Alchemy Lab in Noita (imo the greatest video game ever made) Noita doesnt necessarily even have "building mechanics". You cant properly "place " anything. You "build wands", by combining spells and modifiers, to kill, travel, dig, and uncountable still unknown and unimaginable things (its a game for people who break games) In the case of building, you're combining spells like: -Linear Arc -force spells to travel in a straight path (no gravity) -Long Distance Cast - makes spells teleport through walls a small distance in front of you before casting -Black Hole - deletes everything in front of you in a small distance -Nolla - cuts the lifetime of a spell to the games allowed minimum (combine with black hole to delete only a little bit) -Luminous Drill -digs as powerfully as Black Hole, but in a very thin line -Chainsaw - makes everything rapidfire For instance, you could stack LDC's, with a Nolla'd Black Hole at the end, to make a perfectly round hole deep in the dirt, swap the black hole with a teleport spell, to teleport Into that hole. Then use LDC>dual cast>Nolla>blackhole>chainsaw, while spinning around in a circle... Thats how you make a donut in Noita. And thats all without explaining anything about Alchemy, its hidden secrets, items, the fact that you can build wands to drag enemies to your base to make fish ponds or "farms", which not only includes capturing the enemy you intend to farm, but also capturing another rare enemy that brings things back to life. Game for the insane
So yeah, you cant really even build lol You can pretty much only destroy things *into* your desired shape, like sculpting marble. If you mess up, you messed up, and you've gotta change course. Also it's a rogue-like, so you actually have to power up and not die (it's one of the most cruel games ever imagined), and if you die, goodbye base! If that's not for you, I get it lol
One specific *beautiful* thing I make in my bases is a waterfall. You can add Water Path(spell modifier) to a Crystal(spell), and the crystal will sit there forever spouting water. Then you can shape it's fall and put a kiuaskivi (an item, it's a hot rock) at the bottom to turn the water to steam that will rise back up. It's cool to enter your base through a steamy waterfall
Having played noita a number of times, I never thought of using the wand crafting as a tool to create only as a means to destroy lol. I've honestly never gotten far enough to consider building a base either. This is fascinating and I kinda want to play noita again now.
@@SystemsInPlayPod goes without saying, there is a curve lol. I played a good 200 hours of casual Noita before I truly got "into it". (Most games can't even hold me for 50, so that's saying something) Now I've got over 2000 and it still surprises me and makes me feel clever, still "solving problems" in new ways (there are a ton of "immersive sim" angles that emerge as you learn), and still laughing when I blow myself up
Slave quarters in the sims 3, I had the maximum amount of roommates compiled of the richest sims in town, forced them to pursue level 10 jobs and locked them out of the main mansion and forced them to live with the shittiest bare minimum furniture and make me a millionaire
Alchemy Lab in Noita (imo the greatest video game ever made)
Noita doesnt necessarily even have "building mechanics". You cant properly "place " anything. You "build wands", by combining spells and modifiers, to kill, travel, dig, and uncountable still unknown and unimaginable things (its a game for people who break games)
In the case of building, you're combining spells like:
-Linear Arc -force spells to travel in a straight path (no gravity)
-Long Distance Cast - makes spells teleport through walls a small distance in front of you before casting
-Black Hole - deletes everything in front of you in a small distance
-Nolla - cuts the lifetime of a spell to the games allowed minimum (combine with black hole to delete only a little bit)
-Luminous Drill -digs as powerfully as Black Hole, but in a very thin line
-Chainsaw - makes everything rapidfire
For instance, you could stack LDC's, with a Nolla'd Black Hole at the end, to make a perfectly round hole deep in the dirt, swap the black hole with a teleport spell, to teleport Into that hole. Then use LDC>dual cast>Nolla>blackhole>chainsaw, while spinning around in a circle...
Thats how you make a donut in Noita.
And thats all without explaining anything about Alchemy, its hidden secrets, items, the fact that you can build wands to drag enemies to your base to make fish ponds or "farms", which not only includes capturing the enemy you intend to farm, but also capturing another rare enemy that brings things back to life. Game for the insane
So yeah, you cant really even build lol
You can pretty much only destroy things *into* your desired shape, like sculpting marble. If you mess up, you messed up, and you've gotta change course.
Also it's a rogue-like, so you actually have to power up and not die (it's one of the most cruel games ever imagined), and if you die, goodbye base!
If that's not for you, I get it lol
One specific *beautiful* thing I make in my bases is a waterfall.
You can add Water Path(spell modifier) to a Crystal(spell), and the crystal will sit there forever spouting water.
Then you can shape it's fall and put a kiuaskivi (an item, it's a hot rock) at the bottom to turn the water to steam that will rise back up. It's cool to enter your base through a steamy waterfall
Having played noita a number of times, I never thought of using the wand crafting as a tool to create only as a means to destroy lol. I've honestly never gotten far enough to consider building a base either. This is fascinating and I kinda want to play noita again now.
@@SystemsInPlayPod goes without saying, there is a curve lol.
I played a good 200 hours of casual Noita before I truly got "into it". (Most games can't even hold me for 50, so that's saying something) Now I've got over 2000 and it still surprises me and makes me feel clever, still "solving problems" in new ways (there are a ton of "immersive sim" angles that emerge as you learn), and still laughing when I blow myself up
Slave quarters in the sims 3, I had the maximum amount of roommates compiled of the richest sims in town, forced them to pursue level 10 jobs and locked them out of the main mansion and forced them to live with the shittiest bare minimum furniture and make me a millionaire
I believe the question was "coolest" not "cruelest" lmao
I guess its kinda both tbh
Question of the Week: What is the coolest thing you've made using a game's building mechanics?