Yeah, I said that and you should do that if playing as Kurt is appealing to you, but you still should be aware that Kurt's scenario will probably be very frustrating because it's one of the harder and trickier scenarios due to the Gauntlet mechanics and other factors such as Kurt himself being pretty bad gameplay wise.
If you want another mature character with strong personality and involvement in the general story, I suggest you play Laura's story, she's a great character and her scenario is much easier to deal with than Kurt's.
All SaGas with multiple MCs have mature/adult MCs you can play as too, so keep that in mind if you're interested in play through the series.
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Jackson Phillips
Ayden Cruz
Thank you I'll keep that in mind. I'm going to try Kurts just because this introduction has me really interested, but if It gets too frustrating I'll try hers out.
Austin Bell
>The remaster fucks up a couple of mechanics and makes them worse
other user here, hold up - can you tell me more? I do have both the steam version and the one on switch to choose from.
Austin Stewart
I'll give you a small explanation of how the Gauntlet works without spoiling anything so that you can at least know what you're dealing with:
Kurt is one of the two characters in the game that is cursed with a Gauntlet, the other one being Michelle, which you'll meet if you play a couple of other MCs' scenarios.
The Gauntlet is a cursed artifact that, in gameplay terms, takes the form of a cursed panel in Kurt's Panel grid, it takes the central slot and CANNOT be removed by any mean, if Kurt is your MC however, winning Gauntlet battles will eventually upgrade your Gauntlet panel automatically up to L5, which kind of makes it less offensive to deal with.
Now, outside of character building, what the Gauntlet does is put Kurt into a pocket dimension where he has to fight special Gauntlet battles against several bosses, the later ones being very hard to deal with since they test how much you know about the game and how much you can deal with Kurt being a subpar character.
The most dangerous thing about these Gauntlet battles is that the Gauntlet itself works on a timer, a 15 minute timer iirc, when the time is up, Kurt will have to fight a battle, alone, in the Gauntlet's pocket dimension.
Now, for the good news:
It doesn't matter if you lose the battles as they will keep repeating until you either finish the game by beating the last boss or beat all of them, so you can also choose to "ignore" them and let Kurt be defeated if you want, you'll also keep whatever new techs you learn through these battles.
The bad news:
If you don't complete all of the gauntlet battles you won't see Kurt's alternate ending, moreover, a certain story quest will be a lot harder to the point of being virtually unbeatable if you didn't keep some save files before you get there, I'm not saying you're guaranteed a lockdown into an unbeatable state, but for a total newcomer it's very likely you'll have problems if you don't keep emergency saves (which you should do regardless).
Jace James
Also forgot a very important thing about the timer:
It measure time in real time, that is the timer keeps going down at all times, even when you're not on a quest or inside a menu, if you played Wizardry IV you might understand why this is a very important thing.
The Remaster uniforms a lot of AoE skills to be generic All Target skills instead of being based on hitboxes, which fucks up the balance of the original game a lot.
It also reportedly shifts the BR growth back to the 360 standards.
Jackson Collins
Unlimited Saga is basically a weird take on a tabletop RPG with an asshole GM. Every single chest is trapped in like three different ways.
Jayden Mitchell
>Find a chest
>Oh wait it's locked
>Lockpick it
>Oh wait it also has a magic lock
>Cast spell on it
>Open it
>It shoots needles at me
>Then exhales poison gas
>It also explodes
>Then turns into a mimic
>Get into fight
>Kill mimic
>Get fuckall because the content exploded
>Take a single step forward
>Ceiling spikes trap because why the fuck not
>Also a bunch of enemies gang up on me because they sniffed me from three sectors beyond
Gabriel King
Test
Leo Reyes
Think this is the JRPG thread but Pathfinder Kingmaker is fuckin fantastic
Brayden Ramirez
honestly at this point its solid video game discussion this board doesn't see often enough so I welcome it