CODE VEIN: God eater Developers take on the souls like genre

I'm not even sure what the PC keybindings are; sure, I have it on PC, but I've got an xbox controller plugged in for games like this.

Finished my first playthrough, got the Golden Ending. I haven't played any of the God Eater games, but I was planning on watching the anime. Is that a reasonable introduction to the series?

I thought the game is a spiritual successor of God Eater so uh...

I don't have an opinion on that yet because I have no experience with the series, which is why I was asking if the anime is a good introduction.

But on Code Vein itself: I really liked it, even if a few things weren't explained very well, and the mute protagonist was annoying. Oh, and the fanservice was so glaring that it was impossible to ignore. I think I would have had less of a problem with it if the men had also been walking around shirtless all the time. But the fact that it's only the girls, and every single one of their outfits is so ridiculous, made it worse.

Gameplay-wise, stealth was terrible, and executing a sneak attack was far more frustrating than it should have been. Some basic button prompt saying "you are now in position for a sneak attack" would have been nice. Also, I found the vast majority of the attack abilities useless. They just trapped you in an attack animation that left you vulnerable. Buffs were reasonably balanced, though.

There is a bit of a prompt when you can do a sneak attack: red sparks will appear. However, they're not always easy to see, and I still mess up sneak attacks quite often, usually against the tougher enemies where "attacking them from behind" translates to "be in this exact spot to trigger the attack," and I can never figure out what the "exact spot" is.

Most big enemies are easy to backstab; fat ones tend to have a generous half of their butt available to backstab.

It's the bugs that are annoying.

I had a lot of trouble with the big ones. The only ones I could consistently backstab were the Cerberus Lost.

Been playing through this. Liking it a lot, but the Cathedral can suck my dick, especially the lost invasion where you get one of the vestiges. I've level grinded for hours and found as much Queen steel as possible to get my weapons and blood veils up to around plus 4, and I still haven't won against the invasion, not helping that my AI partners are constantly dying all the time and leaving me open to attacks.

Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on Jan 12th 2020 at 10:18:01 AM

Edit: Ignore.

Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on Jan 12th 2020 at 10:17:30 AM

You don't need to do that invasion during your first visit to the cathedral; indeed, you don't need to do it at all, all it gives you is a shard, I think.

Just grab the vestige and nope out before the enemies catch you, use a vivifier if you have to.

I'll probably try again after I level up into the 70s and get my gear up +5 or +6.

Its still far harder for that point in the game then it needs to be, even with a partner.

What Blood Code are you using and what's your playstyle? I did have some trouble with that invasion, but not too much.

I'm all physical attacking, so Atlas bloodcode. Luckily, I did the Memories of myself area and beat the boss of it, so I should have gained enough EXP to mollywhop that invasion now.

The ost for this game is godlike, by the way. Courtesy of Go Shiina, of course, but still:

I think I have to Go back and grind a bit more (Probably maximize the reset of my blood Gifts I collected as well) because The Skull King is vicious. It might be one of the hardest Final Bosses in a Soulslike I've fought alongside Sword Saint Isshin.

Its a great boss though, because it doesn't start that way, it ramps itself up as the fight progresses.

I'm guessing the Virgin Born, fought on all routes other then the Heirs route is piss easy in comparison?

A little? The Skull King is a humanoid enemy who can use abilities very similar to your own against you. He moves differently than most other bosses and takes time to adapt to. The Virgin Born is mostly just a giant monster with a few obvious attack patterns; sure she hits hard, but she has obvious tells and can be dodged easily. Just don't overstretch yourself and you'll be fine.

Cool. I Prefer two handed swords, so fighting someone slow but hits hard should be fine enough.

EDIT: (Ignore)

Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on Jan 18th 2020 at 11:49:31 AM

Grabbed this because the gameplay absolutely looked like my jam despite being a bit offput by the presentation basically being more Chuunibyou than Blazblue and Sword Art Online put together.

It does make for some sick screenshots though.

Currently having my ass handed to me by a giant poisonous stripper moth.

Buy poison antidotes from Coco, makes it much, MUCH easier.

Not easy per-se, but easier.

Yeah, I gotta do that and upgrade my big spikey hammer. Which means I need to farm some Haze. Probably plenty of places I haven't explored yet; the map system making backtrack-exploring easier is something I found pretty neat.

The basic Axe I found is cheaper to upgrade than the other weapons I have. Does that mean it's low tier? Are there really good axes out there? I like axes.

Each weapon takes the same amount of materials and haze to upgrade for each level, and each weapon has 10 levels of upgrades, with more rare upgrade materials being needed at certain tiers. That said, while certain weapons are better than others, if it's taking less haze to upgrade it means it's at a lower upgrade tier; until the endgame, postgame, newgame, and to an extent the late game, most weapons on the same level will be roughly the same.

The important part is finding a weapon with a moveset you like that has stat scaling and a weight that are complimentary to your blood code of choice, and your blood code of choice is very likely to change several times over the course of a single playthrough.

edit: Side note, if you found any lost shards, those are basically just little chunks of Haze you can store and cash in later, so check your inventory to see how many you have.

Edited by ultimatepheer on Jan 25th 2020 at 7:07:29 AM

I can't remember which Blood Code it is, but one of the early ones grants venom resistance. That's what I used for Delusional Butterfly, rather than the items.

My strategy for the Butterfly was to use a ranged Code and make Yakumo tank her. He works a lot better for the fight than Louis does, so try switching partners.

Got the fucker. Had to equip Coco's Blood Code; between the higher venom resist and the venom-cleanse gift it was a godsend. Still would have died in one more hit. That thing's attack tells are weird.

Yeah, I've been using Yakumo. We synergize well since his attacks are wide sweeps and mine are vertical smashes. Seems about time I get another party member though.

Edited by ShirowShirow on Jan 27th 2020 at 2:38:09 PM