Hey everyone! What have y’all been playing? I’ve mainly been running sts 2 (slay the spire 2) a ton! I think next is Mario Galaxy 2. I picked it up since it’s my bday today c:
Hey everyone! What have y’all been playing? I’ve mainly been running sts 2 (slay the spire 2) a ton! I think next is Mario Galaxy 2. I picked it up since it’s my bday today c:
It’s actually unreal how good it is. It does have Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam but yeah, this should be a smash indie hit and not a hidden gem. How far in are you?
About midway though chapter 2 I think. Just discovered
Spoiler
the labyrinth
Ah, still so much to come! I loved that bit, you can really spend some time to perfect your build down there. The game just keeps getting cooler, doesn’t it. Whenever you think you have it figured out you discover some new surprise it throws at you.
Yeah totally! The game is a lot more forgiving than I thought it would be given the initial vibes. Feels like I have an older brother giving me hints when there’s an aspect of the game I’m bit unsatisfied with.
Maaaan I’m tired of running from one end of the map to the other.
“Give it a bit more time. I gotchu.”
It also has two separate ways to make sure you don’t get stuck. I’m sure you found the Puzzle Oracles already, which is a great mechanic, and then on its webpage there are great two-stage hints for every puzzle/side quest in the game: first a smaller nudge in the right direction and then under a second spoiler tag the full explanation.This dev is so thoughtful it blows my mind.
I also like how all the game mechanics fit into the lore so naturally. The curse mechanic is one of my favourite game mechanics ever.
Just hit chapter 3 and realized the build I’ve been toughing it through the first 2 chapters with isn’t cutting the mustard anymore. Usually this is my cue to do a hard restart. But oh wait there’s a fix for that!
This game is still seriously blowing me away as the most considerate survival horror game I’ve ever played. I seriously can’t believe it’s mostly all the work of a solo dev 🤯
What build were you doing that wasn’t working?
And yeah the game just continues to surprise you, chapter 3 really blew me away too. Actually just finding the cable car in itself was a big wtf moment for me and then everything thereafter kept on being surprising. There is just so much game in this game, if you know what I mean? You think it’s this neat little mansion roguelike but oh no, it’s way more than that.
Some really unfocused melee vamp luck thing. Was a bit too glass cannony but I might have to revisit it with a more focused build later!
Yeah I like how they just gradually increase the scope of the game each chapter. I’d be completely overwhelmed if they dumped all of the stuff in chapter 3 right at the start of the game!
Ah I see! Yeah from my experience most builds are viable but you definitely need to specialise instead of being Jack of All Trades. The only exception being some spells like armour and Harvest Field that are great even without spell investment.
I actually went the Luck build initially and thought it was very powerful, but I went kind of all in on luck. I think I went 5 each in Vitality, Warding and Violence and then put the rest into luck, I think I had like 37 by the end or so? Enough so that with two rings with +% Luck from the labyrinth the crit and saviour ring had about 93% chance to proc. Then i put the rest of the points into Fortitude for the poise late game.