The Rain is Pain | Rain World - Part 1 | Blind Let's Play
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Welcome to the beginning of my blind let's play of Rain World! In part 1, we begin the journey of surviving, and try to get used to the mechanics.
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One of the many incredible things about this game is it's living active ecosystem. There are no scripted events and everything makes it's own choices independently of you. These creatures don't exist simply for the player's sake, they exist to survive and to serve themselves. Don't think of them as monsters or enemies. Think of them purely as animals
Also make sure to enable the "more slugcats features" in the remix option, it adds a lot of interesting and useful stuff that makes for a more complete experience
That's a really good way of looking at it! The fact that everything is random is insane to me. And yeah, it nails how it feels to be an animal in an ecosystem of other animals, learning to adapt and survive. And I'll make sure to check out the extra features when I next record! It'll just be a bit because I've already recorded a little more since the initial session.
honestly one of my favorite things about this game is the fact that it is always being simulated even if you aren't in the room so for example while you can be looking for food lizards can just be running from a vulture
So it begins! I'm curious whether or not you'll be persistent enough to actually finish the game. It has quite a reputation for a reason and I thinks that's easy to spot from even the first minutes. The core of it's difficulty lies mostly in how little it tells you. To me that's it's biggest flaw and strength.
While simplistic at first glance, it's so full depth in mechanics and lore people still discover new things, yet at the start it just throws you into the deep end leaving you to figure evereything out which makes a lot of people bounce off of it. Can't blame anyone for doing that, it's definitely not for everyone, but to me that's the core of what makes it special. It crafts it's world and living ecosystem, in time, making you behave like an actual animal, approaching new things with caution and curiosity, learning through trial and error and climbing up the food chain as you gain experience and uncovering mysteries. It's seriously rewarding.
Now on the gameplay side. I'd like to give you some tips for you to read if you want them. (although i know you record in advance) I don't really consider them as spoilers since as I said the game tells you nothing, you'll learn the eventually but they are so useful it will make your life so much easier:
-Our Slugcat will always throw things in it's right hand first, very important to know when dual-wielding.
-Double pressing grab will switch the items in your hand.
-Holding eat when you are full or with a non-edible item will make you swallow them, hold it again to regurgitate it back, that's basically your only one item storage for important things.
-Things you are able to grab like rocks and spears will shine very slightly if you walk near them.
That's about it, I'll let you figure things out but if you need any tips I'll be watching :P
So far, I plan on finishing it! I'd like to think I have the persistence to beat these kinds of games, even if I don't have a lot of experience with them lol. I can see why it has the reputation that it has. The concept of the game is simple on the surface (at least from my understanding so far), but in practice I can see how complex and hard it would be. Out of curiousity, do most let's players not finish this game?
I love how this is put, because I can absolutely see it just in the few hours I've played. The living ecosystem and the way it makes you behave like an animal are on full display. In order to do well in the game, you have to learn your abilities, and then adapt based on your abilities, and the game does a great job of conveying how you place in the natural order of things. I'm not sure I've uncovered any mysteries yet, but the world has already peaked my curiosity, and I'm looking forward to finding out more!
These tips are fine! The fact that other people liked the comment told me that they were ok to read lol. I've actually already learned 2 of them: The shining thing and switching hands! I didn't notice the thing about throwing with the right hand first. The mechanic of switching hands makes a lot more sense now lol. And idk if I would have learned the storage mechanic, that's really neat! I'll try to keep that in mind as I go!
And yeah, thank you for letting me figure stuff out on my own. If I need help, I'll say "feel free to let me know in the comments about X thing". I hope you enjoy the series!
@@AxiomArchives I've not seen many playthroughs but it seems to be a bit of a mixed bag. What I actually noticed is that it's the bigger youtubers that seem to drop the game more often (Markiplier is an example). It does make sense though. Rain World has quite the loyal fanbase (I think you can see from the response so far) and gained some popularity but it's still a niche game. Covering newer, bigger and popular game is always more alluring than playing a hard and confusing one that doesn't get as much traction.
Even steam reviews often say you either drop the game after suffering for few hours, or stay to love it.
@@jmt7240 Interesting! I either didn't see or completely forgot that Markiplier didn't finish it. Right now I don't see myself dropping the game (although if Silksong comes out before I finish it, that may force my hand xD). I can definitely see how loyal the fanbase is. The response from everyone on this episode alone has been amazing and heartwarming to see! That, on its own, makes me wanna see it through. I just hope that the experience resonates with me enough that I'll want to keep going for my own enjoyment as well.
Yaay, welcome to the Rain World!! (where everything wants to eat you)
It is indeed a game about exploration, so play it however you like and just have fun! As soon as you get used to the movements, I think you'll be fine and able to fully enjoy it, so don't worry and take your time. You're just a tiny slugcat in an unfamiliar world after all! Everything else is about experimenting and experiencing it yourself, so I won't spoil anything 👀
One of many fun things about this game is their creatures. They are just there, living their own life, silly, aggressive or... maybe cute sometimes??
Anyway, have fun!
Thank you xD yeah I'm trying to go into it with a mindset of exploration and learning. I feel like if I do that, the difficulty won't get to me as much, and it'll be more fun overall! I wanna be the most adventurous slugcat :P
The creatures are actually a lot of fun so far! Like encountering them is scary, but I love how each one actually behaves like an animal. Like they're super unpredictable, and it feels really authentic! I have yet to come across a cute one though lol.
Just discovered this playthrough. Looks like your playlist is already at the Gourmand DLC. Glad you enjoy the game so much as to proceed with the DLC content. Subbed for your journey. Looking forward to seeing all your discoveries, both in Survivor, Gourmand and beyond. Hope you're enjoying the game as much as the rest of us have.
I know you've commented on other videos in the series by the time I'm responding to this, but I'm happy to have you here, and I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!
Keeping track of all the creatures in order of them appearing in the video.
Slugcat - an intelligent and agile rodent. Very low on the foodchain. Cannot go through some tunnels while other creatures can. The player character. Eight are cannon, appearing in this order: Spearmaster, Artificer, Hunter, Gourmand, Survivor, Monk, Rivulet, Saint. One secret non-cannon playable slugcat, known as sopthantiel/inv/??? , who has the hardest story by far.
Batflies - small flies that survive only by reproducing faster than they can be eaten.
Blue "fruit" - theorised to be young batflies before metamorphosing.
Pink lizard - one of the twelve lizard variants. Average strenght speed and size. Can climb poles. Just like all lizards their armoured heads are immune to spears, but striking the area with a rock flips them over. Special attribute: If you make them angry enough they will chase you until one of you is dead.
Green lizard - bigger faster and stonger than the pink variant. Cannot climb poles. Mentally handiccaped. Territorial, will fight other lizards. Special attribute: they can charge at their prey.
Noodlefly - big and long bugs. The small ones are worht two food. Their mothers are overprotective and will kill anything it conciders a threat including other noodleflies.
Karma flower - yellow flower. Upon ingestion prevents you from losing karma the next time you die. Works only once and cannot be stacked.
Batnip - red flower. Attracts batflies. You didn´t eat it only swallowed it and may regurgitate it back out.
Pole plant - tall carnivorous plant. Pretends to be a pole and reacts to touch. Throw a spear into it to injure it enough for it to go into its tunnel.
Hey, just so you know, I don't mind you posting this (I actually think it's really cool and I wish the game had a beastiary of it's own lol), but I'll be avoiding reading these for now just in case they contain spoilers on any behaviors or ways to deal with them that I haven't seen yet. If there are gonna be possible spoilers like those, I'd recommend adding a spoiler tag just to be safe. However, I will absolutely come back to them to read when I'm done with the let's play!! :)
@@AxiomArchives Don´t worry I usually tend to write only things shown in the video. And I´ll try to be more careful and leave spoilers for the end of the comment.
I love blind playthroughs and I get excited whenever I find one. Looking forward to where this leads!
Thank you! Yeah I have no idea where this is gonna go. No matter what though, I hope it'll be fun!
Welcome to what I like to call “Buddhism for literal slugbrains”
I have no idea what this means, but I hope I'll get to find out as I play lol.
The dlc adds 5 more slugcats to the game with all the slugcats occurring at different points in time (the only 2 that are practically the same are survivor and monk) it also adds some extra content thats post game
It's so cool that the different slugcats all have different campaigns. Like I had no idea of that until I started playing and someone told me. And good to know there's extra post game stuff! I'll make sure to look into it if it would be relevant for this let's play!
13:16 My god, this game is beautiful. Look at that creature. It’s like it’s alive. It’s hunting, searching for food, doing its own thing. Welcome to the beauty of Rain World!
The game does have a very nice art style! And it's definitely hunting alright xD and thanks, I'm glad to be here!
I’ve finally after years of trying sat down and decided to tackle this game, really enjoying watching this to see someone’s fresh reaction to it
Awesome, I'm glad to have you here :) and I hope you enjoyed/are enjoying your own time with the game!
Oh my gosh we just witnessed his first leap! ❤
I grew up so fast :P I didn't even know I could leap before I did it lol.
It’s so nice to see a newer rainworld play through!
Thank you!! Yeah, the game's reputation kinda kept me away for the longest time, but then after I started the channel, it was requested, so I figured I'd give it a shot, and man am I glad I did!
watching the intro through the eyes of someone who has never seen it before made me crryyyyy bro that soundtrack is too good😭
That opening track is so good :D I'm definitely looking up the full soundtrack once I finish the let's play!
You need to enable downpour by clicking on remix on the main menu and selecting what you want then click apply mods.
( this was in my other comment but this one is just about this. )
It adds a lot, some of it is for any point in progression.
Edit: downpour gives hints on controls while sleeping sometimes I think!
woah this game seems incredibly neat so far the world is so cool
I know right?? I actually had no idea the world was this complex, and the environmental design just screams that there's a story there, and there's more to see and find out!
@@AxiomArchives even from the very beginning it’s so clear that the world has so so much to build on and thats gonna be so cool to see play out and expand
Incredibly excited to see you play one of my favourite games! It definitely doesn't explain much, you get to explore and look at things and if you are attentive to the world and even the UI, you get rewarded.
It can be rather harsh and unforgiving, and until you learn the (occasionally quite awkward) controls well enough it can also be rather frustrating (many deaths from pressing the wrong button or missing a jump), but once you get into it the movement system lets you do a lot of cool stuff!
There is no real 'fail' or 'game over' condition as far as I know, though. If you keep on dying you just stay on the first 'experience level' until you get better.
Hope you'll enjoy your experience as a smol slugcat, finding their way in the wild, hungry world!
Thank you! Yeah, unforgiving is definitely how I'd describe this game as well. At the same time though, it's so incredibly fascinating, and I love that about it! I'm hopeful that I'll be able to learn it's mechanics in due time, and that I'll be able to get better as I go. I hope you enjoy the let's play, and I'm glad you're excited!! :)
"Do I actually need to worry about finding food and trying to survive?" That's the game haha. Hope you enjoy!
Yeah, who knew that they would put survival mechanics in a survival game xD and thank you, I'm enjoying it so far! I hope you enjoy the series!
Cool to see someone just now starting this after I've been playing it for years. Fair warning, it is VERY hard to complete the first playthrough without the wiki, just make sure that you're going to the right regions and don't accidentally end up at the end before significant events like I did lol
Yeah, this is one that I was vaguely aware of, but never picked up until now! I'll do my best to not miss events! It just might be hard with it being a blind playthrough lol. We'll see what happens!
@@AxiomArchives pay attention to the Overseer, the little yellow dude, he'll nod his head in the direction you should go
@@mykramusic I'll keep that in mind, thanks! I've found he's kinda hard to follow sometimes, but if he'll help me reach key events, I'll try harder to understand what he's trying to tell me lol.
Oh boy another blind Rainworld playthrough for me to live vicariously through, good luck on your adventure and stay curious! I’ll be following along.
P.S, I’m sure you know this but try to avoid the comments. Your comments on this video are safe minus the creature catalog someone made, but I’ve seen too many blind runs soiled by well-intentioned comments that ended up spoiling something big.
Thank you, I'm glad you'll be joining me!! I hope the let's play lives up to expectations!! And yeah, I usually love interacting with the comments for all my videos, but I might have to make an exception for this series, or at least put some safeguards in like playing more ahead than usual or something. I want the let's play to stay genuine, and I hope I can keep that intact :)
I'll be tagging along for your journey.
I'm happy to hear that!! I hope my experience with the game is an enjoyable one :)
my friend sent me this and i am excited to watch
Sweet, I hope you enjoy it!!
NB: those are not (just) difficulty options. Those are all separate campaigns ( there are 8 i think if you include the ones Downpour adds )
I hope you enjoy this awesome game!
Wait, they're all different campaigns?? That's so cool!! So does that mean that each one has different objectives or level layouts or something? If I enjoy the game enough, I might have to check that out! And thank you, I hope you enjoy the let's play!!
@@AxiomArchives Every campaign is set in the same world but at a different place in the timeline. That means the world changes in looks and layout while retaining the overall structure. Some regions just look different, some have new layouts, some are replaced or completely gone while new ones are unlocked. It also means new creatures on the map and each slugcat having different statistics, abilities and goals from one-another.
@@jmt7240 That's amazing! I can only imagine how much lore is in each campaign if you try to string it all together! Plus that's a lot of replay value, which is also really cool.
The DLC adds so much quality of life and new content (especially but not all postgame). Like postgame content is crazy huge!
If you have it, I recommend enabling it in the menu using the remix button. (Check the, off then click apply mods, the game treats them like mods but they’re DLC) I always have Downpour + Slug Cat Expansion enabled, descriptions of what they do can be found in game. (I play on Nentendo Switch 💀💀💀💀💀)
I do really like the DLC I but I kinda hate that they put the caramel lizards in the outskirts for survivor? Idk why really
@@fireking6308 I never saw it, but it’d make sense to me personally if it were towards western outskirts.
Usually when a caramel is around I hide from it, though. I feel like I rarely actually die to caramels for some reason. They are kinda uncommon, I suppose.
Sad that Markiplier only made 1 part of Rain World and never came back to the game
Yeah, it would have been nice to see his experience. To be fair though, it doesn't seem like the type of game he'd really enjoy.
DONT LISTEN TO THE YELLOW GUY (iggy)
It might be a bit late for that lol, but I'll keep it in mind for the future!
It's dangerous to go alone! Take a slugcat with you. :)
I'll be sure to treasure him on the long journey ahead :)
Fun fact: The name Slug cat isn't official. A fan just said it and the community liked it
Interesting!! Is that true for all the creatures? Are there no official names for anything, just community names? Or is that just for the slugcat?
I think it was just the slug cat maybe. I dont really know tho. (btw if you havent found out, all the dots surrounding your food bar show how much time you have before the rain each representing 30 seconds)@@AxiomArchives
Actually, the developer(s) call them slugcats too, so take that of as you will.
@@davidpichardo6240 Right. Still it was come up with by a fan
😮 so crazy to me is that this is a small RUclips channel
I appreciate the compliment!! Who knows, maybe one day I'll get lucky and the algorithm will turn in my favor. In the end though, I'm just happy to be playing games here, no matter how big or small the audience is :) so thanks for being here!
Ah yes, rainworld. Procedurally generated animations, I am quite interested but unfortunately I want to play this one myself so I won't be joining you for this one. Best of luck though friend!
I had no idea the animations were procedurally generated, that's so interesting!! I'll have to look more into that once I finish! And no worries lol, I avoid let's plays for games I wanna play myself all the time. Thanks for the comment! :)
Truly a New York rat simulator
Honestly, that's a pretty accurate description lol. I didn't even think of that xD
17:14 Hell yeah!
this game really came out 7 years ago
That's kinda insane to think about.
34:55 I just realized the water in the background is the sound of the rain…😅
I dont know if this is too late bcs i saw you (hopefully) are going to start the artificer and i dont know if already someone told you or you realized that (this is not a spoiler) but i think it might help with future campaings, dying is part of the game. So dont worry if you die! Its litelary in the lore. So remebmer dying isnt YOUR skill issue, its GAMES feature. So experiment and dont be scared die for some informations.
Thank you, I appreciate this :D
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Congratulations! And thanks for the support, I appreciate it :D
23:22 but noot is cute friend
Agree to disagree on that one xD giant bugs that have stingers or needle-noses are a big nope from me lol.
Can we get music and sounds. It's weird watching the game play with no sound.
I can see about turning up the music and sound effects for future parts! I just left them at their default settings, but none of them were at max. I'll see what I can do!
have you seen the dlc?
I haven't seen a whole lot of it yet, but I did buy it and I turn some of it on in a later part!
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Lol, that's an achievement, congrats xD