You, uh, you run around the arena and you flick switches. If you get lased, you eat a bandage. First boss isn't much to grope with, and to base balance off of it alone seems rather silly. Then again, your general conclusions about games and balance are vague and sweeping enough about anything to be defined in an agreeable way following anyone disagreeing to you, so invariably you are arguably right about something given the arbitrary definition of a few terms and gameplay concepts that may not apply to every reader.
Well I'll put it another way.
You can die in 1-3 hits from its laser in the armor appropriate for that level. If you don't keep up with its lasers (which is likely given you need the dash and jump) it can rip you to shreds. It is a fast moving, high damaging attack. It takes genuine skill not to die to this boss. As well while it is possible to flick all the switches before he completes two patterns of his laser (which I have done a few times), you usually have to survive two laser patterns of his 2nd and 3rd form. Mind you, this 2nd form is the only one that is legitimately dangerous but it isn't unusual to take a hit from his first (If you lose to his third form... I don't know what is wrong with you.)
While the second boss shoots incredibly weak fireballs that take off very little amounts of health and while he is a HUGE damage sponge he telegraphs all his strongest attacks and even then you can easily heal even if you are hit with every single one. In fact I'd say it is conceivably possible to win this boss fight standing perfectly still. He does summon minions later on, but they aren't anything really to concern yourself with. You can kill most of them in single hits.
While the Third boss does a really slow attack, only runs on the ground, and only does mild damage. He is also a damage sponge but you can avoid him without even using dashes or blocks. You can easily do this fight without being hit once and even when your hit it is no big deal... I fact you can outheal his damage output. As in he is another boss you can beat standing perfectly still in theory (I am less confident about this, since I don't know how fast he attacks)
-As I said. I fought this guy thinking he was a midboss or just a really durable enemy.
Difficulty curve in general is that the first boss was the hardest, the second was easier, the third was easiest.
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Now lets compare first and third dungeons
1) The enemies aren't too too strong but they have a splash attack that will either destroy your shield, if you don't time it right, or deal a considerable amount of damage. They actually take a good beating for this point of the game. As well if you do it wrong you can find yourself fighting three or more at a time.
3) You will walk through those enemies... there are traps but they mostly only deal poison to you. None of them do the damage required to threaten you and none of them pose a threat to your shield. In fact a common drop at this point of the game one hit kills them and it isn't even a 2-handed weapon.
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Specific enough for you Naxza? You played the game...
I was being vague because it was a comment on something I figured everyone who played this already knows (in fact someone here ALREADY complained about how tough the first boss is).
I didn't think there was such a harsh debate... Or maybe after the first boss I suddenly gained 100 real life levels and became super human and that is why I found the following bosses easier and easier.
I dunno, easier for me to accept that the game has a negative difficulty curve (As in the game gets easier the further you go), then it is for me to believe I got so good at it.
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Unless you rush headlong into them, without preparation
Actually you can do it with a few of them. Unless they force you into fighting, I've found that sometimes rushing a dungeon is easier then completing it as intended.
I didn't do that mostly because I was trying to have fun and I figured skipping most of the fights would detract from that.
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Unless the fourth dungeon REALLY throws me through a loop (which will take a while... the grind I'll have to do to get to it has... made me not want to play for a bit... I honestly thought getting 200 titanium ore was going to be enough for my needs, ohh how foolish I was.)
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