There are ways to speed up the puck and dodging/blocking helps a lot if you can manage controlling two characters at the same time. Also, don't spend too much time planning attacks with your partner. I just mashed right/left (attack?) constantly. If it still moves the puck around you can easily just beef it up using Neku. I think my flash card still has TWEWY on it so I might throw it in and see if I can remember how to play and offer pointersSeibei4211 wrote:
Yes, those things. There's some luck with Shiki because you have to just guess what the first card is. If you get it right, you then have to guess the next one. If you get it wrong, you can, in theory, get the rest without guessing. The luck part comes in whether or not you can even finish a fucking combo before you get interrupted by one of the four enemies wailing on you. And if the solution to that is to kill some of the enemies so they don't hit you as much, then that defeats the purpose of a move that hits all of the enemies at once. I hadn't unlocked blocking or jumping yet, so I don't know if that shit would help, but I don't see how it would. At some point you would still have to stand there and do the combo. I also didn't like how slooooow the stupid puck was. Like seriously, speed it up. It'd be fucking great if the puck was instant. There were so many times when I'd do a combo with Shiki, then I'd just sit there as Neku, waiting and waiting for the puck to saunter over so I could finally go ahead and do a combo without it being wasted or breaking the chain.
the combat system doesn't appeal to everyone but I think it's the greatest thing on the DS and hands-down the best title Squenix has put out in the last decade
augh. Okay I was playing it and I can't for the life of me remember how to change my phone menu music. Driving me nuts.
So puck is just a damage multiplier, and you need stars to build up that sync ability, which means you do actually need to get the cards right. I still just mash the left and right buttons for the most part though. The puck is enough.