November 2020
Had couple games that I have had lots of trouble beating:
- Eldritch
- Hammerwatch: Temple of the Sun campaign
Eldritch requires you to complete the whole game in a single session. There is no save option. It is a stealth/adventure roguelike. The core game loop is tedious. Basically Spelunky as 3D version but in everyway worse. You can finish the game under 10 mins but it is hard (to beat in general regardless of time).
I beat the main campaign of Hammerwatch some years ago in coop. It had another campaign called Temple of the Sun. During summer I took it under progress and reached the final boss and it final phase. I have never seen more unfair boss fight. I left negative review for that game simply because of that single boss fight. Couldn’t beat it no matter how I tried. Cannot change difficulty after starting. Couldn’t ask friend to help because single and multiplayer saves are separate.
So I removed both of them permanently from my library.
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It is a roguelike shooter and hard-ish. The final boss wasn't that hard. The second last boss was what usually killed otherwise successful runs. It has multiple characters and quite many guns. Overall it is a good game of its genre.
This one took way too much time to beat. Basic game mechanics are nice and interesting for small gaming sessions. It is a card game so I set the beat criteria to complete all the tournaments in the game. There are way too many of them. They are copies of each other. Opponents remain basically the same. Each tournament may have a specific special rule (e.g. both players have certain trait active). There was just way too many of them and it got boring.
Poor man's copy of Monster Hunter. More action oriented but I found it in general to less interesting. It has story and characters but it is B grade JRPG level storyline so don't except literature any triumph. Took way too long as I started to play this one in 2018. Got stuck badly in certain stage. Picked it up again, grinded myself new gear and beat the game.
Unfortunately, not a very good game. It had potential but kinda misses in all regards. Combat isn't fun. It is either boringly tedious or hard and frustrating. Progress feels hard as getting new equipment and levels requires stupid amount of boring grind. Quests are truly wonderful go from A to B, give you very little satisfaction and makes you wonder why you even play this game. Might be somewhat fun with company but alone it is not a good game.
i have eldritch in my backlog and often don’t know how much time i’m going to have to play, so no save is often a problem for me. i’m intrigued how bad something would need to be for me to find it tedious if it’s also less than 10 minutes.
i played hammerwatch temple of the sun right after the base game, both on single player, and agree the final boss was a lot. when i started that campaign i thought i’d try out a different class but couldn’t really get anywhere with two others that interested me, so i ended up using the same class again. forgot what it’s called but it’s the ranged one.
I wrote a negative review for Hammerwatch simple because of that boss. It compound certain problems. If you used archer (don’t recall the actual class name), it might have been easier. I used mage and felt that it was unfinished. It seems to have less upgrade options than other classes. I was left with stupid amount of gold because I just had already bought everything I could. Gold became useless halfway through the game.
Eldritch isn’t that bad. The genre just isn’t for me in any way. I become very frustrated with roguelikes (hard to beat in one session) especially if the core gameplay isn’t at all interesting as was the case with Eldritch. You have to complete four maps (collect keys from first three to open the last). Die at any point and you have to start from the beginning. Currently struggling with Spelunky’s end boss. At least that game has the option to port straight to end game area.
Nice, I relate to tough boss fights though, I’m playing Titan Souls this month, it’s nuts. I’m almost to 100% achievements but those last few… might take me a bit. =w=”
I have thought several times getting Titan Souls but the hard difficulty has put me off. Perhaps someday I’ll try it.
It’s less difficulty more getting the timing right tbh. Most fights last 2 - 5 seconds. The worst part about it is getting 100%. I can kill every boss excluding the spinny skeleton guy and the first slime boss pretty easily.