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tumblunni · 5 years

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Slay the Spire is SO FUN, its like a roguelike trading card game?? And the art style is so amazing and all the character deisgns are so funky!! And the system is awesome, its like a jrpg but with lots of like.. Alternate health bars? It all revolves around stacking amounts of different things, like status effects and armour and poison and LIGHTNIBG JUGGLING BALLS! Its a really cool way to make an rpg and a trading card game smoosh together without making the rules too complicated BUT what you can actually do with them is complicated. Like its a very simple setup but theres SO MUCH potential for different options ans combining stuff in cool ways and AAA! Its just a shame that the random nature of the game means that youre not likely to see every potential combination or like..have any choice in which of the bazillion cool decks you could get. I know the whole point of the thing is to have a challenge with random cards and random enemies but i wish there was a free play online versus or something where you could use your fave cards.

Oh oh oh and i LOVE The Defect! I actually first started playing this game ages ago when it was still in beta and that third character slot was all mysterious. I thought maybe The Merchant was gonna become playable cos the character slot was blue and implied they were gonna be nonbinary, but instead we have a whole new blue nonbinary pal! A playable monster is such am epic idea and those weird coral bone robot things are an awesome choice, theyre some of my faves. But still i love and cherish the cheerful merchant of mystery and im gonna headcanon that them and the new robo friend are pals! Itd make sense if Defect's blue cape was given to them by the character also wearing an identical one. Im already headcanoning lore about The Merchant finding this broken robot and nursing them back to health and They Become Family And Have Many Hugs. And every time Silent and Ironclad come along to take Defect on anpther adventure, Merchant is like 'i owe you so much for taking care of my child' 'so are you gonna give us a discount, then?' 'no :3'

Also ive ended up making an oc/ other job class idea based on how i tend to play the game. Was gonna be The Juggler but then The Defect ended up having Orb Powers in a completely different way so maybe change to The Joker instead? Idea was basically some sort of goofy vampire jester person whose abilities would revolve around random chance and all the sort of 'setting up for later' cards. Like the shivs and anything thats 'add something every turn' and it stacks up. I tend to gravitate towards those whenever i get the chance. Silebt and Defect both have some good cards that do that, but they dont specialise in it so youve gotta get lucky with card drops. And also stuff that lets you shuffle your hand often and stuff that activates passively every time it lands in your hand/you discard it/you get hit/whatever. Like a counter attacker build, with this element of getting more dangerous the longer you manage to hang in there but you dont have much defense so it takes good skill to pull it off. And the personality i thought up for this character is that they used to be human but they got too sucked into the quest to climb the spire and lost their mortality along the way. Cos honestly the only way anyone could be bubbly and happy here is if they were totally overtaken by the corruption and forgot their own name. So yeah, The Joker is just having a blast and aint particularly concerned about slaying any spires! Lets just hang out in the ominous void and have sleepovers, new buddies! :D so maybe youd see them as a random event during the other characters's playthroughs and if you beat them in a boss fight they join you? Like 'ehh i dont wanna escape this place but if my new best friends are doing it i may as well join in'. Tho probably in their ultimate ending they would actually regain their memories and reunite with their long lost family or something.

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