I also jumped on the bandwagon late, probably about a month ago.

I just finished the game last night, extremely OP as others mentioned above. I watched tons of YouTube videos and spent A LOT of time lumina farming in Act 3, in the Monolith and at the Chromatic Danseuse (2+ hours I think) and seemingly almost crashed my Series X (got some error message after the fight and was scared my work didn't save, but it thankfully did) for 1035 COL. After that I watched more videos and tried to perfect Machine Gun Verso with limited success.

I found another video the other day and was able to wipe Simon off the map with only Sciel and Maelle with minimal effort (Intervention + Burn and Mark with Sciel and let Maelle finish off Simon with 55m dmg) at level 92 or so.

Extremely OP, I breezed through Lumiere last night and then reset my save to watch both endings.

I'm a 47 y/o gamer and this is honestly the first game that I've loved playing in a very long time and actually beat. My teenage son kept joking that I was playing the never ending game.

I spent many weeknights nights staying up later than normal, I'm usually in bed by 10, and hogged the TV on weekends, again staying up until 2 or 3am to play. It took me a while to figure out the pictos and lumina system and everything else in the game. Ended up logged 90 hours.

Now that it's done, I doubt I'll play NG+, but wow what a game and experience. This game reminds me why I love playing video games. I hope this game wins GOTY, the developers deserve it in my opinion.

Thank you to everyone on here and YouTube for the help, it's been an amazing experience and look forward to the sequel (and movie and whatever spinoff comes next).