I won’t try to change your mind lol but it shouldn’t take that long. Like, half of that to kill them is even pushing it. I’m playing in NG+ but I’ll double check the time with a couple different weapons the next one I find. Apparently alternating feet after each mini stun makes it go even quicker which I for sure haven’t been doing so far.
Ok, let me ask you, what's an ideal weapon for taking down the Golems? My Fang is currently my hardest hitter (meaning of all my maxed weapons, it does the most damage,) but not particularly fast. I burned up a rune arc to get the Faith stats for Pest Threads which I heard is a viable strategy, but I just didn't see it working well enough before I died; I wanted to try again, but I'm down to 10 rune arcs, and I'm not about to waste them on this fucking thing.
I haven’t played the DLC on console yet but wonder if those things cause some framerate issues with their size or all the fire effects and whatnot. I occasionally notice it on PC but that port has its own typical FROM performance idiosyncrasies. Anyways, good to hear you’re figuring them out. I didn't even bother with them until I had most of the map uncovered and died quite a bit to the one on a river until dialing in the jump timing. Then it gets to be pretty much a cakewalk running circles around the big dummies.
"The one on the river" (near the Path to Cerulean) is the one I've been talking about. He spouts tracking fireballs from his head whenever you're far away. If you're talking about the same one, I'm glad to hear he gave an expert similar heartache.
Yeah and it was here I learned to stick close to them because of that shit lol.
Babies! They're babies! They don't know shit. Try playing vanilla Ninja Gaiden II on Master Ninja without dying.
Would be neat to expand upon it somehow, but tough to think of them abandoning the whole *one lone nobody persevering to take down a big somebody* lol.
Yeah, but think about how great it could be if Miyazaki would pull his head out of that thematic asshole. I've honestly loved all the games, but with Elden Ring being the proverbial "money shot" of FROM's *one lone nobody persevering to take down a big somebody* schtick, I think it would behoove them to try something different. I think a party RPG is well enough within their wheelhouse (as Tulok points, Spirit Ashes are proof of concept,) that they could branch out even within their comfy worlds of doom and gloom.
They would also really need to work on AI if these games were still to be playable offline. Maybe a compromise would be soloing it when exploring but being able to round up a party for boss fights or something. There is a risk of going toar with it though.
