The 20 pages of written notes and trillian folder of screenshots says I can stop anytime I want.
I will not finish it. I enjoy it deeply but I know what I need to do and it's daunting. I also had a bug for awhile meaning the Closed Exhibit simply did not spawn despite it being in the pool. Regardless, I enjoy building little silly houses.
Got far, solved "the tutorial" and was making progress into the actual meat of the game but eventually it gets incredibly annoying having to deal with the RNG. Like, I know how to solve the puzzle, or at least where the next step is, but can't do anything about it cause I can't get the damn room to down on the correct space so I can get the right item for a other room that also needs to spawn on a specific space to be functional.
Like, there needed to be a better way to predict your draws or manipulate the deck of rooms.
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Hell, even the letters you find imply that they had methods of doing this and forcing rooms to appear. Would have liked to see the staff become available as a sort of "utility" features after you reach Room 46 and gain ownership of the mansion.
I firmly believe that proper RNG-manipulation should be a mainstay in RNG-dependent games. Once late game hits and you're praying to draft the exact type of rooms you need in the exact orientation, frustration will absolutely dominate.
And yes I know that some RNG manipulation is available in blue prince, but imo it's not enough.
I mean, you can individually adjust the rarity of every single room in the house eventually. Plus all the rerolls you get through dice and/or certain items or abilities. I know there is still some RNG, especially with spawning specific items, but that's pretty good no?
I wouldn't say that for all of them, as the unknowable-ness of randomization is the point of many RNG based games, but, for this game particularly, the RNG isn't the focus on Blue Prince; the intricate puzzle solving is.
After a certain point the RNG stops being "part of the puzzle", so to speak, and just becomes a roadblock because you already solved the portion that was RNG-dependant.
Edit: It was especially sucky on PS5 because there was a game breaking glitch where, after a certain number of days, the game stops saving your progress. So you were essentially on a time limit where would be forced to restart the save. Which, if you know about the late game, absolutely sucks.
Apparently that just recently got patched out though. Still not going back though, I had my fun.
I'm still going... Some of the cryptic stuff is a little too much so for me in places though (asd here)
It just keeps getting deeper, and I’m not very good at it.
Me at the beginning: "hell yeah I'm so smart"
Me now: "I'm dumb as hell"
The lack of permance gets to be more and more problematic as you go on too.
I love the game, but it would still be very difficult even if you got to keep all of your items permanently, books from the library, etc.
At some point I'll cave and watch how far others have gotten, but I'm not there yet.
Good luck. The further you get in this game, the more difficult and complex it gets. I have sheets of scribbled notes.
Obsidian has been great for this, my notes have basically become a giant wiki full of places, notes, possible puzzle solutions, screenshots, etc.
Obsidian is what I've been using too!
Oh, I finally had to stop myself. I took more and better notes than I've done for literally any academic purpose in my life lol
It's interesting. Normally I just go with the flow of the game but this is the first time I've used the steam notes feature. At first it was little bits of information. Then it got a bit deranged as things went on. I won't spoil anything but it's weird and I find it interesting in spite of the fact that I hate puzzle games. Like really hate.
Notes are an absolute must for the game. I have it on PS5 so ol' pen and paper for me.
It ate a good month of my life, and a large part of my sanity. 10/10 no regrets.
Honestly, it bored me and frustrated me in equal measure. Absolutely not for me.
The lighter side of ADHD