| Mr Khan said: Grinding is unessential in Awakening, however. If you're willing to work to spread character usage, I imagine you could dodge grinding and still get all the marriageable women paired off (as there are fewer eligible mothers than eligible fathers). The higher difficulties actively discourage grinding due to the high costs of Reeking Boxes, and the paralogues are purely optional (it did wreck the difficulty curve for me, doing no non-relationship grinding outside of the paralogues, but without it the flow would have been just so). Plus PoR and RD had BEXP, which was grinding without the grinding. Not that I disagree with you otherwise, as i favor 9 and 10 over 13, 11, or 8 (the only other ones i've played) |
I disagree that BEXP is equivalent to grinding. It's a resource, like money. You can spend it efficiently and earn more with better performance, but you can't amass it endlessly to trivialize content. And because its dispersal is measured like money, it doesn't interfere with difficulty balancing.
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