Tunic (Xbox/PC/Lol not on PS) - The Bear and Badger

acemuzzy

Siege Engine boss is.... solid

yourfavouriteuncle

The bosses almost fuck the game for me. Had to turn on full cheat mode to get past the last bit.

EvilRedEye

EvilRedEye wrote:

Loving how fucking 2D Zelda combat of all things has turned this forum's action game veterans into a bunch of whinging fannies while ya boi Evil "Press A to win" RedEye is tearing it up.

EvilRedEye

git gud

acemuzzy

The game died in me after my third attempt at the boss, had to delete & reinstall cos simply wouldn't start. Hopefully all will then be well again! And yes I intend to get gud tyvm

Moot_Geeza

Looking forward to Muzzy gradually realising his mistake.

Moot_Geeza

My colleague was raging about this yesterday. Absolute venom, moaning non stop about the lack of signposting and the impossible boss he eventually beat that only gave him a key. So not a proper boss then m8.

acemuzzy

Reinstalled it. Beat boss first go after that (no health or potions left, fuckin skin of my teeth)... and it crashed again and won't restart again. Thankfully I saved before getting the gem thing which triggered the crash... I think :-/

acemuzzy

I've gone for a full shutdown. Will see if it's happier tomorrow. I hope I don't have to do a 3GB reinstall for each five minutes of gameplay.

Moot_Geeza

If you killed the boss it autosaves the win immediately, so you should be okay if you can get it back. I traded death blows with a boss at one stage and it left the whole game running at half speed, even after reloading save files. The boss was gone but everything moved at a crawl. Closing the software and rebooting the console did the trick, but I was panicking for a bit.

acemuzzy

Fingers crossed!

acemuzzy

Refuses to load even after a full shutdown. FFS.

Moot_Geeza

Pray for success with uninstall/reinstall.

yourfavouriteuncle

Ah, this reminds me of the time the penultimate boss wouldn’t appear for me in Wisps. The devs promised me a fix was coming and i wouldn’t have to restart the game. The fix came that landed was for me to restart the game. As in from scratch, whole new playthrough. Good luck muzz.

Moot_Geeza

Just noticed you've already tried deleting once.
Could you try streaming it instead?

Moot_Geeza

That way you can blame the lag when you eventually switch the assist mode on.

acemuzzy

Simply won't start even after a reinstall, even with save days deleted local too. What bullshit.

acemuzzy

I wonder if me trying it via Cloud Gaming can progress/unstick things. Though it seems allergic to my console, rather than my save game, I think, so I'm not convinced. Still grumpy, still looking for a post-Elden Rings game to get its teeth into me...

acemuzzy

It's working again!!

Moot_Geeza

Pull an all nighter just in case.

JonB

Started playing this today and got through 3 hours. Glancing through the thread I seem to be experiencing the same issues with combat as others. The exploration aspects are great, especially with the manual, of course, but the Soulsy elements in the combat feel out of place. It's just not tight enough to control, and the way it handles stamina is awful, I think - removing your i-frames when you're low but still letting you dodge. I switched to infinite stamina on the first major boss I met.

Moot_Geeza

Combat worked reasonably well for the smaller enemies in each area imo. Not perfect, but okay. It definely comes unstuck on the bosses, which were kinda terrible on the whole (and got progressively worse iirc).

Even so it's a brilliant game.

Moot_Geeza

Progress update pls Jon.

JonB

I have got quite far into it - about 8 hours, I think - but had to stop to play some other stuff.

I'm still not 100% sold on it, apart from the brilliance of the instruction manual, though, and how it works together with the exploration aspects. I don't enjoy the combat much and too many secrets involve simply testing the edges of the screen until you find a path obscured by the view.

I'll still finish it at some point.

acemuzzy

That's basically where I am. I think it has now un-crashed. But that removed all momentum I had, so it may be a struggle to return...

JonB

I'm annoyed at it, though, because it should be something I absolutely love with the way it goes about things, but it just doesn't feel very enjoyable to play.

Moot_Geeza

I got wrapped up in it for the first few days and thought it'd be nailed on for my GotY even though aspects of it were iffy. Time hasn't been too kind to my memory of it though, it's probably dropped out of the running for a top 5 now. If only it had better combat it could've been a genuine all-timer.

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