If you haven’t done it, read part one first.
So, fighting in Atlantica, how is it like? At first glance at least for me, I thought it looked like a lot of micro-managing seeing as one had up to nine characters to take care of in one fight. But it’s pretty streamlined and a whole lot of fun.
The basics, are as any other rpg, where you have a health bar and a mana bar. You will find that in Atlantica to, but you also have something called action points. Action points are regenerated each turn and determines which of your mercenaries who will get to do stuff that turn. Only mercenaries with above 100 action points get to act, if you have more than five mercenaries with 100 action points, the five with the most amount of AP get to attack, heal or whatever you plan to do with them.
You got the options which you have probably seen if you have played other turn-based games to stand guard on your turn instead of attacking or just pass your turn over to the opponent.
You can have up to 8 mercenaries, plus your main character in a fight where they are place in a 3×3 grid. Basically what you wanna do here is have three tank type classes up front, like swordsmen or spearmen and you would want to tuck away the mercenaries with the weakest defense all the way in the back, which is really simple logic so I wont go into more detail on that.
As you level your character further and go deeper into the game new types of mercenaries unlock and it seems like there is really a whole lot to do, just to read up on what kind of mercenaries you would want for your particular set up.
I would also like to talk a little about the item mall. In the beginning of the game you’ll get a whole lot of licenses as quest rewards. These licenses do stuff like, let you teleport back and forth between cities you have visited or show the remaining health of enemies in combat. As clever made as Atlantica is, they let you try out a whole lot of this stuff which i think is really nice.
You can also buy different boxes, which when you retrieve them in game and open randomly contains one thing. It can be a mount or different scrolls. All of these boxes have different themes, there are boxes for vanity clothes and boxes for different mounts.
All-in-all I think it’s a really good game and like I’ve said before, people really have no excuse not to try it out because it’s free.
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