I’ve been playing anything but soulslikes recently. Climbing my way up the ranked ladder in League, played some Darkwood, and recently got obsessed with Pokerogue which has been a lot of fun.
Soulslikes can pose quite a challenge for players with their oftentimes quite brutal difficulty: insane boss patterns that leave no breathing room, high amounts of damage, status damage. Luckily, many bosses allow for strategies that exploit intended as well as unintended weaknesses to make the fights a little more bearable. So following up on @[email protected]’s suggestion, I want to know what your favourite ways to cheese a boss in a Soulslike is.
Cheesing could be a glitch in this case, like glitching out the final boss of the Bloodborne DLC to stop them from attacking or having Gyoubu or a certain hateful spirit jump off a cliff in Sekiro, as well as “intended” cheeses, like chugging consumables and Fable Arts at bosses in Lies of P.
I haven’t done it myself, but I always found it incredibly funny to think about that the Capra Demon from DS1, a wall for many new players, can be killed from outside their fog of wall with stones and dung piles. Or a certain simian boss from Sekiro being very weak to the Mortal Draw to a point where he’s in a constant stagger animation and just dies without any counterplay.
What are your favourite cheeses?
Okay first of all I don’t want to say anything definitive because I haven’t played it myself. And Code Vein does have its fanbase, it’s just that they mostly like it for the anime story and the companion system (or co-op) or the character creator that lets you make your own anime character. Or the build variety I guess, I have heard it’s supposed to have good build variety.
But stuff like combat, boss design, level design and exploration are often brought up as criticisms in various ways. Clunky and weightless combat, some bad bosses, poor balancing, uninspiring level design with lots of samey-looking mazelike copy-pasted assets, poor enemy variety… stuff like that is what I’ve heard.
Okay, so yes. Lord Nobody of Nowhere in Central Nowhere sells photo plates (he also buys pictures, pays extra for pictures of ghosts). Like every vendor, he will only sell you up to a certain quantity, so you can never overstock anything (apart from craftables). I think the max limit on photo plates is 7. I think this also takes into account spent photo plates in your inventory so always sell those off before you restock.
I don’t think there should be any place that is completely inaccessible, not that I remember. Which area are you in? But doing a farming run with Mr Coffin isn’t a bad idea if you need more resources. There are also some neat farming strats you can do, like with the grandfather clock (set it to midnight to attract enemies then pelt them with an AoE like Harvest Field). Or some Door Hex shenanigans.
I see, I remember looking for a review of the first one when the latest one dropped and it didn’t gave me a bad impression. But maybe I wasn’t thorough enough.
I guess between this one and thymesia I’ll play the mid/bad soulslikes as well, eventually.
good to know on the plate thing, thank you! oh and that’s what the clock is for? I had no idea. I’m at the entry of the maze. Because of the pace of the game I’m being very careful not to die and I haven’t died that much so I went to get stuff before I dived in. Anyway if anything else comes up I’ll ask you about it… Or look it up like a normal person XD