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[cranston (#84421)]

 Ar Tonelico II

[jsy3k (#32616)]

Good for you, cranston. I am still waiting for my preorder game to reach Singapore....

[LoStSouLs (#17272)]

Its about time someone made this xD. I was too lazy too.

I just have to say i hate ar tonelico 2. It fails in comparison to 1 in more than one way. I hate the defense mechanism. Especially when your system starts lagging before a big multi-hit comes. And you are just pressing it in hopes that you can make it. I dont mind the 2 revys in the party. But i hate the whole that you have to make them happy while in the battle. I much more preferred the old system where you just attacked and defended when someone targeted them.

And the whole cut scene to get a new recipe card drove me up the wall. Cant even progress the story because im constantly running back and forth between the 4 cities for endless cutscenes of no importance just to see if one of them is a recipe card. Seriously, you think you are done with the area, go and do the cutscenes for another city, and then you go back for some synthesizing and you are thrust into another set of useless cutscenes.

The story is also a blunder. Almost everything about it, is just flat out boring. The sleeping scenes with the revys i just fast forward because i just dont care anymore. Plus the synthesizing scenes are even more boring.

And one thing that pisses me off the most is the dive system. SERIOUSLY!!!! This game is supposed to have the dive system as an major plus. Instead you get only one lvl. And then it takes forever for the other lvl to unlock that you forgot what the heck happened in the last level. And seriously wth is up with you only get 4 lvls and then you have to choose between the 3 revys whcih one you want to end the game with and are only allowed to go deeper in her sphere. The rest lock you out at lvl 5. Seriously WTF!!! >_<!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the company that made the game didnt do a fair job at catching spelling / grammatical errors in the game. In the first 2 hours of the game i had already seen 10 mistakes. It did get a bit better by the time i had finished the game. But it makes mistakes the whole way through.

All in all i didnt enjoy ar tonelico 2 one bit. And only completed it because it was a game, and not because i enjoyed it.

Also cranston. Only 2 years have passed since the end of ar tonelico 1.

The only thing of the story that made me lol. Was when croxis had to put the life extending agent into luka. And after she had revealed something major to him just before hand he said, "Oh hell no. This will be the first and last time i ever stick anything into you." And i busted out loud laughing.

[cranston (#84421)]

To say it once more, I hate the defence mechanism!

Right, moving on...

I agree with Lost. The Infelsphere part of the story is frustratingly boring. As for the rest of the story, it's not that bad. But then again, it's nothing epic or exciting.

However, I do like the level 5 cosmosphere limits. In the previous game, I noted that the conversations in the higher levels of Misha's and Aurica's cosmospheres were weird because they were mutually exclusive. It's not logical that you dive so deep into both of them, and then arbitrarily pick one in favour of the other. Or drop them both for Shurelia. The level 5 limit in this game makes more sense. In addition, the time between dives is also more sensible when it's not immediate. Last time, you could finish one level, sleep at the inn and talk to the Reyvateil, and then dive again into the next level. This time, the progression is slower. As a bonus, you get to enjoy each of the costumes *grin* I really like Mir's costumes. *grin* Still, I really wish I had known that the level 5 limit also applied to her at an earlier point in time. Guess I'll do that on the 2nd playthrough.

As for the spelling/grammar errors, I noted a couple parts where Japanese characters appeared. Most notably whenever Reyvateils join Cloche's fan club.

I don't quite understand the battle system though. Is there any advantage to fulfilling their wishes in battle as represented by the darker-coloured area in the round indicator on the bottom-left of the screen?

Seriously, I think the battle tutorials were substandard. There were a lot of things that I didn't understand and had to figure out by trial and error. Right now, I'm still trying to figure out how to activate Combo Magic.

[LoStSouLs (#17272)]

by fulfilling their desires their spells upgrade to the newer forms, and if you do it enough you get to do your special moves. So its always beneficial to do so.

also just a random question. have you yet fought that lvl 9 revy @_@. I couldnt beat her for the life of me.

[cranston (#84421)]

[jsy3k (#32616)]

Finally got my Ar Tonelico II, and played it for a good 2 hours. I should say that I love this game so far. It is not so easy, and also not too hard once you got used to it. The only thing that need practice is getting Perfect for the block as it does not do any damage to your vanguards.

So far, the game is still pretty easy except for one IPD that I fight that need to block multiple times to BOTH vanguards. I was thrown off guard for that....

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[cranston (#84421)]

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