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Find the eidolon fights in FFXIII "hard" compared to the rest? *spoilers*

Yes 19 52.78%
 
No 6 16.67%
 
About time the game got hard 4 11.11%
 
WTF?! Odin WTFBBQ'd my ass for an hour! 5 13.89%
 
If you answered #4, WTF? ... 0 0%
 
2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2 2 5.56%
 
Total:36
kaneada on 13 March 2010
Tanstalas said:

Seriously, this game is so easy... However, when you get to the eidolon fights, the game ramps up in difficulty like noones business.  Best I can compare it to is Demon's Souls vs Demon's Souls NG

Well, above analogy doesn't really work, because DS was hard on 1st playthrough :)

Odin spanked my ass about 10 times before I said wtf and had to go online to look for a strat, my characters crystalium were maxxed and still died a ton.  Just finished the brynhildr fight and holy crap, another tough fight...

Maybe they aren't really hard, just the rest of the game is very simple?  I mean, I can button-mash for most of the fights, but actually have to think for the eidolon fights.

Your thoughts?

use sols to get through these fights. I didn't find Snow's that hard, but Odin was a nightmare. Used a sol to buff before battle and did quick shifts between commando / ravager and dualcast.



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Onyxmeth on 13 March 2010

The first two times I faced Odin I just charged in without a care in the world and lost. Then I just sat back a moment and put some strategy into it and it came easier. Put on spark rings before the fight, put shell and protect on both characters with Hope while Lightning has Medic on. Then I just swapped a double med class when he was attacking to a com/rav class when he was blocking. It's not hard, but you just can't go in coasting.

I like the difficulty of the game overall, especially if you don't go out of your way to get preemptive strikes. There's been a few tough battles with like 8-10 enemies that taxed me with switching paradigms constantly. It's definitely the most naturally difficult FF since the SNES days. FF XII was more difficult than this, but that had more to do with me constantly finding the areas I shouldn't have been in and tackling enemies there.



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Tanstalas on 13 March 2010
kaneada said:
Tanstalas said:

Seriously, this game is so easy... However, when you get to the eidolon fights, the game ramps up in difficulty like noones business.  Best I can compare it to is Demon's Souls vs Demon's Souls NG

Well, above analogy doesn't really work, because DS was hard on 1st playthrough :)

Odin spanked my ass about 10 times before I said wtf and had to go online to look for a strat, my characters crystalium were maxxed and still died a ton.  Just finished the brynhildr fight and holy crap, another tough fight...

Maybe they aren't really hard, just the rest of the game is very simple?  I mean, I can button-mash for most of the fights, but actually have to think for the eidolon fights.

Your thoughts?

use sols to get through these fights. I didn't find Snow's that hard, but Odin was a nightmare. Used a sol to buff before battle and did quick shifts between commando / ravager and dualcast.

Sols?



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