I might be the last person in the world to check this game out but I need someone to vent to. I started playing like a week ago and already got every achievement in 26 hours. My first playthough on normal took 9 hours and only because I scraped every single menu text, dialogue, "side mision" and any other small detail I could fanboy about.

Everywhere I've heard people reffer to this game as hard and it clearly is on the harder side of things, but I've read posts about people putting in hours just to beat one single stage, and it honestly bothers me because Aside from one boss from the Triad whom I died to 26 times (which took like 15min at most), I feel like I'm being left out on something bc the game gives you way too many options to abuse it. After beating it once on normal and again on NG+, I tried speedrun mode and got 1:14:00 on my first attempt.

Honestly the only 2 things you need to be completely broken is maxxing out the dash and the overdrive skills asap. It doesn't even take skill because I play with a controller and even now I still can't aim my gun for ♥♥♥♥ with a joystick, so I rely 99% on meele and save up the guns for the bosses; The shield can be unreliable but the barrier can be overkill, hacking enemies and health regen remove the difficulty from the fight, stun and frag granades are useful sometimes but still not necesary, I feel like slo-mo is really only useful when getting the hang of the game on your first run and for lining up shots, dash is mandatory and when maxxed out it becomes op, never used the meele charge, weapon upgrade is a must and so is the health upgrade.

Honestly even before maxxing out those 2 you can already melt enemies without having to aim because overdrive gives you unlimited dashes, so you can go nuts and become actually invincible while also having greatly increased damage (and other stats that I never really bothered to read), so what's anyone's excuse for sucking so much. Just play the game fast like it wants you to.