Yea, simon is an *******. He whooped my ass many times till i got my pictos and team turn order set perfectly to 1 round that ******* today.

I'd be curious what game you'd give an A+ for for music if not this.

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I'd be curious what game you'd give an A+ for for music if not this.

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Warhammer 40K: Mechanicus OST for sure

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I'd be curious what game you'd give an A+ for for music if not this.

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I think generally the music is great and certainly can understand why some love it. Personally, obviously my opinion, I grew tired of it after a while. It was an A+ for me at first but by the end of the game, I turned it down a notch. Some of the battle music added to the atmosphere but a lot of times sounds a little "too much" or sometimes out of place.

I also give Lies of P the same grade for music.

As for which game, I'd say Elden Ring has the best music but that's my favorite game of all time.

For music in a game I have to say the old Diablo games. Very haunting and every time I hear anything close it reminds me of Diablo. The music from the True Blood series always made me think of Diablo as well-- not the intro but music they played during scenes.

Hit Act 3 last night. Still really enjoying the game.

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Yea, simon is an *******. He whooped my ass many times till i got my pictos and team turn order set perfectly to 1 round that ******* today.

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Tried Simon last night. Kind of feel annoyed by it. The jump in difficulty level is extreme with his moveset pretty much negating most tactics. I'm no stranger to tough bosses (from software) but Simon feels cheesy. Will basically just have to find the right skills and chemistry to take him down faster. Are we expected to counter every hit? Got blown away in phase 2. How many hits in a row does he get?

The From Software motto "hard but fair" is a tough balance to achieve and very few games get it.

Anyway, still loved the game. Will probably play it through one more time just to go through the story again now knowing all the twists and turns.

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FatZilla said:

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Yea, simon is an *******. He whooped my ass many times till i got my pictos and team turn order set perfectly to 1 round that ******* today.

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Tried Simon last night. Kind of feel annoyed by it. The jump in difficulty level is extreme with his moveset pretty much negating most tactics. I'm no stranger to tough bosses (from software) but Simon feels cheesy. Will basically just have to find the right skills and chemistry to take him down faster. Are we expected to counter every hit? Got blown away in phase 2. How many hits in a row does he get?

The From Software motto "hard but fair" is a tough balance to achieve and very few games get it.

Anyway, still loved the game. Will probably play it through one more time just to go through the story again now knowing all the twists and turns.

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Hes got a phase 3 at 25% life left (of phase 2) too just fyi lol. Either burn past it in 1 hit or prepare for it once you find out what it is. His ghost hits are the annoying part as the sound queues are too overlapping with his normal hits to use them efficiently. Cant use shields as he just steals them so you either have to go tank mode with extreme defensive and high life or just burn him in 1-2 rounds. Second chance picto definitely helps keeping him from removing party members on initial deaths.

Think the combat got a little old for me and repetitive, fizzled out in act 2 but I'm notoriously bad at finishing single player games.

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Think the combat got a little old for me and repetitive, fizzled out in act 2 but I'm notoriously bad at finishing single player games.

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I think I was ok tinkering here and there until part 3. But all of a sudden, was one shotting everything. I wasn't striving for the massive damage but once the damage cap was lifted, the game became too easy.

But the story was so good, I just speared headed for the ending.

Just beat the game. Pretty, pretty… pretty good.

For those that have the game but didn't get the collector's edition, a "Monolith Edition" just opened preorders. It is all of the physical items from the CE, but no game or cosmetic DLC. Also pricey, especially with shipping!

https://www.lacedrecords.com/products/clair-obscur-expedition-33-monolith-set

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For those that have the game but didn't get the collector's edition, a "Monolith Edition" just opened preorders. It is all of the physical items from the CE, but no game or cosmetic DLC. Also pricey, especially with shipping!

https://www.lacedrecords.com/products/clair-obscur-expedition-33-monolith-set

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Will be ordering one. Don't care how much it is. People need to support good game devs like this instead of throwing more money at Activision for the latest ridiculous call of duty skin.

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This is the right attitude 100%! I've bought my fair share of games even if available on game pass to support the product.

Finished the game tonight. Masterpiece. Just amazingly impressive this was built by a small core team with outsourcing, is their first title as a company, and several of their core team this was their first professional game credit.

Game of the Year.

Just started this morning. Man I suck at Dodging.

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Just started this morning. Man I suck at Dodging.

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Dodging is easier of the two. Most (not all) enemy attacks have a sound cue to let you know when. My advice would be force yourself to learn how to parry in the beginning. That way if you get to an enemy later that is harder to parry, you can dodge. Also, if you get a perfect dodge, that means you would have landed a parry there.

As a last resort, turn down the difficulty. There are no trophies or anything special for beating the game on any difficulty level. It is purely for how hard you want to make the game for yourself. Easier difficulty levels have larger dodge and parry windows.

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Just started this morning. Man I suck at Dodging.

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Just give it time. I sucked at first too then by the end of the game I was parrying combos.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16bUN9kgbp/

Parrying in a nutshell

Just finished Act 1 - incredible so far. Wish I had time to play more as the story has me hooked.

Loved the ending of the game. Sad but powerful emotions in it.

This is the game of the generation for me.

This is the gaming future I thought we were going to get while I was playing FFVI in the 90s.

Saw new report, game has sold 3.3M copies in a month. No idea on gamepass numbers but i expect those to be quite high.

This game was sooooo good. I did have to drop the difficulty to the Jennifer English memorial mode (story) at times but man what a beautiful story and just loved these characters.

Finished act 1 this morning, yikes. Pretty fun, blitz strike or whatever it's called feels like cheat mode if you just run around with that guy on low life lol

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It's also free on XBox Game Pass

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Thanks! Likely wouldn't have even thought about buying this game. Just started and it's great. I feel like I need to restart because I'm not far in and I am not getting past the first major boss lol

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Just did the beach climbing one, wasn't too bad.

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F that accordion. Gave up on this one for a bit after missing the bench after the ship after the accordion. Really don't like when games like this shoehorn platforming into them, the controls aren't tight enough.

"Beat" it tonight. Now all the post game stuff left over. Lune with 100% crit chance was my go to killer of all things with being able to cast the 4 elemental stain spell every other round.

I never fully grasped lune. I stuck with Maelle, Verso, and Scielle

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I never fully grasped lune. I stuck with Maelle, Verso, and Scielle

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Lune with 100% crit is a monster. Once you get dmg break and cheater you can nuke everything in round 1. Attack to generate all 4 color stains and then nuke on attack 2 that uses all 4 stains.

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I never fully grasped lune. I stuck with Maelle, Verso, and Scielle

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Lune with 100% crit is a monster. Once you get dmg break and cheater you can nuke everything in round 1. Attack to generate all 4 color stains and then nuke on attack 2 that uses all 4 stains.

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She is a beast. She was my highest damage dealer until Maelle got her third gradient ability. I was using Mayhem on everything until I discovered how much damage Hell does.

Start turn first turn with 9 AP, cast Hell. If anything survives, start second turn with just enough AP to shoot 3 times and then cast 4 stain Mayhem on the survivor.

I'm now lvl 90 and using verso, Maelle and sciel… verso stacks 200 or so burn on his turn then lights out with maelle… kills Simon ph1 in one turn. Need a few more luminary to kill phase 2 in on hit because I can't dodge him lol

My favorite build was the Storm Verso build where every free shot can cause a second lightning strike (weapon ability). Put all pictos to do with free shot dmg, crit, ap regen and you can almost endlessly spam free shots. When you finally get down to 2, use his ability that increases it damage based on the number of free shots that turn, up to 10. You can pretty much 1 round kill anything including simon using it.

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FatZilla said:

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I never fully grasped lune. I stuck with Maelle, Verso, and Scielle

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Lune with 100% crit is a monster. Once you get dmg break and cheater you can nuke everything in round 1. Attack to generate all 4 color stains and then nuke on attack 2 that uses all 4 stains.

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She is a beast. She was my highest damage dealer until Maelle got her third gradient ability. I was using Mayhem on everything until I discovered how much damage Hell does.

Start turn first turn with 9 AP, cast Hell. If anything survives, start second turn with just enough AP to shoot 3 times and then cast 4 stain Mayhem on the survivor.

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Maelle's power Stendhal is the highest damage power in the game, even post nerf. People were hitting it into the billions. You can oneshot the final optional boss with it (who has 50+ million HP), which is what I did.

Stendhal trivializes every boss though, so if you don't want to do that I don't recommend doing the Maelle nuke route.

I was vaguely aware at the time that there was a crazy Maelle build but I didn't want to look anything up. I wanted to create my own and other than Simon, Lune destroyed everything. She even wrecked Clea in two turns.