Can the Grim Reaper be fixed to be less frustrating?

[Trash Dove]

The boss fight itself is fine but he's behind a gauntlet of traps and frustrating enemies or and I'm not sure if my games glitched or not but he also no longer has a health regen door meaning I'm never able to enter the fight at full health.

This compounds with a major time waste of a long walk back through annoying enemies or annoying traps which don't challenge you but feel more annoying and slow you down making each attempt at this side boss feel more like a chore than a fun challenge.

[JediMB]

I feel you. I got really frustrated when trying to defeat the Reaper last night, and finally succeeded around 50 minutes ago.

The difficulty of the battle itself felt higher than even the "secret" boss, but having to take such a long route with enemies and obstacles in the way was the really frustrating part.

[hip]

i don't think that there is a patch that can fix skill issue

[Trash Dove]

Originally posted by hip:

i don't think that there is a patch that can fix skill issue

Like I beat him but I can critique a part of the game that was not an enjoyable bit. When the highlight of an otherwise good boss is overshadowed by a time wasting drag of the walk back IMO it should be fixed

[JediMB]

Originally posted by hip:

i don't think that there is a patch that can fix skill issue

There are plenty of ways to fix "skill issues" with patches.

The easiest would be placing a save room three screens to the right of the Reaper's boss room, where there's a blank spot on the map.

A more involved fix would be to expand the extremely bare-bones accessibility menu with features that let the player make things easier for themselves.

[august_o]

Originally posted by JediMB:

I feel you. I got really frustrated when trying to defeat the Reaper last night, and finally succeeded around 50 minutes ago.

The difficulty of the battle itself felt higher than even the "secret" boss, but having to take such a long route with enemies and obstacles in the way was the really frustrating part.

It's that walk of shame that really gets to me lol. Reminds me a bit of the walk to Traitor Lord in Hollow Knight.