He can kiss my ass forreal!

I died an unreal amount of times trying to beat that dude.

At first, I was so hopelessly not close that I had to go change my build up somewhat dramatically. Faster runics, different pommels, all sorts of changes and XP/HS spent!

Then, I eventually got better but I was still not close. I'm talking I was barely getting him past half of his life 20 attempts in. I for real thought about doing everything else I could post-game and then coming back. But it became an obsession and I couldn't let it go until I started getting VERY close at least. And I didn't want to watch any vids on it either.

After a good long while, I finally started getting him down to two bars or just below. I finally started accepting that I didn't need to interrupt everything he did from distance. AKA I quit being so shook and started standing in and blocking more stuff. With that, I would always have a quick Runic on deck for his mfin azz when he would be about to do that shady as hell flash thing that will flatten you like fast. That one move was responsible for like 70% of the deaths he laid on me. Mostly, he kept catching me with it from across the screen when I was staying away from him and I couldn't get a runic off fast enough to stop him. That and the green pool deal that I would sometimes fail to interrupt or get away from in time. Lame!

Then, I had 1 or 2 really good starts squandered by me getting myself jammed against a wall. I almost committed an act of violence over those! But the god said chill, so I cussed a lot and then went back to it.

When I finally got him, I wasn't even pleased. I was just over it. But hell, I got it done and don't plan on ever doing that fight again. Now, its just a matter of how shady 'new Valkyrie Queen' is. But I think I'm gonna try to max out before I do that one.

Real talk: if I didn't heavily use that deal where doing 3 runic attacks back to back gives you something, I don't think I beat Hrolf. That and the realm shift-centric build I went to. But whatever..its done now!


>>Had to drop the difficulty one notch because the Mad King
>and
>>the new Valkyrie Queen were fucking me to pieces, mostly at
>>the last second. I finished up the Muspelheim Trials today
>>after figuring out the runes that needed to be activated.
>
>I don't think I'm gonna make Platinum. But I just finished the
>main quest this week. After playing the first one and feeling
>like I was too locked in on the main mission to my detriment,
>I tried to do as many things as possible before finishing the
>main game. So I rolled up on the scene at the end somewhere in
>the Level 8 range with all my magic joints maxed out AND my
>weapons were pretty loaded up as well. And it helped me quite
>a bit. I got to the point I was rarely dying (of course, I
>wasn't playing on GMGOW cuz I ain't got time for 1-hit kills
>and silly stuff like that over here).
>
>So far, I'm in love with the post-credits stuff. It really is
>a good/rewarding time. And you can tell they thought about it
>pretty hard coming out of the first one. I'm going to run
>through a lot of that stuff.
>
>I made it a point to get ALL of the ravens before I went into
>what I figured was the last part of the main quest. I had like
>6-7 left. So I took a couple of sessions to hunt the rest of
>them down. And hell yeah I cheated/watched a vid on some of
>em. Most of the missing ones were in shady places that I
>probably never would have look for on my own so I felt
>guiltless. I threw the ax at the shady ones hard AF in my
>mind!
>
>I think the improvements between the games are super obvious
>to me since I went straight from the first game into the 2nd
>one. So I really felt that age jump on Atreus too. Just the
>simple deal of him being able to climb on his own for
>instance. These folks had me in my feelings playing this
>game!