When I was playing dying light with friend we discovered that every timw you go to sleep and wake up air drop will appear, if you don’t know air drops are pretty rare and if you collext them and deliver to one guy you will recieve lots of xp, we used that multiple times to unlock grapling hook very early. Air drops also gave lots of medicine which was hard to get in early game and that very helped us
I couldn’t beat Nelo Angelo’s final fight in the original Devil May Cry on max difficulty. He does massive damage and takes only tiny chips off from your attacks. You have to make split-second dodge/block decisions and then make an instant counter attack and any mistake will cost you 2/3 of your health. I spent days trying to get past him and got him below half numerous times, but never really got close to a win.
One strategy I tried was Holy Waters. They AOE the whole room and cause him to flinch. I was hoping I could use that to create an opening, but the HW animation was too slow and he recovered as fast as I did. Then I thought “go to the shop and max out on them and just crack them all at the start to give myself a leg up”. It helped but not much. But then I noticed, because there was a holy water between the store and the fight, I was able to pick up, that the limit only applied to purchased Holy Waters. You could still pick them up from the world. Also, inventory carries over between plays/level select on the same file.
So, I level-selected and cranked it down to Very Easy and speed ran a middle section of the game over and over where I could pick up like 5 or 6 Holy Waters. Once I had like 50+ I loaded back to the fight and just burned him down entirely with Holy Water.