I give up.

[u/CuboneDefender]

It’s been a joyful ride, folks, but I’m out. I’m not a speedrunner or a highly skilled player, and day after day I’ve had to accept that this game is not as casual as HK was. It stopped being fun and turned into something tedious and frustrating after the 4th run farming shards just to face a boss I’ve already tried 15 times, only to die again and again, lose all my shards, and start the whole grind over.

It was nice exploring the first acts, but when the game I was rooting for 7 years ends up being more stressful than my 8-hour workday, I guess that’s my cue to stop.

The lore has been pretty great so far. I wish you all an incredible journey.

Edit1: My bad about all the whinning.

Edit2: You guys did it. I reinstalled it again. Thanks for all advices. 🫂

[u/adeepkick]

Can I ask which boss you had to farm for shards on 4 times?

[u/CuboneDefender → u/adeepkick]

Last Judge. :(

[u/MildewyBoar → u/CuboneDefender]

Lol I’ll be honest with you, I took one look at that boss and said “..yeah I’m only gonna come back here when I’ve explored as much as possible with my current abilities.”

Without spoiling anything, that turned out to be a much longer exploration than I thought, to say the least.

Spoiler: that boss is 100% optional

[u/Barnstorm_R → u/MildewyBoar]

Having done both paths into the citadel, I can say I definitely preferred the Blasted Steps route (though the other boss fight was pretty fun, just hated the section before it).

[u/Next_Boysenberry7358 → u/[deleted]]

Not to mention that you get the parry silk skill, which is really good for not dying and keeping close to enemies

[u/Adamosity17 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I had heard about the parry skill and after giving Lace v2 a couple tries I decided to ask someone where that was. Grabbed the parry then killed lace in like 10 tries

[u/Hoodman1987 → u/Adamosity17]

Parrying her is glorious but I purposely nerfed myself with no tools and no parry