz, like I said, they usually have a 4-sequence break pattern so it takes 2 chars just to break him, then down him, but that means you wasted a boost so bleh...

Anyways, about the actual game, fighting is harder, but they made the cut scene thing worse. Riel is in no way exagerating. At one point I had played for 3 hours straight and it was pure story/cut scenes >.< Other than that, the plot is ok, the graphics are a little better, but basically the same. The character designs are better, for the most part...chaos still has really stupid clothes and KOS-MOS and Ziggy have swimsuits this time, if you load a Xenosaga 1 data. Umm...so yeah, the game is good so far.