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Listed on Nintendos japanese site
IGN eyes on trailer and screens
A lone warrior chopping through an army of robotic warriors with an outsized Cloud Strife-like energy sword. Colossal war machines advancing though a misty canyon, shooting anything that moves. The few remaining human defenders hiding behind simple wooden shields that are no match for high-energy weapons. Welcome to the world of Monado.��
The debut trailer for Monado: Beginning of the World premiered today at E3: 2009, and first impressions for the new Wii RPG are that the beginning is going to be pretty exciting. Things kick off with that canyon-set battle, revealing more and bigger enemies with an interesting steampunk design. Things likely don't end well for our lone warrior, as we soon segue to a young blonde hero discovering that energy sword - now inert - only to see it flash blindingly to life the moment he picks it up. Your standard JRPG Hero's Journey (tm) is definitely in full effect here, with just a dash of King Arthur.��
Gameplay appears to be open-world, where you'll traverse lush jungles, glowing forests, climb sheer walls, and encounter the crumbling remains of a conquered people. It looks nicely textured and details pop, animating at what looks like a smooth 30 fps.��
Players will pick up two partners in their travels, and while combat initially looks turn-based, we saw all three party members attacking simultaneously. Transitions into combat are completely seamless; characters approach enemies, draw weapons, and it's on. One scene showed your team (wielding much smaller edged weaponry) surrounding a lizard-man enemy, who didn't make much of a dent in their lifebars before it was downed. A much larger lizard-man (a good twenty feet tall) and giant mutant crab monster probably fared better.
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Okay I am a idiot. I finally figured out why that boss gave me such a hard time. I you hit an enemy and you see a double shield icon coming out, it means that the enemy is resistant to physical attacks. Use ether attacks to damage them good. Ether arts have a horizontal bar on the arts icon, so you can easily see which one is physical and which one is ether. Also this is the reason why it takes ages to kill those energy balls, you need to use ether attacks there too.
lol same thing happened to me with the second last boss on FFX. Spent literally an hour or two wailing away at it with physical attacks. Got nowhere. Tried again with magic only. Killed it in a few minutes, if that.
What do you mean horizontal bar?
I went back to valek mountain, not so bad when you explore. Love those huge rams.
Ploughed through Sword valley. Damn that git in the fortress, he's surrounded by his two buddies and seems to get one hit kills on me.
Pay special attention to these arts icons GG. Youu see the light heal icon? See the horizontal bar? This means it is an ether based art. Backslash, Sideslash and the two break arts do not have a horizontal bar, so they are physical attacks.
Thanks, I don't think I have any ether attacks in my team apart from a couple of sharla moves.
Do you have to play as melia?
Melia should be in your team regardless. Dunban also has some ether attacks and all Shulks Monado arts beside the Buster are ether based. My advice, fix the broken bridge in Makna and do the sidequest in Frontier Village on the Archaeological level. Do it, you can thank me later.
I'll try that when I pick the game up again. I'm battling M***** again and he's too tough for my level so I might as well roam and increase my stats.
I am now Level 93. Did that by doing sidequest and killing stuff. Also completed Colony 6. Now I will go and kill some dinosaurs. Why? Because I can. I actually beat a level 99 monster today in a epic battle. Bitch did not go down easily, but after some clever gem use it went down.
The Heropon goes to TGS
I'm finding it hard to collect the items for colony 6 upgrades. I used to collect everything but then my inventory was full and I started having to sell stuff. I think I may have sold some important stuff. I avoid selling stuff with the (!) next to it, quest items. But some items have like a little star shape on them and some don't. I'm pretty sure I sold a bunch of the star ones, what is that icon for anyway? Have I got rid of important stuff?
Not really, but you might have sold some stuff you could use in a future sidequest. No big deal, you can get them again. The game is pretty generous with item drops, even for the rare ones. Not sure what the star icon is for, just sell the non star icons first.
Edit: maybe the star icons are items that can be traded with various named NPCs?
Are going to kill some dinosaurs now. Later.