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ViewtifulJoe posted...

I never went as far as to tie my hands behind my back with no bombs like that. 8 had a spell card practice mode which was close enough. I tied my willingness to use bombs to the strength of the character I was playing. The consequence of losing a life is getting de-powered, catastrophic for some, others laugh it off.

And it depends on the spellcard. Some, like Nue's last spellcard just felt like random bullets flying around at high speeds, so I went in less interested in trying to capture it and more interested in bombing for invuln frames and getting the win.

If the game has a busted strat like the malice cannon or MarisaB or that TH14 Marisa bomb loop though, I'm gonna use it. I got a real anything goes vibe from these games.

Yeah, I definitely made the game harder myself but it felt pretty thematic with how capturing cards is presented in other media. Might've also been a habit since you needed to capture enough cards (basically had to do multiple difficulty levels, even up to Hard if you couldn't capture every single one in Easy and Normal) to unlock Phantasm in PCB.
Final spellcards of final bosses/extra bosses are way too much though. I have caught a lot of them by chance but I took 2 hours alone on Byakuren's on Normal, which was more than it took to beat the entire Extra. I think hers might be harder than Nue's.
Haven't touched Steam in 4 years but I might open it up if people are playing 19.

Also Undertale/Deltarune are certainly on the easy side but they're still fun romps imo.