Heh, I feel like every time I try that perfect-room one, I wind up overthinking it and take more stray hits than normal. Same problem with those treasure rooms where you have to avoid getting hit.
And yeah, I’ve had some good runs with the 50% fire one and the heal when killing burning enemies relic. I stopped because it only triggers on physical attacks, and it felt like I kept getting offered great elemental weapons, and having to decide to skip them or make the blessing pointless. I still don’t have a great sense of the elemental damage mechanics.
And yeah, I wound up getting to the final boss a few days ago, and had 10,000 gold, but unfortunately had relied heavily on two copies of the +6% damage per 1,000 gold relic, so my damage output dropped precipitously for the final encounter.
Agreed on the extra drops from bosses. I wound up swapping that in for the higher rarity drops from chests and enemies, since the boss ones seem to always be rare, and getting 9 extra rare drops over the course of the full temple seems pretty valuable.
Oh yeah, the first form wasn’t a big deal. The first three times I got to the final boss, it was the second form that did me in. But the fourth time was the charm, and I finally finished it last night on my 59th run overall.
I’m not sure how much credit I can take, as I’ve had other runs where I was playing better. But I started with a cursed pistol that doubles affixes on the main weapon, and rerolled the first weapon shrine to find a good pairing, settling on a cursed claw with +30% (doubled to +60%) damage per cursed item carried. Then added on two cursed relics, and the damage output just got silly. And I had switched to the blessing that maintains greed kill streaks out of combat, so I got to the end with 15K to pay off all the gods, and was able to just continue buzzsawing through to the end.
Took a look at the hard mode stuff, but I think this might be a good stopping point to move on to other games.
But the hard mode is where the REAL games is! ← /s. I hate it when people say that lol.
Yeah unless you really like the game I suggest you stay away from Hard. The speed on certain enemies can be frustrating. Two elite babies on hard can ruin any run and the Devs are done making improvements/balancing to the game. It’s a real same too since it’s very close to being a classic IMO.
Undungeon looks to be eminently close to release. I thought the demo’s art looked similar to, but even prettier than, Dead Cells. Also, the game plays top-down instead of side-scrolling.
/scratches head. I’m playing the demo, and now I’m not sure why I had it on my list of roguelites, in the first place!
It has a world map to travel to different areas, a complete stat, rpg, material and inventory system, journal and quests, dialogues, etc. It’s a weird action/RPG game, but not a roguelite. In fact I don’t see roguelite or roguelike in the Steam description page.
I wonder if in the early days they had the tag on Steam and later they changed. And yes, as a game, it seems promising. But then we should talk about it in its own thread, instead of here.
Into the PIt is out on Gamepass. First impression is not good:
-Fake pixelated graphics (it seems it has a shader pixelating things to look ‘retro’ ?)
-Garish colors. It creates a unique visual identity, but at what price…
-Mouse acceleration which can’t be disabled
-I found a place on the hub where I could clip through the scenario in the first 70 seconds
-The sound design, as lots of indie games, is mediocre. I’m not talking of the subjective quality of the sounds, but their role in the gameplay. Projectiles doesn’t sound when they get close to you, some enemies fire without having a sound effects, the spawn enemies sound could be more distinct, that kind of thing.
-At some point the game went crazy:
