Fynn
is an EoFF Hero and/or Heroine
Radical Dreamer

Thesis going okay? How are the stress levels?

How are you Fynn?

I also keep meaning to share this with you.

I've heard they lessened the amount of battles required to level the vocations for this version. I usually make everyone master a class and start a secondary one when I leave Dharma Temple in VII. I usually make the Hero a Cleric, Maribel a Mage, and Gabo is usually a Shephard then I switch them to Warrior, Clerics, and Fighter.

I don't know DQIII-V are about 20 to 40 hours on average, even with some of the extra content. Not sure about VI obviously but starting with VII the series started to try and hit that 60 hour mark of other RPGs. I'm probably already at 60 hour point in DDS and still discovering crap I didn't know about. Granted I hit a snag cause there is no way I'm going into the Beelzebub fight without Death and Expel Null.

With that said, I feel like the older DQ games simply feel longer. I mean 4 Heroes of Light has felt like an eternity but I just found out today that I've barely broke the 30 hour mark with it.

When I finish it, I think I'm either going to start Tactics Ogre or finish DQIX. I don't really want to start Soul Hackers or Persona Q with my other two MegaTen titles, and I can pretty much tell right now I wouldn't be able to make it through the prologue of Bravely Default after 4 Heroes of Light. I've already decided to not bother getting the four ultimate classes cause I don't really want to deal with four 100 level dungeons with bosses that require you to be in the high 90s to beat (I don't have one character yet who is level 40 or over) so that ain't happening.

It helps that they are shorter games as well so you never quite feel as burnt out. Though that sentiment really goes away with DQVII and onward.

I'm slightly feeling burned out since I'm playing in conjunction with SMT1. I've been trying to finish 4 Heroes of Light on the side to keep me in the zone though.

Is there a 'flip the board' option if things don't go my way? So wait, you level up by playing a board game?

Also, ugh, replying to myself. How silly.

Also, there's things called Command Styles and Dimension Links. I'm guessing the latter is basically a summon?

Here's the rub: I never actually did any of the super hard endgame stuff. Like fighting Sephiroth, the Hades Paradox Cup, etc. And of course now there's Lingering Will, the Cavern of Remembrance, the Data XIII, and the Mushroom XIII.

I might do some of the easier ones first, like the Mushroom XIII, and probably Sephiroth and the Hades Paradox Cup. After that I might just defeat Xemnas again, and move on to BBS and come back later for the new endgame content.

Complicating things is the new command deck system in BBS, so I'll have to spend time learning that. Yay.