I’m gonna be real for a sec. I keep bouncing off the game. I haven’t gotten past day 2. No matter what my stats are, it just feels like I’m constantly failing at everything and Kim is always stepping in like “wow you really fucked up doing this task the interesting way I guess we’re locked into the loser route now…”. Do I just need to embrace the game as a simulation of being an incompetent alcoholic jackass?
Well when I started playing it I wanted to just do the most embarrassing shit. Like asking everyone for money or telling them I remember nothing. It was funny but then I didn’t realize the game the run ends if I don’t keep the morale and health. Fortunately I saved prior and stopped damaging the morale in the next run.
Its the most “Wait can I do this actually?” game. In my money begging phase I asked that boat lady some money and she gave some. Also explore every nook and cranny to find money. Put points to internalize thoughts like precarious world, which helps with rolls.
I also hit dead ends and kept roaming around exploring. Just remember to look at the journal and see if you didn’t get to something.
You’re not really meant to succeed on some tests, like examining the body, if you manage to do it straight away you skip out a big chunk of the game, but that bit of the game is good, so you shouldn’t skip it! The game is designed around failure as much as success, you don’t need to save scum the rolls, just see what you get and go with it.
For me it was a really slow burn.i couldn’t get past night 2 because I didn’t have money for the room. Did a fresh restart and just got into the groove… It gets better and better and the end is just chefs kiss, the best movie I’ve acted in kinda feeling…
Do I just need to embrace the game as a simulation of being an incompetent alcoholic jackass?
Yes
But to be real here: If you just can’t find yourself enjoying failing in those ways, no matter what you try to do about your mindset, which is fair, you could look into cheating your stats. The saves are editable and there are guides online, and it might give you the opportunity to actually finish a playthrough (and maybe from that on be able to enjoy it “vanilla” in subsequent playthrough to find more stuff).
And lastly, even the worst games will have people enjoying them, and the best ones will have people not being able to get into them. For example, I respect Fromsoft games a heck of a lot, but I couldn’t get into any of them at all.
Oh, yeah, then what others have posted as well is the important thing: Yes, this game is massively about failure, determination through failure, and discovery of hope and perspectives within failure. Failure is baked into it on purpose.
I’m gonna be real for a sec. I keep bouncing off the game. I haven’t gotten past day 2. No matter what my stats are, it just feels like I’m constantly failing at everything and Kim is always stepping in like “wow you really fucked up doing this task the interesting way I guess we’re locked into the loser route now…”. Do I just need to embrace the game as a simulation of being an incompetent alcoholic jackass?
Well when I started playing it I wanted to just do the most embarrassing shit. Like asking everyone for money or telling them I remember nothing. It was funny but then I didn’t realize the game the run ends if I don’t keep the morale and health. Fortunately I saved prior and stopped damaging the morale in the next run.
Its the most “Wait can I do this actually?” game. In my money begging phase I asked that boat lady some money and she gave some. Also explore every nook and cranny to find money. Put points to internalize thoughts like precarious world, which helps with rolls.
I also hit dead ends and kept roaming around exploring. Just remember to look at the journal and see if you didn’t get to something.
You’re not really meant to succeed on some tests, like examining the body, if you manage to do it straight away you skip out a big chunk of the game, but that bit of the game is good, so you shouldn’t skip it! The game is designed around failure as much as success, you don’t need to save scum the rolls, just see what you get and go with it.
yes
For me it was a really slow burn.i couldn’t get past night 2 because I didn’t have money for the room. Did a fresh restart and just got into the groove… It gets better and better and the end is just chefs kiss, the best movie I’ve acted in kinda feeling…
Enjoy the failures. They are often better than the success
Yes
But to be real here: If you just can’t find yourself enjoying failing in those ways, no matter what you try to do about your mindset, which is fair, you could look into cheating your stats. The saves are editable and there are guides online, and it might give you the opportunity to actually finish a playthrough (and maybe from that on be able to enjoy it “vanilla” in subsequent playthrough to find more stuff).
And lastly, even the worst games will have people enjoying them, and the best ones will have people not being able to get into them. For example, I respect Fromsoft games a heck of a lot, but I couldn’t get into any of them at all.
It’s not that I’m not enjoying it, but more that I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be lost and failing at everything or if I’m playing the game wrong.
Oh, yeah, then what others have posted as well is the important thing: Yes, this game is massively about failure, determination through failure, and discovery of hope and perspectives within failure. Failure is baked into it on purpose.