After that UPF a few weeks back had Brad playing this, it reminded me I should pick up Paper Sorcerer. So I did!
I like it. It's how I wish more games did first-person RPG combat. I find it really hard to play old Dragon Quest or Earthbound because of how your own party has effectively zero visual representation or animation. Paper Sorcerer does just enough in that department.
The Bombcrew would probably be disappointed to learn that the game becomes decidedly lighter on writing and dialogue once you finish the tutorial cell block. There are still unique things on each floor, but "unique" in the sense that there's a hidden switch to find a hidden room, or there's some kind of alchemy puzzle to open a locked door, that sort of thing. There is much, much less of the jokey writing like when you steal that goblin's wooden idol and he makes everything smell like cut grass, and so far I haven't really encountered any NPCs in the dungeon that have anywhere near the number of lines as that goblin (I met one guy who said a line and died immediately). There's a town, but it has minimal dialogue.
So at a certain point, the game becomes about the combat. And the combat is pretty neat! And I like the various character choices you have. I'm a little disappointed in myself that I'm sticking so thoroughly to Tank-DPS-DPS-Healer, but sadly that's all I can see when I look at RPGs now. Well, sometimes I switch out the tank for someone who can do buffs/debuffs. My one bit of advice is that the Goblin Thief is bad, because he's basically just a shittier version of the Troll Assassin. The Thief can blind and stun people which is sometimes OK, and he can steal money (but not items) from people, but overall his damage is terrible and he's really fragile. The Assassin is fragile too, but at least his damage is totally nuts.
Anyway, I'm enjoying it way more than, say, Legend of Grimrock. Hear that, Rock, Paper, Shotgun? I think LoG was kind of boring! Deal with it. All of the end-game gear was locked behind needlessly hard to find puzzle rooms. Paper Sorcerer is basically just random drops for gear which can get a little frustrating, but usually the gear you can buy in the main shop is sufficient, though you do markedly better damage if you find equipment that is even one tier better.
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