Currently I'm at the "At the end stands the god of justice" and I can't tell if Varuna is tearing me apart or if I'm getting anywhere with him, because I can last a good long time before he kills me, but at the same time he teleports around so much I don't think I'm hitting him as often as I need to be.
And I will admit there's been a fight or two where I've been wondering if the purpose of the story mission was to coax me into buying my weight in scape dolls... I'm worried about getting tempted and spending $30 only to learn I was doing something horribly wrong and waste the money.