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I'm finishing the second run of Metaphor on regicide difficulty.
This is it, I'll put the game away forever after this. Probably buy SMTVV on next Steam sale (March 13th?)
No.644259
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It's kind of a stupid waste of time difficultly. I speedrun through it, only the endgame becomes challenging again, which I'm now at.
Atlus has certain themes for their game, Persona 3 is death, 4 is truth, etc. The game's focus is on "anxiety", there's a bit of a narrative on it in the endgame, don't you feel anxiety facing the end of the game and the toughest challenges?
Maybe you just feel video games are a waste of time:
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I had something to say but it's gone now
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Finished Metaphor, everything there is to do, I really liked that game a lot, literally my only complaint is there was too much talking/story between gameplay. Possibly best turn-based combat ever? It's up there with other modern SMT, but there's no other competition.
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Started Lies of P. I was actually concerned this shady Korean mobile developer publishing it would be doing nefarious things, especially with the weird EULA, but it actually sends nothing that I've seen (through Wireshark and resolvectl monitor on the right). systemd-resolved has this feature to see all domains resolved easily.
Anyway, I was worried the game was going to be shit too, but I can already tell the combat system isn't jank like other souls-likes, actually really quality in general.
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So there's one glaring flaw in this game, the enemy attacks are totally unpredictable.
In Sekiro enemies swing in a rhythmic predictable fashion, you can see the sword coming and you press L1.
In this game literally every single enemy has some unpredictable animation followed by lightning fast 200ms attacks.
I'm still good enough to get through it, but it actually soured my opinion of the game, it's something that could have easily been fixed/prevented.
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Stupid boss got staggered and clipped his head into the wall so I couldn't riposte him
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Finished Lies of Pee, upgraded my P-organ, 8.5/10 and not too long. Bosses were a fun level of difficult, way harder than base game Elden Ring, not as hard as DLC Elden Ring but those bosses are actually worse.
It's really obvious all these games need to have a Sekiro block from here on out, it's just more fun, standard 2009 Demon's Souls shield mechanics aren't.
Maybe I'll get Wukong when it goes on sale and check out the CCP malware, channel my inner chink, lord knows they love their Journey to the West