TEVI is a really fun bullet hell metroidvania, a spiritual successor to Rabi-Ribi with a lot of similarities but with updated combat and production value all over. "Infernal BBQ" is the hardest difficulty that is only unlocked after beating the game once (not sure if it required beating on Expert), where some new patterns are introduced and bullets are denser in others. While this is noticeably harder through the early midgame, as I was going for a completionist playthrough this time around I noticed that starting around Chapter 6 the stats and build options I had gotten outpaced bosses to the extent where most fights became easy enough to beat in one or two tries. Often I didn't even need to use consumables in these fights, and was mostly just focused on maximizing DPS and not really dodging patterns. The combat systems are fun, you just get a bit too overpowered compared to your opponents. Personally I found this a bit disappointing, but as Rabi-Ribi had plenty of challenging content in its DLCs, I hope for the same to happen in the future for TEVI.

Note that since release, some bosses (Chapter 6 and later on harder difficulties,) and trinkets have been rebalanced so I'd expect some of these fights might be harder today. I'm looking forward to trying the game out again when boss rush comes out, and I'll find out how different it feels.

TEVI is on Steam here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/22...

This was for achievement:
'Le Grillmaster" - Complete the game on Infernal BBQ difficulty

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Boss Timestamps:
0:00 Ribauld
1:47 Vena
5:51 Demon Barados
9:38 Caprice
12:56 Katu
17:25 Lily and PKOA
22:22 Roleo
26:36 Malphage
33:39 Thetis
38:48 PKOA and Frankie
44:03 Tybrious
51:26 Fray
53:02 The Eidolon
1:02:46 Memloch
1:09:15 Vassago
1:17:06 Amaryllis
1:24:43 Jezbelle
1:31:01 Jethro
1:35:52 Illusion Alius
1:38:55 Charon
1:43:45 Cyril
1:47:04 Queen Tahlia
1:54:11 Revenance

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