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Papa Boris
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 6 เม.ย. 2012
Thanks for checking out my channel! I like to be at least somewhat skilled at a game before making videos for it, so my content has more of a strategy vibe than a "let's play" vibe. Check out my main channel page to see my current series as well as my all-time favorites. Happy gaming!
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough—Fewer Reroll
[mild spoiler ahead]
Although the timestamp doesn't look it, this was actually one of my fastest wins. The video opens with an attempt at Right Sticky, which is a HORRENDOUS curse, and I die promptly. The actual run begins at 10:00 flat, so if you skip the failure, it's a breezy 53 minute win.
Fewer Reroll is a very simple curse: it reduces your rerolls from 2 to 1. This obviously hampers cantrip-based strategies and encourages you to reduce how many blanks you play with. Honestly, though, it's just an amazing curse. No obnoxious crap, just play normally and try to win.
Although the timestamp doesn't look it, this was actually one of my fastest wins. The video opens with an attempt at Right Sticky, which is a HORRENDOUS curse, and I die promptly. The actual run begins at 10:00 flat, so if you skip the failure, it's a breezy 53 minute win.
Fewer Reroll is a very simple curse: it reduces your rerolls from 2 to 1. This obviously hampers cantrip-based strategies and encourages you to reduce how many blanks you play with. Honestly, though, it's just an amazing curse. No obnoxious crap, just play normally and try to win.
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Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Stone First
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This is one of my favorite curses for sure. In the first round, monsters have "stone" HP (that is, each HP must be individually removed). After that, it's Normal difficulty. Just like with the curse that gives monsters 2 shields in round 1, this one is *mostly* Normal difficulty except when you can screwed by particular enemies that really suck if you don't take them out in round 1 (Caw Eggs, I...
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Item Poison
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This curse gives each character 1 poison per item they have equipped. This is obviously really terrible, so you can kind of think of it as "characters can't equip items" except you can take a bad punishment if you think the item is good enough. All in all, I'd say this is on the rougher side of the Tier 4 curses.
Into the Breach meets Metal Slug | Metal Slug Tactics demo gameplay
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Try the game for yourself! store.steampowered.com/app/1590760/Metal_Slug_Tactics/ I don't think this will be as good as Into the Breach, but it may be good enough to do a series!
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Bottom Blank
มุมมอง 802 หลายเดือนก่อน
Pretty straightforward curse here: every hero's bottom side is blank. Doesn't seem like much, and you can play around it in a few ways (pick heroes whose bottoms are already blank, take abilities that use blanks, take items that replace the bottom, etc), but I still think this is actually a pretty hard curse. The bottom side is usually one of the four "key" sides of a hero (along with the left ...
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Spiky Monsters
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Spiky Monsters basically makes every monster into an Imp: you take one damage if you hit them with a melee attack. This is a really nice curse because you can play around it with mana and ranged attacks, so it's pretty much only the yellow heroes who get really hurt by it. Oranges can go ranged, and greys often have better things to do than to attack. See all my Slice & Dice videos here: th-cam...
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Armour 2 REDEMPTION TOUR: Zero Caw Eggs Edition
มุมมอง 622 หลายเดือนก่อน
It's redemption time! I tried this curse a while ago and died to Caw Eggs. This time, with 100% fewer Caw Eggs and less "monsters having 2 shields in the first turn is disproportionately obnoxious" stuff in general, I have *spoiler alert* achieved redemption in what was one of the most if not the most comfortable Hard runs I've ever had. The Armour 2 curse is very simple: monsters get 2 shields...
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-3rd Grave
มุมมอง 522 หลายเดือนก่อน
I don't think I'd ever seen this curse before. It summons a Grave every third turn, and Graves are those enemies with 3 HP (that must each be removed individually) who summon a Bones every turn. Having played it a grand total of 1 times, my expert opinion is ... it's pretty good! It's not just that you're playing on Normal if you win before round 3; there are other curses like that and they can...
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Early Curses
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This curse essentially replaces the Tier 4 curse with four Tier 1 curses. This is a somewhat diabolical curse because it *seems* like you should get a free lunch, given that many of the Tier 1 curses truly aren't that big of a deal. The issue is that *enough* of them are *enough* of a problem that your build will almost certainly get screwed by one of them or by a combination. See all my Slice ...
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Odd Single Use
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This video starts with a failed run; skip ahead to 19:54 if you just want to see the successful run. Odd Single Use makes it so that any die side that has an odd number of pips *before* items or other effects is blanked after one use. I've won with it off camera and, like all the tier 4 curses, it's not trivial, but having beaten 24 of the Hard mode curses, I think it's one of the better ones. ...
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Monster Pristine
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This curse makes it so that monsters' pips are doubled when they're at full HP. This means that once you damage every monster, you're playing on Normal difficulty. This can be easier said than done, however ... All in all I'd say this curse is pretty fun because it's very "spiky." Nine times out of 10 it's not a big deal. But one wrong bump in the RNG can send you spiraling to hell immediately!...
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Single Use 2
มุมมอง 813 หลายเดือนก่อน
This curse makes it so that every other die you use is blanked ("single use") for the rest of the fight. All things considered, it's not the worst curse in the world. You can play around it completely by making sure to use dice that are already single use at the right time, and failing that, you can just make sure your weakest and/or most situational dice are the ones that get used up (e.g. "do...
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-all aboard the PAIN TRAIN
มุมมอง 623 หลายเดือนก่อน
This video gets a special title because it was one of the wildest runs I've ever had. Just pure, unadulterated filth and insanity. I was scared to pick the Sickly curse for the longest time, but holy cow I'm glad I did! The Sickly curse inflicts Pain (take damage equal to number of pips) to any hero who's at 3 hp or below. See all my Slice & Dice videos here: th-cam.com/play/PLN735uyn0raWf1CgI9...
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Armour 2
มุมมอง 623 หลายเดือนก่อน
This curse gives monsters 2 shields in the first round of combat. So if you can have a productive first turn without doing damage (mana, shields, etc), then the shields go away and it's just like playing on Normal difficulty! Well ... See all my Slice & Dice videos here: th-cam.com/play/PLN735uyn0raWf1CgI9czCm7mkLGAgbkEt.html
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Wurst (No Burst)
มุมมอง 823 หลายเดือนก่อน
This curse is ROUGH! You just don't realize how critical your default spell is until you have to play without it. Take GREAT care with your spell selection to ensure that your other spells can act as a proxy for Burst as much as possible. I'm really happy with the way this run demonstrated the significance of that strategy-keeping a Tier 2 red hero to ensure I had Vine absolutely saved this run...
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Start Damaged
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Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Start Damaged
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Tower 23
มุมมอง 473 หลายเดือนก่อน
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Tower 23
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Heavy Sleeper
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Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Heavy Sleeper
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Monster Right 2
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Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Monster Right 2
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Right 2 Blank
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Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Right 2 Blank
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Small Bonus
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Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Small Bonus
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Ghostly Monsters
มุมมอง 723 หลายเดือนก่อน
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Ghostly Monsters
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Add Goblin
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Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Add Goblin
Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Slippery Dice
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Slice & Dice HARD Playthrough-Slippery Dice
Slice & Dice NORMAL difficulty full run and commentary
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Slice & Dice NORMAL difficulty full run and commentary
Slay the Spire meets Into the Breach-Knights in Tight Spaces BRAVE difficulty DEMO playthrough
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Slay the Spire meets Into the Breach-Knights in Tight Spaces BRAVE difficulty DEMO playthrough
The best dice-builder of all time is finally on Steam and iOS! Slice & Dice 3.0 Starting Guide
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The best dice-builder of all time is finally on Steam and iOS! Slice & Dice 3.0 Starting Guide
Bad North HARD playthrough LAST STAND!
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Bad North HARD playthrough LAST STAND!
Caught up on my Papa B Slice 'n' Dice! What's on your list for future games??
When I can make videos again, I will be doing more Slice & Dice! Also I'm going to do a series on a little-known board game roguelike called Mini Rogue, and upload the rest of my Huntdown series with my stepson. That has reignited my love for Huntdown, so I'm going to do a series on that with the other two characters.
@@papaboris8665 Looking forward to it.
ur the man, pb great series i'll hit ng+9 one of these days
Thank you so much for your kind words! Good luck in your quest!
LOVE ITT!!!
I saw someone say it’s best to lose the first week 17 game to get better draft prospects
Holy moly. Welcome back man. Was randomly cruising around the dark streets of TH-cam and found you're here again. Been watching you since Hearthstone (maybe under a different name), and I was sad that you had to take on a hiatus. But life happens and that takes priority. Looking forward to your intellectual and witty comments once again =)
I have no idea why I'm here. It's 2024.
LOL
We all know exactly why we're here
The biggest problem with this game is that it often stacks odds against you to a borderline unfair degree, when you must rely on luck rather than skill, then it feels like a cheap victory. I get a lot of garbage cards that do nothing and more often than not, this is usually why I lose, not because I suck, but because I have nothing good to work with. It's like playing Black Jack, or Poker, you'll have no way of knowing what cards you get, so you'll often be struggling, I always do with the third battle of eighteen, and most of the time it feels as if the game is cheating, putting you at an obvious disadvantage. Much like how the Xenomorph's AI is essentially cheating in the game of Alien Isolation; he'll always know your general location, but not your exact right away; that eventually gets revealed the longer he's around Ripley. Sure, the more you do it, the better you get, but that still doesn't take away the feeling of being slighted in nearly every battle. They can either be lightning-quick, or mostly, like for me, most battles become a war of attrition; you'll eventually lose, the question is when. Never before could I say that I was dealt a sleight of hand, and meant that.
Until I watched this video I didn’t know you could get more than one servitor! I assumed because the Cohort screen only showed 1, that was the max. I wondered why the game was so difficult! LOL.
OH GOD. I scream, I cry, I wince. Now please go forth and enjoy this game, so that your sacrifice may not be for naught!
good to se you back man
It's good to be back ... for a moment. :) Gonna have another life-induced break for a few weeks before I can get my affairs in order.
Oh man, is gonna be able to resurrect the other heroes? He's down to his last roll! *looks at video timer* Oh. ;p
He's back
Not for long, I'm afraid! But my incredible wife gave me a ton of time to make videos on my birthday and father's day, so there's a couple more days of videos before my terrible life choices swallow me whole once again. :) I am hoping to be actually back in July!
Good game this, completely forgot how to play and reinstalled for another run through. Thanks for reupskill!
You are most welcome, I'm so glad this video is still helpful!
@@papaboris8665 came out free on epic recently so maybe you'll get a bit of traffic uptick The pooled cognition is very inventive, really like it even if I keep Xcom-ing it up by accident
Thanks for casting! I've found these very interesting. Such a simplicity and exciting gameplay, better than famous Slay the Spire etc.
You are most welcome! I'm unbelievably happy that anyone is still watching this series so many years later.
I bought this on Xbox (works great) over 2 years ago on sale. Only started playing recently, and this is a great guide still even in mid 2024! I’ll have to watch your Hard play through. One thing I have not found is an “optimal build” video for tech priests. I know we want to max out one tree, but then what? Max another, fully (and which one) or pick bits of tech from the other trees? This is what I really want to know. I’m still on my first play, I just reached 52% Awakened state. Thanks!
Thank you so much for your comment, I'm so glad to hear this guide is till helpful! Back when I was browsing the forums for this game, people had a lot of different opinions on best TP builds. My overall impression after plaything through on the hardest difficulty is that unless you turn on additional challenges (no starting currency, etc), the game is "easy" enough that if you know what you're doing there's a lot of latitude for mistakes and different builds. That said, my personal preference is to max exactly 2 trees for each of your starting Tech Priests before starting work on the 3rd. I think the melee and the healing trees are weaker than the others. I also think the unit-buffing tree is strong, but not worth being rushed. So for my two starting priests, I prefer some combination of the ranged, CP, and holy trees, with either the CP or holy tree overlapping on both priests. With my subsequent priests I branch out from there.
@@papaboris8665 - Wow, thank you so much for this reply. It is super helpful. I can still do this with a TP or 2, for others it’s too late, they’re mods are kind of spread out. Very helpful for next time run. Thank you so much, happy gaming!!
If you uptalk you should stop. If you say "literally" for no reason, you should stop.
Thank you for checking out the video and for your feedback!
I got it in 6 seconds with 8 Pickup If left not equal to worker, step up, drop If top left and right are equal to worker or wall on right, step down, drop Jump the whole thing below pick up. Adding if conditions doesn’t add lines and is necessary because the last person won’t have a worker on their right hence the or statement. It’s easy once you realize it doesn’t matter where the people go after the box is dropped.
Other reason it works more quickly is because it doesn’t just go one by one. Can probably be optimized to be even faster.
I started watching this series to learn about the various troops, instead I ended up learning that servitors are the only thing that matters lol. I actually unlocked the skitarii vanguard pretty early and did this mission without even realizing it was a boss, near the start of the game. but the vanguards have incredible damage and range and I just kept killing everything that got close enough while I pummeled the boss at every chance I got.
Haha that's awesome! I skip from Servitors to the top tier troops (the robots that are 2x2) without ever touching almost anything in between, but I suspect that's just a personal prejudice of mine. I'm glad to hear there are powerful strategies using the other troops!
very slow
For the speed challenge, take them the most direct route, taking diagonals where possible, ignoring the route marked out.
That was really helpful. Thanks :)
I'm so glad! Thank you for your comment, and happy gaming. :)
Run away rules are 10x party health vs enemies. There's an item that lowers it only need 5x party health.
Oh interesting, thank you for explaining that! So if the total HP of the party is 10x the HP of the enemies, they'll flee?
@@papaboris8665 correct or equal to.
@@mat.frazer Amazing, thank you! The predictability of this is something I should be taking into account!
Im like in 50run and no dialog, also he started not showing always, and not giving any dialogue at all? :( EDIT: run after i wrote this i got dialogue LMAO
Oh dear, I do not know what to do about that. I'm sorry!
@@papaboris8665 i did edit🤣
@@SavovicIlija hahaha glad it worked out for you!
This was super helpful, thanks!
You are most welcome, I'm really glad to hear it!
for speed set upper nearest wall at start, when shredd box step to wall and then pick up nearest box. This way you avoid random steps
A very good guide, you cover and comment on several topics that other guides skip over, thanks
Thank you for leaving your comment-it makes me really happy to know this video was useful and is still being watched all these months later!
Underrated game, thanks for the guide!
The pleasure is all mine! It truly is underrated-I can't believe it has only 3,000 reviews on Steam. I hold a flame in my heart for a sequel.
Oh, so "Q" is a shortcut for burst. Well, if only I knew about it few hours earlier before beating nightmare mode, during which I was using burst 50+ times a battle. I was going left and right with my mouse all the time 😀
THE HORROR I don't even remember mentioning this in the guide, because I never thought it mattered that much. Glad I did!
Permission to use "mana mana ding dong banana" if I ever get back to making videos?
The honor would be all mine
I think that Potion item has more value than one would think... by the end of the game, you are just (often) throwing T1 items in the bag since they aren't useful. Getting an item that can be SUPER good for exactly 1 fight is a way to make a T1 item a good earlygame pick to use in lategame. Party depending, of course.
Hmm, interesting idea! In my next video I toss aside another potion without a thought, but I'll keep this in mind for the future.
I think this is my favorite series of yours since Overfall. Though I'll always be partial to 1 2 3 4 5 6 Season.
Wow, OVERFALL! There's a game I haven't thought about in at least 5 years. I wish I'd waited for the full release to play that one; I got burned out in Early Access and never came back to it. As for 1 2 3 4 5 6 Season ... Cook Serve Delicious ReMustard edition hype!!!
@@papaboris8665 Any chance we might get a video or three of the new version when it comes out? :D
@@EllieP.-hi5fx oh BEST BELIEVE
@@papaboris8665 I'm choosing not to believe your CSD series started TEN YEARS AGO on July 19. Nope, no way.
@@EllieP.-hi5fx 😱 how can this be real
1:44 Where Papa B forgets he's not doing another masochism run. 54:40 Why not reroll the surgeon's die to try to get two mana for a little operation?
Why not, indeed!
You go Papa Boris!
Sweet run! Nice one spotting the tweak synergy.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Truly your most masochistic run yet! (This one was definitely the most fun so far.) When you get a random, say, 5 or 7 item, is the chance 50/50 between a level 5 and a level 7? I swear you've lost that coin flip (if it is one) several times in a row now. Maybe they put every 5 and 7 into a pot and there are more 5s than 7s?
I LOVED this run! Good question on the random: I *assumed* it was a 50/50 between 5 and 7, then you get a random from there, but I suppose there's no reason it couldn't just put all the items in a pool and pick at random, in which case it's worse than I thought. A good question for the Discord!
You ok Boris? should I call someone?
@@TheMouseMasterYT Yeah, you should call an ambulance. BUT NOT FOR ME
Love the "commentary" on the "skipped levelup". You sure the curse you chose wasn't "record video while tired"? ;p
Well, that curse applies to every run, and I chose it 6 years ago when I decided to have a another kid. :P
I'm playing this game and this is so helpful
I'm so glad to hear it! Back when I was playing, it was downright maddening trying to figure this stuff out. I made this video to hopefully spare others that frustration, and I'm grateful to hear it was helpful!
Vine > Burst!
I am increasingly becoming obsessed with Vine!
I'll admit I wasn't confident in this run at any point, from the relatively short video length to the curse to the very last turn. Well done pulling this one out!
Thank you! This one was crazy-I was thrilled to pieces with how it all went down!
I'm a bit behind, so I'm not sure if you've realized these since, but note that you can use Foretell multiple times to stack the bonus mana. You did this a couple of times, but it seems to have been on accident and didn't notice. Also, the Self-Heal/Self-Shield side didn't get the Cleanse/Self-Cleanse because Cleanse has to have a pip on that side to know how much to cleanse, so it's ineligible. Definitely a good call on the late game Orange choice, it really worked out!
I am VERY grateful you pointed out the Foretell trick-i most definitely did not know that and have been treating it as though it were a cooldown spell. Thank you! Thank you also for explaining the Cleanse thing-I'm recording ahead, so it'll take a while to show up, but I definitely need to mention that if it comes up again. On close runs it really makes a difference to know these mechanics!
With all that gold you could have gotten the sorcerous strike too, upgrade it at the anvil and even delete a bad card in the monastery or two. Even copy a piercing 10 damage from a clone. No idea why you would risk death so much without utilizing all that gold and options for a much better deck. Too greedy. I guess it happens. damn. Too many 1s in the deck. :/
Convenient that you got to make that Blaze It joke on a video uploaded on 4/20 (at least Pacific time).
The happiest accident imaginable!
Ah. So Soldier + Soup = Paladin. That'll make my D&D campaigns much more interesting.
Great video! I just started yrying this game out for thr 3rd or 4th time and it seemed yo stick! Your video helped me with some of the frustrations i had!
This comment makes my day! Thank you so much for taking the time to leave it. I'm glad this video was helpful in allowing you to enjoy this awesome game-that was exactly my hope when I made it!
I'm enjoying it!
Thanks for another great series! Hazardous Mechs r still mvp in my heart. I'm so impressed with ur channel. Dream Quest, Meteorfall, & Krumit's Tale have all been amazing. I love that u don't do blind playthroughs. I've learned a ton. Can't wait to check out ur Krumit's NG+ runs at some point
Thank you so much for your kind words! It always makes my day to hear that people are still enjoying my old series. Thank you for watching, and happy gaming!
13:19 I would even call it some serious ASP business.
Great series
Thank you, I'm so glad you're enjoying it!
great tutorial, thank you!
You are most welcome, happy gaming!
Tarantus getting 10+ poison is crazy 💀
Thanks for telling👍👍