Recent reviews by TheSeaToad

Great game but jesus christ some of the problems really drag it down.

Shards.

Dear god these suck. Limiting the tools is fine, they should be limited but then further being limited by another resource sucks. Especially considering how important tools are in combat, if you suck at the game (like me) you'll be stuck on a boss for a while, then run out of shards, and if you're actually using 1/3rd of hornets toolkit you need to go farm more shards, until you run out again. This makes losing to a lot of bosses just feel really disheartening, especially ones with long distances between vendors or fast travel points. It also makes you just not want to use tools on bosses, cause if you lose that's a loss of shards.

I've had a few fights struggle with visibility too, with enemies being behind foreground objects and hitting me with unreadable attacks, or attack tells being just invisible. Such as a diagonal bell in the Widow fight coming from the corner, but the diagonal threads only go so far so they don't appear in the arena.

(Endgame Spoilers down here)
Dear God Lost Lace is the worst contender for this, having to go all the way back through the abyss, up through the bell and only then being able to fast travel is such a pain, god forbid you need to farm any rosaries at this point. Lost Lace is also horrendous with visibility, all the attacks are black on black with black foreground objects just blending in to one big blob, I had to turn the brightness way up and there's still a few situations I've been in where I can't see anything.

Also why the hell are there permanently missable hunter's journal entries in act 3

A really good new way to beat OFF compared to the original, the combat is a lot better and the menus are nice. I originally beat OFF years back with the original version and the music in this version is still good but doesn't quite hit the same. Give the old soundtrack a listen but this new remaster is a good way to beat OFF.

Really cool game, going for the achievements is a great experience, really like the sound for stepping on things.

The game is just unfinished, easily needed another month of work at least. There is no reason that I should have to join a discord server to get a tutorial for the game, or any kind of mechanics explanation. There's just a lot of things missing that really shouldn't be.

In 2 hours and 27 minutes from now, I'll get my 1129th sugar lump, then in about 10 seconds after that, I'll use it to upgrade my mines to level 10, giving me the last achievement for me to unlock. Then I will have gotten 100% completion of one of the best games I have played.

Cookie Clicker is an absolute masterpiece, the (unexpectedly deep) game play, the planning, the strategy, the way everything builds on each other. And there's still more to come, dungeons feels scarily close after the years of waiting.

In the 434 days it's taken me to hit 100%, I've read through each and every line of flavour text in the game, which I feel is an underappreciated part, so if you're going for 100%, you've got plenty of time, give the flavour text a read.

"Everyone's here. Won't you have some cookies too?"

peak...

Absolute Peak. The combat works Really Well. They better remaster Raidou 2 I need more.

Absolutely amazing game, 10/10. Been trying on and off for years to beat it, finally did today.

"There's no feeling more intense than starting over."

Amazing little game, really fun combat. And a Jobin Higashikata reference... peak...

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