ps4 & ps4 pro are generally 299 or 399 depending on your price range if it helps. I don't think the pro is needed for either but it may help with load times on Genshin (even on pro sometimes I go into that game and the graphics take a few moments to render in characters and models). Genshin also despite being freemium can at least from my view easily be played free.
Code Vein I'm not sure what it goes for, but I'll say this I got mine for ~20$ and it was well worth it. Two plays throughs later (and although I loath one or two areas in that game for being way too simialr looking and confusing to go through and being stiny with the save/heal points and some cheap mechanics), and I bascially feel like they gave me a 70$ experience for cheap. The music alone I argue is worth that 60$, the gameplay is just adding to the value at that point. PLus as someone whose played bloodborne through to 100% minus DLC, it's pretty easy comparative (albeit I don't think bloodborne is hard except a few areas per say*, just that you best be using situational awareness, plan your build, rush for the cleric's sword [or whatever it's called], learn parry timing on basic enemies, don't dodge backwards on the second boss, and get the hunter's armor before the first boss by making a detour (and don't lock onto that first boss or the camera will **** you over), and remember the lessons the game teaches you about not getting crowded and being vigilant).
* At least on new game, as new game plus onwards things get harder. Also if you try some of the chalice dungeons specifcally the hardest ones then You're on your own there mate, even for me, even after watching Scribe's videos on youtube (which I highly recommend they give good advise) and getting outside advise that took almost as many tries the last one I had to fight (scratch that I rember it wasn't the lorain darkbeast (although that one is a pretty tricky and took me like 20 or 25 tires, it was the Bloodletting Beast. That ****in bloodletting Beast.
"the Queen" in the last chailce dungeon was a peice of cake comparatively, even Erebus was a joke comparatively. Albeit I found both versions of Erebus to be very hard only untul you got some fo the rhythm/stratgy, then it became hard, but doable, Bloodletting beast hits so hard you almost always die in one shot, then you need to heal, but it's hard to create or find opertunies to do so, and don't even think about trying to use the regain system, trying to hit it outside of a few specific times when it's open and you can go for it's limbs after specific attacks is literally suicide. So you need to back off heal, then be ready to dodge because even across the arena he will get to you in time to make a swipe based on the length of your healing animation, then try again and pray you don't get clipped as you abuse the like 2 attacks where he's not liable to clip you and take off like 70-80% of your health. That stupid boss took me like 1/2 to 3/4 as many tries I think as the rest of the bosses combined with how much it killed me.
Granted I may be remembering wrongly (I certainly blocked it out intil I saw the image and name again trying to verify), but my physcial memories of that boss will forever haunt me, the only way I found to beat it was to abuse poison, punish one or two specific attacks and circle straffe aroudn the entire arena. I think it took 10 or 20 to 30 minutes + minutes per attempt depending on how far in the boss I got before I died (as I had to bait out a certain attack or two chip at their health, back off, then repeat) and I ended up trying for 6 to 10 hours straight. On the final successful attempt my hands started hurting a ton because I needed to repositon the camera constantly (one of my biggest complaints about Bloodborne is that the camera with bosses in some rooms and areas can be more of a foe than a help) while circle straffing. In the end with how much I had done to get to that point I curb stomped the final and "true final" bosses both due to how strong I was and the gemstones maxed euipment and armor I had, but even then after my ps4 bricked and lost all save data for all games I bascially said "nope" to ever touching the chailce dungeons again. Granted part of that was because after Nioh 2 going back to Bloodborne is hard because it feels stiff by comparison (and Bloodborne was already far more moible than dark souls) and the controls don't line up fully so mucle memory tends to mess with me, but I also never want to try that boss ever again, Granted I've heard Orhpan of Kos may be worse, but I think at minimum it deals less damage and gives you moments to back off and heal, Bloodstarved beast is not even that kind it's a kind of Bloodtsrved beast is a "don't you dare make any mistake or you will suffer kind of boss" versus the Orphan of Kos' "brutal, but still allows for a few mistakes as long as they aren't too major and you regain composure" kind of boss. I infitely perfer the ladder.
As for Code Vein just go for a one handed sword based warrior build (or maybe a twohanded if you like, I use onehanded as it doesn't encuber weight and if you know how to game the relationship system, the ultimate one handed sword is really easy to get even early on), keep medium dash, and when you get the option do side stuff to bosst your gear's level and character's level. Oh and my tried and true rule still holds for all games with "souls-esque" mechanics, just like in bloodborne if you lose your blood echoes, either
A) reset the game before it autosaves that
B) Be very careful to get them back
C) repay the "soul debt" bascially since you lost the "souls" you go into the negative however you can just grind off of enemies until you get that back and hit a net 0 loss. It may seem like a pain, but it will bascially ensure you never end up feeling underpowered. It served me well in Bloodbonre and this game
The biggest walls are the duo boss fight (be aware of who is attacking you and when and keep and eye on the ground, don't overcommit to attacks or openings, be around at least level 80 before you try it, don't try and rush one down, they can and will switch their targest regardless of Aggro if you bully them, also take advantage of the pillars), the boss fight after that duo fight (You better have your timing right), an earlier boss fight involcing a galive / naginata user (you best know to time your dodges and when to back off), an end game wolfman (don't rely on the fact that your partner can revive you), a knight or three (and the second "knight" the one in the cavern I treat it more like a damage race, do basic dodging use your skills, heals and buffs, but be sure to punish him faster than he punishes you, when he goes into super mode back off and bascially stall until he's either left himself open which yoou can punish), the fire kitty, and the early poison butterfly which can be a pain (at this point I didn't know as bosses undergo phase transitions they gain bascially a ton of resistence to all types of damage). Aside from that? Not really (except the ice hedgehog-yeti men, make sure you have fire stuff for the ice hedgehog-yeti men, because they really suck), even the dread "true final boss" on the best ending route that I read about on some websites as some sort of horrifying moster that's the hardest fight in the game?
Well first things first if he kills you because the werewolf man left you low on heals, don't worry he's a checkpoint, you don't need to fight werewolf again. Aside from that he's a giant monster type boss in a souls esque game and just like mostt of them he sucks at hitting stuff underneath, and behind him. Yeah he can jump, but that's somewhat easy to see coming, yes he can beam spam, but just hug the corner of the arena near him and he barely hits you. Yeah it doesn't do much damage since aside from his face / head because he's armored but he's so helpless that you can just death by a thousand cuts him. I think he's only killed me three time ever across like 2 or 3 playthroughs and the first two was beacuse I was low on everything after werewolf. The last was because I got careless and died due to getting impatient. Game's pretty chill and easy, as a whole, oh and if you get armor that sets weight to light you bascially can make breaking fights even easier if you time dodges and avoid hordes (which honestly are some of the harder things in the game harder than most bosses).
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