Curious about bugs

[Raven]

I'm just curious about this, I bought this game YEARS ago on JAST's website. They never fixed the bugs, its been years, but I remember the green girl from the beginning may/may not have been bugged (it sure felt like it since I think her attack stat grows at like 1/10th of everyone else) and there was one more character who was DEFINITELY bugged, one of the black aura users had something wrong with her...(I'm sorry I can't remember names, but hey, at least it keeps things spoiler free)

Did any of these bugs get fixed? I figure the game won't ever get uncensored/restored to its original story, but did the classes get addressed that were suffering from issues?

[kilicool64]

Doubt it. IIRC, the game's files have timestamps way older than the date of its Steam release. I don't think anything was changed at all.

[Raven]

Originally posted by kilicool64:

Doubt it. IIRC, the game's files have timestamps way older than the date of its Steam release. I don't think anything was changed at all.

thought as much. It honestly bothers me, cus it makes those two characters actually rather unplayable. The game has some things that need to be adjusted and fixed. don't get me wrong, the game isn't broken, you can totally win/get through the novel, but it would sure be nice if that stuff was ever fixed.

[kilicool64]

I dropped the game after my first playthrough, so I didn't get to see the broken stat growths some characters supposedly have in New Game+.

I did however encounter a completely broken optional boss. I looked up ways to beat him only to learn that he's literally impossible to defeat on your first playthrough. It's baffling how the developers never noticed something like that.

[OJ191]

Late reply I guess, maybe it helps someone.

The one dragon, yeah poor balance.

The game itself, most of the green characters are bad at attacking. Pretty sure it explains it in the tutorials and the game story as well.

Every spirit has individual characteristics beyond just their type, and it goes beyond just stat gain - what abilities they gain at what levels, and even what those abilities specifically do - even with the same ability and rank between spirits there can be different stats and effects. With that said, in general you can categorise them as follow:

green = defense, and healing/defense support.

Esperia gets high HP and defense and good abilities, but completely lacks magic resist growth. Halion is more of a healer in abilities and growth, but can function well enough as a defender due to her high HP. Nimnthor is the strongest overall defender in stats and abilities, but lacks flat HP.

red = offensive support/magic

Havn't used Nanaru at all, but Orpha gets... well pretty crappy attacker attacks that don't get much better, in return she has strong support magic. Himika on the other hand, is more of a jack of all trades master of none attacker, her offensive support are weaker than other reds but she has decent (not great, but decent) attacker abilities.

Blue = attacker and interrupt support.

You will need these guys a lot. They have good damage abilities, and are the only characters that can stop strong red enemies from messing you up by countering their magic. Ensure to keep them levelled as each level of Ice Banisher will only counter a certain spell level.

Black = counterattack defender, unique magic support, and all rounder.

I have only really used uruka but each black spirit seems to have their own unique traits perhaps to a greater extent than other colors. Their defense abilities have a counterattack trait to deal damage when they are attacked, their offense abilities often hit many many times per turn - often more than an enemy defender will be able to defend against - and some of their attacks can target enemies other than the defender (this is not unique to black spirits but seems to be most prevalent). Their damaging magic will not do as much damage as a red spirit but cannot be interrupted by ice banisher, and their repertoire also includes debuffs and other battle altering magics. With that said, I've found them to be largely not hugely useful in my own strategies.