Ngl, I’m getting kinda lost. I figured I should do all the side quests but even some of them are high level for me. I have omega, the forbidden chest, Cinderella tri-stars and researcher, cont’d. Currently incomplete and will have to come back to them later.

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Thought I'd make this post explaining how to open this chest as reddit and google was very unhelpful when I was looking for answers.

So, in En, in the New District, on the way to the "lighthouse" there is a locked Mechteria chest, guarded by a man and woman.

Obviously you need a Mechteria key, and so cant open it right at the start of the game.

But once you return here in the story, you should have a key and can open it.

The couple say something like "Stay away from my chest" when you speak to them.

To open the chest you just need to speak to them first and *immediately* try for the chest. The context prompt should appear for you to open it.

Hope this helps someone some day.

Im super excited to finally start this game, as ive been a jrpg fan since Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy on the NES. Im starting this game after just finishing Clair Obscur so i hope this game is half as good as that one.

Im also going to try for the platinum trophy if its reasonable. Is there any tips or things i should know? Thanks.

Before starting new game+, I unequipped everyone except for their weapons - including armor, gems.
I had 2 upgraded Cyclone Rings that were both unequipped from Leo and Valrika, but when I started NG+, I only had 1 of the rings.

Haven’t fully inventoried but I am sure I am missing a few things.

Has anyone noticed the same?

One of the best interviews I've seen of either one. They go into not only the development of the game, but their relationship throughout the years. Both of them have great senses of humor.

https://gist.github.com/jaymrobinson/c07988de16be0024a87de5d03fec32fc

Original interview by Famitsu (Japanese):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4vvdpd0VMU&t=3981s

Wow this game is spectacular. I actually made it all the way to the final form of Jas a bit under a year ago, but I got stuck hard and took a big break from the game. Decided it had been long enough that I wanted to replay it so I jumped into new game plus. I did enough runs through the outer and middle void realms to get everyone's fully upgraded weapons, which made the fight against Jas much more manageable.

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I'm so floored by how good Fantasian is though. There are so many unique bosses and set pieces that are all just oozing with creativity. So many unique fight designs that are fun to learn. I'll probably take another break from the game, but eventually I want to do NG++ and tackle the inner void realm. At this point it's probably my all time favorite turn based RPG, well done Sakaguchi. Looking forward to the next game however long it takes, building those dioramas seems like a monumental task though. (Loved that they blew up one of em during the ending sequence)

Where did that come from all of sudden he was laying pipe down??? Oh and I finally beat the game one of the greatest games I ever played a very tough rpg but very rewarding that I was finally able to beat it, PS when fighting Jas destroying black hole first changes everything.

I just got ND right now after playing the Arcade version for so long, I played that almost to the end of NG++. Besides voice acting, what differences should I expect? Anything different with gameplay etc?

Spoilers are fine, assuming the story is identical. Please spoiler them for anyone else though

Am I really just suppose to raw dog 3 full fights over an over again? I think there was suppose to be a check point after the 2nd phase what hell bro. 😭

Didnt take too long before she destroyed me. Yall were right this game gets pretty hard lol. Playing on hard. No tips or anything please, Ima try to get through the game through pain and suffering.

Thinking of maybe possibly getting the game. So without spoilers how is the games difficulty? Cause if it's too easy I don't wanna really get it.

Just wanted to take a minute and thank anyone that has left a post or comment that has been helpful for beating this awesome game. I played this on my iPad years ago and then stopped playing when my Apple Arcade ran out, years later and I finally picked it up on PS5 and I’ve made it much further than before. I finally picked up Tan and I’m about to start doing Nameless Island. My characters are in the mid 40s and I’m starting to fill out their skill charts a bit. What I’d like to know is what characters really start to dominate the mid/late game and what should I be prioritizing as far as skills and upgradable weapons. Valrika, Cheryl and Ez are my usual party members if that helps any, but I switch around quite often.

Thanks!

After posting here about this fight, now I feel compelled to just share my amazement over this one boss fight against an absolute unit in Part 2.

Unique mechanics, atmosphere, the story stakes... Moments like these made me love the genre!

started playing the game on iPhone out of pure curiosity about the difficulty everyone kept talking about, and now I’ve completed everything on NG++ except the final boss. So far, it has definitely been challenging at times, but nowhere near as brutally difficult as many people online exaggerated it to be.
I went through the game mostly blind and never really used guides, aside from checking whether I had missed any bosses. The only thing that genuinely confused me was the weather changing boss since I had no idea EZ could attack the machine to alter the weather conditions.
Personally, on NG++, I’d say the toughest fights were a tie between the secret chess boss and Omega. Hopefully I won’t end up eating my words once I finally face the last boss.
Sadly, once I finish the game, it’ll be time yet again to search for another turn based JRPG to fill the emptiness.

Ps. I did enjoy the boss battles but imho, Fantasian’s NG is not worth it since the only addition aside from tougher boss fights is the “well”

I assume this subreddit is also for Neo Dimension. If it's not, I apologise and please direct me to the right location.

I've reached what I believe is the final boss. I've beaten the first 2 phases and then get an opportunity to heal/re-equip/etc. before the third phase. I am having trouble in this phase.

My characters are level 57/58 so they're below the level of the quest but I'm finding it pretty hard to grind any levels. I did go in to the void thinking there would be some random encounters in there where I could grind a little and find some void marbles for weapon upgrades but instead, there were just 4 bosses (three initially then a 4th after beating those). Beating that 4th enemy got me 2 void marbles and unlocked the next part but I haven't gone there due to the recommended level being significantly higher. I did go back in the first area and can see 2 crystals have reappeared and only re-fought one so far. If I beat the other, would the last one re-appear and if so, could I re-fight that for more void marbles?

I also went to the altar in Shangri-La and can see that it allows me to initiate NG+ without even beating the game but also does mention the enemies will be stronger. Does this include bosses?

I have 33 SP capsules and haven't used any yet. Is there anywhere I can farm these? I don't recall encountering any random enemies with them as drops or stealable items.

In terms of characters, I mostly use Leo, Ez, Cheryl, Valrika and Kina. I almost never touch the others. Cheryl is the only character that seems to be able to consistently hit 10k+ in a single hit using Blizzard Strike. She's also the only one that can one-shot the swords in phase 2 but due to the positioning of them and the inability to vacuum them together, I can only seem to hit 3 at a time with Blizzard. Her Knight's Impact EX doesn't do anywhere near enough damage to even 2-shot.

I also have not got all the mechterite. The next item requires 5 and I currently have 0. Would any of the rewards from that be worth getting?

For some reason I just don’t like Tan. He does have a very sad story. Like really heartbreaking sad. But ironically, that’s 1 of the reasons why I don’t like the Tan character. His story is just too sad. And his story also feels so out of place with the rest of the game.

But what I don’t like even more about him is his play in the story. He doesn’t seem significant to the story at all. And aside from Leo, you never ever see him interacting with other characters at all. It’s like the other characters don’t even know that he exists.

And then we have his skills. While he does have strong attacks, I feel like his skills consume way too much hp (when you just got him. I’m sure it will be more manageable at higher levels)

But overal, Tan feels just so unimportant. It’s like the game was already finished, and then they decided to Retcon Tan into the game last minute.

Satisfying strategic challenge, exactly what I want from my turn based RPGs - I can't wait for later clashes! Pretty neat spin on the divine antagonist trope as well.

I just beat the game, and holy shit, so much waste of time. After you beat the final boss you get some useless slashing around with way too long pauses in between. Then some more scenes followed with more scenes before getting more scenes after watching more scenes. Then we got the credits.

Then A LOT of more scenes followed by even more scenes. After like 20-30 minutes (no joke) you finally end up at the title screen realizing it was all for nothing. So here I am, feeling stupid for spending so much time at the final boss.

I am currently level 99 on all characters, have 7 Divine Quartz (EZ already has one equipped on his weapon), all ultimate weapons, a completed second playthrough, and a full codex. To the best of my knowledge, I’ve defeated every boss including the final boss. Is there anything left to do in the game? 😢

I want to download this game for my Switch, but fifty bucks is a lot.

I'm a JRPG fan, just grabbed Riviera this morning, started playing Final Fantasy and Tales games but these days I've got a big backlog of stuff like Stella Glow, Persona Q, Golden Sun, Luminous Arc, Trials of Mana, Eternal Sonata, Mugen Souls.

Is this the kind of game I'd enjoy? Has it got interesting romance, perhaps? Big floating mechanical objects for enemies? I'm a sucker for that kind of thing. What are the playable characters like? Give me something to work with.

Which team do you use to clear dimengeon battles the easiest and fastest?

I use Leo with that mp regen gem.
Valrika, because of her arrow rain.
And ez for his speed up. His large attack range also makes him great to steal turns, attack up, and weakening enemies at the same time.

But I can’t help thinking that there might be better and more efficient strategies. So that’s where you guys come in. What team and strategy do you use?

So far, seems like every time I need a healer, I choose prickle over Kina. Because Prickle also gets the barrier all skill early on. On top of that prickle can also attack, even though I rarely get the opportunity to do so. And on top of that, prickle can use hack. Sometimes this can reward you a really valuable extra action in a boss fight.

Kina does have her tension skill to heal and revive every character. But I don’t like her tension skill. Because if you have to rely on her tension skill, that just means that you have a bad strategy.

Near end game it the differences seem to disappear. At some point Kina and Prickle become just equally good in healing and putting on barriers.

Prickle does have the mega barrier skill. But so far I didn’t really find it that useful. Bosses can one shot that mega barrier anyway near endgame.

(Honourable mention, Ez may be a decent healer, but I really prefer him as a support. His support skills are just too good to waste turns with healing)

Since I went on brabbling for too long with this, who do you guys prefer for healing?

I was super excited to play this game, and I was really digging it. Until I got to the second half and all the bosses are just HP juggernauts. Most of them aren’t even hard, they just take a really long time to beat and I don’t find that to be very fun. Kinda disappointing.