Which boss = quit the game?

[catnipdave]

It would be interesting to find where players have reached in the game before quitting. I've got to Fallen Archbishop Andreus and called it a day.

[An Irate Walrus]

Originally posted by Zyrconia:

So what's up with this stupid difficulty curve?

Puppet king can't do it, have to summon, need 80 tries, Victor goes down in 2 attempts, no summons.

Laxasia even harder, can't do it, need to summon.

Final story boss goes down in one attempt, no summons.

By "final," do you mean Simon (because yeah, he was nerfed pretty solidly, but was a chump before that) or the Nameless Puppet (who was *not* nerfed, and is decidedly *not* a chump)?

[Limp Squirrel]

I'm going to nominate an unknown boss as the one that made me quit. NG+,

I had a great time with NG, but don't feel desire to play through NG+, I got to the first boss, and the insane damage and HP upgrades bosses get for NG+ alone is just out of this world. Two hits from a candle stick enemy takes 35 to 40% of my health. I have the best NG defense, 700+ HP and defense amulet.

Feel the devs went a bit overboard with the difficulty again. This should be NG+++ or higher. I don't want to know what NG+++++ is like. 1 hit kill from everything?

[peterstevens]

I guess none of them did.

My biggest hurdle was PDGM at about three hours and dozens of attempts.

Lax was tough too, but didn't take too long. Simon was a Cleric Beast, I smacked the booty - maybe five tries.

Nameless Puppet took me about 20 minutes. Perfect Grindstone for 2nd phase is huge. Would like to learn 2nd phase without it. A boss rush would be nice come to think of it.

I finished the game at level 90 - 22 Vit 40 Cap 40 Tech 14 Stam

I missed the Atoned and I didn't fight Black Cat.

[Lil Larrikin]

Andreus, Puppet Devouring Monster, Laxasia and Nameless Puppet were the 3 bosses which caused me to hit a brick wall, but they're all manageable if you take the time to memorize their attack patterns.
I had gotten so used to spamming dodge rolls from Elden Ring that I was used to sorta sleepwalking through boss fights without actually paying attention to their movesets and thinking about what kind of action is best in any given situation, almost like a game of chess. Sorta like the Owl fight in Sekiro, but its the whole game.

[Tutejszy1]

I almost quit at pre-nerf KoP, but eventually beat him after 4,5hrs, after that nothing came even close in difficulty. Laxasia and Nameless only took me around 30mins each, I think that KoP just brutalized me into learning the game. I only summoned for the 2nd Brotherhood fight, it didn't even seem that difficult, but the first phase was just absurdly tedious

[Zyrconia]

Lol, 7-8 attempts on Nameless Puppet.

Finally a good boss, fitting of souls, good moveset, generally appropriate HP, even the two phases were not designed to juke you.

But he is undertunned, final boss should not be 7-8 attempts.

The balalncing is all over the place.

But besides the poor balancing and a few other major foibles (parry window, hit recovery, no poise, input buffering), excellent game!

The devs just need to learn to balance a game like this, and the sequel, Truth in Pu, will be one of the greatest souls games, better than FS material.

[Shucks]

I thought so many of the bosses were even better than souls game bosses (King of Puppets, Laxasia, Simon, and Victor). Pretty solid line-up of bosses.

[Poyzo]

None. However, King of Puppets/Romeo... my god. I beat the game (including Nameless Puppet), and KoP/Romeo was my bane in this game.

[earniebert]

Originally posted by catnipdave:

It would be interesting to find where players have reached in the game before quitting. I've got to Fallen Archbishop Andreus and called it a day.

I know I can beat Romeo. But he makes me want to kill myself that guy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks.

[Earl ToeJam]

Originally posted by Zyrconia:

So what's up with this stupid difficulty curve?

Puppet king can't do it, have to summon, need 80 tries, Victor goes down in 2 attempts, no summons.

Laxasia even harder, can't do it, need to summon.

Final story boss goes down in one attempt, no summons.

[Earl ToeJam]

Swamp monster for me. level 75. Can't block the red charge and can't dodge it. The cubes never help my specter. Why do I have to hit the guy 259 times to get halfway with him and then he changes and you have to do it all over again with phase 2 and not have many upgrades left. Plus add in the decay. It adds up to not fun anymore. Another in a list of games that the devs try to outdo each other in ways to fruck with us. Not fun.


Thanks for the help guys. I actually beat him with this strategy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAbfWZntUFw

[Krazy Wallet]

Originally posted by Earl ToeJam:

Swamp monster for me. level 75. Can't block the red charge and can't dodge it. The cubes never help my specter. Why do I have to hit the guy 259 times to get halfway with him and then he changes and you have to do it all over again with phase 2 and not have many upgrades left. Plus add in the decay. It adds up to not fun anymore. Another in a list of games that the devs try to outdo each other in ways to fruck with us. Not fun.

Are you using equipment that gives you resistance to decay? As long as you aren't running a light build, you should have some capacity to get that resistance higher. There's also a perk in the p-organ that gives you increased resistance.

In terms of damage, using slashing or piercing weapons for phase one with fire buff. He will melt. Phase 2 is best with blunt and electricity.

[crossing blades]

swamp monster with frozen feast and fire buff takes like 10 hits per phase, that's how I did it, 23 motivity with technique at base level

[Washing Machine]

Quit nah, but every single boss fight in this game has been "urgh"-experience overall.

It's kinda rare for a Soulslike to accomplish this. I have not found any of the bosses even remotely fun to deal with, it's just rinse wash repeat annoyance with very repetitive movesets and very repetitive strategy to deal with them.

Also screw you game for teaching the player to break the boss' stupid bar then "Lol actually this idiot now doesn't let you get a critical, instead he starts attacking again haha gottem better luck next time". That's just straight garbage design to trick the player for luls.

ALSO also, the further you get, the longer the boss runbacks get. Why? I don't even have to fight anything on the way, it's just a longer run there. Can we not?

[BBQ]

Nameless Puppet in NG+.
After defeating that I was able to get the last needed weapon for the special weapon achievement and getting 100% completion.
I "quit" the game after that and will pick it up again when DLC is out. Or when I feel I want to have another run for fun.