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MewMewHeart:

--- Quote from: Serela on June 23, 2016, 07:38:22 PM ---Forces? Nah, it's totally optional. She can actually do an awesome job in the first party if you got Mad Thunder, which is damn near the strongest elec attack in the game (including postgame) yet you can pick it up on like Stage 13 from Iku easily... if you take Satori into that fight, at least. Satori -is- pretty helpful in the second phase with Reflect Wall/Shield Wall/Healing/Leaf Shield/Dark manip though. Man, she really turns into some beastly support later on.

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Well if you want to have an easier time, but then again I was grateful for Satori supports, but they require her to be a certain level to learn them.

Serela:
Yeah, you have to come back and get Satori's special-tier support skills long after you fight the enemies with them (Was it lv50? So, you'll easily get there before the final stage, but not much earlier.) ... but they are REALLY strong skills, so it's understandable why. It's only a small handful, at least, and nearly the only skills with relevant level restrictions. Weekend relaxed a lot of the level restrictions along with massively boosting learn rate. Didn't Medullite Beam used to be like lv99??? It's not even particularly powerful! MEDOROAAAAAAA

Your Everyday NEET:

--- Quote from: Serela on June 23, 2016, 05:49:39 PM ---Shields can only block the things that are listed in their description, and their EVA is a flat % chance to block (which is modified by any strength or weakness the shield says it has, such as the shields that have full stars versus some elements will always block it, afaik.) But they won't activate if you use a move that takes both hands, such as doublehanded weapons or magic. If you don't USE it that turn, the shield will activate even if you have a 2-hand weapon, though... as much as that doesn't tend to matter. The only real use for magicians and doublehanded attackers are the rare shields with passive effects, which will -always- function.

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I don't know much about shields. All I know is sometimes they blocks, and Alice can force activate them.

I modified the decription of the shield and found Sakuya's portrait back in Stage 1.

--- Quote from: MewMewHeart on June 23, 2016, 06:43:02 PM ---Oh right the final fight in the main serious FORCES YOU TO GET ONE OF THE HARDER SKILLS for Satori.... and both are defensive.

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Screw those defensive skills! Enemies won't cast it on you like that. Oh no no no, you have to Charm them! Control won't work because the move won't be on their skill list if you do that. Charm is just luck based as well, you have to be freaking lucky for the enemy to casts it on Satori, but the enemy is a dick and usually more content with hitting themselves, curing them from Charm. Screw this game!

Stage 2 - Scarlet Devil Mansion

Recording the screenshot live is a pain. Since I played it with gamepad, I have to switch back forth since the hotkeys for capturing screenshot is in the keyboard. Plus, the fight flows too fast to be recorded smoothly.

Serela:

--- Quote from: Your Everyday NEET on June 26, 2016, 08:52:06 AM ---Screw those defensive skills! Enemies won't cast it on you like that. Oh no no no, you have to Charm them! Control won't work because the move won't be on their skill list if you do that. Charm is just luck based as well, you have to be freaking lucky for the enemy to casts it on Satori, but the enemy is a dick and usually more content with hitting themselves, curing them from Charm. Screw this game!

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That's not even the best part though; at least one of the two really cool special defensive skills has very high priority, and also won't be cast if they're under the effect of Charm already, so you have to have Aya force you to go first and charm it on a turn it's already got the move queued up! ISN'T IT GREAT?! (Thank goodness there are only two skills like this, they're multitarget and otherwise not hard to learn, and are actually -really good- and worth some effort. Reflect Wall with only 1 turn cooldown... hummuna hummuna.)

Otherwise you could probably debuff their accuracy with one of Satori's other skills and/or buff their evasion with Sanae or Byakuren, but no, yes, it's a good chunk of effort. The only ones worth caring about are Area Heal, Leaf Shield, Starlight Barrier and Reflect Wall anyway- Area Heal is easy (second screen youkai mountain on common random enemy, big aoe) and the other two aren't bad so long as you know you have to interrupt via Aya on the same turn. It's somewhat of a hassle but if you've got any interest in Satori it pays off. (Or you can just dislike Satori, grab Mad Thunder from Iku for a few specific fights like the final boss, and otherwise ignore her :V)

Leon゠Helsing:
So is the "my way or the highway" balancing this game apparently has really intentional or just poorly thought-out?

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