The Last Story

[Crabmaster2000]

Played a lot more tonight and its getting EPIC!!! I'm at the very start of Chapter 35 now and I can't wait to see what happens next.

[Addicted]

I should have some time to play tonight now that I'm back from vacation. Still on Chapter 16.

[Silent Scythe]

Spoilers- I'm gonna complain about another boss here-


The Kracken.... calling it intresting is being too nice in my opinion.

This boss handed me my first loss, in fact it was generous enough to hand me 3 in a row.

The fight is alright except when Lowelle asks me to vertical slice something. When I do it to the Kracken all Zael does is a little break dance on his head. The camera seems to focus on a stone pillar in the middle of the battlefield when Lowelle talks but as far as I can tell V. Slicing it doesn't do anything. 

[Crabmaster2000]

Spoilers- I'm gonna complain about another boss here-


The Kracken.... calling it intresting is being too nice in my opinion.

This boss handed me my first loss, in fact it was generous enough to hand me 3 in a row.

The fight is alright except when Lowelle asks me to vertical slice something. When I do it to the Kracken all Zael does is a little break dance on his head. The camera seems to focus on a stone pillar in the middle of the battlefield when Lowelle talks but as far as I can tell V. Slicing it doesn't do anything. 

Spoilers below!!







What level are your characters at because I'm not finding these fights as annoying as you are? I think my guys were all around 30-33 when I went in. Have you been upgrading your weapons and armor as well? When I did the vertical slice Zael sunk his sword directly into its head and then got shook around before he sunk back into the water. The took off about 1/5 of his life meter for me and had him disappear immediately after I got off him.

The other option was to straight on attack him. In that case you have to constantly be aware of him casting that black circle around you and dodge out of it quickly otherwise it does MASSIVE damage. Because of that I stuck with the vertical slices. A bit slower, but much safer. The tentacles really weren't much of a problem. 

[Silent Scythe]

My characters are in the 29-30 area. weapons are all around +5 and armor +4 for just about everything. That black magic circle one shots me pretty easily which is a pain because it usually hits me while I'm getting the vertical slice ready. A successful(?) vertical slice seems to take off more like 1/10 of it's health for me I think. It's health bar depletes so slowly that I wasn't sure I was pulling off the V. Slice correctly. I don't think the numerical damage displayed either when I landed it.

[Crabmaster2000]

My characters are in the 29-30 area. weapons are all around +5 and armor +4 for just about everything. That black magic circle one shots me pretty easily which is a pain because it usually hits me while I'm getting the vertical slice ready. A successful(?) vertical slice seems to take off more like 1/10 of it's health for me I think. It's health bar depletes so slowly that I wasn't sure I was pulling off the V. Slice correctly. I don't think the numerical damage displayed either when I landed it.

Thats not far off from where my characters were at. The damage text was pretty faint over top of the Kracken, but it was there for me. Other than looking through your equipment for more optimal setups I'm not sure what other advice to give. There is a boss coming up at the end of Chapter 34 that I LOVED, but I'm a bit worried you might find him frustrating too :/

[Fleach]

I find that most bosses are fairly easy once you learn the appropriate strategy/micromanagement style required for the battle. That's how I've been playing so far. Just trial and error until I win.

[Cobra]

I remember struggling a bit with the bosses Silent Scythe mentioned too. Maybe not as much but they still stick-out in my mind a little because of the struggle nonetheless.

[techwizard]

played another 3 chapters tonight, i'm up to 16. shouldn't take me too long to catch up at this rate, and the story just keeps getting more interesting.

[Crabmaster2000]

Finished this sucker off tonight!!! Can't wait til you guys catch up so I don't have to worry about spoilers, lol. Anyone up for some online tonight (Saturday) or tomorrow?

[Silent Scythe]

Might not make it past the Kracken, this guy is seriously giving me problems.

[Fleach]

I might join in some online play tonight. If you guys are going to Skyping too, I should be able to at least join in the banter.

[Crabmaster2000]

I might join in some online play tonight. If you guys are going to Skyping too, I should be able to at least join in the banter.

What time works for you? Maybe we can co-op that Kracken boss and come up with some strategies for Scythe and others when they get there.

[Silent Scythe]

Thats ok Crabby, I got the Kracken after figuring out a few things such as:

Ditching the Fire Weapon I had equipped, the extra elemental weakness damage didnt amount to much.

When V. Slicing from a long distance the damage may happen before you even get to the Kracken, so don't get discouraged if it seems like you're not doing damage when you're on top of him.

When Lowelle says "Run the ceiling's collapsing!" That's when you should use you're command point to tell everyone to retreat because they'll just interpret his warning as "Stand still it's our only hope!"

Didn't get much further after that. Though I found the chapter 20 mission so I did that, and had some heart to heart talks with Lowelle, Sayrenne and Yurick.

[Crabmaster2000]

Thats ok Crabby, I got the Kracken after figuring out a few things such as:

Ditching the Fire Weapon I had equipped, the extra elemental weakness damage didnt amount to much.

When V. Slicing from a long distance the damage may happen before you even get to the Kracken, so don't get discouraged if it seems like you're not doing damage when you're on top of him.

When Lowelle says "Run the ceiling's collapsing!" That's when you should use you're command point to tell everyone to retreat because they'll just interpret his warning as "Stand still it's our only hope!"

Didn't get much further after that. Though I found the chapter 20 mission so I did that, and had some heart to heart talks with Lowelle, Sayrenne and Yurick.

Glad you broke though! It should be smooth sailing for quite a while now.