Star Ocean TTEOT: most awesome music evarz!!

Some of that maybe seen as cheap but it's actually accounting for balancing. Otherwise with a little item creation and Dimension Door you could ream just about any enemy in the game in about 2 or 3 attacks. Well besides the arena freaks. It just causes you to think more on how you approach the enemies.

 

I agree item creation is broke. It's more luck and guessing then anything else.

I don't have it with me but I think it only took 80-90 hours to beat the game and that's with trying to get most battle trophies off the bosses. I only level grinded a few hours and that was usually by running to a place with monsters higher then I should be facing at the time usually at first by accident then by design. I used the level rings synthesized into a weapon and chains and therefore got a pretty damn nice amount of experience on each battle. The only ridiculously over powered enemies I have faced so far are the bosses in the Ursla Lava Caves extra dungeon after you beat the game. Though the last 2 in the group arena were a major pain.

 

Wow zeckensack, it sounds like we both came to the same conclusions. SO3 finally gets to the point where you just have to cut your losses and give up.

If you're looking for an RPG with great music and a compelling plot (i.e. no filler, consistently exciting, and doesn't resort to denying you information in order to keep you hooked), have you played Xenogears yet? How about Final Fantasy Tactics?

 

This was the only RPG - and I play a lot of them - that I could not drive myself to finish. I completely lost any interest somewhere at the begining of disc 2, I dont really remember where.
Not exactly a bad game, I've finished worse ones (like the first Shadow Hearts) but I could not find any reason to go further - it simply got less and less interesting the more I advanced.