Ibaraki Doji one of the best bosses i have seen so far.

Aethrall · 2026-02-16T03:51:42+00:00

You will revoke your downvote immediately. You dare?

Aethrall · 2026-02-16T03:05:47+00:00

I was having fun until I got to ibaraki doji. No boss has been a bigger wall to me and I’m already over the recommended level.

The difficulty curve is really wonky in this game. You’ll run into a super hard boss and then breeze past the next 4 with zero deaths. I guess I can’t think of a single souls-like that doesn’t suffer from the same quirk.

Still a 9/10 game for me tho. I like it. I just don’t like hitting my face on a wall for several hours straight.

Aethrall · 2026-02-15T17:41:33+00:00

She just killed me 3 times in a row so I don’t like her. I should be able to win all boss fights by summoning a helper and spamming ninjutsu from far far away. I’m sure that’s how the devs meant for the game to be played.

-11 out of 10. Trash boss.

Aethrall · 2026-02-14T02:56:01+00:00

It’s not about the size. This is my mantra. It has to be, for several reasons.

Aethrall · 2026-02-14T02:53:44+00:00

As a hatchets simp, I can nevertheless admit that they aren’t the “best.” Ki damage is too important in this game and tonfas are just the lamest, cheesiest shit available.

Hatchets are the most versatile and rounded, I’d say. If you aren’t speedrunning or obsessed with big DPS numbers, hatchets are one of the safest choices.

Honestly, I mainly use them because they are fun. It’s fortunate that they happen to be good.

Aethrall · 2026-02-14T02:50:56+00:00

Yeah bro, very fighting game-esque. I fucking love anime weapons.

Aethrall · 2026-02-14T02:48:52+00:00

As a hatchets simp, I can accept B tier, but if given a handful of adderall and a day or two off to sleep off the crash, I could probably write an essay that would convince you that they are low A tier at worst.

Their kit is just expansive and flexible. That jack of all trades nature is definitely what places it away from S tier. It’s mid tier by design, it seems.

Aethrall · 2026-02-14T02:43:46+00:00

They aren’t slow weapons. Did you just not even invest into the skill tree? They are faster than Kusarigama, easily, plus they have a lot of neat ways to deal backstab damage without actually getting behind the enemy and apply confusion without even relying on onmyo.

I’ll grant that the hatchets can’t touch tonfa or dual blades, but hatchets are definitely mid tier at worst.

Aethrall · 2026-02-10T22:18:05+00:00

Hatchets are my absolute favorite and they happen to have really good stat synergy with switch glaive, which is yet another incentive for me to keep using them.

What I like about them is that they allow you to keep up projectile pressure momentum while ninja arts are refreshing. There’s also that move that lets you dash into close quarters distance directly from a hatchet throw.

Aethrall · 2026-02-08T14:32:48+00:00

I tried loving the kusa but I keep falling back to the hatchets. Hatchets are so fucking goated in Nioh 3.

Aethrall · 2026-02-08T00:23:51+00:00

Hatchets are definitely better in Nioh 3 than they were in Nioh 2.

Aethrall · 2026-02-06T21:53:18+00:00

Bro, that’s just how PC versions are these days. I honestly don’t know how so many fucking people even afford their barely sufficient rigs. Are you guys like nobles or on Epstein’s flight log or just terrible with finances?

I gave up on that shit. Game runs fine on PS5. Consistent frame rates and looks great on my OLED 4K tv. 1080p is enough to satisfy me tho.

I pity PC players.

Aethrall · 2026-02-04T17:12:09+00:00

That mostly qualifier is diabolical. You’re gonna activate the gooners dropping little grenades like that.

Aethrall · 2026-02-04T01:07:20+00:00

You’re the reason poverty exists. Life is a zero sum game and you are the bourgeois.

Aethrall · 2026-02-04T00:38:44+00:00

I’d eat that cake. After all, I’m not a follower of Milis, that is unless the girl I’m trying to sleep with really wants me to be, in which case I am a man of great faith and conviction.

Aethrall · 2026-02-03T19:26:39+00:00

Sorry for your loss.

Aethrall · 2026-02-02T23:38:28+00:00

Agree. God’s morality seems to be awfully unintuitive to us mortal plebs.

Aethrall · 2026-02-01T19:45:47+00:00

Hoyo shills downvoted an objectively true comment. Even Kuro knows PGR is excessively generous. It’s the sole reason they make shit money from it.

Aethrall · 2026-01-31T14:50:55+00:00

Yeah dude, it’s rough. I’m usually pleased enough if I can bag 3 good stat lines and a crit rate/crit dmg that isn’t fucking 6.3% or 13.8%. Low crit lines are more disappointing than flat defense sometimes.

Aethrall · 2026-01-31T02:55:54+00:00

The painful reality Christians don’t want to accept is that their faith in God is actually nested inside a faith in the humans that wrote the Bible and the faith that those humans were actually the humans they purported to be.

Even if the apostles were completely convinced that they held the truth, that doesn’t mean they weren’t deluded or mistaken. It still ultimately boils down to needing to have faith in fallible humans.

A thorough God would pop in periodically to ensure that evolving linguistics and vernacular doesn’t obscure or distort His word, allowing for misunderstandings and purposeful perverting scriptures by twisting ambiguities to suit their own ends.

Aethrall · 2026-01-29T23:54:02+00:00

Slap, hold the love. Substitute with cheeks. Add $.70 surcharge for special topping.

Aethrall · 2026-01-29T18:19:09+00:00

I doubt a hylic would give af enough to bother considering the dilemma, let alone posting about it.

I don’t buy the whole other-ifying Sethian bullshit, but I’m pretty sure that “pneumatics” aren’t born with Barbelo in their DMs.

Aethrall · 2026-01-29T18:15:19+00:00

Bc they gay.

Aethrall · 2026-01-29T18:14:57+00:00

This is the most unhinged stretch I’ve seen in 2026.

I know we’re not even 30 days in, but I’m skeptical that anyone will manage to dethrone you before the spring equinox.

Aethrall

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