rain world is literally one of my favourite games of all time everything about it is just perfect :chef: . the music, the art, the complex movement system and combat (gameplay), the ambience, the lore, the level design is just perfect. obviously i have a few gripes with it (daddy long legs and rain deer) but those glaring issues are kinda just masked by all of the other good stuff... your art is very cool btw
I've tried so many times to get into Rain World but it kicks my butt every time. :(
Can anyone give me tips?? I get so lost when I play and never know what I'm doing / what I'm supposed to be doing.
Firstly: this is absolutely the intention of the game. At the beginning, you are controlling an awkward little creature you have no familiarity with in a world that does not care and will eat you anyways. If you want to push through the game, you have to accept that you will die. A lot. And not all of those deaths will feel fair or reasonable, but that's the nature of the simulation.
At the start, just try to get used to playing as a slugcat. Try to understand how to move, jump, throw things. I know the tutorial gives you basic guidance, but it doesn't give you comfort with the controls. It's totally fine to spend a lot of time in the first area just trying to explore, gather food, and sleep, as there's no overarching time-limit in game, just the daily cycle time limit.
Once you feel more comfortable with moving around, study the other creatures. They have their own personalities, desires, and interactions with one another. Understanding the limits of their abilities helps you make the snap-second decisions you need to learn how to survive. If you enter a room and there's two green lizards fighting, but a path well above the scuffle, you don't have to turn tail, you can just go over their heads. But if there's two pink lizards, the nuances of that decision will be different and maybe you will turn back.
You only have to move forwards into more difficult regions if you feel like you're capable of it. There are new things to explore in these regions that you may find rewarding - new creatures, new settings, and new environmental objects. Take your time learning the nuances of each area as you go through.
Eventually, you will hit a point where movement is natural, where exploration comes freely and easily, and you can fight or flee or launch yourself anywhere you please. This is the stage where the game feels freeing, exhilarating, because it's opened up to you. But it can take a long time to get to this stage, and if you're not having any fun on the journey there, it's okay to put it down, too.
Cool, those are great tips!! Thank you!
I'm a huge Souls series fan, so I'm certainly no stranger to dying lots and lots and lots. The only difference being in Souls games when I died I would usually be able to pinpoint my mistake. But I found myself dying or getting captured in Rain World and just kinda being like "uhhhhhh what??"... but like you said, that's kinda the point of the game! Which I'm totally about, it's just that this iteration seems to be a bit more nuanced in the way the world communicates with the player.
I think my main issue was trying to "get through" the game too early. I appreciate the tip about just hanging out and getting used to things, because I did find myself wanting to get to "level 2" of the world before I'd even understood how "level 1" works.
There is this one pretty good horror game called KinitoPET that I think would fall under thatidk what u mean when you say that kinitopet is similar to rainworld when it's literally a generic hypnospace-esque game but with the "it's a children's thing but ooooooooooohhhhh spooky and scary" type thing that's been done a million times lol
idk what u mean when you say that kinitopet is similar to rainworld when it's literally a generic hypnospace-esque game but with the "it's a children's thing but ooooooooooohhhhh spooky and scary" type thing that's been done a million times lol
I also starting making a Rain World DooM WAD as a joke but then it consumed my life for like a month or 2 and I spent way too much effort on it...
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