LogFAQs > #942731419

Two quests for the western highway and one for the east, so let's go west!

Second battle out of town, I'm attacked by a swarm of dragonflies who literally AE my party to death. Craig drops. Alisa would have, except her quartz keeps her alive. I recover and kill them, but this is easily the biggest wall I've hit. Am I too low level? Should I have left town the other way?

I run back to town, figuring surely there's a way to revive my fallen teammate, but no. It's either item or arts. And because we never ever ever use items in an RPG unless absolutely necessary, Alisa gets him back up. Curiously, everything from that point forward is smooth sailing. I reach the farm, find out I need to kill a creature, learn about S-crafts (which I already used, thanks,) to take out a swarm of creatures and then find a raging dinosaur that attacks once and then uses some super-long charge attack that's blatantly targeting Rean. I decide, ehhh, maybe let's just have him move out of range. Turns out that's exactly what you're supposed to do, and the dinosaur never attacks again as we play a big game of keepaway. Alisa's privately expressing remorse that the ARCUS units are useful -- clearly she's got family problems. Laura seems to pick up on this, but doesn't share with Rean. She's also not very happy when she finds out the army won't help the farmers deal with their monster problem.

As party members, Laura is great. She hits twice as hard as Rean most of the time and seems to dodge-counter fairly often. Alisa is significantly less useful. Her bow is painfully weak, she's already out of EP from rezzing Craig, and she doesn't seem to have much else going for her.

By the time I finish exploring the entire west side of town, I've gained 3 levels, but never found the broken light bulb I need to replace. How many Class VII members does it take to...wait, this is the EAST side?? Yay for rotating maps. It was on the left when I exited town.

Back in town, I'm tempted to shop for equipment, but I don't really have any more money. I bought new equipment for the girls before I left Trista, and while it's standard RPG fare if you go back to the 80s, having separate female-only equipment was a bit of a surprise. I also find it hilarious that Pink High Heels apparently give a bigger speed boost than the male equivalent. I'm also surprised there are weapon upgrades here, considering I was able to give my sword a +1 back in Trista, and I assumed that meant this was simply my signature weapon and I had to upgrade it throughout the game. Nope. Now I wish I hadn't bothered.

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