Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, toxicity and dog-whistling are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !uspolitics@lemmy.world
7) No Hit-and-Run questions.
Please don't delete your post for no apparent reason. If you plan on deleting a question later, say so in the post, or if you feel that you have a good reason to remove it, message a mod beforehand. It's not fair to the ones who took their time to answer, and it's not in the spirit of the community.
8) No Bots.
Posts or comments from bots, LLM's, AIs, Neural Networks, Transformers, or Marvin the Paranoid Android are not welcome in AskLemmy. Real humans only please.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
(Slight spoilers but its very low resolution)
Both in terms of gameplay and the plot reveal.
For me it was:
Tap for spoiler
Entering the safehouse...That was the point where I realised the magnitude of the story in that game!
Honestly the game became too grindy for me and then I stopped playing. Still wanna finish it at some point, but right now there is no time. Did you enjoy playing, and did it take very long for you?
A stranger joins your conversation. "I highly recommend using the Blue Paths website for hints once you get stuck. Also, don't waste your time and money on Blue Tents; the wiki has everything you need to know about them. It still took me 100 hours to reach the final puzzle but I enjoyed it."
This is a very nice website. Thanks!
I've logged 170 hours on steam (although a chunk of that was idling I think - call it 100 at the absolute minimum)
If you don't enjoy the choice of rooms, the game doesn't work, no matter how good it is. If that's tedious, nothing will redeem it. But for me that was enough of a tactical choice that it worked.
After that point, you need to have a flexible approach to enjoy it: for most of the game you will never have a run where you don't accomplish something, be that seeing a new room, solving a new puzzle, or just testing a theory and eliminating a possibility. But if you go in with a singular goal, "I want to solve the puzzle in X room" you will get annoyed fast.
The story is really good, and the way it's gradually revealed as you solve puzzles, the way your understanding of the situation changes wholesale, is really fantastic.
As long as the drafting is entertaining and you stay flexible, the minor issues with the game are less than negligible. Those issues are: a few mechanics should be communicated properly (most egregiously, the axe), getting around is too slow, and by the time you're on day 100 and solving end game puzzles you need a more reliable way to reduce the rng. You end up with quite a lot of mitigation, but you need more. A once per day ability to pick a room, and a way to keep a chosen item that isn't dependent on coat check, that you unlock after solving a mid-late game puzzle, would do the trick.
Regarding hints, I think the best way to get hints is to find someone who's played already so they can give you the smallest nudges possible. I regret going online for hints at times and getting a bigger one than I wanted. When I got hints from friends I was occasionally able to get... almost nothing and yet it was enough to get unstuck, which is really ideal! They'd tell me for example, "you have the right idea" and that'd just be enough for me to persist a bit more. But in general, the end game puzzles are not really designed to be solved by a single brain. Getting hints likely won't reduce your enjoyment, because you'll still be getting the satisfaction of solving other bits.