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PaperclipPerfector  7mo ago (text post)   2184 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for May 2, 2025

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I'm enjoying it quite a lot. The writing has been really good, the graphics are well done (and the art style is beautiful), the music is good... the game really just fires on all cylinders. The only complaint I've had thus far is that the enemies can sometimes be overly damaging if you don't pull off the dodge/parry, but for the most part that has been reasonable. You spend more time healing up if you miss dodges and the like, but it's doable. Thanks @Silverdawn for the strong recommendation to play despite my misgivings!

It's true. But I would say the primary difficulty (for me) isn't hitting the parry correctly, it's when the attack makes you think it's about to fall but then hangs in the air for another 2s and hits you when you're recovering from the animation. I find dodges equally susceptible to that problem.

Also to be honest my gripe is that the very damaging attacks exist in the first place. I don't like Dark Souls and don't want it in my JRPG. The places where it creeps in have been few thus far, but every time it's been a bummer for that reason.

The only complaint I've had thus far is that the enemies can sometimes be overly damaging if you don't pull off the dodge/parry

Later you can make builds that rely less on this, but I found it helpful to know that one of the main developers is a Sekiro speed runner - the game is 100% designed around the realtime inputs. Once you give up and embrace that (and get gud) it becomes more enjoyable.

At least, that's the process I went through.

There are several passives that guaranties shields and a few abilities. Some characters can be specced with as much DEF as possible and shrug most damage, looking at you, Maelle. I don't think you can outheal any fight, but if you select enemies at appropriate level (and not try to kill Sprong at level 33) you can just play more or less like normal JRPG after some point in act1.

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