later in teh game you will get a spell to help you out with the hidden chests around the world map, since it will relveal their location. and you dont have to spam X to find them, but since you dont have that spell you dont know the exact point so hence the spamming.

he does show up, but you need to have met with him in all the previous cities first, since he goes to the next one in order only if you got him. so if you missed him somewhere backtrack to the cities and do his riddles. otherwise he should be there, especially after you have finished up with Ara. Also, not sure if this factors into it or not. but head over to the ivory tower first, and then just back out, and see if he pops in. anywho. hope that helps....Oh wait just remembred. yeah go into the Ivory Tower, and you will need to face the first boss of the room since you will get something from it in return, so yeah. you will know what it is, and i dont want to spoil it. anywho, hope that helps.

if you want a good mystic knight, stick it out with sorcere a bit more for the magic stats, they will be helpful down the line as a mystic knight,  but feel free to play around with a mystic now too, since the drop in stats wont occur till after you pass lv100 so you have some freedom, also tryout the magic archer that will be neat too, and you can get good augments, but overall, you do want to play around with both a fighter and warrior, especially if you want to be able to tank some dmg as a mystic, for warrior just switching to him you shoudl be able to get the bastion aug right off the bat, for fighter, i think you need to level it a bit, but keep in mind, the way vocation level, is not the same as how you level, so its pretty easy to level a vocation of other classes without having to level  your self up too much as that vocation especially when you dont want those particular stats, just kill a lot of weak things to level it up, that way you dont get too much exp from them. a good place is the wight that is near the abbey by the river, who will spawn infinite skeletons, as long as you dont kill the wight. there after a good 30-40mins you could max out any vocation. anywho, i hope this helps, but if you want o be super OP, just stick to assassin, has th ebest damage output, especially when you are by yourself and all alone, your damage is insane. plus its just a fun class all around.

just kill the ur-dragon offline, and you should get it. well 1 of the 3 weapons that it drops, plus he is not that hard after lv60. and if you are under 50 you shouldnt be wanting an ascalon cuz it is too powerful and will make things easy.

nothing is wrong, it just has an insane ammount of HP. every generation it gets more and more HP, last i check it was on Gen 154 i think, so he will have a crap ton of HP, back when it first came out, i killed gen 3, 9, 20 was the last one i was lucky enough to get the final hit with. right now i wont even bother trying it online, cuz it will just take a while. the way the damage works for the Ur-dragon, is that it keeps the damage that all online players have dealt it, as long as they didnt die during the fight. and that is how it drops in HP. so yeah. i would just keep an eye out, for when it is almost dead if you want to get the final kill. otherwise i will suggest you fight him offline, he will be more manageable, though you wont get any of the masks or abyss amor, but every other drop you can still get like the weapons and stuff. but with the new hard mode, you can get the abyss gear and what not. but yeah. online you will hardly see little to no change in his HP especially with this late gen.

i used to really be on board with NT back when heavenly sword came out, the character the world, and their cinematics were really good and high quality. Plus they did a good job at showing the emotion in the character, and especially with the king, he was such a great character, had great poise, but overall you were meant to hate him, which they did accomplis. However, when enslaved came out, i didnt think much nor felt invested into the story, especially when the gameplay and platforming were not on par with what was out at that time. had they just done pure cutscenes and have it be a show and tell instead of a game, then i might have enjoyed it. But those issues with the combat that they had with both heavenly sword and enslaved are what initially had me thinking otherwise about them being chosen to do the reboot. and imho i really dont think dmc needed a reboot, just better direction as to where the story was really going, and the main issue with dmc4 was just the fact that we basically replayed through the entire game with each character. no one ever really mentioned that the gameplay was bad or anything, because much like eery other dmc game before it, the gameplay really improves after each installment. hence why i have issues with this reboot. that fact, is no where to be scene. the gameplay instead took a few steps back. there is no style system, you can switch between weapons, and its rediculous to have to hold a button to use a separate weapon, when they could have easily made it cylce like both dmc3&4. plus there was no innovation with the devil trigger. like im sure i have mentioned already, the whole white hair, red coat for DT is pretty BS. just a sad attempt to appease the backlash that they got. given that they felt like making dante be half angel/demon instead of just human/demon they could have really done some interesting things for that devil trigger, or had just done two, and play off of that and make and angel trigger and a devil trigger. even though im not a fan of them adding in angels into the mix, because it is just their cop out of going the cliche route of going good vs evil, and haveing that be a black and white affair, and having their dante be a grey sine he shares both traits, but overall they failed in that respect. the big thing about the real dante being human/demon was that there was more subtlety and more of a purpose as to why dante would fight against demons, especially when his twin brother Vergil fully embraced his demon side, and cared only to get more power, a power closer to their father Sparda. another manjor downfall for this reboot is the dialogue, i dotn see the NT that did great dialogue in heavenly sword nor enslaved, i just see some really sad attempts to try to make this dante be edgy by cursing, drinking, and smoking and trying to make him cool by those things, instead of transcending all that, like the initial vision was for dante from its creator. he was mean to be cool, by not doing such things, and copping out all together in that respect. along this point, for a developer that is tyring to infuse this whole notion of corporations are evil, they sure do have a funny way of trying to express that, while condoning drinking, swearing, and smoking. they are too much at odds, and it doesnt really work. Not to mention, how they turned Mundus into a king pin clone, which again, just does not work. and lastly, their little F bomb competition, is again just forced and only there to be more edgy and try to be cool. These are but some of the major issues is hare with the game as a whole, and why i will most definitely not bother to play it nor even buy it, be it new nor used nor will i even borrow it from friends. im just not going to play it at all, because it has all been a big dissapointed on how many of their new features are just shallowed in, instead of really running with them and making something better with it.

also the control scheme makes no sense. both L1 R1 do teh same thing with is dodge, you have to hit R3+L3 to devil trigger, eventhough they could have easily made L1 or R1 be a DT button. you have to hold L2 to use the angel stuff, and hold R2 to do demonic weaps, would have been better to just have it switch left or right respectively like the previous games, and the lack of a lockon blows beyond belief especially since the auto lock has no clue what it is doing. overall the control scheme is very archaic, and the fact that if your camera is not facing something like a grab point, it wont do it at all, plus the camera it self is clunky and a mess. and worst of all, aside from the 30fps, the flow of the combat is slow and you are constantly interrupted with their little cinematics inbetween combat which just screw up whatever flow you had. and lastly, the style meter sucks, you can just spam the same attack over and over and get up to a SSS with ease. plus the HUD is just lame and lacking any flair or style.

it honestly deserves a 4 and  or 3.5 to be more realistic.

as much as i hated the game already, i decided to download it on ps3 either way, and give it a shot to see if it was any different from the previous demo that i had played. and in all  honestly, i finished it feeling even more dissapoint by it. really hate the control scheme, feel very archaic to have to hold down R2 or L2 to use different weapons, when it would just be much easier to switch between them like dmc3&4 since that is much more streamlined. the fact that both L1 and R1 do the same exact thing is complety idiotic to me, especially when they force you to use R3+L3 to DT. the combat is far too slow, and all those little cinematic instances during battle just detract from the flow of the game. the lack of a proper lockon hurts even more since there is little to no control over who it will lock onto. the camera is a mess and lags too much after doing an angel pull to some ledge. the fact that you cant just hold the charge on ebony and ivory and release it when you want, not when the game feels like releasing it sucks even more. just overall, an even bigger dissapointment that i already thought it was. i consider my self up there with teh hardcore crowed when it comes to the previous dmc games, especially dmc4, and here i just found far too many limitations on the flow and overall combat of the game. the thing that is neat, is just the environment shifts and taht is basically it. the HUD still has no real flare or style, and the stylish metter is far to easy to get to S and SSS. just spamming the same move over and over will do the trick which is a real shame. overall its just a mesh with the control scheme, and the Ai has no clue what it is doing.

if i remember correctly, he has to rest at an inn for it all to register, plus he has to let your pawn go as well, he can rehire them afterwards if he wants. but he has to let them go and rest at an inn afterwards for it all to register. then when you rest at an inn you will get the pop up with the items