Quest Mode cleared- finishing it unlocked another optional boss fight and a hard mode with "chapter zero," but unless someone says it unlocks stuff for the fighting mode, I'm done with that shit- it was just not fun. The biggest problem I have with this mode is that your character facing either direction (like a beat em up) just doesn't work and makes it hard to do specials accurately or some not at all, so you have to rely on R1 for specials with their long recharge times. Any time a fighting game style boss battle happened, it was easy to win. Most other times it was super-easy, button-mashy, and boring.
The hardest battle for me was against the second to last boss- it's a giant dragon that takes up most of the screen and looks great. Was easy enough to dodge attacks and get used to its attack patterns, but twice during the battle, it does this massive fire blast that will kill you in one hit if you don't run over to a shield that gets generated. This fight took me so many attempts because I'd get its energy down to nothing, and then the second blast killed me every. fucking. time.
You have literally no time to get to the shield and I couldn't even SEE it on the screen with all the shit going on. Managed to win by just not being in an attack animation and running over to where the CPU partner stood in the hopes the shield was there.
The last fight is against the arcade mode's last boss. I don't know if it's the same kind of battle in that mode, but I'm sure it doesn't take forever like some of the Quest Mode fights do. You have to fight him in three different forms and it just took too long to get his life down on the last fight. Same issue with directions changing when you move making it hard to do stuff.
Now to get back to the
real game.
