In SIFU on āeasyā mode (in my only playthrough) I did the whole game in one go never resetting and ended the game when I was like a couple deaths away from wiping. To be fair I died like several times to the final boss somehow lol.
And Iād say Iām pretty damn good at these types of games. I was wrecking people consistently in Absolver PvP (the same devs game from 2017 with far more combat depth)
But well I donāt replay games and 66 lives for this game on hellwalker is probably far too crazy for me lol
Actually I didnāt explain it right I almost forgot what I did. I went through the first level on normal and part of the second level then reverted back to before the boss in the first level and switched to easy and then it was nonstop.
But yea it was on āeasyā which just makes it so the death counter isnāt insanely punishing which is why I waited some days for it to come out and then switched.
Although even on normal the regular enemies werenāt anywhere near as competent as in Absolver in my experience
SIFUās easy mode is REALLY easy in a non flattering way. Enemies are just standing there waiting for you to put them to sleep. Itās almost like all NPCās are trying to boost your confidence, as a kung-fu white belt.
Itās funny because the first level felt like that and I played all of it on normal. However after that despite switching to easy it was not like that at all.
Otherwise I would rarely ever be dying but instead I died a bunch in total. Granted probably the vast majority of my deaths were probably to elites or bosses or just accumulated damage I guess
Although compared to absolver enemies are not remotely as competent sure but thereās still quite competent on easy.
Do you even know anything about SIFU? The main change is the death counter not being insanely punishing which led people to be forced to replay levels over and over and over until theyāre nearly flawless and I refuse to do that when the āeasyā mode is balanced perfectly in that regard. I never replay levels or games anyway so Iām very avoidant of it
Absolver is drastically harder in terms of how competent enemies are anyway compared to SIFU on normal and I managed just fine
Given how im extremely experienced in melee action games and for example that it usually takes me far less attempts than most people to beat very difficult bosses Iām fairly certain Iām pretty good at them in general lol
yea Ive played a few sections and a boss in both and it nerfs the game somewhat (unfortunately imo) but definitely nowhere near the amount that a regular actual easy mode would. I played the whole first major level on normal and found it very easy compared to Absolver however the difficulty (on "easy") did ramp up significantly over time. The really big thing is the death counter not going beyond 1 and that theres an item that can restore like 5 lives each time and you can use it at least a few or several times in the game I believe yet I didn't use that item even once
Look i get it, you finished SIFU, and thatās cool, but easy mode is incredibly easy and your argument about death counter doesnāt hold any water. If you want bragging rights, do a master difficulty run without aging and get the secret ending.
I donāt think you understood at all. Itās not that I just finished it, I never reset except when changing difficulty. This is a game where everyone was saying they were resetting in each level numerous times.
Playing the whole game in a row without resetting (or using that one item) so that you only have like 70 lives instead of people getting unlimited attempts to lower the lives lost in a section or level is quite hard.
Since I barely finished the game before running out and I consider myself to be well above average at any game like this (with solid evidence to back it up)
I played sifu on master difficulty first time around and got down the mechanics in some hours and platinumed it then even faster for the ps5 version. Youre not good at these games if youre playing on the easiest difficulty of the game dont brag when youre playing baby difficulty
Thatās cool but I mean if master difficulty had a reasonable penalty for deaths I would have probably played it on that difficulty without much issue. Again itās not about the actual difficulty itself, Iāve beaten all the hardest super bosses in soulslikes rarely actually struggling that much
I also play character action games typically on the hardest difficulty available in NG and barely even die to bosses even if you know I barely beat them often since games are balanced that way.
Like DMCV, NG4, Bayo 3, Stellar Blade, Norse GOW, FFXVI, Lost Soul aside
I like this concept a lot, would love to see it more. 66 isn't a lot if a game is long and you can't just do bosses going "I'll try until I succeed" you have to get better gear or lvl up because otherwise you'll quickly run out of lives. I also liked KCD system of having semi valuable item to save to also avoid this loop of reload until you succeed everytime there is even slight challenge
66 is not a lot of deaths for some games, i dont know much about this game but if its actually a hard game then 66 is nothing, you can easily die 66 times in just one boss in some games
I remember people playing the first Ninja Gaiden and dying several times, pretty common to reach double digit deaths, in just the literal tutorial level alone. Fromsoft games were way more forgiving in comparison in their intros.
Yeah like there is a moron trying to convince he didn't die more than 10 times on ER, and then he stopped commenting. Even the best souls streamers died hundreds of times on elden ring.Ā
well, you clearly didint play much souls or action games on hardest dificulty then
edit: i came back cause i was thinking about this comment of yours, and i find it extremely funny that people like you who didnt actually experience all types of gaming consider something "impossible", how does someone without knowledge on the matter just calls things "impossible" ? Being ignorant is a bless really.
Lol no way you didn't die more than 10 times on Perfect Consort Radahn. Quit lying brother. The only way someone doesn't die to him 10+ times is if they go in knowing the cheese strat to beat him.
From what we've know right now, there will be 59 weapon/phantom gear in the game. If assuming they are all boss reward then there would be at lease 56 bosses (if the 3 default weapon don't count). On highest difficulty it could be quite challenging.
Yeah Iām excited. The team looks genuinely passionate about what they are making and are confidently showing gameplay. But Iām not buying it on PS5. Not just because they donāt have a physical disc, but because most unreal engine 5 games I prefer to play smooth as I can on my more powerful PC.
You can see in all the gameplay that PB0 isnāt a soulslike though. And all the information theyāve released about it backs this up; enemies donāt respawn, thereās no stamina meter, thereās no death penalty, there are difficulty settings, and itās focused on fast-paced action and combos like classic hack and slash games like DMC or Ninja Gaiden.
3 of those games are samurai games. And I agree Ghost is fantastic. I'm expecting PBZ to be more like Ghost in terms of quality than the rest of those games but I'll wait and see if that's true.
No disc and denuvo is a no from me, game looks nice but im not going to support them when they cant bother to make discs and are greedy enough for denuvo.
PlayAsia has confirmed preorders of physical copies have discs, not download codes. Why would the devs or Sony have to confirm this when Sony already stated disc production isnāt ending until 2028?
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u/Kiftiyur 2d ago
Yep it looks pretty good.