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Marsman3354

@marsman3354.bsky.social

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✨ https://marsman.straw.page/ ✨ any ig I have poor social skills I draw! I also like Ultrakill very much (very important) Have a nice day:>

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Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 20h

creature

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 13d

wowie tyy:D
(I drew this while I had a mystery sickness and was generally miserable lol, glad people think it's cool)

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 14d

insect

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 15d

the lover

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 15d

creature that occured to me

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 18d

#ultrakill augh dies

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 26d

an item like that doesn't exist fortunately, because if it did it'd completely break the game
even if we disregard how overpowered it would be having an item to invalidate your difficulty altogether is generally not good game design imo

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 27d

nevermind its total tool slots which makes even less sense? what the actual fuck

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 27d

yea I probably should've said "genuinely had no idea until I looked it up" because it is tied to crests which is super oddly phrased
it also feels like a band-aid solution to the base crest-charm system being super limiting and awkward which I also don't like

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 27d

honestly Eva itself is also not very well designed imo, I genuinely have no idea what prompts them to give out upgrades and its also hidden behind a breakable wall that you can potentially miss I assume
both of these are really odd choices for such a fundamental permanent upgrade npc

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 27d

no joke the first time I used wanderer I was SHOCKED at how responsive the downward pogo was after dealing with Silksong's delayed diagonal pogo for like 10 hours
but lo and behold I was unable to use it because it only gives you 1 blue charm slot!!! woooo

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 27d

ik some people won't have a problem with this but as someone who's used to super responsive actions (from things like ULTRAKILL or hell even the original Hollow Knight) this was a massive turn-off for me

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 27d

honestly I did not like the crests system at all, not because it's fundamentally flawed but because all of them besides the base one and wanderer had ridiculous input delay on your attacks (usually the pogo but sometimes your base attack as well)
which is insane to me

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 27d

still, it's one thing you buy with craftmetal over the however many you get throughout a playthrough
one craftmetal charm I very clearly remember makes you deal damage near you horizontally when you use the slow falling ability
its the textbook definition of useless

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 27d

the offensive tools are also just... bleh
they're a system that punishes you for using them and I was basically out of shards for a majority of the playthrough so I never bothered switching to new ones so they just kinda piled on with no real purpose

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 27d

the "charms" are also generally VERY mediocre and you can equip a lot less than in the original so after a while you just have a few you never swap off of because everything else sucks so any new ones don't feel rewarding
craftmetal is also pointless because you use it to buy more medicore charms

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 27d

thing is, the rewards that exist are just fundamentally less fun to get
memory lockets are useless after you get 3 and are maxed out on a crest
by proxy crests also feel worthless to get because you need to waste 3 memory lockets to match the power of your previous crest

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · 27d

I didn’t enjoy the exploration at all ngl, the game has a chronic lack of good exploration rewards which made every discovery feel shallow
So much so that some of the most fun I had was farming for Rosaries for 30 minutes because it’s the only time I felt rewarded for doing anything

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · Sep 15

honestly from a game design perspective this is a sin too, it's really stupid to subvert the "safe space" area in the game this early
I spent the rest of the game being paranoid about more trapped benches but there were literally none like what was this supposed to teach me? To be needlessly scared?

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · Sep 15

I got 7 Masks like 20 hours in and yeah it feels pretty terrible, especially since I got a majority of the Spool upgrades somehow
in a way it feels like an intentional decision to make you suffer more, I have no idea how I'm missing 10 Mask Shards having completed 70% of the game

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · Sep 15

we truly live in a new age

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · Sep 14

200 followers! just occured to me how crazy that number is, especially since many of you are seperate from my twitter followers too
(where'd y'all come from waa /positive)

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · Sep 14

digital. wowie

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · Sep 7

creature

Marsman3354 @marsman3354.bsky.social · Sep 4

whats the filesize of that folder holy