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sorry, when I say basic

I mean duel style fights, rather than "wail on this big beast for 5 minutes as it thrashes around" fights

spooky i never talked about if the bosses were basic or not, just that i enjoyed the fights more, also idk if i'd call first sinner a basic boss, not complex, but not basic

I feel like Spooky's wording is opposite. Big beast that thrashes around is a lot more "basic" than the intricate duel fights haha

yeah sure

idk what word to use

and imo first sinner is def in the category of good duels

same as the fencing bitch

oh phantom, he was also a fun fight

i did like the Ant queen boss, despite the small enemy swarm before the fight

was that the one underground in the wine cellar?

no

you havent seen it yet

its a proper boss fight

uh, fourth chorus was good

widow is good

last judge is good

Trobbio

also good

last judge is meh

I liked Trobbio though, fun fight once you learn his attacks

dancers were very fun, though a bit easy

Widow, clockwork cancers, and tobbio are all fun but easy

guy at the top of Coral Tower was also fun but easy

I forget his name because I only saw it once :)

guy at the top of coral tower was super easy

i first tried him lol

his attacks are easier to dodge than cogwork dancers

for sure

i forgot moss mother was even a boss

looking at a list

i actually thought bell beast was the first boss until i saw this list

completely forgot moss mother existed

@Garbage what do we call this perspective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNVScevM43E

and can we blame Octopath

that kind of art style really does not mesh with that perspective

yeah, I don't think I've ever seen it before like this either

something is just off about the whole trailer

its not quite octopath though

its some weird blend of pixel art style

fresh hands and no tilt made this much more doable today

very funny that the first thing you encounter in act 2 is a thing you need to spend rosaries on after a corpse run that you probably failed at least once

ok this is not a fun game anymore

its an annoying game mechanic but a fun lore bit that you pay for temporary benches

the citadel is just such a shithole

i'm not even in citadel

underworks is cancer

blind jumps into double damage spikes is not fun

theres a lot of that in the game I noticed. They expect you to just jump down or have the foresight to float down slowly even if it feels wrong

and double damage is always bullshit

float down slowly onto disappearing platforms that will then fall on top of you

I've seen people memeing on the double DMG thing a lot

It's so stupid

Feels so unnecessary

you run through the obnoxious area with double damage spikes everywhere, then finally get to the first bench sign, go into the room, and promptly have the game eat your jump input and die

have you considered that it might not be eating your input and instead youve been buck broken from decades of coyote jumps

There’s seriously a TON of blind falls in this game. It always infuriates me because I’m impatient and have to force myself to slowwwwwly float down every single pit I see.

I'm more meaning the jumps where the obstacle you are dodging is off screen and on a timer

the lava area in atla and the underworks both have it

Oh right there’s more of that later too. I’m still more annoyed by blind falls.

i'm seeing stuff that says there's content locked behind the permadeath difficulty

I doubt that

first game added some vendors to let you sell your death-related mats, since they wouldn't work

ok, that's weird from both angles

so it is an NPC who did replace a death mat, but they gave it a unique fetch quest which rewards an item that gives periodic free shards

the free shards item is great to throw into a randomizer item pool

no other use because why would you ever play this permadeath

Weird game to play permadeath

I used to like doing permadeath runs in arpgs

but both Diablo and PoE have such inconsistent servers

maybe speedrunners will run steel soul if it makes the game faster

I'd never trust it anymore

silk cocoon 100% will give some benefit somewhere to abuse

they need to get good enough at the game before routing that

or use invincibility hacks like the IGN team did

I feel like running on steel soul would make the speed run a lot less accessible

entry level would have no reason to run steel soul

if you can't deathless every boss you won't be in contention anyway