Chapter 3

[Nussy Snake]

Chapter 3, mainly the prison part, is the biggest piece of sh‎it I've seen in gaming. The game itself has been very mid gameplay wise up to this point. Sure it looks beautiful, but by this point I am absolutely fed up with its dogsh‎it mechanics. The prison, especially once you get to the Upper Pagoda, absolutely sucks and is completely unenjoyable.

[TyresTyco]

Cloud step for the bridge.. just run ignore everything and rush to the next shrine. Done.

[l A M B U S H I]

aw did the hard game hurt you? keep practicing. you're meant to struggle and learn and get better while playing. the real leveling up is you.

[Ichi-niiPL]

Originally posted by Nussy Snake:

Chapter 3, mainly the prison part, is the biggest piece of sh‎it I've seen in gaming. The game itself has been very mid gameplay wise up to this point. Sure it looks beautiful, but by this point I am absolutely fed up with its dogsh‎it mechanics. The prison, especially once you get to the Upper Pagoda, absolutely sucks and is completely unenjoyable.

It was annoying area aye, but it was not that bad. You just need to reach shrines and kill the boss at the top and then you can explore area without that shadow world thing.

[Nussy Snake]

Originally posted by l A M B U S H I:

aw did the hard game hurt you? keep practicing. you're meant to struggle and learn and get better while playing. the real leveling up is you.

Try being a di‎ck somewhere else. "Struggle and learn and get better" dude I'm not bad at the game, the mechanics just suck and the ganking coupled with the headache curse sh‎it is just bad design. Then they add random places you can fall where as Chapter 1 and 2 just had invisible walls for whatever reason.

[Nussy Snake]

Originally posted by Ichi-niiPL:

Originally posted by Nussy Snake:

Chapter 3, mainly the prison part, is the biggest piece of sh‎it I've seen in gaming. The game itself has been very mid gameplay wise up to this point. Sure it looks beautiful, but by this point I am absolutely fed up with its dogsh‎it mechanics. The prison, especially once you get to the Upper Pagoda, absolutely sucks and is completely unenjoyable.

It was annoying area aye, but it was not that bad. You just need to reach shrines and kill the boss at the top and then you can explore area without that shadow world thing.

I'll keep this in mind, thank you. I've had a terrible night at work and this Chapter was not something I should have been playing afterwards lol

[nbean16]

I love the game, but the prison was my least favorite section this far.

[drz30]

Chapter 3 is rather bad. Bosses are too easy, map is too big with too much empty space.

Edit: I like the snow and the turtle though

[Nonexistinghero]

Can't say I understand the whining about it. It's a relatively short section that you can pretty much fully clear in about an hour. Maybe an hour and a half if you're very slow. And the mode where you lose up to half of your maximum health significantly increases your strength as well. There's a few tricky sections, but if you do happen to die you an be back in no time.

It's no match for Biight Town from Dark Souls 1. Toxic bugs constantly flying at you, easy to fall to your death instantly, toxic swamp at the bottom that restricts your movement and is just no fun to explore, constantly poisoned, enemies throwing giant rocks at you from a distance, etc. Heck all Souls games have an area that's far worse than this prison part.

[gungadin22000]

Chapter 3 does indeed suck, but I think the prison part is the best bit in it. Pretty oppressive, and the tough lantern spirits vanishing and reappearing at regular intervals is pretty atmospheric.

However, everything else is just running around in the snow fighting the same 2 types of frozen zombie-type, both of which can be 1shot by charging your staff before starting the fight. The bosses are pretty terrible as well.

- The dragon fight is cool, but it spends way too long flying around and not engaging. Kang-Jin Star is a much better fight, but it is ruined by all the "dodge this while I float around up here" nonsense. Invulnerable phases in soulslikes are a chore.

- Laser wizard is a gimmick fight and a chore. Requires next to no skill once you realise you can just hide from the laser frenzy in the corner.

- Wise-Voice has an awful camera, a very prolonged immortal AoE hell phase and super wonky hitboxes on his laser attacks as well as his near instakilling grab attack. Easily the worst boss I've met so far.

- The funky bat boss flies around constantly and just refuses to enage. He's easy, but takes waaaay too long due to this.

That pretty much leaves Macaque Chief and Cyan Loong so far, both of which are OK bosses, although the Chief is much too easy.

Compared to chapter 2, pretty much everything is a solid downgrade. Looking forward to getting out of the cold.

[SeekerHammerdin]

Originally posted by Nussy Snake:

Chapter 3, mainly the prison part, is the biggest piece of sh‎it I've seen in gaming. The game itself has been very mid gameplay wise up to this point. Sure it looks beautiful, but by this point I am absolutely fed up with its dogsh‎it mechanics. The prison, especially once you get to the Upper Pagoda, absolutely sucks and is completely unenjoyable.

It's, in my opinion, the worst section in the game. I definitely got annoyed doing it. On the plus side, it's the only section of that length which was that annoying to do. Chapter 4 also had a part that was incredibly annoying but was much, much shorter.

[Engels78]

Originally posted by TyresTyco:

Cloud step for the bridge.. just run ignore everything and rush to the next shrine. Done.

Yeah, good advice 👌 And the most annoying is that you can not fall from most edges but on this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bridges, you can fall!!!

[WitWolfy]

Hide from the lantern heads and they disappear after a while. thats what I did oh and git gud

[Barbarossa]

Many people dislike the Pagoda Realm, but I really enjoy it. It's a different kind of experience, especially for those who have no fear in their hearts; they find it quite enjoyable.

[Peek]

Originally posted by WitWolfy:

Hide from the lantern heads and they disappear after a while. thats what I did oh and git gud

Don't hide. Kill them all and get a decent curio and achivement.

[FireJach]

yep the prison was annoying espiecially when suddenly the invinsible walls are gone there....