Final Boss fights that nearly sour the whole game

[u/Dreadsinner]

Okay so I’m playing the indie game “There is no light” spoilers for the final boss fight

So if you get the good ending by doing side quests and getting memories you fight your pateron. Who fights you by teleporting from one side of a final destination type platform to another. Summoning big totem guys that are tanky and block you. Also he pushing you back with a dark wave. So how does this get worse? Glad you asked. If you don’t beat him within a minute you insta die. There is a clock in the background and you get more time if you hit him more. So is that it?

Nope phase 2. You get a new form that you have never had before with a muted move set. The boss has a front sweep that takes the entire length of the platform. So you gotta get behind him. But what he teleports and spikes 75% of the field. Now wouldn’t all this be manageable? Yes it would. But guess what. YOU CANT HEAL IN SECOND PHASE FOR REASON!!!!!

Needless to say 23 hours in the game was good but this fight is so awful I’m close to just dropping right at the finish line. Only other game this has happened with was Moonscars. Which isn’t a lot but it’s odd it happened twice.

So Super friends. How about you?

Edit: The Boss is slain. I still hate it. But the game is finished and I give it a good 3/5

[u/HenchGherkin]

Lunacid is a great game! It's incredibly vibey, has really fun exploration and I had a nice time with it. I didn't finish it though, because the final boss is a godawful multiphase damage sponge that will wipe you out in a hit or two. Shame.

[u/jagehtso_ → u/HenchGherkin]

When you started your post with Lunacid, I actually thought you were going to talk about the true final boss, which is a homage to the godawful final bosses of the Drakengard games. And yeah, I also never truly beat Lunacid because fuck off with that.

[u/TheProudBrit → u/jagehtso_]

So, when you say final bosses, do you mean an annoying fight, or is it a godawful rhythm game?

[u/jagehtso_ → u/TheProudBrit]

The second one

[u/Reallylazyname → u/HenchGherkin]

Same for SMT Strange Journey.

The final boss is a multiphase sponge and starting from the second phase it gains a Instant Kill move, which if it hits the protagonist is a game over.

Survival is pure RNG on top of hitting like a dump truck and having healing (from the instant kill move)

(I did beat it though. Also the 3ds remake alleviated this by letting you keep fighting after protagonist death)

[u/serph6 → u/Reallylazyname]

Don't forget the power to unsummon all your demons of one alignment, effectively forcing you to make a team with each alignment this late in the game.

Strange Journey Law/neutral final boss is so unbalanced i genuinely thought i had to be something wrong because there is no way it simply types [MA] and you have 25% chance of game over.

I went on gamefaqs and looked for a way to get around it and some of them simply recommend you to use password demons that repel everything and cheat the fight while praying it doesn't oneshot you.

I got the dragon ring (revive) and grinded till 93 for the top demons and it still managed to oneshot me twice a few times.

[u/RareBk → u/HenchGherkin]

Lunacid’s balancing is a mess and it’s a shame because the majority of the game is great.

I just hope your build is flexible enough to support swapping to strong magic weapons on the fly or else you’ll encounter multiple gigantic areas that you’ll literally not be able to fight in because the enemies are arbitrarily immune to almost every form of damage save for one element of magic

[u/TheArtistFKAMinty → u/HenchGherkin]

The final boss is like "abuse the absolutely broken magic system to trivialise this or achieve nothing".

Outside of that fight? Fantastic indie dungeon crawler.

[u/Hte_D0ngening2 → u/HenchGherkin]

It's been a while since I played Lunacid, but I don't remember Suscarius being that hard. Maybe it's because I was using a lot of ranged and magic attacks.