Bufy Buffy Chaos Bleeds update

[supercheesegirl]

So, remember how I was playing the Buffy PS2 game and it randomly erased all my progress and pissed me off? Well, I started playing again. A few nights ago I played the Xander/high school level and kicked Anya's bunny-hatin' ass (I tried the boss battle like three times and on the third try, I had the brilliant idea of using hellfire on her--she died almost instantly! Right away! W00t!). Then last night I screwed up my courage to play Faith's quarry level. The level itself is no problem, really, it's just the boss battle at the end. She has to fight Kakistos, and he's the biggest bitch ever. There's these three spell orbs that you have to destroy before you can do any damage to Kakistos himself, and each orb takes like 231762 hits before it implodes but it gives you little indication of how much progress you've made, plus you have to kick its ass while being attacked by wuss-boy Kakistos and two zombie skeletons who do a surprising amount of damage. When I got to this level before, I fought and fought and just couldn't get past it, could never even destroy more than one of the orbs before I died, so I was really dreading getting to this point again. And the game won't save your progress until you complete a boss battle, so to do this requires the time commitment of playing through the entire quarry level and then fighting Kakistos over and over again, and if you fail you have to play the whole damn quarry over to get back to that point. Very annoying.

BUT. Last night I gave it a whirl. And I beat it! I had to use my last medipak, but somehow I got all the stupid spheres to blow up and then I staked that bastard. Woohoo! I was so psyched, I played through the next level, where Spike has to infiltrate the Initiative. Annoying, but not mind-rendingly so. I had to look a few things up (those invisible lasers pissed me off until I read that you have to flood the room with fog to see them and then you can jump over them). And the boss battle wasn't that hard--there was a lot more space to move around in, and therefore more space in which to avoid being near Adam. And it wasn't difficult to figure out that he picks up the canisters on the wall to throw at you, and if you throw a well-timed EMP grenade egg then he'll drop the canister on his head and injure himself. Way, way easier to do than Kakistos. I think there's only three more levels left. The next level is Willow, though, and she freakin' annoys me. I hate having to use button combinations to do a spell, it's frustrating because I can never mash quickly and accurately enough. (I wish I could pause the game and go to the subscreen, select the sunlight spell from my inventory and set it to C, and then use it easily by pressing C when necessary. Or, heck, look at my inventory or objectives while the game is paused instead of having to get my ass kicked to scroll through the stuff in game time. But no, that's a whole different console. One that makes sense. And boy do I miss Z-targeting.) Overall, last night was a very successful night! Many monsters were killed, many secrets found, and many multiplayer characters unlocked! I'm looking forward to playing the multiplayer games again now that there'll be more characters.

But if it erases my game again I'm going to sell it. It should consider itself duly threatened and behave.