TearRing Saga: Berwick Saga（PlayStation 2）
🤝 Expand your roster through hiring and trust
Recruiting allies is itself part of Berwick Saga's appeal. Many characters are mercenaries you hire for a fee, and formally bringing them into the knights requires meeting character-specific conditions. Interactions and meals at the base let you build trust over time, providing a gradual, long-term completion goal.
TearRing Saga: Berwick Saga — what should I check first in Allies, side events, and completion goals?
Many characters are mercenaries you can hire by paying money. More powerful mercenaries tend to cost more. To have someone join the knights permanently, you must also meet conditions specific to that character. If there is a unit you like, plan how to use them with their recruitment requirements in mind.
| Phase | Objective | Checklist |
|---|---|---|
| Early game | Learn the distinctive rules and prepare at your base |
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| Midgame | Make map clears more consistent |
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| Late game | Finish difficult maps and collection goals |
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1. Taking heavy losses on maps
Cause: Advancing too aggressively without enough preparation
Solution: Prepare equipment at the base, then advance carefully using range and terrain
2. Weapons run out quickly
Cause: Poor management of durability and supplies
Solution: Restock at the base and avoid overusing expensive weapons against ordinary enemies
3. Missing allies or events
Cause: Overlooking recruitment conditions
Solution: Check recruitment and event conditions before starting a map
Many characters are mercenaries you can hire by paying money. More powerful mercenaries tend to cost more. To have someone join the knights permanently, you must also meet conditions specific to that character. If there is a unit you like, plan how to use them with their recruitment requirements in mind.
- ▸ Many allies are mercenaries hired for a fee
- ▸ More powerful mercenaries tend to cost more to hire
- ▸ Permanent recruitment has character-specific requirements
- ▸ Use units you want to recruit with their requirements in mind
Relationships with allies are represented by trust, which gradually increases through repeated hiring, deployment, and interactions at the base. Treating a character to their favorite food at the tavern is another way to raise it. Stronger trust makes them easier to use and helps with recruitment. Steady effort at the base as well as in battle is a shortcut to gathering allies.
- ▸ Repeated hiring and deployment raise trust
- ▸ Serving favorite foods at the tavern is another way to raise trust
- ▸ Deepen relationships through base interactions
- ▸ Accumulated trust helps with recruitment
Tavern meals can do more than raise trust: some improve stats or grant particular skills for the duration of the chapter. Skills range from improving shield activation rates to parrying at the cost of weapon uses and enabling consecutive attacks. Choosing who receives which meals and skills broadens your tactical options and makes character development rewarding to explore.
- ▸ Meals help improve stats or grant temporary skills
- ▸ Skills offer varied effects, including shield activation, parrying, and consecutive attacks
- ▸ Choosing whom to strengthen broadens tactical options
- ▸ There is room to explore different development combinations
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