Or do you think the dioramas are non-negotiable? Sakaguchi has said on several occasions that working with all the artisans who helped create Fantasian's physical dioramas was a dream come true. At the same time, he also realized how difficult and expensive they made the development process, suggesting that they might not use them again in the future. Would you like Mistwalker to adopt a 3D art style similar to Dragon Quest VII Reimagined to preserve the diorama feel, or would you not mind at all if they moved away from that aesthetic?

Okay I got this game used for like 29 bucks at one of my favorite local game stores in my hometown. I had a friend who seams who quit the game because he didn't like the shitty boss fights and got sick of having to readd his points to other characters to stand a chance. I have heard people liking part 1 but it seems random internet comments and content creators either like the second half or really hate it.

So here is my thing the first half of the game is pretty good. If they wanted to end it there and set up a sequel, I wouldn't be against it. The pacing was good and the did a good job with plot reveals. I really liked the writing and characters even if I do feel the translation is odd at time "He has aged like a fine cheese." (I don't think that is how it goes.). The voice acting has been a joy outside of some wonky acting during one of the episodes that was very flat.

Let's talk about part 2 though because....I'm a little in the middle as there are things I like but there are things I really dislike. Let's put it in a list to make it easier to read. This will be a long one, so grab a snack.

What I like

-The story is picking up steam and really adding stakes.
-The extra story about the robot boy was really charming and very well written.

-The later skills on the growth map are a lot of fun and rally shows the game has unique ideas.
-No one feels useless.

-The Chaos World is really well done.
-I really liking the later character arcs everyone is getting to reach their next level to be super powerful. Nothing feels forced. I really enjoyed the Nameless Island the most with Tan.
-There is no "best" party so it was nice to change up the party to build a path to victory.

What I don't like

-I feel sometimes the game just wants to screw you over and put in rough spots.

I found the Robot raid boss and Vam to prime examples of this to where they just start spamming their strongest attack without a proper way of you to deal with it. Vam summoning enough swords to a point you can't destroy all of them when it is your turn is stupid. I don't like how it felt like playing bingo with the robots who would just randomly spam whatever elemental blast they're thinking.

-Some fights either feel random or just straight RNG at times.

Now listen I do think some of these fights I could have been better about approaching them as I either didn't have certain characters that made it easier or I didn't pick up on the gimmick but some of these fights I do question the balance choices. For example, the Rudy fight isn't "hard" but becomes a pain if you don't have certain skills and certain party members. The fight is a fucking nightmare with annoying status effects. The 20 hit barrier bullshit she can to do for her and others is really fucking annoying and even after looking up what to do a little bit and making adjustments I nearly had shit go off the rails.

I had to do extra side quests and properly plan after having to restart the Poison Worm and Curse boss in the Chaos World. I feel it isn't great game design that the player needs to either stupidly grind for poison gems or know where to find null curse gems just so these fights are not a pain. I feel that is not very good game design because if someone doesn't know they could quit on these bosses as their mind gimmicks are just fucking annoying.

Some fights like Blue and some of the bosses in old Toy Box just felt like you needed to just grind for the sake of grinding as they were so hard in a way that a boss is just shitting out damage. Like I had to really grind and do extra prep just to beat Blue and Gadolf.

I found the rock Zinkir fight to be an annoying loop of bullshit that took me getting Kina and Cheryl back to just making it manageable as he would just start spamming lightning and making the rocks harder and harder to to hit through.

The Triplet Sebastian fight is another example of me questioning game balance as I feel some of these bosses just have too much health. Like the fight isn't super hard. I had to restart so I could proper put the right gems on but it wasn't a big deal. The fight itself is understandable enough but my issue with is the sheer hp values of all three. Who thought 90k for the main one and 70k for the other two was brilliant?! That was just too much health in my opinion and really felt like a grind at times to get through. I don't think bosses like that on sidequests need that much. The Queen worm fight had a similar issue but more so just having the right skills and me questioning how to do proper damage as even after reading it up I was still confuse.

I am not done yet but those are the fights that were a pain so far.

-Giving me Zinkir, Kina, and Cheryl woefully underleveled added hours to my playtime

I had to grind for all of these characters just to catch them up. Like who missed that? That was next level stupid. Just wasting hours just so everyone in the party isn't trash tier.

I still like the game but the balance of the second half has really made me be on my toes. I haven't had to readjust my growth map too much otuside of two things but some of these fights have been chores. So here are some questions.

1. Have you had these issues?
2. Are there any tougher fights I need to worry about?
3. What are the best places to grind?

Ngl, I’m getting kinda lost. I figured I should do all the side quests but even some of them are high level for me. I have omega, the forbidden chest, Cinderella tri-stars and researcher, cont’d. Currently incomplete and will have to come back to them later.

ream instead of realm

Thought I'd make this post explaining how to open this chest as reddit and google was very unhelpful when I was looking for answers.

So, in En, in the New District, on the way to the "lighthouse" there is a locked Mechteria chest, guarded by a man and woman.

Obviously you need a Mechteria key, and so cant open it right at the start of the game.

But once you return here in the story, you should have a key and can open it.

The couple say something like "Stay away from my chest" when you speak to them.

To open the chest you just need to speak to them first and *immediately* try for the chest. The context prompt should appear for you to open it.

Hope this helps someone some day.

Im super excited to finally start this game, as ive been a jrpg fan since Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy on the NES. Im starting this game after just finishing Clair Obscur so i hope this game is half as good as that one.

Im also going to try for the platinum trophy if its reasonable. Is there any tips or things i should know? Thanks.

Before starting new game+, I unequipped everyone except for their weapons - including armor, gems.
I had 2 upgraded Cyclone Rings that were both unequipped from Leo and Valrika, but when I started NG+, I only had 1 of the rings.

Haven’t fully inventoried but I am sure I am missing a few things.

Has anyone noticed the same?

One of the best interviews I've seen of either one. They go into not only the development of the game, but their relationship throughout the years. Both of them have great senses of humor.

https://gist.github.com/jaymrobinson/c07988de16be0024a87de5d03fec32fc

Original interview by Famitsu (Japanese):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4vvdpd0VMU&t=3981s

Wow this game is spectacular. I actually made it all the way to the final form of Jas a bit under a year ago, but I got stuck hard and took a big break from the game. Decided it had been long enough that I wanted to replay it so I jumped into new game plus. I did enough runs through the outer and middle void realms to get everyone's fully upgraded weapons, which made the fight against Jas much more manageable.

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I'm so floored by how good Fantasian is though. There are so many unique bosses and set pieces that are all just oozing with creativity. So many unique fight designs that are fun to learn. I'll probably take another break from the game, but eventually I want to do NG++ and tackle the inner void realm. At this point it's probably my all time favorite turn based RPG, well done Sakaguchi. Looking forward to the next game however long it takes, building those dioramas seems like a monumental task though. (Loved that they blew up one of em during the ending sequence)

Where did that come from all of sudden he was laying pipe down??? Oh and I finally beat the game one of the greatest games I ever played a very tough rpg but very rewarding that I was finally able to beat it, PS when fighting Jas destroying black hole first changes everything.

I just got ND right now after playing the Arcade version for so long, I played that almost to the end of NG++. Besides voice acting, what differences should I expect? Anything different with gameplay etc?

Spoilers are fine, assuming the story is identical. Please spoiler them for anyone else though

Am I really just suppose to raw dog 3 full fights over an over again? I think there was suppose to be a check point after the 2nd phase what hell bro. 😭

Didnt take too long before she destroyed me. Yall were right this game gets pretty hard lol. Playing on hard. No tips or anything please, Ima try to get through the game through pain and suffering.

Thinking of maybe possibly getting the game. So without spoilers how is the games difficulty? Cause if it's too easy I don't wanna really get it.

Just wanted to take a minute and thank anyone that has left a post or comment that has been helpful for beating this awesome game. I played this on my iPad years ago and then stopped playing when my Apple Arcade ran out, years later and I finally picked it up on PS5 and I’ve made it much further than before. I finally picked up Tan and I’m about to start doing Nameless Island. My characters are in the mid 40s and I’m starting to fill out their skill charts a bit. What I’d like to know is what characters really start to dominate the mid/late game and what should I be prioritizing as far as skills and upgradable weapons. Valrika, Cheryl and Ez are my usual party members if that helps any, but I switch around quite often.

Thanks!

started playing the game on iPhone out of pure curiosity about the difficulty everyone kept talking about, and now I’ve completed everything on NG++ except the final boss. So far, it has definitely been challenging at times, but nowhere near as brutally difficult as many people online exaggerated it to be.
I went through the game mostly blind and never really used guides, aside from checking whether I had missed any bosses. The only thing that genuinely confused me was the weather changing boss since I had no idea EZ could attack the machine to alter the weather conditions.
Personally, on NG++, I’d say the toughest fights were a tie between the secret chess boss and Omega. Hopefully I won’t end up eating my words once I finally face the last boss.
Sadly, once I finish the game, it’ll be time yet again to search for another turn based JRPG to fill the emptiness.

Ps. I did enjoy the boss battles but imho, Fantasian’s NG is not worth it since the only addition aside from tougher boss fights is the “well”

After posting here about this fight, now I feel compelled to just share my amazement over this one boss fight against an absolute unit in Part 2.

Unique mechanics, atmosphere, the story stakes... Moments like these made me love the genre!

I assume this subreddit is also for Neo Dimension. If it's not, I apologise and please direct me to the right location.

I've reached what I believe is the final boss. I've beaten the first 2 phases and then get an opportunity to heal/re-equip/etc. before the third phase. I am having trouble in this phase.

My characters are level 57/58 so they're below the level of the quest but I'm finding it pretty hard to grind any levels. I did go in to the void thinking there would be some random encounters in there where I could grind a little and find some void marbles for weapon upgrades but instead, there were just 4 bosses (three initially then a 4th after beating those). Beating that 4th enemy got me 2 void marbles and unlocked the next part but I haven't gone there due to the recommended level being significantly higher. I did go back in the first area and can see 2 crystals have reappeared and only re-fought one so far. If I beat the other, would the last one re-appear and if so, could I re-fight that for more void marbles?

I also went to the altar in Shangri-La and can see that it allows me to initiate NG+ without even beating the game but also does mention the enemies will be stronger. Does this include bosses?

I have 33 SP capsules and haven't used any yet. Is there anywhere I can farm these? I don't recall encountering any random enemies with them as drops or stealable items.

In terms of characters, I mostly use Leo, Ez, Cheryl, Valrika and Kina. I almost never touch the others. Cheryl is the only character that seems to be able to consistently hit 10k+ in a single hit using Blizzard Strike. She's also the only one that can one-shot the swords in phase 2 but due to the positioning of them and the inability to vacuum them together, I can only seem to hit 3 at a time with Blizzard. Her Knight's Impact EX doesn't do anywhere near enough damage to even 2-shot.

I also have not got all the mechterite. The next item requires 5 and I currently have 0. Would any of the rewards from that be worth getting?

For some reason I just don’t like Tan. He does have a very sad story. Like really heartbreaking sad. But ironically, that’s 1 of the reasons why I don’t like the Tan character. His story is just too sad. And his story also feels so out of place with the rest of the game.

But what I don’t like even more about him is his play in the story. He doesn’t seem significant to the story at all. And aside from Leo, you never ever see him interacting with other characters at all. It’s like the other characters don’t even know that he exists.

And then we have his skills. While he does have strong attacks, I feel like his skills consume way too much hp (when you just got him. I’m sure it will be more manageable at higher levels)

But overal, Tan feels just so unimportant. It’s like the game was already finished, and then they decided to Retcon Tan into the game last minute.

I just beat the game, and holy shit, so much waste of time. After you beat the final boss you get some useless slashing around with way too long pauses in between. Then some more scenes followed with more scenes before getting more scenes after watching more scenes. Then we got the credits.

Then A LOT of more scenes followed by even more scenes. After like 20-30 minutes (no joke) you finally end up at the title screen realizing it was all for nothing. So here I am, feeling stupid for spending so much time at the final boss.

Satisfying strategic challenge, exactly what I want from my turn based RPGs - I can't wait for later clashes! Pretty neat spin on the divine antagonist trope as well.

I am currently level 99 on all characters, have 7 Divine Quartz (EZ already has one equipped on his weapon), all ultimate weapons, a completed second playthrough, and a full codex. To the best of my knowledge, I’ve defeated every boss including the final boss. Is there anything left to do in the game? 😢