SO, an update about me and such.

I’ve recently 100% (or maybe 400%?) a tiny indie game called Kadin the Soul Eater.

Holy shit what a rollercoaster of emotions.

10/10 story, 7/10 overall... mainly held back because OW MY EARS and slightly clunky controls (it’s made in RPG maker... take a guess why). That and the difficulty of navigating at first... I’m able to now, but it took me hours before I figured out the world map and where things are.

A lot of rage, because there’s zero guides on it. I’ll probably make a rough one for each of the 4 endings (2 routes, lots of overlap, but each have mutually exclusive endings). And BOY is this game’s dungeons awkward.

They’re not brutally unfair or anything (excluding the horrors of Outcast Caves), but they’re often big and absolutely require mental mapping of important areas. But... almost all doors and chests use universal “Rusty Keys”, which are one time use... but, since some optional loot in the early game can be skipped, you can smuggle keys to skip half the dungeon sometimes.

Early game is brutal due to... Kadin being a wuss and having a sort of exponential scaling with his levels.

Basically, he becomes a one-shot machine at level 20 with the best hear you can get on him, and nigh unkillable, but the journey to that is paved with relying on the friends.

The team system, Kadin’s three friends, range from Niko... who exists... Hunter, who can basically tank infinite damage so long as you have some form of healing (and Niko can actually render him invincible WHILE HE’S TAUNTED THE ENEMY WTF HOW DID THIS GET INTO THE GAME!?), and then there’s Ember... she kills everything and makes your teammates also kill everything by looking at them too hard.

But a ton of joy and love for the characters, writing, and incredibly complicated-yet-simple story (it’s confusing until you break the viewpoints apart).

TLDR, I fell in love with a sad indie game. Emphasis on sad, the only “good” ending is still pretty morbid, but it’s far better than the alternatives.

So now I’m tempted to make a bit of it... multiple maybe. Thoughts on it, yay/nay?

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