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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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There are more characters that use them. The elements are not that important right now. Read the tutorials they are pretty clear, except for gem crafting.
And yes everyone gets exp, don't worry about that.
Sweet. I just discovered the present sharing, nice way to raise affinity between characters. Did you find yourself putting in certain team members just so that their affinity could be raised?
Swept up some quests and am in a beatiful new area. I am seeing more and more yellow enemies, they are a blast to fight. Oh and the King Squeeze quest was awesome, I want more like that. I wish TES had a system like the affinity in place, it would greatly help flesh out the NPCs. TES strength are those individual stories you encounter throughout the world but so many feel like basic fetch quests and once you are done its basically over. The world doesn't feel like it grows. But sadly Xenoblade doesnt tell the interesting stories that TES does and the presentation is terrible, its just text boxes and when you talk to someone everyone else vanishes. No animations, just standing and text boxes. So if they would just merge the two we would have something totally awesome, like Majora's Mask.
Yes, but the affinity rises way too slowly. But there is a trick to raise it quickly
No one did, but there are even more twist and turns you will never see coming. Good thing you find the music great, I was going to punch you for just calling it solid.
There is another quest in colony like that. Go to the military district
I have one quest for a boss that I beat before I got the quest and it never spawns anymore so the quest seems unbeatable. Its in the bird mage, tirkin or whatever, headquarters.
I am thinking way ahead on this one but at what point should I start to look at a faqs for secrets. I have found many JRPGs have crazy insane secrets that you would never find without a guide and I heard this game is no different. Should I focus on the story first then mess around when it is done or is there something that I should be looking out for now that may help later on. I dont want to find that I needed like 50 of some item I had that I sold or some crap.
Best way to raise affinity is when taking on quests. So if you see a NPC with a ! over their head, swap your team out for people who you want to bond. Then when they take the quest and chit chat, and also when you finish a quest by returning to a character with a ! over their head, that works too.
There is some good stuff but yeah they could use some Zelda style camera swoop in and some animation. You have to zoom the camera in point blank to even see in detail what some of the characters look like.
The only thing you have to worry about is that some areas become closed off at certain points in the story and you cannot return. The first hurdle is Bionis Leg they will ask you a specific question, say no if you are not done with that regions quests. The other cut off points are miles away.
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