I'm making this because it feels necessary, as it is considered a difficult game and I'll probably need help along the way.
FIRST THING'S FIRST... well updating my PS3 so I can sign in and play in online mode, if that even matters.
Then I shall start a new game and PICK A CLASS. What CLASS should I PICK? Let's say vote on it and I'll pick the one that wins. Don't be a jerk and say stuff like "pick the normal human class because they die when an enemy looks at them but that's how REAL MEN PLAY THE GAME!" Screw you, I'm already afraid enough at the immense difficulty I'm looking at here, while I won't be a total wimp and play on sissy easy mode, I'm still gonna request you recommend the best CLASS for a beginner, one that will make the hurt a little less painful.
Commence on the voting and whatever other tips you can supply before I start.
-- ~Halo Live, fight, survive, as a family. http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7469/batfamily.jpg
Your choice of class doesn't matter all that much in the end--it affects your starting stats and gear and nothing more. You're perfectly free to start as a soldier, pump a bunch of points into your magic stat, and end up with a perfectly competent mage on your hands, for example.
That said, the Royal class does the best job of easing you in to those early stages of the game: it comes packed in with a spell or two and a ring that gradually regenerates MP. Kinda lets you keep a safe distance from stuff that wants to rearrange your face while you're getting used to the mechanics of the game--then again, if melee is more your style and you want to work towards building that, maybe getting spoiled by that advantage early on isn't such a good thing.
It's no cakewalk either way, but I think most would agree that magic users have an easier time overall than pure melee.
-- It's a sad thing that your adventures have ended here !!
Your wardrobe will be entirely yours to command: equip weight and gender are the only limiters.
Thief was my choice as well! It'll start you off with 15 points in Luck, the least-important stat, but I was cool with that --just meant I never bothered to invest in it later.
-- It's a sad thing that your adventures have ended here !!
That one-swing wonder is pretty much curtains for everybody. Sort of a welcome party, if you will. If you had miraculously managed to pull off a victory there, you would have been cutscene-KO'd by the next guy. Death is inevitable in the tutorial level.
Most demons do indeed have red eyes, but if you find someone early on that breathes like Darth Vader and doesn't have blue eyes, you will probably regret visiting him.
-- It's a sad thing that your adventures have ended here !!