Honestly really good game, probably the best JRPG I've played in a long time.
There's just a couple things I disliked (like animations in combat taking way too long for my liking and a few balancing issues) but they're null compared to all the cool stuff the game brings to the table.
I also had a couple questions I hoped you could help me with,
how do you kill the ship part of the final boss normally ? Like I felt I had decent gear up to now, no fight has been an issue, and for this boss my attacks barely tickled it, the fight took 40+ minutes and it was a mindless repetition of attack + heal + get more SP, I MUST have done something wrong there bc there's no way that was the dev intended method (my party was level 48~50)
legit is there any use for magic in this game ? Like I've beaten the entire game barely interacting with it, only using it to buff my party at the start of battle. for the following reasons:
> offensive magic is outclassed very quickly by the characters ultimate attacks, why do Pyrum and waste 1 MP when Aika the goat can just boomerang blast the entire zone ?
> healing magic is useless if you have a ton of healing items. Like maybe I was farming without intending to, but I was showered with money throughout the game and I bought 80+ of each healing item near the end, so why waste SP on heals ?
> status effect magic... oh boy... again maybe I was doing it wrong, but every time I felt adventurous and tried to debuff an enemy, it literally never worked, ever. During a boss, I even tried casting toxic again and again and again and the boss died before getting poisoned (it was a human fight too, are the bosses just immune to poison in general ?). Same with lowering bosses attacks, it was always a waste of a turn.
> add to that that some enemies can have the magic to insta kill you, so I would just use Aika to spam the anti magic shield in most fights, which saved my ass infinitely more times than magic ever did...
- Alright enough whining, do you guys actually have recommendations of similar JRPGs ? I feel a deep void in my heart now that it's over (before you ask, yeah I did the optional bounties, giant creatures, and all the discoveries, so I think I'm pretty much done with skies of arcadia for a while)...