On your very own sky island, everything is your own fault.

Package: NodeCore Skyhell

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  erlehmann 2023-05-06 02:53 UTC

  Many other games give the player endless excuses for lacking skill:

  • “Magic: The Gathering” players whine about not having drawn the right cards.
  • “Battle for Wesnoth” players complain about the random number generator being bad.
  • “X-Piratez” sometimes gives the player enemies that they are unlikely to win against, on purpose.

  Players can thus blame random happenstance. The truth is, obviously, that in these cases, the fault lies with the player:

  • In “Magic: The Gathering” players construct their own decks. If they draw useless cards, they probably put them in their deck themselves.
  • In “Battle for Wesnoth”, players have to account for the RNG being, well, random. In such a game, no plan survives contact with reality.
  • In “X-Piratez”, the game tells the player repeatedly that aborting may be a reasonable option. A mission is full of zombies? Better flee.

  “NodeCore Skyhell” is so unlike all these games that as the player it is extremely difficult to blame anyone else for your skill issues.

  • You fall off the island? Your fault, for moving.
  • You stay on the island? Your fault, it's radioactive.
  • You plant a tree and it catches fire? Your fault (again).
  • You fall into pumwater? No one forced you to swim in it.
  • Nodes fall off the island? You probably placed them there.

  As kimapr pointed out on IRC a while ago this is a different kind of hard than Exile, because in Exile you can blame the environment.

  TL;DR: If you think NodeCore is too forgiving and you like knowing that everything is your own fault, give NodeCore Skyhell a try.

  Edit: I would appreciate if the person who rated this review as not helpful would tell me why they thought so.

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