Kevin

the new deltarune fanletter is putting a lot of stock in my mother 2 joke i've been making since we saw the menu a incredibly short act 6 with act 7 being the last real chapter but that would necessitate fan letter communication about "ch6 progress" to be a lie

and honestly mother3 sets up its act 6 which didn't really happen here

i have convened the aloof game design council and we have determined in laymans terms, "minas weapon hitboxes are like x,z 2D, whereas boss hurtboxes are like x,y 2D" meaning that its basically pointless for mina to stand to the north of the bosses because they will multihit you for free

i also encountered some (mini)bosses that really required me to switch off of using my preferred weapon, but thankfully i havent been forced to use the parrying rhythm game weapon yet, so i am still engaging, more begrudgingly but i have not been forced into turning boss combat off

in absence of a darksign i now make a determination when i die to a secret boss or "leave some" money on a random annoying enemy in an area i just did if its a lot of money i go to the store and immediately buy whatever is the largest purchasable item if its a small amount i kill mina (now 3) times

i'm frequently interacting with the mechanic in the (worst?) way (sparks spread out across multiple zones and no incentive to stop to fight hard targets for bones im about to lose) and not getting to interact with it say as "i am at the end of this dungeon and need to master this boss in <3 attemps"

in absence of a darksign i now make a determination when i die to a secret boss or "leave some" money on a random annoying enemy in an area i just did if its a lot of money i go to the store and immediately buy whatever is the largest purchasable item if its a small amount i kill mina (now 3) times

but running into a cool optional boss and having to ignore it until i can find a large amount of bones to spend to make it safe to deathmarch said boss still feels weird, and its weird to not be able to throw a couple attempts in at a boss inbetween exploring the overworld

in absence of a darksign i now make a determination when i die to a secret boss or "leave some" money on a random annoying enemy in an area i just did if its a lot of money i go to the store and immediately buy whatever is the largest purchasable item if its a small amount i kill mina (now 3) times

because of this economy i've kinda hit a point where i can ignore this mechanic, but since my wandering around bones will NEVER go into a levelup i'm a bit under?levelled and have a bit too much random garbage from the stores then when doing one of the dungeons..

in absence of a darksign i now make a determination when i die to a secret boss or "leave some" money on a random annoying enemy in an area i just did if its a lot of money i go to the store and immediately buy whatever is the largest purchasable item if its a small amount i kill mina (now 3) times

consequently i've had some surprisingly high damage pits eat sparks and leave them in fairly precarious locations

in absence of a darksign i now make a determination when i die to a secret boss or "leave some" money on a random annoying enemy in an area i just did if its a lot of money i go to the store and immediately buy whatever is the largest purchasable item if its a small amount i kill mina (now 3) times

my solution in cases like this is not to go digging through mods or accessibility menus to find options to turn "never lose cash" on i think game developers should just make you actually lose your money on death if they want to make you lose your money on death even dark souls 1 had a darksign

for when you were resigned that you didn't care about losing what you dropped and you actually just wanted to get back to a retrievable location

i have grown tired of games with darksouls money but mina the hollower has taken my ticket for the worst implementation ever if you die twice (without retreival) you lose everything you were carrying the second time

i've come across some feature where you can upgrade the number of time you die between total loss and i assume maybe if i go finish one lf these zelda dungeons i'll have a reason to care about creating my hollow knight shade / darksouls bloodstain moreso then just losing the small amount of bones

i have grown tired of games with darksouls money but mina the hollower has taken my ticket for the worst implementation ever if you die twice (without retreival) you lose everything you were carrying the second time

that's your second death without retreival, so you lose your "soul vessel" type object and you lose everything, it doesn't become a "new retreival" its only every 2nd time

i have grown tired of games with darksouls money but mina the hollower has taken my ticket for the worst implementation ever if you die twice (without retreival) you lose everything you were carrying the second time

steam controller: can't complete purchase 30 mins later: steam controller: out of stock

it went back up for a moment and surprisingly enough i began to hammer the purchase button but it was probably one of those cases where like 10 orders got cancelled and it wasn't a real stock re-up valve even the horrible ticket scalping companies have purchasing queues now even sony

steam controller: can't complete purchase 30 mins later: steam controller: out of stock