This game is literally like stepping in a time machine back to like 2004. It feels like an older game in all the right ways, challenging and satisfying but not in a rollslop way with constant boss runbacks, all the little fun mini-games, creative puzzles, the old-school bossfights, all the little secrets and trinkets, the charming characters, and the complete lack of any political bullshit or wokeslop anywhere in the game.And it just keeps getting better and better the more you play. The final two dungeons in particular and the ending are just PEAK. Easy GotY.
>>740322465It even has a cheesy story with a very predictable plot. Normally that would be a negative but imo it's a great attention to detail because every GBC game was like this.
>>740322465Too bad it flopped
>>740322710>rave reviews, and not just from paid shills>300,000 units sold in three days>saved yacht club from closureDid it, Anon? Did it really flop? Because it sounds like it did the complete opposite. It's going strong.
>>740322710It’s been out for a week. The majority of players haven’t even finished it yet.
>>740322465Can you retards not wait until the last thread reaches bump limit? Fuck off shills.
>>740322465>It feels like an older game in all the right ways, challenging and satisfying but not in a rollslop way with constant boss runbacks, all the little fun mini-games, creative puzzles, the old-school bossfights, all the little secrets and trinkets, the charming characters, and the complete lack of any political bullshit or wokeslop anywhere in the game.Now say something true
>>740323094>6 years to develop>didn't even make it to the #1 spot on steam salesI didn't want it to fail, but this thing is definitely a flop
>>740323094>>saved yacht club from closurethe ceo of the studio is on record crying that it's not enough and he was expecting closer to a million. that greedy kike spent the money before he even earned it KEK
>zero gay characters>zero trans characters>zero nonbinary characters>no pandering>no "body type 1 and 2">no girlbosses or "yas women!!">no marvel dialogue>no subversive bullshit>one of the townsfolk literally calls out jews>using modifiers that make gameplay easier completely disables achievements/trophiesHow did they go from virtue signalling for BLM to making the most unwoke/based game of 2026?
>>740322465low standards huh
>>740324304All this and /v/ still seethes about it/v/ doesn't actually care about the shit they spend hours every day shitposting about it seems
>>740324335You'll notice troons from reddit never post gameplay footage here
>>740324280it's going to sell a million, easy
>>740324280It'll likely hit one mil by the end of the month.
>>740322710Too bad your mom flopped when she failed to abort you
I finished Mina a few days ago, and I would give it a solid 7/10. I felt the same about Shovel Knight, so this is in line with my expectations of YCG.It's good, well worth playing for $20, but I'm genuinely mystified how anyone could think this belongs in GOTY conversations. I grew up playing this kind of game and have a deep affinity for the whole console adventure genre, and I found the GBC art style charming and well done, but there are a shockingly high number of baffling design decisions. The implementation of sidearms is legit one of the worst major systems I've seen in a recent game, to the point that I just ignored them after a while. The difficulty scaling is completely out of whack, where the first 5 hours are really punishing, after which point combat becomes rather trivial and challenge only comes from platforming. The game overall is opaque to a fault, where I spent the bulk of my playtime just searching for the entrances to the generator dungeons, combing over the same handful of hub areas trying to figure out what crevice I missed. Also, small gripe, but barely any of the achievements are tied to game progression, mostly being about gimmicky utilization of sidearms. I'm one of only 4.5% of players on Steam to have finished it, but only have 14% of total achievements.And again, i didn't hate the game, but by the end I was ready for it to be over. I finished in around 18 hours with 66% completion, and honestly don't have any real desire to revisit it.
>>740324776Very subtle, soitranny
>>740324304it has 2 gay dwarfs
>>740328173Nope, male and female dwarf, the female just has a beard like all female dwarfs should
>>740322465Tranny game made by tranny devs and aging millennials that got left behind. They even took over 6 years just to make derivative GBC slop.You are worse than the people who shilled for mixtape. kill yourself.
>740328847
>>740328847Certified Soijak Party Post
Mina HMOFA visual novel when?
>>740327271What's better than it? I wouldn't consider it any other year, but it's the best 2026 game I've played so far and I'm not looking forward to anything else yet either.
>>740322465It's good, but it would be better if it had a clear identity instead of trying to be gbc zelda meets shovel knight meets castlevania meets dark soulsI also don't think Mina is a very interesting character, at least as far as I've seen. Does she show any flaws at all as the game progresses?
>>740336996The game gets better and better as it goes on, and everything makes sense.
>>740322465>the complete lack of any political bullshit or wokeslop anywhere in the gamewholesome chungus gay couple
>>740337268>he and she>gay couple
>>740328591Any evidence of this?
>>740337486Okay, I stand correctedBut you can understand why I thought so
>>740336996The first areas are the worst, the game gets better and more "comfortable" in being itself later.And no, Mina has no personality the whole way. She frankly barely talks.
>>740337540Maybe try playing the game? You meet her fiance later on and he refers to her as she
>>740337268literally who
>>740337865>Maybe try playing the game? Well now that I know it's not wokeslop, maybe I will
Playing the game for the first time, the main problem is that the main gimmicks don't work. Like, a big chunk of the game is based around jumping. In a goddamn top-down 2D game where you cannot tell something's z-level. Hint: There's a reason why Zelda reserved jumping for gimmick segments. That would be bad enough, but they added a second gimmick for burrowing. That one is much better conceptually, but having to design everything to account for both jumping and burrowing makes it a clusterfuck. Visual communication is very poor and it's hard to tell which objects require which gimmick to bypass. On top of all that, the games adds an overcomplicated Bloodborne-esque healing system which is completely unnecessary.In short, the game has too much conflicting shit in it. It's like they had no confidence in the core gameplay so they kept adding random shit in. It's the exact opposite of how games in this era were designed.
>>740338757I was wrong, but you know who I meant. It's odd to pretend otherwise
>>740336996She's so straight-laced i dunno if she has any flaws or strengths honestly
Wow I love when I'm trying to find the next thread and there's more than one and none of them have the name in the OP
>>740338958It definitely would be better if it was edited down to something more coherent and focused. You're right about the visual communication too.
>>740338958The perspective can be a bit confusing especially for flying enemies, but as far as I understand, outside of flying enemies, it's literally just their entire hitbox though, like there is no depth basically. You get used to it as it goes on, and the mechanics work really well once you get them down.
>>740327271you said a bunch of skill issue shit and then complained about achievements like anybody gives two fucks about achievementsalso what other games this year are really in the goty conversation anyway?
>>740323094>5 years development>300,000 units sold>15 employeesAssuming a yearly wage of $60,000 per employee, that would cost $4,500,000 dollars alone, leaving $1,500,000 in "profit", and that's not accounting other costs like expenses, marketing, and so on
>>740322638>cheesy storyI chuckled
>>740340818why are you assuming 60k per year? according to what?what if they are doing other things and have other sources of income?what if you are full of crap?
>>740340818they already said the budget was $5m, so they made a profit on the third day of release, and this game will have a long tail with positive word of mouth, discounts, and probably a GotY nomination/indie GotY win
>>740340818>leaving $1,500,000 in "profit"I think you're forgetting something, anon
>>740341130The budget was $5m (which is insane for what is basically a GBC game desu, even an elaborate one) but does that include the office rental costs?
>>740322465Trash game, buy an ad
>>74034112460k is a low-ball estimation for an American white collar job salary, it could be way higher. >what if they are doing other things and have other sources of income?Like what?
>>740336996What makes the game dark souls like? Currency you can lose? Because that's the only thing they have in common
>>740341130>and this game will have a long tail with positive word of mouth, discounts, and probably a GotY nomination/indie GotY winMina might save them in shortrun but that game absolutely does not have legs
>>740341950its an unknown unknown, we are ASSuming, remember?we are just saying shit because we dont know anything, truly a classic /v/ strategy
Im not even joking when i say thisGameplay? Tf is this game show me
>>740342395It's a single player game, people who are done with it aren't going to keep playing it to keep numbers up
>>740342240The healing is also very similar, and so is some enemy and boss behavior imo
>>740342395retard, you are using active player count to gauge sales of a single player game. thats not how data works.this is not multiplayer or live service. very cool and useless graph you posted, too bad it doesnt help your case
desu a lot of the area design looks exhausting. Maybe it's just the visual clutter but everywhere seems to have a million little side paths and shit to collect tooAm I alone in this?
>>740343423>why does the game have too much contentMY STEAK IS TOO JUICY, MY LOBSTER IS TOO BUTTERY
>>740343128NTA, but even as a single player game, wouldn't it be expected to still be going up so soon after release? Or not declining at least
>>740343784It is possible for a game to suffer from clutter and lack of focus anon
Seriously, why would you design a top-down 2D game with 4 DIFFERENT Z-LEVELS? Not one, not two, not three, but FOUR (4).
>muh metrics, muh numbers, muh woke, muh goty materialHow about you shut the fuck up and just play the god damn video game you fucking pedantic retards? I hate this shitter board so much.
>>740343854going up, going down - it doesnt matter and you are missing the point.if someone buys the game, they play it for a bit and turn it off, they still bought the game. the devs dont lose money because the player count goes down.the player count can drop to fucking zero and they would still have made all the money that they did. you are retarded.
>>740344151That kind of verticality works for Alundra (and Landstalker, but that's isometric) but that doesn't mean it works for MinaIt needs to be better communicated at the very least
>>740344378Why would you go to /v/ and talk about video games? Shouldnt you go to reddit instead?
I really hate the healing system. Am I supposed to break random objects and hope I randomly get a potion?
>>740341950>Like what?maybe dozens of shovel knight re-releases/dlcs?
>>740344676I'm not saying its sales disappear, dumbass. That other anon said it doesn't have legs, in response to someone saying "it will have a long tail". I don't think player metrics are a bad sign of that. It seems to be declining pretty fast for a game with so much publicity
>>740344151I never once said "ah darn, this game has too many z levels"wtf are you complaining for
>>740345570How is that another source of income for the workers, it's the same job on the same salary...
>>740342757>>740343128are all Americans illiterate? I'm pointing out that game doesn't have legsalso>people who are done with it aren't going to keep playing it to keep numbers upit is out for one week, it's not Resident Evil with 4 hour story
>>740345326Nigga what? You hit enemies then heal, or you can use the yellow flowers too. You refill vials at every unerground area and can upgrade them in Ossex
>>740343423It really doesn't, each dungeon path is pretty linear outside of secrets and minor side content, that usually are right off the path and loop right back in
>>740346521Thanks to this comment I realized all checkpoints can be dug into, and it's the only way to refill vials. That's not intuitive at all.
>>740347792There's a manual in the menu, you should read it
>>740345778its a single player game, the multiplayer metrics are meaningless. it doesnt "decline". mario 3 from 1988 did not decline, its just sitting there. The amount of people concurrently playing mario 3 affects precisely nothing. you are retarded.
>>740343784More like>why there’s 20 ingredients in this dish that have completely conflicting flavours
>>740347792some breakables do give vials but thats far and between. There's also fishing but you don't have the fishing rod yet
>>740346415The length of time doesn't matter, it's not a gaas or mp game so it will go down no matter what
>>740346415the legs of a single player game doesnt matter because its a single player gameyea dude it has no legs. congratulations, stop typing to me
>>740348391If you had to feed 20 California workers on current sale of Mario 3 copies, how long would you be able to do that?
>>740348894the player count doesnt give you the sales, so I would start that process somewhere else.
>>740348794They were doing this same shit with Pragmata, It's insane to me that people use metrics for multiplayer games to judge single player games
>>740348012You know Zelda is fully playable without a manual, right?
>>740348391You are completely misunderstanding the point being made. Learn basic reading comprehension before you sperg out and call other people retarded, you colossal moron.
>>740348449That's what caught me off-guard. I thought those rare breakable were the only way to get more vials. I can imagine some dude going through the entire game like that.
>>740348794>"this game will do well for some time to come!">"doesn't look like it from these numbers">"IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER IT HAS STAYING POWER OR NOT"then don't claim that it does? lol
>>740350164The Hollowers guild? Are people just skipping that?
>>740349576>metrics for multiplayer gamesIt's not a metric for multiplayer games you retard. It's a metric for any game. It GENERALLY is better for measuring games that are expected to retain players rather than single player one-and-done games but that doesn't mean it's completely worthless for assessing those games.
> that nervous smile she gives when you find her collection of human/mouse smut novels she forgot to put away when you visit her workshop
>>740349965the game is a financial success and they are profitting because they sold over 300k, their goal was satisfied. the player count does not prove otherwise. they are not going under.I'm calling you retarded because you ARE retarded.
>>740351342>that earUh...
>>740349337The sales give you player count. If none is going to buy your game it will have zero player count.300k copies is fine if Yacht Club wants to survive 2026, but if they want to release another game in six years? They need game to continue selling
>>740351394They are not going under in 2026*. Yacht club proven to be completely financially illiterate of asserting their long term financial situation
>>740350985It kind of is considering that people have no reason to play it constantly. There is no FOMO to be had so people can drop and pick up the game at their leisure
>>740351485>The sales give you player countnah, there it is. right there, thats your problem. you can eventually understand this, just think a little harder. I believe in you, champ.so check this out: I bought the video game. and I am not actively playing the video game. how is this possible?
>>740351394The assertion was that the game will have a long tail. How much money has already been made is completely irrelevant to that part of the discussion.But if you factor in Steam's 30% cut and if you consider that office rental costs may or may not have been part of the game's budget, it's not guaranteed that it has turned a profit. Have they said so? I'll believe them if they have said so, but if we're just guessing, it is quite possible it hasn't seen a profit yet.>I'm calling you retarded because you ARE retarded.And you think that because you're too much of a moron to understand what I'm saying.
>>740351841The numbers don't apply in the same way as they do to game that thrives on player retention, but no they're not worthless. I'm not an expert at interpreting steam charts but it seems to me that it should be rising or leveling so soon after release. It's, what, a 10-20 hour game? It's too soon for most players who bought it on release day to be done with it, and it should be gaining more players too.
>>740352405They said literally said if they sold 100k they would have to fire people and if they go higher than that they dont. They sold 300k in 3 days and it's still a stop seller on the switch. They're gonna be fine.
This game will not have legs. Hollow Knight did because it was the best in its genre. Mina doesn't even know what genre it wants to be.
>>740352072> I bought the video game. and I am not actively playing the video gameBut you will play that game, and your playthrough of that game will be displayed on a chart, one hour sessions? Two hour sessions? Four hour? Doesn’t matter, you will play that game for 30 hours, until you beaten it. And then thousands more will do same and from that you get aggregate of player count.
>>740353362>They said literally said if they sold 100k they would have to fire people and if they go higher than that they dont.That doesn't mean it turned a profit. It means they can survive without firing people for a bit longer.>They're gonna be fine.For how long? Is their next game imminent? Are they still renting office space in California?
>>740352405im just not getting dopamine anymore. I dont wanna sit here and read the same wrong shit a million times. bye.
>>740353739It's weird how you're concerned about the economics of the game studio and yet you're not talking about their video games. They got shovel knight 3D in the works and a new shovel knight coming to the switch 2.
>>740323094>3k reviews on SteamWell it flopped on PC, which I personally thought would've been the opposite since PC gamers tend to like the "retro" stuff more than other platforms.Also I'm not convinced 300k sales of a $20 game (with no DLC) is enough to save a company from death when said company is in an overpriced hellhole within walking distance of Hollywood.>>740342395>using long-term CCU to gauge how a non-AAA singleplayer game is doingSilly.Use the CCU of day 1, and the number of reviews (minus any reviewbombing, of course. Some games get a gazillion reviews just to "defend" or "attack" a game, which throws that off.)Mina releasing to a CCU of about 10k is still shockingly low for a game that sold so much though.
>>7403541083k reviews is amazing for an indie game. It's only a problem if you have a AA+ budget.
>>740353692>But you will play that game, and your playthrough of that game will be displayed on a chartnope
>>740354084>It's weird how you're concerned about the economics of the game studioI'm not that concerned about it. I'm weighing in because it's a topic being discussed, and because you think you're smarter than you are.>They got shovel knight 3D in the works and a new shovel knight coming to the switch 2.Yeah? How long will they take?
>>740354293> It's only a problem if you have a AA+ budget.Mina has AA budget
*raises spork*does anyone else notice the blatant viral marketing campaign this game has had here?
>>740354725How? It doesn't look or play like an AA game.
>>740353321People are not forced to finish the game in the week it comes out
>>740354897>How?6 years of development with a mid-sized team in California
>>7403548976 years dev cycleCalifornian wages10-20 dev team size(depending on how many worked on it and how many on shovel knight dlcs)
>>740342395Everybody is playing it in GoG, duh
>>740355404>People are not forced to finish the game in the week it comes outNo shit?
Zoomers love games like this, it lets them act like they're playing a classic old-school game, without having to deal with all the "jank"
i liked shovel knighti play it every now and then on my Vita!!
>>740341115Ah cheese MINA what did you do!?
>>740356027Based if so, but I doubt it
>threads died downYacht Club's marketing budget finally ran out, huh?
>>740322465Flavor of the month
>>740356873yes the shill campaign is over, you can go back to your nintendo celeb pol threads
>>740356393I seriously doubt they care
>>740354293$5m is an AA budget. They spent 5 million bucks on it.Assuming zero fees or taxes (they definitely paid fees and taxes), 300k sales at $20 a pop means $6m, which barely makes back the budget.Of course there ARE fees and taxes, so profit goes out the window and we don't know how many sales they'll get in the future either. How long until they make back the money they spent? Who knows.Also, 3k reviews is amazing for a no-name indie game, but Shovel Knight was so massive that it was THE indie hit, the poster child for indie games as a whole for a while, even becoming an assist trophy in Smash and being a collab in a whole bunch of indie games.Them releasing a game to 3k kinda mid reviews is fairly mindblowing.Honestly though, the more I read about YCG and Mina, the more it just sounds like they needed to pad out some time to not die, rather than releasing Mina to make big bank, it's why they reduced the price from $30 to $20 and why they're not planning any DLC for it, it's just some half-finished side project they had laying around that they quickly rushed to finish and chuck out the door so they can get back to working on Shovel Knight 3D or whatever.>>740356027>53 reviewsFuck no.
>>74035712553 reviews is massive in GoG for a new game.
>Shovel Knight>you play as a knight and he has a shovel>Mina the Hollower>you play as a Mina and she hollows stuff?I'm not buying this shit just because of the title. call me autistic I don't care but really what the fuck were they thinking? also the graphics look genuinely ugly. Shovel Knight worked because everyone is perennially nostalgic for the NES. absolutely nobody is nostalgic for ugly ahh Game Boy graphics. Yacht Club's hubris will doom them.
>>740322465100% agree, went in expecting to completely hate it, would never have even tried it if it weren't for you fuckers spamming constantly. rolled credits yesterday, coziest experience I've had with a game in quite a while.
>>740357626>>you play as a Mina and she hollows stuff?Digging into things/burrowing through the ground is a major mechanic, which is probably what the "hollowing" is referring to
Was so funny seeing fags shit on it (including me) and then slowly start to like it when it dropped. Playing it now and its actually pretty good.
It's weird that the soundtrack sounds so much like Shovel Knight. Is that just Jake Kauffman's style, or did they deliberately try to give it the same sort of motifs? I think it should have its own music style.
>>740357929>probablyThat's the problem. I love the game but it's a shit title and the whole """hollower""" thing was just bizarre. What does burrowing have to do with electrical engineering? What the fuck is a hollower guild? Fuck it, should've called her a hollowpunk
>>740356393Zoomers don't play Gameboy games
>>740359381>What does burrowing have to do with electrical engineering?She's just special and perfect okay?
Is the shield easy mode?I've been using it because I found it fun to use. But I'm getting the feeling I've been cheesing bosses with it.
>>740359805
idc about reviews. mina my new favorite game
>>740359815all the weapons are different kinds of easy mode
I wish they didnt make beast mina objectively worse than not being beast mina, at least by the time you're generally expected to get it.
>>740357626Wallower, swallower, etc
>game ends with you straight up murdering rich people for being richyou guys said this game wasnt woke
>>740328847You have to go back to your containment knock-off fad site, nigger.
>>740360265Beast Mina is better used in an item randomizer where occasionally you can have a really fun niche transformation to meme through the early game.
>>740356393i just gave this game to an autistic zoomer and he was complaining that the controls were bad because you have to pivot your character to aim at enemiesthe basic fucking shield enemies in the first level filtered him
>>740356393nobody under 25 is buying/playing this unless their elder zoomer/young millenial parents shove it into their hands
>>740340818>>740341870They don't have offices (all work from home) and you're forgetting this sold on Switch 1 & 2 as well. The game is in the #2 best seller on the eshop.
>>740360391>noooo just let yourself be killed by your enemies because they're richyou some kinda cuck?
>>740360698only number #2 when there's no other new releases? Dire
>>740360391People are turning into fucking monsters
>>740359815do not let the cancer darksouls parasites tell you that you didnt beat the game. just call them dirty dick sucking niggers and move on with your lifeevery weapon in this game is strong and mina's hp and defense scales hard and that is a great thing fuck anybody who thinks that cannot be satisfying in its own way. its earned.
>>740359381Trench digging is a vital part of electrical work. Quickly making tunnels for conduit's a nice skill to have.
>>740360698>They don't have offices (all work from home)They did until late last year, so for most of the game's development.>and you're forgetting this sold on Switch 1 & 2 as wellIs that part of the 300,000 copies sold, or is it extra?
tell me about rhene. why does she sit in the corner and stare at the crate?
>>740360391the homie who got 6 axes thrown at his back did not deserve that shit, man
>>740361069the only way im beating mina is my own way
>stepping in time for a blm protest
>>740361237autism
>>740323094It certainly didn't explode in popularity like the way Silksong and Slay the Spire 2 did. If that's their metric to survive, then they might be fucked.
It was infuriating at times and took like double the time on the clock, but I managed to get almost every "clear the game X way" achievement done in just NG+1.>3 Hard Modifiers (No shops and No entering Underlab count)>3 Weird Modifiers (Dancing Mina and Aggro Townsfolk were cute)>No Shopping (duh cause of above)>No Underlab (duh cause of above)>No losing bones>Under 4 hours>NG+ WonNow the only achievements I have left are -1% Completion and the Raise a stat to 10 while the other two are below 3. I can have one last fun go and be 100% with that.NOt sure if I'll go to NG+7 like I've heard about or not at this point.
I do not care for your faggy politics I want my mouse wife mina to be real
Can a game be your personal goty if it doesn't actually win goty ? Cause mina probably won't win, but it is mine
>>740359381Extremely concerning that this is some peoples' first experience with made up professions in a fantasy setting. Why are master chiefs called Spartans? They're not from Sparta. It shouldn't need to be explained to you or even have correlation. It's just a word.
>>740362597Caring about goty is gay anyway because they're just gonna give it to whatever sony slop released this year anyway
>>740322465it's literally Darksouls but in form of a gameboy Zelda
>>740324737this board was wall to wall support of subnautica 2 a month ago. /v/ doesn't actually care about woke.
Never really cared much for indie games, they always felt like pale imitations of better titles. But playing Mina has awakened a love for gaming I haven’t felt in years. I miss top down Zelda style adventure and I hope the Adventures of Elliot is able to capture that same magic though I feel it'll fall more in line Final Fantasy Legends or Secret of Mana.
>>740362936your right anon i guess it doesnt matter. mina is cooler than AAAslop anyway
>>740361132So far they have only talked about Steam sales numbers. Switch sales are undisclosed and likely significantly higher.
What modifiers are you using?
>>740361069roll is cute!!CUTE!!!
>>740322465buyanad
>>740363850Veteran Mode
>>740362743because spartans were ancient and well-respected warriors? dumbass? it's not a "made up profession", it's a historical allusion, hollower means nothing and has roots in fucking nowhere, what a dumbass post
>>740359381Can you not comprehend the idea of a fantasy occupation
>>740364246Can you not comprehend the idea of a made up term with no intuitive mapping into a real life equivalent and no context making for a bizarre, unappealing title?
I AM HAVING A REAL BLAST(tm) with this masterpiece of a game. Who here /hollowin/ tonight?
>>740364816You're being a sperg.
>>740305164Thanks.
>>740349958Zelda 1 definitely expected you to read the manual, as did pretty much every game from the era
sheFUCKS H U M A N M E N
yo crow country fucking blows
>>740356393Nah, Mina has that janky feel (in a good way).
>>740365427Nah Mina is for Thorne, sorry bro
>>740365507It has a good message though
>>740365589Fuck crows?
>>740364910talk shit get hit
>>740365507yeah I'm more of a signalis xister
>>740364143prove that all hollowers aren't from the fictional country of Hollow right now
>>740365507It was good but not the masterpiece everyone claimed it was. Also I saw the "twist" coming a mile away.
>>740363630The article I read just says that it sold 300,000 in 3 days, no mention of that being Steam only
>>740365576>mina is for thornetotal thorne victory
>>740366221Deserved, he did literally nothing wrong>>740366003What was the twist?
>>740366171The source of that article is their twitter post where they state they sold 300k on Steam.
>>740322465I disagree, it doesn't feel old at all. I can't think of any older game that actually FEELS the way Mina does. Older action rpgs in the same style were much slower paced with less responsive controls. I think they've created something entirely new here.
>>740365507the last two levels were my favorite
>>740323094Kys shill faggot
>>740366221I want him playable in the sequel (releasing 15 years from now)
>>740366391Okay cool, Schrier is just being a fucking hack like usual I guess
>>740365507i loved the whole thing personally
>>740366685absolutely mindbroken by a mouse
>>740366707i was huffing some copium when I saw mina's portrait in the pause screen like "Why would they need to show that, we already know who we're playing as". i was sure there'd be a 2nd act twist with playable thorne
>>740365576Lies She's clearly in a steamy taboo-for-victorian-era relationship with a human and that's why she wasn't so broken up about the Isle folk turning on her because she was already a parish for parading human on anthro right publicly Source: mina is my wife and I am the human
>>740325161>>740324808
Why the fuck do they have a feat for beating the game with 3 weird feats when most of the weird feats disable feats and they don't even tell you which ones do???What the fuck am I missing?
this game doesnt look very good, but i like the mouse. i'll take the mouse and leave the fez-era indie sloppa
>>740367309fucking kek
>10 million dollar budget>6 years of development>gets numbers that would only be considered good by the standards of a $250,000 indie made in 1 year
>shovel knight devs come out of hiding to release an indie game with a 5 million dollar budget>/v/ hates it just like the the literal masterpiece Shovel KnightMust be a fucking masterpiece. Never heard of it but just bought it. Ready for kino.
Mina won, /vpol/ lost
How does this game have buzz, rave reviews etc, yet it seems like no one's playing it
>>740367534Nvm, figured out I can just do the three underlab related hard modifiers. The other two don't even matter as they are just three progressively harder tiers of the same modifier and there is a separate achievement for not entering underlabs as well, so you can get 3 hard modifiers + that achievement all in one
I still wish the game was consistently more difficult. Gets too easy by the time you've beaten barely half the spark bosses unless you nerf yourself. Still a great fucking game though.
> oh the human?> Oh he's my husband?> What of course he is> I'll have you know he fucks me raw on a nightly basis> He slides me right onto his cock like I'm some kinda toy, even if I barely fit half the damn thing in because it's hot as hell> Why you think I only have 3 spark phials on me at a time I gota ration the things out for later when he's damn near rupturing my cervix with his thick loads>...look the perverts not even denying it~
>>740369824Kill yourself.
>>740365576>>740366221....
>>740322465>challenging and satisfying but not in a rollslop wayThe game is exactly 2D rollslop
>>740322465>>740322638Why are the anons praising this game so disingenuous? It's not organic, plus good games have the OP starting threads by saying shit about the game, this is just blatantly shilling
>>740370618Retard
>>740357626Hollower because the main character is a mouse and they hollow things. It's kitschy in a good way. I am not playing the game though because I'm not playing as a female main character>absolutely nobody is nostalgic for ugly ahh Game Boy graphics.You're forgetting me who has nostalgia for GBA graphics.
>>740370641Bait OPs are why this board is shitpost central They are no better than ragebait threads
>>740370694Built for BHC
>>740370694spark overexposure gave her thigh tumors. sad!
>>740370357>Include an ending where you suffer all of their insane rules to become a "good citizen" in their eyes>Proceed to turn a blind eye to all the corruption and let the land die in the name of progress with your big lion daddyThis shit feels like Corruption porn and I'm hard now.
>>740370357>mina only touching his shoe
How am I supposed to clear this jump?
>>740372943press up at the same time you jump off the wall to get the full two tilesit's tricky to get the timing but it's doableor you could just use the drill shield
>>740372943Be a Wallower
>>740356393shovel knight has LITERALLY no consequence for failure ever.>muh dark souls gold lostyou can exit a level and BOOM all your gold is back, you only lose gold when beating a level>excuse me madam player, may i have consent to punish you for your failure? no? okay...............add on to that the pronouns and it's peak zoomgroidscheisse
>>740368121SJWvel knight
I for one am happy that the game came out and is relatively good. People constantly comparing it to Silksong are missing the forest for the trees. Not every game needs to be a critical and financial record setter, otherwiser I could condemn all indie games for not matching to the sales and acclaim of Terraria or it's big brother, Minecraft.I know you guys hate the devs because they donated to BLM and you hate noggers and whatnot, but separate the art from the artist.
>>740373296thx>>740373393shes more of a Pitter
>>740373995silksong posters are autistic trolls. ignore the fuck out of them.
>OH BOY! A new Yacht Club game!!!!!!
>>740322465it's not as ambitious as I was expecting it to be, considering how much time it took to develop and how manageable the graphical style isit's a very small game. I like the jumping and hollowing mechanics, the movement and combat feels good and interesting. But there isn't enough in the game to do with it
Has someone made this Mina
>>740374306I didnt 100% the game but I wish I found a big fat area with more rail grinding
>>740374403yeah, that's how I feel about a lot of the mechanics. pretty good, feels satisfying, but they haven't made enough levels to use them in
>>740371202No.She's built for BTC.
>>740322710It literally didn't
Anyone else think this was a weird modifier to include?
Okay, base game I 100% with mainly just the whip.My NG+ Speedrun/Modifier run I did with the Shield.What weapon should I use for -1%? I feel like the whip is safest and I'm used to it, but hammer does seem tempting especially with big damage being needed with no other trinkets/upgrades around. And I do like me some big hammer in other games.I can't upgrade the base weapon, so I imagine the swords are just not worth it at all. Even if I used the weapon randomizer, the gun seems too weak without the charge shot option and the shield is too dangerous without proper trinkets.
>NG+>hard modifiers for no underlabs>underlabs appear way less often too>can't refill vials without dying>lost my sparks to random shit and now I'm at zero sparks with the only way to retrieve them either to manually hunt all of them down or level up (which requires a shit ton of bones I have to earn consecutively without dying or I lose them all)>almost no checkpoints in entire dungeons>can't swap out trinkets due to no underlab>also doing no shop so can't refill vials at merchants (I think those counts as shops..?)bros... it's too difficult.... I might have to tap out....
>>740373995No actually I love yacht club because they cut out all the problematic ableist challenge from NES games
ng+fags get the soap
>>740374921forgot to mention...>getting a generator actually cucks you by force turning your bones into bonestone because now they are inaccessible without underlabfeels bad man..
>>740374921>can't swap out trinkets due to no underlabDoes the no shop modifier also disable the trinket chest inside that store? If so, damn.
>>740374994People love Yoshi for doing the same thing.
>>740374921I did all that plus the speedrun at the same time.A big thing is your build. You need to have a solid one for generalist stuff before starting the NG+ cause you carry that over and are stuck with it the whole time. Mine was>Burrow Codex (fairly helpful, but I probably could have gone with something better)>Soles (NECESSARY, LIKE HOLY SHIT WATER AND ICE SUCKS WITHOUT THEM)>Proto Spark (100% NECESSARY, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING)>Air Dash Cape (Very necessary, though I suppose you could swap it for the spider or some similar tool for getting past large gaps)>Floaty (NECESSARY, LETS YOU SURVIVE AND SKIP SO MUCH)>Dodge Pendulum (Very helpful, but I was using SHield so it was super useful when I needed to panic out. Could be replaced with another good one for combat)After the build, the second biggest thing IMO is to SAVE SCUM HARD. The reason Proto Spark is the most important thing in the whole list is because it's your warning sign to give up. Try to clear every room you can without taking any or at least not too many hits. If you take too much damage or the Proto Spark goes off, you pause immediately and quit to title screen then spam start to get back in. You'll start in the same room with everything reset. It only saves when you transition a room or die fully.Same goes for bosses. The moment your spark breaks, spam pause to reset. You want to ideally beat each boss without losing it, but if they're like a pixel away and you know you can make it, have some balls and try or give up, it's up to you.Whenever you wind up low on healing vials, find the next checkpoint and kill yourself as close to it as possible to get all the vials and the proto spark back if you lost it in a boss fight.Some rooms are HELL. But you can keep resetting and learning. Really watch the enemy patterns and try to find the safest way to fight, not necessarily the quickest. I was doing the Speedrun, so I was skipping almost all unnecessary fights.
>>740362184I did my Lopsided achievement on my no shopping run. Had 3/10/3 by the end of the Bayou. I did Crypt > Bayou
>>740375878I just didn't realize it was an achievement at first. If I had I would have done it on my first 100% run.But it should work out for the -1% one since getting both maxed is the only thing I can do to make the run easier at that point. I'll probably start attack since my Speedrun taught me a lot about just "not getting hit".
>>740374897I tried whip initially then restarted with hammer, but I also prefer hammer overall so maybe it's the opposite for you. Though if I did it again I'd buy buster immediately and run with that.
>>740375819Yeah I think I'm going to reload, I didn't get 100% and don't have some of the best trinkets. Might have to just go for the shops separately. -1% is supposed to be the hardest by far though, so if I'm struggling right now, Idk if I would be able to do that. The lack of underlabs in NG+ is really annoying though, like I get to Bayou and there is no underlabs anyfuckingwhere, so I have to go all the way from Ossex whenever I die, good idea on the savecopying/scumming, used to do that all the time back in the day when trophy hunting, do every scummy tactic in the book lmao
>>740374260Every single one of those snacks taste disgusting.
>>740365576>saw people saying they're "totally a canon couple">literally 2 frames of her comforting him after he finally gets cured of his monster diseaseYeaaah, totally.
>>740378698Women don't forcibly revert a man from being a beast unless her love is stronger than her libido.
are people really going for 100% without a guide? You just backtrack through every area and scour every inch or what?
>>740379253One of the things you purchase gives a collectible radar that indicates if something that contributes to 100% is in the current or adjacent room. It's not that hard to just run through each area once to see if that gets set off.
>>740379253>You just backtrack through every area and scour every inch or what?correct
>>740377278It's a classic Souls trick that works well here. When it doubt, quit out and reset. Better to restart than lose your stuff. Mina's at least nice enough to load you back into the room you were in immediately.I'm starting my -1% and the gist of it isn't so bad after having gotten so much practice in my last run. The idea is you can't pick up too many things. You have to reach the end and then pawn off items, including starting stats (you technically start with some heart containers, joule ammo things, your healing vials, etc), till you hit -1%. Can't even check if you're there though cause the skull for seeing % is it's own collectable that adds to the %.The method YCG told The Completionist youtube channel itself was:>Start a new file>Pick your best weapon of the 3 starting ones, then proceed through the introduction>Get to the town and grind bones till you can buy a second spark, not for survival, but to open the tailor shop>Save up more bones to buy the cloak that gives +25% health>Go through the game avoiding everything else till Queen's Crypt>Get the Proto Spark there and use it as your only Trinket>Proceed through the game with just that and leveling up your stats to max (they don't add to Completion%>Before the final boss, copy the save, then go sell whatever you feel like you can to Pawnty to lower your Completion % then face the final boss
>>740379253If I had to purely hunt and peck like that I would've gone for a guide. The map and skull eliminate a lot of tedium, and everything has context clues.
>>740379253>>740379430This. The item that shows you nearby collectibles was huge.Though even with that the FUCKING AUTOSCROLLER IN THE DAMN WORM took me like a solid hour of looking before I gave up and looked up where the thing I was missing was.The fucking stairs in one of the moving walls. A 1 tile long stairs that hides a hole in the wall. All for just that last gem.
>>740379430That includes every single bone gem too, and "in this room" is very vague especially since majority of items require a path that originates from another room. surprisingly there isn't even a feat for 100%, just for all trinkets and upgrades.
>>740379559Yeah that's what I was thinking, you can use a small amount of items for everything up to the final boss, but considering you have to sell story items, I'm not sure how much leeway you actually have for upgrades/trinkets. Honestly I'm not sure if it would be that hard, because you can farm to max level, use unlimited underlabs, really the only thing is losing a few good trinkets, and also having less HP due to no roses. Also I would probably take steady soles over the spark for most sections.
>>740366391It's 300k total, I don't know where you got "300k on Steam" from. Maybe you're confusing the 55k number.
>>740379559Personally I didn't grab anything at all because I didn't know how much I'd have to sell and didn't want to cuck myself unknowingly raising the % in the early game, until I got to the very end of the game and thought it'd probably be a good idea to grab the Proto Spark then finished the game at 0% and learned I either had to sell my vials or sell enough roses to get OHKO'd, neither of which was worth having Proto SparkIf you grab nothing extra I believe you have to sell at least 7 items. If I were going to do it again I think I'd grab either extra vials + Super Jump from Panino, or an extra key + Wallower + Fishing Rod (I have no idea if Rod adds to it, but it's visible on file select so I assume it does), because having to do all platforming with no mobility trinkets sucksalternately, Joule Syringe + double sidearm (probably Echo Dagger + Mist Jar) probably works fine for cheesing if you don't mind instantly dying for messing up
>>740379679I spotted that immediately on my first run through thankfully, can totally see that driving people mad looking for it.
Finished it earlier and thought it was okay. The whip is the only good weapon, most of the side arms are useless, continuous burrowing being tied to a trinket is retarded, some enemies do an absurd amount of damage even with maxed defense and the defense cloak, what can and can't hit you during burrowing seems inconsistent and nonsensical, the "twist" is incredibly obvious, and Mina is a non-character, ending was kinda funny though. Credits said I had 80% item completion but I have no desire to go back and get the shit I missed or do NG+. Definitely worse than Shovel Knight but it was alright for $20.
>>740380174>>740380308yeah, the point is you just wanna limit as much as possible. Proto Spark lets you have 2 hits essentially for the final boss, even if you sell all your healing items.In the video from the Completionist, he sold all his vials and other things and ended up at -4%, so there's certainly wiggle room.Soles would be nice, but if I have to choose between the two, I'm taking Proto Spark. The environments are all designed to be clearable. But the enemy AI is some real bullshit at times so I'd rather have the extra life. Especially since it lets me have a warning to reset the game if I'm not in a boss fight or something like that.
>>740381365For the final boss I recommend keeping 3 vials, selling 2 roses, then sell everything else. Everything is a 2hko with default~-2 roses so you have room to potentially take five hits in the fight. Trinket pouch + Proto Spark costs either 2 vials or enough roses to enter 1hko range, so it's not really meaningful.
It took me way too long to figure out how to get to the beach.
