Topic by musicalman 2020-11-01 00:53:08

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Hi all,
Well a few weeks ago I promised myself I was going to play The Gate for Halloween this year, mainly because in 2015 when it came out I kinda liked it, and I made it my Halloween treat of sorts.

I beat the game on normal a few days ago, then tried hard and... well. Brutal, but I'm managing. I've given up at the moment though, because...
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When I get to the ghost room, the ghosts require two sword hits to kill. No matter what I do, I can't kill them very easily, and if I try to jump/dash through, they get me. Not really sure what else to do here, though I know a handful of people have beaten the game on hard/prefer to play it on hard, so I'm probably just not good enough haha

So, has anyone played this game in a small halloween celebration kind of way? Or any other game, for that matter? There are ahandful of others I could've picked, but The Gate just stuck out as one I hadn't played in years and that I knew well enough to just hall out and instantly get reacquainted with.

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Reply by defender 2020-11-01 01:41:40

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Yeah I beat it on hard but it was well, hard.
I think I probably swung the sword, jumped away a certain distance as to not spawn the next ghost, then swung again.

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Reply by keyIsFull 2020-11-01 02:43:55

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how do you kill renfield on hard? That's where it really got impossible for me. With al the pits just spawning everywhere and then you can't avoid being hit by him because he can attack you while jumping, it's just crazy. PLus I think he regenerates if you die, so you can't just lose some lives killing him.

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Reply by ignatriay 2020-11-01 08:09:37

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i'm wundering though... this game on nightmare has to be... brutal.

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Reply by CAE_Jones 2020-11-01 08:18:34

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I like to use the knife on ghosts, because I find the speed advantage outweighs the range disadvantage. But I have not tried this on hard. I have, however, tried it on The Grey Lady and Carmilla, and ghosts tend to be slower than they are.
I need to try this on hard at some point to see if it's actually viable.

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Reply by musicalman 2020-11-01 14:41:41

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keyIsFull wrote:

how do you kill renfield on hard? That's where it really got impossible for me. With al the pits just spawning everywhere and then you can't avoid being hit by him because he can attack you while jumping, it's just crazy. PLus I think he regenerates if you die, so you can't just lose some lives killing him.

Renfield is basically a giant gremlin. What I ended up doing was hitting him with a full pouch of arrows as he approached me, let him attack me, then used a miracle cure to heal. Then while he ran away from me, I ran to the first obstacle, waitd for him to approach, then hit him with another full pouch of arrows, then before he could attack, I jumped back to the beginning of the board to get some distance, hit him with  more arrows. Often he would attack me by this point, so I'd use another miracle cure. But yeah, I just went back and forth between the first obstacle and the left side of the board, trying to keep him from reaching me too much. In the end I probabl used like 10 arrow pouches, 4 angel's breaths and 10 miracle cures, and if you screw up at any point eg. you forget to heal, forget to use a mmiracle cure, forget to reload etc. you're kinda screwed.

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Reply by musicalman 2020-11-01 14:43:20

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CAE_Jones wrote:

I like to use the knife on ghosts, because I find the speed advantage outweighs the range disadvantage. But I have not tried this on hard. I have, however, tried it on The Grey Lady and Carmilla, and ghosts tend to be slower than they are.
I need to try this on hard at some point to see if it's actually viable.

I don't think the knife works on ghosts at my point of the game. I tried it and it takes at least 4 knife hits to kill ghosts, plus they seem to be faster here too.

The game definitely gets brutal quickly on hard... I'd hate to try anything past that!

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Reply by keyIsFull 2020-11-01 19:47:14

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yeah I get the feeling the difficulty levels past hard weren't even playtested, because the damage you take is literally impossible to recover from no matter how well you play on those higher levels. They probably just put in a difficulty multiplier on each number that adds damage, speeds things up etc and called it a day.

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