Me doing the Courier’s Rasher quest 17 times and getting my ass kicked over and over again by Lace:

bug-facts Bullshit game, fake difficulty, sadistic devs, pls nerf

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 days ago

    (Apparently it’s also easier if you play anything other than the build I chose, oops).

    Let me guess - you did a strength build on that little guy anti-shinra-action Some of the bosses seem like a huge pain in the ass if you have a slower weapon

    I struggled with the final boss of the expansion enough to xi-button the difficulty button. There were a handful of the bosses I found annoying enough in NG+ that I did it too lol.

    I still need to check out Another Crab’s Treasure - it looks super cute.

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      2 days ago

      Dex build actually, because I thought a strength build on the little guy would just look too silly. I loved the moveset of the starting rapier so much I stuck with it for the entire game, occasionally swapping to the tyrant slayer’s dagger for boss fights or really big and tough enemies because I liked the drip of taking down bosses with a weapon named that.

      I also didn’t bother with swapping weapon handles because it would mess with the moveset and therefore the aesthetics, and this game is heavy on aesthetics and style. I kind of Fashion Souls’d myself out of a core mechanic of the game. I tried, mind you, like when I was struggling with one boss in particular I looked for advice on how to fight her and “longspear handle + acid spear tip” was the consistent answer. I tried, but the moveset was not aesthetic, so I went back to ol’ (un)reliable

      I gifted a friend the game, he went with an arcane build because he likes magic stuff, and he breezed through it. I felt a little bad for him that he found it so easy actually. Part of the joy of these games is the struggle.

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        1 day ago

        You missed out on combining the Wintry Rapier blade with the Tyrant Murder’s Dagger handle lol. I think the lack of weapon experimentation is where you got the added difficulty. I had a handful of weapon combos for a Dex build (lots of the Booster Glaive handle), and ended up using the katana nerd in the end of the game, but didn’t struggle too much.