yeah I’m really loving it now that I have actual combat options and diverse scenery, I can’t believe I quit the damn game twice in what couldn’t have been more than the first couple hours and it turned out to be worthwhile after that
Can’t believe this Anime Betrayal.
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my wife says “thank you for playing it in French, not sure I could stand it being on otherwise”
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please hate it again felix
I need you to hate it again
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what a fucking arc
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petition to rename this thread “Felix SUCKS… or does he???”
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Yeah, this mirrors my experience. I had no idea normal attacks recoiled enemies on the regular difficulty. That’s wild. The thing that annoyed me the most in the first segment of the game on Hard was it didn’t feel like there was a good way to deal with the heavy enemies. You aren’t given the tools to stun them, and coupled with the numerous other enemies there just wasn’t any breathing room to use any of your moves and the experience became stifling and claustrophobic. It was safer to to do a couple of slashes and then dodge, and you can only do that so many times before it gets old.
Though now that I think about it I think I ended up relying almost completely on that one axe strike that takes a while to charge and ends with a kick because you’re invincible during the canned animation. But everything did change once I hate the lake and I turned around on the game. The combat is very much about controlling the crowd with recoils and stuns so you can focus on dealing damage on something in particular. The arena shapes get somewhat more varied as do the enemy arrangements, and your toolset becomes robust enough that you can mold your playstyle into the system. However some of the more difficult enemies can only get recoiled by very, very slow moves or not at all by normal means so I had to find other solutions to deal with them.
I heard God Men Going their Own Way (GMGOW) difficulty’s main difference is that enemies will go up one level after a period of time unless you’re recoiling/stunning them. That sounds more annoying than hard but maybe I played more defensively than most people.
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yeah you gotta poke everything for the first bit or risk having to start very long and uninteresting combats over, it’s a very strange way to introduce a game that is primarily about interesting variations on crowd control
That heavy draugr fight in the courtyard took me an hour and almost repelled me.
Then the poison witches they introduce immediately after are just unconscionable
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I think I switched the difficulty down and back up again twice during the opening hours. I’m curious how a game with that much work hours and polish put into it arrives at an introduction this frustrating.
I was all set to say how one of the best things about this game which is very Old Brawler Energy is how many opportunities you get to try to fling monsters off the stage rather than have to finish them off and then they just gave me an elevator stage which was all about that
no way around it, game is good
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though it’s also the first thing in a while where I find myself frequently mixing up the button combination I meant to press in the heat of battle, they’re into some banjo kazooie shit with this moveset
starting to reach the point of being awed by just how diverting this is
it could just be the french dub but kratos and his son have more amicable, funny chemistry than I was led to believe, the supporting cast and all the different areas are all pretty interesting once you finally make your way to them, and for being one Objectively Very Long Uninterrupted Journey it’s really easy to pick up and play for 20-30 minutes at a time, which addresses pretty well all of my initial complaints, and it has such easygoing friction and so many fun tertiary systems for a linear game that isn’t in your face about side quests, so that’s pretty much all of my complaints addressed.
I still think those first two hours are total garbage but for $20 it’s pretty much a no-brainer
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I’ve decided this game is actually about what happens when southern European men try to assimilate into social democracies
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my son is too loud and mean to everyone, I keep accidentally starting fights everywhere I go, women are so alarmingly kind to me that I sometimes space out and hallucinate the ones back home criticizing me, etc
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This guy played the game a lot and can do some cool stuff with it.
This is no longer on PSNow oh well~
had to put it down to medium difficulty to beat the optional late game stuff and I don’t even care
wife just came in and saw two half naked guys pounding on each other while shouting in French and asked how I was enjoying my gay duolingo
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