I’m at the end of the game now, I just have two things left to do:
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Kill the Infected Broodmother, by far the hardest extra boss in the game. It has three goddamn phases. I was able to survive one of those.
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Protect these three electrical conduits that power the shrink ray, so I can re-embiggen myself.
On the latter, swarms of ants, hornets, spiders, larva, rolly polys, rhino beetles, and essentially every nightmarish creature that walks God’s green Earth will attack them during this time, so it’s a matter of defense.
I actually love this idea for a final mission in a Craft 'n Wham title. You have to build defenses around this thing, set IEDs, set spike barriers, build turrets, whatever the fuck you can do to kill an insane number of insects. A game about building and survival makes you build to survive for the final challenge!
To that end, I have built a fucking mideval castle around the three power conduits:
It’s quite a bit sturdier than my previous home, a bunch of sticks I assembled into a base around a juicebox:
Now, while building this castle I have incurred the wrath of nearby ants pretty often, since I’m on their territory, and my initial defenses against their attacks have not gone great!!! Not encouraging!!
So I have reinforced with TWO LAYERS of mushroom-brick walls. I have also moved everything I own into this castle, making it my new home, furnishing it, and ultimately archieving the unheard-of Level 5 Coziness status.
I have now collected every wad of bug guts I need for the best armor and weapons. I’m as ready as I can be.
I will 100% this game. So close.