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Merry Christmas, Matt! Santa has been busy already - my mom gave me a $50 gift card to Game Stop, which was very thoughtful of her, even if it's not the game store I shop at and I will happily spend it anyway. Also $30 in quarters for laundry money (I think she was trying to tell me something there, lol), and  $25 gift card to my favorite Thai place. And my secret santa at work gave me a Lifesavers sweet storybook, a treat for Beau, a gift card to Bull Moose Music (locally owned chain of indy music/movie/game/book stores), and a Star Wars Kinder Egg. One of my favorire customers gave me a lavender-scented pillow, a reusable shopping bag, and a really cool journal.

Merry Christmas! Have fun!

Well come on up! Andrew will attest to the fact I'm a pretty damn fine tour guide.

You don't have to do that in this one. Unless they have a pink exclamation point over their heads, they pretty much just say the same thing over and over again no matter how many times you talk to them.

Mwahahahaha! My evil plan suceeded!

Well, at least keep an eye on your healer's MP. After a certain point, healing potions are kind of worthless and you won't want your healers to run out of MP..

Stone bridge or other? I think Orr's is stone.

I beat him. It was the final boss in the post game that I never beat. I think I might have resorted to a walkthrough for help with the final boss in the main story, though.

I didn't realize just how doable it was at first, and I do like to max out my levels for the final battle. If you liked DQ VIII, you'll love XI. And most of my platinum trophies are from Lego games, by the way.

There should be a menu option for spells and one for abilities in the fight menu. Spells are spells you've learned (magic), and abilities are special moves or abilities that you are taught, get from the story, or learn in your skill tree. They all use MP, so you want to keep an eye on what the MP cost is for both spells and abilities.