Gift boxes and balance

[尺ei 丂hi]

Do gift boxes make the game easier and break the balance? Should I activate gifts in the settings at the beginning of the game?

I don't want it to be like in FF XV, where the DLC made you start with the best weapon in the game.

[Katitoff]

Bracelets start of better then stock options, but everything else isn't really any better, I haven't used any of the summons more then once to see how they look and accessories are meh.

[Xengre]

If you're referring to the DLC for starting accessorys/bracelets and mini summons Katitoff mentioned then I agree with them. The summons are largely useless, though it could be argued since Carbuncle works in any area due to small size and can produce a free heal/revive and buffs it may actually outlcass the far more wasteful other summons in the game (esp on hard difficulty) it has some value but I still feel it is largely unnecessary. Overall, summons are pretty bad in the game. The other two summons are especially terrible.

The bracelet is a nice minor start but very minor. The accessories are, frankly, just trivial extras. You might find edge case uses but they would never be "too strong" or even really "strong" and you get plenty of accessory items in the game by the time they might even prove remotely relevant.

It is definitely nothing like FFXV's situation. Then again, FFXV has issues in general because aside from its DLC stuff you can immediately get quad-cast magic that deals 39,995 dmg, one of the first found likely weapons is fire + greatsword both of which damage types most enemies in the game are weak to allowing it to beat most late game weapons until super late game... among some other issues (infinite lives, regroup, counter/blind side defense stat bypassing abuse, blah blah).

[Brett]

Yeah, those bonus gifts — I didn’t take them right away, and by about halfway through the game they just weren’t useful anymore.

[Mako]

Carbuncle is pretty good. Mostly because vanilla has no small sized summons so there is no competition (other than other bonus summons). Its free "get out of jail", his ultimate revives and fully heals everyone.

[KaitoKid]

They're all really not that great, so don't break the game or anything, but still interesting to see them. The one actual cool thing is Yuffies weapon.

[ssv_170379]

Oh... just found gift boxes in the Menu (blush). After beating Hard mode in the main campaign and half-way through Intermission hard-run . Were these available from the very beginning?

[尺ei 丂hi]

Originally posted by ssv_170379:

Oh... just found gift boxes in the Menu (blush). After beating Hard mode in the main campaign and half-way through Intermission hard-run . Were these available from the very beginning?

Yes, they were available from the very beginning

[Eshman]

Tbh I noticed them immediately and use some of them when going into the solo areas (which you can force at any time/area btw for additional challenge). Otherwise the items/summons are mostly useless.