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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Playing Heaven's Vault again. I was up to new game + 5 or so but then new computer. And there were no steam cloud saves. There are now cause I complained about it, but too late for my save, stuck on a windows 7 machine. Anyway, up to new game + 2 I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't see this one talked about much, but when I do, I hear the story is amazing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I personally love the game, hence the several new game +'s before I had to restart. But it's also very niche? The gameplay is finding inscriptions (usually on items found during exploring, sometimes on walls or...other ways) and translating them into English. This is done by learning parts of the language and placing words it might be below. Also all sentences have no spaces cause whhhhyyyy would the Ancient Scribes use spaces? But new game + adds longer more complicated phrases (or shorter ones, those are also hard because like...the word "so" is used so rarely it's hard to nail down.). The story itself follows Aliyah as she travels the rivers of the nebula to learn the past of the nebula. The first time you play you are likely to...not understand a lot. It's very VERY easy to accidentally whoops into the point of no return area in a few ways. You can miss an entire place that has a ton of info. But that's new game + for yoouuu! Find more places! Numbers are also hard. There is no death as far as I can tell? I've tried to kill Aliyah. So is it even a game if you can't die? I know some people would say no! Also the controls for moving her are clunky, and sometimes you'll figure out what a symbol means before the game will have it among the possible options at the bottom. "Why aren't you giving me the word for "goddess's" game, I knoooow that's what that set of symbols must mean! It has the word for divine, human, and possessive!"

Heaven's Vault is the closest thing my brain has let me have towards a hyperfixation for awhile. I've missed it.