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Steam page Official Discord server Vampire Survivors is a one-versus-hordes timed survival game with a Castlevania-inspired aesthetic made by solo developer Ponca. It is currently available on Steam in Early Access for a measly $3/€2,39 and will give plenty of bang for your buck despite its early state. It currently features over a dozen playable characters, 25 weapons, and seven playable stages. After picking your character and starting a round of Vampire Survivors, you have one weapon to your name and a small handful of enemies visible on the top-down playing field. Moving around is all you do as a player; every weapon fires automatically, with some allowing you to control the direction in which they fire. You'll gain a level once you've killed a few enemies and gathered their XP drops. Every time you level up, you get a chance to pick one of a number of upgrade types: a boost to your weapon's power, a brand new weapon to add to your arsenal, or a stat modifier. From hereon out you'll want to start thinking of your build, as you'll need to do more damage and cover more space as enemies become faster and more numerous. Sometimes you'll even be faced by a powerful boss or get boxed in by a large group of enemies! If you can manage the endless hordes of creatures of the night, you will slowly see your character become incredibly powerful, managing multiple weapons and filling the screen with so many damage indicators you'll barely be able to see your enemies. A round of Vampire Survivors ends at 30 minutes. The grim reaper will appear on-screen and tear you to shreds unless you possess a very specific combination of items to stave off the inevitable. You can use the money you collected during your run to buy enhancements for future runs, adding a hint of rogueliteness to the game as well. You can also use your money to unlock additional characters, and a successful run will grant you access to a more dangerous (but more lucrative) version of the stage you beat. In any given round you can collect up to 6 weapons as well as 6 stat boosters. Every character starts with one weapon (which takes up one of the six slots) as well as one stat booster (which doesn't take up one of the six slots, curiously enough). A fully upgraded weapon can also evolve into a more powerful version of itself if you collected the right stat booster to go along with it. These evolved weapons are definitely worth the investment, since you'll need all the help you can get to clear screens like these: A couple of pointers to get you started:
-= THE SURVIVOPAEDIA =- Characters: Antonio *Starts with a whip *Gets bonus damage every 10 levels *Struts like he means it Imelda *Starts with a magic wand *Gains bonus XP every 5 levels *Level go up = damage go up Pasqualina *Starts with the runetracer *Gets a bonus to projectile speed every 5 levels *Nice dress Genarro *Starts with a knife *Permanent +1 projectile on every weapon *THE KNIFE TORNADO Arca *Starts with the fire rod *Weapon cooldown goes down every 10 levels *Definitely not Alucard Porta *Starts with the lightning ring *Permanent boost to area of effect on all weapons, plus a brief bout of weapon cooldown at the start of the run *Trust me, you'll need it Lama *Starts with Axe *Damage goes up every 10 levels, but so does enemy HP and speed *Secret hard mode Clerici *Starts with Santa Water *Permanent boost to health and health regen, temporary boost to area of effect at the start of a run *Big fan of the Sniper from Team Fortress 2 Dommario *Starts with King Bible *Permanent boost to weapon speed and duration, but permanent debuff to movement speed *The crucifix is weighing him down Poe *Starts with garlic *Permanent boost to pickup distance, but starts with low health *Stinky Krochi *Starts with cross *Starts with 1 free revive and gains 1 more at level 33 *His name is 'crotchy' Christine *Starts with pentagram *Gets one free extra level right out of the gate *You better pray it gives you a good weapon Pugnala *Starts with two weapons: Phiera del Tuphello and Eight the Sparrow *Gets a small bonus to damage every level *If you need to know how to beat Vampire Survivors, ask your mum Giovanna *Starts with Gatti Amari *Gets a bonus to projectile speed every level *Vroom vroom on a broom broom Poppea *Starts with Song of Mana *Gets a bonus to duration every level * Concetta *Starts with Shadow Pinion *Gets a bonus to area every level * Mortaccio *Starts with a bouncy bone *Permanent +1 projectile on every weapon every 20 levels *The only thing they fear is death itself Cavallo *Starts with Cherry Bomb *Permanent +1 projectile on every weapon every 20 levels *Not a panda, according to official documents Ramba *Starts with Carréllo *Permanent +1 projectile on every weapon every 20 levels *Grandma got run over by a minecart O'Sole *Starts with Celestial Dusting *Permanent +1 projectile on every weapon every 20 levels *You can pet the dog - Weapons: Whip *A wide, horizontal sweep *Don't call it the Vampire Killer Magic Rod *Shoots blasts of magic at the closest enemy *A good wizard is never seen without one Knife *Fires in the direction you're currently facing *A versatile murder weapon, just like in real life Axe *Thrown vertically, then gravity does the rest as it falls back down *Keep one handy if you like asking questions Cross *Fires off towards the closest enemy, then boomerangs in the opposite direction *Too symmetrical for my tastes King Bible *Rotates around the player at a set distance *Ain't nobody reading that poo poo, chief Fire Wand *Fires in the direction of a random enemy and deals heavy damage *Disco inferno Peachone *Bombards the ground in a circle around the player *The player's only friend in this cruel world Ebony Wing *Like Peachone, but circles in the opposite direction *Evil Santa Water *Thrown from the sky by Santa Claus, creating damage zones on the ground *Maybe the player has two friends after all Runetracer *Goes in a straight line and bounces against walls *Ping pong Lightning Ring *Shoots lightning from the sky at random enemies *"For I beheld Satan as he fell from heaven like lightning." -Michael Bison Garlic *Creates a permanent damage circle around the player character *Looks like balls lol Pentagram *Destroys every enemy on the screen, but has an extremely long cooldown *Why does this hurt demons?? Phiera del Tuphello and Eight the Sparrow *Shoot small pallets in all four diagonal directions *Carry on my wayward gun Gatti Amari *Roams around the screen; if two of them connect, they get into a big cartoon dust cloud fight *Scratches the player sometimes Song of Mana *Unleashes a pillar of glitter that expands horizontally *Like music to my ears Shadow Pinion *Leaves behind a trail of drills that all fire in a chosen direction once you stop moving *[Sonic Colours voice] DRILL Clock Lancet *Shoots out a beam that freezes all enemies it hits *Anybody else remember Castlevania: Judgement? Laurel *Periodically shields you from damage *Often used as garnish Bone *Throws a bone that bounces on impact * Cherry Bomb *Fires in a random direction and has a chance to explode once it stops moving *Hello dad, hello mom Carréllo *Unleashes a minecart that drives back and forth across the screen *If only Donkey Kong were here to see this Celestial Dusting *Fires bouquets of flowers behind you as you move *Biohazard - Stat boosts: Spinach *Boosts your damage *If you go even one run without taking this you're a braver person than I am Armour *Boosts your defence, making you take less damage per hit *Make sure you get hit in the chest Hollow Heart *Increases your maximum health *Looks like a heart container from Zelda with all the juice sucked out of it Pummarola *Gives you health regeneration over time *May or may not be the juice from the heart container Empty Tome *Decreases the cooldown on your weapons *Knife tornado!!! Candelabrador *Boosts the area of effect of your weapons *Literally big damage *Boosts the speed of your projectiles *Is this what they mean when they say "zoomers"? Spellbinder *Boosts the duration of your weapons *Synergises with very few weapons but drat does it make the bible strong Duplicator *+1 projectile for every weapon *So powerful you can only get two stacks of it per run Wings *Boost your movement speed *They can't kill what they can't catch Attractorb *Lets you pick up items from farther away *Pondered by many Clover *Boosts your luck, giving you more upgrade options when you level up and better drops from bosses *Pay no mind to the distant thunder Crown *Boosts your XP gain *Makes you the Burger King Stone Mask *Get more money from pickups *Is that a JoJo's reference??? Tiragisú *Lets you revive once upon dying *There's layers to this poo poo, player Skull O'Maniac *Boosts enemy HP, speed, and density *Vampire Survivors EX - Good luck out there, fellow survivors. JordanKai fucked around with this message at 15:13 on May 16, 2022 |
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Here's a list of unlock requirements for those who don't want to figure them out themselves. Most of this info can be gleaned from the in-game unlocks tab as well. PERMANENT ITEMS/RELICS:
EVOLVED WEAPONS:
CHARACTERS:
STAT BOOSTS (stay unlocked for future runs):
STAGES:
JordanKai fucked around with this message at 15:46 on May 16, 2022 |
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Game is good. I don’t care that it’s pretty unbalanced right now I just like running around the screen going Yes, ha ha, yes!
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 02:23 |
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I've 100%ed it and cannot wait for more maps. Can't believe a game this good is both 3$ and still in early access.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 02:29 |
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Thank you for writing up the OP. This game is really fun. A Fresh Releases thread success story. I just unlocked the "hyper" library today.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 02:32 |
man they are really wearing their heart on their sleeves with the... well, everything, hey.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 02:34 |
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Mortaccio 4 lyfe
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 02:35 |
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Ebony wings is a separate unlock, not an evolution of the first dove How do you unlock the motorcycle
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 02:35 |
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me: kills a bat me: gets a gem me: i'd like to do this forever for some reason
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 02:48 |
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Couple more tips related to weapons/evolutions -garlic and bible are really strong right now. Garlic will make you 100% safe from early monsters from the moment you pick it up and falls off later while bible evolved will make you invincible to pretty much everything that’s not a boss or weird gimmick -you need to max out your weapon to evolve a weapon but you DONT need to level the buff item. It can be level 1 and you’re good, and since evolved weapons are SO good, you’re almost alway better off stacking weapon levels over buff levels once you have the buffs that correspond with your chosen weapons -evolved weapons only come from chests
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 02:54 |
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You can get 8 secondaries in the library. Stay near the middle and fill out your 6 slots. Head left, watching the top of the screen till you see the book. Pick it up. Head right, pick up the mask. Order of these two doesn’t matter. If you get the book or the mask before you fill out your 6, they’ll just add a level.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 03:01 |
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the best weapons: Runetracer, Holy Wand, Unholy Vespers, Hellfire, Death Spiral taking one or two weapons that can't evolve is Smart because that's one or two slots you can set aside for the almighty Duplicator or maybe the Attractorb I guess
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 03:05 |
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awesmoe posted:Ebony wings is a separate unlock, not an evolution of the first dove Ah, my bad! I haven't unlocked it myself yet and was going off of online info. I'll unlock it tomorrow and fix the OP afterwards. Good Citizen posted:Game is good. I don’t care that it’s pretty unbalanced right now I just like running around the screen going Yes, ha ha, yes! It's kind of surprising how easy the game gets once you have a small handful of permanent boosts. This feels like the kind of game that should crush you under its boot until you master it, but I managed to do my first complete run on my third or fourth try. It's also funny to me that the library is so much easier than the garden. Faster level-ups and a lack of damage check bosses make a world of difference.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 03:07 |
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Hwurmp posted:the best weapons: Runetracer, Holy Wand, Unholy Vespers, Hellfire, Death Spiral I don’t bother with attractorb since I have some points in attract range and I hunt for those ‘pick up all the jewels on the map’ pickups. Duplicator is clutch though and what I usually run in my non-evolution free slot from garlic
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 03:11 |
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one thing I really hope this game gets is a reroll option it makes me a miserable pile of secrets whenever I level up and get three items that don't evolve the weapons I have/want
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 03:37 |
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Good Citizen posted:Game is good. I don’t care that it’s pretty unbalanced right now I just like running around the screen going Yes, ha ha, yes! This truly is the feel this game gives you. Loving this game, best 3 dollars I've spent in awhile.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 04:00 |
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Been playing this obsessively on and off today after a few hours cleared the hyper library with Pasqualina with evolved cross and bible, runetracer laurel garlic. At the very end I just stood in one spot and everything just banged it's head on my whirling circle of death. Garlic early on so you can stomp all the weak stuff was key. Only mob that got through the barrier was the final boss. It was weird hitting 30 minutes and having everything disappear and death pop in to stomp me dead. The run I used to unlock the hyper library hade last 29 min 30 seconds which was really frustrating. Also you can put in codes at the title screen for unlocks. Two I know of so far, you have to be pretty quick to get them to register. 🔼🔼🔽🔽◀️▶️◀️▶️ esc then enter - morticcio instant unlock plus gold x-x1viiq - unlocks exdash, high luck character.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 04:03 |
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You have to travel to the right on the Library map to find the mask pickup.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 04:09 |
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Hyper has been great, definitely my preferred way to play now. Garlic does seem good for clearing trash at the start, but I feel like I can clear that with a variety of stuff if I play aggro enough and it ends up feeling like sort of a wasted slot to me 🤷🏻♂️ Curious if anyone has been doing +area builds with stuff like garlic and Santa’s water etc and making it work? I have tended to go for scaling mostly on other dimensions.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 04:09 |
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I've never been able to get garlic to scale well past the 12 minute mark or so
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 05:08 |
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Sometimes ill get a level up and the bar will start flashing and ill get 3 or 4 levels. Is this a Clover thing? I like to get pretty high level clovers because the holy sword absolutely shreds.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 05:39 |
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I thinks minibosses sometimes drop stacks of red gems. Idk if it's based on the luck stat or is a bug.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 05:43 |
Phwoar, that's a gameplay loop that could capture anyone i reckon.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 05:46 |
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awesmoe posted:You can get 8 secondaries in the library. Stay near the middle and fill out your 6 slots. Head left, watching the top of the screen till you see the book. Pick it up. Head right, pick up the mask. Order of these two doesn’t matter. You can get more than six secondaries anywhere. It’s rare but if you already have most of your items maxed out the big chests with multiple items will sometimes give you a new one instead of just gold, which can be leveled up normally after that. The 6 weapon limit seems to be a hard cap though.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 05:53 |
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This game is good. The discord is very active. The devs are active and respond back. I have to much hope for the future of this game! They just added volume sliders yeeeee
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 06:35 |
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game is sick, mortaccio is bae, and i have all achievements and upgrades and sweep with zero effort but keep playing it anyway. game of the year 202X
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 06:52 |
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Giving some insight to Laurel - it puts up a barrier around your character until consumed, then has some recharge time to bring it back up to power. Higher levels will grant some additional layers. You have a very brief invulnerability period after being touched before either beginning to take real damage or sacrificing another layer (which will trigger the process again). It's purely defensive in nature, but it does give you some breathing space to actively shove your way through a pack if you need to reach an opening and/or item. It's probably most useful in the final minutes of a run when waves are beefy enough that even multiple upgrade weapons can have a hard time chewing through them fast enough, but it's obviously something of a detriment while you try to get your damage operational in the first place since it eats up a weapon slot. Not my first choice but if I don't find Garlic early enough in a run I'll often end up taking it.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 10:32 |
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Ground floor on a dope-rear end game. Got 100% in about six hours, but I can't wait for more content to come out.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 10:37 |
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Cross post from the steam thread: I decided to try hyper Library with only duplicator (and orb grab radius) as upgrades. It was honestly more enjoyable than playing with all the various upgrades I used before. Previously I said that with only long range weapons no enemies will get in bible range. This was indeed the case minute 15 to minute 28, but the last 2 minutes where a bit more close than expected (with passive upgrades they never get close). Either way, it was still enough without any close range weapons (garlic/bible/whip), just standing still.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 12:37 |
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Walh Hara posted:Cross post from the steam thread: I did a regular library run with no upgrades today and yeah, I think this is the way to play the game once you get to a point where regular runs become too easy for you. There was still plenty of downtime, but there were also a good number of encounters that really had me on the ropes. The final 30 seconds were especially difficult. I got really lucky with an early duplicator drop as well. Not sure I would've made it past the first couple of minutes without it.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 14:29 |
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This game is awesome, despite me being very bad at bullet hells and still not having survived past 17 minutes after about an hour of play. Also: Symphony of the Knives.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 15:14 |
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How far left/right do I have to go in the library to find the book and mask?
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 16:17 |
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Bold Robot posted:How far left/right do I have to go in the library to find the book and mask? Hard to say. I found the second one after about 13 minutes, but I wasn't steadily going for it. Maybe 6 or 7 minutes tops?
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 16:33 |
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I found the mask in the library within like 5 or 6 background rotations walking to the right (like the 6th cubby in the upper part of the map). What's this book? is there a duplicator guaranteed to spawn in the library too, or is it just the mask?
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 17:01 |
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With maxed laurel and time knife (powerups reducing cooldowns and increasing ability durations also help) you can survive death indefinitely. Laurel will give you invincibility to survive instadeath and then the time lancet will freeze death in place while the laurel invincibility regenerates. More deaths will spawn, but if you keep walking they'll come at you one at a time, get blocked and frozen over and over. I made it 5 more minutes just to see if I could, then got bored and waited until enough deaths spawned on me to break through the shield. Garlic DPS is garbage but it not only helps you survive the early/mid game, it gives you crucial knockback in the later game. If you're using the bible/vespers it doesn't damage anything inside the ring. With range up your ring can get pretty wide. Garlic benefits from range and tick damage will kill off a lot of what gets through, and also bounce enemies back into the ring of books to take even more damage from them. Bracer also works incredibly well with Bible/vespers because it increases damage the faster it circles you, you more hits it gets in.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 17:14 |
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treat posted:I found the mask in the library within like 5 or 6 background rotations walking to the right (like the 6th cubby in the upper part of the map). What's this book? is there a duplicator guaranteed to spawn in the library too, or is it just the mask? The mask is at far right, there's an Empty Tome at the far left.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 17:21 |
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Go garlic or go home
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 19:19 |
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Orv posted:This game is awesome, despite me being very bad at bullet hells and still not having survived past 17 minutes after about an hour of play. Thankfully, there are no ranged enemies in this game. I guess in some ways it's still a bullet hell because the enemies are analogous to bullets themselves though I'm enjoying the game a lot. Been playing it during commercial breaks of football games and other stuff, it's a nice pick up and put down game. A LONG way to go to get all the upgrades but I can already go for a really long time in the library if I get decent weapons.
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# ? Jan 18, 2022 19:29 |
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Third World Reagan posted:Go garlic or go home Difference between evolved book and garlic and evolved book w/ no garlic was big for me, especially in the last minute of the game in hyper library. It kept pushing enough stuff back into the whirling pages of death that I could basically stand still at the end.
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is there a reason I never get runetracer? no wonder I can never evolve the bible because I don't have runetracer and thus don't have spellbinderVerdugo posted:Difference between evolved book and garlic and evolved book w/ no garlic was big for me, especially in the last minute of the game in hyper library. It kept pushing enough stuff back into the whirling pages of death that I could basically stand still at the end. In my opinion garlic is so good for the early and mid game that it's an instant buy anyways. It allows you to harvest XP at great speed. Any late game benefits are great but not even required
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