Well, stealth in Crawl is kinda weird. I recommend going Spriggan or Vampire if you want stealth. Naga can do it too, but I don't think it's a good idea. Tengu are pretty bad at stealth, as it requires Hex and Charms - they are usually either summoners or air conjurers.
Ooooh, this looks sweet. Might have a closer look at his
While the regular game is already pretty challenging, characters like The Monk will make you rage, and Aria will make you want to kill yourself. (Let's not even mention the BS known as Coda) (I have the original, but never seem to want to blow the money to get the sequel)
I tried Dungeon Crawl again yesterday. Maybe it's been too long since I played, but I don't remember the game being so darned hard. I mean, I know it's hard, but not can't-even-get-past-dungeon-level-3 hard. And here was me thinking I'd got better at games
I beat crawl for the first time in many years this month, the key is to study the wiki like a users manual exhaustively. There are many mechanics the in game help doesn't even address, like guaranteed damage reduction and the overwhelming importance of base weapon damage.I tried Dungeon Crawl again yesterday. Maybe it's been too long since I played, but I don't remember the game being so darned hard. I mean, I know it's hard, but not can't-even-get-past-dungeon-level-3 hard. And here was me thinking I'd got better at games
Hmmm, I try to avoid the wiki because I consider looking up game mechanics to be a spoiler. ^^
Never really saw why people liked them so much tbh, people often act like I'm speaking heresy when I say I don't think they're particularly good or well written. The only one I played was the first one and while I did play it a bit I was always left feeling dissapointed from how excited I was for a pokemon game where you could finally play as pokemon. Like... I wanted a lively world to explore but you just got ugly randomly generated dungeons that weren't particularly well made and a really cheesy story that was predictable the whole way through but not in a good way. Idk I don't think it particularly commited any too heinous things plot wise it was still enough for me to enjoy it but I always feel wierd when people go on about how it touched them emotionally while for me most of it felt predictable and triple cheese. Like.. the partner just repeated like the same thing the entire game, I didn't really find them to be a good character in the end. And that's not even counting the gameplay things that bother me about it. Idk if they fixed any of that later on in the series (god I hope so, trying to build a team was torture since you couldn't reliably recruit anyone you were actually looking for and just had to hope and not like that mattered much anyways when A) you're seperated from your team half way in and thus become overleveled for them fast and B) you're only limited to 3 slots since 90% of missions require an open slot in your party and you'd need an open slot anyways if you wanted to recruit anyone).
I never played Explorers of Sky (which I gather is an extended remake of Explorers of Time/Darkness) so I couldn't say what the difference is, but I adored the story of Explorers of Darkness. I did think it was genuinely excellently written; for starters, I'm a sucker for the kind of frontier living that the game portrays, but I also really appreciated the clear amount of effort that went into the writing. All the characters felt real, alive, and unique; and quite often, the game would actually pre-empt any nitpicking that I was about to indulge in. The characters actually think. Going on to an actual Pokemon game and discovering that all the characters are robots who talk in non-sequitur was a real disappointment after that.
which isn't to say anything against the game, I really enjoyed it.
