Monthly Check In Post

[alias_sqbr]

What's everyone been playing? Any recs? Made some fanworks? Post here! Lurkers and first-time posters are always welcome :)

Also, a reminder to post to the introduction post if you like.

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[scytale]

:( I'm sorry about the old kitty, and I know the feeling about finding media hard to get into or feel fannish about because of RL associations.

FWIW, I don't think you're actually missing much in Nightshade. Kuroyuki's route is very YMMV (and I think the Good End didn't really hit the landing), and Gekkamaru's route is just...melodramatically, relentlessly sad with only a little bit of catharsis at the end.

It's been making me miss the simplicity of visual novels, where you don't have to do 40 minutes of combat to get a single brief conversation with your love interest.

I love the game a lot, including the combat, but I was so bad it. It took forever for me to get to see Thanatos. (And he was still so inconsistent afterwards! But I guess being bad at the game meant I had to retry a lot.)

Good luck escaping! And yes, visual novels are so nice for when you just want a dose of story with some interactivity/game engagement.

[alias_sqbr]

Thanks, that makes me feel better about letting Nightshade go. I had fun with the routes I finished and that's enough!

And haha yeah I...gave up and started using cheats. But today I finished it for the first time WITHOUT cheats!!! Having finished it so many times with cheats that my weapons are super upgraded etc, and I have a good sense of how all the battles go. But it still counts! And Thanatos is still being coy BUT I WILL WIN HIM OVER. WITH MURDER AND DRINKS.

[scytale]

Yes! And you played Goemon and Hanzo's routes, which are the ones where I think the game really does something memorable with Enju or the love interest.

Congrats on finishing it without cheats! :D What weapon/boons did you use?

It totally still counts! You would pretty much do the progression without the cheats anyway! I ended up maxing out pretty much everything in the mirror before I beat the game, and most of my victories have still been the kinds that the bards will not sing about. ;)

My first victory was Zagreus hiding in corners with the Shield of Zeus, while the blitz shield slowly, slowly chipped away at his HP. It took so long.

My subsequent victories involved...some of that, but after a while I realized how amazing the Demeter duo boons are! Most of my runs have still been 'cheesing dad with Artemis + Demeter super lasers')

MURDER AND DRINKS. :D Competitive murder, even! I don't think I ever got to a feelings confession. At least one that wasn't being done via the power of intense pining.

[alias_sqbr]

I use a different weapon every time to get the extra 20% darkness and gems but my faves are the sword and bow, and I like all the zappy stuff from Zeus.

EDIT: Oh wait, what I used when I DIDN'T cheat! I used the sword, with...I forget the name but the final aspect, Arthur/Excalibur, since it doesn't require any aiming haha. I didn't have any specific strategy with boons since I wasn't expecting to get very far, just things that suit how I play (lots of random flailing and specials, very few dashes or casts) Oh and the skull earring from Meg since I was expecting to spend a lot of time at low HP, that was the only thing that got me to the end of the fight with Hades.

[scytale]

Haha, I am also interested in what you used in general! I actually usually didn't go for the darkness and gems, except when I was specifically grinding for those.

It's funny how strategies differ; my friend did that too, but I always settled on a weapon and went for the titan's blood or ascension. I also just looked up my escape record, and an embarrassing amount of them were using "Demeter cast cheese strategy" and rigging my boons... :P I also wish I dashed less! I'm very much the "ahhhhh something is coming, I'm going to dash -- right into the lava!" type of player. :P

I love Arthur/Excalibur so much. <3 It's one of my favorite weapons.

[alias_sqbr]

Haha yeah, my sense of direction is too wack for the dash. I have trouble enough aiming the bow/gun in the right direction.

[scytale]

Haha yeah, my sense of direction is too wack for the dash.

Personally, I always mean to dash into Alecto's spinny death blades. So I can't say I relate. :p

For the bow, I like Chiron's for just this reason! If you hit a thing once, then it targets. :D