I see your plan and, by the command of UB-Bloom, I am to counter with a board for you to make your own gaming thread in. :3

oWo

Well, thank you!

Got the true ending in Unsighted. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this game.

The combat is awesome, it has similarities with games like Dead Cells and Scourgebringer, but with even more of an emphasis on patience and defence -- most of the time it's about waiting for the right moment to counter particular enemy attacks until the enemy is made vulnerable and can be punished for high damage. Of course, one can attack at other times, but it's less effective.


The platforming isn't awesome -- both the controls and the graphics really are not built for platforming. The jumps are glorified dodge-rolls that follow awkward rigid arcs. The game has a 3D world made with 2D graphics, in such a way that it's impossible to know what height something is just by looking at it.

The way the world is put together is really annoying. There are artificial one-way barriers everywhere that aren't visible on the map and often seem to be placed haphazardly with no sensible reason to be there, so the world is a pain to navigate. This gets even worse in the dungeons, where there might be like 6 different paths available but only one of them will actually lead to something you can do at the moment. Some of the dungeons can be kind of broken by skipping large sections of them using items you're not supposed to have yet, but that doesn't always work. I never want to do the bloody Factory ever again.

I enjoyed my 2nd playthrough a lot more than the 1st playthrough, because you can use everything you learned from the first time around to play the game in a totally new way. There are enemies called "Shadow Creatures" that one is led to believe can't be killed until the endgame, but they can in fact be fought right from the beginning. There is a crafting system which I originally thought was bloated and unnecessary -- there's a Minecraft-style crafting grid, except it's a waste of time because you need to find crafting recipes in the world first, and that's also a waste a time because crafting materials are extremely common and pretty quickly have enough to craft anything you could ever want, so it would make more sense to just find the thing directly out in the world rather than a recipe for the thing. However, using the manual crafting grid, you don't actually need to unlock the recipes if you've already memorised them, letting you get stuff way earlier than you're supposed to.


On my 2nd playthrough I tried to beat the 5 main bosses needed to unlock the endgame in the opposite order -- not only is that possible, but the game gave me an achievement for that. On my 3rd playthrough, I left Downtown during the prologue and beat the entire Factory before returning to finish the prologue. The game gave me an achievement for that too.


I originally assumed that the true ending is unlocked by saving everyone, but nope, that just gets you the normal ending again. I had to look up how to get the true ending and the requirements were a long list of crazy stuff, most of which I had no idea existed.

The bosses are mostly quite awesome, with a few exceptions. There's one right at the end that just copies all of the abilities of the other bosses which I thought was lame. It has a second phase which is the same as the first phase except there are two of it, which doesn't work well because the bosses it copies aren't designed for that and don't play nice with each other. All three of the bonus bosses, while better designed than that one, were a bit disappointing -- one of them was pretty cool but I was way too powerful by the time I found it and it went down really fast, whereas the other two were basically just upgraded versions of earlier bosses.


The game has lots of cool moments but the bad parts are too annoying to be worth playing again, unless maybe I give hard mode a try.

Added parallax-scrolling backgrounds, which look pretty awesome. Fixed up some of the menus too :3


Might give a test build to a few select people once I've polished the intro area a bit more.

• High- The Chainsmokers (Just released a few days ago~)
• Royal Flush- Silva Hound (Also just released a few days ago~)
• Red Light- Jay Garrison
• Drive- Freakso
• Broken- Lovelytheband
• Me & Ur Ghost- Blackbear

A heap of nasty grid system bugs have been ironed out.

I've put together a little intro area to play around in. Everything feels quite nice. I'm still using placeholder sprites and whatnot, though, so it doesn't look good at the moment. It includes bounce pads, a newly implemented feature, which I think are necessary for the intro level because the player character does not have much vertical mobility at the beginning.


I am considering bringing back the imaginary floor mechanic from SS2 and LoGM -- the thing where you can stand on the bottom of the screen for a moment after entering a room -- but I might not need it this time.


There were weird issues where, when connecting rooms in certain ways, blocks couldn't line up properly. To fix this, I made every room be an integer number of blocks wide. This means that I had to increase the standard 1x1 room size slightly to 864x480. The window remains 853x480 in order to stay in the proper proportion for widescreen. The discrepancy is no problem because the camera code I have happily scrolls the screen the extra 11 pixels automatically, just like it scrolls in larger rooms.

Its a remix of Patchouli Knowledge's theme from the Touhou fangame, Concealed the Conclusion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKgruFGZvP8

*defenestrates self*
*makes peace with the time pirates*
*transcends many tablecloths*
*burns down the pavement*
*litigates the vampire queen*
*falls past the penultimate garden*
*calls forth two cinderblocks*
*obeys a quokka*
*speaks the past into being*
*acquires happiness*
*regresses the extra-terrestrial skies*
*spins too many arms*
*is attitude*
*returns water to the brink*
*compares a doorknob*
*divests stubbornness*
*becomes technology**returns water to the brink*
*compares a doorknob*
*divests stubbornness*
*becomes technology*


:3

I have some questions about the canon timeline of Xyrinfe which I'd like to clear up :3 Or at least discuss with the other LTKs.




1. Is Serenity part of the 125th generation of Hortons (source: http://lunarshadowcs.createaforum.com/lunar-shadow-x/questions-(caution-major-spoilers)-144/msg2251/#msg2251), or part of the 81st generation of Valkyries and therefore the 78th generation of Hortons? (source: https://lsproject.fandom.com/wiki/Family_Tree)




2. How can Martel Aar be the only survivor of the Chemical War in 2013 (source: https://lsproject.fandom.com/wiki/Martel_Aar) when LS takes place after that? Even if you argue that it was actually only Jarodimia that was destroyed, that that should be the canon timeline and that everything that I've done with the continent is only part of the SS timeline, there's still the fact that Tranquility is known to have also survived the Chemical War (source: http://lunarshadowcs.createaforum.com/general-discussion-25/lunar-shadow-project-wiki/msg14908/#msg14908) and therefore Martel cannot be the only survivor.


3. What is the Realm of Crystal? Like, seriously, what is it?


4. Are any of the characters from The Gathering canon?


5. Are the various objects in Serenth arranged into star systems, or are they just haphazardly floating through space? It is known that physics is wonky in Xyrinfe. Furthermore, earlier versions of Serenth as well as Darii from Dragon Riders appear to resemble single star systems as opposed to galaxies.


6. Who are the other fourteen Horton sisters? (source: http://lunarshadowcs.createaforum.com/general-board/general-retcons-threat/msg11611/#msg11611) I think this post was likely a joke but one can never tell with XSP.
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7. Is time travel still canon in XSP? (source: http://lunarshadowcs.createaforum.com/general-board/general-retcons-threat/msg11568/#msg11568).