Question on new game

[Thrifalas]

Please. The levels to dual are 9, 13 or 15. 19 isn't better than any other level, it's nowhere near one of the "recommended" levels. The natural jump gives level 18, by the way.

Besides - it's your first run through. Why going through such a pain to try to create the perfect party? You'll need to play the game at least two dozen times to even begin to understand it's complexity and how to get the most out of every spell, ability and combination there is.

The strenght of this game isn't overpowered characters loaded with epic items and good weapons. It's been proven times and times again that knowledge of the game will beat overpowered characters, no matter what. Kuroisan and the Eclipse Party are great examples of that.

Why not just play it and take things as they come?

[Crenshinibon]

But they are not part of the actual games. And yes, the level at which you dual does matter. It's true, he'd need more knowledge of the game to make a perfect party... or character rather, but this particular one is almost as strong without items as he is with them and, which is also influenced by the Kensai part.

Also, he's here for advice and we're giving it to him because all of us know the game well enough to contribute out knowledge.

[Thrifalas]

Nah, he could come up with a strong line-up or character, but that doesn't matter if he doesn't know how to handle them. That was my whole point - knowledge is so much more important than the actual characters.

It's true that Kuro isn't in the vanilla game, but what does that matter? After being able to solo the vanilla game with any character you automatically persue some greater challenge. And Kuro is a nifty example of what you are able to do with a little nasty spell protections.