7th Dragon 2020 Gameplay

I find 2020-II a bit harder than the first one. (2020-II dragons are strong). Are you kidding me?! The original 7th Dragon is WAAAY harder than 2020 IMO. Your hp and mana are pathetic and leveling takes forever. But gameplay wise it\'s a lot more advance than 2020 and I like the open world concept. Kinda reminds me Dragon Quest. Apr 16, 2016  Please comment and subscribe if you like my videos! It shows me that people are enjoying the content I put out so I know what to focus on more. Add me on Bac.

Released in Japan March 5, 2009 for the, 7th Dragon was developed by and published. The director behind this game is Kazuya Niinou, the mind behind the first and game. Music is handled by and produced by Rieko Kodama (, ).The game\'s plot involves the world of Eden, which was peaceful until the sudden arrival of 666 Dragons which dragged the world into conflict and brought the strange Dragonsbane, a poisonous flower, into the world. It is up to a brave guild of adventurers to slay every dragon and save Humanity and the Lucier from extinction.Gameplay is a mixture of \'s point based level up system and class reliance combined with a more traditional JRPG structure not unlike. The player begins by creating and naming their own guild; then selecting guildmates from among seven classes: Fighter, Knight, Samurai, Mage, Princess, Rogue, and Healer.

The game’s battles are turn based and utilize a mechanic in the exhaust system where a character can expend one exhaust bar in order to power up their next action. With a short prologue to help introduce the mechanics, soon the player finds the world to be literally infested by both 666 Dragons and Dragonsbane - the Dragonsbane appears directly both on the world map and in dungeons.

By stepping on the flower the player permanently eliminates it from the world map, but only temporarily in a dungeon, taking damage from stepping on it. The bottom screen displays a counter of the amount of dragons left in Eden which starts at 666 and slowly ticks down as the player defeats each one.

The dragons appear on both the overworld and in dungeons and have the ability to enter random encounters at will. A spin-off called 7th Dragon 2020 was released for the PSP. It departed from the fantasy setting of the first 7th Dragon in favor for a post-apocalyptic Tokyo. The amount of classes was reduced to five and the dragons to only 200.

It was released November 23, 2011 in Japan and was successful enough to spawn its own sequel simply known as 7th Dragon 2020-II, which centers around new dragon baddies. This was later followed up with 7th Dragon III Code: VFD. 7th Dragon III is the first in the series to be officially released in English, with the release occurring on July 12th, 2016. The official site for the release can be foundA useful resource for the first game can be found; released a translation patch for the first game in April 2014, and another for 2020 in March 2016.: Some skills have an \'Instant\' property that allows the user to go first, or at least before any enemies (as it\'s possible for an ally with high enough speed to precede instant moves, or for multiple party members to use instant moves in one turn). Attacks that inflict Stun are always instant (if it were to hit after the target takes their turn, the stun would become useless).

Using an EX gauge will also give the user the same level of priority.: The Bloom spread by the dragons and that spreads the dragons. It is deadly to humans and grows quickly.: There are seven classes in the original, Fighter, Knight, Mage, Samurai, Rogue, Princess, and Healer. In 2020 those classes are replaced by Samurai, Hacker, Destroyer, Trickster, and Psychic class. 2020-II also adds the Idol class. III has eight classes, Samurai, God-Hand, Agent, Duelist, Rune-Knight, Fortuner, Mage, and Banisher.: How your party appears in the world map, dungeons, and in towns.: Skills described as inflicting \'aerial\' damage do additional damage to flying/floating enemies.: Your guild can hold up to 16 members, but only 4 can be taken in your party. 2020 reduced this to only 3 characters.

III plays with this by having three people in the main party, and then another two teams of three taking a support role.: Some dungeons take place underground. In case of 2020, they are part of the subway or underpass. There are also ancient ruins beneath Tokyo, dating from 12,000 years ago.: The Lucier. The women have fox/cat ears, while the men have elf-like pointed ears.: Some skills from each class will have synergy with other classes’ skills granting an additional benefit to the attack.: It\'s possible to create one by creating a character with a non-muscular child or adolescent portrait and then giving them a high-damage class focused on physical strength. Heck, the default portrait for the punching-oriented God-Hand class is a who appears to be in her late teens.: Dragons appear and wage war against humanity. It doesn\'t help that the dragons cause the world ecosystem to shift to their liking, which is deadly for humans.: Plays as one crossed with a more traditional JRPG.: Some of the enemies are hostile flying fish.: Each class gets a skill that allows them to gain an extra turn if certain conditions are met.

For the more proactive extra turns like the Agent\'s and Trickster\'s Assassin\'s React, the player can potentially gain multiple extra turns back-to-back, though there is a cap of 3 extra turns per party member.: It\'s possible to create one by creating a character with a child portrait, but then assigning them to a class. Proceed to laugh as that Bombardier kid in your party brutalizes a dragon for 3,000 LF of damage with Comet Spear.: Your party members will be lucky to reach 400 LF by endgame, maybe 500 depending on class.

Meanwhile, bosses tend to have thousands of LF.: The Hacker and Agent classes revel in this. Not only do they engage in the over-the-top rapid-fire typing typical of the trope, they can even \'hack into\' fully organic beings.: It doesn\'t matter how many of your guild is in the reserves; if your current party bites it, it\'s. This gets particularly silly in III, in which you can have two rear teams of three each, yet it\'s still mission failure if the front line gets wiped even if you have revival items in the.: Exhaust Gauge. It can be expended when it\'s full, and the next thing you do that turn will be significantly empowered: the character enjoys, attacks do more damage, healing items heal more, and so on. There are also EX Skills, highly powerful and flashy attacks only usable while Exhaust is active.: Female Lucier have animal ears.: Dragonsbane Seeds offer large amounts of SP, Queen Rabi give lots of EXP, and Gold Rabi drop a bunch of money.

On top of liking to run away, the Seeds take 1 damage from all attacks while Queen Rabi have obnoxiously high evasion.: A lot of the lesser Dragons resemble hybrids between a dragon and another creature, such as Dragon-turtle, Dragon-grasshopper, Dragon-dragonfly, Dragon-hyperactive-puppies, Dragon-on-giant-nut. Also, Dragon-human such as what become of Mizuchi and Takehaya.: Just like, Dragons visibly roam the overworld and will usually give chase if they spot you.: The Samurai class works on this and is a staple of the franchise.: Looking over Pleroma\'s shelves of stories from the ancient world include titles like, and.

This was the joke in the original Japanese as well; the stories were Tales of Watatsumi, Maelstrom, Nobara no Mori and.Twilight.: The character design is very cute—they are meant to —but the plot itself is borderline. This is not dissimilar to Niinou\'s previous dungeon-crawling experience,.: When the game begins proper the entire world is cowering before the dragons and overrun with Dragonsbane. It\'s up to you to take everything back.: Kazan. However, one of the first things your guild does upon waking up is retake the place for the citizens.: After a short prologue, the dragons come and completely wreck the world. The opening credits are interspersed with everyone reacting to the events, all while the bottom screen shows everything being progressively more covered by the Dragonsbane.: Only game to use 2D graphics and only game to use a fantasy setting rather than the modern or future settings of later games.: The start of the game does not begin with any dragons at all, and serves mostly to get the player acclimated with the game’s mechanics.: The number of gimmicks can be overwhelming.

This is probably why the number of classes were reduced in the PSP games. And some of them require trial and error to use effectively, such as various forms of counters.: The world of Eden, which starts out like most other fantasy settings until the Dragons arrive and infest it with Dragonsbane.: Each class has four portraits, two for each gender. One portrait in each class would be a Lucier a race of elvish or cat-people depending on the gender. There are no default names for each portrait except for special names that would give one extra skill point to the class.: The three elemental types of magic that the Mage can use. There are 666 Dragons.

How many are left are always in the upper corner. You don\'t have to kill every last one; but it does unlock the.: Your adventuring party is made up of them.: Your character model will only reflect the change of the equipped weapon. Probably because the design of the characters are meant to be very memorable.: To get to the; you have to kill all 666 of the Dragons. This can require extensive combing once one gets down to the single-digits. Commonly missed dragons are side-quest related or are in Valorean Forest.

Because Haze displaced the \'normal\' dragons there; after one beats him one needs to use a Bloom Seed to get the normal dragons back in order to kill.: The aptly named Healer class, though the Knight and Princess possess healing abilities of their own.: Another type of magic the mage can use, carries the distinction of not being resisted by anything, but doesn’t match the elemental magic in raw power.: The total number of Dragons adds up to 666.: By the boatload. It doesn\'t help that a Dragon can join the fun in the middle of an on-going battle.: While one can save at an inn, there are save points located in most other areas.: Multiple, including some that are.: Each class starts with 3 skill points that are spent on a large skill tree. 1 skill point is gained every level, 2 for every fifth level. As with most, certain skills must be leveled up to unlock other skills.: After the prologue, 3 years pass.

By the time you and your guild wake up, most of the world is under the dragons.: In each town, inside each one is a doctor that can revive dead party members if you lack the skill or item.: The game takes place in a ruined Tokyo.: By the time 2020-II starts, the only carry-over Murakumo characters are Emelle, Rin, and Kirino. Heck, even Emelle bites the dust later.: The NAVs were engineered to have information processing abilities far beyond those of regular humans.: The entirety of the game, but most apparent during Chapter 0.: Fomalhaut, which is closer to an than a dragon.: SKY, who saves you from War Cry in Chapter 0.: The opening is a significant exaggeration of what your characters can actually do in the game.: Mankind Warrior Takehaya.: Murakumo. Their official seal is a sword that goes through the head of a dragon.: Chiron, member of World Relief Association. She listen to people\'s requests and forward them to you as quests. She is either, or a particularly obnoxious kind of.: The game really doesn\'t portray USA nicely.

However, the ethics of individual Americans varies.: The default female Hacker wears a lacy, frilly outfit.: Everyone gets them eventually, but the Psychic is the classic Mage archetype.: The Az.: Human Dragon Mizuchi.: The Dragons. Some of them can be avoided, but you want their to repair the facilities in your base.: Miku\'s role in the game is something like this. You can replace the BGM of the game with her songs, the lyrics of which gives interesting insight into your current situation, if not outright.: The gun-wielding Trickers. They are mechanically similar to Dragoons from: they enter a hard-to-attack state and start attacking with impunity.: Green save points recover your life and mana just by walking through them.: If a combatant character matters in the story, they don\'t wear a helmet. This even applies to JSDF personnel such as Rin and Gatou!.: Your characters are rarely referred by their name, only \'Unit 13\'. For the civilians, you\'re simply \'Murakumo\'.: The first fight against Emperor Dragon War Cry in Chapter 0, but thankfully Neko and Daigo are there to bail your asses out. The second fight against him —Wounded War Cry— is difficult, but you can win.: Rin blames herself on the catastrophic loss of the JSDF, which includes Gatou.: The Trickster class.

It doesn\'t help that their \'official\' character design is the guy and there is an -sounding male voice set that seems to be designed solely for them.: Yotsuya Evernight\'s ghostly phenomena. It\'s stated that High Dragon Lore-A-Lua uses inaudible sound waves to manipulate corpses like puppets, backing things up with its. However not only does this not explain the dead Gatou\'s appearance to save the heroes, Yotsuya\'s eternal night and the zombies still persist even after the dragon\'s death.: NAV3.6 (male, nicknamed Miroku), NAV3.7 (female, nicknamed Mina).: If you don\'t remember where you\'re supposed to be going, consult the Terminal in your room.: One of the item is the Flag of Japan, which increases your defense. (But then, stir-fried tofu also boosts your stats.).: The Dz, which you use to rebuild your base. Only obtainable from Dragons, and there are only 200 of them in the game.: Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.: The American President Jack Muller.

While a bit dismissive of Japan\'s situation, he does promise to send aid after clearing up the invasion in his own country. It\'s largely thanks to his decisions that America has killed six High Dragons in the time it took Japan to slay three. And when facing annihilation at the hands of Mizuchi, he makes sure all the civilians and congress have evacuated safely before giving his place in the shelter to his young secretary. He then orders for the army to.: Downplayed. While they are no match for Dragons, the JSDF are portrayed as competent and sometimes even heroic.: The female samurai wears this.: Tokyo is absolutely devastated by the Dragon invasion. One area is nearly completely submerged in sands.

And in some places,.: Dragonsbane-affected environments are brightly colored and crystalline, they would be nice places for picnic were it not for their temperamental wildlife.: The dragon Jigowatt.: The designation the ISDF gives to the biggest and nastiest dragons are rather interesting, these includes, and.: The skill system has been made more flexible and less tree-like. New tiers of skills are unlocked by building advanced facilities, and only a few skills require investment in other skills.: The Destroyer (read: Monk) class combines this with. They enter a stance that allows them to counter attack of certain kind (fangs, claws, breaths, etc). A party solely consisting of counterattacking Destroyers is one to behold.: If the enemy has a buff active, a Buddy Attack from one of your backline units can jump in to dispel the buff.: The outfit of the female Psychic leaves very little to the imagination, consisting of a coat over a bikini.: This game is rather fond of this trope, because clearly.

Rin takes Gatou\'s JSDF mantle, Emelle takes Natsume\'s Murakumo mantle.: The entirety of chapter 0 takes place during an extremely long solar eclipse, climaxing with the fight against Emperor Dragon War Cry with the eclipse as the background, over the Tokyo Metropolitan Building.: You have your mess in the Murakumo HQ.: 2020 trades the fantasy setting of the original for a ravaged Tokyo, but there are still melee weapon wielders and casters mixed in.: Ditches the sprite-based graphics of the first game in favor of polygonal ones.: Each Emperor Dragon brings their own type of wasteland. Oceanos turns rain poisonous. Sleepy Hollow carries deadly pollen. But the god-emperor of wasteland is Fomalhaut, who brings Black Dragonsbane with him.: Dragons are invading, but Murakumo (your group) and SKY are at each others\' throats.: The game heavily advertised itself as featuring (specifically, Hatsune Miku Type-2020). Is not as significant as expected.: The default female Samurai sports this style.: This game links the Tokyo-arc games with the original 7th Dragon.: The Black Dragonsbane spawned by Fomalhaut is able to bring most dragons back to life.

Here we go again.: It\'s very clear that Izumi sees her big brother Souji as the coolest person in the world. But then, everyone in SECT11 are awed by him. This hits her hard after Souji makes a.: SECT11, who saves you from Mark of Fomalhaut in the Prologue. Emelle.: The very American SECT11 are led by the siblings Souji and Izumi Sakuraba. This is even given a lampshade by Group 13, in which they question the siblings Japanese spirit— being Americans, they simply shrug.: Murakumo officer Miya, by her own admission. Also a cool person.: The fight against Drago-Satana at the end of Chapter 4.: Boss enemies may have combination attack of their own.

Those SECT11 guys are especially brutal.: Fomalhaut\'s invasion of National Diet Building, which forces everyone to go deep underground with no obvious way out. The invasion also lead to the death of Rin\'s troops, just about everyone in SECT11, and Emelle.: Emelle, before Fomalhaut. Emelle: Listen, Fomalhaut!

Unit 13 shall continue my struggle!.: Rin is largely outside the spotlight. The personal drama now centers around Emelle.: SECT11. Unfortunately, SECT11 is almost immediately destroyed by Fomalhaut.: There\'s a sidequest where you have to prevent some refugees from carrying out a suicide pact.: The real reason SECT11 is sent to Japan is to secure anti-Dragon weaponry, the Lucier. If they have to trample on somebody else\'s sovereignty, so be it.: One that applies retroactively: Eden is Earth, 7,000 years after the present time.: National Diet Building.: Even Souji is appalled that President David of the USA decides to abandon Japan to the Black Dragonsbane, now that he\'s got a Lucier in his hands.: Turns out that Murakumo has been reviving the Lucier this way, in order to use them as the sword that shall slay the Dragons, as they were in the distant antiquity.: Souji admits his defeat at the hand of Group 13 in Kokubunji, and let them take the. It\'s not like SECT11 wanted to fight, anyway.: Souji\'s preferred fighting style.: Turns out that there were Dragons invasion 12,000 years ago, which was fought by the Lucier.: Izumi, after Souji make a to break Fomalhaut\'s siege of Murakumo HQ.

She only gets out of it after everyone gives her a talk.: Emelle is about the only one who refer to your party leader by their name, which is rather touching.:. The fight against Mark of Fomalhaut in the Prologue.

The first fight against Sleepy Hollow in Chapter 3.: When it becomes clear that Murakumo can\'t be stopped from saving the Lucier clone in custody of SECT11, Souji gives Emelle two choice: either the Japanese allow his squad a safe passage back to the USA, or the Lucier clone gets it.: What Emelle actually is. She is not human, but an entity from outer space known as Hypnos. She is interested in humans, because \'humans are strong\'.: The conflict between Murakumo and SECT11 over Marina takes over a significant portion of the story. The portion that can be spent, you know, actually fighting Dragons.: It\'s strongly implied that Murakumo members are like this.

After all, your hometown has been doomed twice. It really shows when they help SECT11 despite the latter having stabbed them in the back, because SECT11 are human too.: The Idol class, naturally. Some of their skills even have them performing on a stage.: The Idol class uses megaphones.:, which is required to forge Dragonslayer.: The Confucators(?). You need to install them throughout Shinjuku before you can fight Sleepy Hollow.: Even though humans and Lucier used to coexist 12,000 years ago, 2020-II clearly put the Lucier in this role. They were once advanced people, they repelled Dragon invasion, and the humans of present time uses Lucier technology to fight Dragon invasion of today.: Those SECT11 folks aren\'t the type to give up, aren\'t they?

They keep hindering you from saving Marina in Chapter 4. On the upside, their boss music (vs.

Human battle theme) is in the game.: The Idol class. All of their skills are based on being a superstar on an ego trip. They even have a special gauge for this purpose, called Fever.

An Idol with SS-level Fever is an unstoppable presence on the battlefield.: SECT11, American equivalent to Murakumo. They have other missions beyond slaying dragons.: Certain skills of the Idol make her do a pose similar to Travolta from. And her special gauge is called \'Fever\'!.: SECT11\'s Souji and Izumi Sakuraba.: The Destroyer\'s EX-Skill, Sky-High Meteor is clearly learned from. They launch themselves beyond the atmosphere and administer a meteoric kick to the enemy, which then explodes. The explosion engulfs (at the very least) the entirety of Tokyo, visible from outer space.: Is it Emelle? She\'s from America, at any rate.

Her true identity is Hypnos, though she doesn\'t use that name anymore.: There is a quest chain where you have to justify the existence of Murakumo in a parliamentary hearing. The argument gets cut off by a Dragon attacking the daughter of one of the PM.: Kirino takes Emelle\'s Murakumo mantle, Izumi takes Souji\'s SECT11 mantle.: Tokyo Sky Tower, which has been occupied by Mark of Fomalhaut and its ultra deadly Black Dragonsbane. A significant portion of the game is spent looking for a way to walk into it without dying. It boasts a whopping 46 Dragons, about one fifth of total Dragons in the game.: is pretty clearly sung from the Dragons\' point of view.: Repeated with SECT11.: Emelle know all along that the new super-secret weapons that the Americans are after are the Lucier. And that Murakumo has been cloning them for some time, trampling upon the sanctity of life itself. Souji mocks Emelle for her hollow moral posturing.: The from 2020 have lost their memories when you encounter them, yet are extremely capable of taking on dragons. Nagamimi expresses irritation when he hears the reason.: Buddy Attacks will remove, among other buffs, the \'jump\' effect, causing the enemy to slam back down on the ground and suffer Null Action until the end of the turn.: Did we say anyone?

We actually meant.: While still quite cute, III\'s character models are more realistically proportioned than the previous games\'.:. Your backup teammates can jump in for attacks, possibly eliminating an enemy\'s buff and providing an additional effect. An entire backup team can provide the frontline party with buffs.: Even if your party has to split up, they\'ll have full access to the inventory.: It\'s obvious early on that Nodens isn\'t entirely on-the-level, and the ISDF isn\'t much better.:. Look at the full \'Nodens\' logo. Now look at the modern Nintendo logo.

Yup. The doors in Nodens HQ also have an extremely familiar on them.: Massively buffed versions of the game\'s major bosses are faced throughout the Shadow Realm.

At the end is a final battle with Blaster Raven.: The has upgraded versions of every non-boss dragon as random encounters.: The battle themes of Hypnos and ND are both lyrical versions of event tracks.:. Bayonetta 2 switch. Knockout punches in boxing. Unit 13 has to fight through souped up versions of Nyala and Haze in.

The proceeds to pit the player against even stronger versions of every major boss in the game. The DLC quest, \'Allie\'s Death March\', pits the player against incredibly strong versions of all minor bosses, followed by a souped-up, and an even stronger version of Motherly Dragon Nodens. This is meant to challenge a fully-levelled party, and is only available in the postgame. It even has a mystery reward for completion: A.: Chapters 3.6 and 5.1 are more lighthearted, involving Unit 13 going about and doing errands to advance the plot. Each chapter also occurs immediately after a battle with a True Dragon.: Two of the DLC quests, \'Gold Rabi Outbreak!\' And \'Seed Outbreak!\' , provide an easy source of money and experience, respectively.: The Shadow Realm, a born of debris left behind after the universe was recreated in the ending.

It is stocked to the brim with upgraded Dragons as random encounters, and the bosses it contains are magnitudes stronger than the versions fought in the story.: The full version of opening theme of the game to the previous games. A little over halfway into the song, the lyrics uses the beginning lyrics from the opening theme of 2020-II, and the very last lines are the very first lines of the opening theme of 2020.: The protagonist can be a gender-agnostic version, because.: The default Duelist portraits feature middle-schoolers, because duh, they\'re card game players. And they\'re so good at card games they can use them to fight dragons with magic. These portraits can be applied to any other class, too.: The player characters can\'t resist saving everyone they come across, even if they\'re explicitly told not to.: Once you\'re able to form three teams you can perform Unison, in which all nine characters get to make a single attack at no cost.:. One of the God Hand-default portrait options features a with this exact atmosphere. Both of the male Banisher options also have this sort of vibe to them, despite one of them wearing full plate. Yoritomo also comes across as this.: In Chapter 3.6 you\'re tasked with rescuing stray cats for a cat cafe at Nodens.

Once you\'re done with that, said cafe opens up and you can use cat food to rest with the cats to refill your parties\' LF and MN as well as gain SP for each party member. You can continue to rescue cats from dungeons afterwards; they\'ll either populate the cafe or lurk around various parts of Nodens headquarters.: Following the described below. Everyone in Tokyo is dying or dead, Dragonsbane is everywhere, leaving only Unit 13 to take down Yuma and ND. The cheerful Nodens BGM has even been replaced with a more somber track.: You essentially play as yourselves while in the 7th Encount game.: The main game consists of. The post-game dungeon does away with the \'Easy Levels\' part, as every encounter is a dragon or four and they will easily shred you to pieces.: Several walls of Dragonsbane act as these, requiring you to kill the dragon guarding it — which is often on the side you can\'t visit until later — to remove it.

And unlike normal on-map dragons, these ones won\'t cut into battle if you\'re near them, meaning that the trick of intentionally getting ambushed by an otherwise-unreachable dragon to kill it won\'t work on these \'guardian\' dragons.: In the form of quests that give you easy resources and extra portraits, among other things.: Rika and Chika. Thankfully, they\'re also the only bosses who don\'t get to attack twice per turn.: The Samurai class is capable of dual-wielding katanas. The poster Samurai girl featured in various promotional art is frequently depicted with dual katanas.: A few are faced in the sidequests to unlock certain EX skills. The Dark Rabi must be battled by the Samurai, Blaster Raven with the God-Hand, and Eigur with the Rune Knight.: The Vanisher class was renamed Banisher for the localization, likely because it sounds more menacing.

Note It\'s worth noting that V and B are interchangeable in Japanese in much the same way as, making \'Banisher\' a perfectly accurate translation of the original name\'s kana, though there is English text using the former spelling in that version.: The can be reliably ended in a single turn before long. On-map dragons, despite being reminiscent of \'s F.O.E.\' S, can pose a bit of a challenge, but don\'t require coming back later for them to be of reasonable difficulty. The bosses, especially True Dragons, will smash your party into a million pieces unless you\'re damn well prepared. Then comes the, where all of the random encounters are dragons and will turn any unprepared party into floor art.: The Escape Kit item beams your party back to the world map. Seeing as they\'re are dirt cheap, you pretty much have no reason not to go into a dungeon without an Escape Kit or, unless you\'re doing a.:. Due to the combination of being able to \'date\' almost every important NPC and the use of a.

This also includes your own party members. While you cannot truly \'date\' the non-protag party members, you can have a brief hang-out with them at any time, they do have a kind of affection track that is affected by various things (including doing cooperative attacks in party), and the higher ones are very romantic. For both genders, regardless of what gender your protagonist is.: True Dragons are described as the pinnacle of evolution, and any sufficiently powerful being is destined to become one.: The EXP Upper and SP Upper accessories boost experience and skill points gained, respectively.: The Mage\'s skillset is nigh identical to that of Psychics from the previous game, and God Hands are very similar to Destroyers.: The protagonist, as well as their fellow permanent Unit 13 members, are all completely player-defined. You\'re even freely allowed to mix class portraits, so you can use a Samurai portrait for a spellcaster or have a hitting things with a lance.: In the very depths of the Shadow Realm, the party encounters Blaster Raven and an immature True Dragon. After a difficult battle to decide who chooses to kill or spare it, Blaster Raven leaves, and Iod appears to ask the party of their decision. Regardless of what they do to the immature True Dragon, Iod will speak of the future of the Shadow Realm before fading away.

Nothing else is elaborated on. Roll credits.: 7th Encount, a game developed by Nodens and based of the Dragon Calamity of 2020.:. During parts where your party has to split up, nothing is stopping you from going back to the dormitory and rearranging your party so that the same team tackles all obstacles.

You can \'change\' a character, resulting in a character with a different name, portrait, and seiyuu but with the exact same functional properties (class, level, skills, etc.) of the character you just changed. While this could be explained by bringing in a fighter of similar experience, it doesn\'t exactly account for them somehow having the exact same with other registered characters. In other words, \'changing\' is really just the game\'s way of attempting to integrate cosmetic character changes into the story. Whoever is the leader of the active team is treated as the leader of Unit 13 during cutscenes.

Even if you hand the leader position to a level 1 fresh recruit that you registered two minutes ago, that person will be treated as the one who\'s been responsible for important developments involving Unit 13. This also applies to dates, meaning that you can have a different character for each date with a particular NPC and that NPC won\'t bat an eye.: This game is the last in the series. It even ends on a definitive note, with the Dragons erased from existence in a new universe.: Only the player characters, Nagamimi, and Mio remember the party\'s heroic deeds in the new universe.: It is possible to complete the game without realizing you can date NPCs.

Hint: If you see a brown package on the table between the two couches in your dorm, it\'s not just a decoration.: Your inventory limit is explained by your characters subconsciously throwing away excess items when full.: Simply approaching a save point mid-dungeon is enough to fully heal your characters.: The character you create at the beginning is this as they become the one to save the world and are the strongest human alive.: The first fight against Spectus. Your attacks do 1 damage to it at most, and it eventually performs an attack to wipe your entire party out.: Allie notes that humanity is a special bunch; instead of accepting their place in the food chain and let dragons walk all over them, they instead choose to fight back.: The Dragonsbane illness is established as one — the infected are constantly coughing and in a deteriorating state of health, and medicine can only slow its progress. The only cure is to defeat the Dragon who\'s the source of the Dragonsbane. By the penultimate chapter, everyone except for Unit 13 and Nagamimi gets afflicted with this.: — By dating several plot-important NPCs they award you with special weaponry that is, at the moment, stronger than what you can buy. You can\'t sell them off either, which marks their importance. However, in the final chapter, you unlock the last tier of shop items, where you get equipment stronger than the date-obtained items. Then, in the, you discover another set of weaponry that even outclasses them.: Everyone except for Unit 13 and Nagamimi succumbs to the Dragonsbane illness in the penultimate chapter.: The EX Skills are, but you only gain the opportunity to unlock them during chapter 5.1 — past that point, the endgame is set in motion.:.

To access everything the game has to offer, including opening up the which requires 50 Dz, the player has to hunt down every last dragon across all timelines and dungeons. This includes deliberately allowing unreachable dragons to ambush them mid-battle. Backtracking ensues if the player happens to miss out on anything. Unlocking the Fortuner\'s EX skill requires rescuing all 30 cats scattered across all the dungeons and timelines. Unlike the Dragons, however, there is no indicator of how many rescuees are left in each dungeon. Even more backtracking can ensue.: Code VFD coming out in English first spoils a number of plot points for previous 2020 games, especially 2020-II, just by dint of its concept.

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