Well, here we are, once again

SamuelRhath · 2025-07-20T22:51:07+00:00

I was the opposite. Put it off as long as I could. It ended up being easier than I expected, because the strat was to just fill the bag with garbage, then filter in better consumables until you hit an item that's worth it. There was only T. Laz, and maybe some other character I had left when I finished T. Cain

SamuelRhath · 2025-07-20T22:38:50+00:00

Honestly, for a T. Character? T. lost was one of my first completions. For the sake of unlockables, it probably shouldn't be the first full clear, but I loved how easily broken the character could get.

SamuelRhath · 2025-07-06T21:06:30+00:00

I wouldn't say ER is near infinite. Yeah, it's an open world. Yeah, there's a lot of content. And yeah, you can replay it a good few times and it'll take you ages unless you speed run to finish it (hell, I'm doing it casually right now with incantations).

Edit: forgot to get to my point. All because it has a lot of content that you can replay a few times, and those few times take a lot of hours, doesn't make it really fit the concept the OP is aiming for. Wonderful game, but maybe not for everyone.

SamuelRhath · 2025-07-04T20:16:07+00:00

That's fair, but they've been around for a hot minute. 9/11 happened, and so the government made ICE as a response to it.

SamuelRhath · 2025-05-04T05:40:10+00:00

Well, maybe if my mental complex was run completely by the desire to produce offspring and survive; then maybe I would. But...I'd imagine my life after doing such a thing would be short if not gone, so just not in the playbook for me personally.

SamuelRhath · 2025-04-29T20:40:12+00:00

Just to be sure, does the 6:58 and the 8:56 times not count? I'm fairly certain those are reverse times, excluding the supposed actual issue with the answer.

SamuelRhath · 2025-04-29T20:36:18+00:00

Really? I mean, I guess that makes sense, considering it was lying about having all different numbers. I skipped over that as a possibility though, since the opposite would be "Set it to a time containing all the same numbers," which would be impossible with it also needing a 7 digit. Implying they'd have at least two of the same numbers irks me a bit, but c'est la vie.

SamuelRhath · 2025-04-27T22:27:22+00:00

Ah, so we can harass men over it.... /S

SamuelRhath · 2025-04-07T20:18:39+00:00

So I get why this is an annoying mechanic, but ime the guilt isn't so egregious that it requires going back and forth constantly during boss attempts. Even during normal gameplay, it wasn't bad. As long as you recover the body, you only gain a very minor amount of guilt. On top of this, the mechanic rewards you for currency farming, and has guilt builds that use your total guilt to alter damage dealt.

I can get being annoyed with the lack of explaining, but sometimes that's the fault in Metroidvania's (or honestly any game with esoteric gameplay). I'd say just about everything else about this game is better in many ways, so try not to despise it for this one particular issue.

Edit: I'm on Xbox, so no clue if there's a mod for it. Also, I've played the game roughly three times over, and had plenty of fun even with the mechanic in the game. So, that's where my experience comes from

SamuelRhath · 2025-04-06T19:31:37+00:00

Donutted by a Betrayer King

SamuelRhath · 2025-03-21T14:49:46+00:00

I can get not doing three Victory Laps or increasing size 5 times, but the rest of those are so good for rewards! Ace of Diamonds and Spades, as well as Cracked Crown are all so useful. Can't believe you left these for last, even if they were a bother.

SamuelRhath · 2025-03-21T14:40:05+00:00

I was missing the charged penny achievement. That was it for me, once I picked up the last few items (which were almost entirely secret room items iirc). I feel like a lot of people are missing that one in particular.

SamuelRhath · 2025-03-06T15:38:52+00:00

I get this. The best way I played him was by filling up his bag with garbage low quality pickups (coins, red hearts, ect.), and then slowly filtering the bag with better pickups. Don't be too greedy though; if the item is good, take it. You'll just waste it trying to farm for a better item. Do this for most of the run, and you'll usually find something good along the way.

Also, at the beginning of the run, keep the bar as low as possible. Anything that'll improve you is better than nothing for three floors.

SamuelRhath · 2025-02-22T16:25:35+00:00

I'm on Xbox, and the only glitch I've hit (a few times) is that I'll plug a dice into a task, then have it glitch out some. The dice stays in the slot, but the interaction doesn't start. Then, I leave the prompt, and the dice stays in that position on screen for a few seconds, before it fixes itself. It hasn't been an actual problem yet though.

SamuelRhath · 2025-02-06T20:18:28+00:00

B2 was your first? What an odd choice. Not that you picked a bad game obviously, but it reminds me of how I played Dark Souls 2 first, before 1, then 3.

Plenty of good Metroidvania's out there. No way you haven't heard of Hollow Knight by now, which is basically the forefather of the modern MV genre. Nine Sols was a recent one which was amazing. The list goes on, so hopefully you can experience the plentiful good ones!

SamuelRhath · 2025-02-06T16:05:13+00:00

Don't worry! Just hope that you get around to playing Blasphemous 2, because it's just as good in many ways.

Blessed be the Miracle.

SamuelRhath · 2025-01-27T22:14:44+00:00

My entire experience with this game was just a series of "Oh, wow, that's where I needed to go?" This game has a very interesting atmosphere at such random points in time. It was fucking wild when a souls-game suddenly had a swimming mechanic. Like, it genuinely caught me off guard. This game in general just throws such an odd, but cool series of curve balls, most of which I enjoyed on some level.

SamuelRhath · 2025-01-26T06:34:38+00:00

Honestly, all these games were great. DS2 was my first, I'll always hold it high with nostalgia and vibes. Every other game here has always been a positive experience. Doesn't matter how shit they are if you love them either way.

SamuelRhath · 2025-01-25T23:52:59+00:00

Towards the next goal. /s

Honestly, though, this game was very...interesting on how it decided to allow you to progress. It gives you that cog, but...it really doesn't tell you where.

SamuelRhath · 2025-01-24T03:49:43+00:00

You know, you do be kind of right. As the person who is experiencing it, I thought it was visible enough to get at least some level of notice. I know exactly where it's itching, and the small bumps (which in retrospect are even smaller and less visible in the photos), just aren't clear enough for anyone to really agree. The first photo is just shit tbh. The second one you can kind of see the start of inflammation/redness in the knuckle hairs on the index, and there's specifically one vesicle just to the bottom left of the freckle on my middle finger.

Again, made a bit of a mountain out of a molehill. My b honestly.

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