zagibu
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Post by zagibu on Apr 11, 2024 8:16:06 GMT
Well, it's gonna be early access launch, so...
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Post by oldskooldeano on Apr 11, 2024 13:54:07 GMT
Huge risk with this I’d say. A game that was almost perfect. How do you make a sequel that is as good, but doesn’t repeat itself and feels fresh?
A very difficult trick to pull off but one they must be forced to try as sales of the original dwindle to nothing.
I hope it will be as fantastic as the first but I wonder how it could be.
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MolarAm🔵
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Apr 11, 2024 13:55:46 GMT
Oh, it... it still looks like that, huh.
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Post by Ulythium on Apr 11, 2024 13:57:35 GMT
I get that it's not everyone's cup of coffee, but I love the art style of the first game.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Apr 11, 2024 14:00:51 GMT
Fair enough! Obviously it's far from the most important thing, but it's always looked cheap to me. Looks like a Flash game.
Anyway, well interested in a sequel all the same. I just don't really know what new they could do with it.
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Post by cubby on Apr 11, 2024 14:41:40 GMT
They could make it about playing poker hands instead of fighting.
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Post by oldskooldeano on Apr 11, 2024 19:27:58 GMT
Fair enough! Obviously it's far from the most important thing, but it's always looked cheap to me. Looks like a Flash game. Anyway, well interested in a sequel all the same. I just don't really know what new they could do with it. Making it look nicer would have been the first thing on my list for a sequel. |
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Post by Vandelay on Apr 11, 2024 19:55:56 GMT
Love the original, but the art put me off even trying the game for quite a long time. It really does look like arse. Sometimes it leans into that and it has some charm, but mostly it just looks a bit rubbish. As already mentioned, it looks like a flash game.
From the very few screenshots shown on the store page, this looks a little more polished. Still not great though.
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Post by rajin on Apr 12, 2024 10:08:43 GMT
Not just the art, the animations also scream Newsground flash game to me. I was impressed with the music, but I assume this game sold tremendously well so a bit confused about the early access approach. I guess the balance of cards is really hard to get right? I could not figure out how to beat the final boss with the character that spawns orbs. Felt a lot of cards required too much set up and rng would screw up my deck build.
So yeah aside from graphics/animations, I would like to see a rework of that character and the relic system.
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Post by Tomo on Apr 12, 2024 10:52:28 GMT
It's a card game, fancy graphics are a secondary concern to the interface, which they nailed first time round. Less is more in this genre. Even Balatro has shimmers and wobbling cards and stuff in an attempt to inject some frisson, but it's preferable to just turning most of that stuff down or off.
The MegaCrit devs are massive tabletop card game nerds. StS2 is in good hands.
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zagibu
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Post by zagibu on Apr 12, 2024 11:23:00 GMT
I could not figure out how to beat the final boss with the character that spawns orbs. Felt a lot of cards required too much set up and rng would screw up my deck build. So yeah aside from graphics/animations, I would like to see a rework of that character and the relic system. Uh, the defect is the easiest character to win the game with, at least in my opinion. Silent is the hardest of the starting three. Watcher is even harder. |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Apr 12, 2024 12:13:27 GMT
Defect is probably the hardest of the original three to understand, mostly because of the orbs. But if you get frost orbs + focus + Loop or whatever, you can be making so much block that nothing could ever kill you.
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rajin
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Post by rajin on Apr 12, 2024 15:24:25 GMT
Defect is probably the hardest of the original three to understand, mostly because of the orbs. But if you get frost orbs + focus + Loop or whatever, you can be making so much block that nothing could ever kill you. I just could not get it to work. With the other 3 I had a really easy time and managed to complete like 10 runs in 4 or 5 hours. Defect I spent 5 hours and could not get a single run done. |
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Post by zagibu on Apr 12, 2024 16:23:51 GMT
That's weird. I have never managed to beat the heart with Watcher, but with Defect multiple times, and I've tried a lot more with Watcher.
Maybe it's just me who isn't getting the Watcher.
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rajin
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Post by rajin on Apr 12, 2024 19:11:12 GMT
That's weird. I have never managed to beat the heart with Watcher, but with Defect multiple times, and I've tried a lot more with Watcher. Maybe it's just me who isn't getting the Watcher. I will reinstall it and give it another couple runs... Can't remembed how I played with Watcher, mayne rebooting the gams will refresh my memory |
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