I have finally started a new job after a month of listlessness, but all my spare time has been sunk into Shadow of the Erdtree. So far, I’m having a good time. Lots of exploring, and have bumped off 2 remembrance bosses.

  • RION [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Trying to gold stake a few more decks in Balatro, at 4 or five out of 15 so far? Shit’s hard

    Also running back another Dark Souls 1 enemy/item randomizer after just finishing one. There’s a lot of fun to be had retreading a game you know well with so much stuff shifted around, especially one like DS1 where the first half is so intricately designed. It’s basically a metroidvania with how you’re trying to open new areas. Otoh there can be really annoying enemy placements - Darkwraiths my detested >:(

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      4 months ago

      It’s interesting how gold stake doesn’t seem like it should be that much harder, but the fact that 3/4 jokers in the shop are very hard to justify buying means most runs struggle to get out of ante 3. It’s brutal.

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        4 months ago

        ya perishable and rental jokers are sneakily very debilitating, the former in that there’s a chance your run-winning joker craps out on you in five rounds, the latter absolutely demolishes early game econ. it really does feel like you need to just restart until you get a decent joker to escape early game hell and hope you can find something in time before faster ante scaling from purple stake destroys you