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Very obvious ragebait as other people stated but I'll bite.
"Nothing like" is disingenuous and you know it, neither of them are assets created by the developer yet he does try to match them up correspondingly. He isn't plopping down a headless corpse then the enemy is some giant wolf. "The entire overworl-" You have explored a tiny bit of one area. You are in the tutorial, on the easiest difficulty, and you are complaining that the combat is simple, you have no gear, you have no skills. Ironically you'd definitely still be complaining if the game threw you in head-first and expected the same knowledge of its systems in the end-game as it does in the first half of the game. Though even at your level you can very easily see that it isn't actually just vanilla RPGMaker combat (which honestly I might be questioning if you've ever even played another RPGMaker game before depending on your previous points and more just using this as an insult because you saw some guy who got filtered in the tutorial, almost like you did, say it was.) Vanilla RPGMaker combat is very static in the turn order, simply using agility, while Black Souls is more akin to older final fantasy combat with allowing as many turns before your opponent as you want as long as your bar fills up first, having specific attacks to increase the speed your ball fills up again, parries and dodges to counter your opponents, and breaks which you definitely know exist because you mention them later. Even before it develops any of its actually interesting mechanics like weapon-swapping and field conditions you can tell it isn't "just vanilla." Pixel art bit is definitely subjective but you're likely being a contrarian anyways.
You know what, I'm on your side now, we all HAD to choose Daughter Alice at the start because Alice Liddell was a child throughout whatever was documented of her, picking the teen or adult options is simply willful misunderstanding of not only her character, but her as a person.
In conclusion, almost all your "points" are either willful misinterpretations, blatant contrarianism, or wildly unhinged rants about how things that haven't even happened are ruining your experience. How is this *not* ragebait?
Not an actual issue, it's fine if you don't like a certain writing style though. You should definitely try to do the bare-minimum amount of research on something before critiquing it though.
True, it's pretty easy to figure out that it was meant to be transparency/clarity though. You're waking up and the text is half cut off after-all.
Pretty weird strawman to come so soon depending you can go into any popular black souls community/discord and find out that daughter Alice isn't actually the most common choice people make. Also very interesting how you call it "creepy" despite later on going on a rant about how nothing the game does is creepy or horror related whatsoever.
Might be a critique of the engine itself honestly. It's RPGMaker, no idea why you'd go "they didn't even try hmph" when that's pretty much the extent you can do to try and replicate something like that.
Ah yes, the disco room where the rabbits are.. eating corpses. You're in wonderland, where madness is completely normal and treated as such, you're essentially doing the equivalent of getting mad that the Oblivion Shivering Isles DLC, meant to portray the Land of the Mad God was too wacky for you because it's also exploring the topic of mental illness. Sorry that you don't think seeing what would've happened to your corpse if it hadn't been for the sheer luck of the man falling and giving you that key isn't "horror enough"
Woah, the borderline schizophrenic rapist murderer protagonist is hearing.. VOICES?? (text) telling him to KILL THINGS?? I simply don't understand why that would ever happen! Although it also shows a hint for later in the level, showing that they portray more than just "memes" also your solution of making "cringy fake player messages" into cringy fake player messages that you like is pretty funny. Not to mention you can just turn them off if they're ruining your immersion or something.
Not a loli and not an issue, she's quite literally a character from Alice in wonderland, y'know, what 50% or more of the game is actually about?
This entire little rant is beyond disingenuous in every way possible. You're sperging out because you aren't absolutely terrified.. around 20% through the tutorial. You ramble about how it's loli hentai first despite.. not seeing any loli hentai. You continue to ramble about how you're super tough and watch murder for funsies so how could a horror game affect lil ol' you before making a completely baseless assumption about a game you haven't played even 1% of. You do realize that basically all horror media ever ramps up, right? While I wouldn't consider Friday the 13th scary do you get irrationally upset if that doesn't have some gorey kill 5 minutes in? No, there's build-up, build-up you never reached despite the game laying foundations early that you never really caught onto because as you state later, you just get really weirdly upset playing this game. Not to mention the "bunny monster" which is just a normal bunny that eats human is intentionally trying to show you that even the cutest most harmless animals are not such in wonderland. Also Lol at your third point calling something creepy before going on a rant about how nothing is creepy.
You've only met a single little girl in the story so far, one that you intentionally chose to be a little girl, and she didn't even have a rape option. The rest is more nonsensical repeated points with you ending off that the game doesn't have the writing to support choices like that despite you not only having only read the prologue, but also very obviously didn't choose the rape option to see if it actually *is* well-written (which i don't think they are tbh) because trying to rape cheshire cat doesn't work lol
I'm assuming you didn't play the first game due to how you portray yourself and your other points but even if you have this entire tangent is just random and nonsensical depending you haven't seen a single h-scene unless you used black ash to find node early, which you definitely didn't because you don't know how master keys work. Going on a rant about how this game is entirely about the hentai when you haven't seen any hentai and there's literally an option to turn it completely off is just wild.
"Nothing like" is disingenuous and you know it, neither of them are assets created by the developer yet he does try to match them up correspondingly. He isn't plopping down a headless corpse then the enemy is some giant wolf. "The entire overworl-" You have explored a tiny bit of one area. You are in the tutorial, on the easiest difficulty, and you are complaining that the combat is simple, you have no gear, you have no skills. Ironically you'd definitely still be complaining if the game threw you in head-first and expected the same knowledge of its systems in the end-game as it does in the first half of the game. Though even at your level you can very easily see that it isn't actually just vanilla RPGMaker combat (which honestly I might be questioning if you've ever even played another RPGMaker game before depending on your previous points and more just using this as an insult because you saw some guy who got filtered in the tutorial, almost like you did, say it was.) Vanilla RPGMaker combat is very static in the turn order, simply using agility, while Black Souls is more akin to older final fantasy combat with allowing as many turns before your opponent as you want as long as your bar fills up first, having specific attacks to increase the speed your ball fills up again, parries and dodges to counter your opponents, and breaks which you definitely know exist because you mention them later. Even before it develops any of its actually interesting mechanics like weapon-swapping and field conditions you can tell it isn't "just vanilla." Pixel art bit is definitely subjective but you're likely being a contrarian anyways.
The first area being full of corpses and undead enemies is *exactly* what dark souls 1 did though. You're even escaping out of a "prison" in both games. You're right though, the crash chamber is definitely more complex than the Asylum was, and depending that was dark souls' best starting area it's looking pretty good.
This is very funny, it also confirms that you didn't play the first game.
Nobody but you considers this a puzzle. Once again, it's showcasing just how broken wonderland is.
There's... no mandatory death.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you mean on your sprite, in which case true! Otherwise there's a status effect symbol under your level in the menu.
Obviously not if you thought there was a forced death sequence because the boss slaughtered you lol also I don't.. really get what else you'd want from the descriptions? It tells you exactly what it does as a good game should, would you rather they didn't give you the numbers for certain things to make it less boring? Instead of dodge telling you it only works 70% of the time they just need to say "Works majority of the time" would that be better to you..?
This is very embarrassing and I don't know why you'd admit this.
Ironically, from what you've said you would've enjoyed this game infinitely more if it was like that.
Literally what are you even talking about here? The only thing you said that is even mildly relevant is that you have to unequip your weapon to upgrade it, which yes that is a genuine flaw. The bear ISN'T your level up maiden and I have no idea why you think he is, you talked to him, you obviously looked through his menus and what he could do, you didn't see the ability to level up yet you thought he was the one who leveled you up. I can't believe Andre is the level up maiden in DS1 AND DS3, From Software got so lazy smh. Once again making completely random assumptions based off of literally nothing you've experienced, no it doesn't feel like they're forcing him to be a big unsubtle plot point because he isn't even a plot point, since when have blacksmiths in souls games ever even been relevant (outside of the obvious). Andre has meme status and honestly Vamos might too but they certainly aren't a big part of the game's story.
Well you were right about something, they aren't accessible except with the master key.. which is because it's a consumable which you would've very quickly found out since you use it at the door RIGHT next to cheshire cat with the big bloodstain saying "Master Key Required" and then it wouldn't have been in your inventory anymore. They're also sold later in the game for super cheap, master keys as a mechanic honestly kind of feel like pandering to dark souls for the sake of being dark soulsy but that's far from your actual argument.
Yeah, you can check out people on youtube doing challenge runs of the game, SL1, blind, (as in blindfolded), no-hit, there's a few asexual fans you can even find if you look around a bit, the h-scenes aren't really that well written so turning them off honestly might make it a more fun experience. Though there's a few that you definitely wouldn't want to skip which ARE skipped with that option on so it's a bad idea for a first playthrough, mostly the endings and DLC stuff though, but one scene with red hood in particular in upper lutwidge is one you wouldn't want to miss. Also I don't really know why you're obsessed with some random enemy and trying to act like he's some interactable npc when you could've went with vernai, who people remember, vorpal the headhunting beast, who people remember, or even went with the actual unique invader miniboss who people actually don't remember instead of hyper-fixating on some random little enemy like you remember the exact name of the spear, shield wielding hollows in undead burg.
Until, the endgame, correct.
Woahhh.. the direct sequel mentions the game before it... that's wild maaan...
Yes, maybe you'll see it now that you've finally left the tutorial area. Also is this you saying you think Giraffes and Horses look absolutely nothing alike? Aside from the neck and color (which color isn't a problem in this game because they aren't yellow) they're pretty similar build wise, maybe horses have a bit more toning in their muscles, that must be why they're on complete opposite ends of the spectrum of animals.
Do it then, you have the ability to save anytime you want for a reason.
Do you.. not know who Sherlock Holmes is..? The obvious OC bit is pretty funny depending he's arguably the least original character in the entire game, all the alice in wonderland characters have unique art but he just has a normal asset plus he's based off of something else. It's weird that you actively had to pass Vernai, an npc A LOT more furry than Cheshire Cat to explore the areas you explored yet you didn't mention or scorn him like this, I guess that's a bit of confirmation that you're not really paying all that much attention to.. anything really.
There's zero way you unironically think that one of the many generic NPCs which have like 2 lines of dialogue in lutwidge to try and show that the town is actually lived in is actually supposed to be the exact same character. Dude's sitting in the mental ward having a breakdown along with 3 other people and your sole thought is that he's a mischaracterization of a character he isn't replicating. They already had that NPC in the first game, they didn't need to and didn't do it again.
You know what, I'm on your side now, we all HAD to choose Daughter Alice at the start because Alice Liddell was a child throughout whatever was documented of her, picking the teen or adult options is simply willful misunderstanding of not only her character, but her as a person.
Because blood messages can be turned off.. also the developer did it again in the third dlc and it completely stumped tons of people lol, even with the message i'm guessing a ton of the people on this website struggled on how to open it.
What a crazy reading of a note that just gives you a hint on who Jack The Ripper's identity is.
This is verifiably untrue, you simply did the equivalent of going to the graveyard early in DS1 and got mad about it lol. Tunnel vision will ruin you in games like these.
In conclusion, almost all your "points" are either willful misinterpretations, blatant contrarianism, or wildly unhinged rants about how things that haven't even happened are ruining your experience. How is this *not* ragebait?
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