Ng+3

[Arthur (The king)]

What do you guys think about NG+3?

Its sad to see that when you truly become sun wukong with all the levels, powers, stance, and voiced characters, the game get so hard that any boss 1 shot you.

You don't feel like a god yet you became the true Wukong.

Should NG+3 be made easier?

[Asgardian_13th]

So your character speaks at ng 3? Can you give me a clip or something? I finished ng+ today I will definitely finish it again if it means my character is going to talk.... and does he talk often yapping like sun wukong?

[Vinnie DAngelo]

It gets harder really? I might need to see if i can get to NG+3 just to see. I was under the impression that it would be a hell of a lot easier going.

[Glorious Comrade]

It gets alot easier for NG2 and 3, but gets harder 4+ because enemy keep on scaling up but you will max out everything by NG3 so you dont get any stronger, but enemies do.

[MagNum]

"So your character speaks at ng 3?"
It's hard to say it speaks. You need to wear wukong set with its staff. When you get enough concentrate points for both generic and extra (yes, there appears extra space for CP) and do heavy attack, you get wukong mode. At that time your character says a phrase like "Here I came". He has several different phrases. And that is it. And that 'wukong mode' is not forever but about a minute or something.
But there is no need to start ng3 specifically. When in ng2 you'll get all relics with all 3 abilities, you can activate this mode.

[MagNum]

Originally posted by Glorious Comrade:

It gets alot easier for NG2 and 3, but gets harder 4+ because enemy keep on scaling up but you will max out everything by NG3 so you dont get any stronger, but enemies do.

The last boss was easer for me for NG,NG+ and NG2+ but not for NG3+ ))
Any your mistake could your last ))

[MagNum]

The Blacksmith gives extra slot after defeating him in main game, Ng, and NG+. So max you can have 5 slots. And Skandhas Quest works in main game only, in other games you just get money

[Xengre]

I've not played NG+3 yet, but from my understanding... aren't you exaggerating quite a bit?

Aside from a few very extreme outliers, like Scorpion Lord's super hard hitting but simple attacks or special 1-shot (or close to 1-shot depending) attacks like Yellow Loong's thrust animated cutscene attack... you should not be getting 1-shot unless you have like an ultra low armor build at that point. Online comments seem to suggest part way through NG+ some of the bosses hit extremely hard, but aren't quite 1-shots. Being 2-shot is not really that big of a deal since in NG you are usually 2-3 shot, too, if you don't bother to level health and defense in Foundation and pills (despite having upgraded armor, itself) and it is pretty non-issue.

However, NG+ also offers the insanely overpowered Life-Saving Strand, not to mention there is a trick to get multiple lives out of it since it works separately from Transformations and Destined One forms with regards to the cooldown and you can transform multiple times per fight when using the right strategies/pills which can let you avoid some of the harder hitting attacks if Decoy/Immobilize aren't available/proper for that situation.

Plus, you could always use dmg reduction effects if you are struggling to survive specific bosses. Something like this will make even NG+3 bosses only basically tickle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D2Qt45d9uQ
And honestly that isn't even a properly optimized build as they're wasting a lot of offensive/other potential on some smaller reductions that don't add up like some curious you can leave and still get almost the same dmg reduction results.

Don't forget that Wukong was not a "god" either. He was quite powerful, but he wasn't just omnipotent considering the lore in Journey to the West and related stories, and many of the cutscenes we saw in this game. He often struggled and had numerous deaths/close encounters (hence it isn't even clear if it is the real Wukong we see at the start or finished Journeying to the West, or if it was another incarnation... the whole immortality thing). What he is... is a fairly powerful being with great connections/friends and schemes that allow him to repeatedly usurp, not to mention his nigh immortality.