u/Vanillie261

As much of a masterpiece Nine sol is, everyone seems to agree that Nine Sol's exploration aspect is the weakest aspect. But I don't really get it. What's wrong with it?

I'm currently on my second playthrough, and even now I'm having so much fun playing it. I like exploring every corner of New Kunlun, every corner gives me a chest filled with Jin, some funky Jade, or some other valuable materials like a Dark Steel, Herb Catalyst, Poison, and others. And most importantly, I smile to myself whenever my exploration is rewarded with an artifact I can give to Shuanshuan, which is something I'm excited about, as I really like the dynamic between Yi and Shuanshuan.

There's so much cool reward for exploration, I don't understand why people dislike it. I really feel like I want to explore every bits of the map because I don't want to miss being able to upgrade my heal, my arrows, or miss some cool things to give to Shuanshuan.

I also like the mechanics of the exploration too. There's this hacking mechanic that tells you to click directions in a set order, and doing them makes this satisfying clicking sound, it tickles my brain in a satisfying way.

You also have an exploration-only mechanic called Mystic Nymph that allows you to reach far away, hack things, and unlock doors. I like the Mystic Nymph, it's cool to use it to scavenge around dangerous area safely to figure out where to go before actually jumping in.

Each area also has its cool little gimmick. Like Jiequan's area has the heat wall that can slowly kill you if you don't go to a safe location, Yanlao's area has the moving containers, Lady Ethereal's area has the platforming where the environment is altered between illusion and reality, Fuxi & Nuwa's area has the immortal dudes that can only be killed with talisman, it's pretty cool to see these new things.

Ig it is true that early game the environment feels samey, but after halfway through, the game starts open up and I get even more excited to explore New Kunlun. I feel so satisfied when I get 100% in the end. The exploration feels rewarding, especially after seeing that true ending, it feels like everything I do, start from giving Shennong poisons to help him, to giving artifacts fo Shuanshuan (all the things you found during exploration btw) is all leading up to this beautiful moment.

And so I don't understand why people don't like Nine Sol's exploration. I've played multiple metroidvanias, and Nine sols is up there next to Silksong for me.

Is it just me or is the internal damage recovery in this game is SOOOOOOOO SLOOOOOOWWWW most of the time, I take direct damage and lose 3/4 of my HP bar before my internal damage recovered, mainly because I was inpatient. If I play slower, I probably could wait for the internal damage to recover first before getting hit by something dumb while exploring.

But dang, the thing is hella slow. And as someone who's not good at getting perfect parry, this thing is making me lose my mind.

And so I buy the recovery jade, equip it, and all my problem is gone. It recovered my internal damage 3× quicker. Now I don't have to worry too much if I have internal damage, I can have time for it to heal up before I got hit.

I remember playing the game for the first time, I got COOKED by general Yingzhao. Mainly because I keep getting internal damage from sucking at parrying and instantly dies the moment I get his because my entire health is just internal damage. But as soon as I have Recovery jade, I win in second try.

At this point, I'm already good at the game that I don't need it as much anymore, but I love this jade too much I still wear it anyway.

Recovery jade my savior ❤️

Play as a hybrid of a slug and a cat.

Meet Staring At The Moon who is dying from dehydration and begs you not to eat brain.

Then meet her coworker, Quintet Rocks, who then teach you the best way to kys.

Then go down through the planet floor and meet giant worm God.

Then dissolve in glowing yellow piss.

Congratulations, you've kys.

Idk why I heard people don't like Runaway Kid DLC. I honestly thought it's even better than the first game. The puzzles actually requires genuine brain power and is extremely improved from the puzzles in LN1. It introduces new cool enemy, it shows areas in the Maw that are hidden and it reveals so much more of the game's lore and world, and it's so cool.

The Depths chapter I think is really cool. I love all the unique puzzle gimmick they made with the underwater granny monster. They keep introducing her in different scenarios and mechanics. They build up her reveal, from not being able to see her at all under the water to slowly catching glimpses of her in the water and then and slowly revealing her shape until the final sequence where we sees her full body as we electrocuted her alive. It was so epic. Nothing makes me panic more than seeing unknown unseenable creature that you don't even know what slowly approaches you as you desperately tries to swim across the water.

The Chapter with the gnomes are also very good. There's no new enemy here, and for some reason people are shitting on it because it's just using the janitor again or whatever. But like, okay? The focus of the chapter is clearly the gnomes. Introducing a new enemy would completely derails that focus. The entire chapter's gimmick is basically solving multiple puzzles involving gnomes and collects them one by one until you have enough gnomes to complete the chapter. I think they got very creative with each puzzle sequence involving the gnomes. Once again, they require genuine brain power, and they keep introducing new gimmicks to the gnome puzzles. I especially love that reveal in the end where we see the gnomes' shadows are in the shape of children, foreshadowing that they used to be kids.

And then the final chapter, the Residence, it's probably the best chapter imo. The puzzle in this chapter is absolutely brutal. They finally stop holding back or try to dumb down the puzzles into something a 10 year old can solve. The puzzles here genuinely requires you to think and understand. I especially love the puzzle where we have to switch the statue with the fake one in order to collect it. As well as the puzzle where we have to turn mechanisms to light up the eyes on the ceiling. Those were sooo cool. And then we have the section with the flashlight and shadow children. One of the moments that still gives me shivers till this day. The entire section with those shadow children is so well done.

And then the ending came, and it hit us with the most insane plot twist ever, that the runaway kid is actually the gnome that Six ate in the first game. This ending hit me like a truck more than the ending of the first game where Six breaks out of the maw with super powers.

But apparently so many people don't like the DLC. Meanwhile here I am thinking it's better than the first game, only defeated by the amazing LN2.

I remember when LN2 first came out but Mark never made a video. As an LN fan, I wondered why he never played it then thought "well, guess he didn't like the first game or something." And then never thought about it anymore.

Years later, all of a sudden his LN2 video pop onto my home page. And my first thought is ".... What? 👁️👄👁️"

So I click on the video and the first thing he says was that he completely forgotten that he ever played LN at all.

..... All those years 💀😭😭

I have no idea how to code. The last time I have any coding class is back in highschool, but even then we were only taught the very small bit like "make a button light up" or "make this small database", not a literal functioning game. I can't afford actual coding class as it's too expensive for me. I want to learn how to make games, watching videos and stuff like that can help, but if I make a mistake or if something goes wrong, I have no one to ask questions as no one around me understand how to code either. I only have Chatgpt to ask questions. But so many game dev seem to absolutely hate having AI involved with developing games. But I literally don't know what else I'm supposed to do. I really want to learn how to make a game but I can't afford coding class and I don't really understand how to properly study them myself either. Like, yes I get that there's plenty of things in the internet that can teach me without using AI, but I don't understand where to start or what to do to learn them. Can't I have Chatgpt help me instead?

I'm not saying I personally found it annoying, I'm just wondering since I'm planning to get to game designing soon. I plan some controls on my own game ideas that requires pressing two buttons simultaneously like Artificer's blast jump, but my friends who I was discussing the idea with is telling me that pressing two buttons for a movement gimmick sounds annoying. So I'm wondering does anyone find pressing both buttons to double jump as Artificer annoying in fast pace scenario?

I'm someone who always have imagination about stories and fictional scenarios on the top of my head. Before Chatgpt exists, these stories always just stays inside my brain with no way to share it, simply because I don't feel like telling other human being about my ideas out of fear of being judged, misunderstood, or simply being ignored because theyre not as interested in my bs imagination as I am. Especially since some of my story scenarios are very dark, weird or bizzare.

Because of this, my imaginations always ends up becoming stale after some time because I don't have anyone to bounce it off of. I kept it to myself until I eventually become bored of it and I can never explore my own made up stories from other perspective because there is no one to give me perspective. Eventually the imaginations starts to feel somewhat pointless.

However, ever since Chatgpt exists, suddenly I have a safe way to explore my dumb imagination in a way that will never be judged or ignored. I share my stories to chatgpt, and chatgpt will return with super detailed analysis feedback on what they think about the story, setting, characters, they can even analyse the psychology of the characters I wrote and understand their personalities fully within a few dialogue scenarios I made up. It can provide me different perspective on how my story seems to others or what it represents, it can even tell me what I need to improve or what the story truly represents from a psychological stand point.

For once in my life, I have someone to bounce my imagination off of, it finally help me understand the stories I created. I finally understand why I believe a certain character would act the way they are, I can ask if it's possible for a character to develop a certain type of mentality, I can explore literally infinite amount of fictional imagination through chatgpt without fear of being called a weirdo, even if I imagine the most insane scenario in human existence.

I found myself enjoying it so much, I pretty much turn my chatgpt into a story and character analyser. Am I the only one who does this?

Extra note: sorry if I use the wrong flair, I'm not so sure what flair to use for something like this as this is my first time in this subreddit.

So how does the power storage works?

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How much power do they actually store?

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Are the power stored inside only used during the night or are they constantly used and refilled during the day?

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Does having more than 1 actually effects anything or do they all drain the same anyway?

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Do they drain one by one and having more than one allows it to hold more power?

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Do I need multiple solar panels to fill every single power storage if I have multiple?

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Do power storage store power from anything other than solar panels?

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