User blog comment:Fairingrey/Thoughts 10-26-14: The Trend of Quitting - Part 2/@comment-186.232.217.6-20141028011702/@comment-24802125-20141031012529

D_S has his opinions, I respect the guy since I've followed his blog regarding fansub reviews but I think he's wrong on a couple parts.

For example, you don't need to get every character in TB, nor do you need to max all ouf their skill boosts. That's an endgame related thing. SB only increases the proc rate of every skill on a certain character by a flat rate that's additive to the % of the skill. Zerro has a Shadow skill on 2nd job that has a proc rate of 20%, but with an SB of 25%, that skill can proc 45% of the time. And if you have the patience to go ahead and max out SB on every character you have by farming zone 1-5, well, good for you. Either way, it increases the more you use the character so I don't see why its that much of a big deal.

Also, he hasn't gotten far in the story to begin with? Of course the story won't earn any high marks for him because he hasn't played the game for shit; and even if he lacks the 'right' characters for the job, each stage is certainly passable with enough effort and knowledge about the floor. In the campaign, every monster will spawn exactly at the same spot. The story isn't super interesting, but at least they've used it to create a cool fantasy science-fiction aesthetic that's in one way or another related to all the characters in the game.

The last thing I will say is that every character doesn't have a lot of lore to start out with, but you unlock more background info as you upgrade the character or get further in the story, or if you have a certain pair of characters that can interact with each other. For example, having Amina and Koko unlocks interaction lore between them, and the same can go for possessing both twins Yukken and Rikken.

But you know, if D_S thinks TB is bad, then he's free to think just that. I just happen to like giving games I really like and see potential in a fighting chance, and I admire Sakaguchi-san and what he's doing a lot.

Man, imagine the things he'd say about this game since it's like your generic shitty card collecting mobage. Sometimes, I'm embarassed, you know, when my friends see me playing this game. I could play it with my eyes closed, not that I haven't been already.