What's harder, The Radiance or Colosseum of fools?

[しまくん]

Just wanna know what do you guys think.
Btw i still can't beat ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ colosseum, ♥♥♥♥ this pogo stuff =D

[Nothing]

For me it's totally colloseum, but that may be because I'd rather focus on one enemy instead of three.

[HexaDecimatoR]

I'd say the Colosseum, but it gets easier after my first victory in the Trial of the Fool.
Radiance I can beat pretty easily with the right charm setup now.

[Stagnetti]

The Radiance was a lot harder. You can learn to predict the Colosseum but I would find myself unable to avoid damage on The Radiance. Had to cheese The Radiance with Abyss Shriek.

[しまくん]

Originally posted by Capt. Victor Stagnetti:

The Radiance was a lot harder. You can learn to predict the Colosseum but I would find myself unable to avoid damage on The Radiance. Had to cheese The Radiance with Abyss Shriek.

Haha =D yeah, but how to cheese Colosseum... That's the real question

[TyresTyco]

For me.. Trial of Fools. I just cant beat it. Its impossible for me. I suck at nail jumping.The Radiance.. was just hard.. and awesome.. the feeling at the last stage is one of most remindable things in my video game history. I will never forget this fight.

[Aeternalis the Abyssal Alchemist]

It's hard to say really... but if I had to make a choice, I'd say the colloseum.
A lot of the colloseum has to do with luck, but its also about perfecting all of your skills as a player.
While the Radiance is just a pure testiment to one's skill at manouvering, as every mistake you make is extremely costly.
Then again, I have beaten the colloseum twice, and The Radiance only once...

[bee3001]

Both are difficult in their own ways, they both also have distinct ways of handling them too.

With The Radiance you're constantly dodging and attacking, where theres no opportunity to heal and its made clear that you shouldn't try when she's doing 2 damage per hit. As others have said, a Magic build and using Abyss Shriek makes this a lot easier. Personally, as I stubbornly stick to Melee, I found her to be extremely difficult.

Arena3 is more endurance with it being a much longer fight, constant barrage of different enemies and occasional opportunities to heal between matches with enemy sets. This I found was much easier to handle with Melee based setup to kill enemies quickly before they overwhelm you - Quick slash, Nailmaster's Glory and especially Fragile Strength when I did my Steel Soul run. Most flying enemies already go down in 1 charged hit and for the regular enemies, Fragile Strength meant 1 less hit was needed in most cases. Once you get to God Eater though, you're good.

[Aeternalis the Abyssal Alchemist]

For the Trail of Fools, I use MarkofPride+ShamanStone+NailmastersGlory+DreamWielder+Flukenest.

(trigger warning)Incoming Flukenest rant:
I don't understand why so many players write off Flukenest as being useless, this charm is amazing! Not only does it do a ton of damage, but its ballistic projectiles allow you to hit enemies diagnally! Plus it can be spammed pretty fast. Sure, it might cause your computer to hiccup the first time you fire it. Sure, it doesn't pierce through enemies and terrain like Shade Soul does, but that doen't matter! What matters, is that you...
...(in Darth Vader voice)EMBRACE THE POWER OF THE FLUKESIDE!

[Lunaedge]

Had more trouble with the Radiance. I beat the Trial of the Fool on my second try. Went with Quick and Deep Focus + Shape of Unn and outhealed my way to victory.

[ToJKa]

Radiance, no question. Fool i got trough on third try, radiance took 3 hours

[Aeternalis the Abyssal Alchemist]

Originally posted by ToJKa:

Radiance, no question. Fool i got trough on third try, radiance took 3 hours

Like I said, part of the Trial of Fools is luck, something that you really don't have all that much control over.

[myoptic]

Originally posted by Abyssal Alchemist:

Originally posted by ToJKa:

Radiance, no question. Fool i got trough on third try, radiance took 3 hours

Like I said, part of the Trial of Fools is luck, something that you really don't have all that much control over.

It looks like trial of fools isn't *too* bad if you are talented at beating the teleporting enemies (grumble grumble) and nail hopping. Specifically, doing one and then immediatly doing the other without a chance to heal up.

[TyresTyco]

The problem with tof I have is...I get constantly short fps drops in areas where I need super reflexes. Especially when there are spiked floores.

The endboss is lagless and beatable after memorizing the moves.

Tof impossible with the drops. Pure luck instead of skill.

[Morsk]

Trial of the Fool. Maybe it's easy for people who are really good at holding jump & nail art buttons at the same time, but I'm not.

[Hedrack]

If you're playing a normal game then it depends on what gives you more trouble, but personally I found the Trial of Fools to be harder. Radiance isn't that bad as you have the same patterns to dodge and you get several opportunities to heal (i.e. after she shoots lasers/javelins out from her) whereas Trial of the Fools mixes things up where if you're struggling with a certain part it can put you in a bad situation for later parts where you just don't have the opportunity to heal up.

If you try self-imposed challenges then Trial of Fools is absolutely the harder one. I finished a 5 health/Old Nail/No Charms run and beat the Radiance in one go, but I still haven't come anywhere close to successfully finishing the Trial of Fools with those conditions (I only get about halfway through, and even then I can screw up easily when being chased by 3-4 enemies at once).