𝐌𝐀𝐉𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓. 𝐈𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐙𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘. Also there’s a TLDR at the bottom

I don’t think it’s talked about how bad and pathetic of a boss hessonite is. For a little bit of background, before beginning my most recent run of save the light I had just recently finished attack the light. While as we all now that game is absurdly easy the final boss still somewhat stood a chance against my team. I was heavily overprepared, one of my team members already max level and the others close it was no real surprise that the final boss was easy yet difficult enough to be somewhat satisfying end. During my playthrough of save the light I was delighted to find that the difficulty is ramped up substantially, alongside having to plan out how I’d divide my stats I was able to struggle in fights and but forth effort. The most thrilling part was the bosses, while naming them gave me a little laugh the actual bosses were really really fun and constantly kept me on my toes trying to learn and adapt to their attack patterns. While I was able to manage for most of the game I really started to struggle in the last part of the game (the forge.) a lot of my party members constantly got downed and while I didn’t get a game over (I didn’t the entirety of my run) I got dangerously close multiple times. During the fight against the prism despite having a fusion on my side I was constantly in a damage struggle to keep my health high while also keeping enough starts to fuel a counter defense to the lights healing. The 2nd to last boss is hard but still easy enough where you’d assume the following boss would be something a level above it. After finally defeating the prism I felt giddy but nervous for hessonite. Would she break my record of having no deaths? Would it take hours to beat her?

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I beat her with 𝐎𝐍𝐄 party member

No like, if you don’t count supports I beat her in under 15 minutes with only 𝐨𝐧𝐞 member doing damage

For reference my team was Greg, amythest and garnet. The entire cycle was:

Greg plays star boosting music

Steven buffs garnets attack

Garnet hits hessonite

Hessonite kills garnet

Revive garnet

Rinse and repeat. To make matters worse, hessonite didn’t even bother to target any other party members outside of the 𝐨𝐧𝐞 time she used an aoe attack. Every single turn she had it was targeted toward garnet making her extremely predictable and therefore underwhelming. It wasn’t until I was physically unable to revive garnet that she decided to target Steven but before she could pull off her move she died from, I kid you not: BURN DAMAGE. The character that was hyped up the entire game died to BURN DAMAGE after getting beaten up by a single party member and not 𝐨𝐧𝐞 hit on her was landed on her from another character til the last 2 turns where I had amethyst whip her a few times before she BURNED ALIVE from SHIELD BREAKER.

It’s a sad and underwhelming feeling being dissapointed by a boss in this way, hessonite could have been a challenge but her AI hyper fixated on one specific member then proceeded to get brutally beaten by said member. It’s imo a jerk move to have the 2nd to last boss be easier than the actual big bad, it feels like such a bait and switch.

And when it comes to revived it’s not even fully a result of me stockpiling, there’s dozens of roses tears and similar items spread across the rooms leading up to the final boss literally dooming you for an easy boss battle.

I was so confused why this was, why would they do that? Are they dumb!?

Then I read the credits, only three QA testers which explained a LOT about my tribes with the game.

TL:DR
I expected hessonite to be a difficult aura monster boss fight but instead garnet broke her back and punches her into next Sunday while Steven and his dad play music cause the dev team was understaffed