Minnesänger wrote:

Good luck, elf.

Oh shit. Oh shit. What is that fucker waiting for me…

regmcfly wrote:

Can I assume "astronaut" is something to do with the opening sequence of the game? Could someone just explain what that is, spoilers and all?

There’s 2 or 3 items you can pick up in the game that are described as not wanting to let go of you - they’re basically extra lives.

Badly needed some silphium. So I come across a malignant one and what happens? I want to clean it with ether but press wrong button and pick it up. Already had 2 malfunctions that some fucker of an enemy just gave me so my string-blade artefact got destroyed. Great.

Right, read up on missing trophies. So I have to delete my save file and play from scratch if I want my missing story trophies. Fuck. That. Shit.

hylian_elf wrote:

Aaaaaand… credits rolled. Didn’t die at all in last area. What a game! Thoughts later.

Nice work, elf.

...and I'm back in love with this again.

I gave it a "one last go" run yesterday having been sulking since it crashed.  Approached the third boss with a different gun and suddenly found it easy.
I then waltzed straight through Biome 4 and took out the fourth boss on the same run.  Something tells me I'm going to be in Biome 5 for a while though. (I didn't get near the boss)

In the meantime, without going into too much detail, some of the narrative stuff that's popped up along the way has more than justified my patience. Great stuff.

regmcfly wrote:

I'm at the point where I don't believe there's more than one biome.

This entire thread us making shit up just to troll you. Sorry bud.

regmcfly wrote:

I'm at the point where I don't believe there's more than one biome.

I felt like that for quite a while.  (As I said before, I'm averaging 12 hours per boss, which makes me feel mildly embarrassed when I see other people's run times, but also that I'm getting my 60 quid's worth out of it.)

It does get easier, and I don't really know why.  What little the game gives you shouldn't make a massive difference, but it does. The first biome went from "this is completely impossible" to "I'll just whizz round here and pick up a few treats before moving on". Part of it is just knowing the enemies, and getting into the rhythm of it, and part of it is that the stuff you unlock makes subtle differences to how manageable it all becomes.

I definitely enjoyed it best when I stopped worrying about progress and just relished the PewPew - and that's often when I did best too.  However I'll also admit there have been several times when I've just declared to no-one in particular that "I'm giving up on it for real this time" - and that keeping going at the sluggish rate that I am is quite possibly a form of madness.

hylian_elf wrote:

b0r1s wrote:

How we laughed. My favourite was the lava biome... great boss that.

The level set in the clouds was so gorgeous.

I must admit, I felt pulled out of the game a little when I first saw the Circus themed biome.  (It was worth it for the Severed Clown boss though).

Now that a couple more people have completed it, will look at sorting the start of some Weekly Runs this week. Will pick a day for the Daily Run and try to do an update to the OP with deets. Will let everyone know once it's sorted. Please stay tuned for PEW PEW.

Yeah I tried it yesterday and died on a Scout avenge fight due to bullets not coming back quick enough when you miss. Definitely encourages you to get up close and mix it up.

Seeing a lot more scouts now. Fought 4 in one run before the aforementioned death.

And for those that aren't aware, there is a save system coming, but no ETA yet. For those that find the length of each run a dealbreaker if you can't quit the game (which is fair), they might wanna hold on a bit.

There’s a trick to beating those:

Also also completely different setup/set of traps in biome 3 now. It was… challenging.

I just watched a 6 minute speed run from biome 3 to end…