Everything we wish we knew about Romancing Saga 2: Revenge Of The Seven

Romancing Saga 2: Revenge of the Seven is a pretty unique experience among RPGs. It’s mechanically rich, but alongside that gameplay depth there’s also a considerable element of mystery. This is a game that doesn’t like to show you things. Luckily, this guide is happy to fill in the gaps for you.

This guide is designed to give you a great start to running and help you understand the most important elements at a glance. There are a lot of moving parts here, but we’ll at least get the ball rolling and help you avoid the most catastrophic mistakes – and this is a game that’s happy to let you make some serious mistakes.

How to defeat and avoid enemies

A deke is an evasive maneuver in which you convince someone that you are moving in one direction and then move in the opposite direction, allowing you to safely avoid them. Not only is this something you can do in Romancing Sage 2: The Revenge of the Seven, it’s also, in my opinion, one of the most important techniques to learn.

Run towards an enemy and you will attract their attention. Once they start chasing you, form a large circle (as large as the area allows) around them. Of course, do all of this while sprinting. This is the best way to get past enemies blocking narrow passages. Additionally, you can use the environment to your advantage. Non-flying enemies will not pursue you via ladders or climbable structures. Use this to your advantage and steer it towards a climbable structure to escape the grounded enemies.

Furthermore, if you want To fight, you can perform a variation of the Deke, which allows you to perform a back attack. This time, run away from them until They remain standing (so you want the camera to be on them). Enemies will only chase you for a limited time, so you don’t have to run as far. Once they stop, wait for them to turn around and go back to where they were. Then sprint behind her, attacking her back to gain an advantage.

HP is cheap, BP is valuable

The dynamics of the fight are somewhat unusual. Since you will be healed at the end of the fight, it doesn’t matter if you absorb a large amount of damage. However, BP, which powers all of your abilities, is far rarer. So it’s a wise trade-off to accept a few extra, non-life-threatening hits because you’ve decided to use less blood pressure-intensive techniques. Take advantage of United Attacks, as they cost no BP and hit particularly hard.

Even when you start stocking up on techniques, don’t always throw away the cheapest ones. Sometimes the most powerful ability costs twice as much as another ability that does the same almost just as much damage. Likewise, you’ll likely find that abilities like Water of Life 1 provide all the healing you need when performed by an experienced magic user. In the first half of the game, Life Water 2 is often just a waste of BP (depending on how good the character is with water).

You will fail certain quests as time moves forward

This is a big deal… If a quest involves a specific character, there’s a good chance that a time shift or the death of an emperor will cause you to fail that quest. This way you may lose access to some key classes. For example, the Mermaid quest line must be completed in one generation or you will lose access to the Dancer class.

How do you know which quests need to be completed at once? Well, in general, any quest that involves clearing a specific dungeon is safe. Likewise, quests targeting the seven heroes are never at risk. Additionally, if a quest is about a specific character, you are far more likely to have to complete it within a generation. This includes the mermaid quest mentioned above, the quest with the man looking for the magic book in Tsukijima, and this also includes the quest in Yauda involving Sakishusai.

Death is permanent, but it’s usually not a big deal

Every character has HP. If a character loses all HP, they die. There is no Phoenix Down that can revive her. It is not possible to go to the local church to have them raised from the grave. They’re permanently dead. That contains Your protagonist. However, when your Emperor dies, his abilities are passed on.

Likewise, after each timeskip, all skills and spells learned during the playthrough are registered, meaning they can be granted to any character who meets the minimum requirements to use them. However, this means that when a character dies, they lose all learned skills that have not yet been registered. So death is not entirely without consequences.

However, if you have a character whose HP is low and who has no valuable unregistered techniques, you should consider engaging him in a fight and letting him die on purpose. This way you don’t have to worry about running out of HP in the middle of the dungeon and being missing a party member.

Liberating regions and finding Mr. S should be a priority

While the main goal of Romancing Saga 2 is to defeat the seven heroes, a secondary goal is to bring every region of the world to the Empire. If you liberate these regions you will be richly rewarded.

Likewise, Mr. S. hides in almost every city and every dungeon. You can find it a total of 50 times. You will be richly rewarded for tracking him down. One skill you acquire reduces the time it takes to craft equipment, another gives your troops a second skill slot. These aren’t little boosts, they’re big things, so make sure you track him down.

Don’t fight every enemy you encounter

I cannot emphasize this enough. If you try to grind in this game, you can make your life a lot harder. At least at the beginning of the game. This is especially true if you play the game on Classic difficulty. Each battle you participate in increases the number of battles you have fought. The more battles you fight, the stronger the monsters become.

What happens when you grind is that you functionally strengthen monsters; Without purchasing new equipment to improve your team’s skills, excessive grinding can get you into trouble difficult Disadvantage. Of course, you have to fight to learn better techniques, so never fighting is not a good solution either. I would recommend avoiding most of the fights but focusing on the different treasures you will see. This will inevitably lead to you encountering monsters here and there.

Don’t run away in a battle or try to block

The strength of opponents increases with the number of encounters you have participated in. This means you’re in a constant tug of war, trying to build up your tech pool, but not engaging in so many battles that your enemies outnumber your group’s strength. However, if you flee a battle, you increase the number of encounters you have, thereby strengthening your enemies, but you do not gain technique points. This is the worst case scenario.

Speaking of technique points, these are split evenly depending on what type of weapon the skills you used are. So if a party member is to receive ten technique points and has attacked eight times with the sword and twice with the bow, they will receive eight points for their sword mastery and two points for their bow mastery. However, guarding will also cost some points, even though those points don’t seem to be going anywhere. So if you can prevent it, avoid guarding it. Instead, use techniques like parry or counterattack.

Save often and don’t hesitate to reload

While I don’t think you need to worry about dying, a full wipe can certainly still set you back, and there are circumstances in which you should avoid an emperor switch at all costs (especially if you have a lot of unregistered ones skills). ). Especially because sometimes you’ll come across an enemy that you could easily defeat if you just changed some of your evasion skills or added a few key accessories.

Heck, sometimes you just go into battle with a formation that’s poorly suited to a boss. In such situations, your best bet is to reset the game, load your last save, and change these items. As the new emperor you don’t have to start everything from scratch. The game gives you a save point before bosses for a reason. Take advantage of these savings!

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