Well Dweller

I'm almost done with it.

And I played this other game called Well Dweller, which was like an independent thing.

It was like two guys made it and it's like a little bird and it's 2D Metroidvania style game.

And it was excellent.

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yeah it's a comfort game and it saves on the hand you've been playing so you can just quit out of it and go back to it whenever you want fantastic game for that just boot it up whenever you're stuck being bored at work and i also played well dweller which is like almost a cozy metroidvania and i was really enjoying it and then gears came out and i dropped it like a hot shit and yeah sacked

it off yeah

for no reason i was really enjoying it a bit an easy side but it's a lovely world and yeah visuals great but I was either going to finish that, then go to Gears, which wasn't fucking happening.

And then the whole series has kind of gone in weird directions, especially when Konami kind of decided they weren't going to make games anymore.

and you know it was then given off to like other studios and stuff but that's what's happened again here because this like the studio that's made this is um is the same that did dead cells and i forget their name uh at the moment but um that so they they've been put on this and it does feel quite a lot like dead cells i'm not i mean i'm not that far into this at the moment and i probably shouldn't have played it directly after playing well dweller Because, although they're not the same game, like, obviously they're not, they're really different, like, tonally, the style is, like, you know, is very different, but they are still exploration, you know, like, adventure games, but Castlevania is heavily, heavily, like, combat-focused, like, much, much more so than World Dweller was, which I'm not enjoying so much, honestly.

like it's also got it's been infected with that whole like dark souls kind of style as well where it's like repeatedly having to do things over and over again because because it's really hard and all that kind of stuff and that you can right mitigate this you know like in these options like you can you know like with the accessibility options you can like you know tone down like the difficulty and like make it so you hit harder and that bosses are not so strong and all that kind of stuff but i don't know you see i like that i like the fact that you can do that but then the core game of like what they were intending is not for me what i feel like a castlevania game is because for me castlevania has really always been more about the exploration and the combat is good it's always been really fun and there's always been lots of you know different systems like particularly like where they had the card system in other games where you had to like mix up cards and you know have like different combinations to improve attacks and stuff which it's got all of that But this feels so much more like a Dark Souls kind of experience than any of the others so far.

And it's too dark as well.

One of them is Well

Dweller.

Well Dweller.

Have you heard of this game? It's very good.

No matter what kinda games you're into, there's a few big ones out there, you know? And it's like, yeah, if you're into all different kinds [laughs], then it's just overwhelming right now.

Um, but yeah, like, in terms of Castlevania, I was, again, thinking and comparing to Well Dweller, and it's...

You know, I feel like Well Dweller was just a smoother, instantly kind of addictive experience.

I mean, it, it was a little slow to start, but once you're into it, it's, you know, kinda nonstop.

Whereas Castlevania, there are still moments of, you know, I, I... you know, waves of enemies or sections where I'm, like, having to do them a few times over and over.

I need to get back to Wolverine because I'd like to finish Wolverine before Phantom Blade Zero comes out.

And then I'd like to go back to Well Dweller.

And then there's obviously Castlevania that people are trying to convince me to go back to because I just didn't like the way that it felt.

I keep hearing that PC is cheap and easy, but there's apparently not a quick answer.

Or is it more than that? It's a million dollars.

That's right.

I played a bit of Well Dweller this weekend.

It's super weird.

Hmm.

okay well then I guess it's my turn right yeah okay so the real only game that I've been playing I mean outside you guys nobody wants to hear about like the stupid you know what I've been playing a lot of is Super Nintendo games but just like a lot of bits and bobs of those but again like don't need to talk about like the old retro games that I've been spending time on my Thor with the real game that I want to talk about is Well Dweller we talked about that the last time This is the Game Pass game.

It's kind of slow burning it because I just kind of want it to last.

It's got some spookiness to it too, so it's great to play this time of year.

I'm wondering how much of the RPG elements are in it.

Yeah.

In Castlevania or in Well Dweller? Yeah, in the

Castlevania one.

Uh, okay, what else have I been playing? I've been playing a new game.

It's called Well Dweller.

Um-

I've heard about this one.

[laughs]

So, um, yeah.

Well Dweller.

Um, I think there's a demo on Steam even, so if you wanna go check that out, uh, go check it out.