Difficulty and time to plat?

[darkblade25bros]

As per the title, also any missable trophies and how fun is it?

Look fun and is currently on sale might give it a try

[SadisticSymphony]

From the other thread

It's a mixed bag. Once you get the hang of it, the game itself is pretty easy.

 

Plus you can cheese your way through. Despite being a rogue-lite, it creates an autosave at the start of each level. If you get a level loadout you don't like, or are doing poorly in the level, you can quit to the main menu and continue, putting you back at the start of the level.

 

Furthermore, if you die, you can close the game completely at the game over screen (just don't advance forward) and relaunch the game, and the death doesn't count.

 

This makes getting through the game pretty easy. There are only 12 levels (plus 4 boss fights) so a run only takes about 30mins, give or take.

 

But, the difficult part comes in the weapon combo trophies. Not only is there a lack of available info out there, some of it is wrong. I read through a number of sources to compile a list of requirements for the version unlocks and weapon combos. Some of the info wasn't quite right. If I have time I will put up a guide here which should make it much easier. If you don't want to do that research, it is unlikely you will get the correct weapon combos for some of the rare trophies.

 

Take the Shotgun trophy as an example - this requires you to use the Alpha weapon (which is the default on a number of starting versions) then equip a Quadruple Shot upgrade and an Average/Slow rate of fire modification. There are a number of Quad Shot variants, but only one A/S modifier, which must be purchased as an unlock, and then in goes into the mix. These are dropped at random as you progress through a run. At the end of most runs you will have about a dozen or so upgrades, out of several hundred. There are about 30 fire mods - so you are looking at a 1 in 30 change each time you get an upgrade that it might be that one particular mod - and you might not even get a fire modifier, it could be a weapon or an attribute. And you can get the same mod as a duplicate in a given run.

 

Now, fortunately this can also be cheesed - you can go through to the end of your run, then if you are one part short for a combination, go to the upgrade location on the last level and see what you get - if it isn't the part you need, quit to the main menu and continue. Each time you get a different part. Still could take an hour of reloads (or more) to get lucky.

 

So this is a long answer to your question - I would say about 4/10 difficulty, but that factors in some luck. You also need to be willing to deal with the random luck factor, and throw in some grinding. I would estimate about 15 hours for the plat (I would have been done in a couple of days, but I held back on the pl

[darkblade25bros]

Thanks for the detailed response I really appreciate it, I don't like dealing with random factors I can't control too much, but the gameplay looks fun. I can't decide lol, I'll maybe wait a little longer and decide.

[EightBitArtist]

13 hours ago, darkblade25bros said:

As per the title, also any missable trophies and how fun is it?

Look fun and is currently on sale might give it a try

 

took me 2 days to plat. difficulty id rate a 3, but only because if you die, you can just xmb close the game and hit continue and restart the level you died at. there is randomness to it, but you can mitigate this buy not buying certain power ups so they dont go into the upgrade pool. i used the guide on steam to figure out how to unlock most of the trophies. if you get one thing you need and are looking for a specific other item, you WILL be xmb closing and restarting constantly to try and get the other power up you need to unlock certain trophies.