I guess I love suffering and play games only because it’s not enough in real life (that’s why my favourite genres are souls-likes and fightings, but that’s another story). I’m currently playing Expedition 33, and this game marks some areas as “dangerous”, implying that the player is underleveled to defy local bosses and mobs. But hey, it sounds like a challenge! The moveset of the first boss I’ve met was very small—only 3 moves. But that was not the issue here: I dealt very little damage, whereas they simply one-shot me. After two days I finally made it: 37 minutes of patience, and 265 successful parries in my winning attempt. I’m very proud of myself :) It was not the longest time I’ve spent on a boss, but by far the longest attempt
Ah the chromatic pink fluffy thing done at level 16. GG
Technically done at level ?? that leveled them up to level 16. So even weaker
Oh yeah, considering the amount needed to level up & the amount they gained, they probably gained a few levels with that single fight
Congrats! That’s absolutely what I found most exhilarating with Expedition 33 gameplay-wise, being able to defeat much tougher enemies with a mix of persistence and parrying/dodging - that was really rewarding imo.
I am wondering what level the party should be before really exploring the map because I was looking around everywhere I could go once I got Esquie but outside of the path to the next objective, everything encountered was so beefy I could do 20,000 damage with the first 3 attacks and still not see a dent in the health bar as they go on to one shot all 3 characters at once. Very FF-ish in that regard, to me, which makes me expect that there will be a good point at which I can stomp these barriers out, just not now unless I grind like a motherfucker for it or just take forever and never take a hit (which I do appreciate because old school FF you couldn’t just not get hit if you were good lol).
It tells me a dungeon is dangerous, but unless I am blind I haven’t noticed any indication of an enemy’s level.
Yeah, eventually a dungeon will just stop being dangerous. Of course, there’s no good reason to ever take damage in this game. Unless you make mistakes.
I make a lot of mistakes.
I love that all the no damage gamers switched to all damage runs with this game as “the hard thing”. Because everyone already knows that a hitless parry only run is possible. No need to prove it.
I did a few exploration and chromatic bosses during the story but not going far away the main path.
I didn’t want to be overpowered for the story boss as you can’t enjoy the battle and music when you almost ont shot things. You can even miss lore with some bosses.
So exploring is done now, with Esquie flying and the story done. I can build the cheesiest team I want now without having regrets.
I’ve been tempted to go back and beat things i skipped but decided to wait until Esquire can fly. I figure it will save on travel time.
That’s been my thought too.
I can’t help but equating it to Final Fantasy from 9 or below when that was kind of the formula. You do the prologue, get into the wider world without transport, check out what you can reach, then you get a boat or some way of crossing some barriers but not others and you can encounter things way too hard for you, but by the time you get the transport that lets you go everywhere, you’re almost finished with the game and probably ready to take on the optional monsters. lol
I just beat that bastard tonight. Gained nearly 3 levels. Felt so good when the parries just kept coming. Nice job.
Trying to do a chromatic boss in Act 3 and jeeeze it’s moves are so difficult to time and it’s a flying enemy so I can’t really even attack it.
Are you referring to that chromatic hat guy? I’m in act 2 and I’ve spent about an hour trying to get one of his moves and it’s just not clicking with all of that delay and audio cues for me.
Nice one!
Do Golgra next. I think she has so much health that it would take you a few hours.
It was Sprong that took me ages, and I’d already largely beaten the game at that point.
Thanks! I know nothing about the game (and try to avoid spoilers), and haven’t found this boss yet. So will just keep playing and exploring
Holy shit you just made me want to play this game even more then i already did and i just got nightreign.
I haven’t bought Nightreign yet, but probably will do later. It’s a bit weird concept for me, and i’m not sure i’m ready to play it now. Plus i don’t have two friends i can play with
By end game you are dishing out millions of damage in a single attack so this is likely a waste of time… Except for sprog get that shit asap
No, not a waste of time. I feel amazing after making it :)
