Jade Empire

[animegirl]

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[Drewbacca]

It's arrived and I have the day off tomorrow. THE STARS HAVE ALIGNED.

[jonas]

I'm at the marsh area after the school.

Couple of things I've noticed that bug me but probably you guys can remedy:

While in combat, what is with the lack of control after you have done an attack? I feel like the animations take too long and I'm way to vulnerable to attack. Especially when I fight those guys with poles.
When I do say a strike attack with thousand strikes (or whatever that style is called) if I accidentally hit it twice, then he does the move twice and I have to wait, I cannot cancel this by moving out of the way since it doesnt respond until the animation is over.

What should I do about this? Obviously, try not to hit it twice, but it's hard to avoid when you are battling 3-4 people.

Also, is there a better way to heal my guys health and chi? In this marsh after every combat encounter I have to run back to the school gates and use the health fountain because I'm half or 3/4 on health or chi. I use the chi heal in battle but that lowers my chi which then won't go back up. Enemies don't seem to drop powerups nearly enough, like 1 in 5.

I am enjoying this game, and it is fun but I am finding these 2 things a nuisance.

[ChaoofNee]

Also, is there a better way to heal my guys health and chi? In this marsh after every combat encounter I have to run back to the school gates and use the health fountain because I'm half or 3/4 on health or chi. I use the chi heal in battle but that lowers my chi which then won't go back up. Enemies don't seem to drop powerups nearly enough, like 1 in 5.

You'll learn to make do with what you have. You'll get the Spirit Thief style (if you don't have it already) that helps an awful lot.
Me? I've graduated from that style to using a combination of starting a Harmonic Combo with the Ice Shard and finishing with Thousand Cuts for my Magic powerups. Otherwise, I wail on people with the Toad, but that's besides the point.
Can anyone suggest how I use my precious, precious silver at the end of Chapter 2? I see many styles for sale, but I want to know which will help the most.

[frostwolf ex]

You'll learn to make do with what you have. You'll get the Spirit Thief style (if you don't have it already) that helps an awful lot.
Me? I've graduated from that style to using a combination of starting a Harmonic Combo with the Ice Shard and finishing with Thousand Cuts for my Magic powerups. Otherwise, I wail on people with the Toad, but that's besides the point.
Can anyone suggest how I use my precious, precious silver at the end of Chapter 2? I see many styles for sale, but I want to know which will help the most.

hmm honestly styles are a mater of personal choice, you could concieveably fininsh the game with only the styles and magic you learn from story progression, i learned stone immortal and its paralysing effect was nice, but if you took ice you already have a comparable stunning attack. and fire has the coolest a+x move. my suggestion is save the gold for learning trainings, they are passive stat increases that never go away. if you are in capter 2 there should be an acrobatics trainer by the docks that you will want to frequent. gems that you find are generally better than what you can buy so just be a busybody and you will get more than you would ever need to buy.

and jonas, make sure to intelligently slot your styles, right now its a bitch because you dotn get many points on level up, but soon you will really pick up and get very fast/damaging. if you want more chi, right now theres not much you cna do, one thing to remember is that your teammate never dies, so you may wnat to let dawn star/the buddy you just met play tanker and you circle aroudn and whack people from behind. i used legendary strike because im a kick nut, so im not as qualified to give advice on other styles timing, but i used that strategy a lot to conserve hp, letting them wail on poor dawn star(which looked really funny as i picked the big giant guy for my character..i looked like such a pansy )

[Master of 7s]

I'm at the marsh area after the school.

Couple of things I've noticed that bug me but probably you guys can remedy:

While in combat, what is with the lack of control after you have done an attack? I feel like the animations take too long and I'm way to vulnerable to attack. Especially when I fight those guys with poles.
When I do say a strike attack with thousand strikes (or whatever that style is called) if I accidentally hit it twice, then he does the move twice and I have to wait, I cannot cancel this by moving out of the way since it doesnt respond until the animation is over.

What should I do about this? Obviously, try not to hit it twice, but it's hard to avoid when you are battling 3-4 people.

Also, is there a better way to heal my guys health and chi? In this marsh after every combat encounter I have to run back to the school gates and use the health fountain because I'm half or 3/4 on health or chi. I use the chi heal in battle but that lowers my chi which then won't go back up. Enemies don't seem to drop powerups nearly enough, like 1 in 5.

I am enjoying this game, and it is fun but I am finding these 2 things a nuisance.

As was said before, you'll simply have to make do with the chi issue until Chapter 2 where you will aquire Spirit Thief. That or don't waste time using Chi Strikes or magic. Most enemies in Chapter one go down fairly easily with what you start with anyway.

As for being open for attack, this is why you don't do direct frontal assaults unless you have a clear advantage and if you are using power strikes when you are surrounded then you aren't playing smart. You have to keep moving around. The ideal place to be when attacking is from the back.

Vault over your opponents head just before they attack then immediately close the gap and give them a beating. Save your power strikes for completing harmonic combos and learn to rely on sticking and dodging and exploiting openings in your enemies attack patterns.

Also, learning to judiciously use clearing strikes will save your life.

If all else fails then you can simply cheese your way to victory using the Storm Dragon Beat Down Style combo I explained on page 2.

[Master]

This is the funniest review I have ever read: http://www.insidepulse.com/articles/36528

I was laughing my ass of at this. The best part is where is makes fun of spelling errors and in that SAME SENTENCE he has like 7 spelling and grammatical errors. You guys really should read this and his other reviews. Fucking hilarious.

[MechDeus]

Wow, glitched the hell out of the game earlier. I was hanging around at Black Panther Temple messing with the first-person view when all of a sudden I couldn't exit it. All I got was a flashing view of the head of my character and then I was stuck in first-person view. If I tried to go back to third-person the view wouldn't change but I had the ability to walk really slowly, like a couple pixels every ten seconds or so. I had saved about a minute before the glitch happened so it was no biggie, but that was really wierd.

I just reached the Necropolis or whatever and just spent way too much time figuring out the best method through. I reloaded the area about 3-4 times because stuff kept cropping up that I wasn't expecting and I kept forgetting to save once I did a task the way I wanted it to play out. Maybe I won't be able to put off hitting on both women at once forever, but I've extended it at least for now.

[Master of 7s]

This is the funniest review I have ever read: http://www.insidepulse.com/articles/36528

I was laughing my ass of at this. The best part is where is makes fun of spelling errors and in that SAME SENTENCE he has like 7 spelling and grammatical errors. You guys really should read this and his other reviews. Fucking hilarious.

Astounding, he obviously just rushed straight through and did none of the sidequests.

Moreover I saw no mention of Open Palm and Closed Fist.

Weak.

[g0zen]

Moreover I saw no mention of Open Palm and Closed Fist.

....

But at least Jade Empire takes these things that have been done to death and dresses them up. Although your character starts out fairly generic and nondescript, the game allows you literally thousands of dialogue choices and options that allow your character to follow either the Path of the Open Palm or the Path of the Closed Fist. Options make everything better after all.

He's still an idiot in how he pretty much denounces the game because he came into it wanting to be different by hating it (MarkRyan?), but I don't see any overt evidence that he didn't actually play it.