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Final completion time 63:18.

And I know there was a whole sub-game I missed out.

Ending left one or two things dangling, but was nevertheless most excellent. A real, proper ending to the adventure.

Moments of frustration, yes. But in the end no boss actually took me more than two tries, as far as I remember. (I think looking for boss tips in the FAQ was a bad thing, given that I finished below the recommended level and without any of the uber-powerful items and weapons it said I should have with me.)

So apart from odd difficulty spikes and having one boss at the end of a long dungeon, it was all very well put together. Great stuff overall… as long as you’re willing to push on when it threatens to become overwhelmingly frustrating.

Six minutes. That’s how long he took to kill me.

I barely scratched the bastard.

I don’t think there’s anything I can do about it, either. His attacks are too powerful. If I play a purely defensive game without trying to hurt him I’d still die. He just throws more damage around than I can deal with.

So I guess that’s it. All this way and I’m not going to finish it. Sixty two hours or so and that’s it.

Really, what the fuck it the point of upping the difficulty so much at the end? It’s a long enough game as it is. It really, really doesn’t need to stretch itself out by getting you to level up for hours on end.

It’s Vagrant Story all over again. An object lesson in how to ruin a great game. Just make that last boss easier and I’d have had fond memories of a great game with the odd annoying bit in. Now I’m just going remember it with annoyance.

Okay, okay, because it’s been so long, I’ll try it one more time. Maybe the game will adjust the difficult or something now I’ve lost once…

Fifty-nine hours.

I’m really not enjoying it any more.

I’ve got to the last boss – well, so I assume – and I’ve not been able to kill him. I guess he’s got multiple forms, as these bosses generally do, but I hope he hasn’t because I’ve not been able to kill the first yet.

You know, I started today’s play with a boss fight. And if that had been the end of things then I’d have really enjoyed the game. But, no, the bastard developers decided to shove in an extra dungeon – a very long dungeon, which the boss is at the end of – and a difficulty spike.

I want to have fun and see what happens to everybody in the end. I don’t want some huge challenge, especially not at this point in the game. This should be the glorious finale, not a teeth-grinding annoyance that I’m only prepared to put up with because I’ve got this far.

Mind you, I left Vagrant Story at the last, impossibly difficult, boss, but I really, really want to finish this. I just don’t want to have to play this horrible fucking last bit in order to do so.