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    Found a copy today at a retro shop in Ballard. About two hours in and completely enamored by how impressively colourful the graphics are and the smoothness of the combat. And it only ran me $40!

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    Story got more investing and I like it a lot more than I did at first! I love how the equipment actually changes their clothes. It's a nice touch

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    Quote Originally Posted by shion View Post
    Story got more investing and I like it a lot more than I did at first! I love how the equipment actually changes their clothes. It's a nice touch
    This should be mandatory in every game.

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    I love the conversations when you finally take on the first major boss character. It only intensified the feelings you'd get after the events of the first couple hours

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    I'm having a bit of trouble with the affinity :/

    It seems to have gone up between the main guy and his friend, but I'm not 100% how to do it. Seems like its been going up in fights?

    Also combos, it said when the 3 characters use abilities of the same colour, a combo can be executed, but how do I know what the other two are doing? Everything goes so fast in fights

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    Quote Originally Posted by shion View Post
    I'm having a bit of trouble with the affinity :/

    It seems to have gone up between the main guy and his friend, but I'm not 100% how to do it. Seems like its been going up in fights?

    Also combos, it said when the 3 characters use abilities of the same colour, a combo can be executed, but how do I know what the other two are doing? Everything goes so fast in fights
    Affinity is something you can worry about more down the road. Fighting battles together is one way to raise it. I don't even remember anything about combos.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shion View Post
    Also combos, it said when the 3 characters use abilities of the same colour, a combo can be executed, but how do I know what the other two are doing? Everything goes so fast in fights
    Actually you get to control that part because combos are the big damage dealer moves for bosses.

    To be honest, the A.I. in this game is pretty damn smart about certain things, like if you use a Break move on an enemy with Shulk, Reyn will usually make sure to use his move that topples enemies right after it, so it's not too difficult to build standard combos like that.

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    Yeah, whenever you execute a tri-something attack, you get to choose what moves they're doing. And you can start to raise affinity if you want, by accepting and turning in quests as other characters. There's probably other ways to do it, but the main thing I did was that. The person you're controlling raises affinity with the other two people on the team whenever you do quests

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vyk View Post
    turning in quests as other characters
    Make a habit of doing this early. I *NEVER* did this since I kept Shulk in the lead 95% of the time, and it made me have to do some awkward-party grinding at the end game to max everyone's affinities.

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    My first play, I never really thought about it for a while, but it also wasn't made aware to me by the game that you could switch out to play as the other characters as much as you wanted. Makes for nice variety, but I must have missed a tutorial screen somewhere. Then again, the first few permanent characters didn't really interest me other than Fiona

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    I lost twice against that spider boss so now I'm leveling up and stuff

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    Just do more quests, or explore more of the area around Colony 9 if you need quick levels. There are a ton of quests opened up early in Colony 9 and the caves you are currently in so just wander about and pick them up cause they are generally more fun than just grinding enemy mobs.

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    About affinity - you can offere certain items as gifts. Those can really considerably raise the affinity between two characters.

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    Good to know, thank you!

    I am now at a point where I have a new playable character and we are rescuing a child. I suspect a boss fight soon and I am scared

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