@@joeyghostx when she went sicko mode all my nuggets were killed. I couldn't even deal half her hp as damage. So to avoid that I needed to either kill my nuggets on some other abnormality, which costs more points than I get, or win a 50/50 multiple times a day which requires too much luck. The actual time for a day for me was still under 2 hours, but I'm 100% sure it'll go up to 3 with a few more abnormalities.
Last game taught me few things. One is to never ever trust any magical girl or anything that screams "love and peace". Second is trains are made by a psychopath.
Yeah. Unlike most rpg/card games, you actually need to use your brain and strategize a plan in very specific fights. You can't win with just putting the best cards/equipment and hoping you can breeze through the entire game Not to mention most of Library of Ruina's mechanics are RNG based, which is already bad enough
@@tetsuchris9636 Actually, I started from the beginning recently since I wanted to get the achievements and play the game in its final form, you can for the most part trivialize the annoying part of current KoD with Fleche from the Seven Association general reception + Solidarity from Workshop affiliated fixers Key Page if you're confident in your ability to not die. Speaking of Not dying did you know that apparently even after they nerfed the rats fight three or so times over the course of early access people still somehow manage to lose to it? Not even as a bit either, just properly lose to the tutorial fight. Hearing and seeing this happen both inflict a great deal of rage and confusion to me.
"Bad" in this case meaning "Aware of and non-subservient to the Sunk Cost Fallacy". When a game's latter two thirds or more is a quilt stitched almost entirely out of Quit Moments, only the truly self-destructive will press on. Or those who place their entire self-worth in skill at a specific video game created by insane sadists.
This has nothing to do with Gacha Life. This game is the sequel to Lobotomy Corporation the SCP management game by Project Moon. Project Moon released a new game since this video came out. Limbus Company takes place sometime after Library of Ruina, but you needn't play Ruina to understand its story and the game is free to play on Steam and mobile devices. Go give it a try! How the hell did you guys even get here? Yes I've beaten her since. There's a video of that with much more effort in it than this.
I’m so dumb, I watched almost the whole thing and thought “why are they complaining? Look how easily they’re taking down every enemy with only one character” and then when all the “bad guys” died, and it said “defeat” I was just like… “oh”
Personally, Ruina is easier then LC. By how much? IDK!!! I fucking died after being 3 hours in on the second to last part of it and now I have to start the battle over.
@@0WierdAsHell When I made my winning deck, I made sure to use a certain male person's deck to kill her. After struggling so long she was the last SoTC I had to deal with. TBF, I didnt understand the scale because I cant read. But she definitely gave me more problems then Tear, and City.
My brain overloaded from confusion and anger trying to make a deck specific for her lol (didn’t help I was also trying to memorize which cards and key pages were originally whose)
The idea of fighting someone who looks like they lost their mind is heartbreaking, especially when that someone is a magical girl convinced that she's saving the world. I dont know reading "She was trying to help but just created trouble" and "Wasnt she supposed to be a magical girl? She looks like a complete mess" is just so sad.
If I remember correctly, her lore is that she saved the world but eventually rang out of villain's to fight and went nuts because fighting evil was her entire reason for existing.
@@R0seshad0w I figured it would be something like that because all the texts that appear on the screen kinda give it away, especially the one where she pretty much thanks you for existing
@@himedo1512 Well, L corp had to keep making more and more of that sweet, sweet Enkephalin somehow... and what better way to do that than to trap them in a small, contained room with nothing to do except to be studied on. As an aside: I really do like Queen of Hatred and her fellow Magical Girls: Knight of Despair, King of Greed, and (WonderLab exclusive) Servant of Wrath.
Fun fact, queen of hatreds fight is cheesed by one set of cards and it's literally all GUN, the fight doesn't last long enough for exhaustion to factor in and the dmg from the guns usually pierce through most of her dice
After that talk on how guns are bad against competent people from Ronald I'm still delighted to see all gun party just completely dominating EVERY SINGLE FIGHT I BRING THEM IN like God damn I just gave them ranged pages with +1 dice and they just Shred everyone
Fr tho, I put guns on yesod's team (with a bleed stack because yes) and it has a way easier time than even 3 speed 1 pages with melee Who would've guessed putting clash buffs would make the clash master cards would be so good?!?
Its is not the reason that being ranged attacks means being strong, but in truth that +5 power turn 1 on two triple offensive die attacks can deal too much damage. And the best away to achieve that is with full-stop ranged pages (and later Feint from the Night Awls).
I love the walls that Library of Ruina throws at you in terms of difficulty. I can think of a couple more that just absolutely floored me for a good, long time. As a general rule, if you hear music with lyrics, you should probably be afraid.
@@doktorpotatoe I did binah's realization second try. but like that was a certain justice bois fault. It was a pretty ez fight other then insta kill bs.
Never heard of this game before, but I LOVE when videogames create horror through the gameplay itself. I might have to check this game out, especially considering I know about their other games already.
You should also check out Lobotomy Corporation, made by the same people. It's a facility management game where you extract energy from "abnormalities" which are basically just SCP's with nice organized pages with lore and rules that you have to follow for each one to make sure it doesn't finger blast your entire facility in 5 seconds. Once again, this style creates horror through gameplay alone, since some days you end up spending up to multiple hours carefully managing your facility, which naturally gives you an extreme fear of anytime something happens that you didn't expect. Both of these games are filled with "casual filters" so expect to cry as you try to train yourself to be the perfect manager.
@@mateofamate1387 It's one of those games that I think looks really cool, but I've always been a bit nervous to actually try. It doesn't seem like the kind of game I would normally play, despite it looking like a really cool one. I should probably just give it a go at somepoint.
"Wait, that girl looks familiar, isn't she an SC...." Party gets obliterated while she's ranting about being justice. "They didn't even get to her 'final form', huh"
@@wifiwodhydeYep, on my second attempt I thought I might try using ranged characters to try getting as much damage in as possible first turn. But she ended up losing all her clashes so she transformed 🙃🙃🙃 so that was fun. Once I got good rng to lose a few clashes each round, it was pretty smooth sailing from there. 🌱 I don't remember how many tries it took though lmao
I'm glad other people found this fight difficult. I refused to progress the story before I finished this floor. It took me 5 straight hours of playing the same level.
WHY!? You quite literally need to move on, get some better cards and come back. Like its DOABLE, dont get me wrong. I got her close using nerfed bleed. but like thats just masochistic.
To be fair it's very depressing, throughout the entire fight she needs to keep telling herself that they're evil because SHE is the good guy of the story.
another turn based strategy game that has a Vertical difficulty spike is a game called Sonny (an old flash game that I love to death) in the first game fighting the Baron is incredibly difficult and the second game has REAL difficult post game bosses
I thought you just used the 3rd ally the game gave you for that fight to beat the Baron in the first game? Personally had trouble with the boss after him as a kid iirc
the tactic I used for this is that I put walter page on one of the librarian with block dice, try to focus clashing on her, **but lose** those clash so she won't transform and negate the damage with block dices and sometimes recover stagger, while other librarians focus on beating her up in one sided attacks. it takes a while for me to utilize what to do
I just used the rusted chainlink's pages. The self-bleed was far less brutal than being hit by Queen of Hatred and the bleed stacks that she recived meant that her resistances where less important in the fight. I feel like she is the first fight where you really have to build around.
You don't necessarily have to build around it. The key to winning the fight is to purposefully lose some clashes and be careful of who gets one sided attacks in. Edit: Okay, certain builds are needed to win the fight. None of the current builds I had could intentionally lose clashes.
@@prawngravy18 actually no, there's no transaction in this game outside the artbook which is obviously optional The game just REALLY want you to read and understand each mechanics
@@prawngravy18 nope, doesnt even have microtransactions. Its an offline story type game where ya get your cards by defeating enemies on certain levels, no other way to get them. And also no stamina system. You could theoretically blaze through the game in about 3 days with the amount of content in it. Its an amazing game, just a hard one. Like dark souls except cards and alot of death and sad moments.
This was the video that got me into PM games, ever since then I've completed ruina, am up to date on limbus and im trying to play lob corp (and read all the novels) thank you for making this video!
first one at the urban plague: dawn office, wedge office, lovetown. second one at the urban nightmare: sweepers, 8 oclock circus, the crying children third one at the asiyah floors realization fourth one at the second part of the SoTC: Liu1, the redmist, RRR1 Fifth one at the whole third part of the SoTC plus briah floors realiztion sixth one at the reverberation ensemble (distorted), the black silence, aziluth floos realizations.
@@LuminousOriens For me it was just deckbuilding skill issues. Once I got decently optimized decks going, most fights were pretty manageable even up til the end
@@wifiwodhyde r corp is not allat im ngl it was low diff same with liu up until xiao she red mist and purple tear were like the first actually hard things in the game yan and r corp were kinda easy incomparison
Hey just wanna say that this video is the thing that made me buy Library of Ruina I have been severely emotionally and physically traumatised all for the price of 25 euros, thanks.
True. Pinocchio and lumberjack made me realize it. Lumberjack was literally so simple and yet I died ten or so times because i didn’t read the fact he fully regenerated my light no matter what
This game is my top “fuck you, see you tomorrow” game. I play it for a few hours, hit another vertical spike, and rage quit after getting stuck for an hour. Then I go back anyway the next day because it is so good.
Sounds like she's one of those "grind gates". Ratchet & Clank 2 has two maps that are massive didiculty spikes - you're meant to go back to previous areas, get more XP and money, etc, then continue. And there's nothing wrong with that, really. It's also like when you unlock a secret ultraboss early on - that doesn't mean you're supposed to fight it yet!
@@Sulvr Yeah, i also lost this one the first time around, but i'm pretty sure i had salvador by the time i got this with his free protection, who just made everything easier in general. Jikan is definitly a godsend though, some abnormalities are so much harder without him.
I didn't feel like doing the Salvador fight again after not getting his page the 1st time around. After loosing this hard I went back and got every key page I didn't have. The Salvador and Hanafuda pages carried me until SotC.
"Alright, just got my team up to rank 6, maxed out the weapon, ranked up the skills, time to go do some hard ruins exploration." *a bunch of spiders rolls up* "Eh, i'm prepared for this." *Entire party is surprised, got their positions shuffled, with my Leper in the backrow, and my Arbalest in front.* *The spiders rolled up and crit my Arbalest, stunning her and giving her 31 blight per turn alongside a death door ticket* "Oh no......" *Arbalest's turn next* *Deathblow due to blight* *Immediate abandon quest.*
@@RenShinomiya121 dont forget the Occultist fucking bleeds your DPS, Leper missing every single time, and getting surprised even though you have 100 light
don't you hate it when a game has enemy encounters that force you to actually use your brain and come up with a strategy instead of just smashing your librarians against the wall and hope you win but on the other hand it just so happens that the best strategy for this specific encounter is to smash it with a party of full stop librarians
My four blunt unga-bunga decks on Yesod's floor carried me to SotC without having to do that pesky thinking thing. I used it for pretty much every abnormality fight. Just juggled that deck between every floor and it worked shockingly well.
@@someoneelse1942I just realized I can Favorite Key Pages and even the cards stay equipped. I'll be having an hour of channeling Project Runway and have to two floors of MAKE IT WORK! XD
Bruh, the most I've ever contributed to society is leaving that review. Glad to see it continue without me. It's ironic that I actually left that review because of little red, queen only took me a few tries.
When I went to check if it was you I saw that you originally posted it with about 60 hours in. The one thing I’m curious about is whether you finished it by the time the video was made, or since then? If so, what do you recommend for Star of The City? this is a cry for help
@@Sulvr I was at the reverb ensemble when the video went up, and beat the game like a week later. Star of the city takes patience, like, a lot of patience, because every fight will absolutely test every neuron of your brain. Even after beating the game I really didn't know what I'm doing, so as long as you read every passive and don't rage you'll be good.
@@snomsquad1796 Yoo just managed to brick my 70 hour save file after locking an annoying bird in a cage. I don't think this is what you meant, but replaying the game until I'm back to where I was will test my patience even if it's with cheats. But yeah I'll try to comprehend what cards do and enemy passives better.
I would advise playing through Lobotomy Corporation first, as it is this game's prequel and will tell you what happened before. And that information is rather important
@@kontrol42 Woah woah woah, Lobotomy Corp is a prequel to this, I literally never would have guessed lmao that's a game I've wanted to play for ages now I watched some people play the beginning of it/early moments like a year or two ago
@@sentience9047 Yea, this game takes place right after the true ending of lobotomy corp. You should play lobotomy corp first because library of ruina has spoilers of that game's ending.
that's possible? she had around 25hp but I chickened out because of the phase 2 thingy and didn't attack resulting in her staggering everyone to death.
I'm going to admit this, I had trouble with Forsaken Murderer but when I get to this fight, I'm going to feel the same way I felt in the Forsaken Fight. Internal anger.
library of ruina and l corp where the first games to actually teach me the meaning of fear. i cannot understand why but out of many games ive played (including horror games) ive never felt anything remotely close to whatever the fuck i felt seeing my librarians die one by one because of some insane doing boss (im fucking looking at you philip and tomerry), that shit just crushed me that i had to take a break for the amount of despair ive felt
I got to star of the city in the game, so far been stuck there for 2 days being unable to progress. This game is a lot harder then I thought it would be.
Definetly do. BUT Be prepared for pain, both of this kind and the emotional kind, the story has a few parts that are ... oof Edit: No shame if you can't get through the whole game, but if you get stuck download a few cheats and finish at least for the story, it's great.
@@denodagor lol, this is killing me. I hate cheating in games, but the fights are partly luck-based and it's starting to annoy me. I've heard good things about the story all around though, and that keeps me playing. Is the story really so great that it's worth cheating for if you get stuck?
@@divisionn6380 I'd say play it until you kill the 'Love Town' boss, if you haven't (Cheating or not). That's about when the game hit me hardest. If that doesn't grab your attention then maybe it's not your cup of tea. At least for me this game is definitely worth reading like a visual novel if you don't like the combat. There's a mod that unlocks the console commands and you can just use /win (or something, i don't remember now) to finish fights instantly and just keep going. So it won't even waste too much of your time if you end up not enjoying it as much. Better than just dropping the game completely.
Bought the game yesterday and started playing today. Got to the tutorial level 2, beat it, decided to stop playing for today, will pick it up tomorrow. After seeing this I scared
@@zeraphyre already beat lovetown only took two tries it ended in a draw which counted as a victory and the E.G.O buffed guy once Can't beat the QoH right now tho I always get close but she always ends up on top because of her health pool, I have tried bleed and burn but still no dice
@@countdown4246 Lovetown is one of my favourites Becuase of the tragedy and aftermath. For QoH she uses a lot of ranged attacks, bring in a single roll high damage page like Oscar's Transpierce or Valentin's cards for ranged. If that doesn't work, switching more bleeds will probably just win you the game
@@zeraphyre ya I was using going for bullseye since it has a min roll of 6, BTW is the boundary of death in instakill of does it just do a lot of damage? Oh and I think I need Yujin key page to use right? Unless my game got bugged and now I can't use it even tho I got it
hello i have come from the future to say that this is not the only PM game with a vertical difficulty spike now although the new case is more like diffculty nail... and hammer...
fun fact: every time someone says a learning curve is steep, that actually means the game is incredibly easy based on a real graph. Obviously not what they mean, including this situation, but I find it funny.
I have no idea what's going on in the video _or_ the comment section speaking wizard runes but actually that's the end of the thought, there is no takeaway
Oh god this video is such a mood. I unlocked this fight today and I've already unsuccessfully fought this boss like 10 times. I got her down to 14 health one time, but generally I can only manage to hit ~64 on my "lucky" runs before getting destroyed. QoH's stagger damage is insane, and even 3 Sayo pages with tons of bleed cards is still not enough for me to complete this. Guess I have to grind out Urban Nightmare for better cards...
I need restart battle 3 times to find how to beat her purely with not made her become the snek 😂 And I just do pure unga bunga without any DoT effect like burn or bleed, yeah that times was hellish enough and there is come Red Hood Mercenary tho 😂
I never played this game. But I did for a bit of Lobotomy Corp. Like it, I will not say, mutter or even see content of it. If I were to ever return making videos. How I would approach this game in a review would be, of a game, almost mysterious that, telling will let you not needing to even buy the game. Simply a proper guide. I adore the curiosity you can receive from it. And the story as well which, I once accidentally Google a word and saw it had a significance, down to the symbols too. Almost makes me terrified of what I can learn...
This games fantastic but very difficult. Even if you build your deck well, tailoring it to the specific fight, you can still lose to bad RnG. Though when you manage to finally win it's so satisfying.
it still the way to go now. Lots of fight became harder because of overall bleed and block nerf. Floor of Language first one is kinda cancer to do rn and even if you use the best build you can get that far in the game, you need to hope Red hood actually kill the wolf before she kill you once said wolf is under 50 hp.
My friend got me into this game and offered to even pay me back 5$ if i beat it. He said I am the most lucky person alive after i defeated this boss, as I somehow did it first try without knowing her secret. I somehow managed to stay right in the middle of her hysteria gauge so she couldn't do her bullshit attacks on me. Didn't even know about the hysteria gauge until after I beat the boss because he told me how lucky I was, Him and his 2 other friends struggled so much at this boss.
The in-game characters are more on the cute side, sprite art is beautiful. CG art is bloody brutal. This is one of the games that can only be defined as special. Altough you will have to overcome uts high difficulty.
@@agzzradface3113 plague doc never fucking spawns so i dont have white night, i beat the shit outta apoc bird and pile of smiling corpses and i dont touch the train with a 30 foot pole
@@agzzradface3113 now that you got me saying em, alirune and the music conductor one are the most trouble becuase of that annoying cant do bad but cant do good BS
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"You can beat Queen of Hatred easily just dont die" - ProjectMoon
Why did I not think of that?
@@Sulvr I think this strategy just beyond human understanding...i just burned her to death)
@@nikolasthesecond2052 it’s designed for urban nightmare stuff
For some miracle I managed to beat her without her transforming into a danger noodle and now I'm stuck with Miss lil red riding hood and her pet doge.
"You should not believe people on internet when they quoting someone else, by the way. Git gud" ~ProjectMoon
Lobotomy players the first time we saw her: "Oh shit here we go again"
She was your dangerous "SCP" in Lobotomy corp?
She's the "SCP" you get because "haha magical girl" and then wonder why it takes 3 hours to progress a single day.
@@Sulvr 3 hours sounds a bit long winded. How many people does she usually kill or drive insane to beginners?
Got the same feeling when I saw who it was. Shit got real fast.
@@joeyghostx when she went sicko mode all my nuggets were killed. I couldn't even deal half her hp as damage. So to avoid that I needed to either kill my nuggets on some other abnormality, which costs more points than I get, or win a 50/50 multiple times a day which requires too much luck. The actual time for a day for me was still under 2 hours, but I'm 100% sure it'll go up to 3 with a few more abnormalities.
Last game taught me few things. One is to never ever trust any magical girl or anything that screams "love and peace". Second is trains are made by a psychopath.
Prepare yourself then. Because next stop is vroom vroom ride!
*Yes I have been so afraid*
I like trains
Just wait till you get to the knight
Train and queen of hatred were both set aside aside so they could keep being as annoying
At first dificulty spike is Vertical, but at 350 hp it becomes Horizontal.
Ayeeeeeeeeee
As a Ruina veteran, I'm disappointed in myself for not getting this joke
EDIT: WAIT. Shit. I get it. I'm so ashamed of myself.
Great, now I have to buy the game and learn
@Rotom Channel aye, great split my ass in two 😔
LMAO
I'll be honest with you, Library of Ruina is probably the only game I've ever experienced to contain multiple casual filters.
Yeah. Unlike most rpg/card games, you actually need to use your brain and strategize a plan in very specific fights. You can't win with just putting the best cards/equipment and hoping you can breeze through the entire game
Not to mention most of Library of Ruina's mechanics are RNG based, which is already bad enough
@@tetsuchris9636
I'd argue that usually the RNG dosen't matter at all, unless you're using something like a mass attack or Boundary of Death
@@funninoriginal6054 *Knight of Despair PTSD intensifies*
Tomerry is really the first IQ test in the game
@@tetsuchris9636 Actually, I started from the beginning recently since I wanted to get the achievements and play the game in its final form, you can for the most part trivialize the annoying part of current KoD with Fleche from the Seven Association general reception + Solidarity from Workshop affiliated fixers Key Page if you're confident in your ability to not die.
Speaking of Not dying did you know that apparently even after they nerfed the rats fight three or so times over the course of early access people still somehow manage to lose to it? Not even as a bit either, just properly lose to the tutorial fight. Hearing and seeing this happen both inflict a great deal of rage and confusion to me.
As sir hokma once said.
"Welcome to the difficulty cliff, bad managers get off at this stop."
"Bad" in this case meaning "Aware of and non-subservient to the Sunk Cost Fallacy". When a game's latter two thirds or more is a quilt stitched almost entirely out of Quit Moments, only the truly self-destructive will press on. Or those who place their entire self-worth in skill at a specific video game created by insane sadists.
@@hazukichanx408 >he did not face the fear
@@Alice-he2zh
@@Alice-he2zh > and he could not build the future
@Hazukichan X The game really isn't hard if you understand the mechanics. You just need to read, lol. Of course, that is impossible for Ruina players
This has nothing to do with Gacha Life.
This game is the sequel to Lobotomy Corporation the SCP management game by Project Moon.
Project Moon released a new game since this video came out.
Limbus Company takes place sometime after Library of Ruina, but you needn't play Ruina to understand its story and the game is free to play on Steam and mobile devices.
Go give it a try!
How the hell did you guys even get here?
Yes I've beaten her since. There's a video of that with much more effort in it than this.
Lol, I never even noticed that similarity
I go where the algorithm sends me
I go where the algorithm needs me
I don't know. TH-cam Recommend me your video for some reason. This is the first time I read about Library of Ruina.
random recomendation intrigued me, so here I am
I no not what I watch. Only that it is a one sided slaughter
I’m so dumb, I watched almost the whole thing and thought “why are they complaining? Look how easily they’re taking down every enemy with only one character” and then when all the “bad guys” died, and it said “defeat” I was just like… “oh”
Funnily enough most fights in this game your characters are on the right
You're supposed to lose this fight in order to progress to the next level.
no, you're supposed to win.@@villevalste1888
Wrong rooting.
@@lostgem8225exept when you fight an abnirmality or when you fight Angela
In thet case you on the left
I wouldn't expect a game with sane difficulty from the people who made Lobotomy Corporation
Personally, Ruina is easier then LC. By how much? IDK!!! I fucking died after being 3 hours in on the second to last part of it and now I have to start the battle over.
@@adithegamer7936 Uninvited Guests, Black Silence, or Distorted Ensemble?
As a man who has completely finished the game i can say without a doubt i have cried a few times after losing almost an hour worth of a single fight
*Glares at a certain dragon lady...*
I know what you mean.
@@0WierdAsHell When I made my winning deck, I made sure to use a certain male person's deck to kill her. After struggling so long she was the last SoTC I had to deal with. TBF, I didnt understand the scale because I cant read. But she definitely gave me more problems then Tear, and City.
Geez i feel you, first realization, the birds and then Angela's
@@0WierdAsHell haha 300 burn go brr.
My brain overloaded from confusion and anger trying to make a deck specific for her lol (didn’t help I was also trying to memorize which cards and key pages were originally whose)
The idea of fighting someone who looks like they lost their mind is heartbreaking, especially when that someone is a magical girl convinced that she's saving the world. I dont know reading "She was trying to help but just created trouble" and "Wasnt she supposed to be a magical girl? She looks like a complete mess" is just so sad.
If I remember correctly, her lore is that she saved the world but eventually rang out of villain's to fight and went nuts because fighting evil was her entire reason for existing.
@@R0seshad0w I figured it would be something like that because all the texts that appear on the screen kinda give it away, especially the one where she pretty much thanks you for existing
@@R0seshad0w Queen of hatred could have literally been avoided with some damn therapy lmao. Instead they got sent to SCP land
@@himedo1512 Well, L corp had to keep making more and more of that sweet, sweet Enkephalin somehow... and what better way to do that than to trap them in a small, contained room with nothing to do except to be studied on.
As an aside: I really do like Queen of Hatred and her fellow Magical Girls: Knight of Despair, King of Greed, and (WonderLab exclusive) Servant of Wrath.
@@KFP_DonDon_Quixote I agree, and my favorite is Servant of Wrath. Gotta love some good ol' drama. Also they cute.
Fun fact, queen of hatreds fight is cheesed by one set of cards and it's literally all GUN, the fight doesn't last long enough for exhaustion to factor in and the dmg from the guns usually pierce through most of her dice
After that talk on how guns are bad against competent people from Ronald I'm still delighted to see all gun party just completely dominating EVERY SINGLE FIGHT I BRING THEM IN like God damn I just gave them ranged pages with +1 dice and they just Shred everyone
Fr tho, I put guns on yesod's team (with a bleed stack because yes) and it has a way easier time than even 3 speed 1 pages with melee
Who would've guessed putting clash buffs would make the clash master cards would be so good?!?
@@Blitz_Group funnily enough my friend ended up having a similar experience . . .
He then met an angel-shaped wall that not even guns could overcome.
Never bring Magical Girls to a GUN fight
Its is not the reason that being ranged attacks means being strong, but in truth that +5 power turn 1 on two triple offensive die attacks can deal too much damage. And the best away to achieve that is with full-stop ranged pages (and later Feint from the Night Awls).
“Pretty easy so far”
QoH: Bonjour
I love the walls that Library of Ruina throws at you in terms of difficulty. I can think of a couple more that just absolutely floored me for a good, long time. As a general rule, if you hear music with lyrics, you should probably be afraid.
when you hear an orchestra choir singing...
@@Iasgo and then the choir sings in latin...
Yea, but the songs by Mili are just awesome though, so hard to be afraid
Yes I have been so afraid
@@amehlord364 Yes I have been, so distant, consistently indifferent
There are things far more horrific than this one
Prepare.
UOOOOOOH I'M GOING TO ALICE!!!!!!!!!!
@@TheMarlz2 based aliceposter
Didn't expect to see another Alicechad here
@@TheMarlz2
Wow, that's quite amazing.
Here, let me give you this.
You sound somewhat delrious.
Sedative x1 Treats Madness.
@@doktorpotatoe I did binah's realization second try. but like that was a certain justice bois fault. It was a pretty ez fight other then insta kill bs.
It's good to know The Queen of Hatred's salt is so potent it transcends games.
Never heard of this game before, but I LOVE when videogames create horror through the gameplay itself.
I might have to check this game out, especially considering I know about their other games already.
I checked out Ruina myself after watching this video and I can confirm its really fun. Actually just beat Queen of Hatred myself last night.
You should also check out Lobotomy Corporation, made by the same people. It's a facility management game where you extract energy from "abnormalities" which are basically just SCP's with nice organized pages with lore and rules that you have to follow for each one to make sure it doesn't finger blast your entire facility in 5 seconds. Once again, this style creates horror through gameplay alone, since some days you end up spending up to multiple hours carefully managing your facility, which naturally gives you an extreme fear of anytime something happens that you didn't expect. Both of these games are filled with "casual filters" so expect to cry as you try to train yourself to be the perfect manager.
@@mateofamate1387 It's one of those games that I think looks really cool, but I've always been a bit nervous to actually try. It doesn't seem like the kind of game I would normally play, despite it looking like a really cool one. I should probably just give it a go at somepoint.
@@xaius4348 so... 2 years has passed, have you tried it?
"Wait, that girl looks familiar, isn't she an SC...."
Party gets obliterated while she's ranting about being justice.
"They didn't even get to her 'final form', huh"
If you somehow manage to bully her in first scene, she will transform to final form in the next scene which is scary
@@wifiwodhyde You forgot to mention she HEALS all of her hp in second form. Fuck that fight
@@wifiwodhydeYep, on my second attempt I thought I might try using ranged characters to try getting as much damage in as possible first turn. But she ended up losing all her clashes so she transformed 🙃🙃🙃 so that was fun.
Once I got good rng to lose a few clashes each round, it was pretty smooth sailing from there. 🌱 I don't remember how many tries it took though lmao
I remember letting her wail on the villain (villain clashes with their worst pages) to decrease her hysteria
I mean, you can avoid it just fine, you just have to let yourself lose clashes sometimes because lol hysteria
skill issue, should've tried not dying
True
Lmao
I'm glad other people found this fight difficult. I refused to progress the story before I finished this floor. It took me 5 straight hours of playing the same level.
WHY!? You quite literally need to move on, get some better cards and come back. Like its DOABLE, dont get me wrong. I got her close using nerfed bleed. but like thats just masochistic.
@@adithegamer7936because that's admitting defeat. That you couldn't win a fight when the game thought you could.
@@LuminousOriens that's a choice I suppose
Library of Ruina, where magical girls murder you for looking slightly like a villian... Then you get in a fight with a gang who ruins you
To be fair it's very depressing, throughout the entire fight she needs to keep telling herself that they're evil because SHE is the good guy of the story.
another turn based strategy game that has a Vertical difficulty spike is a game called Sonny (an old flash game that I love to death)
in the first game fighting the Baron is incredibly difficult
and the second game has REAL difficult post game bosses
Yup, memories. Never actually got to the post-game in S2 tho. Maybe someday.
I thought you just used the 3rd ally the game gave you for that fight to beat the Baron in the first game? Personally had trouble with the boss after him as a kid iirc
@@RemagEnagemato
He always died like turn 3 for me
The way i beat him as a kid was by swapping his healing with damage
Veradux wasn't healing him?
@@RemagEnagemato
He was but not enough
the tactic I used for this is that I put walter page on one of the librarian with block dice, try to focus clashing on her, **but lose** those clash so she won't transform and negate the damage with block dices and sometimes recover stagger, while other librarians focus on beating her up in one sided attacks. it takes a while for me to utilize what to do
I just stacked her with debuffs bleed,burn and stuff which required endurance and rng
i just killed this thing, i just put like ALL of fullstop shit mainly the rapid fire one, anyway it worked like a charm and she's dead
I just used the rusted chainlink's pages. The self-bleed was far less brutal than being hit by Queen of Hatred and the bleed stacks that she recived meant that her resistances where less important in the fight. I feel like she is the first fight where you really have to build around.
You don't necessarily have to build around it. The key to winning the fight is to purposefully lose some clashes and be careful of who gets one sided attacks in.
Edit: Okay, certain builds are needed to win the fight. None of the current builds I had could intentionally lose clashes.
@@crazy338866 I've never played this game and i can tell it's just RNG to get you to buy shit.
@@prawngravy18 actually no, there's no transaction in this game outside the artbook which is obviously optional
The game just REALLY want you to read and understand each mechanics
@@prawngravy18 N OMEGALUL
@@prawngravy18 nope, doesnt even have microtransactions. Its an offline story type game where ya get your cards by defeating enemies on certain levels, no other way to get them. And also no stamina system. You could theoretically blaze through the game in about 3 days with the amount of content in it.
Its an amazing game, just a hard one. Like dark souls except cards and alot of death and sad moments.
This was the video that got me into PM games, ever since then I've completed ruina, am up to date on limbus and im trying to play lob corp (and read all the novels) thank you for making this video!
I think this game has... like 6 Difficulty Spikes.
first one at the urban plague: dawn office, wedge office, lovetown.
second one at the urban nightmare: sweepers, 8 oclock circus, the crying children
third one at the asiyah floors realization
fourth one at the second part of the SoTC: Liu1, the redmist, RRR1
Fifth one at the whole third part of the SoTC plus briah floors realiztion
sixth one at the reverberation ensemble (distorted), the black silence, aziluth floos realizations.
@@wifiwodhydeyou eventually learn that a lot of "difficulty spikes" are just just puzzles where 80% of the playerbase just doesn't read
@@LuminousOriens For me it was just deckbuilding skill issues. Once I got decently optimized decks going, most fights were pretty manageable even up til the end
@@wifiwodhyde r corp is not allat im ngl it was low diff same with liu up until xiao she red mist and purple tear were like the first actually hard things in the game yan and r corp were kinda easy incomparison
Hey just wanna say that this video is the thing that made me buy Library of Ruina
I have been severely emotionally and physically traumatised all for the price of 25 euros, thanks.
Welcome to the City baby
Average day in the city be like
Is this... is this where a Star of the City was born?
Welvader origin story???
I recommend you try demonophobia next.
Just for everyone’s sanity, always read the passives if you don’t. It WILL be the reason you lose.
True. Pinocchio and lumberjack made me realize it. Lumberjack was literally so simple and yet I died ten or so times because i didn’t read the fact he fully regenerated my light no matter what
How we went from SCP Foundation: powerplant edition to this hardcore library card RPG? Not complaining, I'm just confused
Music still slap tho
It's actually very simple. You just need to achieve the true ending for Lobotomy Corporation and you'll understand everything.
Basically: it's just a radical change in management, and let's leave it at that.
Yeah, might even say the whole thing took quite a turn. It all makes sense in the end.
This game is my top “fuck you, see you tomorrow” game. I play it for a few hours, hit another vertical spike, and rage quit after getting stuck for an hour. Then I go back anyway the next day because it is so good.
How far are you ?
If you're before Star of the city , unga bunga more dice power works really well
That has been me since the 25th on Switch!
"Okay, I retried enough times. Might check TH-cam tomorrow... For now, Disgaea 1!"
same, game felt like fun instead of suffering only up to urban plague
honestly queen of hatred is the kinda case where you just leave her be until later
Sounds like she's one of those "grind gates". Ratchet & Clank 2 has two maps that are massive didiculty spikes - you're meant to go back to previous areas, get more XP and money, etc, then continue.
And there's nothing wrong with that, really. It's also like when you unlock a secret ultraboss early on - that doesn't mean you're supposed to fight it yet!
@@migueeeelet I'd say more of the ultraboss scenario than grindfest. after all, its not like you spend time grinding specifically for QoH fight.
@@zedmanul7472 Agreed
You can beat her fine with the stuff you have when you unlock her, but nothing short of a good plan will have a chance.
"Good thing i brought my best gear"
Squints at gear, debatable.
I did this the moment it was available. Learned the importance of general invitations the hard way.
@@Sulvr Yeah, i also lost this one the first time around, but i'm pretty sure i had salvador by the time i got this with his free protection, who just made everything easier in general. Jikan is definitly a godsend though, some abnormalities are so much harder without him.
I didn't feel like doing the Salvador fight again after not getting his page the 1st time around. After loosing this hard I went back and got every key page I didn't have. The Salvador and Hanafuda pages carried me until SotC.
And it's this fight that taught me why single die melee pages exist
Ah, another victim to pain
The difficulty spike goes vertical and backwards even
Ruina, StS, and Darkest Dungeon always makes me realise that deck/skill meta isnt always a valid option
"Alright, just got my team up to rank 6, maxed out the weapon, ranked up the skills, time to go do some hard ruins exploration."
*a bunch of spiders rolls up*
"Eh, i'm prepared for this."
*Entire party is surprised, got their positions shuffled, with my Leper in the backrow, and my Arbalest in front.*
*The spiders rolled up and crit my Arbalest, stunning her and giving her 31 blight per turn alongside a death door ticket*
"Oh no......"
*Arbalest's turn next*
*Deathblow due to blight*
*Immediate abandon quest.*
@@RenShinomiya121 dont forget the Occultist fucking bleeds your DPS, Leper missing every single time, and getting surprised even though you have 100 light
I actually kinda love how your like prepared and thought out everything to destroy someone then get a bad roll and watch your plan crumble
it makes it hella satisfying when it succeeds and absolutely floors you when it doesn't
don't you hate it when a game has enemy encounters that force you to actually use your brain and come up with a strategy instead of just smashing your librarians against the wall and hope you win
but on the other hand it just so happens that the best strategy for this specific encounter is to smash it with a party of full stop librarians
Conveniently, the All-American strategy of only bringing guns is one of the best counters for this
"Don't make me use my head, dumbass!" -Explodi Boom Boom Guy from MHA
My four blunt unga-bunga decks on Yesod's floor carried me to SotC without having to do that pesky thinking thing.
I used it for pretty much every abnormality fight. Just juggled that deck between every floor and it worked shockingly well.
Ah
The Akemi-47 approach!
@@someoneelse1942I just realized I can Favorite Key Pages and even the cards stay equipped.
I'll be having an hour of channeling Project Runway and have to two floors of MAKE IT WORK!
XD
Bruh, the most I've ever contributed to society is leaving that review. Glad to see it continue without me. It's ironic that I actually left that review because of little red, queen only took me a few tries.
When I went to check if it was you I saw that you originally posted it with about 60 hours in. The one thing I’m curious about is whether you finished it by the time the video was made, or since then?
If so, what do you recommend for Star of The City? this is a cry for help
@@Sulvr I was at the reverb ensemble when the video went up, and beat the game like a week later. Star of the city takes patience, like, a lot of patience, because every fight will absolutely test every neuron of your brain. Even after beating the game I really didn't know what I'm doing, so as long as you read every passive and don't rage you'll be good.
@@snomsquad1796 Yoo just managed to brick my 70 hour save file after locking an annoying bird in a cage. I don't think this is what you meant, but replaying the game until I'm back to where I was will test my patience even if it's with cheats.
But yeah I'll try to comprehend what cards do and enemy passives better.
I've literally never even played this game, but now I want to
I would advise playing through Lobotomy Corporation first, as it is this game's prequel and will tell you what happened before. And that information is rather important
@@kontrol42 Woah woah woah, Lobotomy Corp is a prequel to this, I literally never would have guessed lmao that's a game I've wanted to play for ages now I watched some people play the beginning of it/early moments like a year or two ago
@@kontrol42 нам что ли в одно и то же время ютуб подсовывает видосы в рекомендованные?
@@DemonerLycan похоже на то
@@sentience9047 Yea, this game takes place right after the true ending of lobotomy corp. You should play lobotomy corp first because library of ruina has spoilers of that game's ending.
Queen Of Hatred’s suppression is when I learned that this game was done playing around.
I saw magical girl and im like yes its vertical
Queen of Hatred: “LOVE AND PEACE!”
Tiph with a gun:
I remember I almost killed her in phase 1 but then she transformed and I somehow managed to luck my way through it and killed her in phase 2
that's possible? she had around 25hp but I chickened out because of the phase 2 thingy and didn't attack resulting in her staggering everyone to death.
@@likeablekiwi6265she becomes staggered if you perfect defense her mass attack it seems
@@trashman8080when enraged, the mass attack always staggers her regardless of if it hits or not
Half the difficulty came from the fact that I had no fucking idea how mass attacks worked for the first 20-30 attempts.
Man, so true. I spent 10 hours to beat this magical mess. Never wanna do that again lol.
ive never even heard of this game but the difficulty spike is about 89 degrees
why is lil bro bringing blade whirl to queen of hatred 😭
I'm going to admit this, I had trouble with Forsaken Murderer but when I get to this fight, I'm going to feel the same way I felt in the Forsaken Fight. Internal anger.
I dunno why I thought you were the magical girl, until the defeat screen appeared I was like "yo you're destroying them"...
I don't know what had just happened but you convinced me to buy the game
If there is one lesson to be learned in life: the waifu wins, every time.
library of ruina and l corp where the first games to actually teach me the meaning of fear.
i cannot understand why but out of many games ive played (including horror games) ive never felt anything remotely close to whatever the fuck i felt seeing my librarians die one by one because of some insane doing boss (im fucking looking at you philip and tomerry), that shit just crushed me that i had to take a break for the amount of despair ive felt
I got to star of the city in the game, so far been stuck there for 2 days being unable to progress.
This game is a lot harder then I thought it would be.
How?
I dont even know what happened but that looked rough
She didn't even need to transform to obliterate you (Yes, she can transform, and she's even deadlier in her giant snake form)
the face queen of hatred makes when she gets hit is kinda adorable, despite her being a bpd maniac
Seeing you all talk about beating her casually, when I've been stuck on philip and her for over a year pisses me off, Im beating this now
“It’s not a difficulty spike, more of a difficulty *spear* “
-maxor
ngl, this video alone convinced me to try this game
Me fighting Crying Child
Phase 2: Ok, a lil bit extra
Phase 3: Ok… i can handle it
Phase 4: Bro stop
Phase 5: F MY LIFE
man this game looks good, like theres a lot of details on every attack
im not that good at stategy games but ima give this a try
Definetly do.
BUT
Be prepared for pain, both of this kind and the emotional kind, the story has a few parts that are ... oof
Edit: No shame if you can't get through the whole game, but if you get stuck download a few cheats and finish at least for the story, it's great.
also check out Lobotomy Corporation
@@denodagor lol, this is killing me. I hate cheating in games, but the fights are partly luck-based and it's starting to annoy me. I've heard good things about the story all around though, and that keeps me playing. Is the story really so great that it's worth cheating for if you get stuck?
@@divisionn6380 I'd say play it until you kill the 'Love Town' boss, if you haven't (Cheating or not). That's about when the game hit me hardest. If that doesn't grab your attention then maybe it's not your cup of tea.
At least for me this game is definitely worth reading like a visual novel if you don't like the combat. There's a mod that unlocks the console commands and you can just use /win (or something, i don't remember now) to finish fights instantly and just keep going. So it won't even waste too much of your time if you end up not enjoying it as much. Better than just dropping the game completely.
My friend complained about fighting some arsonist that applied way too much burn a while ago and said that the game "hit him with a wall" lol
Bought the game yesterday and started playing today. Got to the tutorial level 2, beat it, decided to stop playing for today, will pick it up tomorrow. After seeing this I scared
Face the fear, build the future
Hope you enjoy lovetown on the way to QoH
@@zeraphyre already beat lovetown only took two tries it ended in a draw which counted as a victory and the E.G.O buffed guy once
Can't beat the QoH right now tho I always get close but she always ends up on top because of her health pool, I have tried bleed and burn but still no dice
@@countdown4246 Lovetown is one of my favourites Becuase of the tragedy and aftermath. For QoH she uses a lot of ranged attacks, bring in a single roll high damage page like Oscar's Transpierce or Valentin's cards for ranged. If that doesn't work, switching more bleeds will probably just win you the game
@@zeraphyre ya I was using going for bullseye since it has a min roll of 6, BTW is the boundary of death in instakill of does it just do a lot of damage? Oh and I think I need Yujin key page to use right? Unless my game got bugged and now I can't use it even tho I got it
The first wall I ran into was the gang with the first legendary card you see in the game, then I realized I can equip passive cards.
hello i have come from the future to say that this is not the only PM game with a vertical difficulty spike now
although the new case is more like diffculty nail... and hammer...
thats actually easy lmao
I come from the future, we're getting speared by harpooners, send help.
fun fact: every time someone says a learning curve is steep, that actually means the game is incredibly easy based on a real graph. Obviously not what they mean, including this situation, but I find it funny.
Oh wow, you're at... *that*...fight.
The Love Town of the post-nerf era.
welp, good luck! Considering the RNG, you're gonna need it.
I have no idea what's going on in the video _or_ the comment section speaking wizard runes but actually that's the end of the thought, there is no takeaway
Aww, I was expecting her to go dragon mode.
Seriously tho, does she go "final form" in this game?
@@timsievers2067 She does if you attack her too much and don't let her hit the "villain" enough
Oh god this video is such a mood. I unlocked this fight today and I've already unsuccessfully fought this boss like 10 times. I got her down to 14 health one time, but generally I can only manage to hit ~64 on my "lucky" runs before getting destroyed. QoH's stagger damage is insane, and even 3 Sayo pages with tons of bleed cards is still not enough for me to complete this. Guess I have to grind out Urban Nightmare for better cards...
The difficulty spike is vertical and it's gonna make you come crashing down hard.
I think it took me something like 30 attempts for queen, then red showed up shortly after I kicked my ass even harder
I need restart battle 3 times to find how to beat her purely with not made her become the snek 😂
And I just do pure unga bunga without any DoT effect like burn or bleed, yeah that times was hellish enough and there is come Red Hood Mercenary tho 😂
this video introduced me and a good friend of mine to the project moon rabbit hole, thank you for years of madness
I remember her from Lobotomy Corporation… the moment I saw her I knew things weren’t going to be pretty lol
I never played this game. But I did for a bit of Lobotomy Corp.
Like it, I will not say, mutter or even see content of it.
If I were to ever return making videos. How I would approach this game in a review would be, of a game, almost mysterious that, telling will let you not needing to even buy the game.
Simply a proper guide.
I adore the curiosity you can receive from it. And the story as well which, I once accidentally Google a word and saw it had a significance, down to the symbols too.
Almost makes me terrified of what I can learn...
I forgot I barely beat her
I remember my 2 librarians were on the brink of death!
Transpierce carried me mostly
I don't know what is this, but now I'm interested, thanks youtube recomendations
This games fantastic but very difficult. Even if you build your deck well, tailoring it to the specific fight, you can still lose to bad RnG. Though when you manage to finally win it's so satisfying.
The difficulty spike is indeed vertical (Just started playing the game recently and roadblocked by Stray Dogs, help)
the library is vertical and even the invitations are vertical
This is honestly the first time i see this game, idk how it came to my recommended but thanks youtube, because this game looks nice
For a person who doesn't know what this game this is I have one word to say: "What?"
Meanwhile, people who play cEDH to relax: “hey, bro, watch this.”
I have never heard or seen a thing about this game before but it looks rad
Idk anything about this but gah the sounds are satisfying.
I didn't realize they made a sequel to Lobotomy Corp.
Project moon is actually working on 2 diferent games rn and im hyped for it.
@@CesarTheWelfareCaptain LLLIIMBUS COMPANYYYYYYY!!!!
some entire chapters take me a a day or two. some induvidual fights took me a week.
Ngl in early access I had to use unnerfed bleed to win
it still the way to go now. Lots of fight became harder because of overall bleed and block nerf. Floor of Language first one is kinda cancer to do rn and even if you use the best build you can get that far in the game, you need to hope Red hood actually kill the wolf before she kill you once said wolf is under 50 hp.
@@magikazam8430 that's true
My friend got me into this game and offered to even pay me back 5$ if i beat it.
He said I am the most lucky person alive after i defeated this boss, as I somehow did it first try without knowing her secret.
I somehow managed to stay right in the middle of her hysteria gauge so she couldn't do her bullshit attacks on me.
Didn't even know about the hysteria gauge until after I beat the boss because he told me how lucky I was,
Him and his 2 other friends struggled so much at this boss.
damn this game look cool, i just hope i dont get eaten by a shark or a devil clones me
The difficulty may be vertical but the music has proven fatal for my ears and soul.
I feel this so much
Just got to her and she destroyed me with that mass attack
I've been curious about this game. Mostly, I was just curious when I got a library...
The character design is kinda goofy imo but this game looks really cool actually. I kinda want to check it out.
The in-game characters are more on the cute side, sprite art is beautiful. CG art is bloody brutal.
This is one of the games that can only be defined as special. Altough you will have to overcome uts high difficulty.
it was kinda funny that queen of hatred was the first really hard fight, cuz she was the only abno that gave me trouble in lob corp
Nothing there? White night? Apocalypse bird? Express train to hell? Pile of smiling corpse?
She can't be the only one
@@agzzradface3113 plague doc never fucking spawns so i dont have white night, i beat the shit outta apoc bird and pile of smiling corpses and i dont touch the train with a 30 foot pole
dude alirune gives me more trouble than apoc bird ever did
@@agzzradface3113 now that you got me saying em, alirune and the music conductor one are the most trouble becuase of that annoying cant do bad but cant do good BS
@@fellowdegenerate6190
White night?
I’ll be honest, when you said “good thing I brought my best gear” I thought the vid was going to be you doing TOO good and getting Dragon’d
Everything is doable, until it isn't.
Lol, this is literally a scene from manhwas or korean novels where the cocky side characters get absolutely destroyed by the enemy.