Humanity

A good tactic with her is as Efesell hinted - try to hit her while also not getting hit. When you use that strategy it's a pretty basic Souls fight.

For a single victim $18 million would be a pretty good settlement. For the entire EEOC who I assume will split this money among the plaintiffs ehh not so much.

Exactly. Game Pass Ultimate is about $180 a year at the moment and as long as you play 3 full priced releases in that calendar year then everything else is a bonus. If I wasn't getting those big day one releases then I could easily pick up all the other things along the way on various sales and never engage with the subscription.

@liquiddragon: You should have found a sword before facing the first "boss" with a lifebar on the bottom. A large part of the game is bouncing around dead ends until you find the right way to go but with that boss fight specifically you can actually face the boss without the sword and then get spit out of that area without the tool necessary to go forward. As a hint you should look around the Eastern area. Also as you collect pages of the manual, you should be finding maps. The order of the maps appear in the manual is loosely the order in which you should tackle them.

@ajamafalous: It does not do it for you but you also don't need it to finish the game.

@wulfbane I've finished the game and gotten both endings now. I earlier thought that I had the Mountain Door cracked but didn't realize a vital clue about the Holy Cross puzzles - mainly I don't know how you are to deduct that a line going through the path means you need to press the input twice. I had to look some of that stuff up and I might have figured it out on my own but I was ready to be done. Although I think it's a tremendous game I do think some of the puzzles wear the average player out a bit towards the end. Also I don't know where it is in the main game but that fake save file has an item which slows down time that I assume would be very helpful in actually defeating the Heir in regular mode.

Curious if maybe this time around they will just let you create your own character.

I figured out one of the puzzles without the manual and it was pretty cool. The name is really appropriate and gave me a chuckle. Still haven't figured out how to decode the alphabet but I've gotten one ending and am now working on ending B so to speak.

@wulfbane I had the same experience as you with the Heir. It took me a few tries to get them down, and when the second phase kicked in I couldn't believe it. Gave that a couple of tries to see how well I can get through phase 1 to phase 2 but ultimately just flipped on No Fail mode because the combat is not what I'm here for. Good thing too because that being the "bad" ending would definitely not have been a great reward for banging my head against that double boss fight.

Just out of pure curiosity what were your stats when facing that fight? I had 7 health, 5 def, 5 attack and then I think like 4 in SP / MP and I thought that my damage could probably have been higher. But I'm in ghost form and I've combed through the limited ghost world several times so I don't think I can level up anymore.

I'm mostly curious to see if Mercedes will somehow solve their car mid season and completely dominate. Having no pods will either be a huge gamble that pays off or it doesn't. I'm also worried that this might be a preview template for the rest of the season. Hamilton who had previously won here three times in a row qualified in 5th and technically would have finished 5th if not for the Red Bulls technical issues. Without any serious overtaking you can tell a lot of the drivers are really struggling with the new design, not to mention the many technical issues they are all contending with. Also as mentioned on the Shift F1 pod, I worry for the health of the drivers with all this serious porpoising going around. No one wants to give up speed but nearly 2 hours of serious vibration to the cranium can't be healthy and I wonder if they will start feeling it pile on mid season if they don't manage to get the ground effect under control.

Generally speaking it looks like a huge mess out the gate but there is potential for interesting racing down the road.

@glots: Yah combat is definitely my least favorite part of the game, which is weird that there are some fairly challenging boss fights in here. The whole stamina management system seems really out of place. Otherwise I really love the mystery and the page collection. Love finding out secrets along the way and discovering new abilities.

I think it does suffer a bit from being a very hands off open world game. At certain points you do sort of start bouncing off walls until you find a new direction and that can be frustrating. I enjoy dungeons themselves as the art direction and sound design is outstanding but sometimes getting to those dungeons can be a bit tricky in a not so intuitive and fun way.

You could always get... Chaos Legion.. a genuine PS2 hack and slash game about Chaos.