Thread:Thormented/@comment-25881556-20160220140057

Gonna stick to mainly gameplay since there's already an ongoing discussion about the storyline elsewhere. I'll comment that I like the general direction it's going in and leave it at that.

ProN investments have skyrocketed in terms of cost, returns are more questionable considering we can't see them for a while but if the rate of return remains the way it is, (for instance 7 times the initial investment on arms dealing? dang....), that's gonna be a heck of a lot of ProN available for use by the time the next city rolls around. Conversely though, looking at it as a gameplay mechanic, it's pretty amazing that none of it feels unbalanced since swapping to Sx from ProN is heavilly limited(not even talking about the amount since as the growth of ProN seems exponential, minor losses in exchanges are more negligible.) and doesn't seem to give an undue advantage. Interesting mechanic considering how easy it tips over to being too much Sx for anyone to use. (I mean the player is actually expected to have ~= 1 million ProN at one point during the chapter. Converting that whole lot into Sx and hence equipment for the party seems like an interesting idea. ... not that you can mind.)

Enemies have taken their steroids for this round, enemy damage is greatly increased and I had a lot more fun using Carina due to her defensive buffs over Qum for random fights Aside from that.... Aka performs as expected (although with reduced effectiveness because the damage potential is spread across multiple enemies), and Nalili is a bit too slow to get her combat masturbations off in order to really be helpful before the enemies deal their damage. There's a battle that practically screams Altina to spam her group attacks in the chapter. ... I haven't really tested a wide variety of weakness and strengths right now but I feel the difficulty of enemies are rising at a nice clip. Which is good considering there's new equipment available. I believe the rifts can't all be closed off in this chapter after running around the map for a while so.. that's disappointing, was hoping to play with another optional boss since it looked possible.

Gameplay seems to be progressing in a positive manner towards more difficulty. Which I like personally :3 (and people who don't can just buy new equipment. I know I'm using equipment that's slightly dated by now.) 