I just finished playing tunic (good ending). A friend and I were playing it at the same time. If I didn’t have that friendly competition I would have dropped it so many times. There is way too much manual work in this game that you often times aren’t playing a video game anymore.
At the end of it all I didn’t feel a sense of accomplishment just relief that I’m done with the game. Only to find out after doing the secret puzzle is just more meta puzzles outside the game.
Outer Wilds on the other hand is fantastic and not having to use a pencil and paper to advance in the game is A+.
lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
i bounced off tunic super hard. i love the puzzle aspects, the cryptic manual pages, and figuring things out, but the combat was way too brutal, even on the easier setting. the bigger white ghost enemies at the very start killed me so many times i no longer want to go back to it.
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve gotta remember what those ghosts are.
I’ve slowly acclimated to Soulslikes since Tunic, and a common theme is that they make you think you need to be pressing more buttons, when they’re often teaching specialized bits of patience. In Tunic’s case, a lot of people expend their stamina too quickly.
Still don’t like FromSoft’s games
lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
i thought that too, and tried studying their movements, but they attacked faster than i could even press the button.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I thought the reward for the puzzles was not good enough, either. When you play Outer Wilds, you figure things out and unlock a wonderful story. When you play Tunic, you (eventually) figure things out and get a bad ending for a game that barely reveals anything, story-wise.
lime@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
hey i learned to read the language in fez fluently. this is more like they took the wrong lesson from double fines Hack’n’Slash, where the glyphs are absolutely everywhere and look so much alike that the easiest way to decipher them is to replace the font.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Understandable. It got pretty frustrating for me too at various points. I’m kinda bad at this kind of combat in general. Most of what motivates me to push through it in games like Dark Souls or Tunic is being interested in the world. But sometimes not even that’s enough.
lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
it’s especially wild in a cutesy game like tunic where it just bodies you ten minutes in. it made me feel like i had been tricked.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Try playing Environmental Station Alpha. Super cutesy robot, absolutely unfair difficulty for a Metroidvania. Which is a shame, because there’s an interesting story and gameplay buried in that difficulty.
boringbisexual@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I didn’t have too much trouble up until the first real boss. Thankfully there was a save point pretty close by so I just threw myself at it more times than I’d like to admit.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I switched that to easy mode at one of the mid game bosses, and I still struggled. The combat is way too tough for what it is.