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Dust: An Elysian Tail

Game » consists of 5 releases. First released on Aug 15, 2012

In the fantasy world of Falana, a mysterious swordsman named Dust, armed with a living sword called Ahrah and a quirky companion named Fidget, seeks to free a village from oppression while uncovering the truth behind his past.

Just got it. What difficulty?

#1 Posted by golguin (2354 posts) - 4 months, 24 days ago

Should I go with normal or tough? Is there a ng+ mode for higher difficulties?

#2 Posted by MURDERSMASH (239 posts) - 4 months, 24 days ago

I'd say, go tough. Normal difficulty was surprisingly easy. I don't think I even died once. There's no NG+.

#3 Posted by Doomed (125 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

You can adjust your difficulty after you start but you won't get achievements for completing it on Tough without starting the game on that difficulty.

It got extremely easy around 1/2 through the game for me. What happens is you get so strong that you don't combo anything, so you kind of just spam. I probably should've played on Tough.

#4 Posted by SecondPersonShooter (375 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

Yeah, I'm playing on normal right now and it's been extremely easy so far, almost to the point of tedium, I'm probably going to switch up to tough.

#5 Posted by golguin (2354 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

@Doomed said:

You can adjust your difficulty after you start but you won't get achievements for completing it on Tough without starting the game on that difficulty.

It got extremely easy around 1/2 through the game for me. What happens is you get so strong that you don't combo anything, so you kind of just spam. I probably should've played on Tough.

That sounds super crazy because I'm at around 80% completion (snow area) and my combos are usually in the 200-500 range without even trying. I have felt very lucky though because I've stacked my item drop and luck as high as I can and I always seem to pull a weapon augment that's way more powerful than I should have. I've only used like 4 of them and now I found one with 800+ attack despite only having like 5 gems in the attack stat.

I got the double jump so I've gone back to 100% areas and I'm literally flying through them with my lightning storm.

#6 Posted by Doomed (125 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

@golguin said:

@Doomed said:

You can adjust your difficulty after you start but you won't get achievements for completing it on Tough without starting the game on that difficulty.

It got extremely easy around 1/2 through the game for me. What happens is you get so strong that you don't combo anything, so you kind of just spam. I probably should've played on Tough.

That sounds super crazy because I'm at around 80% completion (snow area) and my combos are usually in the 200-500 range without even trying. I have felt very lucky though because I've stacked my item drop and luck as high as I can and I always seem to pull a weapon augment that's way more powerful than I should have. I've only used like 4 of them and now I found one with 800+ attack despite only having like 5 gems in the attack stat.

I got the double jump so I've gone back to 100% areas and I'm literally flying through them with my lightning storm.

I always used the best equipment unless I was farming gold or items. And I also specced into attack for the most part. It's a lot of factors at work. Maybe I just got lazy. It's hard to combo those later enemies. But they sure seemed to be dying quickly.

#7 Posted by golguin (2354 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

@Doomed said:

@golguin said:

@Doomed said:

You can adjust your difficulty after you start but you won't get achievements for completing it on Tough without starting the game on that difficulty.

It got extremely easy around 1/2 through the game for me. What happens is you get so strong that you don't combo anything, so you kind of just spam. I probably should've played on Tough.

That sounds super crazy because I'm at around 80% completion (snow area) and my combos are usually in the 200-500 range without even trying. I have felt very lucky though because I've stacked my item drop and luck as high as I can and I always seem to pull a weapon augment that's way more powerful than I should have. I've only used like 4 of them and now I found one with 800+ attack despite only having like 5 gems in the attack stat.

I got the double jump so I've gone back to 100% areas and I'm literally flying through them with my lightning storm.

I always used the best equipment unless I was farming gold or items. And I also specced into attack for the most part. It's a lot of factors at work. Maybe I just got lazy. It's hard to combo those later enemies. But they sure seemed to be dying quickly.

I haven't really farmed unless you count letting the game idle so that the shops can stock up on whatever items I need to craft something. I'm level 20 something and I always have my health and def at the stat limit while my attack and fidget powers trail 4 stat points behind so that may be the reason for my ability to combo high numbers. I only use my money to occasionally buy crafting materials (bought all keys) so I've stacked about 60,000 to play around with. It's been a good while since I've actually bought equipment from the store since I always seems to find amazing blue prints.

#8 Posted by Branwulf (291 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

I just played it for the story on easy, it's a bit of a joke on easy though, you can pretty much hold down spin/magic and wait for everything to die.

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