I'm currently at the Jinxed Jade and Booga fight. Booga ended up being the first game over screen I ever got and it didn't feel deserved. Jade had a 95% dodge-rate which was just dumb and drained all my MP for the Booga fight. It felt like the game just straight up cheated several times with the most downright unfair advantages to win that I've ever seen in a turn based game. I'm actually tempted to set the game down and stop playing after that because it was like playing Dungeons and Dragons with a Dungeon Master that's an absolute sore loser. No matter how I played that battle out, even if I was 15 levels higher are level 60, there was no way I could win and that's the part that makes me want to stop playing.

I can absolutely take a game over and learn from it, but there was nothing to learn from that game over. It's almost like they just don't want players to have fun from this point on. I've already invested 60 hours into the game but if the rest of it consists solely of artificial difficulty and downright cheating to give enemies the advantage, I'm not really motivated to keep playing or waste time grinding anymore, especially now that I realize it almost doesn't matter how I play or what level I am, it's all down to RNG and if the game feels like letting me win or not.

My characters are between level 38 and 46. I have Dragon Mail +3 on the hero and Hendrik, a Prince's Peacoat +3 on Sylvando and Rab, wyrmblade +3 on both the Hero and Hendrik, the best daggers I can get right now on Sylvando consisting of the falcon knife earring, and the best heavy wand I can have right now on Rab. I should be plenty strong enough to beat him but the unfair advantages he gets are just too OP, especially when he can drain the entire party's MP following the Jinxed Jade fight no less after she dodges 95% of your attacks.

It's a wonderful game which is why this is so irritating, but the combat is miserable when it's rigged to put you at a disadvantage and the only way it can challenge you is by cheating and progressively rigging battles further. I have never seen a turn based game spam status effects the way Dragon Quest 11 does and make them absolutely devastating to the player, but barely a trifle to the enemies. I prefer the challenge souls like games provide more because it may be hard but at least it's fair and game overs genuinely feel like my fault that I actually learn something from. Here game overs are just a result of unfortunate RNG.