well, finally beaten la-mulana
21 hours, apparently i'm only missing one sub-weapon, but too lazy to go find it. also missed one or two programs i thin. got all the other stuff, tho didn't beat it in hard mode as that sounds like a very much zero fun thing
it's weird, i feel like i enjoyed the first half of the game ten times as much as i enjoyed all the "back" areas and all the impossible-to-figure-out backtracking and ridiculous puzzles
it's just not fun to play a game using a guide almost step by step
the first half tho, it's fantastic, castlevania with fun puzzle solving and a cool dark souls-like feeling of "the devs are trying to screw me over" thing, and also lots of personality and fun characters and stuff
after that, i would recommend ppl to just drop the game
it's just not fun
hopefully la mulana 2 will be a lot more like the first half, and a lot less like the second
eh....