Hey Wanderbots, thank you for checking out the game again, we are big fans of your channel so its always ah honor to see you playing the game! We got the biggest update we ever released coming "soonish" haha as we start getting closer to 1.0, we would be more than happy to let you know once its out! This one will bring a ton of new content to the game with a new game mode so we hope will shake things up a bit! =)
Happy to do so, and I look forward to the upcoming update! Soulstone Survivors is on my list of games to randomly play when I need a video, so chances are I'll be loading it up randomly every few months until I somehow cap out on content or the game becomes unplayable somehow.
One of my favourite ones for sure. E-mailed a dev when i had an issue with the game, on a new pc. They went way beyond to help me and get a solution. And they added alot of progression to farm toward and a bunch of new skills very often.
Wander, I have to say that I really appreciate your observations as an artist. I learned something about all of the games I played in the 90s and was too oblivious as a kid to notice, but is now glaringly obvious in retrospect. I respect the hell out of your stance on AI-generated game assets and look forward to learning more from your videos.
Wander returned to this game! WOOO! I really love this game, even if I haven't touched it in a few months I remember going back to an older video to talk about an update they did that Wander had talked about as a nice QOL change, and now i get to see and hear his thoughts on the new updates!
I've fallen in love with this game, watching you play it. Got it for myself, spent entire night playing it and by the time I came back to this video I seem to have maxed few characters already. It's amazing, if a little easier than I'm used to. All EoT's are amazing late game, but doom is your best friend, bc it can insta kill the target, once it overstacks health value.
I never thought about why but you've nailed exactly why I don't watch marvel movies anymore. I subconsciously knew I wouldn't enjoy it to the fullest without watching the rest and I wasn't going to do homework for entertainment.
I think you made some really good points about upper management issues in gaming. To be honest, that’s one of the biggest reasons that major titles and franchises are losing massive amounts of players. The wrong people keep making poor decisions for the sake of more up front profit, and it’s driving those games into the ground. You mentioned Ubisoft, and that’s a great example.
The issue with that one update was it made the game feel really slow. IIRC it was a general nerf to the player and it didn't pan out well. They reverted that update, made a better one and continued from there. I have been enjoying grinding out the evil cathedral mode, after that, I just have the costumes left to grind out.
I always mention this one to folks, it's a good time, the art is clean and consistent, the performance is good and the classes all are unique and sometimes take a mental shift when switching around. pets are still really strong, maybe too strong? They aren't unfun though.
Considering your view on the way levelling progression slows down during a run, I am very surprised to see you BANISH the Magnet, since it's draw isn't so much the collection range, but more so the increase to XP gain, meaning that it helps mitigate the slow down of gaining levels as the run progresses.
Magnet feels weird to me, because you're essentially sacrificing a whole level for the possibility to get more levels down the line. In my experience, it usually ends up breaking even in every single other Bullet Heaven other than Rogue Genesia, so it's usually not worth it. Especially since the bosses drop full-map magnets regularly for me, which makes the bonus pickup range functionally worthless. I could be wrong in this game's case- but usually I'll only snag magnet if it's a higher rarity, and even then it still feels like a wasted pick.
@@wanderbots Nah, you need magnet to keep up with the scaling. Of course picking it as common is bad, but so is everything else at common. If you see green magnet, especially if it's early, pick it. In my experience getting at least +100% exp is neccesary to succeed in loops beyond 4.
One thing I really wish this game had is the ability to unlock weapon-specific abilities for other weapons/characters that can use their tags. It could even be really late into their Prestige trees, I don't care. But some tags just don't feel good without certain abilities that are locked to 1 thing, and in many cases multiple abilities that make a tag work are separated by locks. It's kinda painful.
Ive 100% this game and is an absolute blast. Hoping future includes more maps and different bosses. Also game is a PC melter, luickily you can turn things off that saves it from being basically unplayable.
I always really struggle with picking up bullet heavens again after not playing them for a while. It kinda feels like loading up an old factorio save to me.
With reused art tbe Yakuzz games have used the same map for 20 years now and its still amazing Majora's Mask did its what you do with the art that matter. Stephanie Sterling was so sick of seeing a hand spider in bad steam horror games she offered $100 to anyone that could make the generic model look better
31:27 - Reducing infinite by a little bit is still infinite. Wukong's staff can make the trip to the moon with ease. >D 1:23:05 - Balatro is not my game. I would not vote it game of the year. But it isn't a game made for me, and I recognise that.
Speaking of Deadpool. It knows from the first movie that it runs on bullshit because it is how Deadpool as character runs. If you look at him deeper and deeper there isn't much of character in him. He kills, he swears, he tells a lot inappropriate jokes, breaks fourth wall when its funny. Ans screenwriters of the movie (Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) understand this very good. Its very much same level of movies like Airplane, Naked Gun or Hot Shots. There is a plot somewhere but it isn't important as everything else. You watch it for how absurd it is. Sometimes its goo to have something dumb to watch and get some laughs out of it no matter how idiotic it was.
I whole hearty believe the price increase of AAA is gonna kill AAA games, I think the massive budget of games and movies are massively contributing to horrible content because of the huge margin of error they are allowed to work
When you talked about the "layering" effect, I have kind of an odd counter-point. So I'm into furry games, for example. There are some better-known indie games that I've never heard of, while there are less-known indie games in that niche that I hear about even before they hit early access. I think some gamers have their specific "niche", where they might be more aware of smaller or less-well-known games. Sorta like how you've introduced me to a few awesome incremental games I'd have never heard of otherwise. 🙂
i was onboard until wander started talking about tales of games ... and then he started talking about zestiria and i coudlnt disagree no matter how much i loved all the tales of games, zestiria felt like a low point in all aspects and my least favorite of the catalogue
I probably wasn't super clear, but I think Zestiria's one of the worst in the "Tales of" series. It's just that its environment art was especially bad.
The update reworked a lot of core functionality of how the abilities stacked and added new abilities on top of that. It felt like an entirely new game in a worse way. Thats a rough TLDR anyway.
As for the generic and ugly vs good design... I'd assume there's some amount of "more clicks with moderate interest" vs "A few clicks with extreme interest" going on.
This was the most disappointing bullet heaven I've ever played. The whole gameplay is Dodge Dodge Revolution from unlimited red circles. Not only that, you can't even enjoy the visual spectacle of your own abilities, since you need to turn their visibility to almost 0 to even be able to play properly.
That becomes irrelevant later on. Dodging I mean. Turning off the effects though yeah. You pretty much have to because of can't see anything going on and later on it's lag reasons.
Hey Wanderbots, thank you for checking out the game again, we are big fans of your channel so its always ah honor to see you playing the game! We got the biggest update we ever released coming "soonish" haha as we start getting closer to 1.0, we would be more than happy to let you know once its out! This one will bring a ton of new content to the game with a new game mode so we hope will shake things up a bit! =)
Happy to do so, and I look forward to the upcoming update! Soulstone Survivors is on my list of games to randomly play when I need a video, so chances are I'll be loading it up randomly every few months until I somehow cap out on content or the game becomes unplayable somehow.
I hope my death knight gets the artifact upgrades soonish too. ;-;
They just keep adding to the game, it's incredible.
One of my favourite ones for sure. E-mailed a dev when i had an issue with the game, on a new pc. They went way beyond to help me and get a solution. And they added alot of progression to farm toward and a bunch of new skills very often.
Wander, I have to say that I really appreciate your observations as an artist. I learned something about all of the games I played in the 90s and was too oblivious as a kid to notice, but is now glaringly obvious in retrospect. I respect the hell out of your stance on AI-generated game assets and look forward to learning more from your videos.
Wander returned to this game! WOOO!
I really love this game, even if I haven't touched it in a few months
I remember going back to an older video to talk about an update they did that Wander had talked about as a nice QOL change, and now i get to see and hear his thoughts on the new updates!
I've fallen in love with this game, watching you play it. Got it for myself, spent entire night playing it and by the time I came back to this video I seem to have maxed few characters already. It's amazing, if a little easier than I'm used to.
All EoT's are amazing late game, but doom is your best friend, bc it can insta kill the target, once it overstacks health value.
Thanks for uploading. This is my favorite of this genre.
I never thought about why but you've nailed exactly why I don't watch marvel movies anymore. I subconsciously knew I wouldn't enjoy it to the fullest without watching the rest and I wasn't going to do homework for entertainment.
I think you made some really good points about upper management issues in gaming. To be honest, that’s one of the biggest reasons that major titles and franchises are losing massive amounts of players. The wrong people keep making poor decisions for the sake of more up front profit, and it’s driving those games into the ground. You mentioned Ubisoft, and that’s a great example.
Ahh, my favorite bullet heaven. I usually enjoy watching much more than I enjoy playing, but Soulstone Survivors is just too ludicrously silly.
big love for kingdoms of amalur, adored that game. and was crushed to learn about them going under just after hearing they had plans for another game
The issue with that one update was it made the game feel really slow. IIRC it was a general nerf to the player and it didn't pan out well. They reverted that update, made a better one and continued from there. I have been enjoying grinding out the evil cathedral mode, after that, I just have the costumes left to grind out.
Based as hell rant on ol' Zuck
It's still a fun game, 200+ hours on this one.
I always mention this one to folks, it's a good time, the art is clean and consistent, the performance is good and the classes all are unique and sometimes take a mental shift when switching around. pets are still really strong, maybe too strong? They aren't unfun though.
Considering your view on the way levelling progression slows down during a run, I am very surprised to see you BANISH the Magnet, since it's draw isn't so much the collection range, but more so the increase to XP gain, meaning that it helps mitigate the slow down of gaining levels as the run progresses.
Magnet feels weird to me, because you're essentially sacrificing a whole level for the possibility to get more levels down the line. In my experience, it usually ends up breaking even in every single other Bullet Heaven other than Rogue Genesia, so it's usually not worth it. Especially since the bosses drop full-map magnets regularly for me, which makes the bonus pickup range functionally worthless.
I could be wrong in this game's case- but usually I'll only snag magnet if it's a higher rarity, and even then it still feels like a wasted pick.
@@wanderbots Nah, you need magnet to keep up with the scaling. Of course picking it as common is bad, but so is everything else at common. If you see green magnet, especially if it's early, pick it. In my experience getting at least +100% exp is neccesary to succeed in loops beyond 4.
One thing I really wish this game had is the ability to unlock weapon-specific abilities for other weapons/characters that can use their tags. It could even be really late into their Prestige trees, I don't care. But some tags just don't feel good without certain abilities that are locked to 1 thing, and in many cases multiple abilities that make a tag work are separated by locks. It's kinda painful.
Ive 100% this game and is an absolute blast. Hoping future includes more maps and different bosses. Also game is a PC melter, luickily you can turn things off that saves it from being basically unplayable.
@me36391 Thankfully, next update will include a new map, but i desire new bosses.
I always really struggle with picking up bullet heavens again after not playing them for a while. It kinda feels like loading up an old factorio save to me.
With reused art tbe Yakuzz games have used the same map for 20 years now and its still amazing Majora's Mask did its what you do with the art that matter.
Stephanie Sterling was so sick of seeing a hand spider in bad steam horror games she offered $100 to anyone that could make the generic model look better
31:27 - Reducing infinite by a little bit is still infinite. Wukong's staff can make the trip to the moon with ease. >D
1:23:05 - Balatro is not my game. I would not vote it game of the year. But it isn't a game made for me, and I recognise that.
Speaking of Deadpool. It knows from the first movie that it runs on bullshit because it is how Deadpool as character runs. If you look at him deeper and deeper there isn't much of character in him. He kills, he swears, he tells a lot inappropriate jokes, breaks fourth wall when its funny. Ans screenwriters of the movie (Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) understand this very good. Its very much same level of movies like Airplane, Naked Gun or Hot Shots. There is a plot somewhere but it isn't important as everything else. You watch it for how absurd it is. Sometimes its goo to have something dumb to watch and get some laughs out of it no matter how idiotic it was.
I whole hearty believe the price increase of AAA is gonna kill AAA games, I think the massive budget of games and movies are massively contributing to horrible content because of the huge margin of error they are allowed to work
The spin attacks in these games make me dizzy. 😵💫
you can turn down the visibility of your stuff in the graphics setting
When you talked about the "layering" effect, I have kind of an odd counter-point. So I'm into furry games, for example. There are some better-known indie games that I've never heard of, while there are less-known indie games in that niche that I hear about even before they hit early access. I think some gamers have their specific "niche", where they might be more aware of smaller or less-well-known games. Sorta like how you've introduced me to a few awesome incremental games I'd have never heard of otherwise. 🙂
i was onboard until wander started talking about tales of games ... and then he started talking about zestiria and i coudlnt disagree no matter how much i loved all the tales of games, zestiria felt like a low point in all aspects and my least favorite of the catalogue
I probably wasn't super clear, but I think Zestiria's one of the worst in the "Tales of" series. It's just that its environment art was especially bad.
Or I mixed it up with Vesperia. I do that a lot.
The update reworked a lot of core functionality of how the abilities stacked and added new abilities on top of that. It felt like an entirely new game in a worse way. Thats a rough TLDR anyway.
As for the generic and ugly vs good design... I'd assume there's some amount of "more clicks with moderate interest" vs "A few clicks with extreme interest" going on.
This was the most disappointing bullet heaven I've ever played.
The whole gameplay is Dodge Dodge Revolution from unlimited red circles.
Not only that, you can't even enjoy the visual spectacle of your own abilities, since you need to turn their visibility to almost 0 to even be able to play properly.
That becomes irrelevant later on. Dodging I mean. Turning off the effects though yeah. You pretty much have to because of can't see anything going on and later on it's lag reasons.
As much as i like your channel in general - 22 minutes until this got boring to watch.
It's a game genre not meant for everyone.