Item Crafting: Difference between revisions

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== Action RPG ==

* ''[[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles]]'' has "scrolls", which have materials listed on them. Taking them to a specific shop with said materials allowed crafting of a specific item, with a chance of it being better than normal. Gems can optionally be added for various effects, resulting in many possible versions of each item. Finding some of the materials may result in [[Guide Dang It]], however.

* The ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series has synthesis shops, run by the Moogles.

* In ''Sorcerian'', items could be enchanted in seven different ways. These could be combined, but produced some complicated interference effects.

 

== Puzzle Game ==

 

 

* Elaborate function in the ''[[Star Ocean]]'' series, to the point of being silly. (Using medieval tools to craft, say, a laser blaster.)

** Possibly one of the first JRPGs to use a form of crafting.

* A major plot device of the romantic comedy/spoof-RPG ''[[Thousand Arms]]'' is the player character's occupation as Spirit Blacksmith. His ability to forge weapons relies on having a pretty girl in the forge with him, and the ability improves if they have a close relationship built up in dating sim segments.

** This reliance on pretty girls comes from the protagonists' father [[Dirty Old Man|"misinterpretation"]] of his own father's belief that the art of crafting weapons is like dealing with women. The father's logical conclusion is that to craft a good weapon, you need a good woman in your arms. Considering he teaches this to his son, it's possible he takes his interpretation [[Serious Business|seriously]].

* ''[[Geneforge]] 3-5'' has magic forges that are an adventure in themselves to find and clear a safe path to, but once there 2-3 rare items can be combined for artifacts that couldn't otherwise be obtained. At least two out of three items for each recipe are themselves an adventure to obtain, rare or unique, and some ingredients are required for multiple recipes. ''2'' had a variant in which certain [[NPC|NPCs]] would craft a few powerful artifacts for you if you brought them the components.

* ''[[Legend of Mana]]'' has an enormous variety of crafting systems, which you can use to make everything from weapons to armor to musical instruments to golems. And you can use any material to make any of these things; want to make a stone shirt, or a sword made of hemp? In this game, you can. And you can power up all these items, by infusing them with ''fruit'' (grown in your own personal garden).

** ''[[Tales of the Abyss (Video Game)|Tales of the Abyss]]'' was worse by far. Some of the best armor in the game required you to search specific points on the world map for items of different rarities. One characters titles could get you specific rarities easily, so that wasn't so bad. But giving the items to one person who didn't tell you what you could make until after they were given, adding them to a pool, with all items having specific requirements to be met, some requiring almost hundreds of items to have a ''chance'' at, and two or three items with the same requirements, one often being fairly easy to get while the other could only be gotten by that method. It was a horrible case of [[Guide Dang It]].

* ''[[Baten Kaitos]]''...good lord. The best weapons are found in treasure chests (and many common drops are also far stronger than the best weapons that can be created through [[Item Crafting]]), but the best ''healing'' items... Deluxe Sushi, which has a very very long process to create.

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