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Saiyuki is along the lines of Final Fantasy Tactics, Vandal Hearts, Tactics Ogre and other tactical rpgs. Visually, this game exceeds most of them. It looks really good especially when you consider it’s PS1.
Overall the game is pretty laid back and you can go through for a while with moderate trouble. However towards the end the game gets pretty hard, namely the last battle. Since it’s such a linear game, the only way you can “build up” your levels is fighting in the Dojos (and using the Posts to deliver stuff and in turn fight battles) and most won’t take the time to do this. At least I didn’t want to break up the story. At the end I did some advanced dojos but realized i missed out on some secrets by not completing them all. You get 12 characters throughout the game but may only use 6 in battle.
Hello my name is Ken. I recently downloaded saiyuki journey westward and have been using your excellent walkthrough to help me, but i ran into trouble. I am trying to obtain the galant potion bey defeating all of the dojo masters. I have defeated all of them up to the town kucha and now the master lvl is no longer available in the later towns like cherchen, inns, and tokhara the beginner and advanced lvls are only availble to me in these towns. I defeated the lower lvls but the game wont give me the master lvl access. Can you please help me i dont know what to do.