Soulslike - Discussion, News, Memes
This is a community for discussion, news, and memes pertaining to the video game sub-genre "soulslike".
Given Lemmy's size, the definition of soulslike may be treated relatively loosely. While games like the numerous FromSoft titles, the recent Star Wars Jedi games, Lies of P, Nioh and similar games should be the focus, games that incorporate soulslike elements - like Hollow Knight and Blasphemous, for example - may also be discussed here.
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Ok. I might be getting confused on the games :s .. What are the "not great" things you've heard about code vein?
On regards to withering rooms... It's kind of stupid, but Are the photo plates purchaseable from some vendors? (It'd been a while) The guy on the first floor doesn't have them, right now I don't think I have any mirrors to go to the hub place to check ( Can that happen, the nowhere place being non accessible I mean?) . Should I just start another night? I'm relying on enemy drops buuut everything's dead rn. So I maybe I need to pay a visit to coffin guy....
Okay first of all I don't want to say anything definitive because I haven't played it myself. And Code Vein does have its fanbase, it's just that they mostly like it for the anime story and the companion system (or co-op) or the character creator that lets you make your own anime character. Or the build variety I guess, I have heard it's supposed to have good build variety.
But stuff like combat, boss design, level design and exploration are often brought up as criticisms in various ways. Clunky and weightless combat, some bad bosses, poor balancing, uninspiring level design with lots of samey-looking mazelike copy-pasted assets, poor enemy variety... stuff like that is what I've heard.
Okay, so yes. Lord Nobody of Nowhere in Central Nowhere sells photo plates (he also buys pictures, pays extra for pictures of ghosts). Like every vendor, he will only sell you up to a certain quantity, so you can never overstock anything (apart from craftables). I think the max limit on photo plates is 7. I think this also takes into account spent photo plates in your inventory so always sell those off before you restock.
I don't think there should be any place that is completely inaccessible, not that I remember. Which area are you in? But doing a farming run with Mr Coffin isn't a bad idea if you need more resources. There are also some neat farming strats you can do, like with the grandfather clock (set it to midnight to attract enemies then pelt them with an AoE like Harvest Field). Or some Door Hex shenanigans.
I see, I remember looking for a review of the first one when the latest one dropped and it didn't gave me a bad impression. But maybe I wasn't thorough enough.
I guess between this one and thymesia I'll play the mid/bad soulslikes as well, eventually.
Ok, good to know on the plate thing, thank you! oh and that's what the clock is for? I had no idea. I'm at the entry of the maze. Because of the pace of the game I'm being very careful not to die and I haven't died that much so I went to get stuff before I dived in. Anyway if anything else comes up I'll ask you about it... Or look it up like a normal person XD