WotR Inevitable Excess on Core difficulty
Apr. 11th, 2025 06:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI won Inevitable Excess, including the fight that gives you bonus loot later, and I did it on Core, the highest difficulty that improves said loot.
I would feel more accomplished if I hadn't spent all the time I was playing realising over again I hate Inevitable Excess gameplay.
The stupid completely new way of moving. The levers and buttons and clocks. The maps you can't see all of even after you've been there. Stupid fiddly cogs and mechanical things I still haven't used all of. Puzzles puzzles everywhere and nothing but another fight and some loot to show for it.
... yes there's usually another fight and some loot, Pathfinder is fight and loot centric, I just... I was playing gold dragon and on gold dragon all you need to do is breathe on things, sometimes twice. That's not fascinating. If the AI could aim cones I could have left it to play itself. And then the loot is things you have seen already or a simple numerical improvement, and at this point while it is cool to have even higher plus numbers, you'd have to sleep extra to take advantage of the extra spells, and you aren't going to run out between sleeps unless you get really stubborn anyway. You run out of Heal and Mass Heal on a normal run but Daeran only needs to heal the dragon, the dragon just breathes on everyone else. It's great, but the main problem it leaves me with is Woljif getting unlucky somewhere under my wing so I don't notice he's all corpsified again. Which only lasts until Daeran gets the diamonds out anyway.
It makes the stakes weird. The big philosophical stuff is big stakes, but the game you play to get to those choices is... tedious. I mean I forgot to do most of my buffs for a big chunk of time and it didn't seem to matter much. Because you breathe on everyone and tada, no more problems.
I like the questions IE raises, I like the decisions you can make, it has lots of bits of fun story.
But it also has deliberately weirded out graphics that can be hard to see, a movement and puzzles loop that makes Alushinyrra look like sensible straight lines, and enemies that don't leave you with many options to think about.
I am done with it again.
... until I finish the main game on another myth at least.
I would feel more accomplished if I hadn't spent all the time I was playing realising over again I hate Inevitable Excess gameplay.
The stupid completely new way of moving. The levers and buttons and clocks. The maps you can't see all of even after you've been there. Stupid fiddly cogs and mechanical things I still haven't used all of. Puzzles puzzles everywhere and nothing but another fight and some loot to show for it.
... yes there's usually another fight and some loot, Pathfinder is fight and loot centric, I just... I was playing gold dragon and on gold dragon all you need to do is breathe on things, sometimes twice. That's not fascinating. If the AI could aim cones I could have left it to play itself. And then the loot is things you have seen already or a simple numerical improvement, and at this point while it is cool to have even higher plus numbers, you'd have to sleep extra to take advantage of the extra spells, and you aren't going to run out between sleeps unless you get really stubborn anyway. You run out of Heal and Mass Heal on a normal run but Daeran only needs to heal the dragon, the dragon just breathes on everyone else. It's great, but the main problem it leaves me with is Woljif getting unlucky somewhere under my wing so I don't notice he's all corpsified again. Which only lasts until Daeran gets the diamonds out anyway.
It makes the stakes weird. The big philosophical stuff is big stakes, but the game you play to get to those choices is... tedious. I mean I forgot to do most of my buffs for a big chunk of time and it didn't seem to matter much. Because you breathe on everyone and tada, no more problems.
I like the questions IE raises, I like the decisions you can make, it has lots of bits of fun story.
But it also has deliberately weirded out graphics that can be hard to see, a movement and puzzles loop that makes Alushinyrra look like sensible straight lines, and enemies that don't leave you with many options to think about.
I am done with it again.
... until I finish the main game on another myth at least.