The issue comes when you're wanting all of those ultimate weapons for every party members. One character eats a chunk out of what you've saved during your playthrough. The whole party demands significantly more.
Not a single ubisoft grindathon since Far cry 3 has been played without cheat engine skipping all "collect 10 bear asses" upgrade tasks. Far cry, Assassin's creed, Watchdogs... They all have great stories and action, once you remove the grindy parts!
Metaphor does not force you to grind. You aren't really meant to max everything out in one playthrough. It just offers the grinding as an option for people who want to. The ending of the game is going to be hilariously blitzed through as a result (which is fine if that's what one wants, of course).
Man... they really should've added some way to trade in cash for MAG! The MAG for cash traders are all useless since Merchant gives you so much spare change!
I was looking for something similar. I only had Bas left to upgrade to RA but was so close to the end I didn't want to spend an hour or two grinding. In the end poor Bas got left behind.
"You cheated not only the game, but yourself. You didn't grow. You didn't improve. You took a shortcut and gained nothing. You experienced a hollow victory. Nothing was risked and nothing was gained. It's sad that you don't know the difference."
I cheated that and archetype experience. Too much grinding in a game with a limited amount of time, granted you could probably do it But I have other things I want to do and the game was taking up more time than I wanted to give it near the end.
I did the same thing when I got to the endgame tbh. Honestly I think Magla could just be removed from the game with almost no impact except saving people a shit ton of time.
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I like to tweak accruals when I get tired of the grind if I don't outright give myself what I need to get back to enjoying things.
Tycoon not having "Earn more Magla" passives is a huge missed QoL thing because THAT'S actually the pain trying to max all Archetypes of everyone