Another Eden Protips

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Just some random notes, and some screenshots at the bottom here.

You should be playing this, right now. It’s one of the best JRPGs I’ve played in ages. It’s not quite on par with Final Fantasy VII, or Dragon Quest 8, or Lunar 2: Eternal Blue, or even Chrono Trigger, but it’s pretty close, which is just incredible from a mobage.

Characters in the back row of your party restore HP & MP every round of combat, so once someone’s tapped out, switch them back, and pretty soon you can switch them forward, fully healed and ready to go. Once you have Robot Girl Riica and another healer, one of them can stay in the back all the time, while the other heals. You’ll never have to run back to town!

But even then, you may run out, the volcano dungeon especially just took forever and ground me down. Hit Food on the main menu, and you can fully heal once. You’ll get another food for free the next time you visit an inn.

Death isn’t the handicap it used to be in the olden days. When a party member is KO’d, a cat comes on screen and pulls them off (!), and they revive after the fight. If you’re TPK’d, you restart at the start of the area. Which I don’t love, but there’s no save points, it’s just perpetual autosave. Certainly it fits the mobage experience better.

There are hidden passages in many areas. When you find a dead end, try to walk through it. Of course, sometimes this backfires and you fight a giant monster… I’m going to have to scour all the early areas again when I get up to level 30, assuming I can get back to them.

There’s a flower-buying sidequest which is the worst thing in the game, after trying everything the horrible old woman tells you, and getting them wrong because I fell asleep mid-speech: mouseover for spoiler here.

Unsolved: My main party’s Level 18-21, but the only high-level gear I have is a few Level 21 items I picked up in chests. The weapon shops are now at Level 16 gear, which I can’t make because I don’t have the mats from the next zone; most of the gear I can make and have equipped is Level 10 or 13. This is not optimal. I have at least 7 characters I need to equip with weapons and armor, and soon “Badges” (we don’ need no steenkin’ badges!). I hate falling behind.

There’s a lot of Chronos Stones (premium currency) from Record events, but you can also get 10 free every day by hitting + and tapping the free offer link. No videos or any other scams, just a hidden freebie. This is a shockingly fair, non-ripoff gachapon game. Which means I do need to buy something to support them, but I dunno if they’re going to make their money back on it.

I got to 1000 Chronos Stones, did a 10-unit pull, and got a really great ★★★★★ half-beastman pugilist, Lokido; a ★★★☆ (so she can star up, but starts weak) knight/tank, Soira; a spare ★★★★☆ druid healer, Mariel, who I haven’t levelled yet, even tho technically she’s better than my main healer; and 4 of 7 ★★★ “sisters” who all suck, and 3 of ? ★★★ knights who all suck. The character mix in this game is weird, and there’s not much backstory yet; though they all have individual quests after I finish many chapters of the game, so maybe there’s more there.