this game went from being fun and a bit unique with its actual art to just hardcore souls like game, doesnt really become enjoyable at all when you wanna just play and unlock scenes not sweat your ass off trying to get through basic enemies
If you're sweating that hard and still dying often enough to rage, I think the problem might be on YOUR end.
literally horrid game combat, nothing about it screams fun.
what im saying is, for a bloody porn game you actually have to play it as a souls game, and this is such a half ass attempt at a souls game, the combat is not fun cause, the blocking and dodging barely works, you dont get iframes, cause they dont exist, so everything needs to be played perfectly with action, so yes you need to put effort into the game to get through it.
the first boss is poorly balanced, 2 taps you and has insane dash speeds with barely any warning, you get barely any time to react to any of their attacks and dont forget a massive AOE, it wouldnt be horrible if there was any form of more consistent dodging but no its a back dash that stuns you, a shield that barely works and such a fast draining stamina with a cooldown timer that doesnt fit the games pace
You do not have to play it like a souls game. You can literally beat every boss without DASHING. CONSISTENTLY.
The First boss telegraphs his dash so incredibly hard that you can casually meander away from him and he'll COMPLETELY whiff. He had no AOE to speak of.
Second Boss can be dodged in nearly the same way. Just walk one direction and hop up on the little platform. Rinse and repeat 3 times to win.
Mimic can ALSO be beaten without any tight dodging.
So the question here is...what the actual fuck are YOU doing? Slamming your face against every boss in an attempt to face tank em? Because I've not seen such well balanced enemy movement/ai in a game like this in YEARS.
Literally every complaint you listed has no basis in reality.The bosses telegraph the ever loving FUCK out of their attacks. I repeat. You can LITERALLY casually meander away from every boss and dodge them CONSISTENTLY. First boss has like a 4 second wind up before he does an attack. That's MORE than enough time to literally hold left or right and NOT get hit.
You're just trying to face tank everything, and it's painfully obvious.
i might need to just rethink and play it differently, but i think i should have said a large collision for the sword, instead of AOE, cause even when i jump, it tags me (that is when hes dashing towards you) i feel really delusional with my take here cause with what you are describing, guess ill retry see how i fare this time
The reason your experience probably doesn't transfer well to others is because you had warding 3 and reflex on some gear in the early game. The gear in this game is randomized as I never got anything level 3 until after unlocking the first shop purely by luck. Some people are playing this with beyond shitty gear because that's just how the game is. I'm not saying the bosses are impossible, they all have their cheese strats and I literally never use dash at all because I find it worth less than the effort it takes to remember it exists. I got a bow with Life steal 3 on it and took that to the end of the game without dying a single time after that because it was so strong. Still, other players are likely having a hard time cause all they have is some shitty underwear with like magnet 1 or thickness 1 and a weapon with no ability on it or something fighting enemies and bosses that kill in like 2 hits. They won't experience this game the way I did which was braindead easy because of my kobold bow. You have to admit that there is no wiggle room if you're already bad at this game to try and get better.
yeah, manage to beat him, just had to get into a rythm instead of brainlessly jumping, and yeah kinda had some shitty loot at first, only just got some good ones after defeating him, which made the experience a lot better, just not my cup of tea but id still try and beat it of cause, i like the art and get to improve, just currently getting a error code after defeating the mimic, done it twice now
I think the error code from the mimic comes from if you mash through the text too fast during the scene. The game has to like, think about the transition going on because its loading you into the game and things have changed and it needs to load you into a text box and if you're mashing I think you advanced the text box before it loads in or something. I took it slow and it didn't crash after that. Saved immediately afterwards.
weird, cause the first time i was like actively reading through the text, and it gave it to me, but third times the charm and finished it, same with the game, and honestly game became really easy after that still a bit rough at the start but nothing a small tweak could fix
That chest is guaranteed dude. And again, it changed nothing. I think Reflex kicking in a SINGLE time in that fight, and I had hearts left over at the end. The ENTIRE game had me between 2 and 3 shots from death. I ended up using a Whip and a giant hammer for most of the game.
So no. I DON'T have to admit that there's no wiggle room, but that would make me a liar.
There's a chest near the first bed with high tier abilities on it. It's just...there. In plain sight.
But yeah. Like I said. I've not seen enemies this well programmed in a VERY long time. I unironically think the dev may have found his niche.
The dev could maybe slightly reduce the range on the upward swing and leave the rest alone. Getting over his head is the thing I see the most complaints about. The dash is just punishing enough to go "no, you got greedy, so you get hit". Same with the normal swing. The upward swing is bigger than you'd think and while I had no issues with it, I'm still not sure if it actually matches his horizontal swing.