"Easy" game first boss isn't really easy. Any advice how to win?

[Amy]

Hi. I started playing the Easy Classic game to have fun and relax. But fighting even the first boss isn't easy at all, it's challenging. I bought this game after Unepic, where the Easy mode is really easy to play, including boss fights. In Ghost, I tried first boss fight several times, after buying all upgrades, and most expensive secondary weapon. And even when I killed the boss (which wasn't really easy), I was killed by a "dead" boss and needed to start again.

Maybe I missed something? Any advice appreciated.

P.S. Sorry for possible mistakes, English isn't my native language.

[Marfolog]

This boss didn't seem hard for me, only died 2-3 times on him. I would recommend you yo just take your time, don't rush the boss, shoot him a bit and avoid everything he shoots. Also, you should farm cubes on alarms to get a good secondary weapon. This will help you a lot.

[franfistro]

Hello,

There must be something that we're missing that is making this boss too hard for you even having good weapons.
Could you please record a video fighting the boss? That will be very helpful to find out where the problem is in Easy mode and fix it.

Oh, concerning his "final attack", you don't have to kill it again because the boss is already dead. You just have to return and collect the cubes.

[Amy]

I tried to make a video, but something went wrong (I'm not a computer geek, and it's my boyfriend's account, he installed the game for me). But when I exited the game and then loaded it, the boss was already killed, as you wrote. Earlier I didn't try to reload the game after the boss fight. And after 'killing the boss and dying' (before reloading) character appears again in the same empty room with this 'call the boss' red circle in the middle, which is very disappointing.

[Amy]

By the way, after killing the boss, some "magic dust" particles are too high even for a double jump, and impossible to collect (see screenshot[imgur.com]).

[franfistro]

Impossible to reach using your metalic body but... you have another form that can reach any part of any room.

[Amy]

Oh, really. ) I thought, the ghost can't collect it without Energy Derivation skill (similar to cubes), but I was wrong.

Thank you for all your answers. )

I think you probably can change this one thing: "after 'killing the boss and dying' (before reloading) character appears again in the same empty room with this 'call the boss' red circle in the middle, which is very disappointing".

But I already like this game as much as Unepic (which means - very much).

[franfistro]

oh, red circle appears after killing the boss using the "save" icon... That's not good. I'll fix it so nobody else will have the same problem.

[Amy]

Thank you.

[Amy]

I finished the game, and now I can say: all the boss battles (maybe except the final one, where the ghost protects her brain) are definitely easier than the first. I never died in a boss battle, except the first, and the last. And in the first, I died much more times.

[hewhohuntscats]

Hard to say how much of that is the learning curve. I had the same exprience as you, but in subsequent playthroughts 1st boss goes down pretty quick.

[Amy]

I thought about it too. But most of the players are less experienced in the beginning of a game. I think the game difficulty must take it into account. For example, in Unepic the first boss IS the easiest one (most of the time you just stay in correct place and hit it when it's close), and it gives much better starting experience and feeling.

In Ghost, this first boss experience was the only bad feeling for me. But it was in a very beginning, and I almost stopped playing because of it.

[franfistro]

I agree with you. The boss falls down easy once you have experience, but in a first play it's really hard. I will lower the difficulty of that boss, at least in easy mode.

[Amy]

Thank you again. It's pleasant. Not all game developers are so understanding and responsive. )

[franfistro]

The problem we have is that we know our own monsters in games and we know how to defeat them. We don't have the point of view of a player. And games are created to let players have fun.^_^
Moreover, testers tend to be expert players, and the easy mode tend to be the one that need more feedback from players.

[Tony]

I had to beat him 4 times before I could move on. Unfortunately the going back to get the cubes thing didn't work for me, I was always sent back to the save just before the fight.