oh GOD the last missions are brutal, on one hand its nice that they just kick you back to the main menu after dying in them instead of risking you going into debt and having to restart, but there's not really a clear "hey this is how the game works now" so I got lucky that I saved before the mission where they started doing that. the missions themselves are ROUGH, and also i want to know who at from software decided to put a fucking moving platform jumping puzzle in a game that controls like this and has a camera like this. I just want to talk. I promise.

I barely played this, I got from like the smelter demon bonfire to the old iron king bonfire then got distracted by other stuff, most of the playtime is AFK

I should've timed this because i forgot this is one of those CRINGE games that doesn't save after you beat the game. so the 2 hours is an approximation

Anyway. I was worried sephiroth would be a pain in the ass, but it turns out that with how stats work in this game and how many defense ups i used it was fine and i beat him first try. So that just left beating the game, which was, naturally, even easier.

Shame the PC port sucks and doesn't stop your pc from going to sleep while its open, so while i'm sitting back and watching cutscenes it just blips out and then that breaks the framerate of the FMV videos.

can't wait to... start 358/2 days from scratch because i lost my savefile. ugh. I'll play it on a real system this time, it'll be better that way, even if the resolution sucks.

its over

halloween over.
also got p-enis rank on the secret compilation stage

beat the game. The true final boss was the blue dragon outside of king allant's fight. fuck that thing. I feel like i might've been overlevelled, I beat allant first try.

did a bunch of post game stuff, I think i have all the characters unlocked now, i wish there was some like completion percentage for all the areas aside from rep. Like i know how much graffiti i've sprayed but have 0 clue about collectables like graffiti, songs, costumes, etc.

i'm free

I didn't record any of my sessions here so this is just the date that i 100% the game.
Phenomenal game with only very minor issues, 100%ing it is kind of a nightmare tho. don't do it without a map, and even with a map its still a pain because you have to be VERY sure that when you check something off you ACTUALLY got it. I checked off every single korok but was missing 3 and i had to double check my map by slowly using the ingame map which is a NIGHTMARE.

beat the game.
I realized that even without the self-imposed limitation of not being able to kill people, I just tend to not do it anyway, so this playthrough wasn't really too different from my original one.
I think i might do the DLCs loud and maybe go back and do a third playthrough of the main game loud as well

very good dlc

i beat it

I hate rush mode i hate rush mode

99% done... just need to win 10 more free play games and then i'll be stuck at 99% forever cool.

Beat the boss of world 3 and made my way through world 4 and then got a game over on the first level of world 5... back to world 4...

Got the last 2 sea charts, double checked nearly every single power gem location and still don't have it, then went to go fight the final boss without saving (critical error) and after beating the game it didn't save so that little bit of stuff I did got wiped. Oh well. Probably won't go back and get platiinum on beedle's membership or try and get that last power gem but will consider it 100% anyway, too much tedium for me to bother.

today's haul is around 4 glowstones from grinding and 1 evil eye from the super boss. At least he gave me something i needed, but jesus christ I need so many of like all of these ingredients this is going to take forever please god why

I remembered not liking this game but I couldn't remember why. so i booted it up again and apparently played it for about 10 hours? this time i put it down within 40 minutes.
Not because of the gameplay, its Mystery Dungeon through and through, but because of the characters.
Why did they have to make your partner the worst prick imaginable.
Why did you AGREE to go into a fucking DUNGEON at the behest of 2 PEOPLE THAT YOU KNOW WILL JUST TRY AND GET PEOPLE TO DO THINGS.
WHY IS THE INTRO TO THIS GAME SO LONG AND BORING.
WHY DO THEY GIVE YOU SO MANY YES/NO CHOICES WHERE THEY DON'T LET YOU PICK NO.
WHY
anyway, i didn't like it. I might not go back to it.

More true arena attempts.
I'm so fucking sick of it.
Arena/True Arena in the previous games was fun, but all its doing here is making me realize that
A. all of the bosses have long ass unskippable cutscenes (why???? at least let me skip them in the arena...)
B. The devs loooove to waste your time. The rest areas are just a long ass room where you spend 10 seconds walking to the next doorway. apparently having a 1 screen room for rest areas isn't good enough anymore! Also the mid-bosses have a weird like leadup that takes 10 seconds as well. you couldn't just spawn me in the fight arena? you know, like kirby super star did on the SNES???
3. There are 2 original bosses in this game. Susie/Haltmann are the same fight with a slight difference (both suck), and Star Dream is a Star Fox game. The rest are just modified versions of fights from other kirby games.
Clanky Woods - obligatory Wispy Woods, thats fine
Holo Defense API - Fight 4 bosses from previous games
Mecha Knight - Fight meta knight but the fight is more boring, he has a big arm and likes to leave the map for a while
Dedede Clone - Dedede isn't hard enough for players anymore, so fight 3 of them! try not to take damage! (and then the third phase of the fight is fine, albeit tedious due to the boss staying in the background)
Dark Matter Clone - Dark Matter but in 3D!!1!
Sectonia Clone - this wasn't even 2 games ago at this point...
Galacta Knight - actually a pretty different fight, but its not fun. Unlike the previous games where it really felt like an earned duel against an equal at the end of the game, this one is just "fuck you, i bet you won't dodge this one"
Thats 6 rehashed bosses. 6!!!
4. ALL OF THE BOSSES LOVE STAYING IN THE BACKGROUND
Whats more fun than fighting a boss? waiting for the boss to come out of the background to hit it again! I wouldn't even mind if the fights were better designed for it. but these fuckers spend 70% of the time in the background and then their attacks take forever because if they went too fast they'd be alienating their target audience of beginner gamers.

What a mess

22 Minutes to beat the Devil! Now that makes me feel good. Not doing DLC S-ranks today, but i feel pretty accomplished anyway

beat the main campaign on Watch me Die! with fast monsters and with all the funny demon runes. Also beat all of the """"Fun"""" levels.
I was so happy to finally get this over with, and i immediately uninstalled the game afterwards.

Apparently there was one corner of the map which has a dungeon AND the white sword, which i somehow missed.
alongside a dungeon I swear that i already went into but i guess not, I got literally everything I needed to beat the game.

ok nope i remembered why I hate this game.
the aliens are so ridiculously overpowered that you don't stand a fucking chance.
THIS IS COMING FROM SOMEONE WHO ENJOYS FUCKING LONG WAR ON IRONMAN HARD MODE.

One of the things I enjoy about XCOM is that its hard, bull shit at times, but overall, when someone dies, most of the time it is your fault, and it FEELS like it is YOUR fault.

XCOM 2 decides that players should not learn from their mistakes because their mistakes aren't what got their units killed.
Instead, they give you:
-Ridiculously tight turn limits where in order to beat the clock you essentially just have to ignore any enemy and hope that they don't hit you with their overwatch
-Status effects that are annoying and often times unavoidable (poison now just damages you every turn instead of every action, meaning that skillful plays with poisoned soldiers aren't possible anymore).
-Melee units who either miss or hit and render your unit unconcious, in other words, kill your unit except if you win they're alive at the end. also, the units that can do this have ridiculous run speed.
-Vipers, the ex-thinmen who no longer explode into poison upon death, but can grab you and then strangle you. from a mile away.

and of course: Rulers.
a gripe with a game shouldn't require an entire segment to itself.
Rulers are elite enemies who show up from time to time.
there are only a couple of them, they do not heal ever (but have a ton of health), and after a bit they'll leave to fight another day.
a concept which is not that bad, until...
RULER REACTION
Rulers get a free action EVERY TIME YOU TAKE AN ACTION.
Reminder that these are elites, who of course do a lot of damage too.
so you can move a unit and then the ruler will instakill it.
very fun game mechanic.

i hate this fucking game

this really rides that fine line between "hard but fair" and completely bullshit a bit TOO closely.

I went back and got the good ending. idk if it was worth it or not, but i did it

I had so much fun with the pyromancer run that i decided to go for another playthrough!

went in for round 2!
...and finished it in one sitting.
Still got a lot of completion despite not backtracking or anything like that.
missing 2 e-tanks, had 203 missiles. the game's secrets are a bit easy... for the most part...

AND YET, I only have half of the ending gallery images... how.