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A Comic Wherein I Would Rather Be Playing Slay the Spire (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by moakley@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok. The guy is crazy with his kids. Whatever the kids imagine, thats the game. My niece once told me we were playing "Twinkle Spiral". Then we held out our arms spin in a circle while running around the room spinning. It's been 10 years, and apperently I won. I still have no idea what the game even was.

The cat he's just being lazy. You put some double sided sticky take down on the floor in the shape of a maze. Then you keep the toy upwards, so the cat is always looking up. Now you guide the cat so she never looks down, and navigates the maze while not stepping on the tape.

And his wife? Well she's just a prude. A card based system could TOTALLY spice up the bedroom. Oh, you drew this card. Lets see what you gotta do. Looks like you're getting tied up and tickled for 10 minutes. Ok, my turn to draw a card. Looks like I gotta lick your butthole until you cum.....and you're still tied up, so you can't help! Ohh nooooooooo..........slurp slurp slurp

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

100% accurate username

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Guy is at +14 for me, even though I dish out plenty of negatives as well.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I love a good hard left

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He can buy a deck of spicy cards for the wife, and I'm sorry for the kids. But the cat? Is there a creature more roguelike than a cat?

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trash Panda?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Best part is they can keep eating the same food you were buying for the cat in the first place.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Slay the Spire lasted most of my flight to Japan a couple years ago. On the deck it's extremely battery efficient.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I bought it on my phone over the summer when we lost power for a week (I live in Texas). I couldn't consistently charge my phone, but Slay the Spire offered a much needed distraction for hours.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wish I understood and enjoyed these card battle games. There are a number of really good ones available.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As in, understanding the appeal, or understanding how to properly play? StS is what taught me the latter, it might be a good fit (with some beginners tips if you'd like).

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Understanding how to play. The only one I’ve tried is Enscryption and I was mostly lost. Any beginners tips would be appreciated.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not a pro, but I can certainly give some tips!

Inscryption is an amazing game, but I find it hard to understand what's going on a lot of the time. Slay the Spire is much better in that regard. You can hover over any status effect, keyword and so on to get a tooltip that explains things pretty well. Most artifacts etc. are also easy to understand, and the tutorial is a good introduction.

Some tips (most are good for all such card games):

The most important thing after immediate survival is synergies. Find cards and artifacts that work together. Focusing on individual cards is usually harder to bring to a win.
To be able to reliably draw your synergies, try to keep your deck lean. Focus on removing cards that you can "replace" with better versions (e.g. basic attacks/defends). Also don't add willy-nilly if you have a good thing going, try to think about what you're lacking.
Focus on getting cards/artifacts/synergies that allow you to draw more cards & generate extra action points.
Sometimes, taking a bit of extra damage early can save a lot of extra damage later.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No idea what "Slay the Spire" is so I had to look it up:

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/slay-the-spire-switch/

Cartoon makes more sense now!

[–] moody@lemmings.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's on pretty much every platform, including GOG for those who want DRM-free, and even has a native Linux version.

It also goes on sale quite frequently for like 66% off. Definitely worth picking up at sale price.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It also goes on sale quite frequently for like 66% off. Definitely worth picking up at sale price.

For anyone already using using these services its also included in both Game Pass and PS+ Extra at the moment.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wow, that's pretty incredible that it hadn't reached you all these years. Slay the Spire's predecessor is Dream Quest, which, in combination with the tabletop card game Dominion, spawned a whole subgenre of deck-building games.

Indies' Lies, Pirates Outlaws, Monster Train, Tainted Grail: Conquest, Griftlands, and so many more are all direct descendants of StS. It was as revolutionary to indie gaming as FTL: Faster Than Light and Doukutsu Monogatari (Cave Story) were in their respective genres.

So there's a little bit of indie gaming history for you.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, I don't have the energy to sift through 500 garbage indie games to find the one gem. ;) As a rule, I don't bother with indie titles.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

That's ironic because I've generally gotten way more enjoyment out of specific indie games than AAA. Whatever floats your boat, I s'pose.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Oh hello the-exact-opposite-of-me lmao

All of those games mentioned slap harder than 95% of the AAA games released in the past ten years imo and you could buy six for what a AAA game costs these days.

[–] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The trick is to pay attention to reviews and not waste time on the garbage. When a game is 97% recommended out of 150,000+ reviews it might be worth checking out.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, you can't trust those others because troll reviews will vote up "click the duck".

[–] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Steam is way better now at weeding those out of the stats that show on the store page. Vote brigading still happens of course but a couple minutes of skimming top reviews will make that obvious.

[–] joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

You can check negative steam reviews. On games that are hard not to like, the negative reviews are of very low quality or praise the game.

That said, the most interesting games for you specifically won't be overwhelmingly positively rated. But that is hardly a problem if you are content with triple-A.

[–] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Replace it with Balatro

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, for three reasons.

There ain't no Slaying, there ain't no Spires, and there ain't no Slaying of no Spires.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used to watch a YouTuber absolutely demolish every run and I would learn about the mechanics and their strategies but I somehow kept getting stomped in 4/5 runs myself.

It could just be the RNG but it was pretty demoralizing.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was it live streaming or pre-recorded? I'm coming to realize that most pre-recorded roguelike videos are cherry-picked and don't teach you much.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The WR is a 18 win streak on rotating characters on A20. There's players just that good.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I gotta assume it was Baarlorlord. It gets really frustrating when you realise hes playing on Ascension 20.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I put 100 hours into this before I gave it up. The luck mechanics just drove me up the wall; I could be having a great run and suddenly the whole thing falls apart because of bad luck.

I prefer to make my own luck. Which I can't.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

To be honest I have considered getting a deck of cards with various positions, to save the effort of having to make decisions in the moment. 🤔