I believe it was already explained that the best ending is achievable only if you do not sacrifice a single character during your playthrough.

its also an rpg with new game plus and seemingly having some kinda scrap material and stuff for upgrades, so it may be tough to do it on a fresh game with fresh characters, but it could be possible. Not sure how that may work still, like if you keep some stuff if you get a game over or something or if you got to do everything in a game loop

yes but i believe it will be extremely difficult

If this is supposed to be a 'play multiple times to get all endings' sort of deal I hope the game's not too long.
Hate it when a game expects you to replay it, yet each playthrough takes dozens of hours.

Hmm...seems better to take the easy routes and use the soul cannon during every boss battle.
As long as there are less than 12 boss battles, should be able to get a good ending !

Originally posted by Superscooter:

yes but i believe it will be extremely difficult

Yeah, sure. The one thing I know about developers is that very few of them know ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about difficulty. Even worse, most of them develop around something like easy or normal then yawn, scratch themselves, and throw some lazy stat or damage sliders and call it a day. Most "difficult" settings are more tedious than hard, like Outer World's complete joke of a Supernova difficulty.

There's a rambly reason for this, but basically it boils down to not really being able to scale true difficulty. The jumps, enemy types, movements, etc in a platformer are static, meaning they're simply easy or they're hard--♥♥♥♥ like less extra lives or taking more damage just punishes mistakes, especially if you already have the game on lock down.

So when a developer says something is challenging, I usually roll my eyes. Pretty sure you'll be able to get through the game without using the soul cannon without breaking a sweat. It takes a game built from the ground up to respect a player's intelligence and adaptability, and those games are rare and not very popular compared to the casual hits.

[he downvoted Outer Wilds]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKHK55eALtM

Come on guys, just because his top group is for a site dedicated to swapping creepshots of children doesn't mean that they don't have a point about difficulty options.

It is so much easier to increase damage taken by X% and reduce damage dealt by Y% than to do things like alter enemy AI, reduce telegraph times, change a level's design...

Originally posted by Nersius:

Come on guys, just because his top group is for a site dedicated to swapping creepshots of children doesn't mean that they don't have a point about difficulty options.

It is so much easier to increase damage taken by X% and reduce damage dealt by Y% than to do things like alter enemy AI, reduce telegraph times, change a level's design...

I don't entirely disagree, but I'm willing to wait and see how the game turns out instead of being as tryhard as him for non existent Steam "karma".

What I'd like to think the difficulty loop comes from aside from various difficulty modes is the game trying to make the player decide risk/reward aspects how the whole branching path system works. Doing a more dangerous route puts you in more immediate danger but the potential XP and item acquisitions you earn from surviving gives you a big edge on future encounters. Decide to just take the "easy" path all the time and the game proceeds to curbstomp the player mid/late game so hard you have no choice but to use the soul cannon multiple times because of the player's laziness. At least, that's what I hope the game goes for because if not, it'll likely just boil down to having to use NG+ stats or something which isn't fun at all.

Hey friends, reviewers from Noisy Pixel stated that "You can [beat Fuga on a fresh run without using the soul cannon], but you gotta be vigilant with how you spend your time and not wasting items early on."

I can also confirm that to be the case. The true ending requires every kid to survive.

I will use them all up as munitions on the first run. Partially to get an early NG+, but also to see the darkest night, to make a golden dawn more meaningful.

You probably could but c'mon, you've got so many orphans, do you need ALL of them?

You're forced to use it in the tutorial.

Originally posted by Timrod:

You're forced to use it in the tutorial.

so you're just going to ignore how directly afterward it's reversed/doesn't count and you're also going to ignore every other response here?