Re: Dragon Hunter D
Played this game for a while, some notes...
Best weapon in the game, no doubt, is the what google translates as the Hippokku sword. It is one of the big and fat single sword types. The thing is, its not even a high-end weapon, you can get it fairly early on, and while the attack power is not amazing, what is amazing is its status effect.
It puts enemies to sleep, with a fairly low chance of waking up. Sometimes the enemies will simply stay asleep for five or six turns, allowing you to wail on them. Even better, you can sometimes chain the sleeps one after another, so enemies stay more or less perpertually asleep. Before you think "oh well its useless against bosses", nope, it works on every boss I've ever fought, with only the plant monster that kidnaps the quest giver girl resistant, but not immune to it.
Another thing, is you will want to collect the blue mushrooms from the mushroom piles and the green plants from the giant flowers. These combined give you green health potions, which can be bought but are expensive and you will need them even with the Hippokku sword when you start fighting dragons.
The items you can make that look like different colored slimes or jellies are also useful for the really hard fights. Depending on the color they boost attack, defense, or agility.
Please note I haven't figured out how to use combos yet, although I'm at around HR 28. The Hippokku sword has basically brought me to the end game.