Finding Gnome - Trials of Mana Playthrough Part 2 (Hard Difficulty / No Commentary)
10Now that Trials of Mana has released, I'm continuing a playthrough (time stamps below) using my save data from the demo - https://youtu.be/E4PO8exC_tU for this video. I get my full party of Kevin, Hawkeye, and Riesz, escape Jadd, and find the elemental spirit Gnome.
I still need to fiddle with some settings (especially the tactics one) but it seems to be a good bit of fun so far. Your allies can be pretty dumb with dodging attacks. The 10% XP bonus for not taking damage appears to occur as long as the character you're controlling doesn't take damage (it makes me wonder if allies set to purely defense would avoid all attacks to make a hitless boss compilation interesting).
I originally intended to do commentary but re-recorded this when I found the commentary to be too sporadic and less enjoyable, so I'll do this playthrough without commentary.
0:00 Faerie Flashback (those other faeries were probably faking being tired)
2:06 Waking in Jail
12:16 Riesz's Flashback (if only they had their magic winds childproof...)
14:36 City of Maia
20:25 Golden Road
33:21 Stonesplit Gap
35:41 BOSS: Machine Golem R
39:43 Back to Maia
47:49 Dwarf Village
54:06 Dwarf Tunnels
1:09:27 BOSS: Jewel Eater
1:12:57 Meeting Gnome