thanks!
The first game was amazing. Glad this one is coming to Vita next week.
I’m only an hour or two into this game but it’s so damn good. I just got to one of the first “special” caves that was over-grown a bit and it gave me serious Ori and the Blind Forest vibes for a minute. This game is absolutely gorgeous both on my TV and in handheld mode!
Also: The music is so nice and chill. Completely unexpected but really refreshing!
Yeah this is a perfect daily commute game for me, the long train ride is over in the blink of an eye. And then playing docked at home, ‘digging’ it so far! :)
I’ve now played 4-5 hours of this and I think it might be a better game than Metroid: Samus Returns.
What a killer few weeks of game releases!
I’ve been playing on my new Switch. I love the digging stuff, but not good at platforming. Somewhere around the nine hour mark, I was about ready to quit, as I was getting pretty frustrated. I wasn’t making any headway at all in the Eastern Temple and every dungeon area I found just seemed crazy hard. Then, I made it past a boss fight, got multiple of the machine-type upgrades and started getting cogs in droves. Also have found some really creative areas in the last couple of hours.
Yo, crashing this thread with a question about the original Steamworld Dig because I couldn’t find a dedicated thread for the first game.
I’m not too far into it, I’ve gotten as far as getting the water/steam-fueled jump move, and just started to find a few orbs as I’m digging.
How am I supposed to be managing my resources? Specifically orbs, but to a lesser extent the ores and gems I’m finding. They seem relatively scarce, and maybe not unlimited? I ask because using them for permanent upgrades makes sense, but buying teleporters costs orbs too, and I don’t know how often I should do that. I’m doing what feels like a lot of backtracking each time I need to return to the surface and recharge my light or sell my junk, but I’ve only used one teleporter so far because I’m worried they’re not the best use of orbs.
Again, asking about the first game, not the sequel, but thanks for the help!
I don’t remember anything being particularly scarce but it’s been a while since I’ve played.
There are quite a few orbs buried. I don’t recall ever being worried about using some for teleporting. Other consumables are suspect though.
As a bad gamer I worried too much about it, it’s not a big deal and the costs reflect that soon enough. There’s also a few obvious shortcuts here and there. I think if you fill your pack, are low on resources and are far away from a teleport, you can drop another one just fine.
I finished the story over the weekend. What a great game! I’m working on 100% percent completion (something I rarely do) because the running around and digging and everything is just so enjoyable that I’m not quite ready to part with it.
Edit: Forgot to mention the soundtrack. The music in town is so great:
Oh, I had no idea El Huervo did the soundtrack. Cool! He was one of the artists featured in the Hotline Miami soundtrack and… wow, he’s an amazing painter who has contributed to games visually too. What a talent.
Done, with 100% completion. It’s been a long time since I’ve done that in a game.
That last thing was so gosh damn hard. Took me a few hours of near-ragequits over the last two days, and I only finished it with half a heart left. I’m glad the game offers further self-imposed difficulties, but I don’t think I’ll be partaking.
Fantastic game.
Echoing what people have said here already, this is an excellent game. I think after Zelda and Mario, this is the most enjoyable game I’ve played on my Switch this year. That said, I wish the ending was a tad bit easier. The difficulty curve was pretty shallow up until then, and I’m afraid I’ll end up quitting before I finish it.
I picked it up when it went on sale last week and burned through it within 24 hours. I don’t even remember the last time I couldn’t put a game down like this.
I didn’t find the difficulty too bad, and I thought it actually got easier as the game went on. Once I got the jet pack, I was able to maneuver around the map much easier, and considerably more so after upgrading it. After a bunch of defense upgrades (which are fairly cheap), taking damage seemed almost trivial. The final boss did take me a couple of tries.
Do you mean 100% it or just finish the story? Assuming you mean the latter, there were a couple of spots that were a pain because I hadn’t realized what I was supposed to be doing (if something seems impossibly hard, there’s a different way) and a couple that were outright tricky, but I’m pretty lousy at platformers and managed. Something in particular have you hung up?
I intended to just play several hours today and then move on to other games. My wife and son are away until tomorrow evening, so I have a lot of time. Many hours later I finished the game. It is really good. It doles out new obstacles, money and upgrades at just the right pace. Like the first game it is very charming.
While most of the game isn’t terribly difficult, there are many places that are easy to die in if I tried to push a little too far. A few of the challenge caves required some thought too, but there wasn’t any stumpers.
What did you 100%? If you did all of the achievements then that is pretty damn impressive. I don’t have the patience to attack those. I did 100% the caves, but not all of the secrets. It is a testament to how good the game is that I even went back to complete the caves as I usually don’t once I finish the story or campaign of a game.
I was playing on Switch, so I’m not actually sure what the achievements are! But I got all of the treasures and made sure there was a checkmark on every cave. That unlocks a super hard series of caves, and once I finished that, I considered myself done. I didn’t rerun it on hard mode or with any of the negative upgrades or anything like that.
So maybe not a true 100%. But I wanted to see everything my first playthrough had to offer.
Now that I know there are extra caves to unlock I decided to get get the treasures too. I’ve found all of the secrets except I’m 93% in Yarrow and I can’t find anything else. That is the worst area to try and explore too since it has a lot of that regenerating stuff. I have no idea where I’m missing something.
Edit: OK, now I have 100% but I’m missing 1 more artifact.I wonder what area I didn’t find everything.
Edit 2: OK found it. All I needed to do was come on here and complain and I found everything in 10 minutes.
Wow, some of those bonus cave missions are hard! The lava and buttons ones were pretty easy. The Skillfulness
(platforming) one I couldn’t complete. I only tried the bomb one a little and didn’t get that one either but I think maybe I could with some more tries.