This game sucks

[End of Days]

Sorry but i`ve play for 6 hours and cant even beat the first boss such a huge HP pool i`ve cleared all but that boss. Its just so boring there no feeling of progress the game fun to play buy im fing bored out of my brain with it play the same level over and over ZZzzz each run lucky to get 1 upgrade often they do nothing to improve survival or damage there`s not enough gold to collect to do anything now. The fairy chest are 100% aids

[Psyringe]

Well, people have speedrun the game from scratch without any upgrades in less than 40 minutes.

That said, not everyone is that good. I'm most definitely not, for example. Personally, I didn't care about bosses for a long time - I just enjoyed exploring the castle (you keep finding new rooms that you've never seen before) and trying out different spells and relics. I also focused on unlocking new classes (rather than making myself stronger), because I was curious how they would play.

If exploring the game in that way is not your thing and you want a quicker path through the game, you can always enable house rules and make things easier for you. There are no negative repercussions for doing so. The game is very forthcoming in letting every player tweak their experience to what they like most.

[lordatog]

This definitely sounds like a situation that calls for House Rules. You're never intended to be able to just trade blows with enemies and succeed - avoiding attacks is mandatory - but the game relies on you gaining at least some progression every time, and if you're not getting that then it's time to turn the difficulty down in some way. Lowering enemy stats will let you survive longer and better stretch the healing you find. Flight will help with fairy chests. Tweak things to find what works for you.

[End of Days]

the game is trash the hp of the first boss is stupidly high I clear the whole map easy but the boss gets me every now and then 4-5 hits your dead yer he takes 100s of hits to die loved the first game this garbage force to grind or be a no lifer

[SkyBars]

No, the only one who sucks is you. git gud n00b

[roddy]

Originally posted by End of Days:

the game is trash the hp of the first boss is stupidly high I clear the whole map easy but the boss gets me every now and then 4-5 hits your dead yer he takes 100s of hits to die loved the first game this garbage force to grind or be a no lifer

hi, sorry for that experience, this is definitely not a game to play casually. it entails failing a lot, learning and then gradual progress. some people do find it enjoyable, just maybe not your type, so as you can see your post offends some of the people here.

[Stanis23]

You scale way harder than enemies can, at 20 NG+ and I can still melt bosses in few seconds despite upgraded already being capped by Soul and much slower.

Just farm more really, you will eventually get there and start to snowball. 6 hours is not really that much for this game as the amount of farming you need at first is really insane. Try all those gold traits, slap those armors, also pick good spells (lightning storm for DPS and wind wall if defensive). Can even try Duelist too it's one of the most broken DPS class in the game as long as you keep the weapon.

[bunies]

so the game is bad because you are bad at it ????
your logic amazes me

[bzcharkl]

Originally posted by End of Days:

the game is trash the hp of the first boss is stupidly high I clear the whole map easy but the boss gets me every now and then 4-5 hits your dead yer he takes 100s of hits to die loved the first game this garbage force to grind or be a no lifer

Hyperbole aside, why are you getting hit 4-5 times? I have a revolutionary strategy for you - if you pay attention to the boss, you can see what he is going to do, and then you can take appropriate evasive maneuvers, and then he does no damage.

[Albemouff]

It's one of the best game of the year. Just not your type of game, apparently.

[Mpita]

My advice for early on? *Don't* fight the bosses.

you don't need to kill any of the 6 area bosses to just.... move on to the next area. Grab all the Heirlooms on offer, and go rampage out Axis Mundi way.

[LazyJoeBeard]

Sorry to say the first really is not that hard. I beat him on my second or third run and sense then I beat him in 1 go every NG+ To be fair I do find the Skeletons to be easier but he is still pretty easy.

[Typisch]

hp of the first boss isn't even that high, as long as you've skilled atleast a bit of dmg

[Chi-Night]

Originally posted by End of Days:

Sorry but i`ve play for 6 hours and cant even beat the first boss such a huge HP pool i`ve cleared all but that boss. Its just so boring there no feeling of progress the game fun to play buy im fing bored out of my brain with it play the same level over and over ZZzzz each run lucky to get 1 upgrade often they do nothing to improve survival or damage there`s not enough gold to collect to do anything now. The fairy chest are 100% aids

Then you are playin it wrong.
Use the engineer to lock the castle after finding the boss, so you don't need to repeat clearing the level, that way you can keep trying and gettin better against the boss till you beat him then you can move to the next area.
And even if you don't beat the boss you can still explore further into the other areas.

Give it another try.

4th area (Stygian Study) is one of the best options to get gold early, you can enter by getting the heirloom at 3rd area or by performing some well timed spin kicks using the lamps on the entrance. Also at the middle of the 2nd area (Axis Mundi) you will find an NPC that will help you unlocking area teleporters.

Originally posted by lordatog:

This definitely sounds like a situation that calls for House Rules. You're never intended to be able to just trade blows with enemies and succeed - avoiding attacks is mandatory - but the game relies on you gaining at least some progression every time, and if you're not getting that then it's time to turn the difficulty down in some way. Lowering enemy stats will let you survive longer and better stretch the healing you find. Flight will help with fairy chests. Tweak things to find what works for you.

Yeah that can also help a lot.

[Papa Smurf]

I agree with the other comments that said simply DONT fight the boss... I was probably on my 10th character before I even tried. After him I decided to not worry about it again until later I decided to fight some bosses again and first tried half of them...

For perspective I have almost 80 hours in the game and about to complete most of the base content from what I understand. I'd say the first 10-20 hours can be just exploring and fumbling along before you really figure out what works etc...

[LazyJoeBeard]

I decided to try and fight the boss from a new save and I did not kill him, got him to about 25% hp left and died. Got him on my second go though.