Bound by Flame
played on the hardest difficulty and the game just became a dick in the last bossfight.
Let me tell you a little bit about it. So first you need to grind. There's no way you're ever going to do anything unless you have health potions and crossbowdarts and traps. So the first time I went there I didn't know about this so 9 darts and 4 potions was a nogo for me. I had to reload from a save that was before the final section because you can't go back from there.
After some grind I was ready with about 25 potions 100 darts and some traps. Now here's how the fight goes. The final boss either drops white glowing mines around himself and then shoots the same kind of projectiles at you. You get hit once and 60% of your health goes down. He fires the white fireballs according to your movement so if you stand still for a bit then the spread is not so wide so it's easier to dodge. During this thing is best to shoot darts at him because melee is a no go because of the mines around him, or you can set up traps over the place for later.
Another thing he does is leaping at you from all across the arena, distance is of no importance, and slashes at you with melee. If you get hit you're basically dead on this difficulty. Now the thing about this game's melee is there's two modes to it - the heavy stance with a twohanded axe/sword/hammer and the ability to block, and the ranger stance which is two daggers and the ability to dodge. Blocking with the heavy stance = death, however dodging with the ranger stance is really easy. You just have to remember not to get greedy and priorize running away from his melee after the dodge and not trying to score some cheap melee hits because his nonleaping melee is a bit unpredictable and you could die easily.
On the hardest difficulty you deal very little damage so you'll fire quite a lot of darts and stuff until the boss reaches halfpoint of his health. This takes a lot of time which means higher probability of some little slipups during the fight which are rather deadly on this difficulty.
So now that we're at 50% of his health he summons a fucking dragon out of nowhere! The dragons sits over the boss and either fires white fireballs with more accuracy than the boss and they explode leaving a deadly fire patch there for a couple of seconds. Then he breathes fire all over the place, you're either somewhere completely else or you're dead. What you need to do is shoot his legs and his head. Again, melee is no option here, that's what you need your fireballs for and your 100 darts. The legs are easy because he doesn't move them. The head however is flailing back and forth and side to side so it's only hittable when he kinda leans forward for a moment and keeps his head still. Not too hard to do these three tasks but again a lot of ways to die because of a stupid mishap.
After you hurt the dragons legs and head he leaves again. Another thing that happens at the exact same moment is the boss getting out of his trance and leaping at you without any warning, again distance is of no consequence here, so the first time you just die because you weren't expecting it and your character was probably blocking your view anyway.
Now that the boss is running around again the same thing as before goes on, but a couple of moments later you find out about the new surprise. The dragon is not dead or gone. He's flying around the arena shooting explosive fireballs leaving fire after the explosion. You need to use target lock in this game or you're not getting anywhere, especially if you need to use ranged attacks, so you're locked on the boss all the time and you can't possibly watch what the dragon actually does. Therefore you need to move around even more but mostly you're just postponing the time when you get hit by a sideline fireball you couldn't see or step into the fire and die.
And if you take too long then no matter what the boss' health is, the dragon just sits down and you have to go through the legs/head destruction again.
And that's when I just gave up, after about ten tries. Ten tries might seem too few, but as I mentioned before, you do very little damage and getting the boss to half health takes about 10 minutes alone.
TLDR
I gave up on a game that was hard on the hardest difficulty but manageable up until the final bossfight which was just pure trolling.
