I've been having a lot of a fun for a long time. Overall it’s been so easy and generous with achievements that it's never felt like time ill-spent. Recently though, it upped the challenge to where I had to pull out all the tricks I didn't know I knew.
It was the 10 dudes in full armor in under 60 seconds optional assassination mission. Normally I’d go and arkham asylum these guys, but unlike most tussles I can’t grab them or “spank the X button” them to death. And there are 10, not 5 like most street fights. I figured next up would be throwing knives, but at 2 a kill (assuming you hit with each, which never happens) you never get the posse down before you have to wade in. Let alone in 60 fucking seconds.
So I go back to numbnutz at my villa and make sure I understand how evades work until I’m pulling them off consistently. The problem ends up being the left trigger lock-on mode shifts between targets with frustrating unpredictability. Against a heavy hitter mob like this I can’t finish anyone off, since it won’t let me stay selected on 1 specific enemy if he’s got 3 others nearby.
So this is where the Mr. Miagi shit kicked in. I tried to get those mercenary dudes to raise hell with me. That worked better than I hoped, though they couldn’t do even a single diamonds worth of damage to them. What they did do though was get their backs exposed to me, which plugged in the insta-kils, limited only by waiting for the animation to end. 3 killed by throwing knives, 2 killed from the jump assassinate, stab stab stab. I start losing to the timer. Smoke grenades, which if I understand their application are a game changer, finish it off.
What impressed me was how wax-on/wax-off it was. The game started getting rough and I was right there along with it. There wasn’t much of a ramp in difficulty, but when it did spike, I had the tools. It’s rare I’d replay a section of a game as many times as I played this one…I was fully immersed.
It was the 10 dudes in full armor in under 60 seconds optional assassination mission. Normally I’d go and arkham asylum these guys, but unlike most tussles I can’t grab them or “spank the X button” them to death. And there are 10, not 5 like most street fights. I figured next up would be throwing knives, but at 2 a kill (assuming you hit with each, which never happens) you never get the posse down before you have to wade in. Let alone in 60 fucking seconds.
So I go back to numbnutz at my villa and make sure I understand how evades work until I’m pulling them off consistently. The problem ends up being the left trigger lock-on mode shifts between targets with frustrating unpredictability. Against a heavy hitter mob like this I can’t finish anyone off, since it won’t let me stay selected on 1 specific enemy if he’s got 3 others nearby.
So this is where the Mr. Miagi shit kicked in. I tried to get those mercenary dudes to raise hell with me. That worked better than I hoped, though they couldn’t do even a single diamonds worth of damage to them. What they did do though was get their backs exposed to me, which plugged in the insta-kils, limited only by waiting for the animation to end. 3 killed by throwing knives, 2 killed from the jump assassinate, stab stab stab. I start losing to the timer. Smoke grenades, which if I understand their application are a game changer, finish it off.
What impressed me was how wax-on/wax-off it was. The game started getting rough and I was right there along with it. There wasn’t much of a ramp in difficulty, but when it did spike, I had the tools. It’s rare I’d replay a section of a game as many times as I played this one…I was fully immersed.
