Talk:JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Records/@comment-918683-20170226171236

I'm not sure how much of this people here have played yet, but I've got a good handling on how the basic mechanics of the game work. The statue info looks correct, but there are issues with gold, friend points, Minds, etc.

Minds are not the "cinematic attacks" mentioned, but they can be equipped to boost stats and grant other bonuses under special conditions. The most useful ones I find are the ones that give certain characters another skill (skill Minds can be obtained for Josuke, Okuyasu, and Koichi in Chapter 1 of the story, and Shigechi's can be found in Chapter 8; those are all I've gotten so far).

Each character has an element, which you can tell by the background - Courage (blue) has an advantage over Fighting Spirit (red), which has an advantage over Intelligence (green), which an has advantage over Courage.

I've also been primarily obtaining upgrade materials for my main party's "growth trees," in which you spend these materials for permanent stat boosts, levelled up skills, and extra Mind Capacity points.

If there are other questions for some of these mechanics you don't understand, feel free to reply and I'll do my best to help. This is a pretty cool game, I think. Follow me in the game, if you like, too (my name there is 偽川尻浩作 ["Impostor Kosaku Kawajiri"]).