Originally Posted by
Mzo
Did you find and buy all the hearts and magic upgrades? Did you buy the good accessories (especially the parry one?). I also like the one that disables witch time but leaves a bomb behind if you dodge at the last second. It's good to use whenever witch time isn't activating for whatever arbitrary reason that fight dictates. All that stuff really, really helps. What weapons are you using? The katana in your hands and the claws on your feet deal out ridiculous damage, that is my favorite combo right now.
Oh! And change the camera speed up from the default of negative glacier to the halfway point, which makes it normal speed. That helped me out a lot.
The first stage was annoying because it had that dumb part where you had to perform 3 torture attacks, but they changed the angels into glories, they're unaffected by the continuous witch time, and they barely ever attack which makes it hard to up your magic. If you attack them they counter after a couple of hits and you lose way more magic than you can gain. I just stomped around doing the YBY weave attack with the katana and holding my kicks to drop some bombs on those assholes. Every time they die they drop a butterfly and you can just kill them to charge up witch time instead of trying to slowwwwwly earn it by dodging.
Aside from that Hard hasn't been bad at all. Don't forget that you can also mix and make items. I don't really like using them just because but if you're really having trouble no achievement gives a shit about your rank. You can heal, do more damage or shield up for a while. The game is SUPER friendly about helping you out. It's fucking perfect.
I'm making Bayo wear the cheerleader outfit and I gotta say: dat ass.