(09-05-2013, 10:16 PM)TheCurls Wrote: The one that frustrated me to no end was Titan's straight-line aoe thing. I'd seriously be halfway across the platform and still wind up getting caught, and killed, by it.
Oh god yes. The AoE system in this game works different than any other game i have played. Normally with an AoE you can dodge out of it last minute and the only people who take damage are those still in the space. In this game it's not an AoE at all it's a timed casting. If the spell bar ends while you are still in the area even at the edge you get hit by the skill even though it casts after the area vanishes. You can be halfway across the room and the spell just zooms in on you.
It's a very cheap very Japanese way of doing things. JRPG's are always like this the Japanese players love cheap tactics in their games for some reason.
The only way i manage to avoid them is to strafe if i can do it quick enough if i am mid spell and need to cancel it to move forget it. A hit no matter what.
