Easy or Normal

[The Polyhedron]

Hey people. I would like to ask for advice on choosing the difficulty for first try. Heard a lot of scary stories about the difficulty of bosses. More interested in the story and characters and REALLY not a fan of trying to defeat one boss 100 times just for 1 sec “joy”. But when everything is too easy, it is also boring. Soooooo…

[Fenlix]

Honestly, I would never play this game solely for the story XD The hard bosses is the main appeal.

[The Polyhedron]

Don't want to skip this part just because of “hard boss focus” :0

[Titan]

The game's difficulty is pretty perfectly balanced. People pretty heavily over-exaggerate how hard this game is (outside of a pretty unfair final boss fight).

[Berahlen]

Normal is a good balance of challenge and being able to bull through problem phases as long as you did the easy phase cleanly.

[Fenlix]

It's a Ys game, you can always just grind 2-3 levels to make the boss easier, but as someone that played the ones with party members, this one is definitely harder and the pacing is basically boss fight after boss fight with 30-40 minutes of everything else in between.

[Titan]

Originally posted by Fenlix:

It's a Ys game, you can always just grind 2-3 levels to make the boss easier, but as someone that played the ones with party members, this one is definitely harder and the pacing is basically boss fight after boss fight with 30-40 minutes of everything else in between.

the insane amount of time it would take you to grind to overlevel bosses in this game is far longer than it would take to just learn the boss and beat it normally

[The Polyhedron]

Thanks for the advices comrades!

[Doomerang]

Ah good, I thought I was just getting old and crappy at games

[The Polyhedron]

It all depends on the genre. Each one is good in its own thing.

[zMyriad]

Originally posted by Titan:

Originally posted by Fenlix:

It's a Ys game, you can always just grind 2-3 levels to make the boss easier, but as someone that played the ones with party members, this one is definitely harder and the pacing is basically boss fight after boss fight with 30-40 minutes of everything else in between.

the insane amount of time it would take you to grind to overlevel bosses in this game is far longer than it would take to just learn the boss and beat it normally

This is my issue with the game right now. I got stuck at the lava boss (hard difficulty) unaware of the impact levels have. The mobs are just insanely annoying to deal with so I was dodging them on the way to the Boss Arena. I was dealing pennies for damage to the boss... I got pretty sad and I thought my run was over.
Admittedly I didn't put myself in the mindset of the year the game was released, as games today are just so oversimplified. This is really good news to me though, all I need is to take my time and get more levels and I can beat the boss. Thank you for the perspective and insight. :)

[Titan]

Originally posted by zMyriad:

Originally posted by Titan:

the insane amount of time it would take you to grind to overlevel bosses in this game is far longer than it would take to just learn the boss and beat it normally

This is my issue with the game right now. I got stuck at the lava boss (hard difficulty) unaware of the impact levels have. The mobs are just insanely annoying to deal with so I was dodging them on the way to the Boss Arena. I was dealing pennies for damage to the boss... I got pretty sad and I thought my run was over.
Admittedly I didn't put myself in the mindset of the year the game was released, as games today are just so oversimplified. This is really good news to me though, all I need is to take my time and get more levels and I can beat the boss. Thank you for the perspective and insight. :)

If you're doing what looks like single points of damage to the lava dragon boss that is normal if you're at the right level for fighting it, the fight is designed around that. Use the wind magic to hit a bunch of segments at once and hit multiple times. The parts will start breaking pretty quickly. Now granted you shouldn't avoid mobs because levels are important but you definitely do not need to grind anywhere in this game.

[zMyriad]

Originally posted by Titan:

If you're doing what looks like single points of damage to the lava dragon boss that is normal if you're at the right level for fighting it, the fight is designed around that.

I’m gonna cope by leveling up and trying again… I figured out the mechanics but the endurance of the boss is just way too high. Not discrediting your info but maybe the defense stat can help as well. His hp (1375) is just so much higher than Chester’s (875) for example. My best attempt was 50% hp remaining but that’s still another 50% left to go. Im going to give it another shot. I really like Adol’s story and the world building in this game is really nice. I could start over on normal but that’ll be my last resort. Thanks again for your time and effort ☺️

[The Polyhedron]

It was fine on normal excluding last boss (big shed very fok took years of my life). Normal is a good balanced as you say.