it's because I need all my resources to stand a chance against Victor

and on the way i have to fight two of those fucking greatsword guys simultaneously

so if I take more than 2 hits during that fight I might as well just turn around and start over

which is like, 2/3 of my attempts

don't even make it to the boss

I get beat up fighting two medium-strength enemies at once and then limp back to the stargazer to try again

and the ladder placement keeps me from cleanly running past them

got him on first specter-assisted attempt

for how apocalyptic this city is, everyone sure does have an unlimited supply of monocles and tophats

You can’t let your standards slip

aerialism I'm having multiple people bug me for gold coin fruit, is this an Ending Related Choice

also I'm unclear on how the aegis parry works

oh shit the cat stopped hissing at me

relaying some information from Lils: "the characters bugging you for gold coin fruit don't influence the ending, but it does influence the end of their quest line"

"the Aegis parry is unintuitive in that after the explosion goes off, you need to release the button, then hold it again to charge the counterpunch"

so I went back, a full zone and a half later, to re-attempt the clown

not only does he have a harder, more annoying moveset than the literal boss fight after him

but I'm pretty sure he also has more health than the boss of the zone after him

I died without getting it down to half

you even fight another clown later that's weaker than the mad clown

whose idea was this

OK so I guess you can only use the shield counter if you deploy the shield with parry timing, with a one-second windup to factor in

considering I got punched in the training room 40 times trying to pull it off once

I don't think I'll be getting much use out of it

Swamp Thing down

oh

that was phase 1

yeah summoning this horseshit

three consecutive arena-sized hitboxes followed by an arena-sized red attack with incomprehensible windup

I hate this fight

from the bottom of my soul I hate it

it has an attack you have to parry that's just "flail your 40 limbs in all directions while sprinting at random"

or "charge in a mile-wide hitbox across the entire arena while moving too fast to hit, fifty times in a row, then immediately do a red attack"

or "just cover the screen in slime while hitting you 150 times in four seconds"

miserable fucking boss

fuck this

its short range attacks hit from the opposite side of the arena with an impossible to guess windup time

I'd rather fight the fucking clown

Lies of P - Green Monster of the Swamp Boss Fight (N...I wanted to convey how awful this fight feels but of course the only no-commentary video I can find is of someone perfecting it effortlessly

so imagine this but you get hit once and then you get a status that constantly drains your weapon durability while also lowering your defense and the next 4 attacks combo you to death from full because all you can see is a full screen of flailing tentacles and slime explosions