But it is as you say, I´ve cursed the game so many times thanks to the damn “hero dies = game over”. When I want to get imunity towards Mudo skills with the magatama of course a Hama spell has to enter the fray and kill me…

Irritating to say the least.

The skillset is important as it can change your whole chance of being able to survive or not.

I liked the DDS way of handling skills better. And the magatama can be reused all depending on what kind of situation you´re in. And they tell you when they are able to learn a new ability, which comes in handy.

Collecting all of them though is a pain. Something I want to do but not being able to. The best of them all gives you protection from basically everything but almighty skills.

It´s is truly a hardcore gamers game. Any less comitment and you won´t be able to finish it.

As you only get 1 status point during level ups it can be a pretty mean game. As with me, I focused on STR and VIT, now I have a hard time since most enemies repell or void physical attacks :(

But thanks to that experience I tend to never have any trouble in the other SMT games :)