Lies of P

Champion Victor, you bastard.

He’s down! Had to repair weapon on about 10%, got pretty hairy.

Then got unlucky with a stagger as he went straight into the dash
x3 move so it expired before I could hit him.

Usual souls fashion; almost kill him on first couple of attempts, then get wrecked several times in a row, get fucked off and want to quit, but gradually get better.

Seemed to takes ages getting his health down with pokes every now and then. Phase 2 seemed to go smoother for me. A few lucky escapes, and the mechanic that restores a pulse charge is great. Gives you an incentive to keep going when you are all out.

Now for some Yorkshire Gold to celebrate.

Nice one! Good feeling that. I’m at the beast now, and at the I’m taking a break stage. Got p1 down. P2 I’m all over the shop grrr!

I know that feeling all too well, good stuff!

That’s where I am at. Going to be tough.

I’m using maxed trident and don’t seem to be doing much damage.

Agree with last area being the least enjoyable too!

I wanted to wait until I'd finsihed Thymesia before getting started on this but unfortunately it's a bit too low budget. I mean, the combat is great fun but I kind of feel I've seen it all just 2/3ds in. So I fired this up. It's quite impressive technically isn't it? The combat is nice and crunchy as well. My worry is that I'm going to have to parry everything. Nice regain system with the block mind you but I'm still going to take chip damage over time if I rely on it. I've gone a dex build.

Director's patch is out, new costumes and whatnot.

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Boo 😁

JonFE is dead right about the parry. In fact, I'd take it further: it barely matters. Blocking is fine, as though you lose some health, you can regain most of it through finishing off the mob. I don't think I've used it in a single boss fight - it might speed things up in terms of staggering but you can make do without it. Just watch out for the unblockable attacks by some mobs - where they flash red - as these need to be perfect parried. Or, like I do, just dodged - dodging works fine as a strategy (I think it was one of the first things I upgraded). 

One thing to add as it's something I really love about the game is the utility of throwables. I don't recall ever spending upgrades to increase throwables and lower prices but I've done it here. The sawtooth wheel is the most seemingly useless, but it can be used to bait enemies - and I actually finished a boss off with a stack of them once. It was glorious. Prick. The others are all really good - the shotput helps build stagger, so can compensate if you are not doing much perfect parrying; and the main throwables - thermite, throwing cell, carcass body fluid bottle (this game...) - are arguably OP when used against bosses or tough enemies with the right weakness; I say arguably as it's clearly a design decision to make throwables actually valuable, and a valid strategy, and I'm here for it. 

The only downside here is it will be a while before you get to The Red Lobster, where you'll find the vendor who has unlimited quantities of the above to sell. It's home from home for me, that place. 

Luxasia taken care of. Done the first phase enough times to be able to parry 90% of her attacks. Second phase I dunno if I still ever figured out fully, she has that many moves that move so quickly and deal so much damage it's hard to learn that phase of the fight. But Falcon Eyes came in handy for sure and might have gotten lucky with a parry or two. Still tho, I won and it was one of the coolest bosses I thought.

Curious to find out what happens if you did pick Rising Dodge, now it's a default. Do you just get the quartz back?

No, they have replaced it with a generic skill. Guard regen i think

There was also talk about getting a couple of quartz's back or being available for purchase from Polendina to compensate for those who have picked Rising Dodge, but I'm currently at work and cannot check.

Yeah there are now two more to buy at the beginning and one more later when you get another supply box. So three extra it seems plus two extra full moons for special weapons

You can parry everything and some attacks can only be parried (unless you can run out of range) but you will know this because the boss/will go red. Timing isn’t as generous as Sekiro and works differently. Sometimes it is easier or better to dodge or just block.

Keep you weight ratio under 60%. You don’t want to be in the ‘slightly heavy category.

General consensus is capacity is the more useful but boring stat as it lets you wear heavier gear weapons /better puppet parts.

Play around with weapons as you can mix and match handles and blades to make your own combinations. Like other souls games you will eventually be able to buy the lower level weapon upgrade stones eventually.

The game is linear like a classic souls, and the bosses can be quite tricky so you can hit a wall sometimes and need to beat the boss to progress.