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Northernlion review: Disgusted

Postby abcabcabc339 on Sun Nov 17, 2013 4:36 pm

I have such a bad taste in my mouth after watching this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyhk0FU4XTM

He has the audacity to review the game after playing it for one hour. He then plays the game for 20 minutes to demonstrate how little he knows about it. Literally the opposite of everything he says is true:

"It is a rogue like" + "Like super meat boy there is no penalty for dying"

"The fighter's monster sensing is quite useful"

"The game is casual and has very little complexity outside of town building."

"You should fight monsters on the same level as you to get the most XP"

"Don't try to whittle the boss's hit points down before you are level 10 and ready to fight him, because he regens the same as you do"

Is the worst DD run I have ever seen. He kills ONE MONSTER in the whole thing that is a higher level then him. Wants to be level ten to fight the boss. He is level 9 and wastes one health and two mana potions to fight a level 9 goblin, WHEN THERE IS NOT ENOUGH XP ON THE MAP TO GET TO LEVEL TEN. He does not convert anything UNTIL AFTER FAILING TO FIGHT THE BOSS.

But the thing he said that made me mad enough to post here:

"The graphics are bad, and it is not worth fifteen dollars, Pixelry (unrelated game) is better"
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Re: Northernlion review: Disgusted

Postby Urthop on Sun Nov 17, 2013 4:45 pm

How have you survived in the internet wonderland if that leaves you disgusted? :P There's worse things out there.

If anything it just shows how high the learning curve is. I mean, there's really nothing in the game that actually points out at you IIRC that you always want to hit up the highest level monster you can kill. Maybe an idea for an extra bit of tutorial?
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Re: Northernlion review: Disgusted

Postby FDru on Sun Nov 17, 2013 4:59 pm

lol he called fireball "ouch burning"

So yeah, this goes to show you how unintuitive regen fighting is and the kind of bad habits the fighter teaches you.

I wouldn't worry about his review though... considering it's gotten a whole 1k views in a week I don't think anybody cares.
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Re: Northernlion review: Disgusted

Postby Wargasm on Sun Nov 17, 2013 5:35 pm

I heard of something called journalistic integrity once, but I'm pretty sure I had eaten some funny mushrooms at the time. It must have all just been a dream.
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Re: Northernlion review: Disgusted

Postby Darvin on Sun Nov 17, 2013 6:48 pm

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Re: Northernlion review: Disgusted

Postby JayPlaysIndieGames on Sun Nov 17, 2013 7:21 pm

I look back at some of my first runs, and they aren't much better than his.
TBH it isn't hard to mistake DD for a casual game because well it IS a casual game if you play it that way. I admit he probably should have taken a bit more time with it before his review. I don't think he realized the lvl of complexity the game has.
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Re: Northernlion review: Disgusted

Postby Urthop on Sun Nov 17, 2013 11:19 pm

I semi regularly watch some of his content, and his shtick is to mostly give a first impression, generally plays about an hour and then gives his impressions on the game. He's also semi famous for being 'awful at videogames', so in that regard his video shows that off perfectly ;)
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Re: Northernlion review: Disgusted

Postby Blovski on Sun Nov 17, 2013 11:35 pm

Hahaha oh dear

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Re: Northernlion review: Disgusted

Postby abcabcabc339 on Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:40 am

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Re: Northernlion review: Disgusted

Postby Lujo on Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:49 am

I almost got pwned by Shifty Brickwork!
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