I’m having fun! I’v spoiled the game for myself a little (as to future areas and enemies, I still don’t know shit about the lore) so maybe I’m not having the “pure” experience but also it’s not a huge deal for me. I’m in no way good at video games, but I’ve heard that even people who are struggle with Rain World so that makes me feel a little better when I die a whole lot. I do get frustrated sometimes but it’s not a lingering frustration? And it kind of just pushes me to keep going. There have been times when I’ve flung myself at one little challenging part a bunch of times and gotten nowhere, but usually I’ve been able to take a bit of time off and once I come back to it I have the skills to get past it.

I’m still terrible at the combat so I spend most of the time running from enemies, and I’m still fairly early game despite the time I’ve sunk in already. The art carries me through though and has me wanting to learn more about the lore. It’s also precisely my style — I’m a huge fan of the whole grungy overgrown industrial look, it’s kind of what I go for in a lot of my own stories, so if I ever feel particularly frustrated my brain will go “but you want to keep going to see more of the art, don’t you” lol.