Bosses and Expert difficulty

[Ratsplat]

This is more of an observation than anything else.

For the most part, the further you go into the game (I think I'm just about in Act 3), the more it feels like I'm seeing less and less of bosses. They are becoming more complex with countless attacks, but on expert difficulty, funnily enough, you don't get to see much. This is because on Expert you fall into two camps: Those that can parry everything, or those that can parry a fair amount and still succeed.

If you can parry everything, you will be doing an immense amount of damage. And if you can parry a fair amount, you'll likely have to make up for it by boosting your damage in other ways (grinding, exploring for pictos). In either scenario, your damage is going to be high. And since your damage is high, you're going to be defeating the bosses rather quickly.

This was especially apparently against the mask Axon. On my second attempt I was able to parry and do tons of damage, so I just didn't get to see what he was actually capable of.

People playing on Story don't have to explore or grind or power up their characters nearly as much, and they won't be dying as readily during combat, and will likely be able to fully experience everything that bosses have to offer.

[Caelestus]

That's an interesting point of view... But you are right. Sometimes I wonder if the enemies have more move-sets before I defeat them... But I'm not going to let them hit me because I'll die.

[Ratsplat]

Originally posted by Caelestus:

That's an interesting point of view... But you are right. Sometimes I wonder if the enemies have more move-sets before I defeat them... But I'm not going to let them hit me because I'll die.

I think my best example so far was shooting the obvious mask eyes as they appeared. What if I didn't shoot them? How many were there? I went so fast through that part that now I just don't know. And then I think the next part went so quick I honestly can't remember what any of his attacks were.

[EChaos]

Keep playing. There is stuff in act 3 that will make your head spin, even on story mode. I'm on story mode and about to hit level 90, and still have things left to do.

[Ratsplat]

Originally posted by EChaos:

Keep playing. There is stuff in act 3 that will make your head spin, even on story mode. I'm on story mode and about to hit level 90, and still have things left to do.

Even trying to finish Act 2 almost feels like too much. It's not that it's too 'hard', but rather, all the 2 phase bosses can take a while and when it's your first time on expert... that's like 20 new attacks to learn O.o