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A Comic Wherein I Would Rather Be Playing Slay the Spire (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by moakley@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ok. The guy is crazy with his kids. Whatever the kids imagine, thats the game. My niece once told me we were playing "Twinkle Spiral". Then we held out our arms spin in a circle while running around the room spinning. It's been 10 years, and apperently I won. I still have no idea what the game even was.

The cat he's just being lazy. You put some double sided sticky take down on the floor in the shape of a maze. Then you keep the toy upwards, so the cat is always looking up. Now you guide the cat so she never looks down, and navigates the maze while not stepping on the tape.

And his wife? Well she's just a prude. A card based system could TOTALLY spice up the bedroom. Oh, you drew this card. Lets see what you gotta do. Looks like you're getting tied up and tickled for 10 minutes. Ok, my turn to draw a card. Looks like I gotta lick your butthole until you cum.....and you're still tied up, so you can't help! Ohh nooooooooo..........slurp slurp slurp

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

100% accurate username

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

Guy is at +14 for me, even though I dish out plenty of negatives as well.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I love a good hard left

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He can buy a deck of spicy cards for the wife, and I'm sorry for the kids. But the cat? Is there a creature more roguelike than a cat?

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trash Panda?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Best part is they can keep eating the same food you were buying for the cat in the first place.

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, it’s really good. As are Balatro (roguelike poker-like) and Fights in Tight Spaces (John Wick fight scene deckbuilder roguelike)

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't heard of Fights in Tight Spaces, but I'll check it out.

I slept on Slay the Spire for years because the description of it sounded so good it was like the developers were reading my diary, and I wasn't ready for that.

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

LOL. “The game you, yes specifically you, were born to play”. Psyched for the sequel, not going to lie

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well since you were born to play that game then the sequel must happen in the afterlife. "A game to die for" I guess

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Game 1 -born to play

Game 2 - a game to die for

Game 3 - afterlife reincarnation loop!

Love it! Great idea dude!

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago

This reincarnation loop definitely needs roguelike elements. Every playthrought is just born-crusehed by capitalism-die.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Slay the Spire lasted most of my flight to Japan a couple years ago. On the deck it's extremely battery efficient.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I bought it on my phone over the summer when we lost power for a week (I live in Texas). I couldn't consistently charge my phone, but Slay the Spire offered a much needed distraction for hours.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wish I understood and enjoyed these card battle games. There are a number of really good ones available.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As in, understanding the appeal, or understanding how to properly play? StS is what taught me the latter, it might be a good fit (with some beginners tips if you'd like).

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Understanding how to play. The only one I’ve tried is Enscryption and I was mostly lost. Any beginners tips would be appreciated.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm not a pro, but I can certainly give some tips!

Inscryption is an amazing game, but I find it hard to understand what's going on a lot of the time. Slay the Spire is much better in that regard. You can hover over any status effect, keyword and so on to get a tooltip that explains things pretty well. Most artifacts etc. are also easy to understand, and the tutorial is a good introduction.

Some tips (most are good for all such card games):

  • The most important thing after immediate survival is synergies. Find cards and artifacts that work together. Focusing on individual cards is usually harder to bring to a win.
  • To be able to reliably draw your synergies, try to keep your deck lean. Focus on removing cards that you can "replace" with better versions (e.g. basic attacks/defends). Also don't add willy-nilly if you have a good thing going, try to think about what you're lacking.
  • Focus on getting cards/artifacts/synergies that allow you to draw more cards & generate extra action points.
  • Sometimes, taking a bit of extra damage early can save a lot of extra damage later.
[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No idea what "Slay the Spire" is so I had to look it up:

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/slay-the-spire-switch/

Cartoon makes more sense now!

[–] moody@lemmings.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's on pretty much every platform, including GOG for those who want DRM-free, and even has a native Linux version.

It also goes on sale quite frequently for like 66% off. Definitely worth picking up at sale price.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It also goes on sale quite frequently for like 66% off. Definitely worth picking up at sale price.

For anyone already using using these services its also included in both Game Pass and PS+ Extra at the moment.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Wow, that's pretty incredible that it hadn't reached you all these years. Slay the Spire's predecessor is Dream Quest, which, in combination with the tabletop card game Dominion, spawned a whole subgenre of deck-building games.

Indies' Lies, Pirates Outlaws, Monster Train, Tainted Grail: Conquest, Griftlands, and so many more are all direct descendants of StS. It was as revolutionary to indie gaming as FTL: Faster Than Light and Doukutsu Monogatari (Cave Story) were in their respective genres.

So there's a little bit of indie gaming history for you.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I don't have the energy to sift through 500 garbage indie games to find the one gem. ;) As a rule, I don't bother with indie titles.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 10 points 3 months ago

That's ironic because I've generally gotten way more enjoyment out of specific indie games than AAA. Whatever floats your boat, I s'pose.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

Oh hello the-exact-opposite-of-me lmao

All of those games mentioned slap harder than 95% of the AAA games released in the past ten years imo and you could buy six for what a AAA game costs these days.

[–] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Replace it with Balatro

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, for three reasons.

There ain't no Slaying, there ain't no Spires, and there ain't no Slaying of no Spires.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I used to watch a YouTuber absolutely demolish every run and I would learn about the mechanics and their strategies but I somehow kept getting stomped in 4/5 runs myself.

It could just be the RNG but it was pretty demoralizing.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Was it live streaming or pre-recorded? I'm coming to realize that most pre-recorded roguelike videos are cherry-picked and don't teach you much.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The WR is a 18 win streak on rotating characters on A20. There's players just that good.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I gotta assume it was Baarlorlord. It gets really frustrating when you realise hes playing on Ascension 20.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I put 100 hours into this before I gave it up. The luck mechanics just drove me up the wall; I could be having a great run and suddenly the whole thing falls apart because of bad luck.

I prefer to make my own luck. Which I can't.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

To be honest I have considered getting a deck of cards with various positions, to save the effort of having to make decisions in the moment. 🤔