Insane Difficulty: My thoughts on Fallen Star so far - Insane Difficulty

I am currently in the Mercury Lighthouse and so far Fallen Star has been good. The random encounters are usually pretty easy but have just enough to chance to fuck you up to keep them interesting. The boss fights have been pretty challenging too. Tret was tough, but I got him on my first try, seriously though two more turns and I would've been done for. The first time I fought the bandit and thieves in Vault they destroyed me (but that shows me for underestimating the difficulty of this mod and not buying any new equipment.) And speaking of the equipment I really like the variety of effects attached to them that I feel, especially getting farther into the game, will really make it interesting to customize my party. I haven't played vanilla golden sun in years so I can't necessarily see what effects are all different, but regardless, I like what I'm seeing here.

But Ivan is garbage. I'm sure he'll get better but at this point I'm never happy to have him in a tough battle. He dies incredibly easily and deals less damage than both garet and isaac. With jupiter djinn attached to him his highest damaging spell at this point is plasma which is a single target, and weaker than both garret and isaacs single target psynergy. His AoE spells are pretty bad damage wise too. But I gave him my two earth djinn so he could have mad growth and healing abilities. So he is at least alright. I understand he can seal psynergy but at least as far as I am that hasn't been that useful of an ability.

So I'm excited to get farther into it and to some, hopefully, very challenging battles.

Oh yeah, and that fucking lizard guard at the beginning of the mercury lighthouse was fucking crazy strong. I had to grind a couple levels to deal with him since he was basically OHKOing my party.

He was much stronger than Saturos. I'm convinced he was the real boss of the mercury lighthouse.

The lizard can be stunlocked if Ivan uses Plasma. It doesn't always happen, but it happens so often that the lizard is one of the easiest fights in the game if you abuse Plasma.

Ivan really becomes a major player late game. Almost everyone who has played through the mod till the end has told me that he is one of if not the best character in the game. You will see why soon. I designed most of Ivan's skills around the idea he will be better late game then early. I mostly sub Ivan as a support type myself.

I treat the Lizard Guard right there as mid-boss as that is almost how he is treated. As for Saturos he can be a major pain if he decides to break your face in sooner rather than later. I assume you went Tret first then Mercury Lighthouse?

This post has been edited by Vanish Mantle: 26 June 2013 - 12:15 PM
Reason for edit: Added Comment about Lizard Guard

Vanish Mantle, on 26 June 2013 - 12:12 PM, said:

Come on. You can't say that and then leave Ivan's defining trait out. He is the master of dying. Period.

Ivan wasn't too bad for me. The only thing that got to me was the Shaman's Rod. I understand the meaning behind it but at the same time, it makes it aLOT more challenging. 0 PP. That's nuts. Lol

Why state the obvious when most people know what happens with him anyway. There is a nice trade off though you get an Unleash that is really and I mean REALLY good and of course you have the 2 turns as well which is down right amazing.

Vanish Mantle, on 26 June 2013 - 12:12 PM, said:

I didn't even know you could do mercury lighthouse before tret. That would explain why he was a pushover. Though I just got to killer ape, and years ago when I played Golden Sun I remember him being tough as shit, but in this mod he was even easier than Saturos. I also sucked at games when I was young, just throwing it out there, I thought Jak 2 was hard as shit back then. But seriously, I'm sitting here talking about how easy of a time I'm having, just wait for me to make the post in a week about how I'm stuck on a boss and your game is rigged and op, nerf that shit. Or something along those lines.

Advent, on 26 June 2013 - 12:31 PM, said:

I've noticed. But he is on a steady diet of power bread now.

Estus, on 27 June 2013 - 08:08 PM, said:

Some people find certain parts while others are easier for others a lot of it boils down to RNG in all honesty and that is one of the hardest things to balance out in this game.

Well, I guess level 20 is much too weak to go to lunpa.

Estus, on 01 July 2013 - 06:34 PM, said:

Lunpa is designed to be end game. I know it sucks but you want to be level 50 before you even attempt the dungeon again.

Wait, again? There's something special the second time around in Lunpa? Besides one of the last Mercury Djinn?

genobeam3, on 02 July 2013 - 07:06 PM, said:

Estus already tried to take on Lunpa at level 20 which is why i said "again" i hope that clears things up.

Ohhhh. Okay. Lol. I thought there was a secret in Lunpa after taking care of the big ass poisonous frog.

It was kind of funny. I went into lunpa at level 20 and got in a fight with just one of the guards and it was like "holy hell, this guard is tough. Must be a mini boss." Then I beat him and shortly after got in a fight wiith three more and yeah...that didnt' go too well.

Estus, on 03 July 2013 - 08:07 PM, said:

lol wow that must have sucked. Wait until you get to crossbone isle. I recommend grinding tempest lizard to hit max level.

And I guess level 27 isn't strong enough to fight the fusion dragon. Time to grind.

Estus, on 11 July 2013 - 01:12 AM, said:

The final dungeon is tuned for level 50, so no, not by a long shot.

Well.. it might be possible, but...

You can grind off of the tempest lizard for sure. it should not take to long to hit 50. I did test the end game sequence with a good setup and you can beat the fusion dragon at your level if you are well prepared.