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This game does get a little bit repetitive; there's a lot of grinding missions to get money and experience to be able to build your party high enough to be able to take on the game's harder missions, and dungeons themselves can have a lot more walking around than is really necessary, but I don't mind it too much. This is a prime "play this game while watching youtube videos or whatever" sort of game, pausing the video whenever I need to really think about a choice. As dramatic and unnerving as this game is there is also quite a bit of downtime to manage all your heroes and I do really like that feeling of gradually building up my party and my village with the money and trinkets brought back from missions, and it does appeal to that "numbers going up" sensibility that I have. The game's difficulty means that seeing the numbers go up REALLY matters, and that's what I love.

The Crimson Court DLC added even more to this game, and it's hard as hell - this is a DLC I don't recommend to first time players, as all of its content is harder than anything in the base game and it just makes the game more crazy and stressful. But I loved it - I ended up doing a run of this game on Bloodmoon difficulty, the highest Crimson Court difficulty - you have to complete the campaign in 100 in-game weeks and with something like 13 or fewer deaths, or your save file just gets wiped - and completed it 100% before the time limit, which meant completing every quest and upgrading every building in town to the max, including monuments. I got it just in the nick of time, and planning it out and executing it was a huge challenge that I felt totally satisfied by at the end.

This was a really rambling writeup, the game mechanics of this game get me more excited than almost any other game I've ever played. Like I said, it's not for everyone. It's dark and it's not fucking around and I feel like some people would just be stressed out by the whole endeavor, but I live for it. I'm probably done with Darkest Dungeon now but the sequel is coming, and I look forward to what they do with it - I'm sure they'll come up with some new interesting tweaks to the whole formula, which they'll need to, because I think Darkest Dungeon is very close to perfect as it is. It's expertly fine-tuned and meaty as hell. The sequel has a lot to live up to, but I look forward to including it on my next game of the decade list.

This was my first writeup to go two posts long, oops.