The Last Spell | Trash or Treasure
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This is why Strat is the king. The game wasn't to his taste but it looks like it might be to mine and he knew how to sell it to someone that might be into it.
I’ve bought the game about two weeks ago and it is fantastic, very much requires strategic mind, but it is a time sink, runs are long, but it is fun.
Hail to the strat baby!
He is pretty based
@@italianspiderman5012 might be my favourite turn based tactics game ever at this point and ive played a lot from the genre.
I’ve been playing this for over a year. I love it and I’m so glad you’re talking about it! It’s easily in my top 5 indie gems
You will probably also love Into The Breach then mr lolzdog
Dang dude what a nice review. You laid out all the aspects of the game so well. I adore how level headed you were despite not preferring the game personally. Any reviewer sees the value in a well made game that they personally dislike and then gives it a great score anyway is an instant sub for me.
Keep doing you man Im about to go watch more of your reviews. Also I love the last spell so much everyone check it out pls lol
Been watching your stuff for a long time now Strat and let me say I absolutely love the mini reviews of indie games. Please keep it up.
Man that Victoria Secret little bit and the end damn near made me spit my drink out loo. Great video Paul!
I wanted to like the game but this 7:40 is what broke it for me. It basically overall was the rogue light formula, balancing a difficulty curve around having X or Y unlocks or runs under my belt with the assumption of failure just isn't enjoyable after a while.
Permanent unlock progression in rogue-lights VS rogue-likes is a poison chalice for game design in general I've felt lately.
It's a tempting thing that addresses the human mind's aversion to loss and salves over the feeling of spinning your wheels if you have trouble getting through the game- But makes the game ironically more of a death loop and trudge BECAUSE of it. VS The "You have everything open and unlocked, you just have to learn how to use it" approach of a normal rogue or any other game genre formula.
IE: If timmy age 12 opens up nethack for the first time, VS Smellvin age 50 on his 3000th playthrough.
The only actual difference between the two and their starting experience from run 1 or run infinity is "How familiar with it, the challenges, encounters, items and abilities and itneractions are you/how do you tackle things"
VS
Dead Cells/Last Spell type experiences, since the game is now NOT balanced around everyone being on a even keel start where game knowledge and experience with it is the limiter- But the design EXPECTS you to have a power bump and a superior loot pool due to a handful of failed runs and unlocks to really start thinking about finishing it.
TL;DR Rogue-lite design is not a bonus like it advertises, it's a detriment.
You're not retaining your advantages on death, You lost them the moment you started the game in a way.
It's basically taken the full loot pool access and expected median/average stats and power from you, the player. That the game is truly balanced around, And sprinkled it throughout the rest of the game. And is designed from the foundation with this in mind.
Imagine how tiresome it'd be to play an elder scrolls title where it assumes you have to die and restart from square one multiple times in order to have more loot than 4 armor sets and a few each of daggers and swords. It'd make it a miserable experience. That's how rogue-light progression feels to me ever since last spell.
This is a perfect explanation of the failings of the genre. The sad part is we had to walk down this road for a few years to see the knock-on effects in design. It is a meta-rogue-lite when you think of it like that.
Any idea why algorithm gods treating you poorly? Been watching you for ages know you always deliver quality
I played it when it was in early access and the first town took me several tries to complete, but I played it on launch and the first night I easily killed the final boss without any unlocks. Most of my unlocks were on the second town, but I get why you have to wait to unlock everything, it's so that you can learn the game as you die each run. Also I love the feeling of helplessness that the last night of each town gets when the enemies break through your barriers and you have to kill the boss several times, it makes it all the better when you overcome them in the end.
I’ve been watching your videos for a long time now and I think that might be your most ambiguous review lol… I was actually a little shocked when the “Value” section started (15:00) because it seemed like your conclusion/recommendation came out of nowhere.
After “because the truth is, I didn’t really like it that much”, I genuinely thought you were gonna say - and I’m 100% serious - “because I love it.” Lol
Anyway, none of this is criticism or anything, just thought I would mention how I got a little bamboozled, I’m sure I just missed something. Enjoyed it as always
been addicted to this for a while.
luckily beat the first town on my first attempt, got to the 12th night boss on the second on my first attempt but didnt even come close to beating it.
then grinded the first town through every difficulty to unlock as much as I could before going back and beating the seconds town.
but it was still close.
overall ive spent 85 hours in this game and it probably took 50 just to get strong enough to beat town 2.
@@alephnole7009I’ve got to the boss in the third town the other day, was quite confident too, got rolled, it was fun though, my blood mage had over 800 kills lmao.
As a PS4 peasant I will gladly take ANYTHING with tactical game play. As an older gamer, grinding is old school nostalgia for me.
I’ve a ps5 but ps 4 is still king. The choice and quality is amazing
The music in this game FUCKING KICKS. I love the compelling circumstances. Good times.
Definitely seems like something I'd enjoy. I've not really done many "tactics" games but I've done plenty of turn based iso.
Damn I didn't skip the sponsor because the read me was entertaining
Great video as always! Time to Battle Brothers now and feel the real pain, strat!
So I’d disagree with your assessment on games difficulty and progression, if you pay attention to what you’re doing you can beat the first boss in handful of tries, the second one is much more challenging but the point is to experiment and learn, so by the time you start unlocking the good shit you know what to do with it, if your way to play those games is to have it on second monitor and not to pay attention, maybe the problem is you.
"Doomed to ill-fated runs". Fun fact, I one shot the first 3 maps. So if youre losing, thats a skill issue.
Why didn't this show up in my feed? Strat is the GOAT!
This game was in early access for a long time. The first town in fact did not exist for a majority of the time, Lakeburg was the only town initially for at least 1 year.
What the hell TH-cam didn't give me a notification for this video, glad I found it by chance
Honestly guys OperaGX is really damn good, I’ve been using it for like 2 years because of my habit of watching tv while gaming and being tired of Chrome’s habit of absolutely ripping every last bit of memory it could. Great browser and it’s dark mode feature is a god send at not blinding yourself when your goblin gaming at fucking 3am and Google chrome fuckin flash bangs you with the blinding lights of god and you question your entire existence.
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hey paul did you take down your Divinity OS2 MP video? I'm trying to talk my friend into playing with me and I specifically cited your video and was going to show it to him but I can't find it now ((EDIT: nvm, I found it on your twitter))
I played this game to completion. I unlocked everything and beat every difficulty(Though I beat the last difficulty only on the forest mission so far, I havnt done it for all the missions yet). This game scales well. After I got over my initial thirst to see everything I just play a few turns and see if I get farther this time. I constantly feel like Im exploring new combinations of weapons.
Strat's been meaning to tell us about his guilty pleasure of listening to death metal and looking at kittens
God damn, that game was not what i thought it was!
Good video as always 😄
May the algorithm gods begin to see you more favorably
Grats on the sponsor my dude!
Been on the fence about this one, but after this review, I think I'll wait for a deeper discount. The combat seems like my jam, but grinding until you can get tools make meaningful choices puts me off, especially if the battles are super long.
Been on the fence with this one for a long while now, and your review did not resolve that lol.
A good review nonetheless. seems like a good game for the long lonely business travels with only my laptop as companion.
Can you please add those tutorial links you mentioned? can't seem to find them.
th-cam.com/video/K389dAVrenI/w-d-xo.html there
Big fan of these shorter reviews.
“i left a jar in me for a week” 💀
I love second monitor content! More recommendations for this category?
Ever played battletech? You manage a team of space mercenary mech pilots in and out of battle w/a healthy mod community. Might be another good 2nd monitor game
Thank you for the video! I didn't know about the game, and it looks really cool! Tactical rogue-likes are right up my alley:)
Love the content as always and already waiting for what's next!
this game early access was super hard, now you can beat it with only 3 heroes.
Props. Respect from Portland
Did youtube remove your last video about a week or two ago? I swear I saw something uploaded, opened it, and by the time I got to watching it, THERE WAS NOTHING.
What do you think of Darkest Dungeon? Depending on your response I know if I like this or not lol.
My dude I beat the 1st 2 towns straight up blind in two runs.
heck yeah i was just watching your other videos again
The last spell, your beautiful eyes
Sudden. Urge. To use. Opera!
Nice vid bro
There is another game called Triangle Strategy, that is the spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics, but with more meat as story, but very similar mechanics, at first I trough that it would be similar to Ottopath Traveller, but no, I recognise the Final Fantasy Tactics mechanics, when I played when I was a teenager long time ago, and was very crappy about it, the mix between 3D graphics and pixel arts is as good as Ottopath Traveller.
Strat, have you ever considered doing a video on Vampyr?
It’s also on switch, but the handheld mode is not, how would you say this, the right size. Things are too small.
Reminds me - a lil bit - of Underrail.
Son of a gun you have absolutely nailed this review. I picked this up on launch and dropped it after 4-5 hours because I DO NOT enjoy a game that does not respect my time.
I've been hoping for a progression rework but alas, not yet.
Stroking the algo for ya bud
This is a great review, strat. I know you always worried about how to make a little dosh doing this thing you love, and this is it. I know I wouldn't mind seeing a few of these sprinkled between your more risque and hilarious "how tos". Your sponsor spot wasn't obnoxious, and I'll be honest it's the first time I've EVER considered downloading Opera (and I've seen quite a few ads). I'll stop blowing you now, bring back Nick! Ha ha.
Your complaints and compliments of this game make me think it'd be interesting to see you review Lobotomy Corporation. Might not be one to do a full "finish the game" playthrough since it requires many repeated runs to get to the final days and many more to actually win those final days, but the only thing that truly requires playing that far is to get the full story.
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Not sure if you ever thought about doing a review on wasteland 2 or 3 or may e the series as a whole. I love fallout 1 and 2 so those games were like there children or grandchildren or bald headed step children whatever
I beat the first 3 maps on my first attempt. New players just need to take it slow.
"Only 20% of players are beating the first town." Thats a bad metric to cite because its very common for people to buy and not play games. Look at the statistics for how many people beat the first boss of most games and youll find a good half of people bought games and never got past the first boss. Given The Last Spell's first boss is hours later into the gameplay than most games, thats not a bad retention number. The majority of gamers are playing mobile instant gratification games these days.
Strat is the best
Also available in Switch yo...
actually send help am addicted 😢
Embrace it brother, horde won’t slaughter itself.
nice review
Algorithm bless you
This is a game I enjoy watching but hate playing :D
Doesn't look too bad, but that thing of losing at the last second of a run due to RNG with nothing you can do about it puts me off.
wow, im personally offended, this is probably in my 5th favorite turn based tactics game. i wouldnt really call it a second monitor game but I do agree that the challenge doesnt lie in each decision itself but more in flow of decisions and in your setup strategy. the different bosses also introduce dps/movement/damage and other checks, which you really need to account for before you beat a city. i guess thats a lame type of challenge but it kind off works for this game. personally, i only really liked old xcom, old+new jagged alliance, darkest dungeon1/2 and battle brothers better than this. my only real critique is that the meta unlocks are a bit slow. i have like 50 hours before release and 65 hours after relase and I dont have full meta unlocks on either savefile.
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Definitely articulated why I wasn't able to get into the game. The early grind and lack of features had me do close to a half-dozen runs without beating the first town and with no reasonable story to make me even slightly invested I wasn't able stick with it
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Reminds me a bit of the "extreme difficulty" genre of games. Games where the information or abilities necessary to advance require either some experimentation, exploration, or outside help in order to make it palatable. In such games, the high after conquering a challenge is suppose to push you forward, and that is not the case for most of them.
Good open source examples of these games are Dwarf Fortress, Elona, and Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead.
Dwarf Fortress survives do to the passionate developers behind it and the community content created by fans. This is also very mod friendly and has enough tutorials to bring in new players with relative ease.
Elona died due to, well, translation issues, and lack of direction. An edgy game where you can make a little girl your pet, then marry your pet, also genetically breed her to have more limbs to wear more equipment, or transmute equipment into consumables, then inherent the stats of the equipment on consumption, or using the most overpowered weapon in the game to kill the goddess, and the goddess within the goddess at level one, alcohol. All of this stuff involves hours of grinding and experimentation, and I can only take so much poorly translated jokes or comments about the local prostitute. This mess of a game need someone to write up a plan and clean it up.
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead still lives, though barely. Most folks who want a game like Cataclysm tend to go for project Zomboid as that is much easier to get into. I skipped over the need to use the whole keyboard and key combinations to be able to play the game, which is another wrinkle on getting into it.
I call these games examples of "extreme difficulty" because they don't tell you anything, and expect you to lose. Any attempts to simplify the horrid control scheme, or clean up messy code, results in a massive backlash from those who donated the parts of their brains to learn these games.
Elona has indeed actually been picked up and continued and a lot of defunct content rebuilt and some cleanup work and QOL done. It's still FUNDAMENTALLY the same but just a bit more digestible these days.
@@InvadeNormandy Are you talking about the Mobile game or the open source?
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There's quite a few open sources, Specifically I'm talking about Elona +/Plus, or even Elona Plus Custom which further does more to it. A bit of QOL and the radial menu lets you play it with a controller but it is like all things in the rogue adjacent genre is going to have jank alas.
Also I'd not classify elona so much as "Edgy" as it's more a grab bag goofball mess. I don't think a game where one of the bigger threats to you is a giraffe and a kung fu move is punching with a grenade edgy so much as wacky. It's more patently absurd than "Crawling in my skin"
Hell I can't actually think of any actually edgy titles barring maybe Fear and Hunger which leans hard into the shock value.
@@InvadeNormandy I labeled it edgy due to some of its humor coming from the 2000s edgy boi types.
It is absurd as it comes, but most folks only talk about the shock value things. Like alien pregnancies which take over towns, and NPCs, that's something folks talk about, and completely ignore the story.
This game is just about recycling decrepit buildings to max out villagers ASAP, not unlocking any weapons except for longbows and druid staff, and shitting out balistas everywhere. All at the purple one; piss yellow one just gives useless variations of weapons based on bullshit achievement, the only good upgrades there are the ones that removes rusted stuff, but you won't get that until later.
That'll get you out of the tutorial and first two towns with 0 deaths.
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I tried the demo, was underwhelmed
I like everything except the roguelike aspect. shame
the combat is great but the meta progression in this game is absolute garbage, such pointless padding of content
Great choice for sponsored content! More like a public service announcement. I am moved by your knowledgeable promotion. The game seems pretty cool too.
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Oh this is that bullshit Destiny used to play.
I'll watch the video, but I resent you.
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