the lack of new costumes is really fucking bad
it really breaks the reward loop in a way that actually makes the game seriously shit for me. it's like honestly pretty fucking annoying and it might be the last straw
like this game is a quintessential skinner box game in the way it handed rewards by the dozens during the early game and now it's a rare commodity to see something new. it's always the same garbage with a new color, new enemies, new weapons and new abilities are just higher numbers iterations of the previous versions, for most of the game outside of the first few chapters this has held 100% true
i consider this to be really terrible design, it's addictive but really shallow and uninteresting. i've spent 40 hours on this game doing probably the same thing over and over and over again
there's two things that kept that fresh tho. one's the story, which was always really bad and since finishing the main story has been pushed further and further to the background, to the point this new arc has a lot of jrpg style dialogue box conversations instead of cutscenes
the key one for me tho, were the costumes. you got a bunch of new outfits every 10 or so levels, so that meant that after you fought a series of difficult fights you'd actually get to see something entirely new. it's nothing important gameplay wise, but the game has so much faux customization that a tiny bit of real customization goes a long way, and i enjoy games with good customization (did i mention i like league of legends???) so having those new outfits to look forward to actually meant a lot
i never liked diablo or loot games or any kind, i get bored really easy of doing the same task over and over just to get numbers to go up, so this was the carrot in the stick for me, and seeing they just ditched it just bums me out
tried to look for multiplayer games just to see if i could spice it up that way, but i couldn't find a single party, so i guess the game's online is dead?
i think it's about time i stop playing this terrible timewaster and go back to the number of actually good games i should be playing instead like hollow knight or something. i enjoyed it for a while, and then played it way past what i should, mostly because lately these days i'm too sick/tired/both to focus on a real game, but i gotta take that first step sometime
tho tbh something tells me i might be doing another one of these posts in a day or two hehe
thanks for bearing with me, it's been fun !
i will when it's a bit cheaper
i like supergiant but i hated transistor so will wait to save me some monnies
it's not like tacoma that i just want to blindly give those people money cos gone home was so great
i will buy it at some point tho, it looks rad
