Fantasy Life General Thread

[Libra]

Btw Libra, where in Europe are you from?

The country of chocolates. Belgium!

I also chose Paladin and have completed the first 2 parts of the story, got my Paladin licence, saved the apples in the orchard from the thieves, earned enough bliss points to enable me to have a larger pouch, so now need some items to fill it with.

Haha, I just got to the point where I have to choose a Bliss Bonus (and you have to choose it, you can't say "I will choose it later") and I'm not sure what to pick. I'm debating on either a larger pouch or the option to have a pet. For those interested, the Bliss Bonuses are:

Bigger Bag (100 items, think your inventory in AC:NL)
Bigger Storage (500 items, think the locker in AC:NL)
Have a pet (a cat or a dog, and if you want a bird or dragon, you need the DLC)
Horse Riding (be able to rent a horse so you can travel faster)
Shopping + (increase the assortment of items in the shops)
Hairdressing (able to change your hairstyle by talking to a specific NPC)
Happy Audio (listen to songs from the game in the Theatre in your room (don't ask me what they mean exactly; I haven't figured that out yet))

From what I understand, when you advance to the next Bliss level, you can choose another Bonus, but I honestly have no idea how quickly that'll happen (I'm guessing that at the beginning, it should go fairly quickly, though).

Need to know when it is a good idea to chAnge to Magician, my next choice, should we do several quests before changing, or get all the licences as soon as possible and the first task under our belt of each trade.

Well, I've read that it's not a good idea to try and get all the licenses at once or as soon as possible, because it messes with your stats, but I don't know the exact details.

Did you use the 2 points you have? I'm not sure yet who I want to do with them, still thinking about it (that's cool, though, we have the time!).

Looks like the island is already loaded onto the game cartridge; you just need to pay for the "key" to unlock the content. I guess it's good so I don't need to get a new memory card lol

Ah yeah, you're right, that makes sense, actually.

Haven't found yet how to take pictures, though.

Oh, and it seems you can kinda "teleport" in this game, though I'm not sure if you can also do so if you're outside of town (need to test that; I'm pretty sure it won't let you do it if you're carrying a loot box). Basically you have a map and you can click on it to immediately return to your home or your Guild Master's house.

In your home you have a bed that allows you to save. It also allows you to sleep (i.e. wake up the next day) or rest (i.e. wake up during the evening). There are also a few save crystals in the town (I think I've seen four of those so far) but I haven't really been outside of the town yet so not sure how many more there are.

 

[oath2order]

Are there random generated quests

 

[Libra]

For those interested, the Bliss Bonuses are:

Bigger Bag (100 items, think your inventory in AC:NL)

Actually, my comparison isn't entirely accurate. You have a pouch which can hold eight items and which can be immediately (or very quickly, anyway) accessed via the touch screen. So it's something like a quick inventory, if you will.

And then there's the bag which can hold 100 items (yeah, I decided to choose the Bigger Bag Bliss Bonus) and which is accessed via the Menu and then you click on Items.

And you can upgrade the Bigger Bag to the Even Bigger Bag (I'm not kidding) and then you can hold 200 items. From what I'm seeing, I need 50 Bliss for my next bonus.

A few other things:

The keyboard is alphabetical rather than QWERTY or AZERTY, so basically it's ABCDEFGH and so on.

There are many NPC's you can talk to. When you approach them, their name appears above their head. Sometimes you can also press X and you get some info about who they are.

When you finish the first day, the main story is hinted at and then the intro begins (which you can skip, if you want). It's pretty cool to watch even if you've already seen it because it really does give you the impression of a new Life you're beginning.

When you exit the Menu it seems like your character is putting away something, similar to AC:NL.

On the touch screen is a map of where you are and what's cool is that when you have to do something ("Go talk to X"), a red arrow appears indicating where you need to go.

What you're supposed to do appears in a banner above the touch screen.

Nothing is accessible yet at the Guild Office, so I'm not sure what level you're supposed to be before you can go on-line with other people. Which is fine, but I want to be able to take pictures!

 

[Libra]

Ta da!

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Yeah, I found how to take pictures in this game. Woohoo!

It's quite easy, actually. It's one of the requests you have to fulfill for Flutter. You have to go to the Guild Office and everything is explained then. Which means I can go on-line now if I want to!

To take a picture you press Start and the picture is then saved on your SD card. There's also a text message system that's similar to the Best Friends function in AC:NL. If you're both on-line, then you can send each other messages.

There are also four "animations" (you could compare it a little to Dr Shrunk in AC:NL) you can do if you hold the D-pad. In the picture below my character is sitting down because that's what assigned to "down" on the D-pad. There are others you can choose from, so you can assign those and use them in-game. I'm guessing that's quite useful when playing on-line. Rather than typing "Follow me" or something, you just have your character wave "Come here!"

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And that's all for today. More later this weekend!

 

[BiggKitty]

If you talk to a character with 3 dots Over their head, they will give you a task to complete for dosh which is the currency and other useful items, you can have up to 30 tasks on the go at any one time, the character then will have a little pendant showing over their head so you can find that character again, and you can always remind yourself what tasks you have to do from "other quests" on the menu.

I have been outside of town onto the grassy plains, there you can pick up plants and insects to sell, viscious bees to fight, also caterpillars and other random nasties including bandits. There is a paladin on guard at the beginning of the plains who says he will guide you home when you are ready to leave, but you are teleported back to a chosen location in town. Just prior to the paladin is a blue crystal save point. I have been using it to save very frequently
As so far have been killed rather a lot while experimenting with my piddly little sword.

 

[FancyThat]

This game sounds so cool, really glad I brought it . I haven't started playing it yet but I plan on setting aside time next week to really get into it.

 

[Libra]

If you talk to a character with a ? Over their head, they will give you a task to complete

Is there a time limit on the quests? Like "complete this within 24 hours" or so? I haven't seen any mention of it, but I have two quests I've accepted but haven't completed yet.

Why and where the heck am I supposed to find a Big Egg?

And why did I accept a cat's request for fish! Five fish, to be precise!

 

[oath2order]

So...randomly generated like are there endless quests

 

[Peoki]

@Libra Wow, thank you for sharing so much information while playing! It kills me that NA still has another month to go, but I suppose it works out because university is killer and I haven't had time to touch my 3DS aside from emptying out my streetpass.

Speaking of that, are there any streetpass features in the game? You also mentioned the keyboard and friend notifications earlier, is there free-chat during multiplayer?

Another thing I'm wondering is the item distribution in multiplayer. I was under the assumption that each player would get their own set of drops; however, upon watching Nintendo's recent twitch footage, it sounds like the drops are shared?

 

[Libra]

Apparently the birds are available as soon as you unlock the option to have a pet (if you have the DLC and when you get to the town where pets are sold, that is). So you don't have to wait until level 50 or complete the main story first. Dragons, however, are only available on Origin Island, it seems.

 

[Clara Oswald]

Getting this game today! Im thinking that I will become a miner at first to get the miner skill then a blacksmith then a paladin or something like that because I read (or it might have been watching Lin and Ko) that you keep the skills when you transfer a character over to a new class

I will hopefully get the DLC pretty soon too (I'm so happy I recently had my birthday so I can afford all this stuff lol)

 

[BiggKitty]

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Is there a time limit on the quests? Like "complete this within 24 hours" or so? I haven't seen any mention of it, but I have two quests I've accepted but haven't completed yet.

Why and where the heck am I supposed to find a Big Egg?

And why did I accept a cat's request for fish! Five fish, to be precise!

I don't think there is a time limit on doing these character quests. You can accept up to 30 and then need to eject one before taking any further ones. They all sound pretty hard (read impossible) to complete at the moment.

 

[Libra]

In case anyone is curious, here are my character's stats:

Spoiler: Under a spoiler because this is is a bit long

General Stats
Life = Paladin
Rank = Fledgling
Level = 2
EXP = 68
EXP to level up = 62
Dosh = 800
Bliss = 50
Stars = 100
Time Played = 02:10

Combat Stats
HP = 44/44
SP = 100/100
Attack = 16
Defence = 19
Magic Attack = 10
Magic Defence = 5

Life Stats
Mining = 11
Woodcutting = 11
Fishing = 10
Smithing = 12
Sewing = 10
Carpentry = 12
Cooking = 10
Alchemy = 10

Basic Stats
Strength = 5
Vitality = 7
Intelligence = 5
Focus = 5
Dexterity = 5
Luck = 5
Points Remaining = 2

Gear
Weapons = Squire's Sword
Shield = N/A
Head = N/A
Body = Paladin's Breastplate
Legs = Paladin Leg Guards
Hands = Paladin's Gauntlets
Feet = Paladin's Boots
Other = N/A

Tools
Pickaxe = N/A
Axe = N/A
Rod = N/A
Hammer = N/A
Needle = N/A
Saw = N/A
Frying Pan = N/A
Flask = N/A

Skills
Dashing = level 1
Sneaking = level 1
Dagger Skill = level 1
Longsword Skill = level 1
Shield Skill = level 1

Licences
Paladin
Current Rank = Fledgling
Life Bonus = Max HP +10 / Vitality +2
Stars = 100
To Next Rank = 200 Stars

It's a quite long list but I thought it'd might be interesting. If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask! I know someone asked about StreetPass but I haven't activated that yet. I plan on doing so later and hopefully I'll be able to answer your questions. I'm sure BigKitty will be more than happy to help as well.

Oh, and it seems there's a total of 22 Bliss Bonuses.

I don't think there is a time limit on doing these character quests. You can accept up to 30 and then need to eject one before taking any further ones. They all sound pretty hard (read impossible) to complete at the moment.

Have you already completed any character quests? I'm going to search for the Big Egg again. Thing is there are quests which are locked unless you change your Life. I accepted a cat's request (because I can't say "No", haha) but I need to be an Angler to catch fish, so as a Paladin, that's not really possible at the moment.

 

[Libra]

I'm currently exploring the city (Castele is HUGE!) and talking to all the characters. Many are nameless characters (well, they have names such as "Kind old lady" or "Young boy") but there are also NPC's that have real names.

I'm also picking up everything I find (I have a lot of Dandelion Puffs so far, even though I have no idea what you can do with those). I've found that you can sell some stuff, but not a lot yet (you can't sell the stuff you pick up, except if it's something a monster drops apparently, like some kind of tail). I also found the Big Egg I mentioned in my earlier post and I'm curious whether it'll be in the same place in BiggKitty's game. Things seems to respawn if you leave the area and come back, but I haven't really experimented with it yet, so I'm not sure if there's also a time limit or something.

I've accepted a few quests as well (given that I was talking to the NPC's and they asked me and - like I said - I can't say "No", haha) but so far I have only completed Gramps' (which was the Big Egg). I haven't progressed in the main story yet. The banner says "Explore Reveria freely" and that's what I'm doing. To continue with the main story I know I need to talk to Flutter, but eh, saving the world can wait.

It's actually very easy to get distracted in this game. There's so much to see and do! And this is only one city! I mentioned this to BiggKitty and like I told her; I want to take this game slow because I don't want to burn myself out. There's a part of me that wants to run in all directions, go talk to everyone and do stuff, but rushing through this game would be a bad idea (though you can play it how you want, of course).

 

[Libra]

Spoiler: Stats update

3 hours 30 minutes into the game and only listing the ones that have changed compared to my previous post

General Stats
Level = 3
EXP = 189
EXP to level up = 56
Dosh = 1333

Combat Stats
HP = 48/48

Basic Stats
Points Remaining = 4 (for each level up you get 2 points (and I believe it's 3 every ten levels) you can assign to Strength and so on)

 

[Libra]

I unlocked another Bliss Bonus and got the Even Bigger Bag (which can hold 200 items). I thought it'd be a good choice because I can just carry around everything I find then. Something to note is that most items stack; though it seems some don't. I have two Luck Charms and they don't stack, but all the rest does. No idea what the reason is for that. After the Even Bigger Bag you can get the Amazing Bag which can hold up to 300 items.

Some more info:

EXP = allows you to level up your character, you get EXP when defeating enemies
Bliss = allows you to get Bliss Bonuses (which I listed in an earlier post), you get those by doing quests for Flutter (example: go visit the Guild Office)
Stars = allows you to advance ranks in your Life, you get those by doing challenges (example: defeat 1 Catterpillo in the East Grassy Plains)
Dosh = the in-game currency, you get Dosh when you sell things, complete a quest and sometimes also when you defeat an enemy

When you defeat an enemy, you get some EXP (which - for me - seems to range between 3 and 7) and sometimes a few items as well. This can be one or more of the following (so if you're lucky, you can get all three, and if you're not, well, then you get nothing ):

An item, such as Mutton or Sheep Fleece
Some Dosh (like 5 Dosh or so)
Some HP (not sure how many, but it's always welcome!)

You pick up the items by pressing A (which - it seems - if you're holding your sword you only can do if you've defeated an enemy; if you try picking up e.g. a flower, you'll be swinging your sword instead) and the Dosh and HP you pick up by "running through" them. I'm not sure if they stay if you choose not to pick them up immediately; I haven't tried that yet.

 

[Clara Oswald]

Really liking this game so far! Often with these kinds of games I feel really limited at the start but this is completely different. The areas I have unlocked are huge so I can still wonder around as I please. I'm enjoying mining a lot so far it's fun to explore the caves and complete the quests!

 

[Emily]

Love this game so far I originally chose Paladin but after 8 hours gameplay I switched to Miner... Saved up 20.000 dosh already

Anyone wanna play together??

 

[Libra]

EXP = allows you to level up your character, you get EXP when defeating enemies

Extra info; you also get EXP when completing a quest!

Saved up 20.000 dosh already

Tell me your secret! I only have 2.333 Dosh so far, LOL. I'm currently 5 hours and 23 minutes into the game. I'm a Paladin but I'm thinking of switching to Hunter so I can attack from a distance. I keep dieing at the entrance to the whatsitcalledagain cave. (*)

I'd love to play on-line but I want my character to be a bit stronger so I'm actually useful, haha.

I'm actually proud of myself; I've managed to complete three quests and I've scored two bounties so far! Yay!

[EDIT]
(*) Hahahahaha, oops. I was trying to get into the wrong cave, LOL. *facepalm* But I found the right one now!

 

[Libra]

Another thing I'm wondering is the item distribution in multiplayer. I was under the assumption that each player would get their own set of drops; however, upon watching Nintendo's recent twitch footage, it sounds like the drops are shared?

I *think* that might be the case if you fight a more powerful monster (I'm not sure if "Boss" is the correct word). I believe the last person to hit the monster (and thus defeat it) gets the EXP which is higher than you normally would receive (given that the monster is more powerful). So if you play with someone else, it's a good idea to agree on who gets what; i.e. you get the EXP and I get the bounty (the box you have to carry to a Bounty Clerk) or vice versa.

For normal monsters, I'm assuming it's the same as fighting together with a NPC; you both get EXP when the monster is defeated. But given that you're the only active player, only you pick up the items. I'm guessing that in multi-player you each get the items on your own screen and then pick them up or something.

We're going to have to do some tests to confirm all this, though.

And I'll try to answer your other questions about StreetPass later.