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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   3338 thread views

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I didn't mean literally 2 hours, I've played for like 6 hours and I played the first game almost 1000 hours so it was pretty easy to get the hang of things and winning on ascension 0 isn't that hard even when you don't know what the enemies do and what cards there are. Ascension 0 is in some ways the tutorial.

I think the card art is ok. I didn't play the first game but I've looked at screenshots and the art in 2 is a step in the right direction, though still a bit too 'flat' for my liking, perhaps.

I think the art is fine, it's the art design that is lacking in the second game. The first game had a much more clever art design that it perhaps first appears, with rules about color coding for different types of cards, the directions things face, contrast between foreground and background. The art was designed for use in the actual game as opposed to art for it's own sake and I imagine they thought a great deal about it. In the second game it feels like they've handed this off to the artist to a much greater degree, only that person doesn't understand the game design as well as the founders.

Btw, which of these start-of-map-rewards would you recommend? 'whenever you play 2 or fewer cards, take half damage' vs 'add apotheosis to deck (upgrade all cards for rest of combat) vs 'fill all empty potion slots with random shit at start of combat'?

It depends. If you have the potion belt then the potion thing is incredibly strong. Apotheosis is only valuable if you have a lot of un-upgraded cards which you might not in act 3 (which I assume this is?). The play 2 or fewer cards is too situational to recommend. I don't think it's a good idea generally, you should already have your block strategy worked out.

If you want to learn more about the game and you like watching streams, I'd recommend Baalorlord. He is one of the best players, friendly and goes into detail of pretty much all his decisions so even newbies can follow along.

Visual clarity is one of the most key aspects of creating graphics for games, so I get you.

I died at the end of act 3 with The Regent, despite having a pretty good setup, far better than on my previous runs. The boss was called Queen, and she had a very strong 200 hp summon who dealt 12x3 damage quite often. And the boss had 400 hp and kept "binding" my cards.. I had no chance to win, it seemed. Feeling a bit demoralized now. :')

Baalorlord seems ok!

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