Remember that Baron Lionel is always right.
I'm going to start playing it in a bit, it's cool that it seems to be very open ended and has lots of cool shit in it
>>739970236I know it's somewhere near the end boss of the zone, as I got him right after that boss
Game is fucking good as fuck desu
Ough... she drank too much...
so is it actually good or not? impossible to tell with all the shitposting. should i buy it? sell me on it
some of these completion achievements sound fucking nuts thinking about them?>finish the game spending no bones>finish the game without ever losing bones >never go into the underlab even once the whole game >finish the game with -1% completion and you can't turn on easy modifiers to get these? damn man southeast asia basically can't play this game at all
Do the racing side quests give you anything good? They are fucking dog shit.
>>739970753the mc is trans
Reminder: If you used the Proto Spark, you didn't beat the game.
>>739970067This game would have been good if it had a map
>>739970753It depends on your tolerance for bullshit.
>>739970753Simultaneously good and terrible like the visuals.
I kind of wish the game took more from Link's Awakening, but I also get not wanting to repeat the "open the menu and swap your items until you get through the dungeon" type of gameplay. I also think they could add some additional weapons later, just rip off Zelda stuff or something.
>>739970861i did get pissed off by silksong at times
>>739970753Ignore the lying fag that replied to you first.It's a solid game. Can be very difficult at times (hence the negative reviews) but nothing impossible and people who make it out to be "so hard it's bad" are just bad at the game. Takes about 12 hours to beat, and likely 16 or so to 100%.
>>739970616Nice to see something from this artist that isn't hyper blobshit.
>>739970936I'm slowly realising that I'm shit at this game.Took me 16/22.
>>739970753It's really hard at the start of the game which filters tons of players. If you can survive that, the rest of the game is kino.
Game is bullshittoo much fucking bullshitpatch the bullshit out
>>739970827
>>739970836>this, the trinket that lets you keep vial energy, and the ones that gives you extra vials and heals while upgrading defense>also have the one that heals you when you get damagedGame is easy.
>>739971013Also don‘t take the daggers. They‘re horrible and the upgrades do nothing
>>739971029I like when the characters in the game call her lady or miss it's cute
>>739970928Play something else then.
do we know what all the profile name cheat code things are and what they do yet
>>739971020It's too late. Shits too ingrained to fix. The accessibility menu is their attempt at a band-aid after the demo reaction last October.
>>739971175I'm 90% sure they're just ways to get game modifiers you haven't unlocked naturally yet.
>>739970781>finish the game without ever losing bonesNot too bad considering just one extra spark that you can buy really early into the game makes one hell of a difference
>You can only attack in 4 directions >Enemies can attack you diagonally Fuck off
>>739971587>he doesn't know
>>739971587Just use the battery buster bro.
>>739970067I was playing this game, not really sure if enjoying it, and saw a hollow knight thread which made me refund it and go play hk insteadthank you /v/vydia james
This is the boss that was filtering anons?okay yeah I'm at max attack and defense so that's probably why it's easy
>>739971902The charge attack deals fuckhueg damage which tricks you into thinking he's a super late-game bossBut once you realise that he's fine.
>>739971902What's the best way of getting max stats?
>>739971902How'd you get the electric whip thing?
I know she's built for it, but did they really have to name the town SSEX?
I have to say, this game has probably the single most dogshit subweapon system i've ever seen, even worse than silksongTying them to specific spots but ALSO locking traversal behind them is simply an absurd combo of shit game design.
>>739972098It's the 2nd whip upgrade, if you hold down the attack button it does an extra hit for a little extra damage
>>739972182Skill issue.
>>739971587This is the only real complaint about the game that is valid - enemies have all sorts of attacks and movement while you are stuck with your 4 directions (outside of a few exceptions). The enemies are also extremely aggressive, the game would have benefitted from at least some having more passive patterns. Only Mina is locked into "GBA style" gameplay, the rest of the enemies and bosses ignore that completely. You eventually learn to deal with most things but I think the complaint is still valid.
>>739972065Honestly I just farmed this area for bones most of the game. You get 450 bones from a 12-15 second clear and thus far it is the fastest bone farm I've found in the game.
>>739971902I'm doing a max attack 1 level defense and that boss one shot me but i managed to beat him.
>>739972258tedium isn't skillhaving to go to a specific place and get a specific sub-weapon just to go all the way back to where you were and use that subweapon to progress, is tedious playtime-padding
>>739972258What "skill", moron? Writing down their location in case you need something specific? Running back to them when you need them? That's skill issue on the dev's part.
>>739972260there is a trinket that lets you move really fast after attacking. I think a lot of the game complaints and outdated beliefs are completely solved by the trinkets and all the myriad hidden shit the game have lolLike for real, the game hides so many things, you think you will need a upgrade or something later to get, but NO, you absolutely fucking don't
>>739972182
>>739970836This, but also the hammer.
>>739972347true, but the "main path" is only like half the game's total content
Could a 3D Mina game work?
>>739972406Less than, I'd say. I did what I thought was a lot of extra exploring and solving and I only clocked in at 61% things found around 19 hours. There is a lot of shit to find.
>>739972436That would require a world design that makes Dark Souls 1 run for its money, not happening.
Weapons upgrades. >GasketSeptemberg and Coltrane Peak>BlasterBone Beach and Astral Orrey>WhipLoinel's Manor>DaggerQueensbury Crypt>HammerNox's BayouThe two starters weapons you don't pick are still on the ship.I'm still curious to see if there's any difference in where they spawn or if it's consistent for all playthrough. I started with hammer and bought all the weapons before find them on the field, Not sure if that matters.
>>739972436https://store.steampowered.com/app/211420/DARK_SOULS_Prepare_To_Die_Edition/
>>739972436>Yacht Club starts work on 3D Mina>seven years later studio runs out of money>has to release another 2D title to stay afloat>Yacht Club starts work on 3D sequel to that game
>>739970836I used the proto spark but ONLY to beat that stupid hell grave section, can I have beaten the game a little bit?
>>739970067This gap is going to be my arch nemesis, how the hell is this still barely not enough of a jump distance?
>>739972436honestly, it'd probably work even better than in 2D, but it would also require either a much bigger studio or some N64-simple graphics
>>739972260>GBA styleEven on the fucking SNES some diagonal attacks in games like these were common place, even if it was just an arc to sword swings. This shit is NES levels of archaic.
>>739972267What are the stats needed to make it consistent? I just finished that area but I do have the whip with one upgrade.
>>739972647Holy shit anon, just do a jump from underground at the edge then hit the drill. Or use the bike then drill. Or just use the floating trinket or the wall dig one.
>>739972436>Still can only attack in 4 directions
is it a Metroidvania?
>>739972721It has an open world but very little you know new abilities that open up older areas. I don't know if that's still part of the Metroidvania definition anymore with how many indies keep shitting out.
>>739972647I used the bike and that one trinket that lets you float (shopkeeper in a cave east of Ossex).
am I retarded or did I just soft lock
In tonight's episode: writer's barely disguised fetish.
>>739971253The game's only difficult until after the first dungeon, then it evens out.
>>739972716You can't chain trinkets while on the bike, and dismounting doesn't let you chain into other trinkets. I've tried this. Also a digging jump is half as long as the shield jump, that's why I'm trying to use it.
>>739972841You are indeed retarded
>>739972841You can burrow underwater too
>>739972841Retarded. That being said, the game does not explain very well how "digging" through water works.
>>739970067where's the FUCKING trinket box in Sandfall? the funny skull is beeping red in the train map.
>>739972841got bad news for you, dumbassif you got through the water once you can do it again
>>739971902>Gigantic fucking healthbar>Fully upgraded>Still does a third of your healthbar per hitWhat bullshit is this?
>>739972936>>739972951yeah I just figured that out. I don't understand how you can drown in it but burrowing is fine.
restarted my save because the hammer sucks massive fucking cockdaggers feeling much better already
Reminder, the protocol for shitposters is report, hide, and ignore. Keep the nonsense out of the thread.
>>739972647Wallower's and Codex, hold burrow against the wall. Also works over water, so you won't ever need to land on a platform to cross large pounds.
>>739972647I did it with wallrun chain to drill.
>>739972436a 3d platformer with a heavy combat focus could be tricky but I think it could be done, I'm sure it has been beforeI would prefer that it doesn't straight up ape OOT or bloodborne if it ever happens
>>739971902>spoilerWell duh. There are anons here who probably ran into Goddred without the blue or green jacket and got one-shot by the shoulder bash. Even with the green one he's tough.
>>739972436It'd probably be something like Pseudoregalia but with actual content and not just platforming. Don't see why not, that'd work for Mina 2.
>>739970753I beat it yesterday and I don't think it's worth it, honestly.The difficulty is shit. No I'm not saying it's "hard", I'm saying it's shit, it's frontloaded at first and then an absolute joke, not as in "it's not hard anymore" but as in "I don't even know what bosses do and I don't care because I can mostly mash buttons", which given the type of game is really a letdown.The combat is just not fun either, I did steel soul in silksong, I'm fine with hard, I'm fine with punishing, but give me SOMETHING in exchange, there's just nothing in Mina, there's a combat system that sucks that you can help in several ways through trinkets.The kicker? If you can actually rub a couple of braincells together you can combo trinkets and become retarded strong anyway. Guess what, when you kill everything easy as fuck and and the system incentivizes not dying, then rewards you for it by making you stronger, you basically break the game.Beyond that the game just has a million different flaws that each fuck the game up a little tiny bit, each a different way, and ultimately make for a mediocre experience.
>>739973079>character head on a human body
i stole this nerd's ladder, how do i get it out of here?
>>739972721It's closer to dark souls 1. Interconnected but mostly open world where you can chart your own route.
>>739973079
>>739971029>people actually look at official art of Mina and think she looks masculineHave zoomies forgotten what men look like?
>>739973187pseudoregalia is only as barebones as it is because it was originally a gamejam game (and the dev is also infamous for flitting between projects after losing interest in them)still sold an absolute fuckload almost entirely off the back of the design of the main character anyway so the indie industry is honestly kinda silly
>>739973231Throw it in the upper right area, the ladder throw goes really far
>>739973231If I recall, throw it onto the top one, then throw it to the path on the right.
>>739972896How many fetishkino moments are in the game?
>>739973231You can throw it ~4 spaces. That's how you get it over gaps.
>>739973221
>>739972436I'm not even sure a 2D one does
>>739973231remember to bring the ladder back once you're done, he thanks you for your honesty and gives you a few bones
>>739973351Here's another one.
>Shills will tell you this looks goodIt looks. Like. Fucking. SHITWhy did they spend so much time to make a game look like the GBC Zelda which also look fucking terrible and THEN make the gameplay rollslop which only works in 3D?
>>739973351womb level
>>739973447
>>739973351Soft vore in the lategame
>>739972838I completely forgot I had this trinket, thanks anon. That was the difference I needed along with the shield jump.
>>739973537it looks good thoughbeit8-bit is kino
>>739973285It's because in she looks "too mouse like". In most other games or media species that are humaniod but not human usually follow >male = distinct species traits that are not human >female = humanoid with with secondary women sex characteristics while having superficial traits of another species
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1375400/Ghosts_n_Goblins_Resurrection/ >Cheaper than Mina >Harder than Mina
I'm assuming the fish icon means fish trophies in that area, but what's the fishing pole? That's a sidearm.
>>739973079Yeah it's a bit awkward when a canonically short-stacked character is drawn with normal human proportions like this. Aggretsuko fanart does it all the time and it's annoying.>>739973447An improvement.
>>739973537I really don't like how this game looks, especially the numerical fonts. It feels like it doesn't have enough pixels to portray the amount of information on screen
>>739972436Mina 64 never ever
https://steamcommunity.com/games/219990/announcements/detail/687507011804332720>Cheaper than Mina>More content than Mina
How do I get the clothing that's on the train? Or any additional clothes, for that matter.
>>739973807looks so generic like it's AI generated
>>739973447I'm not a stickler for characters being 100% on model but yeah you should at least try to get the spirit of their design even if you're gonna give them hips and tits
>>739973807Grim Dawn is shit, the dungeons are thirty miles long and the game turns into "Spam AOE with mana leech" within the hour.
>>739973828go out of the room and towards the closed door on the rightburrow under itburrow-entrance is in the bottom left corner of that roomalso the other clothing is bought at the clothing shop in town (requires 2 sparks to enter) for I think 2500 bones
>>739973828You have to burrow under the other unopened door. The only other clothes I know of are the ones you can buy on Ossex.
where should i go after doing the easternmost tower first
>>739973958Correct, there's only 2 cloaks in the game, +25% health and -25% damage takenOnce you get both of them, the clothing store lets you customize your color palette
>>739973948>Thinking Diablo 2 clones ever have depth
>the Canon weapon is the gay maceunironically dropped the game because of this
>>739974051They don't, but Grim Dawn and Path of Exile are the worst examples of the genre.
Bros, I changed a modifier early on because of people bitching about difficulty. (I made bones not disappear after the spark is gone, I didn’t understand how the saving holes worked and thought I was just BONED when I died). Anyway, how long is the game, is it worth starting over and doing it correctly? I just turned the first generator back on.
>>739974131>maceIt's a flail you dingus
i've come to retrieve my power
>>739974143>how long is the gameI finished at 65% item collection in roughly 21 hours, but I spent a lot of time doing sidequests and grinding currency
I feel the game is holding out the second gun upgrade on me, I already got the charge shot from the black market guy but I'm at the snow mountain and I still don't have my second gun upgrade, the whips been sitting there with two upgrades since the first dungeon
>>739974143the spark system is so forgiving that especially once you have more than one you're only really at risk of losing your bones on a boss who absorbs all your sparks and you still can't beat (and even THEN there is a trinket that lets you recover a spark by simply hitting an enemy holding it once)so I don't think you really even cheaped the game out that much but it's your call
>>739970642UHH MORE?
>>739974283This. What even is the second upgrade?
>>739974136Diablo 3, Titan Quest and Torchlight 2 also aren't very good Diablo 2 clones either.
>>739974379Its a charge attack for the melee. It kind of sucks desu.
tempted to buy the game but not sure if im getting astroturfed into supporting BLMwat do?
>>739974549grow thicker skin
>>739970067If anyone is taking requests: https://litter.catbox.moe/yt1qwm.png
>>739974549Sorry anon every purchase you receive an email from Yatch club that says "Thank you for purchasing Mina the Hollower, 100% of profits will go to BLM, kneel with us and keep hollowing"
>>739974549Stop being a sensitive pussy, for one.
>>739974354https://mega.nz/folder/mNlUyaZS#SDajEYxbyblNqrTjTfKz2Q/folder/eU9mxToD
>>739974610can you just pay someone or ai generate your extremely specific fetish requests nigga
>>739972951It's explained in the manual
>>739970836>Everything oneshots me, including this shit >>739971902>Put on the Trinket that turns all incoming damage into slow bleed>Every boss battle is now just DPS raceThats by far the most bullshit Trinket
>>739974683Anon wtf is that, I just wanted to see what Mina was swllowing.If I open up another tab my browser gonna die.
>Did a whole bunch of tight platforming to get through the Backwaters>Get to the entrance of the Bayou and have no idea how to get there since I just drown if I jump into the water>Turns out you can just burrow into the deep waterFuck, now I feel like an idiot. I made things harder for no reason
>>739974757the game does not explain how burrowing in the water works you kind of just have to figure it out by accident
>>739974683damn I didn't realize the cool glasses Mina was you. nice job.
>>739974713She could fight the kraken.Or pits could be shown, depending on pose.
>>739974549YO HO HO
The life preserver trinket has been my secret MVP trinket, has saved me from too many bad jumps on my end.
>>739974549Just pirate it.
>>739974841I am not the artist
>>739973537>Forward dash to smash out of reachKINOPlaying hammer 2nd playthrough
>>739974683I really liked the cool glasses one but didn't like the anal gape one (it was drawn good though).
>>739973460Just make Mina 2 play like SCIV/Bloodlines/SoTN.
>>739974549It's not too hard to find links to the GoG installer if you want play but not support the game. The feats/achievements are even still there.
>>739974907well if goatboy is in this thread hopefully he got the message.
>>739973721Yeah I was wondering this too
>hammer's third upgradeProbably unusable but the sheer meatiness of it is respectable
KEKIt really do be like that though
>>739974796What's this? Scotch mist?>>739974854>She could fight the kraken.Nobody tell him.
>>739975110>She's pretty slow though!Uh devs... you can't just say that...
>>739974549Stop listening to /pol/-tier bullshit
>>739970616yeah but wheres the post digestion drawing where it went straight to her tits and thighs and gut
>>739974610oh, so you're the autist behind this image being drawn
>>739975110>Mina takes damage if she falls into water, but she can burrow to swimMAKE IT MAKE SENSE
>>739975171My nigga
steady shoes completely trivialize the swamp temple for anyone who hasn't done that yet
>>739974549anon, they donated a paltry 20k fucking six years ago, that's way less than most other devs and corporations donatedreminder that literally hundreds of businesses/organizations did this shit, and almost none of them have said anything else about BLM since 2020; it was purely a PR stunt, they don't actually care
>>739975110>request fodder denied based on canon infoBut she can burrow to swim, so she can still swim, right?Otherwise artist gonna have to...ignore "official" details.
>>739975171Fucking disgustingly based taste, anony
>>739975263Burrowing is like swimming underground. So she can kind of swim if she tries but only for a little bit. Then she drowns because she can't swim for real.
>>739975225Made for tentacle sex and tentacle pit tickling.
>>739975404Give her water wings. How funny that would be. Little orange floaties.
>>739975159mina is kind of stupid in the context of the storya mechanical genius sure but completely incapable of seeing the forest for the trees
>>739975574Sounds like she'd be an easy lay or BJ.
>>739975574I mean, all hell would break loose whenever she just destroyed them or shut them down either way
>mayor gets killed>the entire city immediately breaks into absolute chaos and anarchywh-
Someone draw a punk / goth / Road Warrior Mina please.
https://x.com/YachtClubGames/status/2061212405372461122 Does this mean the game is doing good or bad
>>73997589399% sure they planned on posting that before even releasing
>>739975893It's #2 on the e-shop, and that list is sorted by actual dollar amount or something like that, so for a $20 game to be that high is pretty good I'd say.
>>739975893>The highest-rated game of the year.That's objectively not true though? I mean the others aren't much better but Mina sure ain't it.
>>739975975It's also losing to Tomodachi Life and that's been out for quite a while now and shouldn't be getting many more sales at this point.
'member when /v/ said this was gonna be a flop
i like how IGN sabotaged this game by even giving it a good score
>>739975893they didn't announce that the game made its budget back within 24 hours like mewgenics did so it's DIREbut for real, yacht club does not have nearly the same cultural relevance that they attained when shovel knight came outthe only people who know who they are are like 25+, the roblox generation probably doesn't even know this came out
>>739975893They're talking about wishlists and not sales. That means there's a lot of people that have it wishlisted and still haven't bothered to get it yet.
>>739976104>the roblox generation probably doesn't even know this came outEveryone still loves pixel games but I do wonder if the original nerd audience that Wayforward and YC catered to is starting to age out.Wayforward doesn't even make pixel games anymore.
>>739976297>Everyone still loves pixel gameslol. lmao.
>>739976297pixel games have been consolidated to troonslopand everyone knows troons don't show up for games, because everything catering to them flops
>>739976346cope
>>739975975its not number 1 doe
>>739970841The main levels (the ones that start with full screen art) being somewhat hard to find is probably the most fun idea in the game to me
>>739974735Disagree, the manual states Mina can swim (slowly) it does not mechanically indicate how.
>>739970753i refunded it
>>739976076steam numbers?
>>739976346deltarune
>>739976441>troonslop
>>739975817Everyone LOVES Lionel, anon.Also electricity getting cut for the whole island permanently is a bit of a problem too. Especially since grues exist.
>>739976346>>739976104The thing is that Shovel Knight just isn't that popular of an indie game icon and was surpassed multiple times by other games that followed
think i'm 50% through? as usual the difficulty outcry is over nothing, there hasn't been a single difficult enemy, platforming section or boss so far. it's all very forgiving and fun.much more addicting than i was expecting though, the only Soulslike i played through was DeS and none of the other ones could hold my attention to the end. i think it's because the movement and exploration are just more fun in this. combat isn't anything special but enemy and stage designs are really good
>Turn into RAT mina>it sucksI should have realized this. Dark souls transformation sucks rotten balls.
Struggled to get a hit in on this boss but Niter Belt + Evasion Powder really helped
>some of the music tracks had the same audio threading as Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance>hell, one of the songs straight up sounds like the chapel/santuary track from that gameI'm not sure that HoD is a game I would specifically follow the audio cues from so I doubt it is on purpose. The one and only song in Mina that stuck out to me was the bog song once the boss is defeated, though.
>>739976539I mean he did get in smash, that's kinda big
>>739972841I think it's a good idea that it's such a small idea to force you figure out swimming. On the other hand, I think the swimming mechanic would be much clearer if it just triggered the burrow state with a different animation when you walk into water
>>739970753/v/ just wants mixtape with guns
>>739976636>trophy assistmeehhh...
i don't know the devs and didn't follow the game before launch but is this the first time a game was in dev hell and tourned out great?
>>739976791Omori
>>739976735someone post the car scene
>>739976791TF2
>>739976791Nioh was in a much longer development hell and turned out great.Also, I'm not sure if Mina had a development hell exactly. I think it was more like Hollow Knight Silksong where they just weren't in any hurry (probably for longer than they should have according to the news about their financial troubles)
>>739976097unironically it might have actually done more harm than good lmao
>>739976780shantaefags never attained even that
Anyone here playing on veteran? Holy shit it's freaking unforgivable. There are no save spots and you lose all your attack and defense powerups after dying without sparks
>>739976636Some of the assist trophies are not exactly big deals. Like fucking Barbara.
>>739972436This game doesnt work in 2d, it should have been 3d in the first place to realise its potential. You cant have an intricate combat system from a top down view unless you're doing BamHam or the like.
>>739977056>bamham combat>intricatewhat the fuck are you talking about
>>739976297I didn't grow up with the NES so I technically wasn't the target audience, I did, however, grow up with a GBC, so the SK to Mina time gap more or less matches the gap between NES kiddies and GBC kiddies
>>739976868https://youtu.be/dDm9x9Kjj7o
>>739977001Nah I just put on 3 hard modifiers for the feat.Losing levels looked cancerous
>>739970067isn't this game for LGBTQ people?
How do I get into Septemburg? The game’s telling me to go north but the entrance is blocked with all those wooden logs.
>>739977182mm yeah I supposed I should do that first
Yeah lemme just annihilate your entire fucking HP bar real quick
>>739976931yeah, coming off of Mixtape it's not believable at all, especially since people that don't have a bone to pick with it (heh) for reasons like the BLM support are also finding flaws with the game, and a game with notable flaws like Mina isn't a 10/10. there was a time when a 10/10 was a big deal, I still remember when Undertale got one and I was like "holy shit!"
>Enemies can damage you while you’re reading signs>You can’t bounce the shield enemies into the empty pitsThere’s probably more examples but those are my main ludo pet peeves
>>739977191furries are notorious for being overwhelmingly homosexuals, yes
>>739977368>delivered frog to the bandmates>flying piece of shit keeps hitting me so I can’t read the dialogue
>>739977191Yeah, so you better buy it.
>>739977191yes the mouse is trans
>>739977153Im saying you can't have an intricate game, you have to settle for bamham. Trying to fit more combat focus in a game obviously inspired by 2d zelda titles is like trying to give guns to Mario, you're missing the point of the genre.
How do I beat grave it's aids
>>739977447>get hit on the first word of my first interaction>try to kill the fly>ends up interacting to talk>first word is different>hit out of it again>back up, kill the fly, talk a third time>pretty sure it was yet another new text box instead of the two I missedI definitely hate the way it functions
>>739977340Wait till you upgrade that tooAlso, there's two ways to do the attack.Mash the button for the shitty one or press right when she flashes for the better one with different visual effects too.Upgraded version you get later looks cool when you do it.
>>739973602what type this is very important
>>739977368>complete quest that rewards a trinket and some bones on the floor>pick up trinket first>bones despawn by the time I finish reading the trinket description
>>739977856Held in a beast's mouth for a short period of timeIt saves her life
Dusty old bones... full of green dust...
>>739977931kek
How did it fail so miserably?silksong had 590k players on release
>>739977358A 10/10 game needs to be very good (for its time) from perspective of both the common casual audience that rarely plays video games and is looking for something that will easily entertain them on one hand and on the other dedicated fans of its particular genre. The way I like to think about this is to have a 5 point scale for the former audience and a 5 point scale for the other and just add them up.I personally can't say what should be 5/5 from a casual's perspective since I'm not one and their way of thinking is completely alien to me, but I have a strong suspicion that very few of journos' 10/10 scores are deserved.
>>739978038Hollow Knight is considered one of the greatest metroidvanias ever created, Shovel Knight, though a good game, is not considered one of the greatest platformers ever created. Any further questions?
>>739978038That first weekend peak is likely the highest it will go.
>>739978072IGN's 10/10 is very much a cabal score for their friends over at Yacht Club. Don't get me wrong, Mina is a good game but it has some glaring issues that prevent it from getting that high. I would rate this a 7 for casuals as many will be filtered and 8 for the truly invested / hardcore.
>>739970067was Lionel right about giving money to BLM?anyway, the game is aight but I'm not giving money to people who will then give money to terrorist organizationspirating it is the way. if yacht club can buy a mansion for some mongrel then they can give me a copy of the game for free
>>739978038Mina never had a strong hype campaign
>>739977775Wait there are more than 2 upgrades for weapons?
>739978038trannysong was hailed and memed as the second coming of indie Christ for years
>>739978038Yacht Club vastly over estimated the audience for people who wanted souls in their Zelda. And to be honest the audience of people interested in top down Zelda in general, that's an aging group since the Zelda fans that started with the 3D games on average don't give a toss about the 2D ones.
>>739970067wtf is this burrowing thing? Worst mechanic I've ever seen
Of all the games that try to be like a 2D Zelda, this is the best one in my mind. Too bad it cost ten fuckin million dollars and took six years.I think my only real gripe about the game is the grinding involved to buy literally everything. It's a game about exploration, I want to FIND, not GRIND. The bone loss has only happened to me like three times, whatever. The difficulty mostly flattens out after the first boss, it doesn't bother me. It's just the grinding. I would love for some sort of mod to come out where instead of Bonestones in chests, it's the upgrades and items instead. The bonestones are fucking worthless after like the first area you explore because soon there are enemies that will give you as much as 100, 200, or even 400 at a time.
>>739978440Wait until you see how healing works.
>>739978513Does mina suck dicks?
>>739978582No but sucking dick is an apt description.
The hyperfixation towards LADX is quite concerning
>>739978629it's not an aesthetic that has been mined to death like NES/SNES stuff already has so there's some interest there
>>739978629Where are the Zelda II likes?
What the fuck
>>739978710Phoenotopia: Awakening, Call of Elmore, and......
>>739978717Not the one I wanted to send
>>739978114But mina's budget is millions of dollars higher than silksong
>>739978783>>739978714While idling on that screen I learned if you do no inputs he leans down to look at you. Doesn't seem to change the interaction though.
>>739973217i had a similar experience but not as extreme
>>739978714leatherhead what are you doing here
>>739978805Shouldn't have spent all those years developing in fucking los angeles instead of staying comfy in australia
>>739978783One thing the game is good at is making damn sure you learn the mechanics.
>>739978864Dying from the looks of it.
>>739977181what the fuck
>>739978038Mina didn't have 7 years of hype and memes and shitposting surrounding it.
>>739970936Only 12 hours, really? It feels a lot longer than that.
>>739978949Me and Mina
>>739978629>why are so many people trying to copy one of the best 2d zelda gamesa mystery for the ages
>>739978783AAAAAAAHHHH HE GRABBED YOU WHAT TEH FUKC
>>739970753it's one among several indies relying on copying retro games to milk nostalfagsit's mediocre at best
>>739979060You're the POV from the cuck chair.
>>739970936let's see those hour counts after you try hard mode
>>739970753Really fun gameplay that fleshes out the 2D zelda formula>t. at almost 25 hours played and at 75% item collection, working towards completion
>>739978776Sorry, I meant "Where are all the good Zelda II likes?"
npcs that are literally you
>>739978038Silksong benefited from years of artificial hype and memes.When it comes to quality, Mina's the much better game.
>>739979296someone should draw them having sex
>>739978629Why do indie devs always try to imitate low hanging fruit? Actraiser and Demonscrest were amazing games in terms of gameplay and atmosphere. Mina is too generic and clearly inspired by links’s awakening mixed with Dracula. So fucking uninspired.
Have I made an error in judgment
>>739979039>>739979296that's called having a reputation, silksong is a much better game which is why it got praise from real players while all mina has is shills if anything getting high scores from journos is a bad sign
WHAT IS HIS FUCKING PROBLEM. I BOUGHT A SPARK AND A ROSE ALREADYI tried to interact with his hand here but couldn't jump on
>>739979402
>>739978805maybe they should've put some of that towards marketing because i never saw this game being posted about anywhere except for on /v/ once in a blue moon. it almost felt like a stealth drop to me
>>739979467>if anything getting high scores from journos is a bad signthis is unironically true because even cyberpunk got 9s and 10s on day 1 when the game was basically unplayable lol
>>739979651they did spend millions on marketing, but it was all on paying review sites for high scores
Reading some of the feedback to this game really shows gamers don't actually know what they want in terms of the level of handholding or not, when you compare to AAA discourseThis game is still much less cryptic than a lot of the actual games from that SNES GBC era
>>739975002You get an upgrade to your pole after catching every fish that completes that checkbox. I think it supposed to represent fishing equipment.
>>739979467>Reception for games I like are genuine, and reception for games I hate are shills!Silksong's "reputation" was the exact reason it got such scores to begin with; reviewers were scared shitless from backlash if they gave it anything under 10.Mina doesn't have that kind of pressure on them, so they were able to give it their honest thoughts, which is a well-deserved 10.
pit sweat
I meant to spoiler that fuuuuck delete it
>>739980003there's not a single game on the planet that deserves a 10
Can you beat my score, anons?
>>739980234dontsayundertaledontsayundertaledontsayundertaledontsayundertaledont
>>739976383>But she can burrow to swimSee a doctor, it might be terminal retardation
>>739980234Super Metroid is very, very close to being a perfect game.
Mina said BLM?!?!? (Blue Lives?!?!)
>>739980234The thoughts of a literal child. Someone who still doesn't understand that 10 means "good" and not "didn't get any questions wrong on my homework."
>>739979467>silksong is a much better gameLOL no. May I recommend actually playing both?
Jake fucking did it again.https://youtube.com/watch?v=Iz5qsHHnfTULive the icy region and septembueg's music but this one takes cake.Also it's funny that Yuzo Big Dick Koshiro did the two laboratory's music tracks.
I'm missing one bone gem in septemburg and I cannot for the life of me find it. The skuill won't ever flash blue.
Is the Uranium Bracelet worth using?
>>739980384so 8 or 9 doesn't mean good?
Does anything change if you don't bury The Duke? I honestly just feel bad for the little weirdo.
>>739980365oh nononono the "blm devs" shitposter isn't gonna like this....
>>739980458Look up "sealioning".
>>739980453only when bone farming enemies that aren't much of a threat>>739980461No, but you miss out on one of the best trinkets in the game if you don't bury
>>739980339no? i hate the gross floaty controls. and don't say it's because of its age because mega man and ninja gaiden have snappy and responsive controls
>>739980461You don't get his trinket. No one has a clear answer on if the endgame is any different if you don't do any of the "sins" in the game yet. Some of them would be extremely difficult to avoid and I doubt you get anything other than some slightly different dialogue at the dinner party for all that hassle.
>>739980003>Mina doesn't have that kind of pressure on them, so they were able to give it their honest thoughts, which is a well-deserved 10.you could use the same cope for this gameit's obvious they're both trash pushed by reviewers as a masterpiece while actual players don't care about the game
>>739980505Actually the controls are essentially what keeps it from being perfect. Note that you absolutely do get used to the controls after a while but it is the only real flaw. Gameplay, music, atmosphere, design, levels / areas are all incredible and rarely get topped 30+ years later.
>>739980558This game was funded by the Ellison family, the most powerful media family on the planet basically besides maybe Murdochs.
>>739978629So this is going to be the next oversaturated indie trend. As much as I like Link's Awakening, you hate to see it.
>>739979373Actraiser was never good, I guess it had good atmosphere though.
>>739980621and mina had a 10 million dollar budget despite delivering worse results than games with 250k dollar budget
>>739980490>>739980530Fair enough.
Gaming
>>739980662Maybe for a year or two while projects already started on are completed. But they'll die off after Mina fails to do well in the long run.
>>739977340pretty fun to use until you get to some bosses (final boss being an example off the top of my head) that have awful hitboxes/like to keep backing away from you
>>739980417For me it's this onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-op2_WdGeQ
what if instead of digging in the ground she dug in her butt, haha...
>>739980723Where can I get the second trinket?
>>739981196i dont get the scratching thing, thats gross
>>739980723That third trinket seemed funny, but I assume in practice it's all going to fly into a pit
>>739981206A secret room maybe half way through the snowy zone>>739981313It sucks ass without the magnet yeah
this game came out like a year ago and did everything mina does but better and is actually fun to play
>>739981313first trinket that you can buy in the crypt is a magnet, perfect combo
>>739980365uhhhhh yacht club blm posters... how do we spin THIS???
739981393>still desperately shilling itlol
>game bombed so hard they're already abandoning the other game they were working onOH NO NO NO
>>739981375>snowy zonethanks
>>739981485The other game they were working on WAS Shovel Knight 64.
>>739970067Baron Lionel, more like Bara LionHELLO!
>>739978717Attack for a discount
>>739981196good god.MOAR
>>739972267i spend a ton of time trying to clear this encounter with a +0 whip and +1 attackit was not funthe little dudes take 5 hits and the big guy 2 shot me
>>739981298it's a twitter meme based on a 3dpd image with text pasted on it
So we can all agree she's MY wife right
>>739981731>+1 attackyeah there's your problem
>>739972951if you just walk to the left screen theres an area that teaches you that you can do it
>>739980267where is this
>>739981834Shifting sand area, just northeast of where the circular shifting sand with all the spikes is
>>739981776yeah i was just providing my anecdoteim currently trying to kill the boss north of this screen and getting filtered
Im starting to really hate the whip.
>>739981834behind the guy in the chair with the big Bug
>>739972125They named it 0 sex because that's what the devs and players are getting.
I think I'm about to beat the game. Without spoilers if possible, are there multiple endings? I stopped after Lionel throws Thorne into the generator
What the hell is a Hollower?
How do i get through these green blocksI really want that dagger upgrade
>>739970753It's good.
What does it mean when All-Seeing Skull's eyes are yellow? Description only mentions blue and red. Item shows up in the area later that isn't available yet?
>>739970753It's bad
how the fuckThe text on this isn't very helpful, it just alludes to some "secret area" but I don't know how to get over there
>>739982060hit the wiggle vines on the other side and hurry up
so where's the mina x thorne art?
which weapon is the best?
>>739982049like a prostitute but you're a mouse
>>739982147fuck i'm dumb thank you
eternal reminder
>>739982182Buster by far
>>739980417Best track.In general, "heavy-duty mining operation inside giant monster" is the best area concept by far. And fits with the game's currency.
>>739973285It's the lack of eyelashes, for me. I've been conditioned to think that if an anthro character has eyelashes, it's female, otherwise it's male.
>>739982141oohhh, this part of the stairs goes into the wall and you just stand there. Didn't notice it at first
Maybe it’s just me and because I’m still not too far into the game but this game feels more like a top down shovel knight than 2d zelda, even down to the platforming
>>739982182Either buster or whip, both because they let you stay at range (mostly)
>>739982212Pretty sure its for condoms your sized.
>>739982212that pocket is for the injector needles for my peptides
Hahahahahahahahahah
Is the game as miserable to play as it looks? Every gameplay video looks like torture.
>>739982320i tried it and it's okay, but i can't see myself playing it for 20+ hours so i'm gonna refund
>>739982286Because it is. Whoever decided to describe it as zelda like needs to be put down.
Ahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
>>739982182Buster with no upgrades is better than the other weapons maxed
>>739982370>>739982296All they had to do was make a shield knight game...... fucking retards.
cutie mousie
Thorne mode when?
>>739982526DLC in 2029
>>739970272>>739970373so organic!
>>739982320It's only miserable if you're a shitter.
>>739982296>>739982370Mina is on the Steam top sellers list beating LEGO Batman which has sold 249k copies on Steam
How much attack is too much ?
>>739982595is that list the past 7 days? past 30 days? past day?
>>739981196What'd I missCan someone link to catbox or e621 or something
>>739979296>player rating is visible after 20 ratingsLmao you absolute retard posting a refutation of your own shit argument.""""""Critics"""""? Really nigga?Meanwhile 100/100 player ratings for the other two.Before you start coping I'm as unbiased as can be, I've played none of these and that won't be changing.
How do I beat mutated Thorne ? I cant get a good reach even with the whip.
>>739982728>>739982728
>>739982670From the Steam partner site>For each game, we roll up all the player spending from the trailing 24 hours, and then add extra weight to spending in the last 3 hours. That extra weighting of the most recent spending helps Steam to more quickly reflect changes, like a popular new release or a game trending upward.
>>739982862Smack 'em and dodge his telegraphed charges? I beat it first try with whip.
>>739982595It's not a list based on total sales but the pace its selling.If they are on the list though they'll most likely make it though.
>>739982862Why would you fight him? He's your friend
>>739982883saying it has sold more than lego batman's 249k total copies is incorrect then
>>739979402yes I lost all my bones over there
>>739982926It's not incorrect to say it's higher up on the list
>>739970067So am I just meant to hold on to the buckler? It seems better than the umbrella in every way and it's like the few mobility tools I've seen so far
>>739970753It's Reddit
>>739982970you know as well as i do what the implication was, don't pretend to be retarded
>>739982994You only "need" the air dash buckler in like 3 or 4 places in the entire game.
>>739982997
do I just kill myself here or what
>>739983383you see that gap to the left? jump over it.
>>739983383
>>739983417>>739983564 didn't realize you could jump over it, I fell in the hole and suicided first
huh never knew
What was /v/ like back when Shovel Knight came out
don't think i won't hear you talking shit
>>739970067Did they figure out how to do boss fights right or does Mina do the same thing every Shovel Knight game did where the bosses spam bullshit and have no tells and are like 20 times harder than the level itself but they give you a cheese item so you don't actually have to engage with their mechanics at all
>>739983934If anything the bosses are easier than the levels
>>739982882Stupid zoomer cant even copy paste a link.
>>739978783>come from the fountain entrance>he oblilterates the roof and waves at you to buy his stuffcutest npc in the game
>>739984000I'm doing it that way because janjan might seethe at me even for posting a link to furry art.
What do her deaths look like?
>>739983934Most of the bosses in this game are super fucking telegraphed. The final boss especially, I literally beat it first try because of how slow and telegraphed every attack was.
>>739983708I remember the threads for Plague and Specter's campaigns being generally positive.
So what’s the story behind the puppeteer guy? Is he actually hurting her or is he having some fun?
How do I go throught this fucking leaf faggot?
how do i get to the area with the rope that's on a higher elevation, to the right of where you get the subweapon fishing rod?
>>739970067It's on the mouse.
This game has more threads than it has sales!
Is it worth repairing the train? it looks like it costs a gorillion bones
>>739984471You need it to progress the story, so yes. It costs 10,000
>>739984471It's 10,000 totalI'd say the train is worth it as one of only two forms of fast travel
>>739984279lug a torch from the screen just east of there
>>739984467Got a chuckle out of me
>>739974683Good shit
>>739970936>>73997904812 hours sounds like skipping all exploring.Im at 10 and have 2 towers lit
>>739979296shartsongers. when a mouse woman is speaking. sit down. be humble.
>>739979296Mina the Mogger
Does Mina really smell that bad?
>>739985517alas not all geniuses are appreciated in life, many of them only find recognition of their brilliance in death.
>>739985570she digs into the dirt.what do YOU think?
>>739985570He eventually admits it was him
>>739983383>this is what a budget of 5 million dollars gets you nowadayszamn
>>739984513Is it definitely mandatory?It's one of the crimes Lionel accuses you of at the end, which implies it's impossible to do a sinless run. Which is sad, would have been a cool challenge.
is there a way to destroy the towers instead of repair them?
>game has custom difficulty settings>you control the buttons you press mentalityThis is basically the devs saying they do not care about the game they made. So because of that, I shouldn't respect it either. Its that simple.
any suggestions on which weapon to use for a replay?the whip was obnoxiously easy and the gun seems even easier
>>739970870>these are the graphicsGross.
>>739986357Shield for parry sloppa
>Steady Soles+Iron Lungglub glub imma fish
>>739986906Steady Soles are essentially mandatory unless you like having to slow down for every micro staircase that is EVERYFUCKINGWHERE.
>>739972530any hints on how to get back to the starter weapon ship area? i can navigate back there but i don't see a way back onto the ship
>>739986994From Bayou, with ladder.
The trinket system is fucking gay, why are devs so afraid of permanent upgrades these days?
>>739986994You need to steal the ladder from Pinky’s to get down back there
would u grab a drink with this mouse
>fully upgrade whip and attack expecting decimate everything in my path>it doesn't one shot a lot of thingsThat's a bummer
>>739987056Remember to take it back when you're done
>>739970067Wheres the porn of Mina getting barbed by the lion
Not playing this woke slop.
judging by the # of reviews yacht club is filling for bankruptcy pretty soon right?
>>739987439It's selling on Switch 2.
>judging by the # of reviews yacht club is filling for bankruptcy pretty soon right?
the fug do I do hereI'm guessing I need to make the train go somewhere else and then come back to this area to ride the rails
>>739987439They'll probably try and get bought out first. They also still have Shovel Knight DX partially finished so they might still be able to finish that to keep the lights on for a bit longer.Don't see Shovel Knight 64 happening anytime soon though.
what the fuck is his deal
>>739970067I picked up Pipistrello bc of these threads since uts in sale fir 10 dollah and I gotta say I love the rendered 3d gameboy you can doAlso the game is suprisingly tight and the pokemon soundfont I like. The contract mechanic is neat too.Anyone else playing it?
what the hell is the deal with that creepy fucker that can show up in the lab? I was in an out so quickly that I just saw him pop up as I was leaving
>>739987642Tax evasion
>>739987690It's just a random event, he doesn't seem to do anything. I've talked to him 3 times now
>>739971029Doesn't matter what it is, that rat is getting raped either way
>>739970067There has never been an uglier game
>>739987690>lives in someone else's walls>no respect for the space or property of others>will get uncomfortably close to cute mousehe's literally us
>>739987868how many dozens of times have you made this post I wonder
>>739987627they should have made super shovel knight before shovel knight 64
>>739987563nope, made the train leave and then came back through the mirror...train's there againany ideas?
>>739987683I've really been meaning to get around to it, there's just so much shit going on latelyalso the Mina devs apparently shouted out the game when talking about cool recent indie games on the launch stream so I'm glad despite the schizo's ramblings there's no bad blood between the devs
>>739987951They did, it's called Dig.
How???The second I jump over the Mandrake pops up and pushed me away before I can do anything
>>739987230I don't think I like how there are humans among the animal npcs.
>>739988112either hit the mandrake or burrow beneath it and pick it up and throw it
>>739987980Get a ticket and let the train leave without you.>>739988062Dig was made by Nitrome, not Yacht Club.
>>739988112Did you try one of the two game mechanics?
gun > hammer > shield > whip > lol > daggers
do you permanently lose a level in veteran mode (aka you have Lose 1 Level on) when you lose your bones
It's funny how straight laced Mina is when you can act like a complete menace to so many people in gameplay
>>739983934The bosses are usually easier than the levels
Okay I'm gonna try the "never enter an Underlab" featSounds like cancer but it should be funny.
I just don't see the need to make it like dark souls when their previous game was perfectly good. It's like silksong all over again made for a few rollslop spergs instead of the majority fans that loved the first game
>>739988694Everyone in the game is pretty horrible and opportunistic. That is why the ending is unsatisfying, though.
>>739988762If anything it sounds tedious because it means you can only get plasma vials from specific destructible objects, and there's only a few of those in each zone
>>739988870The ending really feels like they ran out of time.
>>739988983Yeah, that or they just couldn't think of a way to cap everything off. Are sparks good or bad? Was it the towers just malfunctioning on their own or were they being subverted? We don't find out enough about the past and how all this was developed to know (or care).
Game is cool so far but everything about the sidearms is just annoying to me. Would like it way more if you did not lose them on death and they were just equipable also taking two would be nice so you can have a traversal and combat one since it feels like you have to just take the traversal one or miss a bunch of stuff but that makes the combat less interesting. Oh and having to farm back mp everytime you die sucks balls.
>>739989149I've got great news for you man
>blm dev>blm game;/
>>739989097From reading the various NPC dialogue around the game, it seemed like the towers were causing shenanigans, but it's not clear if that's because they were powered off or notand what the fuck was lionfuck planning to do with them anyway? It was never really explainedA weird nonsensical story on an otherwise kino game
>>739988884It's basically like doing no bonfires in dark souls 2, you keep all your checkpoints and you get heals back on death, you just can't go into the menu (or in this case hole) for any reason
>>739989149Good news, that all gets addressed. Be sure to go south of town and complete a side quest in a building, then return to the Guild Hall after.
>>739989149you eventually get an addition to the underlab that lets you keep a copy of whatever sidearm you want
Chuds lost hard
>>739989348You also can't die without any sparks because a full wipe also sends you to the lab.
>>739989287>>739989351>>739989361Wait you can unlock stuff to mitigate that? I am already two generators in, did the rescue quest and have not seen anything. Guess I just never found the guild hall that npc talked about.
>>739971029They should have made Mina hot like Mrs Brisby
>>739989686Yeah you have to find the guild, it's in the south part of town right next to the save point. It lets you buy machines for your underlab that let you do stuff like that.
>>739989720If they did that, we'd be too busy beating our meats to beat the game.
>>739989097>>739989340My interpretation is that the Spark of life is basically using the souls of the dead as a power source. This can obviously have an effect on living organisms as well if they come in contact with it.Mina invented a way to tap into this underground power source thinking it was just oil or something not the fucking River Styx
>fall in hole>respawn 3 screen away
>>739990087Mina shows it can kind of be used for good but likely using it constantly eventually corrupts completely regardless of Plasma use. Early onset corruption can be cured by Plasma.Lionel was obviously an asshole and wanted to use it for absolute power regardless of the consequences to those around him. Btw, I wonder if they got inspiration from the game Tunic?
>>739990253Unlikely. This is kinda not an uncommon symbolism cause similar ones come a lot up for environmental symbolism. Like you could argue this isn't that different from Mako for instance.
>>739989769to0 late
>>739989340>and what the fuck was lionfuck planning to do with them anyway? It was never really explainedHe genuinely wanted best for his city. He liked being the ruler on top of things, sure, but he's also funding the arts and orphanages and stuff. The entire city loves the guy, and for good reason.Lionel doesn't give a fuck if hillbillies are turning into monsters since they're not part of his city. The city wouldn't survive if the generators got cut any more than a real city would survive if electricity got permanently cut, so obviously he's on team "it's a brand new technology, we can probably find a fix for it" rather than Thorne's "the Spark Generators and their consequences have been a disaster for the Tenebreous Isles".
>>739990532 he turned himself and his butler into monsters and experimented on people directly to turn them into monsters and merging them together and shit. He was obviously corrupted by it and would have just escalated until everyone was a corrupted monster in his city or not. He wasn't just innocently using it for electricity
>>739990837But the ending shows that vials can also revert the transformation. They weren't permanently corrupted, just entering their combat forms, and you kill them before they can turn back.Yes he melted a few people, but by all accounts they were volunteers, and the research worked — that's the reason he has control over the transformations now.Obviously he sank the ship from the start of the game killing all bar two aboard, the man's not perfect. But his confidence in being able to stabilise things doesn't seem misplaced.Unironically he did nothing wrong.
>>739991125Why didn't Mina just build better generators that don't leak their shit everywhere? Is she dumb?
@ anon from two threads ago that told me>the streamer was likely using modifiersThanks for reminding me. I'm doing a vanilla playthrough so I had temporarily forgotten that was possible.In hindsight, I would have liked to maybe increase the cost of bone ups, but eh. Official balancing is more important to me on a first playthrough.(Repost. Accidentally posted this in one of the bait threads.)
>>739992051>>739992051>>739992051
>>739971029sat rex
Mina the cock gobbler
