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Its been a journey (media.piefed.social)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/gaming@lemmy.world
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Game is the Blue Prince.

Comic that has a man saying he reached room 46 Another man says great have fun getting the other secret rooms. The first man looks shocked and then is sweating and drinking in the dark.
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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

True, but I feel like Blue Prince gets a lot of flack for its RNG, despite being part of the genre. I think it’s the lack of tangible upgrades between runs. Games like Binding of Isaac, Hades, or Balatro expand your arsenal between games with actual upgrades or perks. Blue Prince’s upgrades are pretty sparse, because what changes between runs is your knowledge of the house and the larger mysteries.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    my take on that is that it's bullshit. when your metaprogression is based on knowledge, it's dependent on letting players access that knowledge to begin with. personally it took me until day 40 to roll credits because i simply was not given the rooms i needed to understand the puzzles. i showed my gallery to a friend who got there much quicker and they noted that i was still missing some of the more basic rooms.

    the risk in rng-based games is always that someone gets shafted, and when the game is also story based, those people effectively get locked out of the story. the people thinking it did not deserve the reaction simply did not get the worst rolls.

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