Anyone ever play BURAI? [REVIEW Added]

[gbapalyer]

@termis: the sell command, is it directly available in shops? only thing i see is buy items and if i refuse i can leave the shop...

if you could translate the second part of the korean faq, that would be awesome.

[gbapalyer]

@termis: could you please reread part 2 of the korean guide and write down in short which places to visit in which order and maybe what to do?

like

Part 2: All 8 Heroes together

1. Town of Ganma
2. Town of Galga
3. Cave South of Town of Galga (?, is that correct, but what to do there?)

and so on.

it is really difficult to figure out now what to do and where to go next.
i leveled 2 hours now and bought some equipment and magic books.
could every character learn every magic spell from the books?

i think the dessert is the wrong direction to visit? enemies there are really strong...

[termis]

You'll have to wait just a bit as I'm on a roadtrip in NZ for one more week, followed by a month straight of business trips!  I'll see if I can make some time in the hotel during my business trips, but no promises...

Basically, chapter 2 consists of you having to find the 8 'special' weapons/armors for each individuals.   There's no set order you need to find these items, and you can do them in any order, so if you're really stuck on one, move on to the next one and try to come back to it later. 

The items listed below are the strongest weapon/armor/shield combination for each character, and the bolded ones are the 'special' weapon you need for each individual (note the Chinese characters/kanji listed below might look slightly different as Koreans and Japanese use slightly different versions of Chinese characters...).

- Hayate 靑爆劍, スピンクス, ポセイドンシルド
- Lilian ビムソド, 紅麗鎧, 圓月万阻盾
- Lomar 綠刺劍, スピンクス, ポセイドンシルド
- Sakyo ビムソド, 白氷鎧, 圓月万阻盾
- Gonza 藍烈釜, スピンクス, ポセイドンシルド
- Alec 紫雷杖, ユニコン, クロスシルド
- Maimai ウイルチエン, 赤宝鎧, オロラシルド
- Kuku 黃念棒, ユニコン, オロラシルド

And on the question of books - no they're not the same - different books will have different effects for characters.  Some will read a particular book and get nothing out of it, while as another read the same book and they'll get a nice spell or something.

[gbapalyer]

@termis: and the powerful weapons are to find in dungeons? like the one in the cave under the second city or the mountain path above that city?
in the first cave there are several red things on the wall, while approaching them, maimai talks about something. do you know what those mean? where can i get strongest shields and armor? from shops?

[termis]

I can't recall which events you're referring to in the game as it's been many moons since I've beaten game, but... yes, some of the special items are had through completing dungeons, and some through going through some battles (i.e. kuku's weapon's is through fighting at the town of Gomez). 

Also, I just read real quickly on the faq that you can sell off your items at the towns of Ganma and pointer - shops have a hand shape symbol - these are places where you can sell your excess items (and I recall some weapons you pick up from some battles, you can get a LOT of gold for it.)

Also, another hint - there are hidden shops in Ganma and Pointer which sell some strong weapon and/or armor.  You can only access if all your characters have enough curiosity (may be written as 好奇心 in the game, though I'm not sure on that one...) developed.  If you don't these shops will have no door on them - and you will need to develop this 'skill' before you have access to these shops.

[gbapalyer]

is there any hint on how to develop the specific characteristics?

problem now is to get enough gold to buy good equipment or magic books.

[gbapalyer]

played another 2 hours yesterday and i finally found the first armor (mai mai) in the cave under the second town. there was a red face of a giant in the wall
which told me to search for his body parts inside the dephts of the cave. after i found them i had to talk to him again and fight him two times.

[gbapalyer]

i had a run yesterday.

4 more holy equipments in two hours.
total playtime is 17 hours now.

will get the last 3 today if everything goes well.

[gbapalyer]

iam through the game (26 hours).

final boss was totally easy.

overall a great, straight forward japanese rpg. figuring out the menues and the gameplay itself is the hardest part, but not that bad.
everybody could easily enjoy the game without knowing any word of japanese.
today i start playing Burai II.