This personally doesn’t describe my experience at all, but I go out of my way to avoid jumping puzzles, most parkour can be bypassed with mounts (even in the zones designed for them) and I generally stay away from Heart of Thorns content, which is infamous for good reason. Excruciatingly, needlessly hardcore is a phrase I would use for it.
In the end though, this just goes to show that people can have vastly different experiences with the exact same game.
i cheat at jump puzzles by playing asura. the little rats are good at it, less bulk to obscure the screen. i say this having done the worst ones in the entire game
ive got one asura for every class but i prefer mesmer for puzzles. so i can be nice and drop a portal to the end for people struggling. and also because colleen o’ shaugnesy kills on the mesmers voice lines
FF14 Save the Queen peeve I spent weeks grinding mettle on my off hours to partake in raids which put most hardcore wow mechanics to shame on even normal difficulties, to then grind up to another raid encounter of similar quality because I really liked where the story was going (dealing with various Garlean warlords pursuing their own insane ways to grab power in Garlemald is honestly really fun, be it Ultima Mechs, nerve gas, mind control etc)
And then they quite literally end the whole thing with a “poochie died on the way to his home planet” moment right after they say the next chapter started.
This is insanity. This is entropy. This is intranopy. Hhhhhhh
Dealing with the same issue with Archie-doggo. Sitting on my bed, in the dark, bark-breath-bark-breath-bark! He keeps doing this when he wants me to go to bed… But I’m not tired, sodding boy.
Finished Like A Dragon and it was great, buckets of emotion, Ichiban’s theme song slaps
The RPG mechanics were pretty strong but could have used a bit more depth and clarity, especially toward the end and its absolutely brutal boss fights. Still, for the first time doing it the combat was very strong and I’m looking forward to the sequel that’s been announced.
It’s on Game Pass, highly worth your time and you don’t need to know the Yakuza Deep Lore to figure out what’s going on (I only know bits and pieces from my partner who has played many of them and got it fine)