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Going for Baroque! (wah wah wah waaaaaahhhhhh)
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Well, there is that restoration station that sits before the tower that restores all your VT and HP...
Really?
:oops:
I found an orb that sent items back to the collector, but I tested it out with rotten flesh and it wouldn't take anything else after that. I didn't realize that Eliza led the Protagonist to orbs. I saw them at one point, but I didn't cross my mind that they were what I was looking for.
I've delved down to -1000 cubits where I was overrun by the bouncing things and the spikey, lusty things. I was level 20, but it was a good death. I did, however, die while I left the game unattended. I had picked up glass wings and was waiting for my health to recover after 'clearing' the dungeon level.
I also enjoy playing catch with the various denizens of the dungeon. The box guy gave me hope wings when I had antidote wings glued to my back and the Mind Reader taught me how far down the rabbit hole goes (-1600 cubits). She also put mines on the ground and a big-headed dancing thing trip it and killed me.
Unfortunate Death has become my baroque.
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Didn't know the box guy would do anything like that though.
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Yep, Box Guy will gladly trade you the box he is holding for any box you have on you. Even weirder though is if you give him a box when he has no box...he'll still reward you with a random box.
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Moon (fish) - Experience Bone, Port Bone
Glue (tiny bug) - ???, ???
Kato (rolling turtle) - Antidote Fluid, Indefinite Box
Bullger (small version, fat green woman) - Fire Disk, Aprsl Parasite
Seventeen (wheel shooter) - Summon Torturer, Lethargy Bone
Gliro (monkey) - Heart Seed, stolen items
Bullger (large version, fat green woman) - Sight Fluid, Churyu Flesh
Jerryrom (small version, big head with grin) - No Name Torturer, Heart Seed
Soconpo (bouncing eyeball) - Double Edge Box, Food Disk
Liar (snail woman) - Unbrand Brand, Elec Parasite
Death (mechanical coffin) - Storm Disk, Sweat Bone
Or-huganous (wire man) - Recovery Box, Special Fluid
Sin-Monis (mushroom-like sucker) - Sweat Bone, Twin Box
Jerryrom (large version, big head with grin) - Flame Disk, Boom Bone
Sun (green hall-blocker) - Port Bone, Revolution Torturer
Nicl & Nicr (flesh with big mouth) - Recovery Torturer, No Name Torturer
Magician (card) - Mine Disk, Ice Disk
Aries ( 4 goat legs man) - Sight Fluid, Rotten Bone
Cocteauhead (bubble man) - Poison Torturer, Me Brand
Moon (gold version, fish) - Experience Bone, Port Bone
Johanna Kyon (people wrapped with caution tape) - Earplug Bone, ???
Notable ones:
- Seventeen's Summon Disk is awesome for rounding everything up in a level quickly.
- Watch out for Soconpo's Food Disk, it will totally destroy your inventory.
- Liar has two good items. The Unbrand Brand is the best way to cure "curses," when something gets stuck to you.
- Or-Huganous's Special Fluid is very helpful later on when you get hit with every status effect known to man. Especially for curing Stomachache.
- Be extremely cautious with Sun's torturer, it can nearly kill you in an instant if your meters are high.
- Cocteauhead's Me Brand is very useful. It's essentially another consciousness orb, only you don't have to give up the item. You'll want an Unbrand Brand to get rid of the left over No Brand afterwards, though.
If you get more info on these, please share it.
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Great work there, UncleSporky! I did notice Glues often dropping Antidote Fluid.
The game site implied Glues come from Katos...but I think I see them more as Moon companions (although this may just be since they are the two lowest level beasties). Have you ever seen a Kato spew out a Glue?
It's incredibly easy to miss because it looks quite frankly like a few bits of dark brown atop the already beige-colored sand. It is also hilariously mentioned in passing by that coffin guy after you do his tutorial. Why the damn thing isn't highlighted I don't know, because it's kinda important and easy to miss.
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goddamnit.
I was running around just trying to find this thing. Turns out I went everywhere except where it actually was. Ugh.
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Ahh, in turtle form they're almost always a hit away from death so I don't let them live in that state for more than a few seconds.
How do you get to the lower sections of the tower?
I have never been a huge fan of rogues but I'm having a blast with this game. If only the reviewers were minutely into rogues and not going into the game expecting some grandiose japanese rpg.
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There are only 11 Koriel but aside from being gone forever once purified, I don't think they're terribly important. If you want to hear all their Baroques then start a new game and use the same database, it'll start over with everything you currently have, including the same item collection.
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I sent some cultivating fluid back to town and went to give it to him, but he had buried himself, I gave him a seed like he asked, and he now has several seeds (i think they were seeds anyways, some hearts) in front of him when I go back to town. I'll go throw em at people when I can. I really wish I could've explored more, damn time, damn work!!!
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I only do that when I have an invincible and double xp bone on me. I hate to reload a save. Feels cheap, even though at times, I still do that sort of thing. I try to randomly save them up to blitz through the Tower, when I feel like actually searching, and killing everything in sight. Sometimes I get the need to run through to the end, or certain npcs, just to excitedly try out some combo on them.
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(got delivered early and to the wrong address, but at least I have it)
Wow .... that's some brown and gray. Don't get me wrong, because I like the style and I really like the way things far away from you in the tower look kind of fuzzy and I love the characters, but wow .... brown and gray for everything?! Ah well hehe
The music is pretty good imho. Nothing I'd listen to outside of game, but it suits the atmosphere I think.
I'd like to be able to carry more items, but maybe I'll be able to do that as the game progresses?
I'm having a lot of fun with it and even though the camera is kind of clunky at times, I'm not having any problems with attacking at all. Throwing I am no good at though =/ Hope it won't hinder me too much.
a couple questions.
also
edit: I definatly proclaim this a very good $40.00 buy.
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-Cursebringer is your BESTEST BUDDY IN THE DUNGEON, DO NOT KILL HIM! He appears on a few levels in the game (you may want to make a mental note on what floors you see him as he will then ALWAYS be on those floors in future runs if you search long enough). He can un-rot food tossed at him, repair damaged items (if the coat or sword is under the default strength, I don't think you can repair damage done to an item if still enhanced over the default level), but BEST OF ALL, toss any 2 excess random objects to get something new! So far there is no known patterns in what items will get you what (I've often thrown the same source items and gotten different results) but one thing is for sure, tossing two depleted items will get you a new one of that same type (toss it two empty boxes to get a new random box).
I didn't know you could get empty boxes, I thought they just disappeared. I know there are dead parasites and no brands, but I haven't tried that yet.
I do know that if you throw the Cursebringer an NPC's Sephirah you will always get the same item back. Like, A heart seed for Longneck, that sort of thing.
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This game really needs video review where a scottish dude says "The problem with Baroque is that it's just a game where you die and start again. The genius of Baroque, is that it's just a game where you die and start again. Many people will misunderstand it" and so on.
The thing that annoys me is that I can't seem to find the orbs that send items back to town. I found one metal sphere that took a single item but I haven't found any more like it since then. Is this really the only way to get items from the tower back into town? I'm wondering if other orbs don't look like the first one I found and I'm just missing them. I have 2 of those crystal ball things that I'd like to send back before I die again and it would be nice to know what I'm looking for. Apparently I already missed the orb by the woman who went through the wall early on. I didn't even see anything near her that looked like that metal ball.
O? I gave him one, and then finished him off. So wouldn't know. But now I'm sad inside.
I had this problem too. I've just resigned myself to the fact that I'll be playing through this a LOT.
Least you can get items from the training dungeon.
Question.
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All the transfer orbs in the game:
-400 (floating above Alice)
-900
-1200 (two, including the Doctor's that can only be used after an event)
-1500 (in Eliza's room after an event)
-1600 (two if your dungeon ends here, including the Archangel's orb)
-2000
-2200 (two if your dungeon ends here, including the Archangel's orb)
-2600
-2800 (behind Alice)
-3000 (two if your dungeon ends here, including the Archangel's orb)
-3100
-3500
-3800
-4000 (two, including the Archangel's orb)
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also, glue brand my ass =/
never even thought to look hehe
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Also, I really don't mind the controls at all anymore. I inverted the X and Y camera axis, and now the game plays pretty much like a 3rd person shooter. I use the left stick to move (primarily forward and backward, left and right when I want to strafe), and use the right stick to turn. I was also complaining about the throwing stuff before, and throwing has become much easier after a little bit of practice.
All in all the reviews of this game really infuriate me. I am glad I bought this game before reading any.
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What. the. FUCK?
I tried to review it there but it says I need to have purchased it from Amazon. I guess Amazon Canada doesn't count, huh.
That's what I do. Other helpful things I've learned is to not hesitate to throw stuff. At first I was hanging onto all my extra equipment for some fucking reason. Just throw EVERYTHING you don't have equiped. Swords, wings, coats, brands, crystals, you name it. I mean, what you'd like to do is throw the crystals into consciousness orbs in order to get the baroques from them, but that's not always possible. They do some GREAT damage too.
If there is an enemy you aren't so great at killing, just throw stuff at him.
Oh yeah, and if you can, only eat hearts and flesh when you are already at full HP/VT. The boost to your max is far, far more helpful than any healing benefit.
Yeah, throwing stuff is great. Many items that you wouldn't expect will do extra neat effects, like status effects (status healing fluids) or cutting the enemy to 50% HP (Double Edge Box).
I mean, you're only equipping one sword, so make your choice and projectile the rest.
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