So yeah I've just been enjoying the hell out of One Way Heroics+. Feels good to get back into it, it's extremely tense and rewards planning, preparation, and intelligent decision-making. And miracles, sometimes goddamn miracles happen too.
In my first quest getting back into the game, I'm rolling a swordmaster, and I'm trapped on an island cornered by an elite skeleton, at low health, and I need to make a desperate swim over to the opposite shore, but I can clearly see that there's a group of bandits just waiting over there for me.
Now, the RNGods smiled on me that day, the skelly misses and I'm able to finish him off, and a wandering spirit wanders in from the East where the bandits are. Spirits are neutral elements of the game's communal multiplayer experience, and like all neutral creatures they tend to occasionally get into pointless fights with hostile creatures. Spirts have metric shittons of HP since they're not supposed to be killed at all, so all the bandits are just curbstomping this spirit, but not really getting anywhere. What it DOES do however is buy me plenty of time to make the mad swim to shore, and then I slip right through the pirates-meet-the-exorcist brawl without getting noticed at all. That was a miracle, a true Christmas goddamn miracle. I then go on to beat the Dark Lord and beat the game on what is my very first try in the game. Feel really good about that.
That was this morning, I just got done doing the quest to unlock the Tourist class, the homage to Nethack's Tourist class. That was an incredible odyssey as well that actually took several tries. It was so tense and heartpounding, I didn't know if I was gonna trip at the finish line or not. There were so many things that could have just jumped out from the shadows and killed me, as the game is wanton to do, but I persevered. I used every tool at my disposal, thought of a last second plan, and managed to score a clutch victory, grabbing the treasure that triggers the ending sequence right as a high-leved dragon is about to lay into me at the last second.
Every adventure is really something you need to take a step back and marvel at when it's all done. Really gives that that sense of accomplishment that keeps me coming back for more. Best $5 I've spent in a while.
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