I'm liking this but a bit stuck - is it normal to progress West first, from the town? I have done that and got to an NPC that illuminated a few pink diamonds on the map to find. I can't get to them, one is near a spawn point in the Western path, where just South of that is a door it's behind, the door seems to need two parts of a diamond filled in, which I have, but it wont' open. Any ideas?
I think it's meant to be none linear.
I did. North (stuck at the boss) then went East, North again, West, South.
But i think you are meant to dip in and out of the different areas and come back when you feel you are tooled up enough to beat something you couldn't before.
And that's the North done. Slightly tougher, but not too bad.
Kind of surprised by the bosses so far, as the reviews I read said they were really harsh to the point it spoiled the game a bit. Maybe they get much harder later or something (or maybe they've been made easier?), because they've been no more than a moderate challenge at most so far.
Continued playing this after beating the final boss, because there's still a lot to find. Pretty much gone round all the areas again and it's surprising what I missed first time round.
But still
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I only have 6 or 7 triangle pieces in all the areas, when I need 8 to open the final door in each one (I'm guessing these will lead to optional bosses).
I'll give it a bit more time, but probably can't be arsed wandering around a 3rd time, so might have to consult a guide at that point.
Had anyone discovered hoard mode on this? It's really rather good. Final stage is kicking my arse though.
The more I play the clearer it becomes that just playing to the credits on this game is only the half of it, if that. There's a ton more stuff to do, and I'm still slowly working my way through it.
Managed to find
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all triangles and guns now, and have just one more key to find.
However, the one error I think they've made with this game is with the map, because it doesn't record the stuff you've found. I'm now at the point where I only have a handful of things to collect, but they could be absolutely anywhere.
Even finding a complete map online doesn't really help, because I can hardly remember where I found everything so far. It would take a lot of effort for not much gain.
I guess that's the end of that then. I did get nearly 20 hours out of it though.
I have just started this. It's not as sunny as I thought. Have gone north but can't fight boss so pootling. All pleasantly confusing thus far. Annoying that it sometimes autosaves when you've got practically no health / medipacks... if I warp somewhere is there an easy place to stock back up or is it basically just tough cheese? Town seems to want yellow credits and I can't decide what to spend those on (can upgrade medipack, but one more blob and i can sort sword or dash which seems more fun...). Decisions, decisions...
Yeah I can see it might head in that direction. Will keep trying to feel it out for a bit longer, don't really want to have do read explanations of stuff as I guess that's meant to be half the fun.