It now has two options that make it a lot easier (at least on Steam)
- infinite stamina (Dodge all you want)
- infinite life (just enjoy the world and puzzles)
Comment on Tunic is awesome and I wish more people talked about it
lime@feddit.nu 5 days ago
i’ve said it before but i don’t think i’ve ever bounced so hard off of something i thought i would love.
i love cryptic, deep worlds, deciphering languages, discovery and exploration. but the combat blocked me from doing any of it.
i died to the first larger enemy (a white blob thing) like five times. i switched the combat to easy mode, and subsequently died five more times, just slower. then i looked up if here was something obvious that i was missing, but no. people were basically describing what i was already doing. dodging, rolling, watching for tells. only there are no tells on those first blob enemies. they just attack. later enemies, like the big spiders, have tells, and those i can sort of do. but the first guys just maul you.
the combat is honestly ass, at least as far as i got. its difficulty is not in line with the theme of the game, and it adds very little to it other than being a roadblock for the puzzles.
lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
lime@feddit.nu 4 days ago
yeah but i’m no longer interested. the mismatch between the world and the combat made me feel like the game was built as a trap, the cute visuals luring people in to punish them. it left a bad taste in my mouth.
lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Fair.
I would love to have a game like it but without the ‘git gud’ combat.
verdigris@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Hmmm, something isn’t adding up here. While there are a couple places where the combat is annoying, it’s really only the bosses and maybe a few enemies in the endgame.
The blobs absolutely have tells, I can’t remember what they are but they exist. If you’ve played literally any action game before you should be able to beat that enemy pretty easily, it sounds like you were pressing the wrong button to dodge or something.
lime@feddit.nu 5 days ago
so i got past them by ignoring them, got to the little village of orc-things and while it was a struggle i managed to clear it, so i thought “okay i think i get how this works now”, went back to the blob things and got wiped out.
i was obviously doing something wrong because the feel of the combat was just absolutely awful. sluggish and spongy and takes way too much time.
once i got to the graveyard i just said “fuck it” and gave up. it was only frustration.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah, combat is it’s weakest point. I’m sorry that held the game back from you, because the overall “puzzle” of the world/game is very rewarding.