Blue Prince Vent Session [Spoliers]
I am pretty fed up with this game. I like puzzle games. I tolerate rogue lite games. Putting them together in this way has deeply frustrated me.
There are numerous threads I know I can pull on and the game seems hellbent on ignoring my every attempt to move the narrative forward.
I need to drain the resevior, but I cannot for the life of me pull the boiler room, pool, and pump room in the same run in way that allows me to power the reserve tank. Yes I know that sending power any direction ensures a room has power in the draw, doesn't seem to help me. The game just wants to give me archives and laboratory in a gosh dang corner of the map.
But don't worry, I know I need to focus on multiple things, so I am trying to get a magnifying glass to read the New Clue which has a bunch of small print that will probably lead me to the second microchip. The first one I found my accident but was eventually hinted at in the book, donI think the other one is in there too. But no, I get the library with a new clue and no magnifying glass. Then I have to go back, request the book and hope for a magnifying glass, library combo the next day. Eat my shorts!!!!
Don't worry I hear you, "put the magnifying glass in the coat check". I cannot. I have a power hammer in the coat check. I think I knock down a wall in the weight room that is hinted to have an extra lever. Probably use it on a simaliry damaged wall in the basement and greenroom, but I may never know. I will be damned if as soon as I put the power hammer into the coat the check the RNG gods didn't go, "nah bro." Zero runs in ten days now have combined to craft the coat check and a path leading to the foundation, greenhouse, or weight room.
Oh how about Black ridge, sure I figured out the admin code through Anne Babbage's name on guess with staff names based on the RevaD hint. But now I can only find one microchip because of the inability to read the New Clue with magnifying glass.
Then there are the sigil keys. I cannot, I mean cannot get lucky enough to draw music room at a high rank nine slot, which I think triggers a sigil key based on the poems. Already mentioned the resevior. Throne!? What throne? Oh I bet there is another room need to find and also happens to be extra rare with stupid trigger conditions and no exits.
Found the Lady's diary key in the catacombs. Now I can pick it up anytime I draft the tomb. Big Whoop! Anytime I do, I will be damned if the game doesn't ignore my every attempt to draft that stupid room running south down the west side which seems to be the only way it shows up.
I like puzzles. I am good at puzzles. I am okay at Roguelite games. The grind drives me a little crazy. There are twenty frigging threads I could pull in this game if RNG wasn't just the worst friggin aspect of it. I get so tired of runs ending early, or never amounting to anything after an hour of setting up the house in a specific way. Progress feels like less of a reward and more of a door opening to the next wave of hurry up and wait while you pull random rooms out your ass and never make any progress.