How luck-based is the difficulty in this game?

[Arzak]

I wanna buy this game, it seems to have a great story and I also love hard games, however I saw a couple comments about the difficulty relying to much on luck (flip coins). Are these comments true? Honest answers please and thanks in advance.

[EckyThump]

I would say that there is a learning curve where you figure out how to minimize the chances of a run ending due to bad luck. The path to getting to that place though will be marked by a load of cheap deaths. That can be frustrating and it is not for everyone.

A lot of enemies have coin flip attacks that cause crippling damage or kill you outright. Most enemies do telegraph this a turn before they do it. However coin flip attacks can be completely negated by using the Guard move.

Once you've learned an enemy's attack pattern, the order you need to damage limbs and perform a guarding move in, you take a lot of the RNG out of combat.

Enemies can be avoided, fooled with disguises, crippled with traps.
For the times when a crucial coin flip is unavoidable, you have a few 'lucky coins' to turn that 50/50 into 75% in your favour.

[happyeggs]

Originally posted by EckyThump:

I would say that there is a learning curve where you figure out how to minimize the chances of a run ending due to bad luck. The path to getting to that place though will be marked by a load of cheap deaths. That can be frustrating and it is not for everyone.

how long would you say the learning curve is? I'm worried the game is going to be 95% learning how to play it and 5% actually playing the game.

[Quinn]

Originally posted by Arzak:

I wanna buy this game, it seems to have a great story and I also love hard games, however I saw a couple comments about the difficulty relying to much on luck (flip coins). Are these comments true? Honest answers please and thanks in advance.

This game is kind of like a rogue like

[vietnego]

you can maximize your chances, but you will aways fell like you can just hit the deck at any moment, its a good survival horror vibe.