u/XEclipse360

I reslly enjoyed the Persona trilogy and wanted to try out more turn-based games which led me to Expedition 33, but I heard it has a parry system which kinda rubbed me off the wrong way. I dont mind parry systems in video games but only if they are used as an option by the player and its 100% possible to beat the game without it like in Dead Cells for example. I recently finished played Nine Sols after hearing it was like Hollow Knight and didn't enjoy the combat all too much since they its focused on parrying enemies over and over, which I just found kinda annoying. Do you think this game would be for me or no?

I made a post a few days ago saying that I dont like the combat that much, but I warmed up to it snd started to find it kinda fun, but Eigong just had to go and ruin the fun for me.

Lady Ethereal was plenty of difficulty, but I still find it a bit fun fighting her, but Eigong is on a whole other level of hard. I wanted to try and fight her fairly since I heard that she was insanely difficult and I 1000% can see why. I dont mind spending an hour or 2 on a bossfight but ive been on her first phase for like an hour and a half struggling with her basic attacks and died at the beginning of her 2nd phase. I really didnt want to do this at any point in the game but I had to turn up my damage multiplier and lower my damage taken multiplier to thr point where this boss is brain dead easy.

I just cant take it anymore, I feel like im losing my mind with this fight and I heard that this boss has 3 phases. Nope, I dont have the patience for that. To everyone that has the resilience to beat this fight on standard mode, props to you cause I will never ever EVER fight this boss ever again.

Im a 20M who has dealt with loneliness ever since I switched schools in middle school. I dont have any friends cause I dont know how to make any and I don't understand how I even used to have any back then. I have terrible social skills, I have like no hobbies, and I overall just feel like a boring human being. So why do people talk to me.

I have coworkers who say hello to me and even try to engage conversations with me and I still wonder why they even bother with me. Im never the one who starts a conversation and when I try to, the most I can do is say hello and thats pretty much it. I literally dont add anything to the conversation and you dont get any benefit from talking to me. Im not funny or show emotion that much and most of the times I fake it like a fake laugh for example. I tend to stick alone and away from the crowd and I find it hard to open up to people, but people still talk to me. Dont people get bored from talking to me. Am I not boring to you?

This isn't a hate post and is 100% a skill issue on my part, I just want to express how I feel about the game so far. I know this game is heavily based on Sekiro, but I never played the game or knew anything about Sekiro, so I pretty much went into the game blind when it comes to the combat system.

So far, Im really enjoying the story. Im really enjoying meeting the many characters that I've met so far. But I especially love exploring the world, which, of course, is the main appeal of metroidvanias. Im really having a fun time with the game, but when the game puts you into combat, it's where the game falls for me. I just find timing carries to be very hard for me. Rooms where they shove multiple enemies for you to fight just feel annoying to fight. Constantly dying cause I pressed the parry button slightly too early, really bugs me and all of this is 100% my fault.

Honestly, sometimes I wish this game's combat was more like Hollow Knight cause it was simpler and easier to grasp, but I know they wanted to go for a different direction, which I can fully understand but still.

Changing the difficulty doesn't change the fact that you still have to time your parries perfectly. I wish there was a way to at least make the parry window more open cause again parrying is just something that I find very hard to get down even though ive been playing the game for about 15 hours noe and I still suck at it. I know not all games are made for everyone, but damn do I wish I could have this game's story, characters, and world, but without the parry focus cause its literally the only thing holding me back from loving this game.

So far, Im in the bird world and finished all the Lost Galaxy levels and I'd say they were pretty easy. I finished the 4 shape buttons for each world and none of them arent really that hard. The only that was a bit more challenging was splashing sprint but even then it only took me like 4 tries.

Are there more challenging levels in the game cause I heard people say the challenging levels are pretty difficult which is the reason why I even got the game even though I do enjoy the rest of game too.

Can a Persona user's lose access to their Persona?

For example in P4, what if someone accepts their shadow as their true self and decides to live their life as their true self with no fear but showing that true self of them caused them to get bullied and physically harassed by people to the point where they hate the fact that they decided show their true self to everyone. Would their Persona just turn back into shadow, or would they still have their Persona and it possibly getting an 2nd awakening because technically, they still accept it as a part of them even though they hate it?

What if the person still had multiple things about themselves that they dont want to accept. Would their shadow just be one thing they dont want to accept? Would their shadow be a collective thought of everything they dont accept about themselves? Would they have multiple shadows for each thing they dont accept about themselves?

I kinda wondered this after my playthrough of P4G.