Ji is the best Sol fight

[Maximilion13]

Ji might be trap, but the fight with Ji is the best ever sol fight in the game.
it's the only one that is fun and balanced.
it's the only one that I actually enjoyed.

Yingzhao was supposed to be the first boss to fight, but I took detour to the bird girl but before I fought her I want to the Chi You brother Xingtian, but it was kind hard to me so I went back and finished Yingzhao as the game asked, and then I started feeling the game is linear.
went back to Xingtian later, it was a fun fight but hated the never ending healing even when it's at 1HP, but it was fun. I thought I'm done with Yanlao, good thing I saved at the bench. the fight with Yanlao isn't hard but I hated the never ending teleportation and the very low damage of mine.
so I ignored Yanlao and went for Goumang, lmoa that is the easiest boss in the game.
I went back to Yanlao, spent a good time there, then I realized there was a tiny bit of the map not completed so I went there to fight a mini boss that Chi You will ask to fight very later on in the game, was able to get the skill that increase slash damage then I was able to finish Yanlao two phases in less than the half of the time it was taking me to beat his first phase before, because the damage inflicted is what matters and the long fight just jumping and parrying aren't fun if it takes ages, my eyes hurt.
and that's when I 100% can say the game is just a linear game.
who's then? Jiequan? ok this one is kinda hard but also fun and yeah I can say I kinda felt good after finishing it.
Next, Ethereal, I spent 3 days before I noticed there's this one bug that actually affect the whole game. for whatever reason even while I set the game at 60Hz the game was actually running at 144Hz ( my screen max fps ) but if u uncheck the limit fps things can go even more crazy.
what does this fps do u say? simply, Yi is looked at the speed of 60Hz if not lower, but the whole game is way faster, the movement, the teleportation, the speed of the attacks, the room for parrying it's all had less than the half of the windows to react comparing to normal. add to that the fps drops when there's a multiple enemies, or copies.
after the whole 3 days the only thing was preventing me from finishing Ethereal is this bug. do u ever think anyone will be satisfied after this? so I just wanted to continue exploring not going to boss after a boss after. that's why when I reached Ji I went to the other area where fuxi/nuwa are. both areas where's big so there was nothing to do but to do the boss fights.
fuxi was an annoying fight for me I forget about the fps bug never can be completely fixed and that's I had to make sure it got fixed before any boss fight, not to mention the bug of the game refusing to move my character, I can do anything but movement lmao what a fun game full of bugs.
so anyway, glad that I did fuxi/nuwa before Ji cus it was annoying, but don't worry this was the second easiest fight. and no, annoying doesn't had anything to do with it being easy or hard, it was so easy that I actually hated lmao.

now, let's come the best ever Sol fight int the game, LORD JI.
now, I'm not saying it's the best because it was easy for me, I actually died there and lost over +3000 Jin but it was extremely fun to fight and to learn. Ji was fighting very fair. it's the best and we are done here.

Eigong? I dunno, I haven't done with here yet at this point. but I don't have a feeling for whatever is coming except for the ending of the story, I on't care about the fight, but I must do the fight. any dev adding a story mode in a game should be fired. people want to play not to watch. so it's either I done with the fight or it's over. I don't feel anything ever, no emotion about eigong, no anger no hate no motivation to fight nothing ever. but I did beat the first phase. maybe I will finish the game before 2025. I'm not here to complain. I'm here to say Ji is the only fun, fair, nice, very well design and the perfect Sol fight.
even if I finished Eigong nothing will change, cus I know Ji fight is the best from the start.

[Maximilion13]

edit: in case u want my list from the easiest to the hardest Sol list
Goumang
Fuxi/Nuwa ( steam is censoring the brother name for whatever reason lol )
Yanlao
Yingzhao ( not a sol but whatever )
Ethereal
Jiequan
Ji
Eigong of course

[DarkLu]

Buddy, just adjust the difficulty. Story mode doesn’t mean you must one-shot the boss. It’s just about making an experience that meet everyone’s expectancy of difficulties.

In some sense, I agree with you, cuz the dev calls it normal mode, somewhat making people frustrated on some tedious boss.

I would rather suggest “challenge mode”, and give individual achievements for finishing each modes.

[Maximilion13]

Originally posted by DarkLu:

Buddy, just adjust the difficulty. Story mode doesn’t mean you must one-shot the boss. It’s just about making an experience that meet everyone’s expectancy of difficulties.

In some sense, I agree with you, cuz the dev calls it normal mode, somewhat making people frustrated on some tedious boss.

I would rather suggest “challenge mode”, and give individual achievements for finishing each modes.

lmao, it was just a funny take on the story mode. I don't even what it's here but I hated the word itself, some games are easy even on ultra hard mode but then u see devs adding, normal, esay, supper easy, and story mode. it was kinda confusing.
anyway, don't think anyone will just go lower the difficulty on the last boss, but at least it's not like some of these games that keeps asking u to lower the difficulty if u lost once xD

anyway, the only purpose of this post was to appreciate Ji, I was about to write the post once I've done with Ji but decide to wait for later so I can give an opinion after I'm done with everything, but changed my mind later cus this may take a while to finish so I don't want to be more late.

[Nucléase]

Ji was refreshing, he felt like the only sol that wasn't insane and/or hate you.

[Seisachtheia]

Originally posted by Nucléase:

Ji was refreshing, he felt like the only sol that wasn't insane and/or hate you.

I thought this was a great bit of gameplay storytelling - while for every other Sol everything is falling apart for Ji it's a time of hopefulness...somebody who can end his loneliness has arrived.

I think the narrative storytelling through the boss fights for this game is exceptional for almost all of the major bosses - even with Eigong we get somebody who has always been "rigourously scientific" succumbing to fatalism and destiny.

[Delete]

Ji and Sky Rending claw are definetly best BOSSes.
Funny how fighting against Container lifting crane is more interesting than Final BOSS

[DarkLu]

Originally posted by Maximilion13:

Originally posted by DarkLu:

Buddy, just adjust the difficulty. Story mode doesn’t mean you must one-shot the boss. It’s just about making an experience that meet everyone’s expectancy of difficulties.

In some sense, I agree with you, cuz the dev calls it normal mode, somewhat making people frustrated on some tedious boss.

I would rather suggest “challenge mode”, and give individual achievements for finishing each modes.

lmao, it was just a funny take on the story mode. I don't even what it's here but I hated the word itself, some games are easy even on ultra hard mode but then u see devs adding, normal, esay, supper easy, and story mode. it was kinda confusing.
anyway, don't think anyone will just go lower the difficulty on the last boss, but at least it's not like some of these games that keeps asking u to lower the difficulty if u lost once xD

anyway, the only purpose of this post was to appreciate Ji, I was about to write the post once I've done with Ji but decide to wait for later so I can give an opinion after I'm done with everything, but changed my mind later cus this may take a while to finish so I don't want to be more late.

Cool. Get your point!

[aeoleron9]

I think Ji took it easy on us tbh

[leo_gear]

Originally posted by Maximilion13:

anyway, the only purpose of this post was to appreciate Ji,

You need to take some writing comp classes then cause you barely spoke about Ji in the whole post but I certainly know you think Ji is a trap and that you think the game is linear (repeated that several times).

I don't even know why you think he's fair. And who ranks boss fights solely on fairness? You usually want your bosses to be memorable.

[Maximilion13]

Originally posted by leo_gear:

Originally posted by Maximilion13:

anyway, the only purpose of this post was to appreciate Ji,

You need to take some writing comp classes then cause you barely spoke about Ji in the whole post but I certainly know you think Ji is a trap and that you think the game is linear (repeated that several times).

I don't even know why you think he's fair. And who ranks boss fights solely on fairness? You usually want your bosses to be memorable.

the only good guy I'll remember is Ji
the only fun fight is Ji
Ji is good, Ji is best. pretty sure I repeated this, but here u go once again.