All cards in StS2 do have their final art already. But we know there was a closed beta with a smaller group prior to this public EA release, so I dunno if they’re sitting on older beta art that maybe they’ll show us eventually.
I’m huffing copium, I know.
I considered including that one but I was getting too close to just linking every damn card. And it’s one that requires a lot of context to get the joke, I don’t know how many people reading this thread have played the original.
Some of my favorites: Disarm, Rampage, Double Tap, Immolate, Wraith Form, Boot Sequence, Self Repair, Meteor Strike, Protect, Fasting, Nirvana, Sands of Time, Study, Tantrum, Scrawl, Panic Button, Apparition
In Slay the Spire 1, clearing the True Ending with each character unlocks beta art for their card pool, and then clearing it with all characters unlocks beta art for all the colorless cards too. You can freely toggle each card individually, pick and choose your favorites. This was especially fun for Watcher, because during her development period they got the community involved to submit their own beta art.
I’m a little sad that StS2 doesn’t have this, but maybe that’s just because we don’t have the True Ending yet (and we do know that one is coming).
Here’s my whole library if you want to see everything I like. Some notable exclusives:
Co-op is the major new selling point. Beyond that, the core formula hasn’t changed too much, they’ve mostly just expanded on it with new characters, cards, enemies, etc.
But for anyone who’s put a lot of time into the original, I think you’ll really appreciate all the littler elements that really add up. They’ve had a lot of time to rethink some nitpicks with the original and learn some lessons from it.
For example, a lot of events in the first game were a binary choice of either taking something or taking nothing, in which case the event becomes an empty floor. Act 1 events in particular were often a trap. MegaCrit has talked about how StS2’s events are being designed so that simply doing nothing is never an option, and I really really really like this! Just exploring all the new events is great, I’m suddenly prioritizing ?s on my paths just to see them all.
Boss relics have been replaced by a new system called Ancients. Part of me is still not sure how I feel about this, part of me is kind of excited by the fact that I don’t know how to feel. The game feels very different without energy relics (mostly, there actually are a few but many runs will not see them), and that’s definitely something that makes for a new and different challenge to get used to.
There’s also a new mechanic where cards can receive Enchantments, either permanently or just for the duration of combat. You can come up with some very cool combos to experiment with using this system, and on the flipside the enemies that are able to negatively mess with your cards are super interesting to me.
When Slay the Spire 2 was announced, I was honestly skeptical of how they’d top the original. StS is the game that ruined all other roguelikes for me just for how damn polished it is.
I can confidently say StS2 has raised the bar. It’s actually the smaller details that have impressed me most, like the way doing nothing is never an option at events. And enchantments are such a cool mechanic, gears are spinning in my head looking for fun things I can do with them. Equally cool when enemies can negatively enchant my cards too, new kinds of combat challenges.
I still don’t know how I feel about Ancients, it’s weird not having energy relics anymore. But part of me kind of likes that this is weird and different, it is by far the biggest change that makes for a totally new meta to explore. I can already tell that mastering this game will be a journey.
As polished as Zero is, it is kinda just another Mega Man platformer. Some variations on the formula to set this subseries apart, but if you’ve played other subseries you know the core formula.
Whereas what made Battle Network so special is that it was a completely unique kind of game that was never seen before, and we still haven’t really seen anything like it since.
Partially owned still counts.
Same reason why Mario and Zelda aren’t on those platforms.
Almost anything you can name, I’ve probably played it.
If I had to pick just one, I think Petal Crash is the best thing that’s happened to the genre in over a decade. Maybe even the only good thing that’s happened to the genre in over a decade…
I’ve tried applying to internships too, but nearly every internship position I see says they are explicitly looking for current students or graduates within the past year. I think my degree is too old to get in now.
Every position that claims to be entry level inevitably sends me back an email that says “We received many qualified applicants and have decided to move ahead with another candidate whose work experience is a closer match for this particular role.”
My bachelor’s degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on anymore. Experience is all that matters, but I can’t get experience because I don’t have experience.
Games that get declared a target by the alt-right often do become full of it. Just because you haven’t seen it doesn’t mean it’s not a serious problem.
Gamergate never ended, and the lack of moderation on Steam has made it a very attractive place for fascists to spread propaganda. It’s been a serious problem for a very long time and Valve just isn’t doing anything about it.
If you respond to tell me that you were never gonna buy it, you prove my point.
It’s just kind of tiring how every post about anything Nintendo does ever has the exactly same whining every time, especially when you’re not actually whining about FRLG here at all, you’re just whining to whine. You just want something to be mad at.
Well if you’re replying me just to tell me you were never going to buy it, you’re proving my point.
They were never gonna buy this game.
So you were never gonna buy it no matter what the price tag was.
Relevant to what? I’ve never had a reason to care.