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🤬... That approach doesn't work then... he's got an annoying move when he hits a certain hp threshold that removes the entire expedition from the fight and it's unavoidable... back to the one shot drawing board.

Yay... let's press 17 buttons to cook a steak.🤑

Turns out you can actually make a nigh on unkillable Maelle and all you need to get it up and running is one weapon and one certain picto... I've managed to take out the bosses at The Endless Tower and Flying Manor with a team of three and Maelle basically tanking everything... it's not massively optimised in terms of damage output but it gets the job done. Let's see if it'll get me past Simon next.🤞

I'm down to the three uber bosses in The Endless Tower, Flying Mansion and Renoir's Drafts... the one at the Flying Mansion wouldn't be too bad if she didn't heal for about half a million hp every time she gets a turn, I just can't damage her fast enough. The other two are kicking my arse regardless... my lack of dodging/parrying skills are hurting me big time. Maelle is up to level 91 with the two other women a level or two behind, Verso and Monoco are around mid 80's and everyone has fully levelled weapons now... I think I need to research some solo Maelle nuke builds to see if they're still viable.

It's generally the thickest trees that'll stop you in your tracks... although I'll admit trying to pick those out while travelling at a million miles an hour is pretty difficult. 😂

Some of the other areas are way harder than the last mission... like stupidly harder. You'll make the last boss a push over if you spend too long trying to get through them... like I did.😂 Frozen Hearts near where you gained Monoco as a party member is an excellent place to gain some levels at the start of Act 3 though if that's what you need. There's also the thing that once you finish the last mission you can continue the game anyway.

It's marked on the map where you're supposed to go... although if you've been keeping up relationship levels there should be a few missions with those too.

Looks great...

Loved the first film...

Take this with a huge pinch of salt... https://metro.co.uk/2025/05/13/horizon-zero-dawn-3-scheduled-2027-a-cross-gen-ps6-game-claims-rumour-23077172/

I would think that's how it would go...

And done... all in all due mainly to the characters being beautifully brought to life in a mature, heartfelt story I feel this is one of the best games I've played in years. After saying I wasn't going to over level for the endgame I actually did thanks to trying to get the materials for levelling up the weapons I'd settled on... I did eventually get Maelle's weapon up to level 33 (max)... she's also my highest level character at 81 and she absolutely wrecks things... in fact I feel all the women are more useful than Verso and Monoco. I turned Lune in to a glass cannon with a 100% critical hit rate and basically just use Elemental Trick which gives the required stains to perform Elemental Genesis straight after (all characters have the Cheater Luminas equipped so can act twice per turn)... unfortunately she has a defence of about 50 odd which means she dies if something looks at her funny. Big endgame spoiler @spatular is safe to read it though... There's still quite a bit I want to try to do... there's still some places that show "danger" when I approach even at that low 80's level, those will hold some of the ridiculous super bosses I've read about and there's also The Endless Tower to try and beat (I'm currently stuck at level 5-3)

03/02/25 - Horizon Zero Dawn: Remastered - PS5. 09/02/25 - Ninja Gaiden 2 Black - Series X. 11/02/25 - Batman: Return to Arkham - Arkham Asylum - PS5. 19/03/25 - Avowed - Series X. 23/03/25 - Batman: Return to Arkham - Arkham City - PS5. 17/04/25 - South of Midnight - Series X. 20/04/25 - Atomfall - Series X. 22/04/25 - Batman: Arkham Knight - PS5. 12/05/25 - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Series X. That was a very special experience... absolutely beautiful.