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Beat it on Hard. Really a fantastic game. Without Last Flake, there'd be no way to beat it though, at least on Hard. She is by far the best character. Huge amounts of damage and massive healing every turn. The student kinda sucks, Librarian is pretty good and Marco is not too bad. I love how each character has different strengths and weaknesses. It's such a unique and challenging game. But the accuracy system makes it (for the most part) challenging in a fair way. It depends on how well you can do, unlike most other RG's which is largely based on luck. The ending better deliver with the 2nd game.
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You know what I really like about this game? Is the fact that getting far, or beating an enemy, is more about skill then luck,HP, levels and other things you have 0 control over. I mean I love RPG's, but that's always been 1 thing I hate. A lot of the outcome depends on luck. Like getting lucky and doing a lot of damage, or the enemy missing, or a bunch of other factors that you can't do much about, which makes things a bit unfair. Also having to grind for hours to have enough HP or do enough damage, etc etc. In this, if you do horribly hitting your mark, you do less damage. If you manage to always hit close to 100%, you'll do a lot of damage. So it's much more about a players skill of timing, then blind luck or grinding.
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I really enjoyed this; it's not common to see a good marriage of RPG elements and real time skill. Notes for a future edition: Regen is crazy broken. Because I maxed Last's regeneration and spent the rest of her points on HP, I was able to solo the final boss on hard. Other than that though, quite excellent.
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LOVE the game, good Cthulu feel, great combat system, but the percentages didn't match what was shown onscreen. Loved that you could reset Stats for free to experiment against different enemies. Pity the caps are so low, but loved the game anyways, 5/5 from me!
Last Flake had an hilarious Monty Python line.
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The "Cthulu" language the Cultist talks when the girl is walking home through the sewers ALONE is actually Japanese, "Christchurch there Hami example decoy equipment person"--was this intentional?
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Really liked the battle system, the general feel of the game: "the detective", and "the librarian". I felt that characters with healing skills were a too powerful though, and the 'hard' difficulty, started quite hard, but got much easier.
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I love the atmosphere and the characters in this. I had a bit of a problem with the battle system lagging., though I did mostly learn to compensate for it. There was also notable lag in plotting the damage/healing numbers. Also, while I do .like the infinitely resettable attributes, since points given out were IMO fairly minimal, it was hard to decide what to spend on. I also think maybe poison was a bit overused by the enemy since there was no way to remove it and some characters had no way to counter it. Still overall I did rahter like the game despite my whinging about that. :D I hope to see the sequel here soon!
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Music, art, concept, story, production...excellent! I've played this game several times through and every time I just go straight through. Once I start I just can't stop. I like how the combat works. It's a well done, unique idea. The whole game works very well.
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Hated it. Just for the **** needle. NOT EVEN ONCE have I scored closer, than 79%! I just reeeally hate reaction-games like this!
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I've been following LowManji's tips on skills for each character. I've found that for the Librarian, however, it is far better to max Cleansing first. 35+ damage a hit for 4 hits is too good to pass up.
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awesome game, taking an old concept and making it the main game mechanic is a great idea.
However, it does get a little boring in the storyline cause the bar is moving, but none of the characters are moving >_< no action... kinda puts me to sleep after playing about an hour.
But i DID play an hour.
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the needle is bullshit.. i click exactly on the marker, and the sword appears a good 20 pixels to the left of it EVERY TIME..
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Angela's Focus skill is a bit broken. It works fine at lvl 1, and for lvl 2 it still works if Diamond Shot is at lvl 1. But if Diamond Shot is at lvl 2 or more, lvl 2 Focus acts as lvl 1 Focus.
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If you run out of hp, do the following:
select any character, go to attributes, then menu, then save the game, then menu again and load the game you just saved. on the character screen click close, then on the map click until a fight is imminent. ==> you will see that you have earned some hp. you can do this as often as you need to get back to full hp. enjoy.
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Definitely a HUGE flaw with this game.. I'm on the final boss (playing on hard) and all my characters are at like 30% health... How am I supposed to beat him?? Such bull..
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Just beat the game on hard and love it, but I just wanted to say that throughout the entire game not once did I use defensive stance. Great game 5/5
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great game the gameplay was smooth and the ending leaves a possibility of a second game(which I sincerely hope) and the free reset really comes into play in the hardest difficulty especially around ch.3...with that I wish you the best in your future endeavors
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Great game but it needs an intro cut-scene or something, it starts out with you fighting a bird wtf? Also the free reset feature is great it allows for alot of experimentation. One small side note, The decisions you make throughout the story should affect the ending, because whats the point in doing them if they don't have any effect.
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There is a bug that, before the battle, you can go to ' attribute ' and save the game. if you are defeated, load the previously saved one ( not the autosave ）， It will regenerate you 20 HP(compare to the starting HP of your previous battle）wondering why this information is not on the best comment D:.
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Nice game. Although tricky middle section, the last section is quite easy using hunter and last flake. Defeated last boss using only last flake.. Max regen and bite
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Fantastic game, and being able to tweak the statistics in between battles really allows for strategizing. My only complaint, and it's a huge one, is the lack of healing between chapters. It really sucks to start a difficult run like the sewers/streets with everyone at 20-40% health and half the monsters with enhanced damage.
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Ah I see what the problem was. The underworld journey. Yeah the librian and the girl only is rough. Here's the trick I used, if the librarian is near death, pump his damage reflect. First turn heal, second turn triple strike. If he survives, attack normally. Now on the girl's turn she can blast the enemy to bits with the shotgun and win with one shot. That should take you all the way to Fear of Insects with Angela at full health.
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Hoople, you gotta 'game' the game better. Esp with detective, he's kind of weak for a dude with a gun. Always use the 3 strike attack first then use the shield. First point to dodge second point to the multi-hit third point to head shot and that should get you through the train alright. If you want to get out of there at near full health, intentionally lose if you don't get at least one 100% strike on the zombie dog and cultist. Anyway this game is pretty damn good. I love the atmosphere and wish for this to get placed on the PS360. It feels overall a lot like the pulpy horror goodness of Nightmare Creatures, which I loved quite a bit. Hunter: The Reckoning is another console title this reminds me of. Creator, if you read this, try to sell the plotline/script to someone!
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the easy badge doesnt report, and is too quick to get a screenie of ... cant react fast enough to get my hand from the touchpad to the print screen key in the split second while "100%" flashes on the screen :(
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There is one major flaw that absolutely ruins this game on the hard difficulty. This is the fact that your characters don't heal to full upon starting a new chapter. Take note developers: if you ever put a player in a position where his only recourse (after an hour or two of gameplay) is to restart the entire game, you've done something horribly HORRIBLY wrong.
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don't bother with easy mode. It's only fun on hard. also, don't read anybody's tips. they may be good, but it kinda ruins the game. come up with your own strategy.
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Quinn's Review: I thought the gameplay in Town of Fears was rich and fairly original - the Mario World story path, the interchange of characters, the RPG skill system and the combat options were all simple but allowed for tactics. But undoubtedly it is the story that made this game. When all five of my heroes came together for the final fight, I felt proud and unstoppable (until we were stopped, anyway). That's quite an achievement. Speaking of achievements though, the Hard achievement is really, really hard. Too hard for me, but that doesn't spoil the game one whit.
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Really great game, and I had a very fun time playing on hard. But the boss just creams me whatever I do. I tried several tips so far, and I haven't got him below 200 health at all. Maybe he is a bit overpowered. 5/5 nevertheless, for the genius damage system alone.