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So I really enjoyed this one. It has a lot of Zelda fun and action and a lot of twists on the formula that make it interesting and a welcome change of pace (one "dungeon" was actually a cooking competition and all the exploration and puzzle solving was to get the salt to impress your chef mentor). The graphics were nice and the music was good. The story was fine, pretty much exactly what I expected from this kind of thing, the only thing that stood out was the friendship/rivalry Nia had with another character. I do recommend it to people who love the genre, like the people in this sub.

But the thing that keeps me from recommending it higher is that the game world feels just a bit off from what I hope for in this genre. Like I found myself revisiting areas 2-3 times but still not finding everything.

It's hard to explain, maybe it's a bit more of a "vibe" thing, but there are a lot of mini dungeons with a lot of interactivity and things to explore, but no map, and I would never be sure I had completed them. They often looped around unexpectedly with branches that were easy to miss. Like I would go through the winding path, open a chest or two, then find the exit, which just took me back to where I started and opened a shortcut to the back of the dungeon. It left me going, "was that it?" Either that, or a mini dungeon would have too many little treasures and the best loot was a one-off I almost missed because it wasn't even in a chest. Meanwhile the big chest that had been staring at me in the face since hour 3 turned out to hold some pretty useless crafting loot.

There was almost never a feeling that I for sure had done everything in an area or fully finished off a quest.

There was so much about the side quests that just felt... incomplete. There's a boy you find sleeping in improbable places but it's not like you find him in town after finding all of his spots and you get a final reward or bit of the story. There is a pair of feuding brothers that you reunite shortly after completing the first dungeon, then they spend the rest of the game with the "thanks" dialog.

I managed to fully upgrade my weapons and was six pieces of heart short of maxing out my health. I enjoyed the final boss, beat him in two attempts, which seemed on par for how hard the game was.

But while I do recommend the game, it kinda bothers me how close it was to being amazing and how it was missing a critical skill in making maps and guiding the player. I was curious if anyone else felt the same way or if I'm just thinking too hard about it

So this came up in another topic and I found myself wondering, can you reasonably find Ending B in No-Fail Mode?

I see it suggested that people who love puzzle games but don’t like Zelda or Dark Souls should just put on No-Fail Mode and enjoy the puzzles. I dislike this idea and speak out against it for several reasons but I also just realized that it won’t even work for someone to do this and get to the Golden Path puzzle. Because if you can’t die, you can come into the room where the Heir is waiting and beat her on your first try. Which means you won’t die, won’t go through the cathedral, and wind find the Laurel, which you need to reach the page that tells you about the Holy Cross. To say nothing about all the stuff you can only find at night, including several pages you need to finish the manual so you can get ending B.

It seems to me that the most likely experience of someone playing “just for the puzzles” and turns on No Fail after dying to the Garden Knight twice is that they’ll be locked out of all the content they’re trying to get to in the first place. Unless they get ending A and somehow intuit that they have to lose that fight to advance the game, they’d be soft locked from most everything that requires the Holy Cross. Right?

Human Male On Female Anthro to forestall the first comment. Anthro meaning "Furry" for the second comment

I just watched a cat getting pet and suddenly deciding to release the claws and teeth on the petter, and I thought, like any rational adult man, "What if that but a sexy feline woman?"

I've seen a couple asks on here for HMOFA and a I know there's some interest, but also doesn't seem to overlap a ton. And searching on Reddit most consistently brings up r/losercity which is mostly a meme sub. So I'm wondering if there is a community that might be better equipped to answer this ask.

But also, if you do have recs for a hot cat woman that will sink her claws into me while still purring, I'll take them

We all know to be wary of electronics during Black Friday. You'll see a 60" TV from a brand you trust that is half what you would normally expect. There might even be some ads that say something like "$299. Compare at $649." But what isn't obvious from the ad is that you aren't buying that $650 TV that you've been eyeing all year. Instead, the manufacturers have made a "special" TV that looks similar to the normal one, but is carefully designed to still make a reasonable profit at that "slashed" price.

I used to grill assembly for a big box store and I would see the same thing each holiday. There would be plenty of the usual, boring, "4 burners in a box" grills around, but I would have pallets of special grills to assemble too. They would be designed to be flashy in some way or another, but putting them together, they would be noticeably flimsy and parts were thinner and lighter. If they had any special selling points, those would also be a lot worse than normal. They would always have a big sign with the price and would say "Compare at $399," which isn't the same thing as saying that "this is a grill that normally sells for $400."

If you're looking at a grill in store, take a second to pull it up on the website. See if there are reviews for it, if you can find that grill at all. Chances are you're better off buying the basic grill they sell year round without any extras.

Pretty much title. I'm looking at Vending Machine Co on Steam right now and it looks chill and easy and a good way to just watch the numbers go up while keeping my hands busy, with some cozy vibes as a nice bonus. The loop seems to be to buy a vending machine, buy goods, fill the machines, then come back the next day to take the money and refill the machine. There's also an optional sidequest to spend all your money on manga to try and collect all the titles.

Anything similar on mobile? I'm not looking for anything with deep management mechanics, just more like a fun time waster kind of thing.

Thanks in advance!

I'm thinking of someone porn obsessed, who watches the MMC and has all kinds of dirty thoughts. Or who has all kinds of weird fantasies and decides to make some of them a reality. I'm open to pretty much anything. Only thing is that I don't want her to be too sex positive. Like I want that conflict between her thinking about sex all the time but also think that it's dirty, bad, and shameful. I want her horny all the time but also terrified that anyone will find out. And I'd prefer if instead of the right MMC coming along and fixing her, she ends up making him worse.

Any recs? Thanks!

Edit: Forgot to add books I found that served this.

First is {Rise of the Strongest Girl Next Door by Yuki Knightley}. I found this in the r/romance_for_men subreddit. And it has some action and LitRPG elements. The FMC is obsessed with her neighbor and coworker but doesn't know how to talk to him.

Next is {All my Love by Daisy Jane}. I didn't totally love this one and I ended up DNF it, but for the first 3/4 of the book it was basically the perfect stalker/obsessed FMC story