Jazerus fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Mar 27, 2020

DrManiac fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Mar 27, 2020

• list of companions above the quickslots: screenshot
  
• you can give orders to companions: screenshot
  
• tutorial
  

• Saffron is your Megaman.exe and she's perfectly fine but I don't think she's actually that easy to play. She has no real focus, which means she can do any build you want, but not having a focus or a gameplan can actually make things harder, especially when you're new and don't know what everything does already so your brain will overload and you'll start loving up.
• Reva is probably the best character to actually learn how to survive instead of flailing blindly - her heavy focus on shield generation means making mistakes with her is very forgiving, and her reactive playstyle means that you generally need to take a breath and pay attention to what enemies are doing, which means you slowly start learning how enemies behave instead of constantly being trapped in a state of sensory overload. She's my favorite character because she makes me feel like I have a big brain when I pretty much parry a boss to death.
• Gunner is also a great character to play if you don't want to think while playing because his playstyle basically boils down to "hold down attack while shuffling your deck a lot". He got me my first win, which felt entirely unearned because I just leaned into doing 2549054009 attack DPS while frantically dodging and barely interacted with spells at all.
• Selicey is a weird character. She's naturally set up to exploit the frost condition(unsurprisingly) and her attack lets her do some cheeky dodging that no one else can do if you time it well. I don't really have a handle on her yet.
• Hazel is the TF2 engineer. You drop turrets and smack them with their wrench to make them godly. She's very intuitive to play and very powerful, and having the ability to make ultra durable deployables means you can cheese past a ton of dangerous enemy patterns by simply hiding behind your turret and wrenching away. My second favorite character to play and also not too hard to pick up. Her only real weakness is that she is loving terrible against enemies who break tiles or sit on your side of the map a lot, so try to get Terra and Selicey out of the way early before they become too much of a problem.
• Terra is entirely married to the "break tiles" gimmick. She has a great but awkward to use attack, but her starting deck is really weirdly unfocused so it feels like she needs some luck putting together some of the better "break tiles" cards to really flex. Because she's so based on tile breaking she also requires a lot of forethought to play to avoid screwing yourself over, which can be overwhelming in later stages when you're trying to dodge bullet hell while also attacking. I like her a lot but she's super loving hard.
• Shiso is gamebreakingly, disgustingly overpowered and is stupidly easy to win with. Literally all you need to do is play the game normally for the first couple areas until you build a nest egg, then you can start snowballing because his gun's damage is based on amount of money you have and you gain more money if you kill with it. You can easily end up with your pistol shooting for four digits per shot by the final zone if you play it right and get a little lucky, which means you can just DPS race everything down with no real dodging.
• Violette is bizarre. Her main gimmick is that her attack plays a note, which deploys green tiles(of which you can pick one) on each side of her: forward shoots a 60 damage shot forward, up gives you a stack of trinity, down gives you a stack of fragile, and left gives you some shield. As for why you would want fragile, she starts with frostbite(gets turboboosted by fragile) and her artifact gives you half your fragile stacks as spellpower. She seems really goddamn good if you get into the flow of using her buffs and not getting hit, but she's definitely complex and is the character I've messed with the least.
• Shopkeeper: I don't loving know because holy poo poo she is a hard boss that I haven't been able to beat.

Stanos fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Mar 28, 2020

• Where four different enemies are, because most of them move constantly, often very quickly and by teleporting,
  
• What kind of enemies you're against, because they don't have names or descriptions, differ wildly even between recolors of the same type, and there's no pause before a fight to look at them and get your bearings,
  
• Where their attacks are and where they are headed, because every attack has a unique shape and many of them move, and all enemies will be attacking at once,
  
• Where you are and where you can move, because tiles are constantly flashing slightly different colors to indicate "stand here" or "don't stand here" or "don't be standing here 0.25 seconds from now" or "stand here and THEN don't be standing here 0.25 seconds later" and oh yeah, they can break or be cracked or on fire too,
  
• What spells you have right now, and what shapes they will attack in, and what combos they have,
  
• How many stacks of trinity, flow, fragile, shield, poison, etc. you and the enemies have,
  
• How much mana you have and how you can get it back quickly,
  
• Hostages and how to protect them and not kill them yourself,
  
• Treasure and how you can kill it quickly,
  
• Probably half a dozen other things I'm forgetting.
  

megane fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Mar 28, 2020