I just finished this game and thought it was extremely good.Just wanted to share with my cool friends on /v/ :)
>>728984558I'm glad you enjoyed my game =)
>>728984558>>728984602kill yourselves furniggers
>>728984558Yea, the game is good. It restored my faith in indie metroidvanias since majority of them fucking suck. Although, silksong is alright. It's no nine sols, but good enough.
Kotlet game
>>728984558I wish we had more edgelords MCs
I think you're a cool guy, op. WP beating the game. Did you like the game? What controller did you play it with?
What's next for the devs of Nine Sols?
>>728984558Yeah I also beat it recently and loved it. The only problems I really have with it are a couple of story beats that fell flat. But in terms of gameplay alone it's almost perfect.
>>728984984TEN SOLES
>>728984984This ARG (I think that's what they're called) implies their next project has something to do with nine sols. https://youtu.be/ynAl_k7AkVM?si=YYYvuI0lMJOLYYD2
Why did he do it?
>>728985291autism
>>728985380Imagine if one of the older women had rape corrected him, how different (worse) the timeline could have been if he had just mellowed out a little
>>728984558I got filtered pretty hard by the true ending boss fight (She's fucking fast) and said the bad/neutral ending was good enough. I really liked it though, very fun game and I really liked the story + the twist at the very end with mc's sister
>>728984841I look like this
>>728985547It's pretty common to get stuck at the final boss, she took maybe 3-4 hours for me to complete. After it clicks you won't lose her ever again.
>>728985547>parry-parry -- parryThis filtered millions.
>>728985547get back to it, can't win if you don't try
>>728984558I loved this game that it made me want to try out other games with an emphasis on parrying like MGR, Expedition 33 and Sekiro. I was pleased with Sekiro's parrying system with regards to its posture mechanic and made me appreciate that NS still did its own unique spin. In Sekiro posture is lost on your part whenever you try to block or parry an attack, but as long as you keep precisely parrying attacks you won't be broken out of your posture (being broken out of posture makes you vulnerable to an attack for a second) Meanwhile perfectly parrying attacks makes the enemy lose posture when they attack, and when they lose all of their posture thats when they're vulnerable to a deathblow.Meanwhile Nine Sols has parrying and imperfect parries be tied to your health. You gain internal damage when you imperfect parry, which means missing a parry or not hitting precise parries is potentially more punishing. But parrying also rewards you with tailsman charges or can power up your melee attacks with certain jades. I quite like how both games deal with mitigating imprecise parries like how you can quickly regain posture by holding guard while not being attacked or using certain arts in Sekiro or attacking or getting perfect parries to recover internal damage in Nine Sols.And I like how both games did special attacks you need to either dodge or use a special counter to spice up the parrying, though admitively I do think Sekiro wins it out and Nine Sols could use a bit more variety in the special counters.All in all I like both of these games did parrying and how they do things in interesting different ways.I am not a fan at all over the death penalty punishment for either of these games, ESPECIALLY with Sekiro.
Eigong is a fun boss but I personally like Lady Ethereal and Jiequan's more. It's criminal that Jiequan didn't get a third phase.
>>728986169Ironically I did use a parry build that I stumbled onto on my lonesome but my old man hands (I'm 30) couldn't keep it up.
>>728986354It's kind of funny how NS just reversed the counter attacks of Sekiro. Where instead of using a special parry for thrusts you have to jump over them and the equivalent of "sweep" attacks need a special parry. I actually prefer Sekiro's style of death penalty since the revival system gives you a chance to back out of dangerous situation instead of always having the risk of losing everything.
>>728986368Best boy deserved better
>>728986368He should have gotten a third high damage mutated phase if you used the poison to spite people who thought they were getting an easy way out.
I enjoyed the game enough that I wish I could get more of it, despite the fact that the true ending doesn't exactly leave a ton of room for more.
>>728986368True Eigong is unmatched, but Lady E and Jiequan are the second and third best bosses in the game, in that order. These were the only 3 bosses in the game who I thought were fun enough to beat hitless.
>>728986368>>728986858Honestly I wish Nine Sols had an expansion of revamped bosses like how HK did with its expansions. Like imagine not just Jiequan phase 3, but also Lady Ethereal phase 4 but now you have to check the extra clones as well, or Fuxi and Nuwa, but Fuxi is in his normal form before becoming mutated.
What's your favorite song? Lady Ethereal's theme is probably my favorite but I also really like this song from the flashback with Heng and Yi in the pickle jar https://youtu.be/J2UkJdX0HFE?si=jBinwLbWP9B2ITnS
>>728987481https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bSMPb9J6R0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09_8fFrPxkgWarehouse grandpa had sick tunes for his level
>>728987585The gauntlet before his fight was where the game really started to click for me.
>>728984558My GOTY 2024I wish the cutscenes were skippable, it kills replay value
I don't know which is stronger for melee attacks, the Qi Blade Jade (powers up third melee strike in melee combos at the cost of 2 Qi charges) or the Focus Jade (powers up the charge attack and range at the cost of 1 Qi) but after really getting used to habitually charging attacks, I took the charge attack pill and never looked back. Like it feels more rewarding to get in a really strong attack after parrying enemies.Meanwhile I never really got to using the charge attack in either of the HK games. Probably because both of the games reward the player with more soul/silk for each attack you hit, meaning you gain more of that by just simply attacking. Or certain builds making rapid attacks just better, (Quick slash charm or wanderer crest)>>728987481https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9m45UIuMGA&list=RDB9m45UIuMGA&start_radio=1
I picked it up after I dropped it for a year and made it to the last boss, fight seems insanely bullshit. It took me like 2 hours of attempts to beat the twins I can only imagine this one is exponentially worse
>>728988140Why have so many people adopted this mindset for bosses? A boss isn't just an obstacle to your progression; it's a duel between you and an opponent. The fun comes from figuring out their moves and timings and learning how best to respond to them, as well as finding opportunities to throw out your own moves. Any death is always your fault, because there was always something you could've done differently to mitigate damage, but it's also a learning experience since you can apply the knowledge you've gained from one attempt to your subsequent ones.
>>728988140It's pretty punishing if you haven't gotten used to certain mechanics. Especially unbounded counter.
>>728988483mostly cause I wanna play silksong and I promised I'd finish nine sols first. Dont get me wrong I like nine sols
>>728988628If you don't like Nine Sols' bosses, you're going to loathe Silksong.>t. hunny P'd Skong twice
>>728988731nta but I crashed out around coral tower. The gauntlet there just fucking infuriated me and I stopped bothering. The rest of it was fun though.
>>728986993There's always the chance of Yi going to diyu and needing to atone, but honestly the story was told and I'd rather they show other aspects of the world than drill too deep into these characters
>>728988731I do like nine sols bosses but its one of those experiences where its better in retrospect than in the moment, cause the moment is a lot of dying and figuring out attack patterns
>>728988140Eigong is a test of will and while she's an absolute monster, it's no hyperbole to say she's maybe the single best boss fight I've ever beaten. Sure, I got frustrated. Sure, I put the game down for over a week and was damn near turning the difficulty down. But understanding that fight and learning how to actually play the game is one of the single most rewarding experiences I've had in two decades of gaming.
>>728988852To be fair dying and figuring out attack patterns is how a lot of hard games with their boss fights are like, though I do suppose games can try and convey the learning curve differently.
>>728988812If there is a sequel to nine sols (which seems likely to me >>728985185) I think they would have to make it a prequel. I was thinking that playing as Ji would be a good option, but the video I linked seems to imply that it would be a direct sequel. I might just not understand how Red Candle does their ARGs though since I never saw any of their previous ones.
>>728984602isn't this game chinese?why are you allowed to post here?
>>728988762I don't get the hate for gauntlets, either. Gauntlets put you in a series of tense situations and challenge you to overcome them. Juggling several enemies around and bouncing between them with pogos and clawline is fun, even if it's not as novel or focused as fighting a boss. I beat the High Halls gauntlet with no tools or nail upgrades (voluntarily) on my first attempt. It only gave me trouble during my speedrun playthrough, where I had fewer tool slots, masks, and spool upgrades, but my frustration wasn't directed at the game or any perceived unfairness; rather, it was at my impatience during combat and the mistakes I made in each attempt.
>>728988865Funnily that's how I also beat her. I thought to myself I can never beat her, took a 2 months long break from the game, picked it up again on a whim after beating Silksong and fought her until I beat her. I pretty much fought her in the arena to a point where I unironically find Fuxi and Nuwa a harder boss than her.
>>728989221No it's a Taiwanese game, not a West Taiwanese game
>>728989373good
>>728984602Where's the Goumang sex update?
>>728989296What's especially funny for me is I played Sekiro after Nine Sols, and Eigong is a love letter to the final boss of that game. The result was that while it was by no means first try, it took me only an hour or two of attempts instead of being a brick wall. Isshin is also much more a culmination of Sekiro's natural combat rhythm whereas you can brute force your way through all of Nine Sols without understanding unbound counter then get skullfucked.
>>728989285Frankly, it was the spike floors and little guys doing uber contact damage that made me the most mad.
>>728989706>whereas you can brute force your way through all of Nine Sols without understanding unbound counterYeah I did that was me, I also never got gud at parrying until one of the later bosses, I think the twins maybe? Can't remember. Sekiro is definitely more smartly designed around forcing you to learn mechanics earlier on and building on itself in a way thats intuitive even for a scrub like me.
Me, Heng's human husband, meeting her autistic older brother for the first time (he's shorter than her LOL)
>>728990601I think the game does a decent job on trying to teach you to get used to unbound counter for Jiequan. It's just that using unbound counter for Lady Ethereal's crimson attack is unironically harder than any of Eigong's crimson attacks. And then the Feng twins has a manageable crimson attack for the first phase, but the second phase it's just easier to dodge the attack due Nuwa throwing knives at you. It's not until Ji's boss fight that there's a good attack to use unbound counter for the entire fight, and then Eigong has a huge difficulty spike. Maybe some of the mini bosses on the way can offer more opportunities to get used to unbound counter, but I don't quite remember. But once you get used to unbound counter it's really powerful and satisfying to use.
>>728990725>Me, Heng's human husbandanon...
>>728991127Solarians LOVE their apemen sex slaves
>>728991127Heng's husband is her brother, Yi. It's literally in the chinese mythological names they're inspired by.
Me, Yi's human wife (male).
>>728991185Reverse furries
>>728985113Maybe more...
>>728984558It shits on Elden Shit, Hollow Nigger and most other soulslikes and metroidvanias
I got the game yesterday from Humble Bundle, any tips?
>>728993648You are going to have to parry. This isn't a metroidvania where you can use positioning to bob and weave. You are going to get mulched if you don't parry, and parrying is also how you get ki charges for your abilities that do actual damage. Parry the damn attacks. The game is a slow starter with a lot of frontloaded story, but that story does actually pay off so wait until you've fought a boss or two before deciding how you feel. You're rewarded both with story and upgrades for bringing shit back to home base, do so often. Other than that it's pretty straightforward. The map's pretty simple, there's no way to fuck up your build or screw yourself with a dialogue choice (except for a very heavily telegraphed one at the very end of the game), you run around and you hit people.The threads are usually pretty welcoming but also spoiler-heavy given how long the game has been out so be wary.
>>728984558Pretty cool game. Gameplay is really good, but the writing is hilariously bad.
>>728994969Lmao what? The writing and story are great and absolutely shit on Hollow Knight, Elden Shit, Lost Crown and pretty much every other game of that type
>>728994969(you)
>>728984558Better than overhyped shillsong, should've been nominated for all the indie awards, but its asian so
>>728992270My wife is so badass~
>>728995607>>728995446you sound upset
>>728984602Your mere existence makes chinks mad and I find that very funny.
>>728984558It was pretty great but doubt I'll ever replay it. If they make a sequel I hope it'll have proper non-linearity, then we'll have some kino on our hands
>>728984558I'm not that far into it yet, but it's just so boringCombat is okay, if a bit stiff, butThe levels are completely uninteresting, which is really bad for a so called metroidvaniaAnd most of the "progression" is skill tree unlocks and currency grinding, which is also bad for a metroidvaniaIt's like a 2D Sekiro but without the cool world to explore
>>728998515you sound gay as fuck, no offense
/ourgal/ status:>no DLC>no justice>no fanart>generally forgottenIt's not fucking fair.
>>728998602What does me sounding gay as fuck have to do with Nine Sols being incredibly boring?Or that two of the major pillars of the metroidvania genres are completely neglected?
I think Tao SUCKS. I'd rather throw dozens of Solarian kids into a blender in hopes of finding an exit from this crisis, than bending my knee before some tentacles/death
>>728998515Never understood this fixation with exploration, I hate it when games waste my time with forced backtracking and shit
>>728998515Sounds like you're mad that the game didn't jingle enough keys in your face, filtered
>>728999404Exploration and backtracking are not the same thing, you are simply a brown who can't build a mental map of the area you're playing in and want straight hallways as a result
>>728989296>I pretty much fought her in the arena to a point where I unironically find Fuxi and Nuwa a harder boss than her.Honestly what I found the game super fun in the moment, in retrospect this basically highlights my issue with it: at the core it's basically a rythm game where you have to memorize enemy attack patterns, and that's basically it. The very first time you meet an enemy you're going to get skullfucked. Then you see it several more times and you will internalize the timing for the ultra precise 0.1 second good parry window, and then it becomes easy, but it's basically impossible to get it right without having had practice against that specific attack first.I beat true Eigong, not quite no-damage but you know to even beat her you have to basically have 90%+ success rate in parrying all of her crazy attacks (unless you spam abuse dodging which is a viable strategy but it's lame and slow and tedious and I didn't do that, I beat her "properly"). Then I decided to do another playthrough for some achievements I had missed and just to experience the game again but not only did the early game enemies start scoring hits on me until I remembered the parry timings for them, but the first boss still took me like 5-6 attempts because again I kept fucking up the parries. Yeah some skills were transferrable like instinctively dropping a talisman on every good opportunity, finding even narrow windows to get some slashes in etc., but the actual attack timings are pure memorization and because I hadn't fought yingzhao in weeks it was now harder for me than true Eigong was (who I could've probably beat again back-to-back every 2-3 tries at most).People say "oh if you beat Eigong other games will feel easy in comparison" and maybe that's true in perspective of time taken, as in once you've grinded a boss for 5 hours it feels easy if you beat one in 1 hour, but not in any sort of transferrable skills - even within the game itself, astoundingly enough.
>>728999404Exploration and backtracking are different things, although I would argue both are features of a metroidvaniaEither way, it's laughable for a "metroidvania" to have incredibly boring copy paste levels>>728999454>interesting environments are "jingling keys" nowAll games should look like Pong I guess
>>728984602痛苦并非道的本质,安逸也非道的本质。道就是道,它只是存在着。
Metroidvania is just lazy budget-constricted design. There is never any good reason to revisit an area, have to remember what shit blockers exists and which "powers' unlock it. Much better to be able to do everything as you go along and discover new areas
>>728998652>>generally forgottenThat goes for everything. But then, what would you expect when you write such fatalistic thing? Pick almost any fantasy/sci-fi book, write 'everyone dies except that one race with miniscule role. THE END' and the audience will be widely indifferent to it.
>>729001503Sounds like the genre just isn't for you then
>>729001575Plenty of characters still get new fanart and have it reposted here. Chien gets fucking nothing despite being the very first showcased character, her game involvement is a few logs then unceremoniously dying, and any possibly planned extra content for her either was scrapped or never existed.Being Chien is suffering, and so is being Chienfag. I'm probably the last one left too.
>>728988852That’s an acquired taste maybe but there’s very little that can beat going from getting combo’d to death in 10 seconds to beating the boss almost hitless because you had to learn it in such depth.
>When the dildo in the flying cushion seat activates
>>729004128>Tfw you are given principle over heaven and earth, as long as you hold the official seal of Heaven, but you misplaced it somewhere and see an army of angry farmers in the distance with war drums.
Nine Sols has like 3 all time favorite 2d-bosses. The warrior dude, the dream-lady and the final boss. And there are other good fights too.
Hope the next game is hornier.
>>729004562Pls no. I thought it was the perfect amount of horniness. Anything more and it just becomes embarassingly pandering
>>728998652She's cute but she also barely even exists
>>728984558I never understood what was going on with Yi's head in that scene
>>729004562are you aware of their previous games and whats going on now?if not: they made a arg about nine sols, where if you input the specific code in the "beta versions" tab for nine sols on steam (picrel), you can get this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3eDMWut3xg
>>729004714Yup. That's me, you're probably wondering how I got here, well it started a looooooooong time ago [Basket Case by Green Day plays]
>>728984558it's an alright game that I won't replay because of all the boring shit between the fun boss fights
>>728986368Lady Ethereal was peak for me because it was my favorite style of boss fight.
>>729004601Okay but what if Yi had huge fucking tits the size of his head?Also everyone should check this out. https://youtu.be/1Xo3tSVMSb4https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3611155008
>>728986203Move over Sans
>>729004714His right ear got cut off
>>729003468I think she's really cool though I discovered 9S late so I don't know anything about her being the first showcased character and I heard there may be a manga or something but I don't know where it is eitherI just think she looks cute and the reskinned mutant reveal was the most underwhelming shit ever. Not to mention how the special shanghai bot was a complete nothingburger because of it
>>728984558I tried playing this but the MC looks dumb and not menacing or dangerous at all. I don't want to play as a wimp
>>729005814>the MC looks dumb and not menacing or dangerous at allThere's a reason for that. But not to worry, he acts like a psychopath until he chills out and realizes that acting like a psychopath 24/7 is detrimental to his goals..
>>729003468>Chien gets fucking nothing despite being the very first showcased character, her game involvement is a few logs then unceremoniously dyingNot anymore. She back.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Yof6UWn0o
>>729006170qrd?
>>729005942whats the reason for yi looking like a house cat?
>>729005814then you need to get anchor arms, because in the game Yi is a wimp, but then he gets anchor arms and then becomes a jerk, and now everyone loves him.
>>729006320From what i remember in the present day Shangai somehow survived in some way and put Chien's consciousness inside a normal cat.
Gimme a Penglai prequel. I want to see how the plebs and the oh-so-enlightened sages coped with the inevitability of death. Bonus points if you let us SEGS Heng, just so I can see Yi get an aneurysm in the afterlife
>>729006325Play the game and find out!
>>729006549That's beautiful.
>>729006672Forgot pic.I fucking hate this new captcha.
>>729006603I did, he looks like a house cat because he's a solarian and all solarians are cats?
>>729006575Just make a game where you are a FAT UGLY SMELLY APEMAN BASTARD and you must press X to breed the Solarians.
>>729007391>FAT UGLY SMELLYNot on my watch.
>>729007391Okay. Have fun breeding Kuafu, the last living Solarian in existence.
The final boss was overhyped, she wasn't really all that hard.
>>729008556I had enough difficulty with her where I felt like she was a good final boss, unlike Sekiro which was really straightforward and had a massive hype around it. I was so fucking disappointed.
>>728986430Use charge attacks lol
>>729008556I wish her final attack had more variations instead of being the same every time.
>>729008556She filtered me so hard, I watched the ending on youtube.
>>729007612I'VE GOT THE NEED
https://youtu.be/BEIYc8vQJccpure kino
>>729009776>he was the one who killed jietongtrue kino
>>729009776For me, it is the fat woman autistically screeching on my ear song.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqyDSPbDyl8
>>729010236But Jietong killed himself, Ji was just there to see it
>>728998652I wonder if it stings to touch their exposed muscles
>>729009776best boy
>>729006170>>729006549Damn, completely missed this.But from where I'm standing this is an even lamer conclusion to her character. She really deserved a DLC fleshing her character out and giving her an attempt at Eigong's life.
Solairan females owe me sex
if the sequel doesn't have some shady corporation using solarian DNA to grow solarian women in a lab I will be very disappointed
>>729014420>Tao gets butthurt again and orders some mystic to wreck the whole project>your women will probably die in agony too, one way or anotherBe careful what you wish for.
>>729004885I want to stuff these two into a jar
>>729011542small ji > big ji
>>729015697I just think they're both lovely
>>729010332I love Yi's chad face he gets whenever he stops moving.
>>729016592i noticed it at one point and literally could not unsee for the rest of the game
>>729011542
>>729016592First 5 hours I though I was going crazy when pausing the game after running and seeing him like that for a split second
>>729016592I always end up pausing during a smear frame, especially the one where he's stretched out from dashing.
>>729018784
>>728989373jej
>>728988865Maybe not the best boss I've ever fought but Eigong is definitely up there. Once you learn all her moves you really do go into a flow state, it feels like a dance or a song between you and the boss. I truly felt like I had become one with the Tao.
Nine Sols and Hollow Knight has ruined the genre for me when it comes to look and feel, other games are just amateurish compared to them.
>>729021431Same, I couldn't finish Bloodstained, it felt jank as hell after those two.
>>729014740Yi brought balance, tao should shut the fuck up when we already killed seven billion people like it wanted.
>>729014420>dude we’ve managed to cultivate some of these dried out little glowing root plants that our planet has scattered around>cute little cat guy pops into existence wearing weird clothes
>>728984558looks like weeb shit
>>729022062>weeb shitbut its furry, literally
>>729022116>He doesn't know
The real chad of the game
>>729022998Imagine how much apemen pussy he got. It's not fair bros it should have been me but on penglai.
