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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Tainted Grail : Fall of Avalon
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 12:00:39 -0700
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On 5/27/2025 2:08 PM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2025 08:19:49 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Various of the souls games have drop offs where you have to consider
>> where you roll or attack.  Far too much in my opinion.
> 
> Some of the situations in TG:FoA could probably be filed under
> "charming bugs" or "happy accidents".  For example there's one
> location with a relatively tough (depending on the game difficulty
> setting, your level, choices made up to that point etc.) mini boss.
> Instead of taking the longer well-traveled road up to him, I decided
> to climb (well... hobble/jump) up the rocky cliff to him.
> 
> Funny thing is, he will not come down the same way.. it's a slight
> jumping puzzle just to get up to him, so I guess he sees it as too
> treacherous to come after me.  He will launch ranged attacks briefly
> if I jump back down the rocks, but then he decides to take off running
> down the long road to get to me that way.
> 
> Problem is, that gives me a perfect opportunity to jump back up once
> he gets far enough away, and ping him in the back of the head with an
> arrow (and one only hurts him a little bit)... then he turns and comes
> back for me, giving me a chance to hit him with 6-8 directly in the
> face, and jump back down the rocky cliff just before he reaches me.
> And then it repeats a few times until I've weakened him enough to just
> finish him with my sword.
> 
> That kind of thing is more fun to me than some of the intentional game
> design.
> 
> They just dropped a 1.2GB patch today, so I dunno... they may have
> "fixed" some of my fun.

Oh I love the cheese like that in Souls games.  I just call it 
'intelligent play' :)

I see it has a Demo, I might actually buy it at the $45 if it's good and 
I get to try it first.  I'm between games right now, but was considering 
going back to DS1 to try to finish out 100%.


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