After the Just Okay Bloodstained, I thought I'd play through IGA's actual masterpiece for the 20th time. I also played through it on the luck build for the first time, which lowers all stats to almost nothing, except for luck, which is at 99 + 20.
And it was actually hard again! Harder than the very first time, 26 years ago. Wargs in the opening hallway kill in one hit! The bone tossing skeletons in the Alchemist's Laboratory killed me in three! I saw the Game Over screen more often in that first hour than I had since 1997! It was great!
But high luck also means you find all kinds of cool shit, including rare weapons and armor, and by the time I was at the Outer Wall, I was regular strength again. I did have to rethink how to play, because I'd never played with fists before and my best weapon by far were the jeweled knuckles, so it was still fun.
By the end, I had the Crissagrim and 90% of attacks were just taking a single hit point away, so I pretty much ruled. It was still really fun to play through again, because it always is, even if the new localization and voices are all wrong.
I wish I could put that and the shitty Kenny G credits song back, but I also get that this is pure nostalgia and that those things were objectively awful.
And it was actually hard again! Harder than the very first time, 26 years ago. Wargs in the opening hallway kill in one hit! The bone tossing skeletons in the Alchemist's Laboratory killed me in three! I saw the Game Over screen more often in that first hour than I had since 1997! It was great!
But high luck also means you find all kinds of cool shit, including rare weapons and armor, and by the time I was at the Outer Wall, I was regular strength again. I did have to rethink how to play, because I'd never played with fists before and my best weapon by far were the jeweled knuckles, so it was still fun.
By the end, I had the Crissagrim and 90% of attacks were just taking a single hit point away, so I pretty much ruled. It was still really fun to play through again, because it always is, even if the new localization and voices are all wrong.
I wish I could put that and the shitty Kenny G credits song back, but I also get that this is pure nostalgia and that those things were objectively awful.