I've continued working my way through Bayonetta, which has just been an absolute blast. It's the first hack-and-slash action type of game I've given the time of day and I'm not disappointed. I just love the campy nature of this whole game. The aesthetics, the dialogue, the character designs... they all just complement each other perfectly to create this highly entertaining over-the-top action romp. I've also been getting better at it over time, which has definitely helped lessen the frustration I occasionally felt at the start to make the whole experience all the more enjoyable. Really excited to continue it and get to the end of the ride.
It's a shame it's become a Nintendo exclusive after this first entry, but my roommate has been kind enough to promise to let me use his Switch to continue the series. In fact, my copy of the second game is already awaiting me. Ridiculous how the prices of these Switch games are still so high for a game that's a decade old by now. I bought it second hand, and yet I still had to pay thirty euros for it. Crazy.
@colonelkilgore Thanks. A couple more hours and I'm still highly enjoying it. One unfortunate issue I did run into is the same problem a lot of games like this have. Two different ways to go in an area, one with a Memory and one that ended up having a door closing behind me so I can't get back to get the Memory. It's not something that's a dealbreaker by any means, but it is still annoying that there's no way to get all of the Memory collectibles now because I chose to go one way and end up getting blocked off.
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@KilloWertz yeah that does suck. To this day I still to-and-fro about every fork-in-the-road in a game, trying to out-guess the devs and pick the route that doesn’t progress the main story first.
To put your mind at rest though, I think that there is chapter select available after completion though, so you will be able to go back and mop-up any missed collectibles and the like once you’ve finished the main story.
Having finally finished off the Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Directors Cut plat yesterday, I just went back to FFXIII… to start mopping up the last few trophies on that.
Took on my first Shaolong Gui this evening and… dayum! They took a bit of getting used to and that’s for sure. Think there was around 10 straight deaths at the start there 😅 but managed to get my collective **** together after an hour or so and managed a few victories by the end of my sesh and two of the six Dark Matter drops that I’m needing. Hopefully I’ll get the remaining four over the next few days and then I’ll be on the final stretch.
The Final Fantasy XIII material farm is finally done! I’ve farmed money, xp and various materials here and there since last September… and honestly never known anything quite like it! The Trapezohedron farm literally took months… for 5 of them! And I just completed my Dark Matter farm, which only took a week for the 6 to drop but battling Shaolong Gui with un-upgraded gear felt about as tough as most Sekiro boss fights… and I had to kill around 150 of them by the time I’d got everything I needed 😅.
The remaining 4 trophies should be plain sailing now tbh… as long as I haven’t missed a missable elemental ring (which is possible tbh) but… what a ride!
Bad new: having finished off the farmiest-of-farms on Saturday, I was hoping to finish off the plat on this today but the upgrading system is the most confusing I’ve ever experienced and getting everything upgraded took pretty much all day.
Good news: I somehow managed to have not missed any of the missable elemental rings during my playthrough, I also somehow managed to eventually wrap my head around the upgrading system and eventually popped many peoples plat-blocker, the Treasure Hunter trophy.
I also managed to knock out a few more Cie’ th Stones at 5 stars too. So just 5 of them left, a Long Gui kill and 5 stars on the end-game boss and this 5 month long odyssey will be over 🫠
And it’s all over! A week and a half of main story, followed by another 4 and a half months worth of the grindiest-grind this side of Monster Hunter… and Final Fantasy XIII is finally done!
The trophy guide states 100 hours but it was more like 300 for me. I do think I got a bit unlucky with rng drops but apart from that I’m not entirely sure where I could’ve made up the time. I mean… I’m always a bit over what the suggested time-to-plat states but never by over 200 hours 😅.
Good game though… much better than the general consensus. Loved the combat! And as someone who doesn’t really click with turn-based (FFXIII’s is actually somewhere in-between turn-based and action tbh… it’s difficult to explain succinctly) but it’s fantastic! I’ll look forward to more of it in Final Fantasy XIII-2 (which I hear is actually a better game too). Might not play it this year as I’d originally planned though, as this dragged on far longer than it had any right too and I don’t think that my palate will be cleansed of it for quite a while.
@graymamba Yay! Another epic platinum in the bag!
Congratulations and I am happy that you found the game enjoyable overall. It’s definitely one of those games that time has been kind to and seems to have held up better than what the initial backlash would have led you to think.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution thanks sol… and yeah I think time passing has put the quality of the game into perspective for sure. It’s been the case with quite a few games I’ve come-late-to-the-party on tbh. Whether it’s down to devs going on to patch games after their initial release, or approaching games with lower expectations that the general-gamer had at the time (probably a bit of both), I’ve enjoyed the hell out of a load of games that were apparently big disappointments. 🤔 could be the birth of a new thread methinks 🤣
@graymamba I agree that’s an interesting subject to explore. I can’t think of a couple games off the top of my head which have had a renaissance, so to speak.
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