I’m not entirely sure yet what I’m supposed to be doing in this game, but the atmosphere is great (as you’d expect in a Lilith Zone game) and there are a lot of places to explore.
I like the way the water looks.
This is, of course, the long-awaited sequel to Crypt Worlds:
https://www.cicadamarionette.com/Games/CryptWorlds/Main.html
P.S. Had I bothered to read the page before playing, I would have known that Tab opens inventory. That’s helpful.
i’ve only had a chance to play a little but i love it so far… i guess i wasn’t sure how the “one big game” was going to come out tonally, i really liked all lilith zone’s smaller recent projects and the old crypt underworld demo from the fundraiser a while back was beautiful but almost felt swallowed by a sense of melancholy that the shorter games just touched upon. i could be projecting but i think it’s something i associate particularly with huge games by small hobbyist teams (particularly when they’re kind of mandated to remain a certain size due to being crowdfunded, like barkley 2)… the sense of ambivalence at an endless sprawl, wandering like a ghost through all these stratalike accumulated build versions, piling up past any human ability to manage. endless development work, the underworld theming, a death-in-life
i think that can be beautiful sometimes BUT it was also such a pleasant surprise that the final wrapped up version of CU felt so different. the dense lighting is gone (i think will be released some other time as like a special frou-frou build due to the performance requirements), iirc the original framing story from the demo around entering the underworld is now moved or removed, all the empty spaces are loaded with chaotic videogame maximalist stuff (piss equipment system!) which means rather than moving as a ghost through the dioramas you’re sort of blasting through them like a hurricane, spraying piss and cowboys, knocking things over and causing them to explode into a pile of hotdogs that you gobble for more piss. sort of a surprisingly funny and invigorating feeling. the rustle of spring…!
i’m looking forward to digging through more, also if people get a chance and liked it they should leave a nice comment about it on the itch page or something… right now all the replies to this delirious decade long artgame are people just posting bugs or decisions that they think are bugs, as if this stuff were Hades. and people wonder why kikiyama stopped replying to emails!!
I noticed that the music in this game is by Esper99. Eskaibo introduced me to their stuff a while back and I really like it.
gloss come home
I’m starting to figure things out with this game. I have several upgrades now and I’ve found a bunch of new areas to explore.
(I’m not sharing some of the more interesting screenshots so not to spoil too much.)
About six hours in and I’m still finding new locations all over. (Probably more like five hours, as I’ve left the game running a few times.)
I don’t know whether the main goal is to resolve the vampire’s curse, but so far I’ve destroyed only one of the five statues. I know where another one is but I have no idea how to reach it.
