Passives seem to be fine, but your active shit is blocked once Berserk triggers at the 1/4th mark. Which means no Limit Break on bosses unless you move really quickly, so it seems like there are better Str-boosting skills out there.

A character with lower stats and an LB usually trumps dudes with high Str and no LB, by the seem of it. It's why I ended up taking Seifer out, even though he had something like 500 Str after stacking Dark I-III.

THUNDER "MOTHERFUCKING" GOD CID DLC TOMORROW

Also a bunch of good tracks, still super pleased that Chocobo Fables stuff made it in. It's mostly all badass remixes of FF stuff.

HELL YEAH ADVENT OWA

Ugh isn't that version like 6 minutes long? Fuck.

I'M SORRY ARE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT FUCKING ADVENT OWA?????????

GET GOOD

GET GOOD AT OWA

Deep into the game the biggest two problems with the original game are back again:

1: Spinning arrows. Seriously, fuck you.
2: EMS stages. Holy shit why S-E, why. I can SSS Ultimate songs, but it's 5+ tries every single time to even get a Total Critical on a Basic EMS song, forget even a SSS rank. Every time I think it's just me for some reason I look online and nope, everyone complained about them in the first game, everyone complains about them now. On the plus side there's only 10 or 11 of them in this game, but goddamn they are fucking awful. My Profilecard shows my top 5 played stages are fucking EMS stages on Basic because it takes that many tries just to get a Total Critical on them (working towards that trophy for my endgoal). Sucks.

Game is hugely improved and awesome in just about every regard so this doesn't really dampen my enjoyment of it, but the EMS thing in particular is super annoying.

I am legitimately having a hard time getting a Total Critical on Crazy Chocobo on Basic because I can't stop fucking laughing. If I heard this song when I played the game I somehow have totally forgotten about it, I got this because I thought this was the FFXIII Chocobo song which is godtier. Best worst song.

I bought the game about two weeks ago, and I finally just hit the 50,000 RM mark. This game has quite an addictive hold on me. I haven't really done anything noteworthy. I'm just fixated on getting all the characters leveled up to 99 and unlocking all the characters.

I've dabbled with all the other options the game has to offer. I've played about 75 online battle and I'm just holding an above .500 record. I done a few quests, but most of my time has been spent in the normal gameplay mode, I'm just trying to full combo all my songs and get them full combo'd with the crown symbol.

I'm on my 4th set of characters trying to get them leveled up.

Zack
Noel
Cloud: Advent Children Version
Agrias

I actually don't mind the EMS songs. I find the timing a little more strict but I actually don't mind playing them, but I can understand why a lot of people don't like them.

The timing on them just often doesn't make sense, it seems either too slow or too fast. People have theorized since the first game that it's some kind of technical issue with them running the FMV in the background that makes it wonky. It's not AS bad in this one as the first game though. Some of the stages I was able to do just fine, but then some are just totally off. On the ones that seem to be way off from the music I literally just turn the volume off and do it by sight and that works way better, fucking nonsense.

Solution: GET GOOD

Fair enough. I refuse to take "GET GOOD" as a response to the EMS bullshit though.

Anyway after like 40 hours of gametime I'm still only like 60% of the way through getting Perfect Chain and Total Critical on all of the songs in the game on Basic, holy shit.

Sorry, my someone-needs-to-get-good sense was tingling so I had to come check this thread out.

Daravon should look into the GET GOOD DLC

Get good season pass is a day-1 purchase.

I've literally only played one song that had spinning arrows, not sure how I'm supposed to get good at them yet apparently

Listen, I'm hearing a lot of excuses and not a lot of getting good in here.

hate u guys

In between hating you guys new DLC is out today!

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Balamb Garden, The Chase and Precipitous Combat are getting bought as fuck

I don't see Getting Good on there at all

Have you actually put any time into this game or what?

He has a point, Skills. I haven't heard shit.

Tavnazian is a really quaint track, and it holds some nostalgia for me. Back when the Promyvions were hard, access to the Tavnazian Safehold and its surroundings was your well-earned reward. Precipitous Battle appears to be Battle on the Bridge, so fuck yeah.

So the online versus mode for this has gotten weird.

With the release of Smash it's pretty dead as you would expect; the couple times I have tried there is literally NO ONE playing at any level domestically. Internationally (aka Japan) is a different story though, I can usually get matches immediately. Where this gets crazy is that like 90% of the Japanese players are all at 5 star completion, shitload of Rhythmia etc and are basically gods, but then they only play on Expert. Like...what? Then last night I got two people who were actually playing on Ultimate no EX Burst (thank god) and holy fucking shit I don't think I have ever been wrecked that badly in my life. One of the two players GOT A TOTAL CRITICAL ON FORCE YOUR WAY ON ULTIMATE. Then afterwards I look at their Profilicards, they both had over 600k Rhythmia which I literally didn't even know was possible (I thought it hard-capped at 300k at the last unlock) with over 300 hours played. Gotta respect that shit.

Anyway I should finally finish up all of my songs on Basic bullshit so I can finally get into the real meat of the game; I'm in this game for the long haul so I figured it would be best to get the Basic stuff "out of the way" now as opposed to being more annoyed having to do it later.

Has anyone gotten any of the Romancing SaGa tracks? Seen a few folks saying that the BMS ones on Ultimate are the hardest things in the game.

I have all the Saga DLC stuff but haven't had a chance to play it yet. Maybe when I get home.

Additional Spam:
Disappointed in the lack of Get Good DLC. This time. The chase should be good though.

I swear to God once I knock out all these Basic songs finally it is going to be fucking ON SON. I could do Ultimate no problem in the first game, can do it here but not at the level/rank I could before, need to get back on my game. I've barely done any quest medleys since I've been focusing 95% of my time on knocking the Basic stuff out first, this weekend I plan to wrap up Basic and then go in on that to get shards for the rest of the character unlocks, I'm actually still missing a bunch. Found out this morning that if you have zero of any color shards that you still have characters locked behind it does NOT show you that on the character select screen, you have to have at least one shard of that color for it to show you the character silhouette. So I thought I was much closer to getting all of the unlocks then I was since I had two shard types with multiple characters that I just had zero of :(. I do get shards fairly regularly as Rhythmia unlocks now though since I'm past 100k, but you only get rewards for every 1k Rhythmia at that point, not every 500. The grind, it is real.

Oh yeah, another crazy thing about the super hardcore Japanese players; like none of them have any DLC. Baffling.

Unlocking Sephiroth is a pain in the ass with those black shards. I've only found one EX Boss that drops them. I think I'm only missing one or two characters in about... three color categories still. I should try to knock those out at some point.