Hi! I agree with all of the above. I'm playing on Easy cuz i want to explore the game rather than find myself frustrated, yknow how it goes. Honeygast is... genuinely such a poorly designed fight. Easy mode has a cap of three ghosts, right? Honeygast completely ignores that. I get that the mobs are supposed to be part of the challenge, but there is nothing fun about getting charmed into a grab, which ends up in a honey trap, ETC ETC. He spawns *WAY TOO MANY*. Plus the charm traps. THEY NEED TO EXPIRE. PLEASE.
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First of all, they apparently gave Honeyghast way too much health on accident. Go to wherever you open up the game, go to "Open File Location", enter resources, enemy, json, Honeyghast, find their health, and change it to 500, as that was the intended amount. But for starters....
Ghosts and Japes is essentially an arcade horror game, similar to a beat em up, and you have multiple tools; there's siphoning stunned ghosts while your right on top of them to get I-frames, Guns, and flashing ghosts and siphoning them to make them disappear, both in regards to Honeyghast, and the mobs. You have to position yourself so you can suck them up and disengage when you are about to get "hit".
Also, uh, the boss tends to crash.... Actually, looking at their Json, they are supposed to "never" show up. As a matter of fact, you can't even eat them or Mitsuro. Are those two not allowed to be prey???