Finished the game. Found the last two areas to be kind of unpleasant and unfun so I dropped enemy HP and attack to 50% in the house rules and just blazed through them. The golden door boss was a very pleasant surprise though, I haven't particularly enjoyed the way the bosses were designed in this but that one was a lot of fun.
I had a
blast with the first 3 areas, but I agree with many of the others that it just gets too grindy after that. Enemies get strong and gold is relatively scarce, making for a fairly unsatisfying gameplay loop. All these things in the shop and skill tree that you simply won't be getting anytime soon cause the game is clearly designed to be played through multiple times, but it doesn't really tell you that and just sort of throws all of this at your face.
edit: oh and I genuinely hate the fairy challenges lmao, and I'm not really into the fact that you get the runes that way, cause some of those runes are
ridiculously good.
Still absolutely love the moment-to-moment gameplay though so I'm definitely checking the NG+ stuff out.
Yeah same at first. Came back to it because i needed the currency for the soul shop. Afaik, outside the first one, all of them are some sort of combat challenge. Some are pretty insane lol
Seems like 50/50 combat challenges and target time trials. The combat challenges seem doable (even if stupidly chaotic and messy, since they often involve fighting dual bosses), but the time trials... I don't know how the hell you're supposed to do those if the max amount of empathies for a single challenge is 9.
