I decided to play me some Castlevania Circle of the Moon. Great game that is. I'm going for a Magician run. That apparently means that your stats are tweaked in order to make you a better mage and in addition, you start off with all DSS cards unlocked. Currently, I'm at the Necromancer and I'm level 8. And boy, he is hard. I might be able to beat him easier if I abused the DSS cards but I'd rather defeat him without them. Well, okay, i'll take a strength buff from Venus/Salamander but that's about it.
Its a fun battle but its also pretty long at such a low level and I outright refuse to grind for levels since that kills some of the challenge. However, it doesn't kill the challenge to put up a save-state right before the boss instead of running all that way everytime you lose. Its not hard to get there without taking damage but it sure would be annoying to do everytime.
Have fun with the late game boss fights on Magician mode. You can be at a normal level and get 1-2 shotted by bosses without damn good armor (And even then, it probably lets you survive one extra hit at best).
Anyways...
Skyrim - Had to rescue this one guy for a quest in Whiterun. I kinda regret deciding to find my own way to do it because I couldn't seem to talk anyone into releasing the guy...meaning I had to cut through ~10+ Thalmor Guards, some Archers, and a few Mages. All decked out in Elven Armor...and takes a ton of punishment on Master difficulty to boot. With some smart thinking, I got all the way to the boss enemy using minimal potions.
Boss enemy? Friggin' mage
. I burned every last damned potion I had because the sucker took MORE punishment than the damned guards.
On the plus side, got enough money to get a home in Whiterun. Finally!
Also killed my first dragon, whee. It's surprisingly nasty. I stay in its breath for more than a second and I pretty much hug the floor and have to try again. Histskin can only do so much to save my ass against that stuff. Stinks when the dragon's low on health as it'll stay on the ground and basically belch fire at anything nearby.
I got a huge laugh when it picked up a guard in its jaws, shook him around for a bit, then tossed him out of its mouth. I'd have tried to get close, but it almost always roasted me when I tried it if it wasn't distracted. Thusly I sticked to pelting it with arrows until it folded.
I'm not looking forward to fighting a dragon solo if such a moment occurs.
Currently lv8. Gonna try to make a bit of gold to get the last two upgrades I need for my Whiterun house.
FF6: Is The Best Game Ever - In the World of the Ruin. I overgrinded I think in the WoB because holy crap Marvel Shoes. +7 Vig/Sta/Spd/Mag + Auto-Safe/Shell/Haste/Regen? Hell yes please.
I basically made most bosses after the Magitek Factory cry. Except for the boss in house 'o flames in Thamasa. The boss itself did crap all damage, but the Balloons? They have 2000 HP and my best attack is Strago's Aqua Rake for ~650 to all of them. Balloons have Exploder. Exploder sucks if they cast it before I can get off 2 Aqua Rakes. Morph'd Terra doesn't help much either, even if Morph was changed. It's now infinite duration and is like the Junk Armor set from MMZ4 in the sense that Terra will deal 2x damage with everything, but also take 2x damage from every attack that hits her.
Rest of WoB after that was lulzs. Lv30 characters vs. Atma Weapon...yeah I owned basically. It had all of one attack that was dangerous at my level, Destroy (Instant death, whee!).
WoR is setup rather interestingly. Basically, you're supposed to skip all chests and run from fights to get all characters back in your party, then use the various areas to level up and get new equipments. It's setup this way so you can use your favorite characters wherever you want and still enjoy some tough normal enemies and some bosses.
The bosses in the way of getting characters are not too bad, but still, can't let your guard down on them. Umaro is probably the sole exception. Tritoch is a bit of an ass to deal with if you don't cheese the hell out of it. Fighting Umaro himself though is not that bad.
Currently running a team of Shadow, Locke, Celes, and Relm, all around the mid 30s right now.
To compare, the readme states you probably can't beat the game at...level 75. Considering what some of the enemies in the high level zones dealt in damage, I'm inclined to believe that for the moment.
