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Indie Games 2014 [November] Now Voting - Post 241!
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boo that man, booooo
yes please
Was it already announced? Any ETA?
I think the iOS version was initially planned for the summer so there's obviously been a delay. Not sure if we have a date on the PC version.
More_Badass
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That Dragon, Cancer on Kickstarter
Although I do feel that touchscreen is probably the best way to experience the game. Using the mouse vs dragging and rotating panels with a finger.
Don't think any ETA for the PC versionyes please
Was it already announced? Any ETA?
Although I do feel that touchscreen is probably the best way to experience the game. Using the mouse vs dragging and rotating panels with a finger.
Probably, but playing on a PC is probably a better way to experience the game than to listen others talking about their experience on a touch screen =p
Phawx
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Quick Impressions:
Mirror's Edge inspired with a twist of gameplay based from a game called Devil's Tuning Fork. You ping an area to reveal if it has any attributes. So far there are four. Green indicates the direction you must go and also speeds you up, Purple is a jump zone, Yellow are like jump zones but stall your progress, and Red is the opposite of Green. You can press a button to remove negative effects. It's still super alpha so I'm not sure it's worth nitpicking over the mechanics. Eventually during the later levels there are kernels of fun. Specifically the unassisted jumps were getting close to the parkour feeling.
Quick Impressions:
Joylancer is interesting. I'm not quite sure what the art style has to do with the mechanics of the game. Not that they need to be mutually exclusive, it's just that I wasn't expecting a skill-based action game. In terms of comparisons, Joylancer takes a bit of inspiration from Devil May Cry 4. Specifically the Red Queen from DMC4. You can, and always should, rev (like torquing the accelerator on a motorcycle) yourself up to do a whole host of different things. As of right now there are four tiers to revving. Each tier either allows you to string longer combos as well as do more damage or to jump higher.
Additionally, revving also acts as a parry to enemy attacks. So again, forever and always, rev it. Not that revving takes much time, but it's a bit too much of an I-win button at the moment.
Ultimately, when you start getting into the groove of Joylancer, things really start to click. It's possible to almost scroll across a level horizontally via pressing jump and attack one after the other in quick succession. Popping and enemy into the air via rev-jumping, attacking a few times and then drilling down feels really good. But it still feels like something is missing. Something isn't completely gelling and I honestly can't articulate what that is. Maybe it's the lack of a combo-meter? Perhaps revving is too OP? Execution surely isn't the problem, because after ten minutes I felt pretty skilled. Joylancer is scheduled to come out of Early Access in January so I'll wait and see what other updates happen and also do additional Let's Play if there is a significant changelog.
Good Stuff
- Mechanics are solid
- Frenetic action
- Lovely visuals (including something of a super gameboy color swap feature)
- Funny dialog and text
Bad Stuff
- Loading times can be unusually long, even just switching visual styles has a notable pause.
- There are still game-breaking bugs or un-escapable level design(which is mitigated by the Reset Level option in the pause menu)
Bottom Line: Shows a lot of promise but it still needs to bake more.
Hey, all! Check out the epic new story-focused trailer for There Came an Echo!
I mean I think it's pretty rad I don't know.
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There Came an Echo Story Trailer
I mean I think it's pretty rad I don't know.
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There Came an Echo Story Trailer
Yeah you're right, it's pretty rad
Speaking of rad - Ghost Song is pretty damn awesome. We have some crazy talent on GAF.
0hh1 - Free (Web)
http://0hh1.com/
A logic puzzle game reminiscent of Sudoku without the numbers. Fill the grid with either red or blue tiles. Columns/rows cannot contain three adjacent tiles of the same color. Columns/rows must contain an equal number of blue tiles as red tiles. No two columns/rows can be the same.
We posted our first trailer today as well (not as awesome as There Came an Echo, but hey, we're only getting started):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21fkIhnL06c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21fkIhnL06c
That looks interesting, thanks for posting.
phantomspiker
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New game from the guy that made Eldritch, it's for the 7DFPS game jam.
Where's Tango? - FREE (PC)
Where's Tango? - FREE (PC)
http://dphrygian.itch.io/tango
A client has hired you to protect them from an anonymous threat at a party. You must use observation and deduction to identify and eliminate the target before they can murder your client. You only get one shot, so make it count!
Dr Stabbingworth
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Elliot Quest definitely reminds me of TAG, but I like the mechanics in EQ a lot better so far.
Phawx
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Where's Tango is fun.
Quick Impression:
The story doesn't make any sense but who cares! It's basically the single-player version of Spy Party. You have a randomly chosen set of criteria that fits the "threat" and you need to observe. Pretty simple stuff.
Also the time between firing your single bullet and seeing the outcome is great suspense.
Quick Impression:
The story doesn't make any sense but who cares! It's basically the single-player version of Spy Party. You have a randomly chosen set of criteria that fits the "threat" and you need to observe. Pretty simple stuff.
Also the time between firing your single bullet and seeing the outcome is great suspense.
More_Badass
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Awesome, Brad Borne's working on Fancy Pants Adventures World 4! I don't about you guys, but the Fancy Pants games were up there with N and Meat Boy as my favorite Flash platformers during my elementary/high school days. Going by the preview, there's going to be Mutant Mudd-style background/foreground transitions, new and improved animations, etc.
Fancy Pants Adventures World 4 - Free preview (Browser)
The Sun & Moon - $9.99 (PC)
This War of Mine - $19.99 (PC, Mac, Linux
Onikira - Demon Killer - $9.99 (PC)
Fancy Pants Adventures World 4 - Free preview (Browser)
http://www.bornegames.com/games/fpa-world-4/play/
The Fancy Pants Adventures: World 4 will be the next mainline adventure in the Fancy Pants game series. It will be available online in Flash, completely free to play, with extra content for players who choose to support Borne Games, similar to the World 1 Remix.
It’ll be the start of an epic journey for Fancy Pants Man that will span the next few Worlds. What happening, where’s he going?? You’ll just have to wait and see!
The main priority in World 4 is focus. Previous games have added a lot of new features with every game, but I’d like to keep the game more focused this time, so that the movement and attacking better compliments each other, and moving through levels is more involved in a logical, streamlined way.
The Sun & Moon - $9.99 (PC)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/321560/
The Sun and Moon, the winner of Ludum Dare 29, is a platformer with a unique mechanic: you can dive into the ground. Momentum is conserved but gravity is reversed, letting you fling yourself high into the air or deep beneath the surface.
This War of Mine - $19.99 (PC, Mac, Linux
http://store.steampowered.com/app/282070/
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle
Onikira - Demon Killer - $9.99 (PC)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/310850/
Onikira is a 2D side scrolling beat ‘em up set in a fantasy feudal Japan where the player takes on the role of a samurai fighting to prevent the forces of the Japanese underworld from breaking through into the world of the living.
Now I've heard things about this game - anyone here played it?
More_Badass
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Picked up Sun & Moon
Too many games, not enough time to play them all. The burden for all avid fans of indie games
PandaPedinte
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Wow. February already!
I'm not into card games but it looks interesting
Neat concept
Agreed. D:
More_Badass
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7DFPS entry from the developer of Velocibox
SHIFT - Free (PC)
SHIFT - Free (PC)
http://shawnbecktp.itch.io/shift
SHIFT is a lightning-paced, dodge-crazy FPS featuring cute, chunky robots hell-bent on spazzing you out with their lazerz.
NihonTiger90
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*adds to ever-growing list*
Frozen Synapse Prime is out. http://store.steampowered.com/app/328600/
Seems to be a port of the Vita game. Was going to pick it up, but according to the reviews the controls aren't kb/m optimized. 50% off if you owned the original on Steam.
Seems to be a port of the Vita game. Was going to pick it up, but according to the reviews the controls aren't kb/m optimized. 50% off if you owned the original on Steam.
Phawx
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My Let's Play of Super Sec Soccer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUW0qq9a6_I
This game is actually made by another Gaffer, kingPenguin.
Quick Impressions:
Literally the most fun I've ever had playing a soccer game. Games only last 90 seconds (unless you go into sudden death). Because of the small space, the minimalist controls and the physics of the ball, Super Sec Soccer actually plays a lot like a mashup of Ping Pong and Air Hockey. Instead of trying to gun it straight for the goal, you need to bank your your shots, much as you would if you were playing air hockey.
Recommended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUW0qq9a6_I
This game is actually made by another Gaffer, kingPenguin.
Quick Impressions:
Literally the most fun I've ever had playing a soccer game. Games only last 90 seconds (unless you go into sudden death). Because of the small space, the minimalist controls and the physics of the ball, Super Sec Soccer actually plays a lot like a mashup of Ping Pong and Air Hockey. Instead of trying to gun it straight for the goal, you need to bank your your shots, much as you would if you were playing air hockey.
Recommended.
More_Badass
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Just in case you guys didn't know, I made a thread for 7DFPS
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=930244
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=930244
More_Badass
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More 7DFPS entries
Beat Shooter - Free (PC, Mac)
Coelophyte - Free (PC)
Frail Shells - Free (PC, Mac, Linux)
Shootmephrenia - Free (PC)
Endless Express - Free (PC, Mac, Linux)
Lepidoptera Revelare - Free (PC)
Attack of the Oculoids - Free (PC, Mac, Browser)
Strange Gravity - Free (PC)
Mantis - Free (PC)
Beat Shooter - Free (PC, Mac)
http://abhimir.itch.io/beatshooter
Beat Shooter is an experimental FPS game developed for the 7DFPS. In this FPS game, the gun only works when you pull the trigger on the beat. In each level, destroy all the targets before the time runs out.
Coelophyte - Free (PC)
http://monorail.itch.io/coelophyte
Coelophyte is an experimental FPS game made for the 7-day FPS game jam. It's a surreal shooter, where you have to gather fluid in order to perceive the world.
Frail Shells - Free (PC, Mac, Linux)
http://fromsmiling.itch.io/frail-shells
Shells fall from the sky
Like rain on a day that's just a little too cold
Shells shatter like ice
Against a pan that's just a little hard to hold
Shootmephrenia - Free (PC)
http://tocogames.itch.io/shootmephrenia
Shootmephrenica is a small experimental First Person Shooter game in which you have to shoot no one but yourself!
You will find yourself in a glitched out mysterious world where your companion the gun is the only consistence that can be trusted. Carefully shoot on reflective panels to make your bullet ultimately come back to you and hit you in your ragdoll first person face. Make perfect trickshots, figure out how to reflect the bullet over multiple panels and run and jump to catch your bullet!
Endless Express - Free (PC, Mac, Linux)
http://vltmn.itch.io/endless-express
You fell asleep in a train and find yourself in an unknown train station. Try to get home, be sure to check the timetable to find the quickest route! Be careful not to miss any though, as the trains come and go in real-time.
Lepidoptera Revelare - Free (PC)
Attack of the Oculoids - Free (PC, Mac, Browser)
http://mrleeperry.itch.io/attack-of-the-oculoids
The Oculoids are here! Get'em!
Oh... one thing... all those magic weapons you have? Yeah, Oculoids don't respond to magic like most things. So, you might need to experiment. You should be fine though
Strange Gravity - Free (PC)
http://ianburnette.itch.io/strange-gravity
A FPS/RTS hybrid about miniature planetoids and fungal spores. It's kinda like that flash game Phage Wars, but in first person and huge.
Mantis - Free (PC)
http://gibby.itch.io/mantis-7dfps
A first-person shooter in which players act the role of a sentient species of bipedal Insectiods, defending their galactic home from an aggressive empire of evil androids. Bots attack via orbital dropships, while players are spawned in subterranean hives, that they must defend. In addition to scripted Solo/Coop play, there are additional DeathBall, Arena and PvP modes!
Nabs
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I am amazed by how much content Elliot Quest is packed with. This might be a 15+ hour adventure.
I recommend it to people who don't mind open metroidvania-ish games. There will be no arrows or markers on maps. You'll have to remember where you hit a roadblock and return it to it hours later. The difficulty seems to be spot on so far. Everything feels tough, but not unmanageable.
At first, I wasn't sure about recommending it at 10 bucks. But after 10 hours, it seems like a great deal.
I recommend it to people who don't mind open metroidvania-ish games. There will be no arrows or markers on maps. You'll have to remember where you hit a roadblock and return it to it hours later. The difficulty seems to be spot on so far. Everything feels tough, but not unmanageable.
At first, I wasn't sure about recommending it at 10 bucks. But after 10 hours, it seems like a great deal.
More_Badass
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Splasher - PC
Extract 237 - 2016 (PC, Linux)
Untitled Game - ????
Super Sec Soccer - November 20th (PC)
Spellsworn - PC
Ruin - PC
Trailblaze - PC, Mac, Linux
Previously Mentioned
singmetosleep
Slain
Exoplanet
Extract 237 - 2016 (PC, Linux)
http://www.projectextract.com/
Extract 237 is a first person/third person Sci-Fi adventure survival game set inside a massive creature. You play as Dr Winters a lone survivor from the creatures attack on her research vessel. As you try to survive and escape from the creatures innards, you meet other characters and encounter strange monsters that inhabit the darkest depths
Untitled Game - ????
Super Sec Soccer - November 20th (PC)
http://kingpenguin.nl/supersecsoccer/
Super Sec Soccer is a simple local multiplayer soccer game for 2 players with all those bothersome rules stripped away so all you're left with is fast and easy fun!
Spellsworn - PC
http://www.frogsong-studios.com/spellsworn/
A fast-paced arena-styled game set to be initially released on PC, where masterful Wizards are piled up against one another to let cascades of arcane power engorge the battlefield. Consider it a mixture of sumo-wrestling and wizard duels with controls reminding a lot of MOBA-games such as League of Legends and Dota. The game is heavily inspired by the ever so popular WarCraft 3 custom game mode Warlocks.
Ruin - PC
http://tarheadstudio.com/ruin/
In RUiN you select your preferred combination of abilities from an ever expanding pool as you join forces and battle it out on a dynamic battlefield in a fast-paced, action packed multiplayer online arena game. RUiN focus on team based combat instead of free for all and also the abilities are selected in a draft system, much like the ones in MOBAs but with abilities of course, and cannot be upgraded during the game. The concept is based on the popular Warcraft III mod Warlock.
Trailblaze - PC, Mac, Linux
http://www.indiedb.com/games/trailblaze
You wake up in the middle of nowhere. The solemn sound of wind surrounds you. You look around and see untouched nature. Where are you? How did you get here? You feel like you are being watched. Suit yourself and find the answers. In this Sandbox game you try to survive in a magical place. Fend for yourself, then find ways to build up your first village. Find equipment to explore that unknown world to find what you are looking for.
Previously Mentioned
singmetosleep
Slain
Exoplanet
More_Badass
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Odd Bot Out - PC, Mac, IOS, Android
Schrödinger's Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark - $14.99 (PC, Mac, LInux
101 Ways To Die - PC
Hollow Knight - 2015 (PC, Mac, Linux)
Why Am I Dead At Sea - 2015 (PC, Mac)
It's Not Not Rocket Surgery - ????
Junkyard Robots - ????
Previously Mentioned
Six Sides of the World
Children of Morta
http://www.oddbotout.com/
Odd is not like the other robots. After failing a standardized test Odd ends up in the recycling bin. Help Odd escape the robot factory using building blocks, electricity, and physics!
Each level presents a unique challenge. Construct a bridge across a gap. Ride a robotic centipede. Build and drive a car
Schrödinger's Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark - $14.99 (PC, Mac, LInux
http://store.steampowered.com/app/295490
Schrödingers Cat is a wacky & colourful puzzle laden platform game, set in a unique quantum physics world. A disaster at a subatomic holiday destination has caused all the primitive particles to escape! Help Schrödingers Cat round them up.
101 Ways To Die - PC
http://101waystodiegame.com/
101 Ways To Die is a physics-based puzzler with a twist.
As the assistant to the morally corrupt Professor Ernst Splatunfuder, you must help recreate '101 Ways To Die' - a book full of delightfully gory death recipes for dispatching your foes in the most stylish ways possible!
With an arsenal of deadly tools at your disposal, find the most violent and brutal ways to maim, slice, burn, explode, rip and impale the lab created creatures known as Fodder. Don't let them escape!
Hollow Knight - 2015 (PC, Mac, Linux)
Why Am I Dead At Sea - 2015 (PC, Mac)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=323454547
Why Am I Dead At Sea is a mystery/adventure game with a twisted murder at its center. And you are the murder victim.
To understand why, you will need to inhabit the other residents of the ship and use them to investigate what led to your untimely demise. Each combination of characters leads to a unique conversation based on the relationship those two characters have. Understand what makes your shipmates tick, and uncover the secrets that they hold.
It's Not Not Rocket Surgery - ????
Junkyard Robots - ????
Previously Mentioned
Six Sides of the World
Children of Morta
OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODUntitled Game - ????
https://twitter.com/vapgames
A kickass shmup title from the developer of Intrusion 2
Intrusion 2 was nothing short of amazing, and this looks like more of the same with a jetpack!
More_Badass
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The gameplay clips are even better
https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/B1Tv9EbIIAAWyje.mp4
https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/ButnR6vCQAEBye3.mp4
I hope the dog-like robot mini-bosses from Intrusion 2 develop into something in that game. Their AI in Intrusion 2 was jawdropping, how they'd adapt to level geometry, physics objects, and having any of their limbs blown off. With just one arm it could still hop on you, grab you mid-air, and then charge up a mouth blast at you
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This looks amazing and ridiculous
PandaPedinte
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It's crazy in a good way how much support they are giving to this game.
More_Badass
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Best expansion ever?
Best expansion ever
Coffee Stain still killing it with the patch notes/update descriptions
More_Badass
Member
Two more big indie releases this month
- The Marvellous Miss Take releasing on the 20th
- The Curious Expedition alpha releasing on the 27th
- The Marvellous Miss Take releasing on the 20th
- The Curious Expedition alpha releasing on the 27th
More_Badass
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Anyone check out Prophour23?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/317610/
I had thought it was another Galcon-inspired game, but I read some impressions today and realized it's more much unique and different than I had realized
http://store.steampowered.com/app/317610/
I had thought it was another Galcon-inspired game, but I read some impressions today and realized it's more much unique and different than I had realized
Both of these look fantastic! Where did they come from!?
This looks kind of interesting as well!
OP IMPRESSIONS!
Impression rather
Environmental Station Alpha
Yeah I sort of like this. It's really hard though, so I suspect I might just be a bit rubbish at it. It's got cool atmosphere and music, and the controls work (you can also shoot up, which took me ages to realise.) The weakest aspect is probably the art though - it can be super difficult to differentiate enemies and environment, especially in the grass level pictured in the OP. Still, well worth a play!
More_Badass
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Messofangeo had posted some (PAX?) impressions of Miss Take. He really liked it. That's how I learned about it. And I've been following Curious Expedition on TIGForums for a while.
More_Badass
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Man, This War of Mine is one bleak game. It's like someone took the human-on-human survival of something like Neo Scavenger and gave it grim, gritty life. A gutted war torn cityscape, all pencil-sketched shadows and ruined structures, flashes of explosions outside. What a difference from another group-centric game like State of Decay; where that game was kind of arcadey and hopeful, here your people are just barely eking out a miserable day-by-day existence.
It's not a fun game, and I'm glad it's not fun. It's tedious and slow and tense and gripping, and you really grow connected to your group. Every moment feels like you're just barely hanging on by a thread. I really like the little details, like your survivor physically digs through rubble or how your survivors will sit and talk to each other.
Scavenging is the most intense stealth I've experienced in a while. The line-of-sight/sound based system from Mark of the Ninja works really well here and makes every location a foreboding unknown environment, hidden in shadows. Combat and violence in general is a last resort and when you do come across bandits or armed people...and you're weak and slow and only have a knife, the tension is palapable
It's not a fun game, and I'm glad it's not fun. It's tedious and slow and tense and gripping, and you really grow connected to your group. Every moment feels like you're just barely hanging on by a thread. I really like the little details, like your survivor physically digs through rubble or how your survivors will sit and talk to each other.
Scavenging is the most intense stealth I've experienced in a while. The line-of-sight/sound based system from Mark of the Ninja works really well here and makes every location a foreboding unknown environment, hidden in shadows. Combat and violence in general is a last resort and when you do come across bandits or armed people...and you're weak and slow and only have a knife, the tension is palapable
PandaPedinte
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changes for early access
This is interesting as many indie games use the Early Access program. As I said on the other thread I hope they can enforce these rules so developers who are doing Early Access right don't get a bad reputation.
Phawx
Member
Thanks for the info.
More_Badass
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Soooo...anyone else playing This War of Mine?
Phawx
Member
I tried it out. It's quite bleak. Don't really like playing it for too long, but it's great in doses.
Nabs
Member
I'm approaching hour 20 of Elliot Quest. It's clearly doing something right, because I'm rarely hooked on a game like this.
Pro tip: Keep notes. Old school, NES-style notes. There are a lot of locked doors with certain requirements that you may forget once you collect them. Just write those down and it'll make things a lot easier.
Also: Don't be afraid to try stuff. Don't assume you're underpowered, or missing an item when you reach a roadblock. There are a lot of good puzzles that are just there waiting to be solved.
Pro tip: Keep notes. Old school, NES-style notes. There are a lot of locked doors with certain requirements that you may forget once you collect them. Just write those down and it'll make things a lot easier.
Also: Don't be afraid to try stuff. Don't assume you're underpowered, or missing an item when you reach a roadblock. There are a lot of good puzzles that are just there waiting to be solved.
One Foul Note
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Just picked it up. Looking forward to finding out just how heartless I am.