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BetrayedTangy posted...

Just beat it, and yeah that screen was by far the hardest one for me as well.

Also nice touch starting each of the six paragraphs with a V-word.

Thanks. I wish I could've done it using better words than "very" and "verily," but by the time I finished that post I had to bolt out the door, practically carrying a slice of toast in my mouth like a high school anime girl.

LinkMarioSamus posted...

Both of those are true for me. I do indeed play mostly older games, and I've found it hard to fully commit to a game since like 2015 or so. I typically get stuck somewhere and then never return out of disinterest.

I'm kind of the same way. Before I started this project, I had played almost 50 of these games, but only finished 11: Mass Effect 2 & 3, Dark Souls, Telltale's Walking Dead, Fire Emblem Awakening, Stick of Truth, Life is Strange, Undertale, Persona 5, Cuphead, and Three Houses. Also played a lot of Civ V, but you don't really complete that game.

One of my hopes for the project is that it will help me learn to finish the things I start.

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Yesterday was the closest I've come to going a day without actually playing any games for this project. A 10-minute session with VVVVVV on the bus was my only saving grace. After playing both ways and on my lunch break:

Play Time: 1:55:50
Crewmates Rescued: 5/6
Trinkets Found 12/20
Deaths: 659

I found some trinkets outside the levels proper, including one where you go around the outside of a previous level and find it past a giant glowing elephant. I'm not sure what significance the elephant has, if any, but walking around nearby it made Viridian look sad for a while.

Past a maze of teleporters I found what I assume is the last full-fledged level, where all the screens loop into each other, like in Pac-Man. Most of the level is based around the disorientation that comes from quickly falling off the level and re-appearing at the top. It's not as hard as my death count seems to imply, really. I think most of my lives were spent trying to get a trinket in a room full of killer fish, which I eventually gave up on.

We successfully rescue Verdigris, but Veridian gets stuck in an alternate dimension from the rest of the crew, so that our only missing person now is the captain himself. That's where I stopped for now. I think this is the very last section of the game, so I should get up in the afternoon and quickly finish it off.

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I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 2/129
Currently Playing: VVVVVV