Route order

[DarkFusion]

To get the best experience of the story, in which order should I do the routes for the heroines?

[shiirn]

Aselia first, of course.


Anyone else VERY miffed by how long the final battle takes? it's retarded...

[EchoMateria]

I'd go with Aselia, Esperia, Orphaliru, Uruka, Lesteena, Kyouko, Tokimi.

Aselia first, of course. Anyone else VERY miffed by how long the final battle takes? it's retarded...

Final battle annoyed me a lot on my first playthrough, now I don't mind it at all...

[Phlebas]

This is a really tough question, but after pondering it from various thematic angles we came to this order suggestion echoMateria suggested. It is not our ranking of how good the routes are, it's assuming you're going to play all of them. There are some factual relations that enforce some route order. I'd recommend chiefly doing Esperia and Orpha routes before Uruka route. Lesteena you can do kinda whenever you feel like it. If you want to cut corners, you can get both Kyouko and Tokimi routes from the same save point with very little work also, but if you want to go for Kyouko 2nd that's fine too and fits well with new 2nd playthrough scenes.

[shiirn]

Ah, good, because i was planning on doing Kyouko on my second playthrough....But i'm really kind of irritated at Aselia's final battle... Back and forth, back and forth... if it weren't for CTRL i'd quit... Is there any faster way of moving units around? QQ


EDIT: Also, when you finish your first playthrough are you FORCED to go to hard mode for your second? Or can you keep your capped level spirit in easy mode just to get the scenes?

[Tinbad]

Ah, good, because i was planning on doing Kyouko on my second playthrough....But i'm really kind of irritated at Aselia's final battle... Back and forth, back and forth... if it weren't for CTRL i'd quit... Is there any faster way of moving units around? QQ

Keyboard controls and ether transport?

[shiirn]

Can't ether transport in the final battle. Anything other than that'd be spoiling.

[Phlebas]

Going onto harder difficulties is purely optional. Obviously there's not much point replaying normal mode 6 times... ^^ I personally recommend hard more straight away on 2nd go for some challenge

[shiirn]

Going onto harder difficulties is purely optional. Obviously there's not much point replaying normal mode 6 times... ^^ I personally recommend hard more straight away on 2nd go for some challenge

But do you keep your spirits at their max level if you re-do it on normal? Or do they start from level 1 again? I was thinking of doing Normal -> Hard -> Normal just for the lolz of seeing lv 55-60 fighting level 1-10s.

[Phlebas]

Well FAQ answers all of this, but you keep your spirits as they are when starting with clear game data.