Yea I'm posting over there .. :P

I still don't see why its so revolutionary, I actually think it gives you more of a disadvantage.

Nah it isn't really revolutionary or anything like that, but a pretty nifty addition I think.

I don't view it as a disadvantage I think it successfully places true value on the importance of your magic users. Not only must you protect them properly, but if you're going to use magic there will be consequences for that as they take longer to cast.

Remember how you could be interrupted while casting for magic in the first lost odyssey demo? I can see how if you didn't do too good of a job with your front guard your all important magic users could be at serious risk. Or if the front guard totally gets killed off imagine the disadvantage the magic casters could have then were they to be by themselves? I also like that skills take longer to use than normal attacks.

In regards to healing it just means you gotta be more proactive in knowing when to heal and if you want to work the system make one of your non healers perform actions that WILL slow them down enough causing your casters to before they do. The very obvious wild card is what the enemy does, but that's really cool :)

They're ganging up on you over there :p

I see it more as an extra challenge as opposed to a disadvantage. lol didn't realize that was jolli they were talking to.

I really like this idea and it actually has me thinking back on a lot of the battles in previous final fantasy games. I would immediately bust out a really powerful magic attack or summon to own an enemy and sometimes I could get off quite a bit of powerful magic attacks weakening an enemy before they got theirs in.

I like that there would be a consequence of sorts forcing you to rethink about frontloading on those powerful magic attacks. Especially considering a normal attack can delay your spell or potentially even dispel it altogether. It's a very subtle change that I think ends up having a significant effect on the gameplay for the better I think.

I wonder if the power of a spell also has an effect on the turns. Under what conditions does the wall actually matter I wonder. Magical attacks? Because against the boss in the very first walkthrough that boss did a physical attack of 115 damage on Jansen when he was in the back and there was still 300+ on the wall bar so I'm assuming the bar doesn't protect the back row from physical attacks ,but maybe perhaps any magical attack sent their way as long as it isn't more powerful than the number in the wall bar?

If the wall bar is at 400 and the enemy uses a magic attack that does 282 damage does that mean it would be totally nullified and not work on the person in the back? A spell doing 600 damage would do 200 damage on the person in the back if the wall bar was at 400? I'm still not totally sure how the wall works, but its clearly important to the gameplay. Guess time will tell.

Seeing Seth do that unique skill attack that she has makes me hope there are plenty more skills like that for her and kaim alike.

Yep right at 13 minutes into this vid an enemy seems to have been kept alive due to the wall strength being 235. When the wall strength bar is guaranteed to hit zero on an attack that will also damage the person in the back row it seems that regardless of the strength of the attack the one in the back row still receives the defense benefits of the wall strength prior to the attack used to completely drop it to zero.

By that I mean just because the wall strength was dropped to zero on that attack due to both people in the front receiving upwards of 600+ damage it didn't make the wall bonus that the person in the back gets useless even though the combined damage both people in the front took was much more than what the wall bar could withstand.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24983.html

I know !!, damn 16 year olds... :P

Optimus I see your point, I think it just pisses me off because I prefer to use Magic users to do damage.

I don't get why a mage would have a penalty when their main attack is guna do less damage than say a warrior class.

I think the wall system is a good and have no problem with that, just seems they are making it harder for me to use my favourite class and I don't appereciate that .. :(

Nice to hear the JP version has english voice work though :)

I also don't think the Wall system negates attacks it just defends, so a percentage of the attack will always get through.

WHAT ??? IT DOES ??? but the menus in japanease though ?

Yea so it seems :D, no english text has been confirmed yet.

PLease, if you find anything out just post here, if it does have english text Than so god help me I might actually pass out :D

But, any chance it's region free ?

Yeah jolli get to work :D me wants to know as well :D

As for region free, there hasn't been a JPN game yet that was region free so I doubt they will change that trend.

Yea like Kenshin says, although its about time MS got rid of the region coding in an update, come on Sony did it now you follow.

Duno if these have been posted here I loose track of the various versions of the main theme.

http://lostodyssey.jp/

There is 2 sample soundtracks playing in the background, I like the second one .. :D

Haha sounds cool.

The Second track is probably the one that plays when we're driving that vehicle we will get in the game. I like it :D

http://localhost:7144/pls/88689F2D1564141E902B94F7...

Peercast guy playing right now looks so hot!

Crap looks like its down now :/

Damn I missed it ... :(

Makes that Two. SHIT! :(

Its back up :D

Although I'm only getting sound..

not working here ... :( When r u getting your copy jolli ? I DEMAND VIDEOS, you hear me :P

Tomorrow I think, although I'm having trouble with my PC at the moment :(

You know you have to install peercast for it to work ?

that's some long loading the game has there, other than that it was looking cool.

OH! didnt know that. well I guess I am gonna have to wait till I get back home. Still at work! :(

Yea thats one of the things famitsu complained about.