Nearly peed into my pants laughing while reading this in the patch notes ...

[Wilan]

Sounds like a quirky yet interesting mini-game.
I've never played 1.0.....so perhaps it's been improved?

The really big problem is that it wasn't much of a mini game; what you saw in those videos were major plot battles, all of which could be completely avoided by doing a clunky bejeweled ripoff.
Which is because of that weird mentality of Tanaka's team that even if you're an humble lumberjack (and I mean, your only unlocked class being Botanist, as you weren't forced to have battle classes in 1.0 at all) you still need to have your shot at saving the world, despite not having any combat skill at all.

If it was its own mini-game, and not something mandatory you had to get through to advance the story, then yeah it probably wouldn't even have been that bad. I laughed at it back in 1.0, but I'm curious to see how it's been reworked.

[ruskie]

What did I watch exactly???

[Tupsi]

What makes me laugh is the fact that Rowena has been moved again.. I wonder when she'll finally stand up for her self and say 'No I'm not moving!' >.> lol

At least she didn't get more naked each patch like in 1.0.

The really big problem is that it wasn't much of a mini game; what you saw in those videos were major plot battles, all of which could be completely avoided by doing a clunky bejeweled ripoff.
Which is because of that weird mentality of Tanaka's team that even if you're an humble lumberjack (and I mean, your only unlocked class being Botanist, as you weren't forced to have battle classes in 1.0 at all) you still need to have your shot at saving the world, despite not having any combat skill at all.

If it was its own mini-game, and not something mandatory you had to get through to advance the story, then yeah it probably wouldn't even have been that bad. I laughed at it back in 1.0, but I'm curious to see how it's been reworked.

To be fair, it was designed to give DoH/DoL a way to progress the main storyline.

[Pandastirfry]

Parley wasn't horrible per se, it was just badly used(and the UI lag certainly didn't help). Hopefully this time around they will actually use it as a real mini game (say successfully "parley" with a npc shop and get a discount buff for a little while, like was heavily implied in 1.0 but never actually followed through on) instead of just being the one NPC who "taught" you and a few story missions being your only opponents.

[DeadRiser]

What makes me laugh is the fact that Rowena has been moved again.. I wonder when she'll finally stand up for her self and say 'No I'm not moving!' >.> lol

Haha very funny. She is the one choosing to move. Her final place will be a castle made of tomestones of mythology.

[Razzle]

I kinda liked parley on 1.0 ( > . >

Always wished SE let us play it against other players and not just NPC lol