CrusherJ

Wow, that looks incredible! I'm now very excited to see what the blazer and VF-17 (YAY!) will look like after seeing this. If the fighter mode looks good, I think Yamato should take the "emphasis on battloid" approach with all future valkyries, especially with the ones that have internal ordinance.

Wow! I got super lucky and got him with Death on the third try! Rest of the battle was easy! Thanks again for the tip!

I see, ok I'll give that a try, thanks!

Anyone beaten Mission 55 and can offer any pointers on it? Trying to get the growth egg early and getting my tail soundly handed to me.

Project A-Ko was one of the first anime I ever watched (might've been the first if you exclude anime that aired on US tv in the 80's). Still a favorite of mine, such a perfect parody of so many different anime genres! It had everything: fighters, giant robots, power suits, spaceships, the itano circus man it was awesome! It's been awhile sense I watched it, need to correct that soon......

Thanks for the info about the factory satellites and the ex-gear. Very informative, particularly the info on the satellites.

Haven't been able to play much cause of work, but ran into the ochu pack last night; not a hard fight just took a bit of time (3:00). I'm gonna try farming them for cp after I get the growth egg.

Finished as well. I wish I could say the entire boss fight was easy....the first part was easy, the second was hard cause he had ridiculously cheap moves, and the third I wondered why'd they even bother calling that a boss it was so easy. So yeah if not for the second phase of the fight the whole thing would've been a joke. I'm glad I finished and the game was fun, but I still feel underwhelmed by the story and characters, I just didn't care a lot about them in the end. Now, I'll just finish the missions and max out my party so I can put this game to rest.

Thanks, definitely gonna check these out!

Are there any books like this that talk about the characters and the story, particularly talking about the direction the story would've gone in if the series wasn't canceled?

Ok, thanks! I'll give that combination a try the next time I play. I got his hp low a couple of times too before he pulled that really cheap move, then hit me with a bunch of status aliments. He also did it several times when I almost had him staggered.....really annoying!

For those who've beaten the game, any tips on how you handle the second phase of the final boss battle? I got past the first one easy, but getting no where with the second (I guess the biggest issue I have is avoiding all the status aliments he's throwing at me). My party is Fang/Light/Vanille, each has their three primary roles maxed out and on avg. about 8500hp. Any suggestions on how I put this guy down?

Ah, I see, thanks! Guess I need to look into upgrading that accessory....

When do you get Aurora Scarfs? I just started Chap. 13 and have headed back to Gran Pulse to do some hunts. I don't remember seeing them in any of the stores, hope I haven't overlooked them.

Ok, I just try completing other mission then come back to it, thanks!

Beat the fal'Cie at the top of the tower last night. That guy was a joke! I beat him in bout 4 rounds, easiest and quickest boss fight I've had recently. Exploring Oerba right now. Question, where is the mark for the cie'th stone you find on the platform where you fought the fal'cie? I went down to the ground tier and saw the star for the mark in the middle of the four statues, but couldn't figure out how to reach it. Luckily, I didn't save after excepting the mission and just reloaded the game so I'd be able to accept other missions if I came across them. Any help? Thanks!

Ok, I'll just play through the rest of the game without grinding, the desire to finish the game is really starting to override the usual desire I have to grind and it sounds like it makes no real difference anyway. I didn't even attempt to fight the turtle; the fact that I barely defeated a single behemoth king kinda destroyed any delusions I had of facing them. As far as weapon upgrading, I've got Gladius, Blaze Fire and Bladed Lance up to lvl * and transformed Belladonna Wand to Malboro Wand (or whatever it's called). I'll continue to upgrade Vanille's weapon, but will hold off on the others till Post Game. Still in Chap. 11, I wondered into an underground labyrinth called Mah'habara- The Earthworks....... fought and was completely pwned by a boss that looked very similar to the machine Hope rode in one of the earlier chapters (2 I think). Either way, I'm pretty sure I've taken a wrong turn and am now backtracking Edit: Nevermind, I am going the right way

Made it to Chap. 11 and have discovered that I'm no match for a pair of behemoth kings! I managed to kill one, but the other got me ( wondered over to the side of the map where the behemoth kings travel in pairs). They're the only creatures I haven't been able to beat so far. I haven't even tried taking on those giants turtles though I may give it a shot today just to see how I do. I've yet to complete a crystarium since the cp requirements reached 8000 and up. I'm thinking I'll grind until I complete my party's primary roles then move on (I'm not going to bother grinding to complete the others till post game unless I'm still no match for the creatures here).

That'd be great. I don't think I'm anywhere near Gran Pulse now (still in Chap. 5), but it'll be great info when I do get there, hopefully next week when I'll have more time to play.

That'd be great. I don't think I'm anywhere near Gran Pulse now (still in Chap. 5), but it'll be great info when I do get there, hopefully next week when I'll have more time to play.

Beat the giant, element shifting mechanical turtle/plant boss in Chap. 5. Tough and long fight mainly cause I constantly had to stop and heal. Took about 3 or 4 tries before I figured out what to do. Wish I'd remembered sooner that David said the summon was useless and reset the stagger bar (it was horrible seeing it get nearly full then the summon would leave and the bar would go back to zero). I haven't felt the need to use the summon at all until then and it proved pretty useless to me. I kinda hope they don't become a huge factor later in the game. I like having them, but don't really wanna have to use them (least that was my experience in XII that I had all of the summons, but rarely used them). I'm wondering what forums you guys are going to about upgrading weapons? I've upgraded Gladius to lvl. 8 so far as well as Sazh's and Vanille's weapons (no where near as much as Gladius, but I have done some work on them, maybe to lvl 2 or 3 for each). I'm gonna stop upgrading their weapons for now. The only reason I put any work into them is that I thought it would help me get past the point where I had to use Sazh and Vanille in Chap. 4. It did get better toward the end of the chap. but it was so frustrating at first. I'm wondering if I should stop upgrading Gladius for now or if I should take it up as many lvls as possible? Also, the music in Chap. 4 sounded a lot like some of the music from the anime series Noir? Did anyone else pick that up? Can't wait till I'm off next week and can put some serious time into the game!

Awesome, that's definitely a release I want to support, LOVE the Dirty Pair! I thought Unicorn was awesome. I don't know, but the way combat was presented was so different and in ways better than other recent Gundam offerings. Eventhough the Unicorn's appearance was brief I'm glad the episode didn't end with it still on the launch pad with it's eyes lit up. I was afraid it might of. I'm also glad that there aren't 10 gundams running around. "Audrey's" last word at the end impacted me more because of that.

Wait, are you talking about Gundam UC? I picked that up from Amazon already. I was asking about Dirty Pair.

Really?! Who licensed it? This is wonderful news!!

So have you reached the point where it's open world and not linear? If so, how long did it take?