Okay, Soul Sacrifice for Dummies:

• Kill Sh*t and Collect Souls
• Use the Souls to Put Wicked Tats on Your Body
• Blue Sh*t = More HP
• Red Sh*t = More Oomph
• If it's human, Blue Sh*t = New Teammate, Red Sh*t = Kick-ass One-time Spell
• If it's a Boss, Use Your Eye Thingy to Find Weakspots
• At the End of Each Mission You Get Offerings 'n Sh*t
• Combine Two of the Same Offering = More/Higher Level Offering
• Fuse Two Different Offerings = New Spell
• Collect Scrumptious Tears Off Your Book's Cover - Use Them to Rewrite S*it in it
• Use Black Offerings for Kick-ass Spells - There is Always a Price You Pay for it
• Rinse and Repeat

That's pretty much it, really.

 

Put simply, When you fill up the blue or red bar in the counter at the top right to the top, you will level up. leveling up does the following:

Blue bar (Saving) = Improves your health points and your defence
Red bar (Sacrificing) = Improves your attack power

During battle if you save/sacrifice generic enemies, the bar will fill up a bit at a time but doing so will give you small benefits too:

Saving generic enemies = Gives you a bit of health points back
Sacrificing generic enemies = Gives you more "uses" for the weapons since they have a certain ammount of "casts" before they break (think of it like repairing a weapon)

Some story and ally quests make you choose a specific outcome for a boss to progress the story but that is because the book is written in the "past" and you are just re-experiencing what happened, thus is makes sense that you cant change the outcome. As for how you level, thats really up to you. If you choose to level up attack power only then get good at learning boss attack patterns and dodging because 1-2hits will pretty much kill you later in the game, However if you level up defence/life then be prepared for LONG fights because you will do very little damage.

Also one final thing! Add me! My PSN Is Terenigmaa and i play soul sacrifice online quite alot so feel free to join me or you may of seen me playing online before (Teren in game)

 

Very true, also a nice surprise when it happens for the first time. ;O;

Even in multi min/max'd characters have very limited usability - they're only good in their narrow field. I myself prefer to play a jack of all trades kind of a character, but I can see the benefit of using a full-blast DPS character and a tank team*.



*...I totally focus on single player. So much content that I haven't touched multiplayer yet.

 

I'm not saying that they're useless, just not very versatile.

 

That's the best way. Also, if you play the easy way, you should find your Magic level will rapidly beat your Health level. Sacrificing in battle recharges your offerings, which is essential.

Don't neglect Mortars or Summons. They do crazy damage. Especially the ones that turn you into a rolling ball. Good for evading.