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I still need to get into that one, I played it only briefly.

I've been playing a lot of Ever Oasis lately, and I fear that Fantasy Life might pale in comparison A lot of the features that I was excited about for FL seem to be done better in EO, and I was never very excited about the whole "change your vocation" aspect, which I didn't play with a whole lot in Dragon Quest IX either.

^I actually like vocation changing. Though in DQIX, my heroes usually change from Minstrel, Warrior, Warrior, Priest to Gladiator, Gladiator, Gladiator, Sage [with a handful of Martial Artist skills].

It probably doesn't help that I've been playing through most of DQIX with only one party member...

Not counting when we used to play it multiplayer, of course.

Actually, it's been so long, I'd have to load up the game and check to see what classes I've been.

Really? I didn't know such a thing was possible. Well, I did, but I didn't think anyone would actually try it.

Oh yes, it's very possible. I know people used to do it in the third game, though I've never tried it.

It takes a lot more grinding, especially for some of the bosses, but on the plus side, you don't have to split your XP with everyone else. I've spent a lot of time in Metalslime dungeons @_@

I haven't played in a while, but I think I left off somewhere right after Swinedimples. I had beaten the entire game before, in multiplayer, but that was on a flash cart and (at the time) there was no way to transfer the save file to the physical retail cartridge, so I just had to start over and try to transfer over as many items as I could. It's very tedious, and there's a lot of items they won't let you trade =| Figured as long as I was starting over, I'd try something fun and do it solo.

Gosh, I kind of want to play it now...maybe I'll bring it to work tonight and take a little break from Spirit Tracks...

I usually name/design my party members after Final Fantasy heroes. It's too bad that there's only one save file per cartridge, and that the online shop was discontinued.

There's a way to fake the store, but I don't remember the details, I'll have to look it up.

Oh, that's great. Thanks.

By the way, what weapons/skills do you use most often when you play DQIX? [if you can remember, but if not, that's okay, too]. My heroes always use swords. It's traditional.

Let's see, my hero is a level 54 Minstrel, equipment is currently:
Aurora blade / Tempest shield / Scholar's circlet / Swinedimples blazer / Magic mittens / Swinedimples slacks / Gigasteel sabatons / Life ring

I usually use swords, my sword skill is maxed at 100, Gigaslash is a nice attack. I usually wear the Swinedimples clothes, and a helmet that doesn't hide his mohawk, but I'll upgrade anything else. I might switch my armor if I need for a boss, though.

Other vocation levels are Mage Lv. 8 / Martial Artist Lv. 18 / Thief Lv. 33. I have a feeling I only did those levels to unlock the quests, or certain abilities. I should probably do more.

I didn't get to play much last night because my battery was too low, so I switched over to the GBA side after item farming for a short bit.

I'll have to look up the stats for my previous character.

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Whenever I get around to playing it again, I think I'll go grotto exploring. One of the most fun things about this game is that I get to dress up the characters in silly outfits.

Yeah, I really liked the grottos. I wish I had more, but the prototypical "streetpass" style function in that game wasn't very convenient. I might have more of them on my pirated game save, but I'm not sure if there's a way to trade them over, really...I'll have to look into it.

I was playing some more last night, and I forgot that some of the quests are impossible to do without extra party members (like "stun a monster with War cry before killing it" has to be in the same round). I think tonight I might actually do what that flapping fairy says and continue the main flapping quest =P

I try to limit the amount of quests I do for each playthrough [usually the ones that give the most useful rewards, or the ones that I need for classes/weapons] instead of trying to do as many as I can for no reason other than completion-ist-drive.
During one playthrough, I tried a test to see how far I could get with only buying the bare minimum of items/weapons/armor. My heroes had soldier's swords up to I think the Gleeban boss. Then I got enough alchemy ingredients to start alchemizing anything I needed.

Yeah, that's basically what I'm doing @_@ Trying to do as many quests as possible, trying to unlock all of the recipes, etc...there's just so much to do in this game...

Apparently one person got 100% completion. His total game time? Over 700 hours.

Yowza @_@

I am at 73:21 right now, only 7:19 in multiplayer. Leveling up a new class, BTW: Armamentalist Lv. 24.

Battle Victories: 1467
Times Alchemy Performed: 172
Accolades Earnt: 52
Quests Completed: 28
Guests Canvassed: 2

Ha ha, just loaded up my old save file, I was only 34:59, but 22:51 of that was entirely multiplayer. My friends were at around 130-140 hours (I've always been the slacker of the group).

I had Warrior Lv. 43, and Minstrel Lv. 23.

I miss playing this game multiplayer, it was really great.

I've never played multiplayer on anything except the Smash Bros. games. I only have one gaming friend.
Do you have a favourite boss or favourite part of the story?