Hm...I've been avoiding this game for a while because it was fully Japanese. But is it really playable even if you can't read Japanese at all? I dunno...I think it might be a bit difficult to get around. Especially in battles where you have to know what attacks you're using and what kind of items you have.
It's not that bad actually. I can't read Japanese at all and I can figure out a fair deal of stuff on my own. Menus, skill trees, and equips prove to be a hassle, but even then, it's something a little shuffling through the Japanese and English wikis will be able to fix pretty quickly.
At worst, you won't be able to figure out what people are saying during the storyline, but still...Remi eating her hat at the end of stage 2 is still hilarious.
As for me...just wiped out a pair of bosses in stage 11. As per usual on most bosses I dive into without foreknowledge, I get wiped before I can even mount an offense.
Took a few tries before my strategy came together. It basically involved having Alice take the full brunt of the freeze everyone attack via Little Legion while hoping the other attack misses, then reviving Alice while Sakuya and Youmu take out the ice elemental spamming boss first (Lovely amount of evasion you have BTW).
It was going good until the next freeze all + You're screwed if you get frozen attack. The first part went off as planned, but apparently the You're screwed if you get frozen attack can still hit non frozen characters as my Sanae demonstrated by eating the attack and going down.
Didn't help that commander Mokou had like 2 bombs left because I had to burn 1 for reviving Alice and 3 to save my rear mid-battle. Burned another bomb to revive Alice...and oh crap there goes Byakuren before I can reapply buffs and enchant Sakuya and Youmu's weapons with earth. Final bomb on Mokou resurrected Byakuren...and now I had no way to heal up. Thought I was in trouble.
That's when Alice basically saved my rear end ten times over. Marionette Pariel spam at this point reduced the damage I took so severly that nobody else died from here on out...even when I had a couple characters hovering around 30-100 HP.
Marionette Pariel is so good...which is why I should expect a boss or normal enemy to have some kind of attack that ignores shields or even Pariel at some point, am I right :ohdear:?
Anyways, back to exploring the rest of stage 11.