Level up, get +1 to a random set of stats. There are also special area bonuses for each area which can provide cash or unique equipment, so even the bog standard kill all enemies areas are worth completing once for the large first time payoff.Д¬haracter system is pretty simple. For example, one requires you to hold out against a ridiculous tide of ogres (think over 15 individual battles per turn, and you have to hold a 5-square defensive line) while a secondary team assassinates the head ogre. There's also a number of special levels that require special tactics to win.

Plenty of uber-high level enemies hang around in various areas and will smack your shit up if you come near them (or if you stay in their patrol route too long), but with really smart play you can overcome them early to earn materials needed to forge powerful weapons and armor. On top of that, levels and side quests tend to be very well designed. This is not a game of HP attrition at all, pay attention or die horribly. You have to plan ahead a lot to make sure characters aren't in bad matchups, because the majority of battles (2-3 attacks from each character) are going to end up with someone dead. Also they take no damage from physical and absorb your health). Matchups contain a really large number of variables to consider, with 7 elements (along with no element attacks), 2 damage types (physical vs magic, which makes a big difference as magical fire is different from normal fire so ice enemies with high physical resistance can still take no damage from fire attacks), range matchups (all magic/ranged attacks don't work in melee, where you can only sit and be raped helplessly, ditto for the reverse), and movement types (fucking ghosts that teleport through walls, ambush your casters in melee, then teleport back all in one turn. For reference, this game's first tutorial level will probably hand your ass to you a half dozen times on Hard. Turns out it is a pretty generic jRPG, but also actually has really, really good (difficult) sRPG combat. So the dude who translated Big Bang Age made one for this game recently.

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