Chained Echoes (Console, PC... and Gamepass) - The Bear and Badger

Blue Swirl

MattyJ wrote:

I tried not to sound condescending so apologies if it reads that way! Just feels like something isn't right

S'all good. I've made sure everyone has either an upgraded or new (better) weapon and such, and I don't have any skill points to spend.

acemuzzy

YOU CAN DO THIS SWIRLY!

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Blue Swirl

It’s entirely possible that I just need to be less shit.

The Daddy

I’m into the final throes of this. Kinda expected it to be shorter, but the clock’s currently around 40 hours. It’s been great though. Gonna go for the completionist run, which is not normally my sort of thing, but I’m so close to getting the rewards board finished and all the deals, it’d be rude not to.

MattyJ

Same! I think I could finish it with a couple of hours of mainlining the story, but there isn't that much left for me to polish off so think I'll try and get it all.

MattyJ

Well, I decided to press on and finish the game. Very satisfied with how it finished, just a brilliant experience throughout. Clocked about 30 hours in the end, but there is plenty left to do if I wanted to.

With the story

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The Daddy

Oh man, I kinda wish I’d just finished it and not gone down the rabbit hole of trying to clear the extra stuff. I’ve spent a couple of hours over the last two days just trying to work out crystals so I can beat an optional boss.

MattyJ

You are safe to finish the story, it creates a save just before the point of no return once you've completed it.

The Daddy

Right, all done. All of it! Some really tough stuff at the end, especially the optional final boss.

The Crystal system was a bit of a faff, spent ages trying to get a decent combo of things but the drop rates for stuff made it tedious so eventually just gave up and made do with what I had. Had to look up one of the push block solutions too, just wasn’t seeing it.

Anyway, great game. Solid 8/10 for me, some slight flaws but they’re easily overlooked. Some genuine laughs too.

Blue Swirl

I think I might move on from this to Dark Souls Remastered and come back when I've had my arse handed to me by that.

Everyone's loving this, so I must be doing something "wrong". Plus I have to keep going as it was from my Cryptic Claus!

ZMM

I'm nearly at the end I think...

Does anyone know of any weapon/armour combo that can deal earth damage whilst in the sky armours?

The Daddy

One of the sky armour loadouts has various elements. Elemental cannon or something like that.

ZMM

Cheers yeah I have found it

I'm up against 4 of those big shaolin monk looking guys in the sky armours. I suppose I should try to debuff them as well

EDIT: YES the earth cannon gave me the edge that I needed. Currently on about 70 hours of play. I kind of don't want it to end but then another part of me thinks that it's a good time for it to end. Would love a sequel to this! It's my GOTY for sure.

MattyJ

Don't forget with sky armours to swap the weapons around, as the stat boosts from them are permanent once levelled.

ZMM

Wow finished it, what an incredible game, the ending has me in tears.

The man who did the OST should be proud

Blue Swirl

I’m going to give this another shot, after I’ve completed/given up on Dark Souls Remastered.

Blue Swirl

Well, that's Dark Souls and Live A Live squared away. Time to give this another go.

General hints and tips?

hylian_elf

Go north

Blue Swirl

It says my exits are east, south, and Dennis.

LivDiv

Been a while since I've played but from what I can remember.
The move upgrade system is a bit confusing at first but fine once understood.
Unlike a lot of RPGs you use your whole squad so put time into each of them. You also need to use support characters more than some other games.

It's really good though, I should go back and finish it.

Blue Swirl

Replayed the first hour, and man, I'd forgotten how fun this was.

ZMM

I loved this game. GOTY so far, for me.

Blue Swirl

Just hoping I don't hit a brick wall during a quest that basically reads "Wrestle with passport bureaucracy".

ZMM

There was a quest fairly early on that involved a lot of toing and froing and I very nearly quit at that point. But persisted and was duly rewarded. The story actually gets quite dark in places.

Blue Swirl

It was the end of that quest, with the invincible bodyguards, that made me rage quit my first play through.

The combat system is clicking more this time. I'm not running out of TP like I would often do during the first attempt. Also, there was an update when I restarted, I think it added a handy little turn counter for (de)buffs, so I'm no longer having to mentally keep track of how many turns my dudes have TP regeneration left for.

Blue Swirl

About to try and get through the border for the nth time. Wish me luck. Here's where the last run ended.

But I did have fun in tonight's session - I fucked up a sentient carrot and his vegetable friends.

ZMM

Ah I remember that unique boss, was quite amusing! I never did get around to finding all of the unique encounters.

Blue Swirl

It took two attempts, the first time around the second phase AOE'd me to death.

Blue Swirl

Invincible body guards defeated! Onto the rest of the game.

Blue Swirl

Up to the screaming flowers. That was a grim reveal.

In other news, I've given Lenne (who attacks with elemental magic) all the gems that make the enemies have various weaknesses (like oil and such), and then the ability that fills the Ultra Move bar twice as fast if I hit something with their opposed magic type... it kinda feels like cheating. But in a good way.

FUCK YEAH SYNERGY.

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