The second Gurak Fortress part, as in the castle where it's mostly just civilians being slaughtered? I actually liked that part. A bit on the nose, and toned down, but that's pretty much what's been happening in Iraq/Afghanistan for the last decade.

One difficult fiht that comes to mind for me was in Turret Basement where you fight enemies using the floor-damages-you spell on a spiral staircase. Getting to the end to kill the mage without dying was a pain.

Ah yes, all of those fights were more annoying as opposed to difficult; when you killed the mage all you had to do was either use Revive to bring everyone back, or use a heal circle. 

The difficult ones for me were those floor fights against the Nitro Reptids, including that crazy one with the Witch and the floor damage, where it turned out the key was to blitz Spirit Attacks in the window when the floor-damage was off.

I have done all side chapters, but only one stint in the Arena.

Fuck Mitra. Seriously. Bastard ass piece of shit.

Whoever designed him should have his or her life ruined, living only to experience absolute misery for the rest of their days.

Mitra is pretty hard, only one other boss pissed me off more. (Which I won't spoil as you won't have gotten up to it yet if you're up to Mitra)

Got that bastard.

Though i'm not sure what i did different.

On a related point, your teammates can absolutely kick your ass when under Shade.

^ Fighting the dark Muruk guy huh? Honestly he was one of the most annoying bosses to me because of the possession thing plus his already tough challenge.

Fought him. Had to retry a couple of times because Syrenne would get shaded, then would corner me and just prevent me from being able to do anything (hit me before i could gale out or go into Command Mode)

Dumbest one was when he Shades Mirania, and you're forced to kill her to be able to even try to save the others, but i had that problem with the earlier Shade too.

I feel so stupid. In the fight against the sorcerer bros, Lowell kept hinting about the "colors mean elements" but i took that to mean that i had to attack red with ice and blue with fire only after i got the barrier down, not that the barrier itself corresponded to an element, because i forgot there was a green element (a la Mirania)

Dumb dumb dumb. Fun fight otherwise though.

Total rage against Jirall, found that fight harder than any that came after, except the third form of the last guy. For the third form (and the third form only) i had to grind up to level 64

Now for the postgame, and when i make my trip to Toronto, it'll be back to KOTOR.