I've beaten every boss with the except of the giant beatle in chapter 2 because I was sick of the fucking desert. I have the best possible staff after beating three of the 7 secret dragons. My gear isn't the issue, and I don't think my skill tree layout is the issue either. It's my inability to react to enemy movesets that's the issue, not my dps or anything.
I find that gear in this game is of minimal importance when it comes to things like defense or attack power, the staff that does lightning damage with the light attack ender is prolly the biggest impact you will see cause it synergizes with the spirit that increases lightning damage and if you get something shocked then the focus attack will blow it up, but all that is minor. I say go for a focus-generating build, cause all the damage and cool stuff comes from spending focus, especially the fourth focus attacks, those are incredible.
I dont think that is as simply as you say, because Bosses will string together additional combo attacks and several moves on most bosses have almost the exact same tell but with a dramatically different timing and resulting attack. The final boss in Chapter 2 was guilty of this when he would sometimes end his staff swinging combo with a smash explosion, and sometimes just a stomp. Neither attack has any different animations leading up to it but both attacks have a dramatically different dodge timing. So expecting one thing, will get you hit a lot of times.
It is.
I would say that a big part of something being a Souls-like is being punished for death. In fact, I would say that's a bigger part of something being "Souls" than how the default controls are set up. I mean obviously there's other things that make a Souls game a Souls game (like themes, densely layered level designs, the way the game saves progress, the way characters and weapons are leveled up, etc) and those are the things that Souls-likes are usually trying to ape. The game's control scheme and camera aren't what makes a game a souls-like.It is.
You can surely customize the controls, but of course there is no hold option for the lock-on. They never put one in, because they don't understand the older system. Might have had some directional attacks with Z-targeting, like the thrust and upward swing of Devil May Cry and what older Zelda did. DmC and Soulstice players have to double-tap the stick towards the enemy in order to thrust, a recipe for screw-ups, because the former has no lock-on and the latter uses that shitty R3 button. Soulstice also has so much happening on the screen that it's hard to even notice the lock symbol (and know that it's active without the cam also locking behind the character). Attacks set to R1 and R2, as I thought, because the player again can barely see anything and needs as much access to the right stick as possible. You probably switch targets like in Souls as well. Zelda dropped the locking of the camera behind the player while targeting as soon as there was a second stick, in The Wind Waker, because it sucked. I would rather strafe while controlling the cam, switching to the other frontward target with perhaps L3, like in Devil May Cry. Drawback of not being able to choose between left and rightward targets is less than the lack of visibility and locking out of camera controls that causes players to keep falling and backing into walls. If you want to disengage the lock for a look, you can't even do that without potentially turning your back to the enemy.
Checking a video, looks like there's an estus flask equivalent whose animation you have to find windows for and looks like you time the one dodge half the time like in later Souls games. Well, there's a guard button too. I would offer more options, more mobility.
At least there's a jump button.
There is more Souls DNA in gaming now than people like to admit. I don't know why they try to deny it so much, as if Souls is only about recovering your remains, summoning help and being invaded.
But would you call every game that uses those controls a "Call of Duty game" the same what that you just called Wukong a Souls game for its choice of default controls and camera placement?
I wouldn't use the word "just" before, and I never used the word "just" for Souls imitators like Black Myth and Phantom Blade Zero, but "They're all Call of Duty" would be accurate to a degree. Sick of both.
I think that viewpoint is rather silly and reductionist, but I can at least respect the consistency.
So the idea is you don't dodge the full string of those bosses which may include new moves, you dodge early and then the variable combo has long-lasting invuln and will stagger the enemy out of his combo if it lands right.
Good luck with that. You might as well tell everyone to stop breathing. Considering how perfected wall running FPS has become. I can't blame people for using that standard template from Mirror's Edge, it's reboot, or Titanfall 2. I have no stake in most of these types of games, but a majority people love them, and I ain't
on their parade.
i dont know what the variable combo is, i've never knocked anyone out of an attack string in my entire time playing.
Variable combo is the thing where you press strong attack during a light attack string while having focus points available, and in the first and third stances, those variable combos when upgraded can see through enemy attacks, which basically means you become invuln and hit them through their hits, and then those things also have followups too for additional focus points, which is what will usually knock a boss out of most regular attack strings and sometimes even floor them entirely letting you hit em as they get up. You know when you did it right because you become briefly enveloped in red energy and there's a particular electric sound accompanying this, and after doing this, the enemy becomes more susceptible to being staggered which is what knocks em out of their attack strings that you otherwise can't interrupt.
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