It gets easier and you die a lot less after you progress a bit. I am not a whipper-snapper. Playing using keyboard and mouse.

I have now played a lot but unfortunately decided it is not the game for me until there is a difficulty setting. Playing the same boss battle 40 times is not fun for me.

For a game with such a nice aesthetic it is shame it is inaccessible.

I am glad other people are enjoying it though.

Idk, this game is very forgiving. You have no penalty for death, and you may skip most enemies. Just run past them.

Originally posted by wildraid:

Idk, this game is very forgiving. You have no penalty for death, and you may skip most enemies. Just run past them.

There is technically a penalty for death, you go back to the last checkpoint.
OP stated attempting boss battles repetitively as being a problem, but they didn't say anything about enemies.

Look, I agree SIMPLY because of the existence of the Lord of Doors boss battle. The games turns into a really, really long hookshot challenge with no checkpoints and no healing pots. I'm getting real tired.

I *know* I have learned the pattens of the boss, I have memorized most of the charging doors position. I just get pummeled down in low visibility corners of the 2.5 perspective arena when I can't see projectiles emerging. I have vanquished all silent servants. Got all upgrades. Found all the temples. But right now I'm not having fun and I'm even growing resentful of the game.

I AM too old for this ♥♥♥♥. I have enough games to last me a lifetime and I want to enjoy Death's Door at the ending as much as I enjoyed it in previous areas so I can move on.

No difficulty setting? Excellent! Makes this a purchase for me.

I agree that this game needs a difficulty setting. I don't enjoy to repeatedly have to walk for a couple of minutes only to get slain again in less time and do the whole cycle over again until I beat this sub-boss in the second level. The current difficulty level might be very well catering to a large audience, but meanwhile people who are not as good in such games have less fun in this game. Not sure if I will keep playing.

The only way that i beat those hard boss fights is when I decided to be less aggressive and only do one or two hits and then shooting them with fire from afar. This was very different than my normal play-style which was max haste and upgraded hook-shot with a slash to do as much damage as quickly as possible. If you slow down and do more avoiding damage than trying to burst down a boss, it becomes easier. I promise. This is from someone who 100% the game but it took 25 hours.

Originally posted by Iocaine Powder:

I like this game. I like the narrative, I like the metroidvania.

I am just too old to 'git gud'.

You should try Dark Souls. I really think it would be up your alley.

Yeah I made it to the yeti boss and I can't get any farther. It's too hard. Guess I don't get to finish this game.

This games is not for me.
Thank you all.

Yeah. Sadly spotting this thread has stopped me purchasing the game, which is a shame because it looks beautiful. But if as it sounds it's one of those "git gud" cases where there's no leeway for being, well, a bit unredeemingly rubbish, it's a no-buy.

There should be a difficulty setting. I absolutely agree. want to see the rest of the game. But, Betty is too hard for me

I have the same issue, and with metroidvanias in general. Despite absolutely loving the genre they sometimes really piss me off, especially when the checkpoints are too far and i have to play through entire sections only to get back to the boss and get rekt again and again.

I actually love playing older metroidvanias on emulators because i can save state at any point. I finished several Castlevanias and a Metroid, now working through Castlevania SotN. Meanwhile i still haven't finished Hollow Knight on PC because after a certain point i find the checkpoints spaced too far apart and i'm not good or patient enough to deal with the twitch-based platforming.

Originally posted by barnaby:

Yeah. Sadly spotting this thread has stopped me purchasing the game, which is a shame because it looks beautiful. But if as it sounds it's one of those "git gud" cases where there's no leeway for being, well, a bit unredeemingly rubbish, it's a no-buy.

The original post might have been a "git gud" but honestly, patience is the key. I am not the best player by any stretch of the imagination. But once I got used to not trying to burst enemies down and get my hits in and focus on dodging more often, I could beat the boss by death by a thousand cuts. This particular boss is the hardest one in the game. It is a war of attrition and not a fight of the strongest one wins. Patience wins.