Here's why Inscryption is a good game

Submitted ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat⁩ to ⁨gaming@beehaw.org⁩

I can’t really explain that much without spoiling stuff about the game that really should not be spoiled. It’s honestly a very, very unique game which if nothing else does makes it worth a look if you’re okay with horror-type games. All I will say is:

I was about to fire it up today, and I decided that probably the avenue I had gotten myself to isn’t the most productive way forward. I dithered a little bit and then decided to hit “New Game” (which is an option that isn’t even available when the game starts) and take my chances with what would happen, banking that it would let me strategize things a little bit better.
WHAT THE FUCK, THE “NEW GAME” BUTTON I WORKED SO HARD FOR IS GONE AGAIN NOW
I get it why it’s gone. Guess I’m "continue"ing and finding out what comes next lol
This is a good game

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savvywolf@pawb.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Game spoilers and subjective opinions below, be careful.

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I enjoyed all parts of Inscryption, but I think Act 1 was the best part of the game. The gameplay of act 2 wasn’t great and had too many mechanics flying around. Act 3 just felt too sterile and devoid of charm. I get that that was what they were going for, but I think I would have preferred multiple rooms in the shack over multiple chapters. There needs to be more games like Pokemon TCG for the gameboy (which is what Act 2 was referencing) though. With a card game that fits it.

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- AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Agree on all points. Act 1 was the best. Your reward for playing all the way through is you get to play Act 1 again, as a full-fledged game of its own.
  
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- PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah. It’s not a perfect game, it has many issues, but it is fun and exciting and it does something very very different, very successfully. I’m reminded of the Zero Punctuation review of Psychonauts basically saying that its number one good point was that it was something genuinely mad and original, in contrast to the sea of imitation that is modern gaming, and for that alone hooray.
  
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- blarth@thelemmy.club ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Spoiler as well.
  
  This game blew my mind when Golly asked me to select a file on my computer to sacrifice. Such a cool breaking of the 4th wall.
  
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who@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I only played through the first stage of the game before putting it aside. Thanks for reminding me that I ought to pick it up again and continue.

(Nitpick: Unique doesn’t have degrees. A thing can be very, very unusual, or it can be unique if nothing else like it exists.)

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- AbelianGrape@beehaw.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Americans often incorrectly ascribe degrees to “unique.” At this point it’s so baked into all of their dialects that it’s hard for me to keep calling it wrong.
  
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  - PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    TIL.
    
    www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unique definition 3 includes examples like “very unique” and “fairly unique.” So it’s incorrect only if you assume that American usage is wrong and British usage is right, I guess. According to the Cambridge Dictionary I think you are right about how it’s used in British English.
    
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- PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  All I can say is you’re missing out… I can see that it’s a type of game that may not be for everybody, but it is honestly probably the most unusual game I have ever played in my life and I’m enjoying it a lot.
  
  It just made me pick a file from my hard drive, made me a card based on it, and then told me if I let that card die, it’s going to delete that file. This game is nuts man.
  
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  - Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    As I understand it all of daniel mullins’ games have layers like inscryption, to put it mildly. I’d check them out when you finish inscryption if you’ve enjoyed it
    
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  - who@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    lol… I had a feeling it would take some drastic turns. That’s great. No more spoilers, please. I do intend to get back to it.
    
    In case you’re not familiar with it, Doki Doki Literature Club has some surprises, too. I enjoyed it even though visual novels are usually not my jam.
    
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Toes@ani.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Is it possible to “win” without leaving the table?

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- bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  Damn, I came really close the other day. Managed to live through the “the game will kill you now” event. Unfortunately I couldn’t keep up when I was at the boss.
  
  But to progress the game you have to get up.
  
  But when you finish the game a new mode is added allowing you to play normally with increasingly more difficult challenges you can put on yourself.
  
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