The game does try to mitigate this, by giving you healing and MP boosting items that you can use X amount of before you need to refill them at an inn, but you have to pause the game every time to use them, and they would be unnecessary if you could just control your team. It also works in reverse if you are desperate for a healer to heal, but they attack or waste their turn you could find yourself with an unnecessary death. If the enemies are close to death, but your team is busy trying to use status affecting magic, or healing the party, you may find a battle prolonged when it really shouldn't be. I would not consider this game difficult in nearly any way, shape or form, but there are bosses or baddies that can put you in a rough spot and not being able to strategize with your party makeup can get really frustrating.
If your main character is not in the party at all (story reasons), then you are watching battles play out with zero input. This equipment system won't deter much of your progress if you are exploring the whole world, but can be frustrating if you have a character who specifically needs armor to survive tough fights but never asks to buy any.Ĭombat itself is carried out where you only control one character (the main one). It will only drop one piece for someone in your current party, and once the treasure chest is open it is open for good. The only other two ways of getting equipment is playing a roulette game at an inn, where you have a chance at winning the item as a prize, or by finding a treasure chest in the world that drops equipment. While they will never buy equipment that is worse than what they have equipped, you could find that they are buying weapons and never armor or vice versa. In these instances they don't purchase the weapon or armor, and have to wait until they want to go shopping again at the end of a different level. When you give them money, there is a chance that they get distracted and spend some of the money instead on a healing item. At the end of each "level," one or more of your party members MAY want to go shopping, in which case they will ask for X amount of gold to buy the item they are dreaming of. While you could potentially slowly change your teams jobs so that only one person is a liability at a time, for nearly all players it makes more sense to stick to the jobs you have leveled up since grinding for XP isn't really in this game's DNA.Įquipment you gain is essentially random as there are no shops to do purchases before battles. When you are given the chance to change jobs, you level back down to 1, have only the beginning equipment for that job and are a liability in battle until you gain some new levels. You do get to pick jobs for your main character and travelling companions, but outside of specific events (more on that later) these are set in stone for most of the game, so you don't really get to experiment and see which job classes work well together. Each of those mechanics though come with a big BUT that would be off-putting for fans of JRPGS, and perhaps set up new RPG players incorrectly if they moved from Miitopia to another RPG. You gain experience for fighting in battles, and equipment you gain (armor and weapons) are job specific. Playable characters pick jobs that determine their stat increase as well as what abilities they can learn and use. Miitopia has RPG mechanics and is trying to call to mind some of your favorite old school JRPGS. I would say that is a bit generous, but lets discuss. A game to get newcomers to RPGs a jumping off point to see if they like the genre.
Miitopia would describe itself as an RPG light where you get to control the cast with your family and friends. There is a lot to talk about here, so let's dive in. Miitopia has taken over my gaming life and now that I finally beat it I need to discuss it. I know I said I was going to talk about Flower next, but I had to call an audible. This is an ongoing list where I attempt to do the following: Play, Complete, and Rank every video game in the known universe in order to finally answer the age old question "What is the greatest game of all time?" For previous entries find the links on the attached spreadsheet.
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