Tactical Nexus: If Desktop Dungeons was 60 JRPGs instead of a roguelike

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Lead By Example: Jul 17, 2009; I buy and resell Pokemon cards for a living. If you're ever looking to sell your childhood, please reach out!; Fallen Rib

This game seems really interesting -- just bought the normal copy and I've been having a lot of fun with it.

Definitely not a looker, though

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 20:54

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 22:02

Lead By Example: Jul 17, 2009; I buy and resell Pokemon cards for a living. If you're ever looking to sell your childhood, please reach out!; Fallen Rib

Yeah game's definitely rough on the eyes -- but the gameplay is pretty captivating. It took about 30 minutes for everything to click, and after that I was really impressed with the design of the game.

Looks awful though :sparkles:

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# ¿ Apr 22, 2020 04:15

Lead By Example: Jul 17, 2009; I buy and resell Pokemon cards for a living. If you're ever looking to sell your childhood, please reach out!; Fallen Rib

Yeah when I realized the gimmick behind Dojo I could feel my brain melting

# ¿ Apr 22, 2020 17:52

Lead By Example: Jul 17, 2009; I buy and resell Pokemon cards for a living. If you're ever looking to sell your childhood, please reach out!; Fallen Rib

It's crazy that there's literally no English press for this game at all -- we're already on the first page for Google.

I was looking around for advice and guides for this game and there literally just aren't any.

Sounds like we should make a Discord?

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 05:30

Lead By Example: Jul 17, 2009; I buy and resell Pokemon cards for a living. If you're ever looking to sell your childhood, please reach out!; Fallen Rib

A big part of the confusion regarding using your Nexus Medals is for some reason you can click doors that require keys to open them, but you seem to have to use the keyboard to open a nexus medal block. I was very confused about it as well since I've been using the mouse for everything.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 16:43

Lead By Example: Jul 17, 2009; I buy and resell Pokemon cards for a living. If you're ever looking to sell your childhood, please reach out!; Fallen Rib

I've tried the Mini tower three times now, each time coming up short barely to kill the Dreamer.

Time to try three more times.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2020 21:05

Lead By Example: Jul 17, 2009; I buy and resell Pokemon cards for a living. If you're ever looking to sell your childhood, please reach out!; Fallen Rib

I'm still awful at this game but at least I got the Bronze!

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2020 22:28

Lead By Example: Jul 17, 2009; I buy and resell Pokemon cards for a living. If you're ever looking to sell your childhood, please reach out!; Fallen Rib

Yeah I'd assume it's either supposed to be Buccaneer or Dungeoneer. The translation's definitely quite rough. The different towers should probably have more descriptive names instead of just being named letters.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2020 19:13

Lead By Example: Jul 17, 2009; I buy and resell Pokemon cards for a living. If you're ever looking to sell your childhood, please reach out!; Fallen Rib

King of Bleh posted:

It is baffling how a game with a translation and UI this incomprehensible and ugly could be so engrossing. I wish there were more tightly-crafted towers like the mini tower though, I was finding tower D pretty sloggy at 10 floors, the remark that there are 30+ floor towers sounds exhausting.

Question: some of the towers have the tier 3 "crown" checkpoint listed, but when you get to the top it only seems to have the tier 2 "star" checkpoint. Is there some secret to unlocking extra floors on these towers, or is there some other mechanic I'm misunderstanding?

I'm not sure, but maybe it's gated in the Nexus? I've seen in a lot of these towers there are enemies hiding a staircase in the Nexus.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2020 01:46

Lead By Example: Jul 17, 2009; I buy and resell Pokemon cards for a living. If you're ever looking to sell your childhood, please reach out!; Fallen Rib

pumpinglemma posted:

Oh dear. This is going to consume me, isn't it?

Yes

# ¿ Apr 26, 2020 05:05

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 22:02

Lead By Example: Jul 17, 2009; I buy and resell Pokemon cards for a living. If you're ever looking to sell your childhood, please reach out!; Fallen Rib

The game is really good -- it's actually shocking it hadn't already started blowing up. I wouldn't be surprised if a site like Polygon did an article on it sooner rather than later.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2020 06:56

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