• cholesterol@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m really struggling with this game. I got it on sale and played for 3+ hours, but somehow it didn’t grip me. It was really annoying having to constantly start over. Not trying to detract from other people’s experience of it.

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      2 months ago

      On the one hand, if you don’t enjoy the game that’s fine. It’s a masterpiece, but that doesn’t magically mean that everyone will enjoy it.

      That said, if you want to enjoy it more, focus on one thing per loop, everything is designed to be completable in a single loop, (or maybe a few for the more complicated puzzles if you get stuck). And if something is frustrating, do something else.

      Things really go wrong if you keep smashing your head against a brick wall or if you keep jumping around and never manage to finish anything.

      We’re trained to think of death as a major failure by other games, it’s not in this one, it’s just jumping back home, repairing the ship, and starting from a central location and a known state.

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
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      2 months ago

      It’s a hard game to get into. Played for 2 hours on my first run and didn’t know where to go.

      After 2 weeks or so I tried again because everyone was recommending it to me. Now it’s one of my favorites, even though it took another 2 hours before I had any idea what I was doing.