Party of One: Loop Hero

Awesome

"It's Thursday morning" on a Monday. I felt that.

A Party of One is still a hell of a fun time if that Party of Juan is a Party of Jan.

Loop Hero Endurance Run staring Jan "Jarome" Ochoa!

Is loop hero anime?

This game is so damn good.

Just one more expedition, and then I'll stop...

Man this game is so good.

Love these Jan streams!

Love the stream Jan! *spoiler* For anyone looking to unlock traits, first step is to unlock the gymnasium *spoiler*

It's great to see more Loop Hero and Jan content on the site. Hope you're having a good week and enjoying your new camera.

@janman

You lost that last run because you had "too much" attack speed.

The game doesn't explain this function at all but your character actually has a "Stamina Bar"

It's the grey-ish bar underneath the blue bar that represents your turn speed (Literally underneath, not below)

Every time you attack this grey bar drains, and slowly fills over time. If you attack faster than the bar can fill itself (roughly +50% attack speed) you will eventually exhaust yourself.

Once exhausted your turn bar will Turn/Stamina bar will turn orange and slowly fill. While it does this you have -50% Attack Speed AND -50% Evasion. You're a sitting duck! You won't notice it in world battles because the insane Attack Speed will just win you the battles before you Exhaust but you'll lose to the boss EVERY SINGLE TIME.

The game seems to really favor more balanced builds. The Stamina Bar is also more complicated than I let on, it seems to fill faster when you take hits or evade or counter or something but I haven't figured out exactly how it works TBH. All I know is if you attack too fast you'll regret it.

I could happily watch Jan playing this for hours

Great stuff, Jan!

This game has been a problem for me the past two days. I just can't stop myself from playing it.

Loooove Jujustu Kaisen. The Manga is insane rn.

Man, I like Loop Hero, but it's shit like this razor thin stamina gauge under the attack wind up gauge where it feels like an early access game. Some of the systems in the game are really opaque and poorly explained. See also: what exactly "summon quality" and "skeleton level" increase; I know making the numbers go up is probably good, but it's hard to compare losing some of one quality while raising a bit of another when you have no idea what the numbers mean.

See also also: the entire deck system. They give you minimum and maximum limits on each card type and overall deck size, but it's a complete mystery what governs which cards you draw. Does killing certain monsters drop certain cards at a higher rate? Are you cycling through a fixed deck with a set number of copies of each card that you draw once per "shuffle"? Is every single draw just a (clearly not equally weighted) random chance of drawing any of your cards? Why do I seem to draw 3 times as many wheat fields as villages? Why did I just do a run where I didn't draw my first battlefield until loop 11?

All these question and more: thoroughly not answered by any tooltips in the game, nor in the underwhelming encyclopedia that takes like 10 hours longer to unlock than it should (it should honestly be one of the first 2 or 3 buildings). I'm sure I could google up a wiki or Steam guide or Gamefaqs or something, but it's shocking how badly explained the game's systems are in-game. It's like they went out of their way to recreate the shitty experience of getting an 80s CRPG where you lost the manual/readme. Also why the hell can you only preview the town tech tree buildings that you have the prereqs for, and not the stuff way farther up.

The more I find out about this game, the more confused I am about it.

i like to loop it, loop it

getting the full hand of oblivion cards and using them to wreck the boss's little "extra" tiles that grant him bonuses = sweet

Jan, Thank you for the content.

Jan made me play this game.