Shin SQ rage (and wild speculation) goes here

[Snowdome]

Looks like there are two modes in this game - Story and Classic, and in Classic mode,many people can get what they want and play it like the good old EO1.
FM BGM mode hasn't been removed either, and difficulties have been increased to 3 levels. (Picnic mode sound... funny lol; "hard" mode finally come true)

[Ex-Lurker]

Ahhh cool, great find! I was going to ask how you just happen across something like this but I see your Location's set to Hong Kong.

Awesome, I just made a little news post about it.

[Dangerus]

[Terithian]

Great! Now no one has any reason to complain, ever!
(Except maybe about the difficulty of trying to decide which mode to play first.)

[Maxine MagicFox]

I have a complaint:

O_O You're going to offer all these great options they had BETTER have more than one save file so I can do a Classic run and a Story Mode run!!!

[Snowdome]

It is said that the two modes are sharing the same save file, and you can choose which one to start the game. I am a bit concerned about "start" because it can be (1) choose the mode when you start select New Game, or (2) choose the mode when you choose Load Game. Probably need more information about this area before making further comment, as both cases sound a bit odd to me.
If it is case 1, can we still be able to access the other party members? (Let's hope we can, otherwise one party will always be frozen)
If it turns out to be case 2, it could be hard to make both party's level suitable for the same story progress.

Modes stuff aside, it also says that there are 200+ グリモア (Grimoire from Google translate) that can be applied to equipment to allow the user to use skills of other class. Looks like we can make our own Commander Boots and more?

P.S. Although it is translated to Chinese first, I don't think the original text explains anything clearer.

[Wolkenritter]

I'm a bit interested in seeing how they'll handle the classes in Classic Mode. Will the classes be exactly the same as they were in EO1, or will they try to incorporate some elements from EO4's skill system... like the characters in Story mode? I'm certainly hoping the latter case... since EO1 really could do with a skill revamp.

[Snowdome]

I bet it share the new skill tree with Story mode. Adding the old skill tree which is famous of being broken is kind of pointless and a waste of resources.

[Kimiko]

I notice that in this scan:



There is an "Autosave: On/Off" option. That would be something new.
I wonder what the "L-Change: On/Off/Double" option means. Does it refer to the auto-battle usually selected with the L button? Or something more mysterious?
Can someone (Trance?) translate the descriptions of the three difficulty modes?

Also, Frederica apparently has a skill called "Hurricane Punch".

[ZetaBladeX13]

[Snowdome]

>Does this mean that "story mode" is going to be a completely different campaign, with "classic mode" simply being a straight up remake of EO1?
I don't think we should call it a straight up remake, since at least the map (so far) has been revamped and possibly the plot being more integrated to all stratums too. My speculation is that both would share the same story plot, with Story mode adds conversation to the default party while Classic mode let you do that with your own imagination.

>Now if they started letting you choose voice actors for the generic units like in 2020...
Then you will ask for skill animation like in 2020......
Just realized that 7th Dragon 2020-II (or should I call it 2021?) is coming out tomorrow.

[ZetaBladeX13]

[ZetaBladeX13]

If they added voices, there would likely be a "Voice" volume control in the options.

[Snowdome]

I guess I wasn't (probably now too) sane enough to post. I did realize the plural form of stratum is a special casse, but when the word passed the QC from the builtin spell check and Google (I actually did search stratums to see if there is any valid result = =") and I somehow accepted that word.

I now think it is sort of redundant. I somehow treated it as a completely new game after the previous sentence ended. Anyway all I meant is that (I guess) the two mode will have more or less the same dialogue from NPC. [/end of my insanity]

>If they added voices, there would likely be a "Voice" volume control in the options.
And it sound like someone will try to turn it off? XD
I wouldn't mind having voice for generic units. Then we will be choosing CV for them in a later game, and it will be even close to 7th Dragon~

[Kimiko]

Don't use Google for translations or spellchecking. It's a statistical engine, so it accepts anything that <50% of users explicitly objected to, and it doesn't use context at all.